We have been busy working on a new and improved
Load Balancer for the site. At the moment, whenever you load a page on Marapets it will select one of the many server nodes at random.
While this obviously works most of the time, there are times when certain servers receive a much higher amount of traffic than others. At peak times this has sometimes caused 'time out' errors or a slower load time.
Our new load balancer will distribute the load properly and will put a stop to these issues. It will also allow us to expand the number of server nodes so that the site continues to load as quickly as possible.
This should go live on Monday and you should not notice any downtime.
Marapets has had 100.00% uptime performance so far for the whole of 2019 and we are constantly working to make sure this remains. Thank you for all of the Account Upgrade buyers who have helped us to manage this!
The Eyru, Tantua, Speiro and Straya can now wear the
Baby Costume.
A new
Jinn Account Upgrade has been released, with 8 new themed items. A new
Puny Pyramid Treasure Map is the main prize. Collect all 16 pieces of this map and you will gain access to the brand new Puny Pyramid feature that will be released within the next few weeks. You will receive 6 or 7 random pieces of this map. There is a 1 in 3 chance you will receive 7 pieces instead of 6 pieces. This AU will
retire May 31st.


The Addow, Bolimo, Chibs, Feliz, Huthiq, Kujo, Phanty, Raulf, Rofling, Sindi, Sybri, Walee and Yuni can now wear the new
Jinn Costume.
For a limited time only, the retired
St Patricks Day Treasure Chest is back on sale at the
Account Upgrades Shop. It will automatically
retire March 25th.
Are you ready for our
St Patrick's Day Event starting later this week? Don't miss it!
We have some exciting news about the
Giveaway Rules. Last year, the rules were made stricter to protect players accounts that may have been compromised.
Since this rule change we have made many, many important changes to the site to limit any damage that is caused when an account is compromised. The Rules about giveaways have now returned to normal. However, everyone should take the time to read the
Rules and remind themselves.
The important thing to remember is that at MaraPets we encourage all players to be nice, friendly and helpful to each other and giving away items/currency/pets is always encouraged but please use common sense. If in doubt, or you are planning a very large/excessive giveaway, you will require staff approval by Support Ticket. Giving away excessive items to the same person/people will be treated as multiple account abuse.
The fairest and easiest way to give away any items is via the
Pot of Gold and we encourage everyone to use this.
A new
Double Worms Giftbox is now on sale at the
Giftbox Shop. Use this item and you will pick up twice as many Worms from the Worm Digging game for life.
Whenever you find a worm, you will be given two instead of one!
The Decadal, Equilor, Figaro, Gobble, Grint, Huthiq, Justin and Mordo can now wear the
Thunder Costume.
Happy Valentine's Day
All
Baby,
Love, Cupid, Valentine, Red, Magenta, Pink or Coral pets will receive
FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym until February 28th.
And all
Baby,
Love, Cupid, Valentine, Red, Magenta, Pink or Coral pets will receive
FREE LESSONS at the School until February 28th.
The
Candy Tree is spreading the love this
Valentine's Day! He has taken a break from his quests and is rewarding everyone who visits him. All pets can visit him every
30 minutes but any pet wearing a
Baby,
Love, Cupid, Valentine, Red, Magenta, Pink or Coral Costume can visit every
15 minutes. All of these prizes will
retire when this event ends
February 28th.










Instead of the annual Valentine's Day Hunt, all of the
Quest characters will be spreading the love until
February 28th. You may randomly receive one of these FREE gifts when you complete any quest as a bonus prize along with your usual quest reward! As the Candy Tree is not currently performing quests you cannot win these from there.

The Baby Costume was first released in June 2005 in Account Upgrades and the costume has been retired and forgotten about ever since. A new version of the
Baby Account Upgrade has been released, with 7 new Baby themed items and either a Baby coloured
Nino or Fasoro Enchanted Plushie. This AU will
retire April 15th.

