Endangered Species - Tenth Encounter

Habitats are changing, and it's endangering many different animal species. Carson Tiva has found that three different endangered species can currently be found in Bushwhackia, as they search for new places to live.

Three Endangered Species

Mongolian Beaver - An endangered beaver native only to the Wulungu River in Mongolia

Smoky Mouse - An endangered Australian species of mouse named for its colour

Desert Tortoise - An endangered tortoise threatened by wildfires and development

Collect Conservation Data

Like you did during Carson's last visit, apply your bush whacking skills to help them collect Conservation Data on these unique animals for the limited time they're here. To gather data, you just have to give them a whack with your sword or other whacking implement. With said data, Carson Tiva can use it to try and help what's left of these unique animals.

Which species you encounter in the fields will be random, so if you fall behind in finding one of the three animals, you can start one of Carson Tiva's pursuit quests. You can do one pursuit quest every 20 hours.

Earn Rewards

Your efforts will not go unrewarded! Carson Tiva will trade you for this data in their store, plus you'll earn a unique plaque for your contributions! Like event ribbons, this plaque will increase your maximum energy based on your performance.

Collect data, complete the achievements, and earn rewards!

In addition to a new set of species, Bush Buck Bundle, and energy boosting plaque, you can earn a new Animal Chest ranch item reward!

Limited Time Only

Go to the event area of the Commons to get started, and gather as much data as you can before noon on Tuesday January 6th, Pacific Time!

Endangered Species Mini-Event (January 2nd, 2026)

- Updated Endangered Species mini-event (Jan 2-6):
- 3 new pets
- 3 new plaque ranch items
- New completion reward

Hi Whackers!

The Mer-Dwarves have a great new project, but it's mired in setbacks that only a Bush Whacker can solve! Help them build up the Mer-Miner's Quarters into a proper Quest Hub, featuring new quests, dailies, store, and more!

If you've completed the Welling Adit and mended the Tidal Medallion, you can get started at the Town Crier or the Forewoman in the Mer-Miner's Quarters.

Note: Once you've started these daily quests, you won't be able to do any Halflight Haven, Cenote Site, Cera Altepetl, Explorer's Camp, Sanctuary, or Cloudland daily quests for the next 20 hours.

Completing the Daily Quests will award you Sunken Dollars, which can be used to buy a plethora of exciting custom items and treats from this hub's unique store once it's been unlocked.

Chat about it on the forum!

Happy Whacking!

Flooded Mines Quest Hub (December 18th, 2025)

- Expanded the Mer-Miner's Quarters in the Flooded Mines to a full quest hub:
- New story quests!
- New dailies!
- New store!
- New dungeon!
- And more!

- Reduced the speed of the Rock mount from +55% to +10%

'Tis the Season for Giving!

Get into the giving mood of the holiday season by tackling the Bushwhackia Christmas event.

To the North Pole!

You'll want to get started by heading to the event area in the Commons to meet up with the stranded elf and help him fix his teleporter. (It's delicate, OK?) Once you've got it operational, you'll be able to make the journey far to the North Pole where you'll find a bevy of characters who need your special skills to make the holiday celebrations work!

Fueled By Candy Canes!

Your primary task will be helping the elves make presents by bringing them Candy Canes (that you find in bushes), but there is a veritable smorgasbord of holiday related quests to complete as well. All of these quests will unlock over the course of the event, with the last ones unlocking on Christmas Day.

Delivery!

Once you've found reindeer chow for the poor reindeer, then you can help out Santa by delivering a present to a random house daily.

Gingerbread Housing

Gingerbread Men are settling down in the event area and need your help gathering construction materials! Perhaps they'll build you a Gingerbread House of your own?

And much much more!

Presents all Around!!

Here's the event that started the gifting tradition! Once a day, if you have excess tokens, you can send a Present to a friend! These presents will contain a random amount of gold, energy, mana, power and come with some other treats as well. If you want to send more presents in a day, it will cost you a few Bush Bucks. Talk to Sasha in the North Pole to learn more!


Sasha has the power to gift your friends!

New This Year

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 100% reward!
- new Christmas tree for your ranch received from completing the Decorate Tree quest
- new Snowman companion from the Build a Snowman quest
- another ranch item for ice fishing
- new item to steal
- new ugly sweater to craft
- new house to deliver presents to

Read the change log for the full list!

Holiday Completion Plushie!

Get 100% completion this event to collect the final Holiday Plushie of 2025!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of THIRTY TWO possible Achievements to earn in this event:

Returning Achievements

Apprentice Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least one present!
Journeyman Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 20 presents!
Professional Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 50 presents!
Expert Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 50 presents from each Elf!
Santa Man - You've delivered a present to someone's house!
Diverse Santa - You've delivered a present to several houses!
Schoolyard Victor - You won 5 snowball fights!
Reindeer Herder - You've saved the reindeer 5 times!
Yay! Presents - You've opened a present from the Developers!
12 Days of Bushmas - You completed all 12 days of Bushmas!
Christmas Savior - You've helped all the citizens in need at the North Pole!
Snow-ho-ho! - You built yourself a snowman!
Well-arranged Caroling - Find all the special arrangements of famous Christmas carols. Sweater Weather - Buy one of Mrs. Claus' specialty sweater weather.
Grumpy Cocoa - You helped fix Grumpus a hot cocoa!
Kind Krampus - You've delivered a present dressed as Krampus!

