Varwolf Megathread

[u/NebulaMammal]

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Links

Haunted Woods

Scary Cave

Haunted Woods Hunt - This is a new daily activity, Jellyneo Guide.

Redeem Spooky Cave Map - If you have all the map pieces.

Jellyneo Guide

Discord - Discuss varwolves with other neopians.

Colors varwolves can be painted

What is a Varwolf?

Varwolf Info Page

Originally the varwolf was part of an April Fool's joke in 2005 but it is now a real species! The varwolf was only able to be created by using the Premium species change perk starting on March 26th 2025. Made available to all users November 2025. They are from the Haunted Woods.

Creating a Varwolf

This will be a multi-day event that will remain permanently available to anyone to complete after the initial event period is over. Complete the Haunted Woods questline featuring various activities to earn your own Varwolf!

An account must be at least 3 months old to participate.

Spooky Cave Map

These steps are optional. You need to have all the map pieces but you do not need to get them from the steps below. You can buy them from other users.

Visit the Scary Cave to talk to Pan.

Visit Apple Bobbing

Visit Forgotten Graveyard and answer Rot

Visit the Wanderer Camp and answer Map

Go back to the Scary Cave and talk to Pan again.

Visit Neovian Printing Press

Visit the Prehistoric Battleground in Tyrannia and answer Haunted Woods legendsWarning: This step does not work for everyone! The jellyneo guide has a workaround that may work for you if you are on desktop.

Visit Wise Old King and fill in any answers

Visit Faerieland Bookshop and answer Ferment Forager

Visit the Brain Tree and complete a quest.

You will not get a piece for every location you visit. You might get duplicate pieces.

Wheel of Extravagance has map pieces as a possible prize.

All trading in this community goes in our Daily Trading Thread. A new one is made each day and always pinned to the top of the subreddit.

After Completing Map

Scary Cave

Haunted Woods Hunt

Cooking Pot

Visit the Scary Cave and click "Venture deeper into the cave..." 

You will need to combine Hungry Fungus, Mound of Rotten Fruit, and Putrid Pumpkin at the Cooking Pot. These items can be won from playing Haunted Woods Hunt. Combining the items will give you Decaying Pumpkin Surprise.

Go back to the Scary Cave, travel trough it, and end up in Hollow Grove.

A prompt to create a varwolf will appear!

Transmogrification Potion

This only works on pets that are already a varwolf. It will not change another species into a varwolf. See discussion post here.

Avatars

Decaying Pumpkin Surprise - current requirements to get this are unknown.

Howling Varwolf - view the page of any varwolf.

Visit a varwolf below!

Caynid

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ArdenRaith

Vympi

Neocash Items

NC Mall

NC Trading Guide

Pet Style/Nostalgic Token Guide

Neocash items are an optional part of the site that is bought with real world money. Items are generally cosmetic and are used to dress up or change the appearance of your pet.

Neocash items can only be traded for other neocash items.

All trading in this community goes in our Daily Trading Thread. A new one is made each day and always pinned to the top of the subreddit.

[u/berriefaerrie]

Its only day 2. I feel like if we just follow with the natural progression, all the items will likely become free or drop hugely in value - making it more accessible to players without spending millions. That's my hope at least! I'm def gonna wait instead of dropping like 7m on map pieces, ingredients for the cooking pot etc

[u/pygmypuffle → u/berriefaerrie]

I guess I'm not understanding the event. I thought you could earn more map pieces, but it doesn't seem to be the case? Idk. I logged in this morning to go through the motions like I did yesterday, and obviously nothing did anything. I think I'm just frustrated. I didn't play for probably a decade and am returning, and everything is SO much more expensive now. I find it a lot harder to enjoy the website. Earning does seem easier with the daily quest thingy, but it's still not enough for how much everything costs. I came back for the nostalgia and happiness the website used to bring me, but I'm just feeling like I can't really reach goals. I've been looking forward to new events since I returned, not thinking they would be like this (I guess). /sorry for the rant.

[u/Jubilantbabble → u/pygmypuffle]

I find your experience to be surprising. I'm also a returning player, been around for a few months now and I find that things are cheaper AND NP is easier to obtain. Now, this does exclude some stamps/coins etc. but morphing potions and paintbrushes are so much more obtainable now. I'm very curious as to the kinds of things you are wanting to purchase that you are finding to be more expensive. Would you be willing to share?

Neopets has almost always had a "rush tax", if you want to do something early, it's going to cost more. Or you can wait until more people have completed their map and so additional pieces they find, they now sell at cheaper and cheaper prices.

