A new Quest has been released in Lowlyhood. Drew is fabulous! He lives for fashion and his goal is to turn all players from drab to fab. If you accept his quest, Drew will ask you to come back wearing certain clothing in colours he chooses. If you can do this within the time limit he will reward you with MP. If he is feeling really generous he will also give you a Dress 4 Less Voucher. Drew will exchange them for a pet Transformation. He looks at all of the different colours and species your pet has been in it's lifetime and will change it back in exchange of these vouchers. The rarer the pet or costume, the more vouchers you will need!
Whenever you use a Costume, Potion or Enchanted Plushie or your pet changes (or doesn't change in the case of the new Vortex Park Reservoir) you receive a Transformation history for your pet. Drew quest means that you can now use his voucher to change your pet to any species or colour it has ever been!
This means there will be no more "I accidently portalled my Chibs!" situations. It also makes it easier to take different Photos at the Photo Parlour or change your pet for FREE training or double school/education events! The price of Drew vouchers for each species or costume is subject to change at any time.
Drew has been added to the quests page, your profile counter and Lowlyhood world map.
Can you find the 'Drew' Hidden Avatar?
The Anime Costume was first released in May 2009 in Account Upgrades and the costume has been retired and neglected ever since. We have released a new version of the Anime Account Upgrade with 8 new anime themed items and either an Anime coloured Raulf or Kaala Enchanted Plushie. This AU will retire September 30th.
The Raulf and Kaala can now wear the Anime Costume.
The Anime Arinya, Bolimo, Chibs, Doyle, Fasoro, Ike, Jessup, Kujo, Nino, Osafo, Poera, Tasi, Ushunda, Vixen, Willa and Zoosh have been updated. We hope you like the changes!
The Vortex Park Reservoir has finally been released! The
Vortex Park Reservoir is polluted, dangerous and off limits to most Maradans.
If you complete all 16 pieces of the Vortex Park Reservoir Treasure Map your pets will be able to visit once every 24 hours for FREE.
You can choose one of your pets to take a dip in the reservoir and see what happens. Your pet may gain gym or elite gym stats, school or university stats. Your pet may also gain transformations that will be very useful for the Drew quests or change costume without any risk of your pet changing species!
We are sorry for the delay in releasing this feature, recent site maintenace pushed back a lot of our news updates. The Tornado Account Upgrade will now retire a month later than originally planned.
Can you find the 'Reservoir' Hidden Avatar?
The Native Fairy now has rewards for completing all 18 sets of maps.
The Vortex Park Reservoir has been added to the Vortex Park world map.
Jenoa Goals have 19 new levels for you to complete. You can now complete up to 50 levels. There are 11 new item prizes, lots of MP and £3 Account Upgrade Credits to be won.
The Coal, Fraggle, Heavy, Hulau, Kaburi, Liam, Maestro, Phantasm, Sooty, Vikee and Zarplet can wear the new Ball of Underwater Yarn.
The Naia is avaliable in these different colours too!
We would first like to apologise for the past 4-6 weeks of Marapets Maintenance issues. Normally we would keep you all updated but this time we had to keep quiet as we were running on much less server power than normal and making this public, somebody could have used this information to crash us!
Half of the problem was that we purchased all of our current infrastructure at once, 5 years ago. We had 24 different 15KRPM SSCI hard drives and they were failing at one per week!
We had ordered many spares and were replacing them as they failed. The issue was that as one disk failed, more load was transferred to others, making them fail even quicker!
This sometimes resulted in random crashes that took a while to recover.. several crashes in the past month!
We decided to replace all 24 disks with faster SSD drives now which cost a lot to purchase all at once and also took up a lot of time to replace, as we replaced 4 at a time without the site going down.
When we set up our infrastructure 5-6 years ago, we used high performance InfiniBand for our network. This is amazingly fast and worked well for us for many of those years. As the years went by, less and less software and updates were compatible with IB and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) got much cheaper.
Last month we had 24 hours of maintenance where we switched from InfiniBand to 10GbE. This was a complete success and many players almost instantly noticed how much faster Marapets was running... until the timeouts and appeared! This was mainly down to our older hard drives being replaced and rebuilt in the background.
All of this maintenance has now been completed
Everything *should* now be back to normal and running faster than ever. All of our time has been spent on this maintenance and the next couple of days will be spent fixing any of other errors that we have missed.
We would like to thank you for your patience and normal news updates should now be back!
*fingers and toes crossed*
67 of the Default Avatars have been updated with new artwork.
There have been many, many changes to do with Caring for Pets. Although we have grown over the years in content, Marapets is and will always be a Virtual Pet Site. The name Marapets was chosen because 'mara' was a reference to death and Marapets would die if not looked after.
Over the years this was disabled simply because it was never done properly. We have made a lot of changes now and brought back a lot of the original features of Marapets. Like it or not, many features of the site have no purpose on here if the Caring for Pets is not required.
The following update relates to Pet diseases, health and prison. Whenever we say a 'pet is not healthy' this is referring to happiness, hunger and tiredness being neglected and has NO reference to health points used in battling.
The following changes have been made:
· Your pet will need to be cared for and healthy. Happiness, tiredness and hunger changes by 5% approx once every 15 hours. This only happens when you are online - if your pets are at 100% happiness and you do not login for 3 months, they will be at 100% when you come back. Each pet's happiness, tiredness and hunger will show as green when it is healthy, orange when it is unhealthy, red when it is being neglected.
· When you use items, such as food for hunger, toys for happiness, etc a pet's status will now change by 25% instead of 10%.
· If a pet is in the Hotel they will remain healthy without the need to use items. The hotel does not protect from diseases/illness. Queen Bee no longer stings pets that are staying at the hotel.
· All Account Upgrades purchased from now on will receive 25,000MP hotel credit. This has replaced extra blog entries or marasite pages. Every player now has a very high amount of these for FREE.
· Gym, Elite Gym, School and University can not be used by sick or unhealthy pets or pets that are in prison in the same way that job wages cannot be collected.
· If you fail a mission of The Fates only one of your pets will be chosen at random to become sick instead of all of them.
· If you are caught at the Grave Robbing only one of your pets will go to prison instead of all of them.
· The Puchalla Inn quest now allows you to select which pet may earn a charisma stat.
· If you do not pay your Electricity Bill random event, you will be reminded several times to do so. If you still fail to pay the bill after the reminders, one of your pets will be sent to prison.
· Finally, pets can once again die if they are not looked after. There has been a lot of panic and confusion over this but its really quite simple. Undying Woods is named undying because pets do not actually die, they just go to the graveyard here and become zombie costumed that other players can rescue. And it takes quite a lot for it to even get that far! If your pet has any kind of sickness or disease, or it has been neglected health wise (starving, thirsty, tired) and is still not looked after, you will have several warnings that show up similar to random events to warn you of the pet that is suffering. If nothing is done about it, you will be reminded several times more. If you still do not do anything about it, your pet will die and move to the Gate of the Graveyard in Undying Woods. You then have 14 days to visit this place and either pay 50,000MP to save your pet and it will be costumed Zombie. If you do not want it be zombie coloured, you can pay 75,000MP. If you do not do this, after 14 days the pet will move to the Graveyard as a zombie where any player can take ownership of the pet and it is no longer yours.
