Latest Neopets News

The 56th species of Neopet—Varwolf—is now officially live! All Premium subscribers can make use of the Species Change perk to convert one of their existing Neopets into a Varwolf. If you're a Premium member and you used your Species Change perk in the last year, the countdown has been refreshed and it's now available again for you to use immediately. (But be warned, this will count as your use for the next 365 days.)

The Varwolf is available in these basic colours: Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow. (NOTE: You are able to take your Varwolf for a dip in the Magma Pool, but then your pet will turn into a cog as Magma has not been made available for Varwolves yet!)


As a reminder, TNT posted these release details about the Varwolf last week:

• Varwolves are from the Haunted Woods
• Initially available via the Premium Species Change perk, but "Varwolves will be made available site-wide through a mini (non-time-limited!) event and questline in summer 2025"
• If you're a Premium subscriber who already used their species change perk in the past year, it will be refreshed for you so you can immediately choose it to make a Varwolf when they release
• Not available through the Lab Ray
• Cannot be transferred or abandoned in the Pound (they will run away like Lutaris)
• If you cancel Premium, you can keep your Varwolf even before they become widely available
• Varwolves can be customised with all existing backgrounds, foregrounds, trinkets, etc., and TNT says they will "work on making existing wearables compatible with the Varwolf" meaning clothes that must be redrawn to fit a new body shape

As this new species rolls out, we'll be making lots of updates around Jellyneo! If you notice one of our pages is out of date, feel free to scroll to the bottom and let us know so we can make sure it's on our to-do list.

Things to check out:

• See the species animation by tapping Varwolf on the All Pets page
• The Varwolf has been added to the Top Neopets page, currently the Wooden Spoon Award winner (Species Change perk doesn't count as creating a Varwolf)
• Read the What is a Varwolf? page for some light background
• View the default petpage for Varwolves
• Check out all the colours and emotion poses in our Rainbow Pool

Fun Fact: As the species info on the default petpage points out, Varwolves enjoy eating everything, including Gross Food! If you feed your Varwolf a Gross Food, it won't be repulsed like other species.

UPDATE, ~2:43 PM NST: It appears to be fixed already. Huzzah!

---

It's not just you! Starting around 1:55pm NST, several important site features are currently inaccessible due to a glitch. These pages insist that a gender is not specified on a user profile, even when it is.


This is affecting all users, whether they are linked to NeoPass or not.

The list of known pages affected are:

• Main Shops (shops where you haggle with the shopkeeper). Other shops like the General Store and Healing Springs are still functional, if you need to finish your Quest Log purchasing task!
• Games Room (though individual games accessed through direct links still are fine!)
• Battledome
• The Coincidence
• Apple Bobbing

If you find any others, let us know in the comments!

TNT have not yet commented on the issue; we'll update this post if they do, or when the issue is resolved.

UPDATE, ~4:30 PM NST: These capsules have been removed from the NC Mall for now. We still recommend holding off on opening any you may have purchased until TNT fixes them to award the intended items.

---

WARNING: This capsule seems to be a bit broken! We're not sure exactly in what way yet, and it's not clear what the intended behavior is supposed to be. We have been getting reports of inconsistent behavior in receiving a gift box vs. a gift box mystery capsule (or both, or even three items), each of which may or may not match the year range(s) you select. Open at your own caution for now!

---

A new re-release mystery capsule has debuted in the NC Mall, and this one is really outside the box compared to any previous re-release capsule! This capsule contains retired Gift Box Mystery Capsules or the limited edition gift boxes found within them:


Like other similar capsule releases, this one is also available in a 5-pack (containing 6 capsules) and 10-pack (containing 13 capsules):


To see what's inside, check out our Mystery Capsule guide!


(And if you open any of these capsules, let us know if you receive a prize not listed on our guide!)

It's Chomby day! As if Chombies weren't already giving "prehistoric" you can now paint them even more so:



If you plan on creating an Elderly Chomby, check out our Modeling page, as we'll need your help!

Over at Cog's Togs, a new "Crested" outfit is available, based on a Parasaurolophus:


Prigpants & Swolthy, Tailors, will be selling a (seemingly not wearable) pin featuring Tippens!


Finally, a background reminiscent of the Land Before Time's Great Valley is available at Mystical Surroundings for all pets!

---

Varwolf Release Date Announced
TNT have officially announced the release date of the 56th Neopet, the Varwolf: this coming Wednesday, March 26!


As previously announced, Varwolves will be exclusively available through the Premium species change perk to begin, though will have a wide release to all players this summer. Premium species change perks will be resetting for all active Premium players on the day of release, so if you currently have it unused, make sure to use it before Wednesday!

You can read the full Varwolf release details on our earlier news post:

This morning, a few new updates are appearing over at Quest Log!

Receive 500,000 NP for Using NeoPass
First up, a new quest has appeared under the Tutorial tab. If you migrate your Neopets account to begin using NeoPass to login, you'll receive 500,000 NP. If you've already done this, the quest will be done for you and available to claim! (Note, we've seen some reports of it not being immediately checked off for existing NeoPass users—refreshing the page should sync progress for you and make the 500,000 NP claimable.)


Also, if you migrate to NeoPass by March 31st, you'll receive a bonus prize.

NeoPass initially released with a few problems, but at this point in time the service has been stable with many of those release-day bugs long fixed. If you would like to get a preview of the process, or learn more about NeoPass, check out our guide with ample screenshots of the entire end-to-end process.


Premium Daily Quests
Secondly, if you haven't already done your daily quests yet today, a new, sixth daily quest is appearing for Premium subscribers. Based on initial data we're seeing, it counts towards your daily five quests, meaning you only need to complete 5 of 6 quests to "finish" your day (but you're also more than welcome to complete all 6).

The quest will be one of the three pet care tasks: Groom, Feed, or Customise your pet.


The prizes for these Premium quests are unique, and not from the existing daily quest pool. Let us know in the comments what your Premium quest today was and what prize you received!

So far, we're seeing prizes are possibly any random r88 item, and rarely some paint brushes.