Halloween in 99 Nights in the Forest runs on two separate tracks. One is a story quest. Happy, a talking pumpkin-headed scarecrow, has been smashed apart by the Ram, and his body parts are scattered across the map. The other is a Candy economy. You collect costume pieces from wolves, cultists, and chests, wear them to decorated houses after dark, and trade them for Candy that you spend in a lobby shop. Both start automatically in any run during the event. You don’t need to finish one before the other.
Quick answer: Set a decorated house aglow with a Halloween Candle; after nightfall, knock while dressed in costume pieces. Each piece earns 1 Candy, while a complete matching set of four earns 8.
Halloween 2026 event dates in 99 Nights in the Forest
Trick or Treat Part 1 went live on October 17 at 17:00 UTC. Its official event period is set to end on October 24 at 12:00 UTC. Halloween activities stay in the game through October 31, 2026. There is no lobby toggle and no quest to unlock first. Any run you start inside that window loads with pumpkins, cobwebs, and decorated cottages already on the map.
| Milestone | Date and time |
|---|---|
| Trick or Treat Part 1 launch | October 17, 17:00 UTC |
| Part 1 official period ends | October 24, 12:00 UTC |
| Halloween activities end | October 31, 2026 |
No official date has been confirmed yet for any later Halloween part.
Helping Happy: the scarecrow quest and the Halloween scythe
Beyond the cabin by the starting campfire, you’ll find a glowing pumpkin beside a huge scythe embedded in the ground. Interact with it when the “Pick up Scythe” prompt appears. This is the tool needed for the entire quest.
The pumpkin is Happy. When you talk to him, he says “Help! The Ram messed me up” and gives you a few dialogue options. If you ask what happened, an optional cutscene plays. You can skip it.
In the cutscene, Happy steps out of a portal with his scythe and walks into the woods. The Ram then charges him and scatters his pieces across the map.
Once the scene ends, a translucent outline of a full scarecrow appears near camp. This frame is where each recovered part goes. It also shows at a glance which pieces are still missing.
Spider webs block many structures and items on the map. Large purple web sacks and cobweb barriers display messages such as “You need a special Scythe to clear this (x2).” Only the Halloween scythe can cut them. Each web you clear adds progress to the scythe, and it eventually shows “Your scythe has levelled up” and moves from Lvl 1 to a glowing Lvl 2. It also works as a melee weapon. At Level 1 its damage against wolves is low.
Where Happy’s five body parts are hidden
Happy needs five parts to be rebuilt: the left leg, left arm, hat, right leg, and torso. Each one is guarded by a different obstacle. Most only become reachable after the campfire has grown the map, so finding them and upgrading the fire go hand in hand.
Left Leg in a webbed shed
Happy’s Left Leg is on the floor of an abandoned wooden shed. Cobwebs seal the doorway, so you need the scythe to get in. Body parts aren’t stored in your inventory. You drag them back to camp by hand.
Left Arm in the cultist castle
The Left Arm is inside a fortified stone castle full of cultists, behind another set of web barriers. Wolf packs can also show up carrying arm pieces, so expect fights on the way back.
Hat from an antlered cultist
Happy’s Hat has no fixed pickup location. It belongs to an antlered cultist with a witch-like appearance in the orange autumn biome; defeat the cultist to obtain it. The encounter is close to the newly opened jungle ruins.
Right Leg in the windmill gears
The multi-level wooden windmill is covered in webs. Clearing them is a good way to level the scythe to Lvl 2. Happy’s Right Leg is on the top floor, stuck between the large rotating wooden gears.
Each part you mount fills in another section of the scarecrow outline. With the hat and right leg in place, Happy starts to look like himself again.
Torso under the pumpkin patch cart
Happy’s Torso sits in a fenced pumpkin patch, pinned under an overturned wagon. Interacting with it only gives you “It’s trapped under the cart.” The solution is to fill the cart with loose pumpkins from the patch. Once it’s heavy enough, it tips and frees the torso. The patch tends to open up late in a run, around the time the campfire is fully upgraded.
What happens when Happy is rebuilt
With all five parts mounted, Happy says “You found everything!! Quick, put my head on!” and a “Place Happy’s Head” prompt appears. A short cutscene shows him fully assembled and dancing on his stand. It doesn’t last. The green, two-legged Ram charges into camp, knocks Happy apart again, and runs off with his glowing pumpkin head while Happy screams for help.
