Game Version: 4.2 (newest)
Platform: (Steam Windows)
Mods: (active)
If you have used mods before, please list them: please check screenshots
Hardware Specifications & Operating System (RTX2060, Intel Core i9):
Steps to Reproduce: Place Halloween basket on property
Please provide the entire save file(s) from the date when the issue occurred.
Details:
Since the previous bug report about the Halloween event not triggering was closed, I’m submitting a new one with updated testing results.
Initial Findings
I placed one trick-or-treat bucket on my property.
The Halloween event notification appeared, but no kids showed up for trick-or-treating.
My Zois were home at the time.
The bucket was filled with treats, but still no children arrived.I tried:
Placing the bucket in different areas on the property (in case fences, doors, or stairs caused issues).
Deleting and replacing the bucket.
Adding multiple buckets (6+).
After placing several buckets, one child finally appeared, but only one.
I tested this in multiple save files, and children only appeared when multiple buckets were placed and replaced after the event. Simply refilling the same bucket did not work the next day.In one instance, a child still appeared even when my Zoi came home around 6 PM. I still couldn’t determine what exactly triggered the event — placing multiple buckets just seemed to help.
Post-Hotfix Testing Results
City: Dowon
(Save file created right after the Halloween update)1st Halloween Event:
One of my two Zois was home.
I was controlling the Zoi who was not home — arrived around 6 PM, and the event still triggered.
One child showed up.
Multiple buckets were placed.
2nd Halloween Event (Next Day):
Both Zois were home.
Event triggered around 5 PM.
Several children appeared, plus two strangers (adults) labeled “landlord.”
City: Bliss Bay
All Zois were home.
Event triggered the first day.
Did not trigger the second day.
Only one child appeared at 5 PM.
Summary of Observations
The Halloween event triggers inconsistently — sometimes once, sometimes not at all.
No clear pattern or factor (mods, bucket placement, number of buckets, day length) seems to guarantee it.
I tested for 4 hours across several save files, toggling mods, changing day length (48 min and 96 min), replacing the buckets and always ensuring Zois were home.
The notification always triggers, but the actual event (kids showing up) often does not.
Additional Feedback
After participating in the event, please allow us to access Halloween decorations across all save files. It’s frustrating to have to recollect them for every family or to only find them available on public lots.
I’m genuinely bummed because the event itself is adorable — the kids’ costumes and animations are fantastic, and it’s a lot of fun when it works. It just doesn’t seem to trigger reliably right now.
Game Version: latest 5.3 Hotfix
Platform: *Steam windows*
Mods: NONE
Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):
Steps to Reproduce: verified files, cleared cache, made sure there was enough space on lot
Hey Devs!
So im positive something is wrong with the in game triggered Halloween Event, it DOES NOT bring any KIDS!
Since Christmas update, the ‘Halloween Basket” does not work, I have DONE all that can be done to get it to work.
Here’s the steps it goes through:
1. Put bucket out
- Pop up message that explains the Halloween Event is Triggered (Since it worked prior to 5.0 update i clicked passed it)
- Fill candy Basket
- Wait until 5pm
- No kids arrive at 5, no Event pop up begins like after initial Halloween Update.
- Wait till 9, still no kids
- Remove bucket and place in a new spot to attempt to trigger kids appearing, no dice
KEEP IN MIND: This is happening simultaneously on 2 devices side by side, both devices are ABOVE minimum requirements to play InZOI, so it is NOT our Hardware.
Basically, any player to begins a new ZOI, could be dealing with a similar issue, trying to GET BACK all the AWESOME HALLOWEEN ITEMS and can’t 
Please investigate this i really really want those items back!!
Thank you always,
Màni
Hi @ManiHrafn ! 
Thanks for sharing! Since this is the same issue with Halloween Event not triggering, I’ve merged your post into the existing known-issue thread to keep everything together. 
Thank you!! Another player UlteriorModem also posted a similar big report 
I did also have a general q&a in case it was intended. Which im guessing now. It wasn’t.
In a new playthrough I used the ‘cheat’ to set Fall in my game. Its currently on one of the farming plots of NE Cahaya.
Put down and filled the candy bucket. Got the dialog explaining how it works.
Three days / nights now. and absolutely no one has come by! I tried emptying, moving, and re-filling the bucket but no one comes.
I should mention that in a previous play through with an apartment in Dowon I had zero issues and collected just about everything!
That might be the reason. For me it stopped after it stated that I had everything from the standard items. I never had the special candy though. After that nobody came anymore even if the bucket was full.
It sounds like we share a similar question. Except in Dowon
After the Dec 2025 update, the trick or treaters would not show.
I triple checked what the Halloween event said to be sure the basket still worked. Did the same thing you did, but nothing worked to trigger the kids.
Mind you, I had started a brand new Zoi for the Christmas update, got to fall and went to collect the Halloween event items for my new Zoi, alas no kids.
I posted a question about it under Q&A, also made sure to post a screenshot of what the Halloween event said. Since I had made many zois AFTER, the initial Halloween event had ended, with zero issues on re-collecting the Halloween items from the In-game basket event.
Asked only to be sure it wasn’t intended during the Christmas event ending Jan 31 2026, maybe they canceled one another out? Idk
Super glad I saw this report and can comment on it. Merge our issues.
Hi @ulteriormodem !
Thanks for sharing! Since this is the same issue with Halloween Event not triggering, I’ve merged your post into the existing known-issue thread to keep everything together.
Thank you for all your hard work!!! Didn’t even notice the q&a was merged till today lol!! xD
InZOI is addicting!!! \(^-^)/
Really hope it can be fixed in a later hotfix! My macabre heart is so sad 
Bug is still active, even though christmas event has ended. NO kids spawn at all now.