Bone Chill returns to Dead by Daylight in 2025 as the game’s winter event, bringing back snowmen, Snowskulls, and daily rewards, alongside a new twist on generators and pallets.
Bone Chill 2025 dates and basic setup
Bone Chill 2025 runs from December 9, 2025 to January 6, 2026. Throughout that window you can:
- Play special winterized versions of maps, including Mount Ormond Resort and the new Ormond Lake Mine.
- Earn a limited event currency called Frosty Trinkets through an Event Tome.
- Log in daily for an Advent Calendar of Bloodpoints and small currency bonuses.
- Watch Twitch streams for Bone Chill Twitch Drops, including Bloodpoints, a badge, and a banner.
Event cosmetics and leaked outfits
Several winter-themed cosmetics are tied to Bone Chill 2025. Some are expected in the store, while others are linked to the Event Tome:
- The Ghost Face – a Santa Claus-style outfit.
- The Krasue – “Ice Queen” themed outfit.
- The Good Guy – Chucky – winter outfit.
- Gabriel Soma – winter survivor outfit.
- New additions to the long-running Ugly Sweaters cosmetic line.
The Krasue and Gabriel cosmetics are described as event-limited items unlocked through Frosty Trinkets rather than direct store purchases.
Frosty Trinkets and the Winter Event Tome
Frosty Trinkets are the seasonal event currency. They are used to unlock Bone Chill rewards such as:
- Winter cosmetics for The Krasue and Gabriel.
- Event charms, banners, and badges.
Frosty Trinkets come from completing challenges in a dedicated Winter Event Tome. The Tome structure matches past Archives: you choose active challenges and complete them during Trials to earn currency.
Step 1: Once the event is live, open the Archives menu and switch to the winter Event Tome.
Step 2: Select one or more Bone Chill challenges so they show as tracked before queuing for a match.
Step 3: Play Trials and complete the selected challenges to earn Frosty Trinkets, then spend them in the event reward interface on cosmetics and other items.
Forgetting to swap from a regular Tome to the winter one means missing out on Trinkets, so it’s worth double-checking your active challenges before each play session.
Advent Calendar daily login rewards
Alongside the in-match Event Tome, Bone Chill 2025 again uses a 2025 Advent Calendar that grants rewards simply for logging in each day.
The structure this year leans heavily on Bloodpoints, with only a few days offering other currencies like Iridescent Shards. Community reactions have focused on how:
- Most days grant modest amounts of Bloodpoints (often around 50,000).
- Shard totals are lower than earlier years, dropping to around 1,000 Iridescent Shards across the whole calendar.
- There is no Rift Fragment XP in the roadmap, unlike some earlier calendars.
These rewards still help newer players progress Bloodwebs, but long-time players have described them as significantly pared back compared to previous Bone Chill calendars.
Bone Chill 2025 Twitch Drops (how they work and what you get)
During the event window, Dead by Daylight runs Twitch Drops that track watch time on eligible streams. With a linked account you can earn:
- After 1 hour: 200,000 Bloodpoints
- After 3 hours: Winter Crow Badge
- After 6 hours: “Holiday Horse” banner featuring Maurice
How to enable Dead by Daylight Twitch Drops
Step 1: Create or sign in to a Behaviour Account at account.bhvr.com.
Step 2: Link your Behaviour Account to your Twitch account from the same page.
Step 3: Choose the platform you primarily use for Dead by Daylight so rewards go to the correct profile.
Step 4: During the Bone Chill period, watch Twitch channels that have Dead by Daylight Drops enabled. You can have the stream running in the background.
Step 5: Claim each Drop as it becomes available in your Twitch inventory, then log in to Dead by Daylight so the game can deliver the items to your account.
Community discussion has been mixed on the value of these Drops. The Maurice banner and Winter Crow badge are popular, but the 200,000 Bloodpoints reward is seen by some as low compared to previous events and licensed drops that have gone as high as 500,000 Bloodpoints.
Snowmen, Snowskulls, and new Icy Snowskulls gameplay
Bone Chill 2025 reuses several familiar winter mechanics and adds a new layer on top.
Snowmen
- Players can enter Snowmen that spawn around the map.
- Hiding in a Snowman silences all movement.
- Killers inside a Snowman gain the Undetectable status effect, losing their terror radius and red stain.
- Both survivors and killers move more slowly and have reduced visibility while inside Snowmen.