That kicks off the next objective, “Find the Ram! Make it run into something solid to free me!” The fight is about steering the Ram into terrain, not just draining its health. Expect to be hunting it at night, when bears and other predators are out in force. A party that leaves the fire’s light radius to chase the Ram can be wiped quickly.
Campfire levels and other Halloween items
The campfire still controls how much of the map you can reach. Adding wood, coal, fuel canisters, and oil barrels raises it through its levels. Each upgrade shows messages like “FIRE LEVEL 5. MAP EXPANDED,” and the final one reads “The Fire is Complete. The entire Map is revealed.” Some upgrades also set off warnings such as “you will be attacked tonight, return to your fire,” which come before a cultist raid. The update also adds a jungle ruin biome with stone platforms, water, and treehouse bridges.
- Pumpkin Pie: dropped by festive plants you cut down, gives a short speed boost.
- Pumpkins: edible, restore 4 hunger each, and are plentiful in the pumpkin patch.
- Box O’ Seeds: plants Brightwood trees all around the map.
- Blue Offering: added to the campfire to slow how fast rain burns through its fuel.
- Kraken Kid’s Lunchbox: Find this collectible among the forest ruins.
If you die, you can still use a Self-Revive. When you’ve run out of free ones, a Self Revive costs 44 Robux.
How trick-or-treating turns costumes into Candy
Candy is event currency, collected by gathering costume pieces. Wolves of the grey, black, or alpha varieties can drop pieces, and cultists can too. To find more, check Purple Costume Boxes in cabins, ruins, and crypts, as well as the wishing well and stone castle. Drops can start in the opening minutes of Day 1.
Pieces go into the Costume Closet, a camp structure. Its blueprint is bought from the Crafting Bench, and building it costs 3 logs. After that, every piece you pick up is stored automatically, with a notice like “added Werewolf Hood to costume closet.” The closet has four slots (hat, shirt, pants, and accessory), and you can mix pieces from different sets. Completing a set plays a short animation. The Pirate set, for example, ends with a salute.
Each of the ten decorated houses needs its own Halloween Candle. You get Candles from chests, from cultist drops, and from clearing cultist events. Place a Candle at the front of a house at any time of day, and the lights inside switch on to show it’s active. Knocking (press E) only works at night. Knock during the day and you get “you need to come back when it’s dark!” At night, the resident takes a moment to decide. Then a TREAT icon (a green smiling face) or a TRICK icon (a purple devil face) appears above the door.
A successful visit shows a results breakdown, and your Candy total goes up. After that, the house is on cooldown and replies “you have already visited this house! wait for it to reset.” Houses do reset, so a long run can come back to the same door more than once.
Every piece you’re wearing is used up when you knock. Put fresh pieces on from the closet before the next house, because knocking with no costume is a guaranteed Trick.
Candy payout per knock
| Outfit at the door | Candy | Extra effect |
|---|---|---|
| No costume | 0 | Guaranteed Trick plus debuff |
| Mismatched pieces | 1 per piece | None |
| 3 pieces, 2 matching | 3 + 1 bonus = 4 | “luck and candy boost” |
| Full four-piece set | 4 + 4 bonus = 8 | “mega luck and candy boost” |
The in-game breakdown spells out the math. A three-piece visit, for example, reads “3 costume pieces +3,” “matching set of 2 +1,” “total 4.” A full matching set is the only outfit with a chance at rarer Treats, such as a pet frog. It also completes the Costuming badge.
Treats and Tricks
Treats are random. They can give Candy, more costume pieces, furniture, or a temporary perk such as Unlimited Ammo, a few minutes with no hunger, or faster healing. Item Treats include food (Carrot Cake, Pumpkin, Candy Corn, Cotton Candy, Candy Apple, Pumpkin Pie, Seasoning), weapons (Laser Cannon, Raygun, Frozen Shurikens), gear (Frog Boots, Bandage, Fuel Canister), and odds and ends like a Broken Radio, Broken Microwave, Basketball, or 5 Mossy Coins.
- Ball and chain: An iron weight shackled to your leg cuts your speed and prevents ordinary jumps.
- Frog curse: you turn into a tiny green frog and can’t fight or interact normally.
