The Worm Digging game in Gigantic Paradise has been updated. The game now has new artwork, a nicer design and higher MP prizes.

Thank you to everyone for their patience the past week or so. As you probably noticed, Marapets had over a week of loading problems, which caused a lot of weird glitches. Several of our hard disks broke at the same time and the disks they fail over to were not as fast as we're used to. To avoid any problems we've had in the past, we closed right away and tried our best to find the best long term solution and install/prepare everything in 48 hours. It took nearly 69 hours but I had to have some sleep ha!

We had plans to move away from all of our last remaining SATA disks (even at 15K RPM they are still so much slower and less reliable than SSD) but they were only here as back up.The plan was to move all of our servers from Canada to the UK in 2020 and replace it then once our Canada lease was up. Last week changed all of this, as we needed Marapets fixed ASAP. We've now extended the lease in Canada for another 24 months and completed all of the upgrades we had planned for 2020 in Canada. Marapets has been hosted in North America for the past 15 years because the majority of players are from there and it meant a faster site for those players. These days, with Cloudflare and fibre connections, it makes very little difference and is more of a hassle to have everything so far away from us.

Don't worry if that made no sense to you, all that matters is that a) we have new hardware and software now and hopefully we'll be good now for many years and b) it was a total success and we should be running the best we ever had.

We will start our Halloween events as planned shortly. Those who changed their pets to Midnight for free training should keep them midnight - midnight is a halloween theme costume and it will be included in Halloween free training.

The Basil, Paffuto, Reese and Tantua can now wear the Thunder Costume.



The Double or Nothing game has been updated with brand new artwork.

The Transubstantiation Temple and Transuranics Temple have been updated.



The Zetlian can now wear the Splatter Costume.


Fifty of the oldest Stamps have been updated with newer artwork.

The CD Shop in Ziranek has 42 new CDs restocking. Treat your pet to some of the latest music in Marada right now, with classics from Selene Dion, Hick Jagger, Meltin John and Susan Doyle and newer albums from Demi Plushato, Piggy Azalea and Justin Beaver. The artwork for 13 of the oldest CDs has also been updated.

All Midnight pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE LESSONS at the School until October 15th.

There seems to be a lot of confusion recently about changes to the Marapets Layout. Over the next couple of months, Marapets will be becoming more Mobile Friendly. Players on mobiles, tablets and desktops will all be able to play Marapets just as easy as each other. For the past 15 years, we've been 100% made for desktop computers. It has taken us many years to gradually change the site, so that it works well on mobile. Some of these changes are already here but many are not. When it is finished, hopefully by the end of the year, it will be clear why we have been making changes around the site. Until then, there may be the ocasional mis-aligned text, some text that is too big, some that is too small, random white space, etc. None of this should effect the way that Marapets can be played - the site will still work as it should, it just may not look it's best. If you find any parts of the site where the design makes it difficult to play, please report it on the Help Forums. In the mean time, please be patient with us - the end result will be worth it!

Basil can now wear the Baby Costume and the Minipet Astro has been updated to the newer design.


The winners of the 15th Birthday Hunt have been announced. If you were a winner, you will have received your prizes and the alert by now.
Congratulations to the following winners of:
Forum Art Contest : Succulents, Nim, Overalls, Wheeker, robot
Forum Doll Contest : waffle, Florence, Lumos, Snookles, Ateez
Party Costume : LittleKitten570, Gylly, PURPLE232, batouttaheck, Rumor, Cleola, xxMelyndaxx, Hunnie, misstree, crazyee1521, Detain, raenarabbit, Bastean, ShockWave, zumadays
£15 Account Upgrade Credit : Yikes, kanrise, fOOt, Dream51296, Dianne, gabbygirl95929, shellan82, Neko, daisylou16, Cleola, JavannaLynn, becacat, Rellycanth, Spiderman, littleheart50
Decadal Birthday Hunt Prize : Joanne, MaplePrincess, dreamer4darkness, GarlandsOfGrace, Mordo, laughATme, Lumos, lhdc, _DragonLady_, Quill, marapetuniverse, Sinner, Patrick, Pukwudgie, Selection

A new Midnight Account Upgrade Set has been released, with 7 new midnight themed items, a retired Midnight Costume and either a Midnight Enchanted Plushie or Midnight Potion. This set is on sale until October 25th. You can choose if you would like the main prize to be an Enchanted Midnight Plushie or Potion. There is 1 in 3 chance you will receive a limited edition Mordo instead of Crindol, Gonk, Grint, Paffuto, Reese, Tantua, Xoi or Zetlian.





