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October 17th
BW2: Halloween Event, 2025 Edition! 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

The Haunted Mansion Has Materialized!

Main Features

Trading Pumpkins

Who doesn't love a good haunted mansion? Well, that's what Halloween in Bushwhackia is all about! But to decorate your very own, you need to do what you do best! Go out into the world and whack bushes to find Pumpkins. Once you have found a patch of pumpkins, you can buy decorations from Glenda outside the mansion, or from the "Store" button while you're in Build Mode inside. Once you feel you've got enough, start laying out your design inside. (You can also purchase the same decorations for Bush Bucks from the Cop in the event area.)

You do not have to place all your collected decorations on display in the Mansion in order for them to count towards "Halloween Collector," they will count so long as they are within your haunted house inventory.

Scaring Candy

The goal is to scare the 8 children standing in front of the house, all of varying levels of bravery. The more you scare them, the more candy you'll earn in return. And you're going to want that candy so you can trade it for the custom items at the event store! You can try scaring them every 20 hours after you scared them the first time.

Glenda the Good Witch isn't just for buying decorations with Pumpkins. You will also be getting several quests from her throughout the event for special interactive decorations. As you complete each of her four quests, you can request help from your friends* by talking to the Construction Worker to increase the decoration's scariness.

The Haunted Mansion Photo Contest

The Haunted Mansion Photo Contest will be starting on Wednesday October 22nd You'll need 300 mansion spookiness before you can submit a screenshot, and at least 50 items placed in your mansion.

In case you're wanting to keep your decorations secret until it's finished, you can now prevent or allow friends from visiting your mansion by talking to the contest NPC and selecting either "Don't let anyone visit my mansion!" or "Allow friends to visit my mansion!" respectively.

Gotta Collect them all!

What can possibly make your house scarier? How about some Creatures which wander around your mansion! Each creature will become available for a set amount of dates which you can then request from friends* by talking to the the Cop.

Creatures are available on the following schedule:
Black Cats - AVAILABLE at Event launch, UNTIL Sun Oct 19, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Witches - AVAILABLE Sun Oct 19, Noon PDT UNTIL Tues Oct 21, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Zombies - AVAILABLE Tues Oct 21, Noon PDT UNTIL Thurs Oct 23, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Bats - AVAILABLE Thurs Oct 23, Noon PDT UNTIL Sat Oct 25, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Spiders - AVAILABLE Sat Oct 25, Noon PDT UNTIL Mon Oct 27, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Ghost Butler - AVAILABLE Mon Oct 27, Noon PDT UNTIL Wed Oct 29, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Franken-Dogs - AVAILABLE Wed Oct 29, Noon PDT UNTIL the Event End

*The Sparkly Vampire is still available for Bush Bucks if you want it in your haunted house.

Candy! Candy! Candy!

To buy the custom items, you need your Candy! Not only do you get it from scaring those insolent little kiddies, you also net some from completing the various quests given to you by the Halloween NPCs hanging out in the event area!

Trick-or-Treat!

Plus from Sunday October 26th until the end of the event, you can hunt down denizens of Bushwhackia and Trick-or-Treat with them for Candy goodness! There will be a spooky character standing in front of a pile of Candy in each of the major areas! NPCs have been added up to the Prismatic Passage region!

Animatronics!

Help the witch construct special animated decorations for your haunted mansion, via their series of Duty and Animatronic quests! You can copy a permanent version of these decorations for your ranch in the Fox's Moulder Most Foul quest line.

New This Year

This year's update includes:

- new pet and ranch VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new holiday 100% reward!
- new haunted mansion items!

Holiday Plushies

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Mini Ghost Plush! Collect all the holiday 2025 plushies!

VIP Rewards!

Active VIP members can claim unique rewards based on their event progress! If you don't have an active membership, you have the entire event to consider becoming one! You can earn and claim these rewards until the end of the event.

And more!

And there's some minor fixes and improvements which you can check out on the Release Notes, which are linked at the bottom of the page!

See all the updates in the Release Notes!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of 25 possible Achievements to earn in this Halloween event!

Returning Achievements

  • Mansion Maniac - Get 50 decorations for your Haunted Mansion!
  • Little Kid Spooker - Scare 4 kids in you Haunted Mansion
  • Scarred for Life - Scare all the kids in your Haunted Mansion!
  • Trick or Treat - Go Trick or Treating during the last week of the event!
  • Costume Quest - Complete the Costume Quests
  • Year Round Scares - Completed the Moulder Most Foul
  • Pumpking - Grow a very large Pumpkin.
  • There's a Skeleton in Us All - Help The Bone Doctor build and animate a skeleton for Halloween!
  • Hallowe'en Collector - Have at least 40 unique decorations in your H. M.! (formerly Halloween Completionist)
  • Craven Candies - Find each trick-or-treaters favourite candy
  • Spook Inspector - Vote 50 times in the Haunted Mansion Photo Contest.

