MapleStory collab in Taiwan: one server, four rewards
✍️ Alice・愛麗沙
Decide two things first: which server, and which character claims. Every one of the five events says “per server, once per server, one character on the server reaching the goal is enough” — but the character-bound items go into the bag of whoever presses claim and cannot be moved to another character. The prize draw also requires all four linked events to be finished on the same server and the named rewards actually claimed. The four named rewards: 10 days’ attendance (Mushroom Baby hat), 600 seconds of instrument play (Pink Bean doll), 96 daily challenges (Middle-Part Warrior doll), 7 Slime Dash clears (Cute-Head Warrior doll). Only the 96 daily challenges is under time pressure: at six a day it takes 16 days, so start by 10/5. On spending: the ordinary fashion and pet tickets the events hand out cannot open the collab boxes. One chosen Pink Bean piece averages 78.8 opens, about 9,600 M Coins (≈ NT$2,100); all four pieces for one gender average 191 opens, about 30,400 M Coins. The two collab pets carry no title. The Pink Bean outfit only becomes dyeable at the 10/7 maintenance — if you are buying, look at the dye regions after 10/7 first; tickets and pity both last to 10/21 05:59, so waiting a week costs you nothing.
Five events, one prize draw, one photo booth: all 9/30 06:00 to 10/21 05:59
| Event | What to do | Named reward (draw condition) | Everything else |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erinn’s Golden Carriage | 10 days’ attendance (logging in counts; resets 06:00) | Day 10: Mushroom Baby hat (rare; no alchemy, no dye) | 200,000 gold, 10 fashion tickets, 5 pet tickets, 3 dyes, 1 epic + 3 elite + 7 rare + 10 high-grade alchemy catalysts, 200 rune fragments and more |
| Cycle of Maple Plenty | 8 to 112 daily challenges (membership dailies count) | 96: Middle-Part Warrior doll + 30 cores | 57 surprise gift boxes across the other 13 steps |
| Maple Campfire Stories | Sit by the fire, play an instrument, use the campfire kit, cook | 600 s of instrument play: Pink Bean doll | 30 cores, 6 camping DIY packs, 2 elite food choice boxes |
| Boing! Boing! Slime Dungeon! | Slime Dash, hunting-ground clears, Black Hole purges | 7 Slime Dash clears: Cute-Head Warrior doll + 30 cores | 15 fashion tickets, 700 rune fragments, 6 enhancement catalysts, 200,000 gold and more |
| Abyss: Call of Hell 2 | 8 Abyss tasks | (not a draw condition) | 280,000 gold, 950 rune fragments, 3 elite catalysts and more |
| Prize draw | The four named rewards above, claimed on one server | — | Flights to Korea for two + two MapleStory theme-park tickets at Lotte World Busan, one winner |
| Photo booth | Between Tir Chonaill’s grocery and general store | — | Two MapleStory frames |
The last column is this site’s sum of each ladder (for example the carriage gold = 50,000 on day 1 + 100,000 on day 5 + 50,000 on day 9).
Order: which one can run out of time, which one is a single sitting
| Event | Named condition | Named reward | Minimum time | Last day to start | Draw entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 愛爾琳的黃金馬車 | 10 days of attendance (logging in counts; resets 06:00) | 菇菇寶貝笠帽 | 10 days | 10/11 | ✓ |
| 楓葉豐饒的循環 | 96 daily challenges (membership dailies count) | 中分頭勇士變身人偶 | 16 days (6 a day) | 10/5 | ✓ |
| 楓葉營火故事 | 600 seconds of instrument play in total (counted when the action ends) | 粉豆變身人偶 | 10 min (one day) | 10/20 | ✓ |
| 蹦！蹦！綠水靈地下城！ | 7 Slime Dash clears (2 minutes each) | 可愛頭勇士變身人偶 | about 14 min (one day) | 10/20 | ✓ |
| 深淵．地獄之召2 | Abyss weekly reward twice + one clear each from Beginner to Hell 1, 8 tasks in all | 菁英鍊金術再燃燒催化劑 3（共計） | 2 weekly resets (Mon 06:00) | 10/12 | — |
Counted back from the 10/21 05:59 close: the last game day is 10/20 (resets at 06:00). The 6-a-day daily-challenge pace is not official — one Taiwanese player's day-one report; Korea's identical ladder reached 112 in 14 days, about 8 a day with memberships.
