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MASTER THE MAGIC OF THE BOILING CAULDRONS

15 Oct 2025

Halloween has begun in the Kingdom of Gnawnia! Travel to the Gloomy Greenwood and put a stop to Baba Gaga!

The Gloomy Greenwood Returns

Celebrate the spookiest season with boiling cauldrons!

Baba Gaga and her chicken-legged hut have returned to the Gloomy Greenwood with FIVE brand new and powerful potions to be discovered!

Collect Ingredients, Load the Cauldrons, and Start Brewing

The only way to defeat Baba Gaga and her monstrous minions is to use her own enchanted cauldrons against her! You'll need to collect ingredients from the mice in the Gloomy Greenwood and then put those ingredients into the cauldrons in order to start brewing up spooky flavours of cheese!

Click on either cauldron to open up Baba Gaga's Recipe Book where you'll find all the information you need to start brewing her sinister concoctions.

Start by using any basic bait to catch the least spooky mice in the Gloomy Greenwood and collect the Pungent Pumpkins that they are carrying.

Add these Pungent Pumpkins into a cauldron based on Baba Gaga's recipe to brew a batch of Monterey Jack-O-Lantern. With Monterey Jack-O-Lantern armed, you'll be able to attract spookier mice who drop spookier ingredients.

Each tier of mice will drop the ingredient you need to make the next tier of cheese. There are four different types of cheese and each one will attract a unique pool of Halloween event mice. Work your way up to Scream Cheese in order to attract the villainous Baba Gaga herself!

When hunting with any of the new types of cheese, mice will also drop a very valuable ingredient called Mousedrake Root. Use this potent component to distill Baba Gaga's most powerful brew: Evil Extract!

Evil Extract can be traded in at the Apothecary (General Store) for a wide selection of existing potions as well as some extremely powerful ones that were created by Baba Gaga herself! Open up the "Shops" tab in Baba Gaga's Recipe Book to get a detailed look at all of the available potions and what each of them can do.

Get a head start with these delicious delights!

15 Bonefort Cheese Seek out scarier mice!

100 Bonefort Cheese A big, boney bundle!

50 Bonefort Cheese A spooky stockup!

5 Brand New Potions!

Five exciting and very powerful new potions have been discovered!

Purchased with Evil Extract:

NEW Rare Map Dust Potion Converts Ancient Relics into Rare Map Dust Cost: 50 Evil Extract

NEW Dragon Ash Potion Incinerates various resources into Dragon Ashes Cost: 20 Evil Extract

NEW Denouement Duplicator Potion Duplicates existing supplies of Literary Logs and Hypothetical Halophyte Cost: 5 Evil Extract

Special Loot Drops:

These potions can only be found as loot from mice by harnessing Baba Gaga's Boon or hunting with the Boiling Cauldron Trap.

NEW Totally Safe Gold Duplication Potion Convert batches of Gold into twice as much Cursed Gold!

NEW Brewers Boon Potion A well guarded potion that can duplicate powerful resources!

Reap the Rewards

The Gloomy Greenwood has rewards in store for diligent hunters. Every time you brew a batch of Evil Extract, you will make progress on the Halloween Reward Track to ultimately unlock Baba Gaga's Boon. There are many useful and exciting rewards along the way including Cursed Skulls, Spooky Shuffle tickets, Insidious Incense, and more!

NEW Boiling Cauldron Costumed Adventure Arm your Boiling Cauldron Trap with a fun new look! Earn yours on the reward track!

NEW Eerie Lane Journal Theme This foreboading Halloween journal theme is earned by brewing 25 batches of Evil Extract! Earn yours on the reward track!

Cursed Skulls Crush this skull to receive one week of the Spooky Aura which gives you a 30% power bonus and a chance at finding Cursed Gold and Wealth Charms! Cursed Skulls can be crushed anytime you want! Earn FOUR on the reward track!

Spooky Reward Box A special spooky box of rewards! Contains: 25 x Ultimate Spooky Charms 10 x Spooky Shuffle Tickets 250 x SUPER|brie+ Cheese 500 x King's Credits Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 3 Days from date of opening! Earn yours on the reward track!

