Halloween Event Suggestions Megathread

Before I joined the team, I would frequently make suggestion threads before events to try and squeeze in ideas for items / improvements. I’ve now been on the team for some time and thought I should revive that tradition for community suggestions!

To best get your idea across, try to follow the format below before going into any greater detail. Feel free to include any reference images or sketches to get your idea across!

Example

  • Item Name (Furniture / Hotbar / Accessory)
    Short description of the item’s appearance and any functionality.

In order to kickstart this thread, here’s some of my ideas from previous years as examples with a quick sketch I made:

  • Cobweb (Furniture)
    Decorative cobwebs with different variants.
  • Cobweb Trampoline (Furniture)
    A large cartoonish spiderweb that bounces players like a trampoline.
  • Decapitation (Accessory/Head)
    The player’s head is shrunken down and replaced with a cartoonish bone sticking out of their neck.
  • Marionette Control Rob (Accessory/Particle)
    A simple wooden control rod that hovers above the player.
  • Projectile Bile (Hotbar/Weapon)
    The Boomer Bile from L4D essentially, cartoonish green and gives players a unique screen effect when coated.
  • Gored Skull Pet (Hotbar/Rolling Pet)
    A rolling skull with one lone eye that stares at you.

As stated at the top, I’d like for this to be a place where I can gather the community’s ideas for event items! If an item you suggest isn’t taken, I may still refer to this same thread (and bump it) each year.

  • “Happy Halloween” banner (furniture)
    Kind of like the happy new year banner we have, but would say Happy Halloween

  • Pumpkin/ghost/bat shaped banner (furniture)
    Could have a few variations such as all ghosts/pumpkins/bats, or a mix of all three.

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Hope this isn’t too much, I’ve had a lot of ideas I wanted to see come to fruition. Some share themes, some are miscellaneous.

The Horseman’s Steed (RC/Equippable)
An Remote Controlled car, of a Headless Horseman riding on his horse. Steerable as normal.

The Headless Horseman (Accessory/Particle)
A 2D Headless Horseman and their horse riding around the players head.

The Horseman’s Axe (Weapon)
A giant, oversized, broad head axe. Weathered, beaten up, think like Team Fortress 2’s Horseless Headless Horsemann’s Headtaker, just without the big grin running through it.

Floating Lantern (Pet/Equippable)
A floating lantern, that hovers around the player. It would provide a little bit of light. A 3D Model of a Dark Fantasy Lantern feels very befitting of Halloween.

Holdable Fantasy Lantern (Tool/Equippable)
Same model as the Floating Lantern maybe? Just a holdable version, similar to the Holdable Ornate Torch. Would be toggleable, with a metal turning squeak or flame alight sound effect. Also gives off light, but more than the pet, similar to the Ornate Torch.

Fantasy Lantern (Furniture)

Summary

I didn’t include this originally so it’s going in my third edit, but I’m not adding anything else. I did look up everything to see if it existed before, and we do have 1 or 2 lanterns, but having another addition would be great, since that would be a lot of canvas to spam around otherwise.

Same lantern as above, just as a furniture. The usual lighting fixtures and options, just a different model.

Marionette Puppet (Toy/Equippable)
A little marionette puppet that dances with a left click. Think of Elder Scrolls Online’s Skeletal Marionette, Youtube link too, that plays an dance animation for a duration before disappearing. Could be a skeleton for ease, bonus points if it takes on the player’s model.

Dream Ender’s Claw Hand (Weapon/Equippable)
A glove with blades attached, that can swipe and deal damage. Think Freddy Krueger’s glove from A Nightmare on Elm Street. I would just have blades, none of the other attatchment/transformations.

Personal Cobwebs (Accessory/Particle)
Cobweb particles that are attatched and flow from the player, similar to Warframe’s Spinneret Ephemera.

Shocking Skeleton (Accessory/Particle)
Starts with electric current arcs, makes the player model a silhouette and shows a skeleton flashing to full black and back to the skeleton. Long repeated frames/slow speed for photosensitivy reasons? TV Tropes X-Ray Sparks.