New Achievements

  • Fearful Finds* - Purchase all the 2025 Halloween Event items.
We have 14 achievements from previous year's events, which may be earnable by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present during the initial years:
  • Spooky Home Decorator - get all house items from the 2012 Halloween Event!
  • Year-round Cosplayer - Get all player items from the 2012 Halloween Event!
  • Candy Spender - Purchase all the Halloween 2013 items!
  • Spooky Purchases - Purchases all the 2014 Halloween Event items.
  • Halloweenie - Purchase all the 2015 Halloween Event items.
  • All Hallows' Items - Purchase all the 2016 Halloween Event items.
  • Scary Swag - Purchase all the 2017 Halloween Event items.
  • Ghastly Grabs - Purchase all the 2018 Halloween Event items.
  • Creepy Collectables - Purchase all the 2019 Halloween Event items.
  • Frightful Frippery - Purchase all the 2020 Halloween Event items.
  • Terrifying Trinkets - Purchase all the 2021 Halloween Event items.
  • Haunted Haberdashery - Purchase all the 2022 Halloween Event items.
  • Possessed Possessions - Purchase all the 2023 Halloween Event items.
  • Eerie Items - Purchase all the 2024 Halloween Event items.

*The Haunted Tree Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Eerie Items achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Grab Your Spooky Companion!

New Fearsome Mounts!



To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from October 17th to 20th!

Manticore mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The White Manticore and Dark Manticore are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

New Horrifying Pets!



Three new spooky pets can be seen in the event area. You can pick them the second weekend of the event in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle!

Post your Halloween scariness and questions on the forum!

The event will run until Friday October 31st at Noon PDT!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How can I find the Pumpkins?
    Just keep whacking. The Holiday Item runes and pets will help attract them as well.

  • How do I decorate my Mansion?
    You need to whack up Pumpkins. You can buy decorations from Glenda in the event area, or from the Store when you're in Build mode inside the Mansion. Once you have decorations, you can place them like you're decorating your ranch using Build mode.

  • How do I scare the Kids?
    Just keep buying decorations and getting friends to up the scare level of your interactive decorations. As your event progress increases, you will scare the kids more and more. As well, when you reach a certain level of scariness, the kids will elect to no longer tour your house.

  • Does the Timey-Wimey watch or Time Turner affect the Kids?
    No, the kids do not have quest cooldowns, so trinket effects that work for quests will not apply to them.

  • What adds to my event progress?
    Making your mansion as scary as possible by buying decorations (but you don't have to place them all.)

  • Do I have to do the achievements?
    No. Completing the goals for the achievements is totally optional. You get either a large energy pack or a title for your character from them, no event progress.

  • Where can I see all the achievements available and how to get them?
    Either on the holiday dialog, the achievements dialog, or on the blog.

October 1st
Idle Champions: Liar's Night 9 
Posted in Idle Champions.

    The Champions are celebrating together at a Liar's Night party at the Wayside Inn when suddenly a masked pickpocket crashes the festivities, stealing magical items and escaping into the night...
Our second Year 9 Event is here! Sometimes it feels like the Wayside Inn gets targeted every year by a masked pickpocket. Strange...

Liar's Night 9 introduces the King of Shadows, available with the event launch today, and brings a rework for Farideh, available on October 8th.

For more information on our latest Featured Champions and the event, read on!

Featured Champions

King of Shadows

Once the noble guardian of the ancient elven empire of Illefarn, a cataclysmic event twisted this protector, binding him to the corrupting influence of the Shadow Weave. Now, as the King of Shadows, he commands legions of spectral Shadow Reavers and wields potent shadow magic. Driven by a warped sense of purpose tied to Illefarn's downfall and the dangerous power of the Shadow Weave, he seeks to engulf Neverwinter and beyond in an eternal night. His very being embodies the perversion of ancient power and the terrifying potential of unchecked darkness, making him a uniquely formidable and tragic antagonist.


Learn more about King of Shadows in his Champion Spotlight.

Farideh

Abandoned as an infant and adopted by an outcast dragonborn warrior, Farideh grew up to adulthood acutely aware of the drawbacks of being a tiefling. While those from the Nine Hells do their utmost to corrupt her, Farideh isn't interested in power so much as defending the world from demons, the undead, and any other villains trying to bring trouble or drag her friends and family into danger.


