During the Month of Celebrating - the advent calendar opens up for all Neopians to win amazing prizes each day! With not just items, but Neopoints, themes and avatars - it's best not to miss a single day!

On Moderneopets, the advent calendar will grant special rewards on the 24th, 25th and 31st - as well as a theme/avatar on the 1st (and the theme again on the 31st if you missed the first chance at it) so it's best to note those days down and try to visit for your holiday goodies.


Is this where the generosity ends? Nope! We're also releasing the Winter Gifts feature! These random images will pop up around the site during December, and clicking on them will grant you the secondary gifts that usually are found in the advent calendar's hidden images.

There is an exception though - Ginger, the cute cat that he is - has decided to jump in on the bandwagon and give out amazing gifts (totally not stolen from his owner, Hazer). If you see this little dastardly troublemaker you know you're in for a great reward!

For a cheap price of only 400 Neopoints - you will be able to browse through Meridell Acre Farms each day to pick upwards of 6 berries! You will be able to find neat items such as clovers and previously unreleased berries among the items you can pick, so don't forget to go daily and grab your fair share!



These brothers are constantly arguing but there's one thing they can both agree on - rewarding those who prove themselves each day!

King Hagan is always thirsty for knowledge and insight, and if you provide him with it he will give you books and other goodies! King Skarl is miserable thanks to the war on Meridell, and he needs a bit of cheering up. He can always find something in his kitchen to give you - and if you're lucky you might even get an item from his treasury!

Defend Krawk Island from underwater assailants and earn pirate themed goodies today, with our new feature - Anchor Management! This daily activity can grant you anything from pirate plushies to morphing potions and even paint brushes! The governor is very generous to those who protect his land, after all.

We have a big update to bring forward to your today, so this news post might be structured in a bit of a different way than normal, as we have FOUR new features to talk about!


The first feature is Treasure Hunts!
Those map pieces you've been accruing over time now finally have a use, once you turn them in at the Treasure Hunt games page (found in the games room) you will be rewarded all manner of goodies, from paintbrushes to access of the other new features being released along side Treasure Hunt!

Map rewards have been buffed and therefore are worth claiming. Not just this, but all maps have been made repeatable for rewards - and will track your items gained / neopoints gained and maps completed stats for you to show off to your friends.


Speaking of the Lab Rays - they're coming along side this update so you can start Zapping your poor pets and petpets the moment you complete your maps! There are a few changes to note for these Lab Rays (some have already been noted)

- You do not need to complete Lab Ray to access Petpet Lab Ray
- You can unlock up to 10 zaps a day for both Petpet Lab Ray and Lab Ray
- You can gain pets like Ice Bori from Lab Ray
- You can unequip zapped petpets and they retain the zapped species/colour.
--- These Zapped Petpets will be no trade however, and cannot be painted.


Last but not least we have a new daily for you all - the Forgotten Shore! You can visit the shore once a day after completing the map for the first time, and gain all sorts of pirate themed goodies!

The shore comes with a new avatar as well, so best hope you get that very rare chance at the sand pile, and check daily so you don't miss out on it!

This update isn't fully finished though, once the assets have been made there will be trophies for completing each of the maps a certain amount of times!

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Along side this update comes a lot of bug fixes and changes - if you would like to see them please check out the Patch Notes channel in our discord server!

It's time though, buddy! Cheer up!
Oh wait... you can't. You're perpetually sad. :<
Though at least you can now find a loving home!

Thanks to user Under for finding all the poses - the previously unreleased Grey Draik has now been introduced into Moderneopets!

You can stop using your pets pages as wishlists now - as we have introduced the ability to create official wishlists with a "bounty" of extra goods attached! The new wishlist feature allows you to curate your own catalogue of wanted items, letting other users know straight away what you covet. If this isn't enticing enough - you can even set bounties on the wishlist items, to let users know how much Neopoints you'll throw at them if they decide to trade one with you!


Is that not enough? Let me sweeten the cake a bit more - when you view your wishlist you will be able to see if said items are available right now - be it in Auctions, Trades, NPC Shops or User shops, the wishlist will notify you with handy icons below the item to link you straight to the source!

That aside, we also know how people like prettying up their pages and adding their own flair, so we've made the wishlists customizable much like lookups, shops and pet pages!

We hope you have a great time jotting down your dreams, and really hope the feature helps bring you success to your goals!

The Alien Aishas who have been handing out Nerkmids have opened up the use for them, after much fiddling about they've gotten their galactic hit - the "Nosh-O-Matic" - up and running in Neopia Centrals Plaza! This vending machine takes in their Nerkmids and can give great prizes! It also can give out delicacies from all planets in our universe... not sure if that's a good thing or not though.



Grab your Nerkmids (or buy them from other users selling) and go try your luck today!

A sight once so rarely seen, these large, sloth-like friends have long since been thought to be a myth, but it appears a community of them have emerged from their underground, mountainous homes - and burrowed their way right out into Moderneopets!

Diregos are an old species, dating back to prehistory, though sightings of them have dwindled into obscurity. It was once said that to spot a Dirego was a bad omen, for surely disaster would follow them soon after.

These lovable sloths, however, would love nothing more than to burrow away in their mountains looking for gems to decorate their manes with - blissfully ignoring the strange and dire coincidences that seem to occur around them. Perhaps these once-elusive fluffballs being adopted by a loving owner will finally turn their unfortunate reputation around?

You can create your fluffball friend right now at create a pet! If you're lacking in pet slots then we have you covered with some basic Dirego Morphing potions - now stocking at Kauvaras!



These cute, aloof fluffballs were a creation of our amazing user Taffer!
They have graciously decided to bless Moderneo with their adorable sloth omens, lets just hope the curse doesn't affect us, shall we? xD

To top this celebration off, lets here a quote from their creator:

Short, sweet and to the point.
You should waste no more time, get to adopting one now!



If you cannot adopt one right now, and want your own fluffy visage of the Dirego, don't fret! Plushie palace will be stocking their basic likeness from this point on, so feel free to grab some plushies of your own!