New Achievements

Christmas Conglomeration - You bought all the 2025 Christmas event items!*
Purloined Plant - You stole something from someone's house!

Retired Achievements

We also 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:

Santa Santa - You're practically Santa! (deliver a present while dressed as Santa)
Materialist - You bought all the Christmas 2012 event items!
Reverse Grinch - You've delivered a present dressed as a Grinch!
All The Toys - You bought all the Christmas 2013 event items!
No Returns Allowed! - You bought all theChristmas 2014 event items!
Season of Shopping - You purchased all the Christmas 2015 event items!
Winter Solstice Souvenirs - You purchased all the Christmas 2016 event items!
The Gift of Getting - You purchased all the Christmas 2017 event items!
Boxing Day - You purchased all the Christmas 2018 event items!
Stocking Stocking Stuffers - You bought all the 2019 Christmas event items!
Holiday Haberdashery - You bought all the 2020 Christmas event items!
Under the Tree - You bought all the 2021 Christmas event items!
Tree-sure Trove - You bought all the 2022 Christmas event items!
Accessory Avalanche - You bought all the 2023 Christmas event items!
Gifts Galore - You bought all the 2024 Christmas event items!


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

Note: The achievements Reverse Santa, Reverse Santa 2.0, Napping Nate Nabber, The Gift of Taking, Naughty Nabber, Perks of the Job, Burglar Burglar, Nicked Knicknacks, Pilfered Plushie, Art Thief, Just Deserts, and Freshly Stolen are not available during this event.

Grab a new winter 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 December 12th to 15th!

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

The other two 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 December 19th to 22nd in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle!



Many other pets and ranch items available from previous years via the "Ye Past Yuletide Store"

Get Ready!

Share the holiday spirit on the forums!

The Christmas event will run until Monday December 29th at Noon PST (8pm GMT.)

Christmas Event! (December 12th, 2025)

- Updated Christmas Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Added new snowman pet and christmas tree quest rewards
- Added new item to fish up from the ice fishing hole
- Added new item in leftmost dev present
- Added a new gift to steal
- Added new house to deliver presents to
- Added a new ugly sweater to Mrs. Claus' store
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event

- Added flipped rotation to Candy Cane Pole ranch item

- Can purchase additional Giant Water Lily ranch items after having unlocked them

- Re-named the "Minecart" mount to "Rusty Minecart"

- Visitors can now click the Whack-A-Nate ranch item

- Added 2nd row of runes to the alchemist combiner screen

- Added Rainbow Elven Hair to the Halflight Haven store for Bush Bucks

- Added Christmas House Exterior to the Christmas Night premium ranch pack (credited to those who've already bought it the next time they visit the Commons)

- Changed name of "Explorer's Camp" achievement category to "Spine of the World"

- Changed name of "Sanctuary" achievement category to "Infected Plains"

- Changed the order of Questing category achievements to have Cloudland before Infected Plains

Dino Dig Mini-Event (November 26th, 2024)

- Dino Dig mini-event update (Nov 26 - Dec 3). Includes:
- New mount & pets for sale
- New ranch and custom items in store
- Rebalanced fossil community goal
- View Dino Dig Blog

We've chosen our 2025 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 This Year

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 holiday 100% reward!
- new stove to repair!

Holiday Plushie

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

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 FIVE 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

• Stuffing Connoisseur - You bought all the 2025 Thanksgiving event items.*

Retired Achievements

We have 13 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.
• It's All Gravy - You bought all the 2024 Thanksgiving event items.

* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Stuffing Connoisseur 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 7th to 10th!

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

The Autumn Raiju and Autumn Kuraokami 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 14th to 17th 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 21st at Noon PST!

Check out the Release Notes here!

Post your harvest feasts and questions on the forum!

Thanksgiving Event (November 7th, 2025)

- 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
- Rebalanced pristine dish odds
- Changed Bob the Historical Investigator's quest line to yield quest progress instead of experience (in addition to tokens)

- Extra Life charity drive (Nov 3-10)

- Fixed finding quest items for Kaine's mystery in the Flooded Mines in any bushes

- Removed "Big Brittle Bones" from the PAGAS Pet Collection, as it's just a skin

- Fixed floor blood puddle and floor ectoplasm puddles sorting overtop of other items

- Added Haunted House Exterior and Haunted Back Wall to the Haunted Maze premium ranch pack (credited to those who've already bought it the next time they visit the Commons) (Oct 28)