Learn more about Farideh in her Champion Spotlight when it launches this Friday, October 3rd.

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:
Ezmerelda
seat 1
Thellora
seat 1
Donaar
seat 2
Brig
seat 3
Kent
seat 4
Kas
seat 6
Krond
seat 6
Astarion
seat 10
Avren
seat 11
Dob
seat 12

Event Augments

  • Augment 1: Golden Weekly Offers (New Augment)
    Description: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.

  • Augment 2: Early Unlock (New Augment)
    Description: The third Champion flex slot will unlock at the start of the second week of the event, instead of the third.

  • Augment 3: Empowered Rewards (Returning Augment)
    Description: Tier 2 and higher event variants award Corrupted Gems in addition to their normal rewards!

  • Augment 4: Boon Enhancements (Returning Augment)
    Description: An additional boon buff at each level increases the damage of Evil and/or Tiefling Champions!


Event Feedback

What do you think about Liar's Night? What do you think about the King of Shadows? We want to know what you think!

The best way for us to hear your feedback would be for you to join our community on an officially-supported platform:
September 26th
BW2: September 2025 Bubble Buddies Mini-Event! 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

A Visitor From the Far Far Ranch

The Far Far Ranch is far far away, but there's a visitor that's brought a piece of it to the Commons!

Bea's visiting from the Far Far Ranch and has brought three Bubble Buddies to see if they'll thrive in Bushwhackia.

Bubble Buddies

Bubble Buddies are cute bouncy critters that come in an array of looks and abilities! Let's see the three Bea's brought with her:



Buddies eat Bushy Carrots and output Blorts, which Bea will trade you for in her Ye Bouncy Buddy Boutique store. Watch the buddies get bigger and bigger as you feed them!

Buddies will also eat the more rare Spicy Tofu to output Blorts AND a resource unique to that buddy. Here are the buddies and their unique yields:

Duck Buddy - Gold
Hyena Buddy - Gems
Mothman Buddy - Mana/Power

During Bea's visit, Bushy Carrots and Spicy Tofu can be found in bushes all over Bushwhackia.

Help feed their bouncy bodies, earn Blorts, and redeem prizes! The saying goes, 'Big Buddies have bottomless bellies!'

Instant Egg Incubation!

Bea's brought a machine that can instantly hatch a basic pet egg! You'll need to whack up a lot of fuel to get it working, via a challenging collection quest. Should you manage it quickly, you can even attempt it a couple more times at the cost of some Bush Bucks to repair the egg machine.

A Feeding Frenzy!

Bea and her buddies leave on Wednesday October 1st, so make the most of the opportunity while you can!

Discuss this mini-event on the forums!

Check out the Release Notes here!
September 12th
BW2: Jr. Whacker Event 2025 Edition 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Teach Me How to Whack!

It's time to put your knowledge of whacking bushes to good use as you help educate the next generation! Take a trip to the Event Area of the Commons and get helping!

The Junior Whackers

Help three aspiring young ones learn how to whack bushes, mana whack, and power whack! Bring the Jr. Whackers some Cardboard Swords to use, found in bushes throughout the world, and they'll share the spoils of their training with you. As you help them, they gain experience, "leveling up" and will award more items with each turn-in. Each of the determined young padawans will have a daily quest to power up the spoils from their next turn-in.

Badges!

Another Jr. Whacker is pursuing their Capitalism badge. After you help them achieve that, perhaps they'll try their hand at Socialism?

What's more fun than to earn than your Baking badge? Nothing of course! Help one Jr. Whacker get theirs later on in the event.

Help Keisha get her camping badge again this year! Check back daily for her quest unlocks.

Another aspiring whacker seeks their environmental conservation badge! Help them plant saplings and unlock their unique Ye Environmental Conservator's Equipage store!

Target Practice

A young student of the bush whacking arts challenges you to whack more than 100 cardboard bushes before the end of the event! This is a challenging quest, and we hope you enjoy it. Note: Quest Odds will not increase the likelihood of these cardboard bushes to appear.

Nate?

One strange Jr. Whacker appears to be idolizing Nate. Talk to them and see what's going on.

Nate's Minions

If you've kept up with Nate's saga in this event, Nate has collected a gaggle of jr treasure hunters, or minions, as he likes to call them. Unsurprisingly, Nate's minions still aren't happy with their working conditions. Help Nate with a daily quest to meet his minions demands.

VIP Rewards!

Active VIP members can claim unique rewards based on their event progress! If you don't have an active membership, you have the entire event to consider becoming one! You can earn and claim these rewards until the end of the event.

