The Editorial for this week has been released.

ACCOUNT UPGRADE CHANGES
We've finally managed to get Account Upgrades automatic. You now buy credit by typing in the amount of US dollars you would like to spend and buying this with paypal, or by sending cash/cheques. You will also soon be able to buy credit for other people. If you buy with paypal and the payment is instant, the credit will be added to your account straight away. It may take a few days until your payment clears with some payment options. You can also save the credit on your account and spend it on whatever upgrade you want, whenever you want, at the click of a button! It seems that for a few people it does not work instantly, but you will still receive them quicker than usual, because I manually check them against a list of those that the server processed and then send them. We hope you are happy with the changes, it should make it much more efficent.

The June Account Upgrades are now here. Similar to what we did in May, there are two themes but only avaliable as a Gold Account. They will not come in Bronze and Silver, but will also not go up to $20 in two months time. Here are some of the prizes you could get...
A Hobo Chibs or a Fairy Chibs with these new costumes, or if you manage to get the potion!


A Fairy Stamp or a Hobo Stamp for your albums.

A Lxi Trading Card. This and other recent battle opponents will be activated later in the week.

The new Checklist for June has been released. Enter this month for a Free Ipod Nano and a Free Sony PSP! Even more prizes have been added this time, and then entry requirements are also easier than last month. The winners for May and June's upgrades will be released later in the week.

The Editorial for this week has been released.

NEW GAME
Its been a while since we've had a new game but Bounchy has been released. It has replaced Funky Pong as our 5th flash game. We have also fixed Undead Billiards. Sorry for the very long delay, there was a small bug with the score sending, because of recent changes to our domain name, which took us until yesterday to find. Now it has been fixed, we should be back to one new game released a week. You can also see a preview of the new pet, Xoi, in the game!

The Oglue default avatar has been released.

The Layout has been fixed. It had to be recoded because of a few bugs that appeared on other browsers. Sorry for those that have experienced these problems since it went live. If anything does not load properly, any lines show or things just do not line up please open a support ticket and let us know in detail what resolution your computer is and the browser you use the internet with. It has been testing with Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and the AOL browser and there are no problems but if you do experience any, please let us know before we start on the Night theme.

NEW LAYOUT
June is here and we've started the summer with a brand new look for the site. One of the biggest problems of the site was that we had so much content and it wasn't organised well enough. It has taken a while but we have reorganised the whole site, with 'Also Try...' for similar content and more consistent, organised colours for sections of the site. We also realised that the layout lacked character and colour. We have redesigned it to be much nicer for the variety of users we have on the site. You are currently seeing the 'Day' theme of the site. By the end of the week, at night time MST, you will see the 'Night' theme. Also they are both summer versions. For the autumn, the leaves will fall and in winter, it will be frozen. As the year changes on Marapets, so will the layout. Even if you are not a fan of the changes, as we realise how some people do not like major change, we have tried not to move or reorder buttons unless we really had to! Please also note that it has taken a very long time to get it like this but it is not completed. We still need to add a text link of how many maramails you currently have, changes to random events and notifications and fixing the problems some browsers are experiencing. The layout has been optimised to work best with Mozilla Firefox. If you would to change browsers, here is how you can:


We are a little behind schedule with the Account Upgrades. We'll try and get them released by Monday. The January upgrades will retire when June's are released so its your last chance to get them!

The June Checklist will be released in a day or two. You still have time to enter May's competition if you haven't yet.

The Pot of Gold has a new look! For those of you who don't know, The Pot of Gold can be found in Gigantic Paradise and you can get free items there that fellow Maradans have donated to it...

Ublish is once again widening his search for Stars! Five new ones can be found in the Star Shop...

Three new Stamps are restocking!

You can now win Ercuw Plushies from the Plushie Machine!

The Editorial for this week has been released.

These Ideus Plushies are now in the Plushie Machine!


The missing Huthiq Plushies have arrived...

Plushie collectors will like these new Viotto Plushies...


These new Newth Plushies have also been added to the Plushie Machine

These new Rofling Plushies are now in the Plushie Machine:


There are also some new Equilor Plushies...

NEW MISSION
The Troll is the latest mission, this time for Musical Instruments. Like Tarquin's Library, the Troll wants a pet that has learnt a certain instrument. The difference is, the Troll is only avaliable every other hour, during the night at the Castle. Also, each time you complete his missions, the level required for the instruments will increase. Remember to check the time on the site before you start the mission!


Changes have been made to Baspinar's Castle. Every hour, the map changes. At even hours (02,04,etc) it is night time and at odd hours (03,05,etc) it is day time. During the night the inside of the Castle will be closed, the bridge will be up and you will be able to visit the Troll that lives under the bridge. During the day, the Troll will be unavaliable and the inside of the Castle will be open.

This Troll Avatar has now been hidden. I wonder how you get it...