- Campfire and Slime Dash are one sitting each: 600 s of play is 10 minutes, a Dash round is 2 minutes, seven rounds about 14. Do them on day one. The campfire notice says progress registers when the action ends — a performance cut off by a map change may not count, so play in finished stretches.
- Golden Carriage only needs logins; starting as late as 10/11 still works. Its one risk is who claims — rewards go to the bag of the character logged in when you press claim.
- 96 daily challenges is the only real risk. Nexon does not say how many dailies a day are available; a Taiwanese player’s day-one report is six. That is 16 days, so every day from 10/5 at the latest; the 112 step needs 19 days, so 10/2 — today — is its last start day.
- Call of Hell 2’s “Abyss weekly reward twice” runs on the weekly reset (Monday 06:00). The event spans four weeks (9/30, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19), so the week of 10/12 is the latest start.
Details: cores, tokens, gift boxes
The three dolls share one fuel. The Pink Bean, Middle-Part Warrior and Cute-Head Warrior dolls are permanent, but each transformation burns one Transformation Core, lasts 15 minutes, works in towns only, blocks interaction, and ends if you travel by minimap. The event hands out 90 cores (30 for sitting by the fire, 30 for 7 Dash clears, 30 at 96 dailies) — 22.5 hours of transformation. Dolls cannot go in shared storage, so whoever claims a doll is the character who will wear it.
Slime Dash tokens are the event’s own economy: 2-minute rounds, one token per 10 points, shareable across the server through shared storage, and the tokens and everything bought with them expire at 10/21 05:59. All 13 shop items cost 343 tokens (3,430 points). They only matter inside Slime Dash, and the event only asks for 7 clears — the token shop has no effect on any reward. If the doll is all you want, the 3-token Blade Smash unlock is plenty.
Surprise gift boxes (57 of them) each give one of twelve results at set odds, best one epic alchemy catalyst, worst 20,000 gold; the event notice does not print the odds.
Abyss: Call of Hell 2 — same weeks, separate ledger
| Task | Reward |
|---|---|
| Defeat 1,000 monsters | 30,000 gold, 100 spirit traces |
| Attempt engraving enhancement 3 times | 30,000 gold, 5 high-grade alchemy catalysts |
| Clear deep dungeons 10 times | 200 rune fragments, 3 rare catalysts |
| Earn the Abyss weekly reward twice | 30,000 gold, 250 rune fragments, 1 elite catalyst |
| Clear Abyss Beginner once | 30,000 gold, 5 curse-removal potions |
| Clear Abyss Hard once | 30,000 gold, 2 elite catalysts |
| Clear Abyss Very Hard once | 30,000 gold, 5 rune reset prisms |
| Clear Abyss Hell 1 once | 100,000 gold, 500 rune fragments |
In all: 280,000 gold, 950 rune fragments, 3 elite catalysts. The last four rows ask for one clear at each difficulty, not your highest — players already running Hell still have to go back for Beginner, Hard and Very Hard once each, the row most people miss.
Shop: what one collab ticket costs
| Product | M Coins | NT$ | Fashion tickets | Pet tickets | M Coins per ticket | Limit | Shared storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 歡迎楓之谷聯名套組 | 330 | ≈ 72 | 10 | 0 | 33 | 1 per server | yes (as a box) |
| 楓之谷聯名套組 I | 1,900 | ≈ 413 | 20 | 0 | 95 | 2 per character | no |
| 楓之谷聯名套組 II | 2,200 | ≈ 478 | 0 | 20 | 110 | 2 per character | yes (as a box) |
| 楓之谷聯名套組 III | 3,300 | ≈ 717 | 20 | 20 | 82.5 | 3 per server per month | yes (as a box) |
| 楓之谷聯名套組 IV | 6,600 | ≈ 1,435 | 30 | 30 | 110 | 3 per server per month | yes (as a box) |
| 楓之谷聯名時裝票券（單張） | 200 | ≈ 43 | 1 | 0 | 200 | none | no |
| 楓之谷聯名寵物票券（單張） | 300 | ≈ 65 | 0 | 1 | 300 | none | no |
NT$ at 4.6 M Coins per NT$1 (Apple TW price list, every tier but the smallest). "M Coins per ticket" treats fashion and pet tickets as equal and ignores the hat box and catalysts. Source: Nexon TW's 9/30 bundle notice; the welcome bundle and bundles II–IV can go into shared storage while still boxed, the tickets themselves cannot.