New This Year

This year's update includes:

- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new tier 4 and 5 VIP rewards!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new holiday 100% reward!
- new conservation items!
- new quest sequel to Keisha's camping badge!

Holiday Plushies

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Jr Whacker Plush! Collect all of this year's holiday trees!

Ye Environmental Conservator's Equipage

There's a new ranch item and sword item to collect in this year's Ye Environmental Conservator's Equipage store, available after helping a junior whacker get their conservation badge!

Cryptid Badge

If you helped Keisha practice her camping badge in past years, she'll have a new quest for you to help with this year! This time, she's hunting cryptids!

And more!

Check out on the Release Notes for any additional updates! There's a link at the bottom of the page.

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are an incredible TWENTY SEVENTH possible Achievements to earn in this Jr. Bush Whacker event:

Returning Achievements

  • Working Harder - You've helped a Jr. Bush Whacker level up.
  • Power to the People - You've helped each Jr. Bush Whacker power up.
    • Working Better - You've helped each Jr. Bush Whacker level up to 5.
    • Working Faster - You've helped each Jr. Bush Whacker level up to 10.
    • Working Stronger - You've helped each Jr. Bush Whacker level up to 15.
  • Honorary Jr. Whacker - You completed all 8 enthusiastic Jr. Whacker quests!
  • Won a 'Diamond!' - You got a cardboard diamond. Isn't that awesome? No?
  • Fashion Badge - Help the Jr. Whacker earn their Fashion badge.
  • Capitalism Badge - Help the Jr. Whacker earn their Capitalism badge. (Cookie selling quest-line)
  • Cooking Badge - You helped Jaidee earn her Cooking Badge.
  • Camping Badge - Help Keisha set up a demo campsite to help other Jr. Whackers get their Camping badges!
  • Tree Planter - You planted 100 trees for Julia during the Junior Bush Whacker event!
  • Cardboard Crusher - Whack all the Cardboard Bushes.

New Achievements

  • Camping Collector - Buy all the 2025 Jr. Bush Whacker items. *

Retired Achievements

We have 12 achievements from previous year's events, which may be earned by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present during the initial years:
  • Putting on the Uniform - You got all the player items from the Jr. Bush Whacker Event!
  • Junior Decorating Award - You got all the house items from the Jr. Bush Whacker Event!
  • Jr. Merchandiser - You bought all 11 items from the 2013 Jr. BW Event!
  • Supporting the Cause - Buy all the 2014 Jr. BW Event items.
  • Jr. Shopaholic - Buy all the 2015 Jr. Bush Whacker custom items.
  • Jr. Patron - Buy all the 2016 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Jr. Whacker Wares - Buy all the 2017 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Jr. Acquisitions - Buy all the 2018 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Jr. Benefactor - Buy all the 2019 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Dedicated Donor - Buy all the 2020 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Whacker Welfare - Buy all the 2021 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Guide's Gadgets - Buy all the 2022 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Scout's Scavenges - Buy all the 2023 Jr. Bush Whacker items.
  • Whacking Wares - Buy all the 2024 Jr. Bush Whacker items.

*The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in this achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Mount Packs

To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available the first weekend of the event!

The Kayak mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Fancy Kayak and Camping Kayak mounts are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs

Three new Junior Bush Whacker pets can be seen in the event area! You can pick them the second weekend of the event in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle!

Get Ready!

Share your mentoring success on the forums!

The event will run until Friday, September 26th at Noon PDT!

Check out the Release Notes here!
September 3rd
Idle Champions: Highharvestide 9  
Posted in Idle Champions.

    Faerûn's Savage Frontier has no shortage of dangers, but that hasn't stopped the citizens of Triboar from carving out a living in this picturesque stretch of fertile northern farmland.

    This year, however, the people of Triboar are in need of aid. As the Highharvestide Festival approaches, bandits have begun causing trouble for farmers attempting to bring in their harvests, and it's up to the Champions to put an end to it!

Welcome, Champions, to Highharvestide Year 9 and the 8th Anniversary Celebration for Idle Champions!

We are very excited about the next year of events, and we are confident that we will be able to surprise you in the coming months. With the launch of Highharvestide today, our first Featured Champion of Year 9 becomes available: Cazrin Varaith the Human Wizard is the latest Fallbacks Champion to arrive. This new DPS/Support Champion will work quite well with Baldric, Tess, and a couple other upcoming Champions on the horizon.

The second Featured Champion of Highharvestide 9 arrives in one week on Wednesday, September 10. Alyndra Sarrbarand is getting a significant rework to modernize her design, with new and updated abilities. You'll be able to learn more when her Champion Update Blog launches on Friday, September 5.

