- For other references regardless of the season, see Easter Eggs.
Halloween in WolfQuest brings with it temporary, seasonally-occurring content which tends to appear in the month of October. The prop objects found in this article are always present in the game files, but do not appear year-round. They will only appear when they are enabled remotely by the WolfQuest Team in mid-to-late October and will disappear when disabled remotely at the end of October or during early November. Changing your computer's time and date does not influence activation nor deactivation of this seasonal event!
In WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition, Halloween content would make its first debut in Amethyst Mountain during October 2019 and would become recurring content in subsequent years. Spooky décor appears in smaller quantities in the Amethyst Mountain and Slough Creek game maps, with a much wider variety of decorations to be found scattered throughout both Lost River game maps.
In WolfQuest: Classic, Halloween props appear during the month of October in the Lost River game map.
In Legacy versions of WolfQuest, no such content existed as it would have required a game update to add and another to remove. This would not have been a productive use of the development team's limited time, budget and resources.
Prop Hunt
Data split into tables showcasing decorations per game world. Click an image to enlarge it.
Amethyst Mountain
Findings in the Anniversary Edition Amethyst Mountain game map.
| Type | Screenshot | Audio | Location | Map |
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| Skeleton |  |
None | Amethyst Summit, Antler Stack | 
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| Jack-O-Lanterns |  |
None | Eduweb tent | 
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In Classic, there are no decorations in Amethyst Mountain.
Slough Creek
Findings in the Anniversary Edition Slough Creek game map.
| Type | Screenshot | Audio | Location | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skeleton |  |
None | Ranger Cabin, Outhouse (toilet) | 
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| Jack-O-Lanterns |  |
None | Eduweb tent | 
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In Classic, there are no decorations in Slough Creek.
Tower Fall
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In Classic, Tower Fall does not exist.
In Legacy versions, Tower Fall does not exist.
Hellroaring Mountain
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In Classic, Hellroaring Mountain does not exist.
In Legacy versions, Hellroaring Mountain does not exist.
Lost River
In the Anniversary Edition, there are two Lost River maps.
Lost River (Anniversary Edition)
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Findings in the Anniversary Edition modern Lost River game map.
| Type | Screenshot | Audio | Location | Map |
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| Vogel House | Exterior Interior |
Evil laugh/cackle Assorted squeaks/creaks/footsteps |
Town North-west residential area |
File:WQ-AE Halloween LRAE VogelHouse Map.png |
| Coffin |  |
None | Glass House Back porch |
File:WQ-AE Halloween LRAE Coffin-GlassHouse Map.png |
Lost River (Classic)
Findings in the Anniversary Edition classic Lost River game map.
| Type | Screenshot | Audio | Location | Map |
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| Haunted House |   |
Evil laugh/cackle Assorted squeaks/creaks/footsteps |
Downtown Carnival ditch |
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| Black Cat |  |
None | Downtown Roof of a house west of the Stop & Stor warehouse |
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| Black Cat |  |
None | Downtown Inside the Haunted House attraction |
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| Black Cats |  |
None | Downtown On top of the ice cream truck by the Carnival |
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| Black Cat |  |
None | Outskirts Inside the oversized donut atop the Randy's Donuts shop |
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| Coffin |  |
None | Back Forty Derelict cabin porch |
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| Ghost |  |
"WoooooOoOoOoOo" |
Grant's Glen Along the west side of the road |
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| Graffiti |  |
None | Grant's Glen By the second-to-last house closest to Downtown; near scarecrow |
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| Pumpkin |  |
None | Grant's Glen Northern part of town, inside excavator bucket |
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| Pumpkins |  |
None | Grant's Glen Along the west side of the road |
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| Pumpkins |  |
None | Grant's Glen Along the east side of the road |
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| Pumpkins |  |
None | Downtown Town Hall // Civic Center |
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| Pumpkins |  |
None | Hilltop Along the twisting road between Hilltop and Grant's Glen |
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| Scarecrow |  |
None | Grant's Glen Along the road nearer to Downtown |
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| Skeleton |  |
"Beavers" |
Cemetery Leaning against a headstone |
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| Werewolf |  |
None | The Two-Step Topmost viewpoint |
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| Werewolf |  |
None | Downtown In an alley between Geo's Geodes and Liver's Literature |
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| Witch's Lair |  |
Cauldron bubbling |
Fire Tower Inside the upstairs cabin |
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Findings in the Classic original Lost River game map.
| Type | Screenshot | Audio | Location | Map |
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| Ghost |  |
Grant's Glen Cemetery |
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| Pumpkins |  |
None | Grant's Glen | |
| Pumpkins |  |
None | Cemetery | |
| Scarecrow |  |
None | Grant's Glen | |
| Skeleton |  |
"Beavers" |
Cemetery |
In Legacy versions, Lost River does not exist.
Gallery
Anniversary Edition Gallery
Contributions for Halloween content in the Anniversary Edition are welcome in this gallery!
Classic Gallery
Contributions for Halloween content in Classic are welcome in this gallery!
Bugs
Anniversary Edition Bugs
- Assets are sometimes accidentally deleted. When this happens and the issue is noticed, the developer restores the deleted assets in the next game update.
- During the 2021 event, the Halloween props in Amethyst Mountain were initially absent when the event was reactivated. They would later appear during the last week of October.
- During the 2022 event, the standing coffin upon which a cat sits was deleted, leaving its cat seated and floating in mid-air.[2] This was fixed in 1.0.8p.
Classic Bugs
Trivia
- Despite the Halloween event making many changes to a number of maps, these changes are not mentioned in an update nor require players to update their WolfQuest game to experience these seasonal changes.
- This is because the event is always present in the game files. It can be triggered or remotely activated/deactivated by the developer via the WolfQuest server as opposed to being update-dependent or time-based.
- With Lost River being an abandoned and uninhabited human settlement, it is never answered via in-game lore who or what puts up and takes down the decorations.
Anniversary Edition Trivia
- The skeleton and scarecrow are returning models reused from Classic, but the pumpkins and ghost all use new models.
- The skeleton with a laptop and Eduweb tent Jack-O-Lanterns were the first seasonal props to have been added in October 2019. Seasonal props would later be expanded upon in 2020 owing to the inclusion of Lost River (Classic) and Slough Creek.
- The graffiti Quoth the Raven "Nevermore." is a quote from the poem The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe. Like certain garage messages, it uses the freely-available font Wickhop handwriting.
- The book cover held by the outhouse skeleton reveals its reference to the real-life version "Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park"[3] by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel Stahler, Daniel R. Macnulty, Jane Goodall.
- It was published in December 2020, during the same month of Slough Creek's original AE release.
- This book received a mention in a devblog "After Death Do Us Part (patch 1.0.6g public beta)" (timestamp 1:42). Dave admits that it is used to look up wolf behaviors.
Anniversary Edition and Classic Trivia
- The "Beavers" skeleton was voiced by Dave Schaller. The sound clip originated from Classic and was reused in the Anniversary Edition remake.
- It is thought that Susan A. Nagel may have voiced the ghost. (Pure unconfirmed speculation.) The sound clip originated from Classic and was reused in the Anniversary Edition remake.
Classic Trivia
References & External Links
- ↑ Official WolfQuest Discord Server, posted by loboLoco on 26-Oct-2023 in channel
#announcements. Message permalink. - ↑ /r/WolfQuestGame Reddit
- ↑ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/Y/bo60080807.html
| Special Content | ||
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| Seasonal | Christmas • Halloween | |
| Special | Easter Eggs | |