- Costume loss: every piece you’re wearing is removed.
- Other pranks: You might lose carried items, have a pumpkin obscure your screen, get launched away, or find your controls inverted.
Tricks expire on their own, but when one happens can be dangerous: a cultist raid may arrive at camp while you’re still a frog. The icon over a door can occasionally misreport the outcome, so verify which reward or effect you actually receive.
All six costume sets and the ten houses
| Set | Pieces |
|---|---|
| Astronaut | Helmet, Suit, Boots, Jetpack |
| Dinosaur | Hood, Body, Tail, Feet |
| Lobster | Head, Body, Claws, Legs |
| Mummy | Head Wraps, Wraps, Leg Wraps, Scarab Brooch |
| Pirate | Hat, Shirt, Boots, Hook |
| Werewolf | Hood, Shirt, Tail, Legs |
Some sources lean toward certain sets. The pirate-themed cultist variant is more likely to drop Pirate gear, and alien mobs around the crashed UFO can drop Astronaut pieces. A single Costume Box can hold pieces from several sets. The closet empties at the start of every run because pieces don’t carry over. Candy does, and it isn’t lost when you die.
| House | Resident |
|---|---|
| Green House | Viridial |
| Blue House | Cracky4 |
| Purple House | Foryxe |
| Black House | Crossbow Cultist |
| Dark Red House | Melee Cultist |
| Brown House | Pelt Trader |
| Orange House | Furniture Trader |
| Cyan House | Bird Watcher |
| Lime House | Alien |
| Fairy House | Fairy |
All ten houses use identical rules, and any Halloween Candle can activate any house. House positions vary with your map’s generation, so you can’t rely on a fixed route. Black and Dark Red houses frequently generate near one another.
Happy’s Halloween shop and the Fancy Dressed class
Happy is available in the lobby as well. Use his dialogue option “Open shop” to spend Candy. Any item bearing a clock icon is Halloween-only and vanishes when the event ends.
| Reward | Cost | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Halloween Decor | 10 Candy | Crafting bench designs |
| Spooky Crock Pot | 25 Candy | Pumpkin cooking pot |
| Shrapnel Grenade | 30 Candy | Equipment |
| Fancy Dressed Clothes | 30 Candy | Event class |
| Coffin Chair | 30 Candy | Furniture |
| Pile of Skulls | 30–50 Candy | Furniture |
| Spooky Braziers | 50 Candy | Furniture |
| Standing Coffins | 80 Candy | Furniture |
| Candy Corn Bunny | 80 Candy | Tamed bunny skin |
| Vampire Alpha Wolf | 200 Candy | Alpha Wolf pet skin |
At the lower Pile of Skulls price, the total for buying everything is 565 Candy. The in-game shop has also listed the Pile of Skulls for 50 Candy, so verify its price before purchasing. Build the Spooky Crock Pot at the Crafting Bench; it cooks Halloween foods such as Candy Apples, which provide a speed boost. The purple and green Standing Coffins pair can be picked up from the Supply Crate during a run. Affording the Vampire Alpha Wolf takes 25 knocks with a full set. The Vampire Alpha Wolf and Candy Corn Bunny are both exclusive to the 2026 event.
| Fancy Dressed level | Perk |
|---|---|
| LVL 0 | Higher costume piece drop rate |
| LVL 1 | Higher chance of a Treat |
| LVL 2 | Extra Candy per knock |
| Talent (100) | Extra perk from a random class |
Fancy Dressed is the limited-time event class, available for purchase as Fancy Dressed Clothes. Reaching Level 2 requires meeting two conditions: earn 50 Candy through trick-or-treating, and find and store 40 costume pieces.
Halloween 2026 badges
| Badge | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Candy Collecting | Collect your first Candy |
| Carving | Carve a pumpkin at a carving table |
| Costuming | Trick-or-treat in a full costume set |
All three badges are earned by playing rather than buying, and each awards Diamonds. Carving and Costuming each grant Candy plus 2 Diamonds. Find carving tables in cultist camps. Use a harvested pumpkin at a table, choose a face, and complete the carving to earn the badge and the Jack-o’-Lantern blueprint. Check the Quest/Badge menu in the lobby to see your progress; it’s the simplest way to verify the badge registered before October 31.