In the meantime, let's kick off the first event of Year 9 and our latest Anniversary Celebration!

Featured Champions

Cazrin

Cazrin is the ray of sunshine in the party, the eternal optimist, the friendly ear or the shoulder to cry on. She is passionate about magic, knowledge, and learning, always experimenting or testing new theories. Growing up, Cazrin’s family feared and forbade the study of magic because of an ancestress who misused her power, so Cazrin was forced to teach herself and eventually leave her family behind to pursue her dreams. Intelligent but inexperienced, she has embraced a life of adventuring to gather the thrills and experiences that as a child she could only read about in books.


Learn more about Cazrin in her Champion Spotlight.

Alyndra

Alyndra Alexandria Garanahil Sarrbarand is known by many names: Lorekeeper of Rime Spiro, Kinscribe of Clan Monkeymouse, Daughter of Oblivion, Fate Changer, Knight of Wonder and Captivation...and apologetic offspring of Avren & Sofieus.


Learn more about Alyndra in her Champion Spotlight when it launches September 5th.

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:
D'hani
seat 1
Stoki
seat 4
Certainty Dran
seat 5
Pwent
seat 5
Egbert
seat 7
Corazón
seat 8
Torogar
seat 10
Wulfgar
seat 10
Bobby
seat 12

Event Augments

  • Platinum Benefits: To celebrate the 8th anniversary of Idle Champions, this event's Extra Benefits include Platinum in addition to Scales of Tiamat! You'll get 5 Platinum for every event variant of tier 2 or above that you have completed, and 10 Platinum for each Boon XP you've obtained.
  • Auto-Blacksmith: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots, if they don't already have better.
  • Boon Enhancements: An additional boon buff at each level increases the effect of Uggie's buff! Isn't she just the cutest little Otyugh!
  • Worth Waiting For: Completing tier 2+ variants for the reworked Champion and Champions in the flex slots unlocked with Time Gate Pieces or Boon Levels awards double Chests.
You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

8th Anniversary Celebration

Happy Anniversary, Idle Champions!

We are and will always be eternally grateful to our community for helping us to get this far. Thank you!

For the next week, players will be able to log in and collect daily rewards. Players who unlock at least four of the daily chest rewards during the 8th Anniversary Celebration will unlock Diana (if she hasn't been unlocked yet) along with the Heroic Diana Skin, 3 Gold Diana Chests, and an Epic Feat!

Feedback

Believe it or not, your feedback is important to us! It helps us to shape the future of Idle Champions. But did you know that the best way for us to hear your feedback is for you to join our community on an officially-supported platform? Well now you do!

You can find us here:


August 28th
BW2: Bush Whacker Classic Mini-Event! 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

A Puzzly Woods Portal

While digging an unusually deep fire pit for her campsite in the commons event area, camper Betty found a portal to the Puzzling Woods! Help Betty find some souvenirs to take home from her trip.

The Puzzling Woods

Beyond the portal lies the Puzzling Woods! Here, as you might guess, are puzzles to be solved! Three fields are spread around this strange area, each with a jigsaw puzzle to solve.

The first puzzle is available right away, with another puzzle unlocking 24 hours after the last. Talk to Betty to start quests to solve each puzzle.

Puzzle Monsters

Puzzle Monsters are strange creatures lurking within the puzzles of the old lands! Which three will emerge this time?

These silhouettes are not accurate. Don't bother trying to guess what they are!

We don't know what they look like, but rumor has it they are called: Skippy, Schnelly, and Cookie

A Classic Conundrum

Betty will pack up her campsite after the portal closes on Tuesday September 2nd, so don't be late!

Discuss this mini-event on the forums!
August 8th
BW2: Dog Days of Summer 2025 Edition 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer

The residents of the Commons want to close out summer with a blast! That big old event field sits there empty most of the time anyways. Help them build an awesome temporary pool to chill out beside. Once you've completed all three building quests, the residents will come in and there will be 3 turn-in stations where you can bring Towels, Sunscreen and Life Rings to get event tokens for buying this year's custom items!

Nate's New Puppies!

Plus, foster an adorable puppy for Nate. It seems he's accidentally ordered too many dogs (again!!) and needs your help to look after them temporarily. Choose one of the 3 to help him out! Once you equip your dog, Nate has some daily quests for you to do to keep the ball of energy that is your puppy occupied. Love the look of the dog? Permanently adopt it with a simple purchase! You can choose between the Wolfhound, Golden Basset Hound, and German Shepherd!

