Profiles have been improved. We have updated the icons and added a link to your Gallery and your Wardrobe.. which should be out this weekend!

We are scheduled to have 6 new Servers installed tomorrow. If they are ready in time, you may experience some minor problems such as Server Errors around the site for a few hours. After that, profiles, search, maramail and the forums should load much faster.

This is the latest minipet to be seen restocking on Mini Pet Island.

• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. XdoreX is the winner of the Three Dukka Coin and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 13398! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 5MP per ticket!
  
  
  

With a slight delay, the January Account Upgrades are now avaliable. This month, once the bills have been paid we will be saving for 5 more servers for areas of the site that need it, such as the site search, the forums and maramail. All other money will be saved for new Marapets Flash Games which are being worked on this month. Here are some of the rewards avaliable:

A rarity 19 Rusty Trading Card that will never restock in the main shops. Battle the easiest opponent today!

A rarity 28 Erto minipet...

A rarity 29 Armoured Costume that can already be used on the Equilor and Feliz.

And finally, the return of the Five Hundred Dukka Coin. You can spend Dukka Coins in Dukka Caves, at Dukka Town and the Pirate Ship. More items will be added to all of these places throughout the month.

Finally, the Enchanted Sindi Plushies have not been given out during the week because we have had many server problems and it would be too unfair to give them out. All 35 will be given out today and tomorrow! Good luck!!

Happy New Year from everyone at Marapets! As you have already seen, we released our new layout and one of the latest features of the site. You now have to create a customisable character you will be in the game. The character is you as you play the game and as you are the owner of now up to 12 pets. As always, it is only new and is still unfinished. Some of the new features for characters include brand new profiles where you can adjust your mood for your character, showing different expressions, new shops such as male and female clothing, funny costumes, jewellery, shoes and much more for you to dress your character with. Your character will soon also load with your Maramails and in the upcoming MaraTalk. Even though 2005 was a great year for Marapets, 2006 will be even better! Thanks for playing!

To celebrate 2006 in style, you have the following to look forward to all this week.
The Slot Machine in Dukka Caves will have 2,000,000MP added to the Jackpot everyday this week.

It is Half Price Week for the rest of the week in the main shops!

Everyday this week 5 Enchanted Sindi Plushies are being awarded randomly to a member who is online. But this time, the five will be divided up fairly into age member groups so that it is both old and newer members who get the prizes!



The Slot Machine in Enpiah will have 1,000,000MP added to the Jackpot everyday this week.


The January Account Upgrades will be released later in the week, most likely tomorrow. Until they are released, the Anuriah and Seasonal Stamp are avaliable with any Account Upgrade and the September Gold Account is also still avaliable until then. Get them while you still can!

December Trophies have now been awarded. This means the Arcade scores have been reset and this month quests highscores are different as they reset each month too!

And possibly the best news of all, the Raffle is no longer daily but weekly! This means that annoying Raffle news will only be once a week for a huge jackpot of 100,000MP. Great for only 5MP a ticket!

• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. LilMizzMegan is the winner of the Three Dukka Coin and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 623! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 5MP per ticket!
  
  
  

As it is already Christmas in many countries and is only a few minutes away in the UK, we would like to take the time to wish all members a Merry Christmas and we hope you have a great day - and get all the presents you asked for! And if you don't celebrate Christmas, you can still enjoy the free gifts from our advent calendar!

IMPORTANT - we would like to make it very clear that you can only have one account per person and if you use multiple accounts to get free advent gifts, you will lose all of your accounts forever. Do not take the chance - we log everything.

We have a new Christmas Costume restocking! The Addow and Newth are already avaliable in this colour!

The Quell is the latest pet that comes in Digital form.

New Ideus Potions are now restocking!

You can finally complete the Volcano Map.

Even more Avatars have been released for collectors to try and find...

The Anuriah you can get with Account Upgrades until January 1st now come in more colours!

We have a Winter Layout on the site until the 28th of December to get you all into the Christmas spirit!

The Candy Shop in Candyland is now restocking 14 new Candycanes!


The Prison Ideus and the Zombie Ideus poses have been completed.

As it is nearly Christmas, we have decided to release 2 limited edition items that are being given away with all Account Upgrades until January. We hope you enjoy this extra gift from us! They will retire on January 1st.

The Zombie Huthiq has now been released.

We have enabled Seasonal Adverts which are loading on the site. You may have noticed them already though!

With all of the recent changes to the Restocks and Missions, it was time that all of our Quests were changed.
Elger quests now pay double MP, crystals more often and there is also a chance of getting a Haunted House Stamp.

The Farm Quests now pay on average between 1,250MP and 5,000MP but can pay upto 25,000MP!

Garage Quests now pay between 2,500MP and 5,000MP but can pay upto 50,000MP if you are very lucky!

