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Halloween Trick or Treat Guide

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IceBlueFire [776] Officer Officer

Getting a Basket:
You must first buy a basket from Sally's Sweet Shop, found in the city, for $35. These restock 1,000 baskets every 15 minutes, so if you didn't get one yet, and it's sold out, just keep waiting and refreshing. If you've already purchased your 100 item city limit for the day, you'll still be able to purchase the basket. HOWEVER, if you buy the basket first, it will count toward your daily limit. Because of this, I recommend hitting your daily city purchase limit and then acquiring a basket.
Note: You must be level 5 to buy the basket.

Earning Treats:
Any attack on any player can reward a treat. The default chance to loot candy from the first basket starts pretty low. This is improved by various basket upgrades as well as wearing "Spooky" clothing and having the finishing hit from a "Spooky" weapon (Assuming you have "I See Dead People" and "Here's Johnny!" unlocked on your basket).

Spooky Clothes:
Kabuki Mask
Medieval Helmet
Witch's Hat
Straitjacket
Marauder Face Mask
Duke's Gimp Mask
Ginger Kid Mask
Scarred Man Mask
Psycho Clown Mask
Nun Mask
Donald Trump Mask '16
Michael Myers Mask '18
Gronch Mask '18
Jigsaw Mask '19
Pennywise Mask '20
Sandworm Mask '21
Krampus Mask '21
Hell Priest Mask '22

Evil Winnie Mask '23
Hook Hand
Torso Bandage
Head Bandage
Bloody Apron


Spooky Weapons:
Axe
Blood Spattered Sickle
Chainsaw
Devil's Pitchfork
Golden Broomstick
Petrified Humerus
Wand of Destruction
Meat Hook
Cleaver
Bone Saw

(The links above will lead to the item market for said item)

The full list can be found on the wiki here.

Leveling up your Basket:

Your basket will "level up" to the next basket level automatically the next time you collect a treat from an attack after you've collected the required amount of treats. It doesn't consume your treats to level up your basket. Each basket level improves the chance of looting candy by 5% per level (Up to +45% at Nightmarish).


Basket Levels:

Image Name Treat Cost Total
Spooky 0 0
Creepy 5 5
Freaky 10 15
Frightful 25 40
Haunting 50 90
Shocking 100 190
Terrifying 250 440
Horrifying 500 940
Petrifying 1,000 1,940
Nightmarish 2,500 4,440




Upgrading your basket:
You can upgrade your basket to provide additional perks like higher drop chances, improved candy rewards, etc. It does consume your treats to unlock additional basket perks. You can do this by finding your basket under "Special Items", and clicking the "Use Item" next to your basket.


Basket Upgrades:

Image Upgrade Description Treat Cost Total Cost
Tier 1
[image: beta.tornstats.com] I See Dead People This upgrade gives +10% chance of receiving a treat when wearing any scary clothing
I.e. Kabuki Mask, Medieval Helmet, Witch's Hat, Straitjacket & Scary masks
3 3
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Here's Johnny This upgrade gives +10% chance of receiving a treat when ending a victim with a scary weapon
I.e. Axe, Chainsaw, Blood Spattered Sickle, Devil's Pitchfork, Petrified Humerus
5 8
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Doubler This upgrade has a 20% chance of doubling the treats received after an attack
This 2x bonus can stack with Tripler, Quadrupler & Quintupler
25 33
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Tripler This upgrade has a 10% chance of tripling the treats received after an attack
This 3x bonus stack with Doubler, Quadrupler & Quintupler
50 83
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Quadrupler This upgrade has a 5% chance of quadrupling the treats received after an attack
This x4 bonus can stack with Doubler, Tripler & Quintupler
75 158
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Quintupler This upgrade has a 1% chance of quintupling the treats received after an attack
This x5 bonus can stack with Doubler, Tripler & Quadrupler
100 258
Cumulative Total: 258
Tier 2 (Unlocks at Frightful Basket)
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Candyman This upgrade unlocks medium-tier candy.
Bag of Bloody Eyeballs is added to the candy reward pool.
5 5
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Sweet Release This upgrade unlocks high-tier candy.
Bag of Chocolate Truffles is added to the candy reward pool.
10 15
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Bloody Mary This upgrade unlocks medium-tier alcohol.
Bottle of Wicked Witch is added to the alcohol reward pool.
15 30
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Nice Chianti This upgrade unlocks high-tier alcohol.
Bottle of Stinky Swamp Punch is added to the alcohol reward pool.
30 60
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Nightcrawler This upgrade unlocks medium-tier energy drink.
Can of Munster is added to the energy drink reward pool.
45 105
[image: beta.tornstats.com] It's Alive This upgrade unlocks high-tier energy drink.
Can of Red Cow is added to the energy drink reward pool.
90 195
Cumulative Total: 453
Tier 3 (Unlocks at Shocking Basket)
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Cat in Hell This upgrade gives a 1 in 500,000 chance with every attack of instantly receiving 1,000 treats.
Or the equivalent of being struck by lightning...
13 13
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Save Your Tears When exchanging your treats you'll also receive +500 happiness for every treat exchanged.
Up to 99,999 happiness.
95 108
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Freebie Receive an additional bonus treat for every 10 upon exchange.
Exchange ten and get one free.
120 228
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Cold Sweat When exchanging your treats you'll also receive +1 nerve for every treat exchanged.
Up to 32,767 nerve.
170 398
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Cashback After exchanging your treats you'll immediately receive 10% back with this upgrade.
We want to reward your loyalty.
230 628
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Dark Power When exchanging your treats you'll also receive +5 energy for every treat exchanged.
Up to 1,000 energy.
285 913
Cumulative Total: 1,366
Tier 4 (Unlocks at Horrifying Basket)
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Multipack This upgrade gives a 3% chance of consumables being upgraded to Multipacks upon exchange.
I.e. A rewarded bottle of beer may become a Six Pack of Alcohol.
180 180
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Deal with the Devil This upgrade gives a 3% chance of consumables being upgraded to Boosters and Special items upon exchange.
Treats may be converted into Erotic DVDs, Feathery Hotel Coupons, Business Class Tickets and Casino Passes.
320 500
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Mortal Coil Receive 1 treat for free every hour while the Halloween Basket event is active.
A trickle of treats for doing absolutely nothing.
500 1,000
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Inflation The treats in your basket increase by 0.1% per hour while the Halloween Basket event is active.
This covers the rate of Freddo price increases and confectionary shrinkage.
777 1,777
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Shadow of Doubt This upgrade immediately provides exactly 1,100 treats.
Probably...?
1,000 2,777
[image: beta.tornstats.com] Summon Cthulhu Begins the end times.
It was nice knowing you.
9,999 12,776
Cumulative Total: 14,142




Exchange All Treats:
Immediately exchange all available treats for Candy and Drinks (Alcohol and Energy). This WILL consume any and all available treats you have at the time. This can be upgraded to get the higher tier consumables through basket upgrades.

Honors:
[image: awardimages.torn.com] [image: wiki.torn.com] Phantastic - Upgrade your Halloween Basket to Frightful
[image: awardimages.torn.com][image: wiki.torn.com] Something Humerus - Upgrade your Halloween Basket to Terrifying
[image: awardimages.torn.com] [image: wiki.torn.com] Oh My Gourd! - Upgrade your Halloween Basket to Nightmarish

Recommended basket upgrade progress:
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Basket progression courtesy of Andyman

 

Revitalize Comparison

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Chart courtesy of Proxima.

NOTE: The top two rows (Spooky and Creepy) should be green (Use Revitalize) because you mathematically can't get the spooky weapons and clothes upgrades before unlocking that basket.

 

Mentions: Andyman [471591] · Proxima [1879587]

AiR [2251655]
(Assuming you have "I See Dead People" and "Here's Johnny!" unlocked on your basket).

-> mine are not unlocked. I have the basket from last year and did maybe something like 5 attacks, those are not available :-(

Now the question is, clothing and weapon doesn't make a difference for me then?
IceBlueFire [776] Officer Officer
Correct, not until you unlock those perks

> Furthermore, the nature of some upgrades means that some known Trick or Treat strategies from previous years will no longer work unless you have the right upgrades.

From the newspaper ^ You have to unlock the upgrades before the clothing and final hits apply the extra bonus
IceBlueFire [776] Officer Officer
The sub text does say "Probably..." so you might be right. I won't be the first one to try it though. xD We'll have to wait and see for people to get that far first though!
IceBlueFire [776] Officer Officer
Yep. So with all said and done, once you have the last basket and all the upgrades, you should have a 100% chance to get candy
-sketch- [759554]
"Horrifying" basket treat cost is 500.

edit: Currently at 44 / 500 treats collected with the "Terrifying" basket. So yeah, 500 treats to unlock "Horrifying".