The Rotten Costume is one of the Troll's prizes. This is what the Rotten Sindi, Leido and Ideus look like:

The Mommi is the newest battle opponent - also a prize of the Troll!

NEW PET
The 32nd marapet has been released! The Oglue is limited edition and you can only get one from a potion, from the Troll missions.

The are lots of new Zetlian Plushies...


The Huthiq and Leido are now avaliable in Sketch!

These new Yakubi Plushies are so cute!

The Leido, Doyle and Equilor are now avaliable in Radioactive...

There are also new Huthiq Plushies!


Those on Ublish Missions beware - there are four new constellations of Stars restocking!

This is what the new Gonk Plushies look like....


We have hidden a new Avatar for the Tweblud minipet.

These missing Bolimo Plushies have been added to the Plushie Machine.

Finally, these missing Azul Plushies are now in the Plushie Machine.

The Editorial for this week has been released.

After spending the last few weeks of testing, we have found the best way to position the site's Layout and how to make the site easier to use. We have taken down the advert at the very top of the page and replaced it with new buttons, making the content of the site higher up the page for you. We have also removed all adverts that have confused people, or been positioned in annoying places. We also discovered that one of the main problems was finding pages that were not major sections, such as the Editorial. To fix this problem, we have added 'Also Try...' links at right side of the page in most of the site. They list pages we believe are related to the page you are at, and should help you to navigate the site much better. If you do have any more suggestions for improving the nagivation of the site, please submit it to the Editorial. The actual design of the site is being redesigned for the summer!

The Plushie Machine has received a very much need make over. It looks great now!

We have great news for Plushie Collectors! Laimay is currently working on plushies and enchanted plushies for all of the pet colours on the site that are missing. It is a huge project, but we are almost complete. Here are some new Addow Plushies to start with...

The Fasoro is now available in radioactive!


Five new Stamps for you to collect are restocking...

Ublish has added 5 new Stars to his list! They are now restocking at the Star Shop.

And finally, the Editorial Avatar has been hidden for you to find...

The Editorial for this week has been released.

We have just released a new system for you to help Promote Marapets. Its simple to do and rewards you weekly. You basically copy and paste a html code onto a website, or you copy and paste a forum code to your forum signature on other sites and you can start gaining the rewards. Unlike the Referral System, you do not need to refer new members to the site to get a prize. All you need to do is add the code to a site to get prizes. Its works by recording the site you have placed the code onto and each week calculates how many Cool Prizes you should get by the number of different sites it shows on! Prizes can even be Account Upgrades credit, DNA or a limited edition minipet! Virtual Pets | Games

Level 29 : Diet Tomato Marapop

Clue : 'Mmmmm protein and vitamins all in one'
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Level 28 : Diet Cranberry Marapop

Clue : 'A really big task'
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Level 27 : Diet Cheese Marapop

Clue : 'Picks loads up, since he is experienced'
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The Poera is now available in sketch!


Five new Stamps for you to collect are restocking...

The April Prize Giveaway has now been drawn! The lucky winners are:
Playstation Portable - brentsmom
1GB Ipod Nano - sobolan
$50 Account Upgrades credit - Petcollector, Thissle, kitty4u6, Guineapigsrule, navygirl
$15 April Gold Upgrade - Tigernut, Genome, Palomita91, Scooterb, baker534, scorpion, m33epst3r, __spy, marzobebe24, cinnabar
$5 April Bronze Upgrade - BaronBaracuda, dalyrimple, darkling280, angel1997, Shalott, stoerevleermuis, slipknot26zero, jewells, indygo, Cracked24, LawrenceGreen1973, tgirl3300, JakeThaProdigy, the_anna135, soaringeagle, Adakaleh, mtw92,cuponer, maramara780, lambdaone

Four new Stamps are restocking...

Several Minipets are now available in lots of new colours.


And can you find this environmentally-friendly Recycled Avatar?

The Editorial for this week has been released.

The Winners of the April Prize Draw will be released later today.

We have released more Dukka Coins to make the currency more interesting. You can also exchange any of the coins in Dukka Caves for smaller or higher coins. Coins worth more than 9 Dukkas will receive a 10% charge.

The Glowing Egg Enthusiast avatar has been activated.

The City of Marada has decided to start to tackle the problem of Global Warming by becoming the most sustainable city in the world. It has started by opening a Recycling Centre. All of those Marapops that are being given out from the Marapop event are being dumped and now the City is offering incentives for you to recycle them instead! For every can that you recycle, you will receive points that can be used to redeem cool prizes! The centre is in the City but it has not been labelled properly yet. You can get great prizes from a Recycled Costume to the Glowing Recycled Egg that has been on the top of most of your wishlists for months!


The Knutt, Viotto and Rofling can now use the Recycling Costume!

The rarity of all Marapops have been changed to rarity 8.

Two new items have been added to the Pirate Ship!