The Halloween event typically starts on October 25, with the exact time indicated in your calendar. 

Earning Treats:

• You receive treats for defeating players. 

• Defends don’t earn treats. 

• The base chance for receiving treats is 35% and increases by +5% with each basket upgrade, up to a max of 80%; and can increase by +20% when using scary outfit and weapon (non-stackable AND having unlocked their perks).

• On average, you receive 1.5 treats per attack. You can earn 1 to 120, or 1000 treats at once in the same attack, the odds of more treats increase with better basket upgrades. For more details on the number of treats per attack, check this post. 

• The level of the target, their stats, the outcome (leave, mug, hospitalize) don’t impact the chances of receiving treats.

Obtaining a Basket: 

Baskets become available to purchase starting at 12 TCT on the day the event starts. Purchase a basket from Sally’s Sweet Shop for $35 (1k baskets are restocked every 5 minutes). You can still buy a basket after having met the 100 daily city shop purchase limit. The basket is a permanent item and upgrades carry over every year. 

Halloween Basket Upgrades:  

• Spooky: 0 treats, 0 total

• Creepy: 5 treats, 5 total

• Freaky: 10 treats, 15 total

• Frightful: 25 treats, 40 total

• Haunting: 50 treats, 90 total

• Shocking: 100 treats, 190 total

• Terrifying: 250 treats, 440 total

• Horrifying: 500 treats, 940 total

• Petrifying: 1000 treats, 1940 total

• Nightmarish: 2500 treats, 4440 total

• Apocalyptic: Only obtained by summoning M’aol

Note: The basket upgrades automatically after you’ve earned the number of treats listed. 

Honors:

• Phantastic - Upgrade your Halloween Basket to Frightful

• Something Humerus - Upgrade your Halloween Basket to Terrifying 

• Oh My Gourd! - Upgrade your Halloween Basket to Nightmarish

Perks to unlock: (in order) 

Notes:
Step 7 to 8 takes approximately an entire event’s worth of attacking. 

The 1100 treats gained when unlocking #8 count towards the basket upgrade progression. 

Unlock order: 

