Haunted House? Is this just theme decorations? Or do I need an entirely different kind of vacuum?

[Meep]

Bought Samantha whatever's house and it asked me if I wanted spooky things. Said Yes, is this just a Scream Mask and a depiction of Chronos being father of the year? Or am I missing something?

[Teddy_lebt]

Did you already go upstairs?

[FunWithEndermen]

Go upstairs and find Samanthas bedroom. You will see something there. Go outside and look around the property. There's something you need to do near trees. Then go to the basement and look at your minimap. There is something off about the downstairs space. See if you can figure out what it is.

[dark_haunt]

That's the haunted house that we got with a Halloween update a couple of years ago. As well as some eerie decorations, the house also has special light, sound and graphic effects, a ghost, a mysterious room, a coffin and a serial killer. I'm forgetting something... oh! The gnome out front is special too and is only there while the house is in its haunted state. You can settle the haunting, which reverts the house to a normal state, but if you like spooky stuff then be sure to go all through the house before you go outside to the garden.

The choice you were given when you first went to the house is a recent change. It bypasses the whole haunting stage so you don't need to settle the ghost for the house to be normal.

[Meep]

And when does that trigger? Cause I installed everything, settled all concerns with the yard (including the weeds and stains), found the hidden room (thanks for that), and cleaned the whole house. Still spooky music.

Do I need to sell the book and the bunny too? Or literally all the furniture? Paint the whole house? All of the above?

[Teddy_lebt]

The music stays the same, no matter what. It's nice but the loop is too short for my taste, so unfortunately it becomes tedious after a short while.
The only thing you have to get rid of is the coffin. After you buried it, it becomes daytime and the curse is lifted.

[Meep]

Oh, is that all. I'm really glad I started with the yard then.

So what's this about a ghost? I buried that thing before entering the house?

[Teddy_lebt]

Oh, that's unfortunate! There is a woman, or the ghost of a woman in one of the upstairs rooms. She crawls away from you when you enter and then vanishes. It's really scary, if you don't expect it! Even more so, since there are no other NPCs in this game whatsoever.

[Meep]

...I'm really glad I buried that early.

I'm a cozy horror fan, like where there are monsters, but they're cool or interesting and either want to be left alone or be your friend. So given this game is peak cozy I assumed that was what I was getting. Whoops.

Burying the coffin was fun though. They ever add anything for Halloween again they should consider graveyard relocation. It's a good excuse to bury lots of coffins and set up a bunch of graves all at once.

[dark_haunt]

If you look in the Halloween section of the Special Occasion items, there's a gravestone there. You can't bury the coffin that's also available there, but you can at least make a good graveyard wherever you want one. You can also relocate the coffin, in a way. Once it's buried, you can sell it. (Or could originally, I don't know if that's been changed or still works.)

The ghost upstairs is one of... I think six main scary things in that house. It's the biggest jump scare in the house, but not the only one.

That house was a shock when it came out. Based on the existing game content, players were expecting a family-friendly, cutesy-trick-n-treat-Halloween-level-of-spooky haunted house. Instead, we got the house from the Halloween horror movie franchise. Complete with Mike Myers (if you turn and look out at the street you'll see his mask floating in the darkness), his sister (bedroom jump scare), a coffin to bury in complete darkness (that couldn't be avoided, unlike every other horror element, until now), the bleeding gnome that gets worse each time you look at it, the clown mask that goes through different faces each time you look (one is a minor jump scare) and the whole basement experience. All in all, it's a lot of scary.

The music doesn't turn off, but the rest of the spooky sounds do. There's a cracking fire sound near the stairs as well as roars and growls down in the basement.

[Meep]

That's the Scream mask. I looked it up after I heard I missed stuff and apparently one of the faces is a copy of the "stoned" Scream mask from the original Scary Movie.

Though given horror's off fixation on the iconography, I can see why you'd assume its a clown.

[dark_haunt]

Ah! Sorry, I mixed up the Scream mask that comes with the house with the clown mask that we got for another Halloween (it's in the shop but fair warning, one of the faces is terrifying). Forget what I said about it being a minor jump scare. The clown mask is worse :D

[kcbrook55]

There is also an old style TV beside stairs showing static. Made me think a bit a bit of the "Poltergeist" movie.

Only things missing from the house would be some skeletons, Ouija board, and a pentagram on the floor.

[Reczberg]

The question about the "spooky things" at the is there as quite many players who're not really into horror stuff asked us for an option to turn off the spooks at the very beginning of the order so we delivered. The decision doesn't affect the variety of items you get in that house!

Cheers!