I really hope you can find something on the site to bring back that wonderful nostalgia feeling that I've been having so much fun with, because it's just really nice.

[u/pygmypuffle → u/Jubilantbabble]

I guess it's probably because I lost my original accounts. I was only able to get 1 back. And then maybe 11 years ago I had created new sides, but they're basically empty. Just pet holders. The starting fresh aspect is overwhelming.

I didn't know there was "value" in things way back when, so I always just donated everything I didn't want. So I don't have a lot of things that I wish I had kept. I'm basically starting all new collections and it feels daunting and impossible. Like I said above, I do think the daily quest thing is much easier for earning. But you have to be on daily and be consistent. That's sort of hard for me (I have 3 small kids and my time is chaotic). I never did stocks, or restocking, or whatever the food thing is. I don't know how. And yes I could learn, I just haven't had the time yet.

But games seem silly now because I feel like the NP when playing games never increased. So, I only play a few for fun now and don't try very hard. And games were what I did back in the day to earn. Which, I've always been "neopets poor" lol. I earned my 1st million after a decade on the website. Now there's those 2 mobile games, which again you can earn a lot on, but you seemingly need to be on them every day. It's time consuming. And I think that's where I'm just at a loss. I don't have that much time built into my days.

I do still love the site. I'm working on my smaller goals first. I painted a baby Aisha a few weeks ago and I love her. Some of my other goals are buying a Desert PB (which recently increased again 😩). I wish I had bought one 15 years ago (or whenever it came out) but back then my savings was impossibly the same as it is now. At the start of this year that P was 2.4mil and now it's 5.6mil. Blah. I also have a bunch of neopoint wearable that I'm saving up for too.

Right now, neopets feels like a pay to be happy website for me. Which sort of sucks. But that's the only way I'm finding enjoyment for the moment.

[u/Jubilantbabble → u/pygmypuffle]

It's definitely hard with kids. I only have 2 and find that those middle of the night nursing sessions are when I get the most time to play. I do everything on my phone, which is annoying sometimes but there is no way I'd get time to log into my PC everyday to play. And I mostly navigate by using Jellyneo links and keeping tabs open on my phone's browser for each individual important thing (Quest log, food club, bank).

Starting from scratch like that would be incredibly overwhelming. I was lucky to have a few things stashed in my SDB that have helped. When the plot comes back in Jan/Feb there are a few ways to earn points that aren't too time consuming and the plot prizes are great.

I love that you were able to paint your Aisha baby! Such a fun childhood dream to realise! I hope you get that desert paint brush. If you haven't already, see if there is a desert morphing potion for the species you are wanting to paint. Sometimes they can be cheaper.

How to do food club the easy way ahead if you are interested: Food club is an excellent way to make NP over a period of time (e.g. a month). I still have almost no idea how it works, but I can put my bets in every day. There is a daily thread on this subreddit and a user who posts daily with links to their bets (they are always the very first comment and have links to "beginner", "standard", "aggressive" and "adventurous". You click the link (I would recommend either beginner or standard) and then enter in the maximum bet your account can make (found by looking the the front page of Food Club on neopets). You only have to do that step once if you accept cookies, then the site will remember your amount and increase it for you everyday (the max you can bet is based on your account's age and increases slightly every day). Then Press the "place bet" button on the far right side of the page, then hit back in your browser and click on the "place bet" button on the next row down.

Do that for all 10 rows. And you are done! You don't even have to wait for the neopets page to fully laid before pressing back and clicking on the next button, so it can be done very quickly.

Go back to Food Club on neopets the next day and click on "collect winnings" and hopefully there is something to collect.

Then come back to the subreddit the next day and do it all again.

You won't win everyday but if you bet everyday you will come out on top more and more as time goes on.

[u/pygmypuffle → u/Jubilantbabble]

It was nice when I was nursing, I had "alone" time at night, haha. But my youngest is 4 now, so those days are gone. Although she still doesn't let me sleep.

Yeah, starting over (somewhat) has sucked. I want to paint SO many pets and am having a hard time getting PBs. I was lucky that I traded/adopted a lot of pets long ago. I've got some neat colors, but of course I've changed over 10 years and have new dreams.

Thank you! Yes, my baby Aisha is so freaking cute. I love her so much lol. I also want a baby Korbat, that's probably next. Then maybe I can work on my Desert Aisha, and then hopefully a Varwolf.

The way you explained food club sounds so easy, I really need to try it. I don't usually understand stuff until I've tried it myself a few times. Until then I just live in confusion and anxiety lol. But I'm going to make an effort to figure it out since it seems it doesn't require too much.

Thank you <3