#neopets guides

[lesvegas]

My Beginner/Newbie Guide to Neopets

Never used the site before in your life but wanna check it out? Just logged into your old account and wanna get back into it? Saw my promo and wanna take advantage of it? Wanna make loads of neopoints? As someone with about 20mil in the bank I can't guarantee following my advice will make you MEGA rich but I can get you pretty close with pretty minimal effort.

TL;DR do your dailies and invest in stocks (it's way easier than it sounds, idk shit about real life stocks)

(And before I hear any "isnt neopets run by scientologists" the answer is no, it never was, neopets.com once fell into a company that was run by a scientologist for about a year back in the early 2000s)

Guide below the cut!

THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVICE TO TAKE FROM THIS GUIDE:

Spin Trudy's Surprise wheel every day (link here)

Invest in stocks (guide here)

Do whatever dailies you want (link here)

Use Jellyneo's item database to search/price anything (link here)

This guide assumes you've already made an account, a pet, and have about 2000np (given to every new account) to spend, and that you're currently logged in (you'll need to be for most of these links).

Confused by the site layout? No idea where to go? No worries, I'll link just about everything you need here.

DISCLAIMER: There's a lot of stuff I DON'T do, but if there's something that interests you, go ahead and try it!! I just do the bare minimum when it comes to dailies lol

~~Dailies~~

If you clicked on this link, you're probably already overwhelmed by the sheer number of dailies your expected to do. The good news is, I don't do at least half of these. Most of these aren't worth your time or points and I only really do easy 1-click dailies that net me free shit. I'll show you exactly which ones those are.

Let's start with the Classics-

I've already gone ahead and erased the ones a new account will never have to worry about.

These are the priority freebie dailies you should be doing each day when you can. Lemme explain what each one does:

Soup Kitchen: Until you have 3000np, you can feed your pets here for free!

Free Jelly: One free jelly (worth 2 meals) each day

Giant Omelette: One free omelette (worth 3 meals) each day

Interest @ Bank: You can collect interest on your bank account each day (you need a bank account, I'll explain later)

Money Tree: Free stuff people throw away, guide further down

Trudy's Surprise: Free neopoints daily

Monthly Freebies: Once a month, not daily, free 2000np and food

Obsidian Quarry: One free piece of obsidian daily. I just sell them for 1np a piece to get people coming to my shop

Apple Bobbing: Free item daily (small chance to lose an item or nps)

Anchor Management: Free item daily

Mysterious Negg Cave: Solve a puzzle for a free item (solver here)

Grave Danger: Petpet required. Send it down into the catacombs daily to find items.

These are all the easiest of the dailies. Next up we have

The Wheels-

Yes, just these wheels, because none of the scratchcards are worth trying to me. I've never won anything good from them. These wheels are all relatively low-cost, but if you only wanted to pick ONE, do the Wheel of Mediocrity. I've found it has the highest return for the cost.

Also, the Wheel of Monotony can go for literal hours. I tend to let it go in a muted tab and do other stuff in the meantime. Anyway, next is

Win NPs, Items, Stats-

I've erased anything that takes too much time, doesn't work cause flash, can only be accessed at certain times, or isn't newbie accessible. I'll elaborate on the rest;

Tombola: Draw a ticket and win a prize (free)

Deserted Tomb: Go into a tomb and potentially find treasure (may hurt your neopet)

Fruit Machine: One free spin per day for fruit

Coltzan's Shrine: One of the best dailies. Potentially increases stats, gives NP or items

Kreludor Meteor: Free items when it works

TDMBGPOP: Free items (usually plushies) or NPs

Underwater Fishing: Free fish or fishing-related items

Forgotten Shore: Requires treasure map (guide here)

Healing Springs: Heals your pets or gives you an item. Can be done every 30mins. I recommend coming here last to heal pets after some dangerous dailies. You can also come here every 30mins if your pet is sick until they're cured.