Puppy and Person Training

A professional dog trainer will help train your puppy AND you! As dog owners need to know how to care for their puppy.

Puppy Mill Protest

Miss Marbles is rooting out awful puppy mills this event, and could use your assistance! If you've helped her in the past, you'll help her feed many stray dogs wandering Bushwhackia.

Race Track

Check out the Companion Racing Track once it becomes available, and you'll be able to bet on pet races! You can only win the prizes once per day though.

The Next Race Track Champion

Later on in the event, you'll need to help an NPC train their unlikely companion to participate in the race!

New This Year

This year's update includes:

- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new tier 4 and 5 VIP rewards!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new ribbons and 100% reward!

Holiday Plushie

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Dog Days Plushie! Collect them all!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are up to TWENTY FOUR possible achievements that can be picked up during this Dog Days event, depending on your game history.

Returning Achievements

Pool Digger - Build the Pool for the Dog Days event.
Safety First! - Help at each pool-side station during the event.
Safety to the Max! - Help at each pool station 50 times - must first complete "Safety First!"
Doggy Daycare - Complete all the doggy dailies.
Man's Best Friend- Level your doggy pet up to level 10.
Training Day - Complete all the puppy training quests.
Dog Days Race Track - Successfully win 5 bets on the Companion Race Track.
Pro Racer Assesser - Buy all the racer assessment upgrades for the Companion Race Track.
The Plodding Blob - Help Shayla Sharker train her blobfish for the Companion Race Track.
Cats Teaching Dogs - Help School Cat complete her thesis
Call the Dogtor - Train your puppy with Nate while dressed like a dog
The Right Cat-itude - Show School Cat you can look like a cat

New Achievements


Warm Weather Wealth - Purchase all the custom items for 2025*

Retired Achievements

We have the following achievements from previous years, which may be earned by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present/didn't earn it during the initial year:
Dog Days Sale - Buy all the custom items and pool items from 2013
Dog Days Outlet - Buy all the custom items for 2014
Summer Supplies - Purchase all the custom items for 2015
Summer Souvenirs - Purchase all the custom items for 2016
Pool Party Procurer - Purchase all the custom items for 2017
Good Dog Goods - Purchase all the custom items for 2018
Dog Toy Takehomes - Purchase all the custom items for 2019
Doggie Dabbler - Purchase all the custom items for 2020
Pool Procurer - Purchase all the custom items for 2021
Sunshine Keepsakes - Purchase all the custom items for 2022
Sunny Stockpile - Purchase all the custom items for 2023
Floating Fancy - Purchase all the custom items for 2024

* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the achievement, and therefore it is not a required purchase.

Mount Packs

All new mounts are available this weekend, from August 8th to 11th!

The Dragon Floatie mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Unicorn Floatie and Pony Floatie are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts leave a sparkling trail when you ride them!

Get Ready!

Post your celebration plans on the forums!

The event will run until Friday August 22nd at Noon PDT.

Check out the Release Notes here!
August 6th
Idle Champions: Ahghairon's Day 8  
Posted in Idle Champions.

    Ahghairon's Day commemorates the birthday of Ahghairon, the first Open Lord of Waterdeep and founder of the Lords of Waterdeep. In his name, Lords toast Ahghairon and the Watchful Order, while guildmasters toast the Lords in Ahghairon's name, and common folk leave violets at the base of Ahghairon's Tower, the Plinth, and atop the altars of the House of Wonder.

    As part of the festivities, the party is tasked with seeking out a Lord of Waterdeep who stepped down long ago. It seems like an easy request – but if it were easy, it wouldn't have come directly from the Open Lord of Waterdeep herself...
Ahghairon's Day returns with one New Champion and another Champion Update. Baldric Goodhand, the dwarven cleric who makes deals with the gods and the latest Fallbacks Champion to come to the game, is available to unlock today with the launch of the event. Lazaapz, the goblin artificer from Sharn originally released during the Brightswords event in 2020, has received a major rework and will be available starting on August 13. More information about the changes to Lazaapz will become available on Friday with the launch of her blog.

For more information about this year's Ahghairon's Day, read on!

Featured Champions

Baldric

Baldric left his position as a prominent member of his family’s mercantile empire to seek his fortunes elsewhere. He’s a unique cleric that often confounds other clerics because he refuses to pledge his service or faith to a single deity. He prefers to bargain with any and all of them, depending on the situation, to receive his magic. This has lent him a cocky confidence that has landed him in his share of trouble. But now he’s with the Fallbacks, and over the course of their adventures, his faith in them has become unshakable.


Learn more about Baldric in his Champion Spotlight.