Baba Gaga's Boon

Upon brewing 40 batches of Evil Extract and reaching the end of the Reward Track, Baba Gaga's Boon will become active in the Gloomy Greenwood!

While hunting with Baba Gaga's evil enchantment in effect, mice will occasionally drop a random assortment of exciting and new potions, but most especially the Brewer's Boon Potion!

Useful Utilities for Better Brewing

Insidious Incense

A foul smelling incense from the insidious mind of Baba Gaga is an extremely useful motivational tool for anyone gathering ingredients this spooky season. This incense was designed to increase the productivity of her followers while being free to pursue other more sinister schemes. Igniting this incense will add +1 to all cheese-brewing ingredients dropped by a mouse in the Gloomy Greenwood, and will DOUBLE the quantity of Mousedrake Root drops! This incense can be ignited from the Gloomy Greenwood Heads-Up Display and is available from the Reward Track and the Premium Shop.

25 Insidious Incense Gather more ingredients!

100 Insidious Incense Cauldrons overfloweth!

Reactive Reagent

This potent chemical compound can be used to instantly finish any cauldron brew! Just add one for each hunt you have left in your brew and the cauldron will complete itself instantly! This wondrous powder is available from the Gloomy Greenwood Apothecary, the Reward Track, and the Premium Shop.

15 Reactive Reagent Finish a brew!

100 Reactive Reagent More than a pinch!

The Spooky Shuffle is Back

The Spooky Shuffle returns with revamped and improved rewards for the Grand Duke/Duchess and Up reward tier including items for all areas within the Folklore Forest!

25 Spooky Shuffle Tickets Match for rewards!

Spooky Shuffle Dust Unique rewards!

Terrifying Treasure Awaits

Visit the Cartographer in the Gloomy Greenwood and you'll find these two scroll cases for those who dare to embark on a terrifying treasure hunt!

Sealed Treat Scroll Case You'll need Monterey Jack-O-Lantern as well as any Standard Bait to treat all of the mice on this list! Cost: 1 Ancient Relic

Sealed Trick Scroll Case Take on this tougher challenge after brewing a few batches of Bonefort, Polter-Geitost, and Scream Cheese! Cost: 3 Ancient Relics

Ghoulishly Good Deals for a Limited Time

The King has procured a sizeable collection of baskets, kits, and bundles to assist the hunters brave enough to venture into the Gloomy Greenwood.

Insidious Brew Bundle Sample specialty potions! Limit three.	Spooky Shuffle Starter Pack Start shuffling for only $1.99! Limit one.
Spooky Shuffle Mega Bundle For the serious shuffler! Limit three.	Insidious Gift Basket A gift for a frightened friend!
Apothecary Supply Kit A kit for ingredient collection!	Alchemist Supply Box For the ultimate alchemist!
25 Insidious Incense Gather more ingredients!	15 Reactive Reagent Instantly finish a brew!

Spooky Scary Trap Costume Bundle New Spooky Scary Trap Skins!

Brew as much Evil Extract as you can before the event ends!

Shutdown Phase One: Monday, November 3, 2025

During this one week shutdown phase, mice will stop dropping all ingredients but you can still brew any ingredients that you've already collected. Brew as many of your ingredients as you can or cash them out in the shops before the cauldrons lose their magic!

Shutdown Phase Two: Monday, November 10, 2025

During this one week shutdown phase, cauldrons will no longer brew potions without the help of Reactive Reagent. Baba Gaga's Boon will also cease to generate any potions without the magic of the cauldrons active. Make sure you finish off any remaining brews and shop purchases!

The Gloomy Greenwood Closes: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Boiling Cauldrons Halloween event ends completely and the Gloomy Greenwood location will disappear until next year.

After the event ends all unused ingredients and Evil Extract will rot away and disintegrate!

Travel to the Gloomy Greenwood and start brewing now!

-- Jacob Johnson

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