These are also good, easy freebies I recommend doing daily. Personally I also use the Battledome but that's because I've actually trained one of my pets to fight. Now for the

Pay NPs and Win-

No, really, that's it.

Okay, I also personally do Cheeseroller, and I used to do more carnival games when they worked, but these are the only ones you really need to worry about in this section.

Faerie Caverns, Test Your Strength, and Pick Your Own are simple games where you can win NPs and items.

Garage Sale is a shop where most items are sold below market value. Great for reselling.

Bargain stocks are cheaper than regular stocks and are only for poor/new users.

And what about

Other Neopets Stuff To Do-

A lot less intimidating now, huh?

Most things in this section are just... things to do. Things that aren't all that profitable. These four are the only ones you should bother with if your priority is getting NPs.

Symol Hole requires a PetPet. You can win items, but this is rare.

Stock Portfolio... I'll get into that soon. But this is important.

Trading Post is where you go to offload tons of junk, get tons of junk, buy/sell anything worth more than 999999np, and find good deals

Employment Agency is where you take jobs that involve finding and buying a certain number of a particular item in a certain timeframe. I only recommend this if you've become familiar with Jellyneo's item data base and the Shop Wizard.

Now what about the next sections, Quests, Competitions, and Games?

Don't worry about 'em.

When you're financially better off, you can try doing some daily Faerie quests if you want, but I don't recommend getting into them right away. Contests are cool and all, but not my thing personally, so I can't tell you much about them. As for games... most of them are still broken.

But the game Fashion Fever is an easy free 900np a day. Just wait 10 seconds before finishing the game, then send score.

Wait, how does the Stock Market work?

Great question!

The stock market is the easiest way to rack up neopoints. I can't comment on bargain stocks because I haven't done them, but I can tell you all about the regular stock market.

(You could also uh, watch this 5 minute guide here, which is how I originally learned how the stock market works)

Conceptually, you buy stocks while they're cheap, then wait until their value goes up and sell them at a high price. You can easily turn 15000np into 45000np by simply waiting.

Also, I really recommend you have 15000np before buying any stocks. Do other dailies until you have that much at least.

Your stock portfolio is here. Read the scrolling stocks at the top of the page:

Until you find a stock valued at 15np (circled above). Once you have the stock name (this one is SWNC), go to 'Buy' (right under the scrolling stocks in blue),

And buy them! Buy 1000 at a time.

15np is the LOWEST a stock can go before it's unbuyable, and you can only buy a total of 1000np per day.

Now, we just have to wait for the value to go up.

I only sell stocks once the value is +300%. SWNC is currently at 0.00% because it's worth the value I originally bought it at (15np).

Check your portfolio daily, buy new stocks when you can, sell when they're high, and sooner or later you'll be raking in hundreds of thousands of neopoints per sale!

Does Trudy's Surprise really guarantee thousands of free NPs?

Yes. No, seriously, yes.

The first time you spin the wheel, you'll probably only get about 1000np. Come back the next day, spin it again, maybe you'll get 2000np. By the end of the first week, probably 6000np.

And on day 25? 100000np. Guaranteed. Then the cycle resets to day 1, and it's back to about 1000np.

With Trudy's Surprise, you can very easily obtain around 200000np a month.

BUT. You need to spin the wheel once EVERY DAY or the counter resets and you're back to day 1 again.

There are days where I really don't feel like doing my dailies at all, but I always try to make sure I get this one in. It's absolutely worth logging it.

You mentioned a Bank Account?

If you haven't opened a bank account (for neopoints, not actual money), do so now!!

A bank will hold onto your neopoints for you so you don't lose them during random events, and you can collect interest every day. There's a cost to open and upgrade an account, but no fees besides that. The more nps in your account, the more interest you can collect! I collect about 6000np a day just from my nps sitting in my account.

Okay, I did my dailies and now I have all this stuff sitting in my inventory. Now what?

