Zilloween

Calendar showing Zilloween during the month of Remember

Every 25-37th of Remember, it's Zilloween. Zilloween is a celebration in honor of the Giant Zille, and it is customary during this holiday to give out Candy to one's fellow Glitchen and carve a lot of Pumpkins.

“      This is Zilloween, this is Zilloween, a holiday (which, for some reason, people tend to repeat) in honor of Zille. A time for costumes, seasonal foods, for gifting candy, and the only time when pumpkins can be grown and carved into lanterns: Zilloween Zilloween, Zilloween Zilloween! Ahem. Excuse us. Overexcited. ” - Encyclopedia

Snapshot of all 5 Carved Pumpkins & Pumpkin Lanterns in a Home Street

Pumpkins

Pumpkins can only be grown and carved during Zilloween. Carved Pumpkins can be lit with a full jar of fireflies, creating a Pumpkin Lantern. There are 5 types of carved pumpkins/ pumpkin lanterns:

• Hello Pumpkin! - Shiny Hello Pumpkin!
• Jack the Pumpkin - Jack-O-Lantern
• Lem the Pumpkin - Lem-O-Lantern
• Steve the Pumpkin - Steve-O-Lantern
• Zille the Pumpkin - Zille-O-Lantern

At the end of Zilloween, pumpkins remain, but carved pumpkins turn into 5 roasted pepitas and pumpkin lanterns turn into a pumpkin pie.

Food

Several foods can only be created with ingredients based on pumpkins. These foods can be created all year round, however:

• Birch Candy
• Hi-Sucrose Corn Syrup Square
• Pumpkin Pie
• Raw Bio-Organic Carob-ish Treat
• Roasted Pepitas

Drink

Drinks can be made all year round:

• Pumpkin Ale

Achievements

Candy party in Cebarkul

There are several achievements related to Zilloween:

Candy Eating

• Candy Muncher
• Candy Snaffler
• Candy Nommer
• Candy Caner
• Candy Stripper

Candy Giving

• Mini Tricksy-Treater
• Minor Tricksy-Treater
• Major Tricksy-Treater
• Super Tricksy-Treater
• The Candyglitch

Pumpkin Carving

• Pumpkin Carver
• Lanternerer

Player Activities

Meeting in Cebarkul to hand out candy was common. Higher-level often gave out stacks of candy to lower-level players who didn't yet have all the recipes, so they could start working toward the candy-giving achievements.

In Eleven Alpha, Kiehiman Course was a favorite party-place because it was a free teleport point on the Tester Tool. It has a Produce Vendor that can supply corn, and is right next to Tower St West, which has a Groceries Vendor for candy supplies.

Frequency

Zilloween starting dates in 2021:

• 19th Apr 2021, 6pm PDT (Year 85)
• 10th Jun 2am PDT (Year 86)
• 31st Jul 10am PDT (Year 87)
• 20th Sep 6pm PDT (Year 88)
• 31st October (Year 88) (Bonus Zilloween!)
• 11th Nov 1am PST (Year 89)
• 1st Jan 2022 9am PST (Year 90)

The dates on which Zilloween will occur in 2020^‡ are as follows:

• 23rd November 2019 (Year 75)
• 13th January 2020 (Year 76)
• 5th March 2020 (Year 77)
• 25th April 2020 (Year 78)
• 15th June 2020 (Year 79)
• 6th August 2020 (Year 80)
• 26th September 2020 (Year 81)
• 25-31 October 2020 (Year 81)
• 16th November 2020 (Year 82)
• 7th January 2021 (Year 83)

There is also a bonus extra-long Zilloween during the final week of October, because humans expect to be decorating with pumpkin lanterns then.

^‡ Dates may vary according to your locale. It is recommended that you check the Glitchian calendar a few days before the dates listed above, or check with the date converter at Startling Fecundity.