The Mordo and Reese can now wear the Midnight Costume.


All 21 Midnight pets have been updated to the new style - we hope you like the changes!

Summer is nearly over in Marada but the Apollo, Kissy, Pyri, Spoopy, Sugarmites, Dapurtle, Kuork, Scorpi, Sue and Yoop minipets can now wear the Ball of Summer Yarn.




We have a new Summer Layout - we finally have all 4 seasons in Marada! We have also changed the site's layout - it's much wider now and the 'reminder' box has moved. It will take a few more months for the whole site to be finished but we're working on hard on making Marapets more responsive, so that it fits better and is easier to play on all browsers and devices. This means you may experience mis-aligned or messy pages here and there as we make the switch. If you notice any that are really bad, please let us know on the Help Forums.



The Ice Cream shop has six new items restocking.



The Tombola drink prizes have been updated. They are now gourmet items and there are 12 new items to be won.

The Basil, Dakota, Fasoro, Feliz, Ike, Jessup, Sindi, Speiro, Yakubi and Zoink can now wear the Checkered Costume. This means that all 77 pets can now wear this costume!

The old Sushi items have all been updated to newer artwork.

The Voodoo Costume is the latest costume to be revamped. The Voodoo Ercuw, Fasoro, Tantua and Troit have been updated to the newer design. The Decadal and Huthiq can now wear this costume. Remember, you can win this costume from The Fates mission.

All Fairy pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE LESSONS at the School until October 6th.

The Poera, Rusty, Straya, Vixen and Willa can now wear the Fairy Costume that is still on sale at Account Upgrades.

The Slater Stalker quest in Slater Park has been updated. Her shop also has lots of new items on sale for Stalker Points that you earn from her quest.






The Chibs, Gizmo, Gobble, Hump, Justin, Kronk, Phanty, Willa, Zetlian and Zoink can now wear the Love Costume. This means that all 77 pets can now wear this costume!

The Crikey can now wear the Light Costume and the Champion minipet is available in 6 new colours. Remember, the Light Account Upgrade retires in less than 72 Hours.



The Potato Chips Shop in Slater Park, which sells items for BP, now has 12 new items restocking.

We have improved the way the site layout handles Pages. The new system is much smarter and fits better with the site design. It handles larger pages much better and is easier for those on mobile to use. There is also the option to enter and skip to the exact page you need to find by entering the number at the beginning. This was a huge update, editing many old parts of the site so if you find any places where pages exist and the page isn't working as it should, please let us know in Help Forums.


The Straya can now wear the Headless, Love, Negative and Rainbow Costumes.



We have updated the artwork for Bagels - some of the oldest items on the site.

A new Fairy Account Upgrade Set has been released, with 7 new fairy themed items, a retired Fairy Costume and either a Fairy Enchanted Plushie or Fairy Potion. This set is on sale until October 7th. You can choose if you would like the main prize to be an Enchanted Fairy Plushie or Potion. There is 1 in 3 chance you will receive a restricted Raulf instead of Addow, Azul, Bolimo, Fasoro, Flab, Gonk, Jessup, Kidlet, Murfin or Reese.






The Bolimo, Kidlet and Reese can now wear the Fairy Costume.


The Fairy Addow, Azul, Chibs, Daisy, Flab, Jessup, Lorius, Murfin, Oglue, Pucu, Rofling and Sindi have been updated to the new style - we hope you like the changes!

The September 2019 Olympics has taken place and the 90 winners have been announced. If you were a winner of this event, you will now have your prize. A new Olympic event has now started.

Click Here to see September 2019 Winners

Can you find these new Hidden Avatars?



Harpy has new prizes and now rewards each pet for up to 2,750 Magic Stats.