Well, you have a few options:

Use them. Food feeds your pet, books educate them, toys entertain them... before doing anything else with some items, consider if you want to use them on your pet.

Donate them. If you're completely at a loss or don't want to bother selling them, you can always donate or discard them to free up space.

Store them in your Safety Deposit Box. Got items that you think you'll use later that are currently taking up space? Store them in your SDB or Closet for now.

Trade them. Go to the trading post, browse new trades, and use these items as fodder for getting good deals. Alternatively, put them up for trade and see what people offer.

Sell them. If you haven't opened a shop yet, I highly recommend you do so. You can put items in the shop, but they won't be displayed until you've set a price. Don't know what to charge? Search the item in the Jellyneo item database to find out how much it's worth!

Why even do any of this?

Honestly, that's up to you to decide.

Neopets is a weird site. People came for the pets, but the only ones that stayed have remained for the economy. You either find it fun or you don't, and I know it's harder when you're a beginner.

What really got me into neopets again was finding a goal. If you want to get rich, that's the one thing you need most: a goal. It could be a static number, a dream pet, a dream gallery, w/e. My first main goal was a gold paintbrush for a pet I don't even have anymore, and my current goal is 25mil in my account. After that, I think my next goal will be to access the lab ray.

If you're just starting out and don't know what you want your goal to be, I'd suggest finding that old dream pet or picking a new one here: This site shows every pet in every colour. Find one that speaks to you, find out how much the paintbrush or morphing potion or whatever method costs, and work for that.

I'm still confused/have questions.

Please feel free to DM me!! I love neopets and am trying to get more people (especially my friends) into it. I don't know everything but the least I can do is point you to a guide that can help. Don't hesitate to reach out to me!

You can also neomail me if you want <3

[hypnag0g]

i forgot it was daily comics day, so today's 365 is some shoyru gals from the space station mail room

[coulsonlives]

Trying to figure out how food club works like

[sexybritishllama]

neopets have started a new daily/weekly quest thing and i actually think it's a great idea! but one of the quests in their initial tutorial is to go and check out the guilds section in the community tab, which sure is.... a choice

basically no one uses guilds anymore and nearly every page on the public guilds directory looks like this

[warlordfelwinter]

my fellow dps mains i know our queues are long but i NEED you to stay by your computer bc it's ALWAYS the fourth dps that takes too long and makes someone drop out and dump us all back into the queue when the duty pops

[kyriii]

❤️Alex or Ace | 27 | They/He 💛Neopets sideblog | acedemiro on neopets 💚One of the only Kyrii enthusiasts around 💙Typical DNI: terfs, exclus, 'proship', etc

[dogcollarpunk]

actually extremely sad coming back to neopets its like a shell of its former self

[cheekedupwhiteboy]

i like to post a screenshot of my open firefox mobile tabs and ask my followers to psychoanalyze me but often whatever porn i have open is simply too much for me to put on main

[ive-been-mistreated]

@changelingchild here's a guide to how i made these lookups!

i tried to keep it as brief as possible, but i ended up putting everything under the readmore (including the html code)

disclaimer: i only edited the html for the page content, not the header and sidebar. i cropped them out of my screenshots for this post because it's way too difficult to completely rework those elements and make sure it's all still functional (sorry!)

oct. 16 update: i added some new coding that alters the appearance of the sidebar as well! i might try creating an entirely new header section, but that's gonna take a little more time.