1. I See Dead People – 3 treats (3 total) – +10% chance of receiving a treat when wearing scary clothing

2. Here’s Johnny – 5 treats (8 total) – +10% chance of receiving a treat when ending with a scary weapon

3. Doubler – 25 treats (33 total) – 20% chance of doubling treats after an attack

4. Tripler – 50 treats (83 total) – 10% chance of tripling treats after an attack

5. Quadrupler – 75 treats (158 total) – 5% chance of quadrupling treats after an attack

6. Cat in Hell – 13 treats (171 total) – 1 in 500,000 chance per attack of instantly receiving 1,000 treats

7. Quintupler – 100 treats (271 total) – 1% chance of quintupling treats after an attack

8. Shadow Of Doubt – 1000 treats (1271 total) – Immediately grants 1,100 treats

9. Multipack – 180 treats (1451 total) – 2% chance consumables upgrade to multipacks on exchange

10. Deal With The Devil – 320 treats (1771 total) – 3% chance consumables upgrade to boosters/specials on exchange

11. Dark Power – 285 treats (2056 total) – +5 energy per treat exchanged

12. Freebie – 120 treats (2176 total) – +1 consumable and +1 treat per 10 exchanged

13. Bloody Mary – 15 treats (2191 total) – Unlocks medium-tier alcohol (Bottle of Wicked Witch)

14. Nice Chianti – 30 treats (2221 total) – Unlocks high-tier alcohol (Bottle of Stinky Swamp Punch)

15. Nightcrawler – 45 treats (2266 total) – Unlocks medium-tier energy drink (Can of Munster)

16. It’s Alive – 90 treats (2356 total) – Unlocks high-tier energy drink (Can of Red Cow)

17. Cashback – 230 treats (2586 total) – Refunds 10% of exchanged treats

18. Candyman – 5 treats (2591 total) – Unlocks medium-tier candy (Bag of Bloody Eyeballs)

19. Sweet Release – 10 treats (2601 total) – Unlocks high-tier candy (Bag of Chocolate Truffles)

20. Cold Sweat – 170 treats (2771 total) – +1 nerve per treat exchanged

21. Exchange all treats from here! Exchange 180 treats (or less) -- make sure you have no energy when you do (since you get 5 energy per treat, and 1 treat for every 10 exchanged; 180 exchanged treats effectively provides the equivalent of 200 exchanged treats and 1,000 energy, which is the max energy you can hold at any given time)

Important Note: Treats carry over every year. Don't click 'exchange all treats' at the end of the event till you've finished the other upgrades. 

Finding Targets to Attack:

• Use FF Scouter to estimate if the target will be easy to defeat. 

• Donator status gives access to Advanced Search, search for inactive players to defeat.

• Claim bounties 

Obtaining Energy:

• Xanax

• Point Refills 

• Energy Drinks

• Featherly Hotel Coupon 

• Green Easter Eggs

• Seasonal Newsletter’s +250 Energy 

• Revitalize RW weapon (19%+ or lower percentages with better baskets). Check this post for more. 

• Donator or subscriber status to increase energy regain

• Limit travel to not be hospitalized abroad (people will be attacking a lot!)

• Company Perks (Note: you can only exchange 100 job points max per day in energy providing perks - doesn't apply for E-drinks):
  • 7* Candle Shop: 5E for 1 jp
  • 10* Farm: 7E for 1 jp
  • 1* Furniture Store: 3E for 1jp
  • 10* Game Shop: 5E for 1 jp (plus 1 nerve and 50H)
  • 1* Pub: 3E for 1 jp
  • 1* Restaurant: 3E for 1 jp
  • 10* Grocery Store: 1 premium E-drink for 12 jp
  • 10* Sweet Shop: 1 premium E-drink for 15 jp 

• Helpful Books:

  • Book : Higher Daddy, Higher! Provides = +20% energy regeneration for 31 days.

  • Book : Fuelling Your Way To Failure = Doubles energy drink effects for 31 days.

  • Book : Ugly Energy = Increases maximum energy (including energy refills) to 250 for 31 days (Pair this with FHCs!)

Why Participate?

Halloween is a very profitable event in the long run. After you have maxed the recommended upgrades, you are likely to make around $40m profits per 10 attacks (1 xanax). You also earn xp that contributes towards leveling up. Try to chain when attacking, which gives the faction respect! 

Scary Clothes: 

• Kabuki Mask 
• Ginger Kid Mask
• Scarred Man Mask
• Psycho Clown Mask
• Nun Mask
• Bloody Apron
• Head Bandage
• Medieval Helmet 

Scary Weapons:

• Axe
• Chainsaw
• Bone Saw

 !! The last hit needs to be using one of these weapons !!

Note: The listed weapons and clothes only include ones that cost less than $10m as of September 2025. The “I See Dead People” effect doesn’t stack with wearing multiple spooky clothes. 

For a full list of clothes, check out the wiki: https://wiki.torn.com/wiki/Trick_or_Treat 

Summoned NPC Guide & Treat Loot Boxes

Guide by IceBlueFire

Sources:

Trick Or Treat Torn Wiki 

Trick or Treat Upgrades Guide 1-4 Years by Smokey123 

The 2025 Guide to Halloween Guides by Indefatigable

Halloween Trick or Treat Guide by IceBlueFire

All Aboard the Halloween Hype Train! by Andyman

Updates

2026 Halloween 

Weapons were removed as part of Travel 2.0 changes. Traveling with weapons is officially back when traveling (Source).

You can also take items from torn with you. 

When chasing the NPCs, take the Crystalline Falcata and Halloween temps if you plan to use them, as well as medical items, for the bare minimum, or buy medical items abroad. Take a Xanax too if your cooldown will end before landing.