- The welcome bundle is 33 M Coins a ticket; every other route is 95 or more. For a ten-open look, it is enough.
- Bundles I and II are limited per character, and I cannot go into shared storage — log in on the character who will open before buying.
- Bundle IV’s tickets cost more than singles (110 mixed, 220 counting fashion only). Its point is the 2 epic + 6 elite catalysts, and the same-period “Rekindled Flame” step bundle 4 gives 2 epic catalysts plus an elite emblem-rune choice box for 3,300 M Coins.
The hat choice box in bundles I and II is one of three — Confident Slime hat, Cheerful Pink Bean hat, Snug Pepe King hat — none can be dyed or alchemised.
Lucky boxes: how many opens for one chosen Pink Bean piece
Rates (Taiwan official probability page, 9/30): each Pink Bean piece 0.5% — male: knight helmet, suit, bracelet, starlight boots; female swaps the suit for a dress; four per gender — and each collab pet 0.5%. Pity: a collab fashion choice box every 100 fashion opens, a collab pet basket (one of the two pets) every 200 pet opens.
| Target | Rate per open × items | Pity every (opens) | Expected opens | Most opens | Expected M Coins | Expected NT$ | Worst case M Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one chosen Pink Bean piece | 0.5% × 1 | 100 | 78.8 | 100 | 9,645 | ≈ 2,097 | 12,730 (≈ NT$2,767) |
| full 4-piece Pink Bean set (one gender) | 0.5% × 4 | 100 | 191.2 | 400 | 30,416 | ≈ 6,612 | 72,030 (≈ NT$15,659) |
| one chosen collab pet | 0.5% × 1 | 200 | 126.6 | 200 | 22,297 | ≈ 4,847 | 37,100 (≈ NT$8,065) |
| both collab pets | 0.5% × 2 | 200 | 183.6 | 400 | 35,179 | ≈ 7,648 | 97,100 (≈ NT$21,109) |
Rates: Taiwan NEXON NOW probability page (read 9/30) — each Pink Bean piece 0.5% (4 pieces per gender), each collab pet 0.5%. Pity: every 100 fashion opens gives a collab fashion choice box, every 200 pet opens a collab pet basket (pick one of two); the table assumes the choice box lets you pick the missing piece. M Coins are the cheapest mix that reaches that many opens (whole bundles, singles for the remainder); per-ticket prices: fashion — welcome bundle 33, bundle I 95, III 165, single 200, IV 220; pet — bundle II 110, III 165, IV 220, single 300 (the other ticket type in a mixed bundle counted as worth 0). Bundles I/II are per character, the rest per server.
Check the first row yourself: the chance a chosen piece fails to appear in 99 opens is 0.995⁹⁹ ≈ 60.9% — six readers in ten get it from the 100th-open choice box, not from luck. Expected opens = (1 − 0.995¹⁰⁰) ÷ 0.005 = 78.8. Pets: (1 − 0.995²⁰⁰) ÷ 0.005 = 126.6, and 0.995¹⁹⁹ ≈ 36.9% go all the way to 200.
So the budget that matters is the pity line, not the average: one chosen piece at most 100 opens ≈ 12,730 M Coins (≈ NT$2,770), one chosen pet at most 200 opens ≈ 37,100 M Coins (≈ NT$8,070).
One assumption: the notice does not list the fashion choice box’s contents. The table assumes it lets you pick the missing Pink Bean piece; if it does not, the full-set row falls back to the no-pity figure (about 416 opens on average).
- The 100th open gives only the 100 reward, not the 50 one on top.
- Counters reset when the shop closes; tickets expire 10/21 05:59.
- Pity belongs to this box — it is not shared with the premium pet box or the standing fashion box.
