Spirit's Eve

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The Spirit's Eve festival takes place on the 27th of Fall every year. The player enters the festival by entering Pelican Town between 10:00 pm and 11:50 pm (note that at 11:50 pm it is too late to enter), and upon leaving the festival, the player is returned to The Farm at 12:00 am.

The festival features a maze where the Golden Pumpkin can be obtained. According to townsfolk rumours, the maze was supposedly created by the Wizard. Pierre has a shopping booth where the player can purchase festive items including a rarecrow, a Jack-O-Lantern, and the Jack-O-Lantern recipe.

Haunted Maze

The haunted maze is supposedly set up by M. Rasmodius, the Wizard. The villagers say he was so committed to creating a frightening maze that it took him all day to set it up.

A large majority of the townspeople are either frightened or confused by the maze (especially Abigail, who can't continue because she cannot walk past spiders). Jodi does not allow Vincent to go in the maze because it is "too scary for children". However, in the second year maze, Vincent goes in the maze with Sam and Abigail does not participate.

(Entrance of Spirit's Eve Haunted Maze, Year 1)

(The full maze in year 2)

Surviving the Haunted Maze

Like all mazes, the "keep going left" mentality is present here. Just keep on going left; it isn't a huge maze. It may be worth it to stop and talk to the characters, as some of the dialogue can be amusing.

The maze layout alternates between years: A fairly simple maze wherein players can earn a Golden Pumpkin appears in odd years, while a more complex and larger maze with the reward of a Prize Ticket appears in even years. Players can quickly exit the maze after reaching the treasure chest by using a "secret shortcut" mine cart, exiting to the entrance of the maze next to Pierre's booth.

Odd Years

The trick to reaching the end is to take the secret passage, which begins just underneath and to the left of the "?" signpost, and then continues to the right inside the cave to the North. It weaves to the left and right, which requires a little bit of blind navigation. Wearing a ring which provides light, such as the Glow Ring, will allow the player to track their movement more easily. They will exit down into the treasure section of the maze. Inside the treasure chest is a Golden Pumpkin.

Even Years

Again, a secret passage begins just underneath and to the left of the first "?" signpost. Following the path to the end, passing Sebastian, an unmarked secret passage is located at the top right of the maze. This continues over to the section with Sam and Vincent. In the hedges behind the chicken-legged house there are three secret passages to the right of the sign. Only the middle one leads the player into the treasure section of the maze. Inside the treasure chest is a Prize Ticket.

Shop

Pierre has a booth from which he sells the following items:

Image	Name	Description	Price
	Jack-O-Lantern (5)	A whimsical fall decoration.	data-sort-value="750">750g
	Jack-O-Lantern Recipe	A recipe to make Jack-O-Lantern	data-sort-value="2000">2,000g
	Rarecrow #2 (1)	Collect them all! (2 of 8)	data-sort-value="5000">5,000g
	Grave Stone	A decorative piece for your farm.	data-sort-value="350">350g
	Funky Rug	Can be placed inside your house.	data-sort-value="4000">4,000g

Mail

Trivia

• The inaccessible area at the right of town contains the Abandoned House instead of the JojaMart. This can be seen by opening the festival map in a map editor.
• The top right of the maze contains a hut on chickens legs, a reference to the Slavic folklore character Baba Yaga. The path leading to the hut has three pairs of disembodied hands, a reference to the Russian fairy-tale Vasilisa the Beautiful, which features Baba Yaga.
• A transparent dialogue bubble can be seen above the Wizard or Linus while the player is hovering their mouse over them. Clicking on either character won't produce a dialogue, but the dialogue can be found in the game's data files.
  • Wizard, Year 1: "The affairs of mundane folk matter little to me, but the elementals like a chance to see you up close. It was for them that I created this silly maze."
  • Linus, Year 1: "Good show, old friend."
  • Wizard, Year 2: "The trials continue... Every magician must have an apprentice..."
  • Linus, Year 2: "Haha! Another fine creation, my old friend."

Television

• Gus refers to pumpkins as fruits. Despite not being classified as such in-game and in popular usage due to their taste, this is botanically accurate and pumpkins are classified as a pepo or hard-rinded berry, due to the fact that pumpkins grow from flowers.
• The television set featured in the eastern quadrant of the maze primarily displays static, but briefly flickers an image of a green creature.
• In even years, a Shadow Guy (presumably Krobus) can be seen to the left of the monster cages, between the trees across from the bushes.

Glitches

• In the same square area as the question mark sign, in the bottom right corner there is another bush passageway, leading to the rest of the maze.

History

• 1.3.27: Added Grave Stone to Pierre's shop. Golden Pumpkin is now a universally loved gift.
• 1.4: Passing out from low health on Spirit's Eve day no longer causes the player to be stuck inside Harvey's Clinic until the festival starts. Fixed bug where NPCs would follow non-festival schedules after the festival. Changed Abigail and Sebastian dialogues from "halloween" to "Spirit's Eve" in English.
• 1.6: Changed Haunted Maze layout for the second year and onwards.
• 1.6.3: Added minecart shortcut to year 1 Spirit's Eve festival.