Demon Horns (Accessory/Hat)
There’s lots of designs to choose from, I’m bias and would like Ram Horns. An image of Demon Ram Horns. 3 Different styles maybe? No headband or attachment, just floating horns that get positioned via the Hat coordinates when importing a player model.

Circus Tent Teleporter (Furniture)
Not a big one, but a skinny and tall circus tent in the style of a big top that would fit one person. The door flaps would be openable (with a timer for auto close) and stepping inside would teleport the player (or provide a interaction prompt if enabled).

Vintage Black Catsack (Furniture)
An all black catsack similar to the Haunted Catsack only instead of the red demonic eyes and smile, it takes on a more cutesy vintage Halloween Cat look similar to what is shown in these Paper Cuts from Etsy.

Spooky Light Projector (Furniture)
Either a circular dome that projects in a dome radius or a long throw projector (both?) similar to the in game Laser Projector. It would display basic, cutesy icons/images similar to this video Halloween LED Motion Light Projector. Bonus points if configurable to restrict to skulls, pumpkins, bats, etc. but no problem with it just being a mix with an on/off.

Egyptian Sarcophagus (Furniture)
A casket/bed variant that can be toggled to be opened and closed, with a design similar to this Egyptian Sarcophagus. Empty inside, the lid would be pushed to the side and rest against the base.

Mummy Wraps (Accessory/Particle)
Bandage wraps that float around the player model, not tight. Maybe have a few floating in the wind similar to the Personal Cobwebs or King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Scarab Beetle Plushy (Furniture)
As named, a plushy of a golden scarab beetle and adorned with various jewels.

Flying Scarab Beetle Pet (Pet/Equippable)
Same or similar model to the plushy, with flapping/buzzing wings (without the noise) that floats around the player similar to other pets.

Pharoh’s Sceptre (Weapon/Equippable)
My immediate thought for design is similar to OSRS’s Pharoh’s Sceptre, a sceptre/wand that curves like the top of a question mark ? with a jewel at the end. Either can wack like other melee weapons, or shoot an energy/magic projectile that emits light.

Medusa’s Hair-Do (Accessory/Hat/Particle)
A bunch of snakes that emit from the player model’s head, similar to depictions of Medusa. Bonus points if they’re animated and move around, I imagine only 3 or 4 and very slowly.

Snake Necklace (Accessory/Neck)
A snake that’s wrapped multiple times around the player models neck. A good idea for the design would be a Boa Constrictor, they’re bigger and longer in real life. I personally like the look of the Yellow Boa Constrictor which is a white and yellow snake with big splotches.

Snake Wristlet (Accessory/Wrist)
A little more bias here, I don’t think we have enough Wrist items. A design I like and think of is Destiny 2’s Ophidian Aspect which is 2 snakes coiled around the hand and goes around the arm up until the elbow. I think just the one “glove” on the left hand would be alright. For coloring and pattern, I would look again to the Boa Constrictors as mentioned above.

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  • Dracula’s Cape (Accessory/Neck)
    The cape worn the Lord of Darkness himself; has a collar, is black on the outside, and red on the inside.

  • Moth Mask (Accessory/Head) and Moth Wings (Hotbar/Jetpack)
    A mask with large bug eyes, and a pair of fluffy wings that resemble that of a moth.

  • Magic Carpet (Hotbar/Vehicle)
    Like the witch broom, one can ride the carpet as it hovers above the ground. The owner of the carpet can allow one additional passenger.

  • Deadwood Branch, Skull Staff, and Nocturnis Sceptre (Hotbar)

  • Dracula Plushy (Furniture)
    A Dracula plushy!

  • Wizard Plushy (Furniture)
    A wizard plushy!

  • Frankenstein Plushy (Furniture)
    A Frankenstein plushy!

  • Gothic Lantern (Furniture)
    A lantern of a more intricate design often used for Halloween decorating. The lantern’s metal, has glass panels, and usually a candle placed within.
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Less focus on holdables this year (xmas too) and more focus on condo items, please. All my suggestions are condo based.