These are primarily used for ambushes, meme plays, and brief repositioning rather than full stealth strategies due to the movement penalty.
Snowskulls
- Snowskulls are throwable snowballs collected from Snowpiles on the map.
- Once equipped, they are thrown using the special Event Ability button.
- They can be thrown at both survivors and killers.
- Striking a killer with a Snowskull while you are hidden in a Snowman applies the Hindered effect to the killer, slowing them briefly.
- Snowskulls can be traded at Snowpiles to spawn additional Snowmen, adding more ambush options.
Icy Snowskulls (new for 2025)
Bone Chill 2025 introduces a higher-tier snowball called the Icy Snowskull that changes how pallets and generators behave during a Trial.
- Players must consume four regular Snowskulls to gain a single Icy Snowskull.
- Both survivors and killers can throw Icy Snowskulls.
- An Icy Snowskull thrown at a pallet temporarily freezes the pallet in place.
- If the pallet is still standing, “frozen” means it cannot be dropped while the effect lasts.
- If the pallet is already dropped, a frozen pallet cannot be broken or vaulted by either side.
- Killers can use Icy Snowskulls to bury generators under snow. Survivors must clear the snow before repair progress can continue, adding extra slowdown to the match.
These interactions tilt slightly toward killers because snow-buried generators add another delay layer on top of existing slowdown perks. Survivors can still use frozen dropped pallets as short-lived solid walls to cut line-of-sight or block quick follow-ups, but they lose access to vaulting while the pallet is frozen.
Winter Chests and Winter Party Starters
Some chests in Trials are replaced with special Winter Chests. Opening one guarantees:
- A Rare or Very Rare item (for example, a stronger med-kit or toolbox).
- A Winter Party Starter, a seasonal item also available in the Bloodweb.
Winter Party Starters work similarly to previous years’ festive fireworks items: they create bright, celebratory visual effects and can be used for minor in-match disruption or celebration plays, but they are mostly cosmetic fun rather than a major balance mechanic.
Event balance and community reaction
Player discussion around Bone Chill 2025 focuses on two main points: match balance and the shrinking pile of free rewards.
On gameplay balance
- The ability for killers to snow-bury generators functions like a temporary, free slowdown perk layered on top of existing builds.
- Because frozen dropped pallets become unusable for both sides, survivors risk locking themselves out of strong loops if they mis-time an Icy Snowskull.
- Some players see this as yet another event that leans killer-sided, especially after earlier events like Halloween’s Haunted By Daylight and the 2025 Anniversary, which also added killer-favoring mechanics.
On rewards
- Event cosmetics are fewer and more compartmentalized behind event currencies and Twitch Drops.
- The Advent Calendar’s Iridescent Shard total has dropped year over year, going from several thousand in earlier Bone Chill events to roughly 1,000 in 2025.
- Many players note that shard amounts are now barely enough to buy even a single standard cosmetic piece or a single Shrine of Secrets perk.
- Bloodpoint totals from the calendar and Twitch Drops are seen as modest within a progression system that expects millions of Bloodpoints to fully prestige characters.
Others argue that any free progression is still useful, especially for newer players who benefit more from Bloodpoint injections than from small shard amounts. That divide is reflected in community threads that swing between frustration and resignation on one side and “it’s free, don’t complain” responses on the other.
How to get the most out of Bone Chill 2025
To avoid leaving rewards on the table, it helps to stack the event’s systems efficiently:
- Always use the Event Tome: Before queuing, confirm the Winter Event Tome is active so every Trial contributes Frosty Trinkets.
- Combine Tome grinding with Twitch Drops: Play while a Drop-enabled stream runs on another device or browser tab to earn cosmetics and Bloodpoints at the same time.
- Prioritize limited cosmetics: Spend Frosty Trinkets first on event-only outfits for The Krasue and Gabriel, then on charms and banners.
- Log in briefly even on off days: Even if you don’t have time to play, a quick login secures Advent Calendar rewards that cannot be claimed retroactively.
- Be selective with Icy Snowskulls on survivor: Use them to hard-wall extremely strong pallets for short windows or to stall killer movement in tight areas, but avoid freezing pallets you might need to vault later.
Bone Chill 2025 is lighter on generosity than earlier years, but it still offers a cluster of exclusive looks and some progression boosts if you engage with its Tomes, daily logins, and Twitch integration over the event’s four-week run.