feel free to make any changes you want to the html code ✌️

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:

first, i scour https://wardrobe.jellyneo.net to find wearable items that fit the visual theme i want for each pet. this site has really helpful search filters, especially the right-side dropdown called "Occupies Zone." most of the images i used were higher & lower foreground items. one problem is that jellyneo's image resolution isn't great

instead, i use https://impress.openneo.net/items to search for and take screenshots of the items i liked. i zoom in to get large, high quality images. if an image is too large to capture in a single screenshot, i screenshot sections of the image and piece them back together in photoshop or ms paint

you can make any edits you want, but the content section on a neopets pet lookup is 819-820 pixels wide (on my laptop, at least). any background images you want to use in your lookup need to be 820 pixels wide

upload your images onto imgur (or something similar). all of my lookups include two background images, and are positioned using html properties that i've shared below

paste everything from <style> and </style> (including the style brackets!!) into the "Edit Pet Description" box. you can paste the urls for your background images under ".content" (the first url is the "header" image, and the second url will be the "footer" image)

depending on the dimensions of your background images, you might need to adjust the ".content" padding properties to fix the spacing of the images. you want to avoid overlap with the text, but too much empty space isn't good either

the rest of the code is a mishmash of what i've gathered from using the inspector/console (control-alt-c) and things i learned from other people about html coding on neopets. this link (https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp) can also help if you want to learn more about background properties

HTML CODE:

<style>

div.q-button__2020.button-default__2020.button-yellow__2020.get-worn-items {

display: none;

}

#footer {

display: none;

}

#main {

font-size: 12px;

border-left: 5px solid #504182;

border-right: 5px solid #504182;

}

.content {

font-size: 12px;

border-top: 1px solid #504182;

color: #3c2c71;

padding-top: 290px;

padding-bottom: 300px;

width: 820px;

background-image: url("https://i.imgur.com/n8Ax6mH.png"), url("https://i.imgur.com/4JnZA3r.png");

background-position: right top, right bottom;

background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat;

}

.content div {

display: none;

}

.content table div, .content .contentModule {

display: block;

}

.sidebar {

font-size: 12px;

background-color: #e7e6f2;

border-top: 1px solid #504182;

border-right: 1px solid #504182;

color: #3c2c71;

}

.sidebarModule {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.sidebarTable {

margin-bottom: 15px;

}

.sidebarHeader.medText, .sidebarHeader.medText b {

font-family: "IM Fell English", serif;

font-size: 15px;

text-transform: uppercase;

text-align: center;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.sidebarHeader.medText a {

font-family: "IM Fell English", serif;

font-size: 15px;

text-transform: uppercase;

text-align: center;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.sidebarHeader.medText img {

display: none;

}

.neopetPhrase {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

border-bottom: 2px solid #3c2c7;

}

.sidebarTable {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.neofriend {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.activePet {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.activePet.sf {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

.activePetInfo, .activePetInfo td {

font-size: 12px;

color: #3c2c71;

background: none;

border: 0px;

}

#CustomNeopetView {

background: none; 

height: 450px;

width: 450px;

margin-left: 10px;

}

.nppvma-petView #nppvma_petViewMainContent {

font-size: 12px;

border: 0px;

}

div.pet_image_container {

font-size: 12px;

border: 0px;

}

div.contentModule {

font-size: 12px;

border: 0px;

}

.contentModuleContent {

font-size: 12px;

background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0);

}

.contentModuleTable {

font-size: 12px;

padding-top: 10px;

border:0px;

}

td.contentModuleHeader {

display: none;

}

td.contentModuleHeaderAlt {

display: none;

}

.contentModuleContent table img {

display:none;

}

.contentModule {

font-size: 12px;

padding-right: 10px;

background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);

}

.contentModuleContent #rating_ballot img {

display:inline;

}

td {

font-size: 12px;

}

</style>

updated my pet lookups on neopets 👍

[shoomlah]

Oh gosh, if you're taking questions I have like, a bajillion. The neopets "style" has been pretty loose over the years but... What sort of guidelines did you have to follow? Were there any hard "no"s? Was there a style guide or bible? In terms of design, what were you most proud of? Anything that was rejected that was disappointing to not see come to fruition?? Pardon my excitement!

From my recollection there was no official style guide, which I'm sure is pretty apparent from the art on the site—we'd run things by our art director Anthony/Tigercatcher for feedback, or by Adam or Donna to get their stamp of approval, but otherwise it was relatively lawless. It is fun to be able to look back at the old art and immediately tell who drew it, though!