1: COBWEB PLACEABLE

A place-able scale-able flat cobweb with variations, some for end corners, others for stretches. NOT comical looking cartoony ones.

2: COBWEB STRING

For when we want to line a long edge with cobwebs, preferably with variations.

Here’s an idea of how they’d look (I used PNGs for my cyrrent ones)

3: Gothic/Victorian Furniture

Here’s some examples from PS Home on workshop:

4: ANIMATED CANVAS FOG TEXTURE

Just a flat lay of fog instead of the floor fog item that’s patchy and at different heights. Just a nice layer to put over things.

5: SPOOKY SKY VOLUME

A new sky volume themed around Halloween somehow.

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I WOULD love to see new types of demon horns; especially cow/goat/ram horns; also colorable. Yes please!

In addition; it’d be nice to have chokers, spiked collar, gothic umbrella, etc! For gothic character/party/theme stuff!



Also gothic furniture like these!!



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Can you specify or show a picture of what you mean by a spooky sky volume?
Does it include introducing concepts like increasing the size of the moon and sun?
What about black holes as well?

I’m DESPERATE for some cool lighting this year so I can make cool lightshows like Tom BetGeorge on YouTube. Mostly just having string lights in more colors would be a godsend, but if we could have some cute little light-up yard decorations this year (preferably with I/O :P) I’d be so happy.

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Sorry I said I wouldn’t add anything else but I think it’d be useful

Vampiric Mirror (Furniture)

A scalable mirror like the Mirror Panel that reflects the condo but not the Player Model.

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I would like to see some more items for building spooky libraries.

  • Hidden Bookshelf Door (furniture)
    What self respecting spooky mansion library doesn’t have a hidden door in the library? It’s possible to build these with existing furniture, but I don’t think it’s possible to make them on a hinge, like this:


    Or at least, if it is, I haven’t figured it out yet. :stuck_out_tongue: Either way, it’d be really convenient (and really really cool!) to have it as just a thing I can buy in the Ghoulcery store and/or (even better) in DIY year round.

  • More Spooky Books (Furniture)
    Would love to have other spooky books (preferably with canvas and text versions) like the Necronomicon. Spell books, skin-bound grimoires, stuff like that! Specifically, I’d love to see something based on the Oghma Infinium, The Sanderson Sisters Spellbook, or the Monster Book of Monsters, for a few examples. It’d also be nice to have some cooler but less evil looking spellbooks, I dunno. Nice leatherbound journals, for example. The options we have now are either too clean, or have a giant evil face on them. Some middle ground (or even more monstrous stuff) would be nice.

  • Canvas Books (Furniture)
    I would love to have books with canvas covers. It’d also be nice to have more books that you could just open to a canvas, like the Necronomicon. Y’know, for spellbooks and mad doctor notes, stuff like that. Make a book with a canvas cover and a canvas interior and I’ll love you forever.

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  • Caution tape and other variations (Furniture)
    This would be a string item that you could place in the condo like the streamers or string lights, but would be the classic yellow with black lettering “Caution”.
    Other Variations could say:
  1. Beware
  2. Do Not Enter
  3. Warning
  4. Infection zone
  5. Zombie Outbreak
    It would be cool to be able to change the color of the tape!
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Here are some ideas for waist accessories that would work well for Halloween outfits that people might make.

Superhero’s Utility Belt

“Just because you don’t have superpowers, doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared.”

Cowboy’s Belt & Holster

“Reach for the sky.”

Witch’s Magical Assortments

“Everything a witch needs on those long broom-trips.”

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Maybe next year we could get some spooky vehicle props and sit in able cars? Some of these could be purchased at Vroomspeed and some at the Ghoulcery. These vehicles such as:

  • A hearse
    This could be multiply kinds or maybe a few variations: Classic, Windowed, and Spooky

  • Mine cart
    This could be the mine cart the we have in game. It would also be cool to have a broken/missing wheels variations as well

  • A “Christine” style car
    This would be like a 1958 Plymouth Fury style car from the Stephen King novel/movie. It would be cool to have a variation that had a dent in front hood and toggleable blood splatter.