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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
The Chibs, Eyru, Figaro, Flab, Gonk, Quell, Snookle, Sybri, Tantua, Vixen, Walee and Xoi can now wear the
Checkered Costume.
HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY MARAPETS!!!!
Marapets is 15 Years Old!!!! We're officially in our 16th year of existence and while our 2 new
15th Birthday Party events maybe be familiar, we have so much new stuff on the way! These birthday events will end
September 15th.
Our
15th Birthday Party has started! We need your help wishing as many online players a 'Happy Birthday' from Marapets. Visit any player online and click the button at the top of their profile to invite them to the party. Each player is different - some won't party, some will and others will have the best time ever! The response of the character will depend on what prize you receive.
You can only invite a player who is currently online and can only invite the same player once every day. Each player can only be invited once every 30 seconds. You will receive MP or one of 25 new
Pinatas as a prize.
Hit any of the new
Pinatas and you will find one of these new prizes inside...
As you browse and play the site as normal, a 'Birthday Gift' may show up in a box. When you find it, click it and you are guaranteed a prize!
You can win all of these new
Gift Bags below, MP and if you're lucky, Account Upgrades Credit!
The top 15 players who collect the most gifts will receive an Allerjee Trading Card and
15,000,000MP! The next 415 players will win an
Allerjee Trading Card and either 1,000,015MP, 100,015MP or 15,000MP.
At the end of the event, there will be 15 random players (who find more than 215 gift bags)
£15 Account Upgrade Credit and another 15 random players who win one of 15 random
Decadal Potions
15 random players who find 100 or more Birthday Gifts will also randomly win a retired
Party Costume.
Posting the 15th Birthday Balloon Box image on profiles, siggies, etc is confusing to other players and, as usual, is not allowed. If you are asked to remove the image and do not do so, your account may be frozen until the end of the 15th Birthday celebrations.
Open any of the new
Gift Bags and you will find one of these new prizes inside...
BP, now has 12 new items restocking.