A couple memorable anecdotes:

There was this brief phase in the early years where we had anthropomorphized neopets, but we hadn't really standardized how we drew them. They eventually got fingers and fully rendered eyes BUT I do love this transitional period where I just drew a bunch of sexy aishas with nub hands and dot eyes:

At one point there was a moratorium on giving the anthropomorphic characters helix piercings. It had become a kneejerk instinct to just toss a couple hoops onto a character's ear as you were designing them and it got: wildly out of hand

the worst notes were the ones we'd get on the Neopets Magazine covers, hands down. We could have so much fun with the on-site art, but anything public-facing like merch and the magazine were under way more levels of impenetrable scrutiny. The feedback was always to make the smiles BIGGER and B I G G E R

[redkyrii]

I found a Neopets internal style guide from 2005.

I was originally gonna make a post complaining about how inconsistent and lacking the species model sheets were (which is pretty on-brand, all things considered), but then I glanced at the grundo model sheet and

... ????

An important reference, apparently.

They couldn't bother to give any do's and don'ts, proper turn-arounds or even just stick to one style in their own style guide, but they thought it was absolutely imperative that their artists were given an illustrated diagram of exactly how a grundo puffs that galactic ganja.

OK.

[okayto]

FYI, Neopets is planning to purge inactive old accounts in October 2024

According to a press release this week, accounts that haven't been logged into in a decade or more will be deleted:

Neopets fans who have not visited the site in recent years are encouraged to log in ahead of an upcoming website cleanse scheduled for October, a month before its 25th anniversary, which will see the removal of accounts that have been inactive for more than 10 years. This purge will set the foundation to re-release petnames back into the pound for new owners to love!

So if you've been thinking about returning, this is a great time to check out r/Neopets' account recovery guide and then read their catch-up guide.

[switch]

if i get this pattern one more fucking time i'm going to eat my computer

*becomes a vtuber and streams playing neopets games and it takes me 30 minutes just to stop resetting the first level of faerie bubbles for good rng*

[ot3]

i've been playing a lot more neopets lately because i mean what else am i supposed to do with a wfh office job and man. forgot how much truly evil game design is in this thing. like i knew it was not a good website on every kind of technical level. i feel like it was really the wild west of pet websites there when they were building neopets. i remember being a kid trying to follow plot guides and theyre like 'okay you have to pull this shit from the websites source code' and it was like. im 10 idk what that is yet but i guess im going to learn.

[hermannco]

Drew every neopets for a style guide, ful res on my patreon of the pic AND the flats (that I had to resize for these pictures)

I need to tag all of these....

[boringkate]

Any advice on getting in to game dev? Like from a very basic basic level. I love seeing the games you make and it’s making we wanna try do my own

Do it! It's a top tier hobby!

I've been using love2d lately and I feel like it'd be a decent place to start!

I wrote a super super basic love2d script for you! Download love2d, then download this lua file, then put the lua file in a folder, then drag the folder onto love.exe!

Congratulations! You're running a love2d program! No compiling or anything required! Move the little cat emoticon around with the arrow keys!

There are definitely love2d tutorials online, but you can also just modify that script (I use Notepad++, but you could even just open it in the notepad that comes with windows) to make it do different stuff and do a google search each time there's something new that you want to know how to do. I find that's usually more appealing than following a step by step guide (that could just be me being weird tho lmao idk).

As for other options:

Unity is probably the most popular option rn, but it's proprietary (godot exists though as basically a free and open source equivelant) and pretty bloated for making a little 2d game (I really feel like making something simple and 2d is the best way to get started).

GameMaker and RPG Maker (also proprietary) could be cool too if you're really intimidated by needing to code (how do kids these days even learn html anymore now that Neopets is out of fashion?) and would feel more at home navigating menus and things like that (you can still end up writing code in either of them eventually though).