Special Occasions

Special Occasions occur at various times throughout the year in My Singing Monsters. These events only last for a specified period of time and usually correlate with a real-world holiday. The duration of each special occasion usually lasts about a month around the specific holiday. Currently, there are five known holiday celebrations in the game: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Summer. Although it does not correspond to any real-world holiday, another special event, the game's anniversary, is celebrated during the Anniversary Month Celebration.

During Special Occasions, unique and elusive Seasonal Monsters as well as their Rare versions are available to buy or breed. After the holiday is over, any Seasonal Monsters the player obtained will stay on their respective island(s), but no more can be bred.

Another feature of Special Occasions is unique decorations. For the five holidays that correspond to a real-world holiday, one of the five Natural Islands will be decorated for their particular holiday, including all Obstacles. There are often decorations around the rim of the island, changes in the lighting and color scheme, and even different ambient sounds. For the Halloween and Christmas holidays, monsters may also wear costumes. If any type of monster wears a costume, the entirety of that species, regardless of island, gets spruced up. In other words, a dressed up Noggin on Plant Island will also be dressed up on Earth Island and so will the Rare Noggin. Costuming even carries over to Shugabush Island, Gold Island, Ethereal Island, Tribal Island, the Mirror Islands, and Composer Island, all of which do not have any real-world correlating holidays of their own. However, as part of the Anniversary Month Celebration, Gold Island is adorned with Anniversary decorations. Wublin Island remains the only island not to be affected by costume or holiday.

This page lists every change that occurs during all of the above cited festivities, including minor details such as new icons in the Map or different Obstacle types as well as their dates.

Halloween
The spooky special occasion of Halloween is usually celebrated during the month of October, centered on Plant Island. During this time, the Punkleton and the Rare Punkleton are available to buy or breed. The dates of the past Halloween celebrations are as follows:
 * For 2012, the Halloween season was from October 23rd to October 31st.
 * For 2013, the Halloween season was from October 9th to November 4th.
 * For 2014, the Halloween season was from about October 16th to November 4th.
 * For 2015, the Halloween season was from October 15th to November 3rd.
 * For 2016, the Halloween season was from October 14th to November 1st.

All of the following monsters (except for the Punkleton and its Rare version) dress up in costume, regardless of island origin. Their changes are listed below.

Other Changes
In addition to the object changes shown in the table below, the island background and sky change.

A small bat flies across the sky periodically and a ghost can be seen off to the edges of the island every so often.

Moreover, the Plant Island soundtrack (coming from the castle? the new noises do not seem to emanate from any monster) has added periodic high-pitched squeaks/chirps (perhaps the bat's noises as it flits about?)

These changes only affect the main Plant Island and do not apply to its Mirror Island. For Mirror Plant Island, the only change that occurs during the Halloween celebration, excluding monster changes, is the modified Obstacles.

Christmas
The cheery special occasion of Christmas is usually celebrated during the month of December, centered on Cold Island. During this time, the Yool is available to buy or breed. The dates of the past Christmas celebrations are as follows:
 * For 2012, the Christmas season was from December 5th to January 2nd.
 * For 2013, the Christmas season was from December 10th to January 6th.
 * For 2014, the Christmas season was from December 5th to January 5th.
 * For 2015, the Christmas season was from about December 2nd to some time in January.
 * For 2016, the Christmas season was from December 2nd to TBA.

All of the following monsters (except for the Yool) dress up in costume, regardless of island origin. Their changes are listed below.

Other Changes
In addition to the object changes shown in the table below, the island background and sky change.

Valentine's Day
The lovely special occasion of Valentine's Day is usually celebrated during the month of February, centered on Air Island. During this time, the Schmoochle is available to buy or breed. The dates of the past Valentine's Day celebrations are as follows:
 * For 2013, the Valentine's season was from February 5th to February 15th.
 * For 2014, the Valentine's season was from January 29th to February 26th.
 * For 2015, the Valentine's season was from January 29th to February 19th.
 * For 2016, the Valentine's season was from January 30th to February 16th.

Although a special holiday, no monsters dress up in costume.

Other Changes
In addition to the object changes shown in the table below, the island background and sky change.

The descriptions of the Obstacles purchased in the Market change depending on whether the obstacle is a tree or rock:
 * Tree:
 * Every February, Air Island's yucka tree thistles take on the rosy hue of love and whisper romantic poetry to each other by rustling their branches.


 * Rock:
 * Even the rocks are trying to break in to the love scene... I'm told no pebble can resist a good 'boulder smoulder."

Easter
The special occasion of Easter is usually celebrated in the spring, on the first Sunday after the full moon following the March equinox. It is centered on Water Island. During this time, the Blabbit is available to buy or breed. The dates of the past Easter celebrations are as follows:
 * For 2013, the Easter season was from March 14th to April 1st.
 * For 2014, the Easter season was from April 8th to April 22nd.
 * For 2015, the Easter season was from March 21st to April 7th.
 * For 2016, the Easter season was from March 11th to March 30th.

Other Changes
In addition to the object changes shown in the table below, the island background and sky change.

The descriptions of the Obstacles purchased in the Market change depending on whether the obstacle is a tree or rock:
 * Tree:
 * Looks like the Blabbit's handiwork. I wonder if the monsters that will one day hatch from these eggs will be colorful as well?


 * Rock:
 * Many theories exist to explain the origin of these strange statues. Some suggest that they were deposited by some anicent [sic] race of monsters. Others contend that they depict the famous Shellbeat musician Gene Krabba. I guess we'll never know for sure.

Summer
The hot special occasion of Summer is usually celebrated in the month of July and/or August, centered on Earth Island (and also a little bit on Air Island, as well). During this time, the Hoola and the Rare Hoola is available to buy or breed. The dates of the past Summer celebrations are as follows:
 * For 2013, the Summer season was from July 16th to August 19th.
 * For 2014, the Summer season was from July 9th to August 14th.
 * For 2015, the Summer season was from July 15th to August 19th.
 * For 2016, the Summer season was from July 15th to August 15th.

Other Changes
In addition to the object changes shown in the table below, the island background and sky change.

Not only does Earth Island theme into a more summer-like look, as seen through the obstacles and the island itself, it also renames the obstacles to "[size] Summer [obstacle type]".

Anniversary
In September, festivities begin on Gold Island to celebrate the anniversary of the game itself. In 2014, the celebrations were composed of weekly discounts in various game mechanics, some of those currently unique to the celebration. The page Anniversary Month Celebration was created to cover said discounts. The Gold Island was decorated with pennants and balloons around its rim.
 * On every anniversary season, the loading screen changes its look.
 * In 2013, even though Gold Island was not decorated, MSM celebrated its anniversary with the release of Update 1.2.0, that brought with it the Ethereal Island and many other changes.

In addition, the festivities marked the release of many features, only available to app players, and not available to PC players, including:

In 2015, the start screen included a Rare Quarrister and a Rare PomPom, which replaced the common Quarrister and PomPom seen in 2014's start screen.
 * New Rare Monsters, which appear every weekend on sale or by breeding.
 * An available upgrade to the Breeding Structure and the Nursery, which reduces waiting times by 25%.
 * A new available Structure, the Maximum Mine, a remake of the original Mine.
 * Availability of the Wubbox in the Ethereal Island.