The Snowman Quests now pay more MP and different items. We have retired all Snowballs and you can now get 1 of 27 pet Ice Sculptures!

The Candy Tree pays a lot more MP and you can now win a Chocolate Costume too. Before the chances were set too high it was almost impossible - now it is possible!

And finally the Computer Repair now allows you to pick the pet you would like to get the magic stats - making it much better!

We reached 300,000 Members today!!!!

Sorry for the Problems with the servers yesterday, we were testing out what needs to be upgraded next to keep us running fast. More servers have been ordered.

A new Slot Machine has opened in Enpiah to compete with Dukka Town. They only accept Restock Points and you can win anything from 100,000MP to White DNA! Winning Line Winning Line

Completing level 30 of Ublish or Blitzen Missions now also rewards 100,000MP aswell as the potion.

The Security Codes have been updated on all login pages throughout the Marapets Network. Sorry for the problems they had.

The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Nicole12345 is the winner of the 930,400MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 3, 14, 23, 11, 25 and 19! Congratulations!

Today is the day that we will reach the amazing 300 Million Hits since we opened. As this is such a crazy amount, we have decided to have a crazy news update...

We have hidden 30 Avatars around the site. They will not be retiring today, except for the Naughty avatar, but that is one avatar for every 10 million hits we have received. Crazy!






To celebrate, this 300 Million Hits Book has been released. Around 3,000 will be released throughout the day at the Pot of Gold. Tomorrow it will be retired.

Finally, ALL Mutant pets have been completed and are now activated at the DNA lab.

A strange Ideus has moved to Minipet Island and is now selling Treasure Maps. Why is he strange? He doesn't take MP, BP or Dukka Coins for them. Instead he only asks for RP. To make restocks even more interesting, you now get restock points each time you restock an item. For rarity 1 you get 1 point, for rarity 2 you get 2 points and so on. Can you complete all of the map pieces?


The Minipet Island map has been updated.

To make restocks run faster and to keep the Treasure Maps fairer, security codes load for all items that restock.

What do you get if you complete the Volcano Treasure Maps? A set of 9 Burnt Items!

The Ideus and the Jessup are the first pets that can wear the Burnt Costume.

Our 28th Marapet has just been released. It is not limited edition and can be created at any time! Introducing the Ideus...



This is what the default Ideus Avatar looks like too..

Today we have some very good news! Our new items network of Servers have finally been set up and are now running on the site. We have 31 servers (to be 32 by Saturday) running on the whole site. You should have already noticed the huge change in speed. There should not be any lag on the site at all, ever - even if there was 10,000 online! The items server network has so far cost $17,000 alone to get so we hope you appreciate it. Thank you to everyone who have upgraded their accounts and helped make this possible. We still need to pay back a lot of the money we loaned to make this possible, so your continuing support will be appreciated.

As the Item Servers have been added, restocks are now much better. They are on time and restock with a lot better variety. You should also notice trades, auctions and user shops all loading almost instantly. As space will never be a problem with the new set up, Galleries can now 5 times their size and Shops can hold 3 times their upgraded size!

Another Back Up server has been installed, which now means that every 15 minutes a backup of your account is created! This should help us in the very small chance that any data is ever lost.

We have some new Moderators on trial to become part of our team of staff. Remember that asking for staff will never get you the position!

We have doubled the amount of Image Servers the site uses. You should notice that images load almost instantly, especially the layout and we will have many backups if one of them ever goes down. When we reached 4,000 online before we had many problems with our images and this should not happen again now.

Four more Books are now restocking!

Can you find this Merry Christmas hidden avatar?

The Mutant Jessup has been completed. Not many mutant pets left to release now!

Just a reminder to those who are Avatar Collectors that one or two avatars will be released from the Advent Calendar this year which will retire. That means if you miss that specific day, you will not be able to get the avatar again. Here is one of them..

Four new Books are now restocking!

All Marasite Domains have been fixed and the new ones have been registered. This means that Marasite Upgrades are being given out again and there should not be any delays.

These two new Avatars may be obvious, but are they easy?

Marasites have been given a new look, new site, new features and a new server! They had lots of problems before and are finally without errors. It is easier to use now too. We have fixed all errors and activated html codes which were filtered before. Here are some of the features of Marasites:

Marasite Poll can now be added to you marasite for members to vote on.

Marasite Quiz similar to the club quiz, has now been added. You can create a quiz with items and load it on your marasite for members to guess.

Marasite Headers & Footers allow you to add html at the top and bottom of every page on your site.

Finally, Marasite News is another new feature which allows you to add news entries to show up on your marasite. Members can comment on your updates too!


The Marasite Upgrades have been changed.

