Before you start: when Halloween items are available#
Halloween decorations are only sold while the Halloween update is live. It comes back every autumn, and it has landed in the first half of October for the last four years:
| Year | Update | Items arrived | Items removed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3.0 | October 9 | November 10 |
| 2024 | 0.13.1 | October 3 | November |
| 2023 | 0.12.0 | October 5 | November |
| 2022 | 0.11.0 | October 7 | November |
So plan the house now and do the decorating the week it drops. You can build the shell, the landscaping and the lighting at any time of year, since none of that needs event items.
Keep what you buy. Once the event ends you can no longer buy Halloween items, but you do not lose the ones you own. Leave them placed on your plot or put them in your inventory before the event is over and they stay yours for next year.
1. The cozy autumn house#
The easiest direction to live in after October. It is a normal family house with warm wood, orange trees and pumpkins, rather than anything scary. iKotori's cozy autumn build is a good example of how far a few seasonal items go on an ordinary house.
Items that do the work
- Rough Autumn Tree ($225). The single biggest change you can make. Swapping green trees for orange ones turns the whole plot autumn from the road.
- Stacked Pumpkins ($230) and Tabletop Pumpkins ($180) for porches and steps.
- Fall Leaf Wreath ($150) on the front door, and Paper Leaves Garland ($165) inside.
- Pumpkin Pillow ($180) and Fall Leaves Pillow ($90) to carry it onto the sofas.
2. The Victorian haunted house#
Tall, narrow, dark, with a turret or two and a graveyard out front. Cee_berry's Victorian Halloween house shows the shape well: steep roofs and a lot of height do most of the spooky work before a single decoration goes down.
Items that do the work
- Gravestone ($240). It can be resized with the Scale tool, so a row of slightly different sizes looks far more real than identical copies.
- Spider Web and Abandoned Spider Web ($300 each) in corners and doorways.
- Hanging Bat ($300) under the porch roof.
- Emerging Skeleton ($590) coming out of the ground in the graveyard.
- From the ticket shop: Crow Branch and the Helen Von Vlox Cemetery Statue.
Keep the palette to dark wood, deep purple or black trim, and very little light outside. The contrast of a couple of lit windows against a dark house is what sells it.
3. The witch's cottage#
Small, crooked, overgrown, with a cauldron in the garden. It suits a small plot and a small budget better than any other idea here. iKotori built one as a two-part speedbuild.
Items that do the work
- Empty Cauldron ($400, resizable) as the centrepiece of the garden, or the Candy Cauldron ($235) by the door.
- Floating Witch Hat Lamp ($170) and Skull Candle ($180) inside.
- From the ticket shop: Potion Bottle, Potion Crafting Book, Floating Candles, Garden Witch, and the Spooky Tree and Spooky Bush for the garden.
4. The trick-or-treat family house#
A friendly house that is decorated for the neighbours rather than for scares. This one has a practical reason too. During the 2025 event every house was a trick-or-treat stop at its mailbox, and each time another player trick-or-treated at yours you earned 10 Halloween Tickets. A house people actually want to walk up to is a house that earns.
Items that do the work
- Halloween Candy Bowl, Eye Candy Bowl or Spider Candy Bowl ($165) at the end of the path.
- Jack-o-Lantern and Sinister Jack-o-Lantern ($120, resizable) lining the path to the mailbox.
- Pumpkin String Lights ($130) and Ghost String Lights ($120) along the roofline.
- Pumpkin Scarecrow ($750) on the lawn.
- From the ticket shop: the Halloween Archway over the path, and inflatables like the Giant Inflatable Pumpkin or Inflatable Skeleton.
Put the decorations where a visitor walks, not scattered around the back garden. The path from the road to the mailbox is the part everybody sees.
5. The dark house at night#
Less about props, more about lighting. A dark exterior, warm windows and a few glowing pumpkins look far scarier after dark than anything placed in daylight. iKotori's spooky night house is almost entirely lighting.
Press B in Build Mode to change the time of day you are building in. It does not change the real time, only what you see, so you can place and check every light at night without waiting for the sun to go down.
6. A whole Halloween street#
If you run a neighborhood for roleplay, you can go bigger than one house. Maja has been building an entire Halloween fall town as a series, starting with the layout.
Neighborhoods also have time, weather and ground colour override settings, added in the 2021 Halloween update, so the whole server can sit in a permanent autumn night while you play.
Tips that apply to every idea#
- Resize, do not repeat. Pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, gravestones and cauldrons can all be resized with the Scale tool, which needs the Advanced Placing gamepass. Mixed sizes look natural; twenty identical pumpkins look placed.
- Budget for tickets, not just money. Most of the showpieces, like animatronics, inflatables, coffin furniture and neon signs, are bought with Halloween Tickets. Start earning tickets on day one.
- Autumn first, Halloween second. Orange trees, wreaths and pumpkins can stay up until November. Skeletons and graves look odd by then. Building the autumn layer first means the house still works when you take the scary layer down.
- Undo instead of selling. Build Mode refunds 100% of an item removed with undo, 95% if you sell it in the same session, and only 70% after that. Experiment freely, then undo.
Bloxburg Builds makes finished Welcome to Bloxburg houses, cafes and estates, and places them on players' own plots for anyone who would rather skip the days in Build Mode. You do not need us to use anything on this page, though. The guides are free, they stay free, and lots of readers use them to build everything themselves. If you ever want a head start, these are a few of ours that fit this guide.
Builds that suit Halloween decor
See all- Twin Turret EstateA grand Victorian-style estate home featuring twin turret towers, rich wood interiors, multiple furnished bedrooms, formal living spaces, and detailed traditional landscaping.$18.99Plot cost $1,375,400
- Blackthorn HallA large, highly detailed black-and-white luxury mansion with dramatic interiors, spacious family living areas, extensive entertaining spaces, and a large backyard built for both family and roleplay.$16.99Plot cost $1,168,800
Fall CafeBring a cozy fall atmosphere to your Bloxburg plot with this warm two-story cafe featuring seasonal decor, multiple seating areas, a service counter, and a fully equipped kitchen.$2.99Plot cost $113,257
Autumnbrook Bakehouse🍰 Welcome to Bloxburg: Autumnbrook Bakehouse | Cozy Café & Garden A warm countryside café and bakery surrounded by landscaped ponds, autumn trees, outdoor dining areas, and a charming garden atmosphere.$7.99Plot cost $245,000
Black Gable MansionA massive family mansion featuring a striking white-and-black exterior, dramatic gabled architecture, numerous furnished bedrooms, children's spaces, and expansive living areas throughout. NOTE: This build has 2 unfurnished rooms.$10.99Plot cost $951,600
Sources#
Item names and prices come from the Welcome to Bloxburg Wiki's Halloween and seasonal item lists, and event dates and ticket details from its changelog and 2025 event page. Prices can change between events, so check the in-game catalog when the update lands. The videos are by the creators named under each one and are embedded from YouTube.