Dyeing the Pink Bean outfit: until 10/7 it cannot be dyed
At launch the lucky-box notice said collab fashion cannot be dyed. A 14:35 update the same day and a separate notice said the Pink Bean outfit becomes dyeable at the 10/7 (Wed) maintenance, regions and colours “to be checked in game”. So do not open boxes before 10/7 planning to dye later — if only one region opens up, you still own a pink outfit. Two weeks remain after 10/7. The Mushroom Baby hat and the three choice-box hats are still listed as no dye, no alchemy.
Three common mistakes
“The carriage’s fashion and pet tickets open the collab boxes.” They do not. The box price is “one MapleStory collab fashion ticket”, and the notice even rules out premium tickets.
“The collab pets carry a permanent title like other epics.” They do not; the notice says no title comes with them, and they cannot be traded, sold or stored.
“Finishing the four events is the draw entry.” You must claim the named rewards, on one server. One entry per server; one win per person in principle.
What Korea learned
Korea ran the same collab from 2026-03-12 to 03-26, but much smaller — Korean players called it a “mini collab”. Side by side:
| Item | Korea 3/12–3/26 (2 weeks) | Taiwan 9/30–10/21 (3 weeks) |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Carriage | 7 days’ attendance, day 7 an Orange Mushroom hat | 10 days, day 10 the Mushroom Baby hat |
| Daily-challenge ladder | 8–112, the Middle-Part Warrior doll at 96 | same |
| Campfire | 600 s of play for the Pink Bean doll | same |
| Slime minigame | 10 clears for the Cute-Head Warrior doll | 7 clears |
| Fashion lucky box | none — the only collab fashion was three rare hats | Pink Bean outfit (epic) + choice-box pity |
| Pet lucky box | Happy Mushroom Raccoon and Ice Pepe & Baby Bear, pity 50/100/150/200 | Happy Pink Bean Cat and Pepe King & Bear, same pity |
| Abyss | no collab-branded Abyss event | Call of Hell 2 |
Five lessons to carry over:
- The spending consensus was “buy nothing”. The most-upvoted post on arca was an ironic “value package list” whose answer was none. The pets were mocked as recoloured old models with no title and a 200-open pity called a rip-off — though on stats alone the raccoon still rated among the top two epics. Taiwan swapped the raccoon for the Pink Bean cat; the Korean reaction on 9/30 was “we never had that cat”.
- The pet box’s pity counter is shared across the server. Korean players reported opening on alts and the count carrying on; Taiwan’s notice sends the pity rewards to the “server mailbox”, the same design. That makes the per-character bundle II worth a second look: buy it twice on each character and every ticket feeds the same pity. Taiwan’s notice does not say this outright — it is this site’s inference from the Korean reports and the server mailbox.
- The slime minigame counts clears, not scores. Korean players report that dying counts as a clear: take your armour off, stand in the blue slime, about 40 seconds a round; quitting does not count. The minigame costs gear durability, which is a second reason to strip. On the hunting-ground row, a double-loot entry counts twice (Taiwan’s notice says so too), and Korean players finished 20 by entering on double loot and leaving at once, ten times — nobody has reported testing that on Taiwan yet.
- Dolls: most Korean guilds sold every doll except Pink Bean. Taiwan’s draw is settled after the event “from the system’s claim records”, so in theory claiming is what counts — but to be safe, do not sell before 10/21.
- Korea never had the Pink Bean outfit. So Taiwan’s fashion box, the fashion choice box’s contents and the 10/7 dye change have no Korean precedent. Korean players called Taiwan’s set reused parts and “epic gacha you can’t dye” — the 10/7 change lands squarely on that complaint.
Do now, ignore, and what would change this page
Do now: pick the server and claiming character; today, finish 600 s of play, 300 s by the fire and 7 Dash clears (about half an hour — dying counts as a clear, and stripping armour saves durability); if you will open pet boxes, open one and check on an alt whether the pity count carries before deciding which characters buy bundle II; do your dailies every day — 10/5 is the last start for 96; add one Beginner, Hard and Very Hard Abyss clear in your weekly run.
Ignore: the + and ++ token-shop items (score only), bundle IV as a ticket source, single tickets.
Wait: the Pink Bean box decision until you see the dye regions after 10/7.
What would change this: if the fashion choice box turns out not to offer Pink Bean pieces, the full-set expectation must be redone; an extension moves the whole last-start table; if the daily-challenge pace is not six a day (eight or more with memberships), the 96 deadline moves later.