Lazaapz

Born in The Cogs beneath Sharn's Lower City, Lazaapz's remarkable intellect elevated her to the Tradefair district, where her mechanical genius became highly sought after by the Dragonmarked Houses. Lazaapz's first invention was a functional mechanical arm to replace the one she was born without; now she leads an elite team of engineers in cutting-edge research and development...


Learn more about Lazaapz in her Champion Spotlight when it launches this Friday, August 8th.

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:
Voronika
seat 1
Lae'zel
seat 2
Omin
seat 3
Ishi
seat 4
Prudence
seat 5
Valentine
seat 5
Shandie
seat 6
Jim
seat 7
Beadle
seat 8
Ellywick
seat 10

Idle Champions Permanent Feature Update

We have some exciting Augments to feature this month - including a fan-favorite Augment elevating to permanent game status!

  • Free Weekly Offer Rerolls are here to stay! No longer limited to Event weeks, you'll now get five FREE rerolls every week in the Weekly Offer Shop. That’s right - each time the shop refreshes, you can use your five free rerolls (plus up to ten Platinum rerolls) to chase down the perfect pick from our Wild Offer pool!

The in-game FAQ has been updated to reflect this system change. Now let's get into the Augments we've lined up for Ahghairon's Day!

Event Augments

  • Epic Platinum Chests: Opening Champion-specific Platinum Chests for any of the Ahghairon's Day event Champions will upgrade all the cards inside them to Epic rarity!
  • Empowered Rewards: Tier 2 and higher event variants award Corrupted Gems in addition to their normal rewards.
  • Golden Weekly Offers: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.
  • Boon Enhancements: An additional boon buff at each level increases global damage based on the number of Champions in the formation that are from smaller species, stacking additively.
    The small species are: Dwarves, Fairies, Gnomes, Goblins, Halflings, Kobolds, and Plasmoids
You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

Ahghairon's Day Feedback

What do you think about Baldric? Are you excited for the Lazaapz rework? Let us know!

Your feedback is important to us, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:



July 11th
BW2: Summer Carnival Event 2025 Edition 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Summer Carnival Event 2025

The Carnival has returned to town! Get ready to play some games, help some Bushwhackian residents and win carnival tokens which you can exchange for cool prizes at the Carnival Event Vendor!

The Carnival Games

A staple of any summer carnival or fair, are those devilish carnival games. There are four different games which will unlock over the course of the event and they include "Balloon Popper," "Whack-A-Mole," "Baseball Throw," and "Duck Shoot." Don't worry, there's no skill involved with these games, you play them automatically when you interact with them.

- It costs 4 carnival tickets to play each game, and you can whack those tickets out of the bushes, or purchase them from Timmy in the Event area for Bush Bucks (30 Salvaged Tickets for 30 Bush Bucks)

- You receive Carnival Tokens based on how well you do. Now, we're not saying they're rigged in the Carnival's favour or anything, but you'll definitely want to ask your friends to help you rig these games to help you!

To get started, the Balloon Popper game is unlocked! As well, it seems William needs your help to satisfy his sweet-tooth!

A Teleporter to Somewhere...

The Pandaclaw was wandering around here somewhere....build the teleporter and complete all the quests and get your very own!

The Dunk Tank

The dunk tank returns! Can you dunk all 8 helpless Bushwhackian residents? NPCs you haven't dunked yet will have a yellow exclamation mark above their heads, to let you know you still need to send them plunging into the icy waters of the tank! It'll help them all cool off. Plus, the tank is always in need of cleaning, so try to keep up with Katherine's daily Dunk Tank Cleaning quests!

Clowning Around

Peat Bog, Pete the Carney's brother has some tasks for you to help him put on a show!

Testing Your Power

And how are your Power collection skills? Are you strong enough to win all the bonus prizes? There are 7 strength settings to beat, unlocking as the event goes on as Strong-Whacker Sabine continuously tries to increase the difficulty of her Strong-Whacker Strength Machine Game.

A Fortune Told

Baba Pythia's seen the future, and it's of you helping her set up a fortune telling booth at the event!

Big Top Blow Out!

A menagerie of circus critters have escaped the big top, and the shady guy wants to know what they were hiding in there! Help him get the details in this challenging new quest.

VIP Rewards!

Active VIP members can claim unique rewards based on their event progress! If you don't have an active membership, you have the entire event to consider becoming one! You can earn and claim these rewards until the end of the event.

New this year

This year's update includes:

- new tier 4 and 5 VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new holiday 100% reward!
- new pandaclaw skin!
- new challenging quest!

Holiday Plushie

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Carnival Plushie! Collect them all!