The Azul, Chibs, Daisy, Dakota, Decadal, Ercuw, Figaro, Huthiq, Knutt, Leido, Mordo, Osafo, Renat, Snookle, Sybri and Zola have been updated to the new version of the
Baby Costume.
For a limited time only, the retired
Heartless Treasure Chest and
Love Treasure Chest are back on sale at the
Account Upgrades Shop. They will both automatically
retire February 23rd.
Are you ready for our
Valentine's Day Event starting later this week? Don't miss it!
A new
Account Upgrades Promotion has started. The Fishtail Braids Wig, Fun Hoodie and Maroon Glowing Egg prizes have been replaced with a Cropped Hoodie, Mushroom Patch Stamp and Slim Jogging Bottoms. All players will receive these 3 new items and
30% extra credit for FREE with their next purchase of Account Upgrades Credit.
All
Genie pets will receive
FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym until February 14th.
And all
Genie pets will receive
FREE LESSONS at the School until February 14th.
The Fasoro, Rofling, Rusty, Willa and Xoi can now wear the
Sewers Costume.
For a limited time only, the retired
Carnival Treasure Chest is back on sale at the
Account Upgrades Shop. It will all automatically
retire January 31st.
The Bolimo, Snookle, Tasi, Ushunda and Walee can now wear the
Sewers Costume.
The Straya can now wear the Calico, Pastel, Radioactive and Snow Costumes.
The
Santa Claws New Year Raffle has been announced. If you were a winner of MP or Account Upgrades Credit you should now have them and an alert. Any Bonus Prize items won will now be in your Inventory if you were a winner.
The following players won a
Christmas costume:
britan6814, blitzen, Bells, Clown, AngelicGal, GilmoreGirlz, Sweetdemonicangel, Brennen, MissNora, Grumpycat, Bells, turashu, gosh, Kaiuh, Binxie12, tvampyer, Bek, lionhart2, Merv, wintergreen555
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Our
Christmas Carol Singing Event has just started. It will end automatically December 31st. Everyone can take part for FREE! You can visit the profile of any player that is currently online, hit the 'Sing Carols' button and you may receive a prize. You can only visit each person once per day and you will receive MP or an item. All of these item prizes will retire at the end of this event too!
If your character is wearing an approved
Christmas Costume you are guaranteed an item or MP prize at every visit. Players without the costume can still take part, but on average only a quarter of all visits will receive any kind of prize. This means that players with an approved costume will win 4 times more prizes!






The approved list of Christmas
Character Costumes that will work for this event are as follows:
Advent Tree Costume, Angelic Costume, Archangel Costume, Blitzen Justin Onesie, Candycane Costume, Christmas Cake Costume, Christmas Day Costume, Christmas Night Costume, Christmas Onesie, Christmas Pudding Costume, Christmas Reindeer Costume, Devious Elf Costume, Drummer Girl Costume, Elfember Costume, Frosty Tree Costume, Gift Wrapped Costume, Gingerbread Lady Costume, Gingerbread Man Costume, Hamster Onesie, Holly Costume, Jack Frost Costume, Jacqueline Frost Costume, Krampus Costume, Mistletoe Costume, Mrs Claus Costume, Ms Scrooge Costume, Nisse Costume, Polar Bear Costume, Present Costume, Reindeer Costume, Santa Claus Costume, Santa Claws Costume, Santa Elf Costume, Scrooge Costume, Stocking Costume, Toy Sindi Onesie, Tree Costume, Tree Uniform Costume, Vixen Costume, Winter King Costume, Winter Kujo Onesie, Winter Queen Costume, Yeti Costume
We understand there is some frustration and confusion over the Christmas gifting rules and we would like to try to make things a little simpler for everyone at this time of year. The rule was put in place to safeguard hacked accounts and to discourage multiple accounts, it was not really meant to take the joy out of Christmas and stop players from sending items to their friends or from taking part in Secret Santa events. From now until December 25th players can gift items to friends and send Secret Santa items WITHIN REASON.
We realise that all accounts have different values so to set an mps limit is not really fair. You may send items that you can easily afford without your account being left poor or empty. Please remember that staff can see all account transactions and will be watching these closely.
Anyone who tries to use the "Christmas gifting" to send their items/mps to a friend/sibling or multiple account will still have their account frozen along with the receiving account, as per normal procedure. You do so at your own risk and have been warned.