Palia's Halloween event makes you pick one monster title and lose the other two
Patch 0.207 brings Spiritfest back to Kilima Village with a new Lunar Path, a Palcat for the ranch and a ghost hunt for Elouisa. The catch is a currency that only drops once a year.
Palia's Halloween event is back. Patch 0.207, titled Fall's Faire: Frights & Delights, went live on September 30 and runs through the end of October, independent of the usual patch cycle.
One token, three titles
The most interesting thing in the patch notes is a deliberate bit of cruelty. Finishing the Spiritfest Bulletin Board questline earns a Spooky Moon Token, and only one is available per Spiritfest celebration. Three player titles in the Spooky Moon Store cost one token each: The Vampire, The Werewolf and The Witch. Buy one and the other two go back into the shadows until next year. A fourth title, The Undead, comes free with the new Lunar Path, so nobody walks away empty-handed.
Ghost-hunting for Elouisa
The Bulletin Board quest has you helping Elouisa track a spectral nuisance around Kilima by turning in two new event materials. Ectoplasm turns up as a rare bonus when you gather any forageable, and Tattered Cloth drops from Ghastly Jaakcats, a new and distinctly unfriendly spectral variant of Palia's cat-things. Completing the board rewards L'il Ghosties, which also go on sale at the Spooky Moon Store.
The rest of the patch
The new Lunar Path, Path of the Ghastly, runs 21 levels of free and premium rewards, with the premium upgrade priced at 1,275 Palia Coins. The free track is available to everyone but has to be activated manually.
Elsewhere, the Palcat joins the ranch roster, and Sifuu, Hassian, Taylin and Ulfe all get Friendship Level 5 quests. The Spooky Moon Store stocks Spiritfest decor including coffin beds, gargoyles, bottled poison and a bat roost that scatters its residents when you walk past, plus new Coven and Candy Corn tints, plushes, nameplates and profile icons. The Premium Store adds the Devilish Imp, Casual Cutie and Fungi Forager outfits, the Palcat Rogue and a Haunted Hollow landscape.
Why it matters
Palia's seasonal events are how it keeps a cosy, largely non-competitive game moving, and a once-a-year currency with three mutually exclusive rewards is an unusually pointed way of giving players something to argue about.
Why it matters
Seasonal returns are Palia's main content rhythm, and the one-token-three-titles design gives a famously low-stakes game a decision players cannot undo until next October.