Dark Harvest Festival
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The Dark Harvest Festival is an annual event.
Contents
Overview
This event honors the mischievous Punkin King in order to ensure a healthy fall harvest for Haven. All Clockwork Tunnels-style levels like Power Complexes and Blast Chambers now have a chance of featuring special rooms inhabited by the Punkin King. Simply hop on the party pad and discover if the Punkin King has candy tokens or something else in store for you! - Forum Post.
Gameplay
Any Grave Mounds such as those found in Graveyard:Where Monsters Fear to Tread areas have a chance to spawn a Grim Scarab instead of a zombie.
Arcade
The Punkin King can be found in areas that spawn in Clockwork Tunnels-Style levels in the Arcade during the event. Similar to Scenario Rooms, these areas have a chance to randomly appear in appropriate arcade levels. Players should be prepared for a TRICK or a TREAT when stepping on the party button in these rooms.
Prestige
"The Dark Harvest" is a prestige mission where the player can always find the Punkin King and Grave Scarabs. This mission can be completed once per day and is only available during this event.
Rewards and Prizes
Token Exchange
Along with the merrily menacing monster that is the Pumpkin King, there are several other things out there to show off the Dark Harvest spirit! Maskwell and Bulky come to town with their plethora of masks, only wanting candy in return! These masks come in fabulous flavors, each in three varieties.
Players can earn Candy Tokens from encountering the Punkin King (hard, sour, sweet) or Grim Gourdlings (brittle) and exchange them for various prizes with Maskwell.
Players can also purchase a Prize Box:
Prize Boxes
Dark Harvest Prize Box - From Maskwell for tokens.
Notes
Haven will have a spooky atmosphere and soundtrack for the duration of this event. Passive Gourdlings will wander randomly about.
Other events considered "scary" or "spooky" by the community (such as the Shroud of the Apocrea) are not directly tied into the Dark Harvest Festival. These events just sometimes occur simultaneously.
Farming Tips
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Since events last a short time, players like to figure out how to most efficiently obtain an event's prizes. For the Dark Harvest Festival, this means gathering Candy Tokens.
Hard, Sour, and Sweet candy tokens are dropped by the Punkin King. Since the event's prestige (The Dark Harvest) can only be played once a day, getting friends together to search the Arcade for his lairs is a good way to go. Search alone until a lair is found, then invite 3 more people and step on the party button for either a TRICK or a TREAT. Many friends searching alone all at once and inviting each other this way is likely to yield lots of candy. See the Punkin King's page on this wiki for more information on the TRICK scenario.
Brittle candy tokens are dropped by defeated Grim Gourdlings, which appear when a Grim Scarab is defeated. These enemies are encountered in Graveyard levels. A Grim Scarab might appear when the player gets close to a grave. The bug has a chance to "replace" a Dust Zombie grave spawn. If players wish to "spam" or "grind" graveyards quickly to find many Brittle candy tokens, the first floor of the 9-1 
Mission: An Occurrence at Owlite Keep is a good farming location.
Gallery
Haven gets spooky during The Dark Harvest Festival.
An entrance to a Punkin King Lair in the Arcade.
Players using Trick or Treat Confetti. This can be used any time you want, not just during the Festival!
Calendar
The Dark Harvest Festival has happened several times. Below is a calendar for each occurrence of this event. Directly-Dark Harvest-Festival-related-items that were introduced during a given Dark Harvest Festival have been available in some way during all Dark Harvest Festivals following the Dark Harvest Festival in which they were introduced. This has changed in the seventh Dark Harvest Festival (2017) in which the old Prize Box has been replaced by the new 
Dark Harvest Prize Box 2017. This box has introduced several new Hallow accessories but some old Hallow accessories were not available.
| News Image | Dates and Forum | Duration | Notes | |
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19 October 2011 - 1 November 2011 |
14 days |  Hard Candy,  Sour Candy, and  Sweet Candy tokens were introduced.
The Authentic Frankenzom, Phantom, and Spookat mask costumes, as well as their expiring versions, were introduced. Shadow Lairs were introduced during this event. Related announcement: Pumpkin Bomb Bandolier Giveaway...Related Patch Notes: 1 |
| 2 | 
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17 October 2012 - 1 November 2012 |
16 days | The Dark Harvest Prize Box, Jack o' Bombhead Mask, Haunted Aura, and hallow costumes and accessories ("recolors") were introduced. |
| 3 | 
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23 October 2013 - 4 November 2013 |
13 days | The first Shroud of the Apocrea event occurred simultaneously with this event. |
| 4 | 
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22 October 2014 - 2 November 2014 |
12 days | The  Brittle Candy token was introduced.
The Maskeraith (Punkin) Battle Sprite reskin was introduced. The Authentic Scarab Mask costume and its expiring versions were introduced. |
| 5 | 
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23 October 2015 - 2 November 2015 |
11 days | |
| 6 | 
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21 October 2016 - 1 November 2016 |
12 days | |
| 7 | 
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18 October 2017 - 1 November 2017 |
15 days | The Dark Harvest Prize Box has been replaced by the Dark Harvest Prize Box 2017 with new but without some old accessories.
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| 8 | 
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18 October 2018 - 1 November 2018 |
15 days | The Dark Harvest Prize Box 2017 has been replaced by the Dark Harvest Prize Box 2018.
On the Halloween day, a limited offer of Black and Brown Fowl Cowls and Cloaks was added to the Supply Depot. The sale continued through November 7th. It is possible that the offer was related to then ongoing Bejeweled Stranger promotion. |
| 9 | 
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21 October 2019 - 4 November 2019 |
14 days | The Dark Harvest Prize Box 2018 has been replaced by the Dark Harvest Prize Box 2019.
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| 10 |
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19 October 2020 - 2 November 2020 |
14 days |
See Also
- Caketastrophe (annual event)
- Dark Harvest Festival (annual event)
- Kataclysmic Confrontation
- March of the Tortodrones
- Shroud of the Apocrea
- Winterfest (annual event)
