Dino Dig Mini-Event (November 27th, 2024)

- Dino Dig mini-event update (Nov 27 - Dec 4). Includes:
- New mount & pets for sale
- New ranch and custom items in store
- Rebalanced fossil community goal
- View Dino Dig Blog

Dr. What Limited-Time Quest Update & Search Fields (November 22nd, 2024)

- Updated the Dr. What limited-time quest to run Nov 22-25

- Fixed a typo in Nate's Infected Plains Adventure

- Fixed sometimes energy increasing/decreasing when you dig in a quarry

- Added the Rustic Candles, Rustic Dining Table, Candy Cane Pole, and Candy Canes Post to the ranch store after you've unlocked them

- Added search fields to inventory selection popups (pets,mounts,trinkets,hats,swords,etc.), and the Blacksmith, Pet Progress, and Mount Progress dialogs (Thanks, Ty!)

We've chosen our 2024 Haunted Mansion Decoration Contest Winners! If you weren't aware, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners are picked by the whole Codename Entertainment studio, while Community Choices are voted on by you, the wise Whacker community! Our top three choices earn 250, 200, and 150 Bush Bucks respectively, while the Community Choices take home a cool 50 Bush Bucks.

Without further ado here are your winners:

Winners

Community Choice

Congratulations again to all our winners! Your Bush Buck prizes have been sent as gifts to your accounts!

Thanksgiving Time!

The residents of The Commons are preparing for a massive feast to celebrate the end of harvest season, and of course they need your expertise at finding things in bushes!

Finding a Feast

First and foremost, it's all about helping the chefs fill their food stations to the brim - and beyond. There's three of them for three types of meals, so you'll be collecting Meat, Veggies and of course Desserts to feed the hungry masses of Bushwhackia! Can you make all the Pristine Food? Keep doing turn-ins to achieve it!

On the subject of food - four of the guests have promised they would bring a dish to share, but they've forgotten ingredients.

Turkey Trouble

And then, there's the problem of the Turkeys. Apparently, they need to be rescued in some fashion, so you'll need to get on that. You have the whole event to complete it.

Harvests of the World

Once again we're celebrating other harvest festivals around the world and hosting an inflatable surprise. They'll unlock as the event goes on. And tune later in the event for a parade!

Post-Thanks

Of course, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Black Friday questline introduced in a previous year, and an appliance for all those leftovers!

New for 2024

This year's update includes:

- new pet and costume VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new 2024 holiday 100% reward!
- new stove to repair!

Holiday Trees

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Thanksgiving Tree!

A New Stove

Another littering dragon has tossed an appliance, crashing it into the event area. But one dragon's trash is Fatima's treasure! Help her repair this appliance and take it to your ranch!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are an incredible TWENTY FOUR possible Achievements to earn in this event:

Returning Achievements

• Special Order - You helped all of the people prepare their special dishes.
• Master of the Ways - You have helped cook each dish excellently for the pristine table.
• Short Order Cook - You've helped prepare one of each dish.
• Turkey Lover - You saved enough turkeys to guarantee survival. This year.
• Historical Detective - You helped Bob the Historian investigate the Pilgrims.
• Family Matters - You brought all of Brock's family together for Thanksgiving.
• Parade Enthusiast - You watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• Fridge Fix-Up - You helped Fatima fix an old fridge and move it your ranch.
• Thorough Taste Testing - You helped out Miss Mei enough to try all the different daily side dish samples.
• Fattened Feathered Friend - Help Nate fatten up his turkey.

New Achievements

• It's All Gravy - You bought all the 2024 Thanksgiving event items.*

Retired Achievements

We have 12 achievements from previous years' events, which may be earned by spending some Bush Bucks if a player was not present during the original years:

• Thankful Decorator - You bought all the house items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
• Thankful Dresser - You bought all the player items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
• Thankful Shopper - You bought all the 2013 Turkey Day items.
• Black Friday - You bought all the 2014 Thanksgiving items.
• Thanks For The Stuff - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2015 items.
• Grateful Expenditure - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2016 items.
• Feastful Frittering - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2017 items.
• Banquet Blowout - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2018 items.
• Stuffed Shopper - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2019 items.
• Harvest Haul - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2020 items.
• Gainful Gathering - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2021 items.
• Thanks Gettings - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2022 items.
• Boutique Bounty - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2023 items.

* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the It's All Gravy achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Grab a new harvest companion!

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 this weekend, from November 8th to 11th!

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

The Dark Opossum and Opossum 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 pets can be seen in the event area! You can pick them up November 15th to 18th in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle!

Get Ready!

The event will run until Friday November 22nd at Noon PST!

Post your harvest feasts and questions on the forum!

Thanksgiving Event (November 8th, 2024)

- Updated Thanksgiving Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Updated 2 of the VIP event rewards
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Swapped new appliance ranch item for Fatima's appliance quest
- Added a warning if you have too many runes when trying to complete Negdry's Thanksgiving rune quest
- Parade organizer will stick around the Commons for you to see the parade again
- Reduced event progress required for tier 5 and 6 VIP event rewards

Generation 18 Pets (November 4th, 2024)

- 10 new pets are now in rotation for Misty’s pet raising quests!
- Added 8 new unique variations of the gen 18 pets to the PAGAS egg store
- Added new unique pet collection rewards: 1200 - 10k Nutrituous Training Kibble, 1250 - 10% DNA Augment on unaugmented pets, 1300 - Zoologist Title

Gotta find 'em all!

A new selection of critters are now available to be your companions!

Those weirdly random abandoned eggs scattered all over Bushwhackia have been switched up and all new pets are ready to hatch when you accept the "Find an Egg" quest from Misty. She will also have all the Generation 18 eggs available to purchase for Bush Bucks during the "Find an Egg" quest.

Other changes to Misty and Hank for Generation 18:

• Misty will no longer let players abandon Gen 17 pet eggs that they are hatching (they're now too rare). Only current generation pet eggs can be abandoned during hatching. Please note that if you're in the middle of hatching a pet, then that egg will still hatch into whatever pet it would have been before.


• Generation 17 pet eggs can now be found in Quester's Satchels (with the same limitations as the Generation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 eggs, which will still be available in satchels as well.)


• Hank now sells a random assortment of hatched level 1 Generation 18 pets (instead of Generation 17) for Bush Bucks in his pet store.

PAGAS changes for Generation 18:

• Generation 18 pet eggs are available to buy with DNA in the PAGAS store, once you have hatched at least five Generation 18 pets. This include 8 unique variations of the new pets.


• The Pet Progress dialog now includes Generation 18 pets. Another 18 new pets that all players can unlock!


• Added 1200 unique pet collection reward: 10k Nutritious Training Kibble


• Added 1250 unique pet collection reward: DNA Augment


• Added 1300 unique pet collection reward: Zoologist Title

And now, without further ado, the information you've all been waiting for:

Generation 18 Pets:

• Electric Eel
• Harpy Eagle
• Centipede
• Hoppy Piranha
• Capuchin Monkey
• Flea
• Kraken
• Budgie
• Steller's Jay
• Beluga

Comment on the new additions on the forum!

Read the change log

It's almost time for our biggest charity event of the year!

On November 8 we will be kicking off our ELEVENTH Codename Entertainment Extra Life, once again raising money for our local Children's Miracle Network Hospital, the BC Children's Hospital Foundation.

We are very excited for the events we have planned for this year's 24-hour livestream - and we are very fortunate to have the chance to work with the legendary Jennifer Hale to create this year's Idle Champions Extra Life Familiar!

Welcome Back, Extra Life!

Since 2008, Extra Life has raised over $130 Million USD for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. The money raised is donated as unrestricted funds for hospitals to use as needed. And how does Codename Entertainment help raise that money? By doing what our community loves to do already: playing games together!

If you would like to learn more about Extra Life, check out their FAQ. The local member hospital that Codename Entertainment supports is BC Children's Hospital and the funds we raise are donated to BC Children's Hospital Foundation.

