Adopt Me! Halloween Event: How to Get the Shoebill

The Shoebill is the cheapest Candy Corn pet in week three of the Adopt Me! Halloween Event (2026), but you can’t buy it right away. It arrived on October 16 as a limited Uncommon pet. The bird lives behind a hotel door and won’t come out until you quiet the two noisy neighbors next to it. The items that quiet them only come from the Crypt.

Quick answer: Open Crypt coffins until you have three Lost Socks and one Headphones. Then give them to the doors beside Room 7 on the Hotel’s second floor, and buy the Shoebill for 18,000 Candy Corn.

Shoebill unlock requirements

Requirement	Amount	Where it comes from
Lost Sock	3	Random Crypt coffins
Headphones	1	Random Crypt coffins
Crypt Key	1 per coffin	Task Board, minigames
Candy Corn	18,000	Event activities

Neither the Lost Sock nor the Headphones can be traded. Both disappear from your inventory when the event ends. Coffin rewards are random, so four keys is the best case and not what you should plan around. Any coffin that doesn’t hold a quest item pays out 1,000 to 3,000 Candy Corn instead, which goes toward the purchase price.

Crypt Keys come from the daily Halloween tasks on the Task Board, which give four a day if you finish all three tasks and claim the bonus. You can also earn keys by beating the Ghost Gallery boss, getting far enough in Hauntlet 2, and picking one up in Stitches’ Spotlight.

Find the Lost Socks and Headphones in the Crypt

Travel to the Crypt next to the Manor. The Adopt Me! teleport prompt lists it as a destination if you’d rather not walk.

Walk up to a locked coffin and press Unlock to spend one Crypt Key. A pop-up tells you what was inside, such as “You found Headphones!” or “You got 2000 Candy Corn!”

Entering Crypt — Every locked coffin in the Crypt costs one Crypt Key and can hold a Lost Sock or the Headphones. Shown at 00:10 in Pumpkin’s video. Image: Uplift Games

Keep opening coffins and use the ladders to move down through the four levels. The quest items can show up on any level, and each level’s reward board shows what is still left in the pool.

Open the Task Board after you find your first Lost Sock. The daily task “Shoebills Off Household” completes when you do, and pressing Claim All adds the key it rewards to your inventory.

Task Board Claim — Finding a Lost Sock completes Shoebills Off Household, and Claim All collects the free Crypt Key. Shown at 00:34 in Pumpkin’s video. Image: Uplift Games

Check the HALLOWEEN tab of your Backpack. You’re ready to move on once it shows the Headphones and three Lost Socks.

After you have earned three Lost Socks and one Headphones, the Crypt stops dropping them. You can’t farm extra copies, so there’s no need to keep hunting once your count is complete.

Unlock the Shoebill at the Hotel

Enter the Hotel and take the stairs to the second floor. A glowing dotted path on the floor leads from the entrance to the right hallway.

Head to Room 7, which sits at the hallway’s far end, and speak with the door. The Shoebill gripes that the din drowns out its own thoughts.

Find the neighboring door that is blasting loud rock music and press Give Headphones. The music stops once the neighbor has them.

Silencing Neighbors — The doors next to the Shoebill's room each want one quest item before the hallway goes quiet. Shown at 00:46 in Pumpkin’s video. Image: Uplift Games

Move to the other neighboring door, where someone is looking for missing socks. Press Give Lost Sock three times while the counter goes from 0/3 to 3/3.

Watch the cutscene. Room 7 opens, the Shoebill steps into the hallway, and it remarks that it can finally get some peace and quiet.

Walk up to the Shoebill and press Buy Shoebill. Confirm the purchase for 18,000 Candy Corn.

How to confirm the Shoebill unlocked

The game confirms the purchase in a few ways, all within a few seconds of each other:

A “New Pet Discovered!” splash appears with SHOEBILL under it.
A “Journal Updated!” window marks the Shoebill entry on the Halloween 2026 page.
Your Halloween 2026 completion count goes up by one.
A Newborn Shoebill shows up in your pet inventory and can follow you around.

Unlocking the bird also adds it to the hatch pools for the Basic Egg (400 Pet Releaser Tickets) and the Admin Abuse Egg, so you have another way to pick up extra copies. The Shoebill itself is tradable, but its shop listing disappears when the Halloween Event ends on October 31, 2026. After that, trading is the only way to get one. The Neon version glows yellow on its wing tips, tail, beak, and around its eyes, and the Mega Neon cycles those same spots through rainbow colors.