A new achievement set has arrived to Faerie Fragments and along with a brand new weapon. The weapon has already been tested and it is a fairly capable darkness reflector, be sure to click the link under the shortbox to find out how you can earn one for free through the Faerie Fragments onsite rewards.



There are two other much less exciting additions to the Battlepedia; two more "Steal Blocking" items that are designed to be stolen in place of more useful items. An interesting addition given the small number of stealing items that actively work right now is very low. Either way, check out their pictures below, that's all you get really. No interesting stats or data on those.


Edit: Finally, and I can't believe I didnt remember to add this. A much more exciting addition in the form of the Aethias Aegis of Dual Elements; A dual blocking item released as the highest value prize for the recent Faerie Festival. Almost forgot to include it.


Check out our Faerie Festival Prize guide below to help with your purchasing decisions.

The new set of rotational Battledome challengers for Premium subscribers have gone live!

This rotation features Maraquan Shieldmaiden, Mechanoid Warrior, Ravenous Monster, and Zombiefied Peasants from various plots over the years. Each challenger has a new, unique set of item prizes that are being given out (just like the prior rotation).


Maraquan Shieldmaiden is the challenger giving out the Business Card with this rotation.

You can read all about the new challengers and prizes over in the Battlepedia:


Are your pets trained up enough to take them on? We're still collecting data on the drops these new challengers have. Let us know what you've won from these new challengers in the comments!

On August 22nd, 22 years ago, Jellyneo was born! And we've been very happy to be bringing you the latest Neopets news and help ever since. You can stop by Jellyneo any time to peruse a complete Item Database (now with almost 76,200 item entries); visit the only destination on the 'net for Neopian history and lore; find a place to preview wearables; reference the premier guide to the Battledome; search a unique, categorized listing of over 162,000 Neopets images; peruse a full list of Neopets merch released since 1999; not to mention read a massive repository of guides and articles for any Neopets feature you can probably think of. And all of it is done to help you, our fellow Neopians.

As Jellyneo turns one year older, thank you to all of you, our amazing visitors. We really appreciate all of your support and kind words that we receive. Here's to another year of Neopets help and fun!

UPDATE, August 3rd: As of this morning, all of the issues mentioned below have been resolved.

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Today, it was discovered that once per battle abilities—like Positive Thinking, Shroud, and Lens Flare—are broken. Instead of being available only once per battle, the ability you used becomes reactivated if you use a different once per battle ability. This affects both battles against NPCs and against other Neopians.

For example, if you use Lens Flare on turn one, it will not be available to use for turn two. But if you use Positive Thinking in turn two, then Lens Flare will be unlocked and available again in turn three. (And Lens Flare should be unavailable for the remainder of the battle.)

It's unknown exactly when this broke in the last few days, but it's likely TNT will fix this soon, as it's rather detrimental to battling.

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UPDATE: Thanks to a number of users who reported this, there are also a couple other bugs today:

• Battledome records are not being created, meaning when you fight a 1-Player challenger, your record will not show the win/loss/draw or score
• Faerie blessings are not being applied when a weak bottled faerie is used

Another free cake has been released at the NC Mall to celebrate its 19th birthday!


Eating the cake will increase your Neopet's strength by 4, and grant the following item:


As with other NC Mall freebies, it is okay to claim this item on your side accounts.

See what else is up with celebrating the Mall's 19th birthday this year!

A new Attack Pea has been spotted in the skies of Neopia! Unlike the other members of its weapon family, this one can be found in the Hidden Tower for a price of 150,000,000 Neopoints. For those of you who have been looking for an upgrade over Seasonal Attack Pea but can't afford a Super Attack Pea, this might be just what you're looking for...


Next up, the first-ever weapon that puts items in your inventory - not just onto your battle set - that last after the battle! Anyone who enjoys blasting will really enjoy using a Void Quantum Blaster or two to do their daily Battledome farming...


Rounding out this roundup are a bunch of items that aren't quite as interesting: an item whose description and image URL imply that it should be a weapon, even though it currently isn't:


And finally, the new Premium Challenger Skeletal Knight has four junk "Bone" items on his set that it never uses, just in case you were thinking of stealing any of its weapons... but you won't be able to equip these items yourself.

UPDATE, July 1st ~1:50PM NST: After being fixed briefly around 1:35 PM NST, the button has disappeared again for at least some users. If it is not visible for you, follow the guidance below.

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No, it's not just you. With a few updates made to the Neopets Battledome today, the 'Continue' button that should be available when selecting your pet has become invisible.

Luckily, while invisible, the button is still there. You'll need to click approximately where the blue box is in the screenshot below, on the bottom right of the page.


Hopefully the image will return soon!

With the NC Mall's birthday approaching, a free item is available to claim in the NC Mall:


If you feed the cake to a Neopet, it will gain +3 Strength, and you will be granted this item:



You may claim this item on your side accounts.