2023 Halloween event

2023 Halloween event
Released		18 October 2023 (Update)
End date		15 November 2023 (Update)
Reward		See below
Preceded by		2022 Halloween event
Succeeded by		2024 Halloween event

The 2023 Halloween event, officially Trick-or-treating Reloaded, is the Halloween holiday event that took place from 18 October to 15 November. It is a rerun of the Halloween event from 2022, but features new rewards in addition to the ones from previous Halloween events.

To begin, speak to the costumed children in Varrock by the great cauldron between the western bank and Zaff's shop. The holiday event icon displays the location of the event on the world map and minimap.

Walkthrough

Players must start by receiving a treat cauldron from the costumed children outside the Varrock west bank. The overall goal of the event is to collect treats by trick-or-treating around the kingdoms of Misthalin and Asgarnia.

Players can claim the Halloween rewards from previous years by speaking to the costumed children; players will need to wear three of said items to go trick-or-treating.

Trick or treat!

It is recommended to begin by trick-or-treating the following NPCs, each of whom gives a one-time reward of 100 treats:

• Ned in Draynor Village
• Elsie in Varrock
• Iffie in Varrock
• Town Crier in Falador
• Lumbridge Guide in Lumbridge

Players can gain additional treats in multiple ways:

• Using the trick-or-treat option on various NPCs around Gielinor (men, women, and guards). They will either give 3–5 treats, or trick the player, in which the following may occur:
  • Players are transformed into a spider, rat, bat, or costumed stray dog for a few seconds; players cannot control their character during this time. Having Protect from Magic active will prevent players from being transformed 85% of the time.
  • Players may receive a smelly sock, spooky egg, bruised banana, or an old wool. These can be combined into a terrifying charm, an ammo slot item that guarantees five treats for three uses.
  • Alternatively, a ghost may appear. Using a ghostspeak amulet to converse with the ghost will guarantee 5 treats for the next trick-or-treat as the player is temporarily granted a "ghostly presence".
  • The most recent 3 NPCs will ask to trick-or-treat other NPCs first before doing it on them.
• Finding a Generous Treater, who gives 100 treats. Continuously logging out and back in will let you trick endlessly. Their locations are constantly changing, but are only in Varrock. The easiest way to find them is to hop worlds on one of the known spawn spots.
• Mining (including crashed stars, but excluding Motherlode Mine), Woodcutting, and Fishing.

Rewards

The Great Cauldron, where players can deposit treats and claim their rewards from the event.

Rewards from previous events can be claimed from the costumed children upon starting the event.

Players gain new rewards for every 80 treats that are deposited into the great cauldron:

Reward		Total treats
	Cobweb cape	80
	Spider hat	160
	Trick emote	240
	Spider hat (Venenatis style)	320
	Spider hat (Verzik style)	400
	Spider hat (Sarachnis style)	480
	Spider hat (Old style)	560
	Halloween mask set x2	640
	Pumpkin x2	720

Additional rewards

Periodically the great cauldron will spawn pumpkins and Halloween masks for any nearby player to loot.

Players can continue to deposit treats into the great cauldron to contribute to four community goals, which are based on the total number of treats deposited globally by all players.

Each milestone reached unlocks an additional appearance for the treat cauldron, at which point the appearance of the great cauldron changes in tandem.

Great cauldron's appearance	Treat cauldron unlock appearance	Total treats required	Date goal was reached
		50,000,000	20 October 2023
		100,000,000	23 October 2023
		150,000,000	28 October 2023
		200,000,000	31 October 2023

Transcript

This article on an event has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations encountered throughout the event.

Gallery

Scenery

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  The great cauldron filling up upon reaching the final goal
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  Varrock Square during the event
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  Varrock Palace during the event
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  Draynor Village during the event
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  Lumbridge Castle during the event
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  Rimmington during the event

Concept art

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  Concept art of various objects found around the event areas, by Mod Jerv.
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  Concept art of the costumed children, Great Cauldron, and treat cauldron, by Mod Jerv.

Trivia

• If players trick-or-treat Iffie whilst wearing an ugly halloween jumper, she will have different dialogue depending on whether players participated in the 2021 Halloween event or not.
• Ned's dialogue whilst trick-or-treating him references the Sailing skill, which was in active development at the time the event was released.