Item Rarities have been changed. We have had many rarity changes since we opened and lots of items were either too high or too low, unretired when they should be and it had caused a lot of confusion. Yesterday, all 3001 items we have were edited. Items between rarity 1 and 20 restock in the main shops. Popular shops which are needed more often, such as Stars for example, now have a 25 sec delay between security coded restocks, as they now restock a lot more items. If you never restocked before you should have more chance at getting things now as it is a lot fairer. Rarity 21 to 30 are items that do not restock and were either gained from somewhere else or from Account Upgrades. Items that are extremely rare and very limited are rarity 31 to 50. Items that are retired are no longer avaliable anywhere on the site (but there may come a time where a few more are released, but this is rare).

We have added a Mozilla Firefox banner in some areas of the site. All of our staff use Mozilla Firefox as our main browser, because it is much faster and safer than Internet Explorer. You may want to consider trying it one day if you are a restocker.

Lots of new Pet Colours have been released today. Here they are...

The Wizard Osafo


The Seasonal Fasoro


The Starry Viotto


The Gold Viotto


The Silver Viotto


The Mutant Bolimo


The Bronze Viotto


The Black Viotto


The Mutant Fasoro


The Mutant Feliz

The 27th Marapet has now been released. The Viotto is limited edition and from Biala. (Pet 28 will not be limited edition.)


A new Mission has been released in Biala. Introducing Blitzen's Grotto. Biala being the home of Santa, Christmas is really important. Blitzen is one of Santa's reindeers and he needs your help to get enough items in time for Christmas. Viottos work for Santa too, and therefore the pet species is limited. If you can help Blitzen and complete his 30 missions he will reward you greatly. Blitzen will give you a mission every day, as long as you haven't already completed an Ublish mission in the same day. You will need to collect a certain item for him within a certain time limit. At level 1, all items asked for will be rarity 1 - upto level 30 where all items asked for will be rarity 30. If you fail to bring any of them, you will have to start again.


This is now a new Missions Forum.

Blitzen's Grotto has been added to Biala's map.

The Viotto default avatar has also been completed.

More news later...

MaraUploads have been given a new look, new site, new features and a new server! We offer ALL members 1MB upload space for free at marauploads.com. We had problems with it before, as this is an amazingly high amount of space when you see how many use it. We have saved up and bought a bigger, faster server and move the site onto a new domain name. As this costs almost $250 a month to run, we have also added very cheap Uploads Upgrades from only $1.99 to help pay for some ofo this cost. We hope you all make good use of the new uploads and also remember that signature images will soon only work with marauploads!

Journal Upgrades have been improved and released on the new Marajournals.com website. You should notice that there is a lot of extra features and advantages to them. Please note that it may take a few days for the upgrades to be sent. Those who upgraded before will be automatically sent the extras.

MaraJournals have been given a new look, new site, new features and a new server! They had lots of problems before and are finally without errors. It is easier to use and no need for ANY html skills at all - a nice looking default layout is now avaliable. You can now also have a poll, an automatic list of all entries posted, a calendar where you can view entries from specific dates, an automatic menu of all of your entries and so much more! The new Journals server also means that they load instantly - even at peak times!

Our latest award is the Best Journal Award. Judged by Laimay and I, this will given to the Journals we think are really good and have had a lot of effort put into them. Asking for this award will never get you it! Don't use your Journal? Go to www.marajournals.com and start using it today!

December Account Upgrades are now avaliable. This means that August prizes are now retired and will not be avaliable again. To try something new, this month we decided to pick 5 completely different themes rather than 1. You can choose between Old, Camouflage, Checkered, Love and Dark item themes.

The Old Costume can be used on Chibs and Osafo.

The Love Costume can be used on Tantua and Grint.

The Camouflage Costume can be used on Doyle and Murfin.

Five new Minipets are avaliable for each of the different themes.

The Checkered Costume can be used on Paffuto and Ushunda.

The Dark Costume can be used on Fasoro and Bolimo.

Five different DVDs are also avaliable for each of the different themes.

Finally, you can get a set of items for your Homes for each of the different themes. These include a Bed, Refrigerator, Cooker, Dishwasher, Sofa and Toilet. Please note that the images for these new items will not load in houses until tomorrow.

December is here and what a month it will be! We have decided not to reveal any dates that we will be releasing our tons of great features, but there is tons on the way this month!

The Advent Calendar has started! Be sure to go there daily to collect your free gift. There may be one or two rare retiring avatars released on certain days of the calendar, items and MP.

If you have a Huthiq get into the festive season with this new Seasonal costume!

November's Trophies have been awarded.

The Account Upgrades will be released later on today....

This is just a very quick update to explain our 24 hour downtime.

Our new servers that were supposidly being set up this Friday were set up last night, while I was sleeping.

As the new servers are taking longer than we had hoped, all work is being done on the servers while the site is online on a backup server.

We apoligise for the downtime - it was unexpected and took longer than we had hoped.

The new servers will be installed over the next few days and then the site will move onto the within an hour later in the week.

For now, we thank you for your patience while the site runs slightly slower on this server.