The Potato Chips Shop in Slater Park, which sells items for BP, now has 12 new items restocking.




The Dalmation Costume and Galaxy Costume have switched places. It makes much more sense for the Galaxy Costume to be from Ublish's Lair!

The Zombie Crindol, Daisy and Dakota have been updated to the new design.



The Tooth Fairy and Rainbow Fairy have new reward prizes now for up to 60,000 Battles and 3,000 Transformations.

Alerts have a new design and also allow you to browse and delete similar alerts. This should make it a lot easier for you to find important alerts and to delete the less important alerts at once.

The MP, BP, RP and AU Icons all around the site have been updated and have a newer design.


The Transmogrification Temple has been updated with new artwork and an easier design. When you complete it, it will also be easier to select the Limited Edition pet you would like.

The Astro, Azul, Gizmo, Hump, Huthiq, Lorius, Mordo, Nino, Phanty and Zoosh can now wear the Checkered Costume.

The Zombie Arinya, Azul, Basil, Bolimo, Crikey, Echlin and Ercuw have been updated to the newer design of the Zombie Costume.

Our Maintenance is now complete and you should finally notice the difference. Marapets is 15 Years Old and is pretty huge in terms of content and data. Any small server hardware or software upgrade here is a massive undertaking but this was the biggest change in many, many years. We upgraded both the hardware, software and network MaraPets uses. It has taken months of hard work to make sure as much was done without closing the site and without much downtime or errors.

For those who are interested, MaraPets was still running on a version of PHP5 (released in 2012, supported until 2014) and although we have had many upgrades of hardware and software since then, we had to finally update everything and bring it to 2019! This meant much of the site had to be re-coded, servers needed newer operating systems and our newer database software required much of the site to be changed to be compatible. To update 15 years of MaraPets in less than 6 weeks was not easy!

We would like to apologise for the last 48 hours of random Server Errors and issues some players have had. In hindsight we shoud have closed for longer - we estimated how much time we could complete the move in but didn't take into account how tired/bad we would feel doing it all so fast on very little sleep. The move is complete now and we should be running better than ever! It will still take another week or so to make sure everything is 100% working - MaraSites for example are still disabled - but it shouldn't be anything major now and we should be running better than we have ever.

As always, we'd like to thank everyone for their patience while we made the move, those who helped test and the Account Upgrade buyers who have helped keep Marapets constantly improving. To celebrate the move, you can all visit the Vault and use the code I-LOVE-PICKLE-JUICE-LIKE-I-LOVE-SERVER-ERRORS to receive a FREE gift from us.


The Flab, Lorius, Mordo, Murfin, Nino and Oglue can now wear the Leopard Costume.

The Arinya, Crikey, Daisy, Ideus, Justin, Kaala, Pucu, Raulf, Renat, Troit, Viotto and Zola can now wear the Checkered Costume.

As promised, the limited edition/restricted pet potion flash sale in the Account Upgrades Shop is back and will most likely sell out today or tomorrow. As we had originally said that they would retire 20th August, a very, very limited number is back on sale for those who missed out. Once these are gone, they will retire and will not be back on sale here.



All Light pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym and FREE LESSONS at the School until September 15th.

The Addow, Justin, Kronk, Leido, Newth and Nino can now wear the Light Costume that is still on sale at Account Upgrades.

MaraPets will be down for Scheduled Maintenance later this week. We have been working for months on preparing for this move so that it is as smooth as possible. We are moving to new, faster servers with new versions of operating system, PHP and database software. Our current database server has an internal operating system glitch which at times, makes us crash. There isn't anything we can do about it apart from reboot once it happens, but there isn't always someone online to do it. It happened today and as I was asleep and missed it, we had over 2 hours of downtime. This is one of the many reasons for the move but those who have been temporarily moved to the new system this week to help test have all noticed how much faster the site is! We will keep you updated and give plenty of notice before we close and we estimate that the maintenance would take 6 to 12 hours.

The Mutant Ideus, Justin, Mordo, Osafo, Paffuto, Viotto, Vixen, Walee, Yakubi, Yuni and Zetlian have been updated to the newer design. All 77 pets now have the updated Mutant Costume design - we hope you like the changes!