A new Pandaclaw Skin!

Once you complete the teleporter quest line and capture a Pandaclaw, Taban the Teleporter Engineer will offer to transmogrify your Pandaclaw companions, changing their appearance, with science! There are now EIGHT Pandaclaw skins to choose from, each yielding a type of pet DNA.

And more!

And there's some minor fixes and improvements which you can check out on the Release Notes, which are linked at the bottom of the page!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are up to TWENTY SIX possible achievements that can be picked up during this Summer Carnival event, depending on your game history.

Returning Achievements

Step Right Up - Win a Prize Token gaming at the Carnival!
We have a Winner - Win 8 Prize Tokens at once at the Carnival.
Carnival Ace - Win 8 Prize Tokens at all 4 Carnival Games.
Gotta Try 'Em All! - Play all four games offered at the Carnival!
Big Time Bonus Buyer - Purchase 10 Bonus Prize Packs from the Carnival!
Sweet Tooth - Help William satisfy his Sweet Tooth. Or not.
Nostalgic Whacker - Repair the teleporter and fulfill your duty…
Dunk-a-Thon! - Dunk all eight unique Carnival Event dunk-ees!
Scuba Dunk - Dunk yourself while wearing a hefty diving helmet. (Helmet is found from fishing in the Windy Crest fishing hole.)
Daredevil Darer - Make Peat Bog risk his life for entertainment 5 extra times. Dunking Devs! - Dunk the four developer Carnival Event dunk-ees!

New Achievements

Circus Collection - Purchase all the 2025 Carnival Event items.*

Retired Achievements

We have 14 achievements from previous years, which may be earnable by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present during the initial year:

Carnival Customization - Buy all 6 player items from the 2012 Carnival
Party at My Place - Buy all 6 house items from the 2012 Carnival!
Carnival Collector - Purchase all of the 2013 Carnival event items.
Carnival Connoisseur - Buy all the 2014 Carnival event items.
Carni-Value! - Purchase all the 2015 Carnival Event items.
Carnival Compulsion - Purchase all the 2016 Carnival Event items.
Cashed Carnival - Purchase all the 2017 Carnival Event items.
Prized Prizes - Purchase all the 2018 Carnival Event items.
Prize Proprietor - Purchase all the 2019 Carnival Event items.
Material Menagerie - Purchase all the 2020 Carnival Event items.
Hippodrome Haggler - Purchase all the 2021 Carnival Event items.
Amateur Amphitheater - Purchase all the 2022 Carnival Event items.
Carny Chique - Purchase all the 2023 Carnival Event items.
Funhouse Frippery - Purchase all the 2024 Carnival Event items.
* The Mini Golf Piece is NOT included in the Circus Collection achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Mount Packs

All new chariot mounts are available this weekend, from July 11th to 14th!

The Grey Circus Elephant mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Black Circus Elephant and White Circus Elephant are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts leave a sparkling trail when you ride them!



Pet Packs

Three new pets can be picked up July 18th to 21st in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle! From left-to-right they are the Plush Deer, Neon Raptor, and Clown Imp!


Get Ready!

Post your carnival schemes on the forums!

The event will run until Friday July 25th at Noon PDT!

Check out the Release Notes here!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When will the last quest unlock?
    All quests will be unlocked by the 10th day of the event.

  • Where can I buy Last Year's items?
    There are two vendors. The one in the tent has this year's items. The other is the one with the party hat and will have all previous year items for Bush Bucks.

  • What contributes to my 100% progress?
    You need 200 plays of any combo of the games to get 100%. Just whack up tickets to play the games, and turn in quests to get tickets as well.

  • Why do I want to ask friends for help?
    It helps you rig the game and improve your chances of getting 8 tokens.

  • Do I have to do the achievements?
    No. Completing the goals for the achievements is totally optional. You get either a large energy pack or a title for your character from them, no event progress.

  • Where can I see all the achievements available and how to get them?
    Either on the holiday dialog, the achievements dialog, or on the blog.

  • Where can I see progress on the Dunking Achievement?
    Click on the inventory icon and then click on the Achievements list (gold star). Look for the ones listed above in that list.

July 9th
BW2: Nate's Rock Request 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Nate's Rock Request

Nate's looking to rock the boat in the Flooded Mines!

A secret rock training gym has caught Nate's attention! If you've completed Nate's Prismatic Pursuit and entered the Secret Bonus Area of the Submerged Grotto in the Flooded Mines, talk to the Town Crier to get started.

In this adventure you'll help Nate from attempt to become the greatest rock trainer there ever was!

Post your feedback on the forums!

Check out the Release Notes here!