2024 Schedule

Starting Friday, November 8th at 8:30 AM Pacific Time, Codename Entertainment is excited to once again put on a 24-hour Extra Life Twitch Stream! We have a lot of content planned this year -- just check out our schedule below:

• 8:30AM — Founders Q&A
• 9:30AM — CNE Office Tour
• 10:00AM — Tactile Storytelling: Making D&D Props
• 11:00AM — Last Resort Bomb Squad
• 12:00PM — Rework A Champion Live
• 1:00PM — Magic: The Gathering Commander
• 3:00PM — Party Games
• 4:00PM — Artomancy: Reanimated
• 5:00PM — The Final Boss
• 6:30PM — Idle Champions Karaoke
• 8:00PM — Dad Jokes Don't Laugh Challenge
• 9:00PM — Multiplayer Beat Saber
• 11:00PM — Codename Plays Codenames
• 12:00AM — Flight Risk
• 1:30AM — Jay Horror Stream
• 2:30AM — Jaybox Games
• 4:30AM — Artomancy: Reanimated Early Edition
• 5:30AM — Roguelike Randomizer!
• 7:00AM — Shape, Soar, Score: An Origami Airplane Showdown
• 8:00AM — Tea
• 9:00AM — Thank-You and Goodnight!

Check out the Codename Entertainment Extra Life Page for information on how to donate!

How to Help

Along with supporting the 24-hour marathon on our Twitch Stream, we're offering these amazing in game incentives!

Bush Whacker 2

You can donate in Bush Whacker 2 by purchasing any of the three different Extra Life package deals! Net proceeds from all purchase of those packs between November 4th-11th will be donated to Extra Life! Each pack contains elixirs to restore your energy, Bush Bucks, a unique pet, joystick ranch item, and sword! Find more details in-game!

Idle Champions

This year we are excited to work with legendary BAFTA-nominated actress (and Guinness World Record Holder for the Most Prolific Video Game Voice Actor) Jennifer Hale to create the Lobita the Guardian Familiar!

Our artists worked hard with Jennifer to capture the likeness of her beloved shepherd from back when she was an adorable puppy. Is she the cutest Familiar to date? We believe she very well might be!!

Idle Champions players can support Extra Life by purchasing the Lobita the Guardian Familiar Pack between before November 11! All net proceeds from the first week of Lobita sales will be donated to Extra Life.

We Hope To See You There!

We would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
• Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Back to the Future Limited-Time Quest (November 1st, 2024)

- Updated the Back to the Future limited-time quest with new trinket upgrade reward (Nov 1-4)
- Added Locomotive 131 premium mount packs (Nov 1-4)
- Fixed spamming "Low Energy" dialog with Q (thanks Ty!)
- Fixed being unable to toggle Quest Whacks VIP power when activated with VIP Voucher without an active VIP subscription (thanks Ty!)
- Quest Whacks VIP boon now works for Friend Whack (thanks Ty!)

The Haunted Mansion Has Materialized!

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.

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.

Main Features

The Haunted Mansion Photo Contest

The Haunted Mansion Photo Contest will be starting on Wednesday October 25th 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 20, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Witches - AVAILABLE Sun Oct 20, Noon PDT UNTIL Tues Oct 22, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Zombies - AVAILABLE Tues Oct 22, Noon PDT UNTIL Thurs Oct 24, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Bats - AVAILABLE Thurs Oct 24, Noon PDT UNTIL Sat Oct 26, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Spiders - AVAILABLE Sat Oct 26, Noon PDT UNTIL Mon Oct 28, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Ghost Butler - AVAILABLE Mon Oct 28, Noon PDT UNTIL Wed Oct 30, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Franken-Dogs - AVAILABLE Wed Oct 30, 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 31st 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!

New for 2024

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 2024 holiday 100% reward!
- new haunted mansion items!
- new craftable animatronic ranch item!

Holiday Trees

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Halloween Tree! Collect all the holiday 2024 trees!

Animatronics!

And the witch has a new special item to craft for your haunted mansion in their new Pumpkin Duty quest. You can copy a permanent version of it for your ranch in the Fox's Moulder Most Foul quest line.

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 on or after Hallowe'en!
• 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

• Eerie Items* - Purchase all the 2024 Halloween Event items.

We have 13 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.

*The Tombstone Bridge 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 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 18th to 21rd!

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 Pets! - COMING SOON!

Post your Halloween scariness and questions on the forum!

The event will run until Friday November 1st 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.