Latest Neopets News

Yesterday was Elephante Day! Here's what's new for this species:


If you plan on creating a Valentine Elephante, check out our Modeling page, as we'll need your help!

An outfit based on Mammoth from Defenders of Neopia is on sale at Uni's Clothing:


The Bakery has whipped up a Purple Elephante Blueberry Pie:


A Pirate Pandaphant inspired by Quartermaster was announced, though at the time of writing is not actually available to painted at the Petpet Puddle:


TNT has also completed the HTML5 conversion on some previous pet day wearables as well, so they should now appear on your customisations again!


And lastly, a Pet Day mystery capsule is available at the NC Mall:

A new item has been added to the Hidden Tower today:


This new capsule is priced at 200,000,000 NP and when opened, awards a random item from Smuggler's Cove along with a new avatar called Ahoy!:


And to confirm, the avatar is awarded for only opening a single capsule. No need to buy multiples like the Hidden Tower capsule released in 2024!

We are still working to confirm each possible item awarded from this new capsule. The capsule itself cannot be purchased or traded with other Neopians.

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As many of the items inside are very old, we are still missing Estimated Values for a number of them. If you receive an item we are missing information on, please let us know! However, when you open the capsule, it will initially overwrite the Estimated Value to be that of the capsule: 200,000,000 NP. In order to see the correct Estimated Value showing on the item, you will need to move it somewhere, like your shop or Safety Deposit Box, and then back to your inventory.

TNT has sent out an email update this morning—and it is now also a blog post—with some good information about the health of the site, where they are focusing resources, and some updates on coming Pet Slot additions.

Some high level important details:

• About 75% of TNT is dedicated to the Classic Neopets.com website, in terms of fixes and new content. The size of this team has doubled since 2023.
• Partnerships with other companies, like launching the console game and with tea shops like Gong cha, have the goal of helping to draw in new/returning players.
• A botting task force is in place, acknowledging they "aren't moving as fast as everyone would like", but they are "committed to getting this right".
• There's a commitment to never use AI to replace their human TNTers, or to generate artwork. However, they may use AI tools to help clean up the site's codebase more efficiently.
• The servers running Neopia cost ~$100,000 per month, and revenue comes from ~7% of Neopians subscribing to Premium, ~2% purchasing Neocash, and ad revenue + merchandising + licensing closing the rest of the gap.
• This means they are on track to break even by this summer 2026.
• Several investors that have wanted to buy out Neopets have been turned down.
• Premium's price is frozen in place and guaranteed for 2026.
• Pet Slots will be increased for everyone, with more updates on that soon.
• Congrats to Dom for welcoming a future Neopian!

We also encourage you to go read the letter in full, over on the Neopets blog! There's some additional updates, like the usual monthly summary of what's arrived in Neopia recently and some sneak peeks at upcoming NC drops and collaborations.

Also of note: the Neopies will be returning earlier than usual this year, at the end of January!

This morning, some users got notifications that their pets had finished volunteering at the Void Within's Volunteer Centre. This appears to have only been sent out to users who had shifts waiting to be redeemed when the plot went on hiatus, and not to all of those users (so don't worry if you did have shifts waiting and did not get the notifcation).

At the Volunteering Centre page, there is now a new button that allows you to collect the rewards from shifts that started prior to the hiatus. This frees up the pets so they are no longer 'stuck' volunteering.


Importantly, this button will award both the item prize and the 40 plot points for each pending shift. Meaning that if you had all 8 shifts waiting, an additional 320 plot points are now available.

Note that each time you click the button, it will only award 1 pending shift at present. If you have multiple shifts pending, the button will grey out as if it is not working, but the items and plot points will be awarded. You will have to refresh the page to claim each pending shift. Only the final shift award correctly displays the popup message.

If you did not have any pending shifts when the plot went on hiatus, you will not see the new button. There is no way to start additional shifts once you have claimed them while the plot is on hiatus, so this appears to be a one time award.

A new set of Pet Styles featuring Daunting Darigan, Tattered Plushie, and Cuddly Plushie poses are now available in the NC Mall's Styling Studio! In addition, new Treasured character essence styles (in the style of Treasure Keepers) have been added to the Restyling feature. Plus, all the older Nostalgic Darigan, Nostalgic Plushie, Daunting Darigan, and Prismatic Nostalgic Darigan styles are back in rotation. (Various Habbo styles remain as well.)

This release consists of 38 (new) Daunting Darigan styles, 51 Tattered Plushie styles, 6 Cuddly Plushie styles, and 10 Treasured Essence styles.

Here is a sampling of the new styles:


The next rotation date for these have not been announced by TNT yet, but we expect a call out in today's New Features update. And like usual, these will likely be available for a month through mid-February.

Here are some of the HQ glossy versions of a few of the first Pet Styles modeled for JN—the 80x80 item images don't do them justice!



As a reminder, you can search for Pet Styles just like any other wearables over in our Wardrobe preview search. We also have some special searches to give you some quick lists, like all of the Nostalgic or Essence styles. Likewise, over in the Item Database, all Pet Styles now have a preview directly on their item info pages (like the static previews we provide for wearables). Let us know if you have any other ideas for Pet Styles around Jellyneo!

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If you plan on purchasing one of the new Pet Styles above, why not model for us? All models earn 25 Modeling Points towards a shiny new trophy for your jnAccount.