Expansion Packs
An Expansion Pack is a small adventure with a beginning, a middle and a bakery. It has its own creatures, its own titles, a pet or two, and a few things to put in your dorm. It takes three game days, it never goes away, and you can play it again when you have run out of other mistakes to make. The first one is The Haunted Bakery, where the bread has started rising on its own and the owner, who died in 1743, would like it known that he is not responsible.
Where to Find It
Open the Forest. When a pack is open, an Expansion Packs heading appears in the menu with the pack's name under it. Tap the name. If no heading appears, nothing is open yet, which is the Department's way of saying the bread is still proving.
How a Pack Plays
A pack has three chapters. Each chapter is a short run of fights against the pack's own creatures, ending with a boss.
| Chapter | Fights before the boss | Boss |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The Morning Rush | 4 | The Rolling Pin of Unfinished Business |
| 2. The Proving Room | 5 | The Bread Golem |
| 3. The Mother Dough | 6, drawn from the creatures of the first two chapters | The Mother Dough |
- Every fight costs one forest fight. A pack competes with the ordinary Forest for the same daily budget. A flawless win does not give the fight back. The bakery does not do refunds.
- One chapter per game day. Clear a chapter and the next one opens on your next new day. Play every day and you finish in three. Play when you remember and nothing is lost, because the bread will still be there.
- Losing is cheap. If a creature wins, you are put out on the cobbles with one hit point and a light dusting of flour. Your progress stays exactly where it was and nothing else is taken.
- Creatures scale to you. Their strength follows your level, so the pack is a fair fight at any level. Bosses are tougher than the rest.
- Normal rewards apply. Gold and experience come the same way they do in the Forest.
Who Gets In
Chapter One is free for every student. It comes with a title and a piece of dorm decor, so you will know what you are paying for. Chapters Two and Three open in any one of three ways:
| Way in | Cost | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Buy the pack | 450 donator points, or 360 for VIP members | Forever, including every replay |
| VIP membership | Whatever VIP already costs | Every pack, while you are subscribed |
| Term Pass premium track | The premium track's own price | Only when a pack is the term's featured pack, and only for that term |
Buying is a single button on the pack page, and pressing it twice charges you once. Everything you have earned stays yours whatever happens to your membership afterwards. Titles, pets and decor do not expire, and nobody comes to collect them.
What the Haunted Bakery Hands Out
| When | What you get |
|---|---|
| Clear Chapter One | The title Flour-Dusted and the Haunted Bread Bin for your dorm |
| Clear Chapter Two | The title Proven, the pet Loaf (a small loaf with legs), and the Ever-Rising Proving Basket |
| Clear Chapter Three | The title Twice-Baked, the pet Crumbwell's Ghost Mouse, and Crumbwell's Oven |
| Each full replay | The next of seven more dorm pieces, in order |
| After the seven | Gold, forty times your level, for each full run |
| Your thirteenth full run | The title Baker's Dozen |
Rewards you have not earned yet show on the pack page as locked, so you can see exactly how much bread is at stake. Each chapter's rewards arrive once, however many times you beat its boss.
Titles
A title you earn in a pack is free to wear. Open the Title Change desk in the Prefect's Lounge and your earned titles are listed as one-tap choices. Wearing one costs nothing, does not use up a title purchase, and does not need the lifetime donator points an ordinary custom title asks for. The desk keeps the usual character rules for titles, so an apostrophe may not survive the trip. Each title is also a badge on your profile.
Creatures and Cards
The pack's creatures never turn up in the ordinary Forest. They live in their own chapters. If you own Newt's suitcase, the usual capture offer appears after a win, and every pack creature has its own Bestiary card, so the Haunted Bakery adds eight more cards to your Bestiary. A creature you have captured once does not hand you a second card, however many times you put it in its place.
Replays and the Champions
When you clear Chapter Three the run is complete and the next time you open the pack it starts again from Chapter One. Chapter One is free, so a replay is free until it reaches the locked door. Every finished run counts on the Expansion Packs Completed board on the Hogwarts Champions page. Replays count, which is the whole idea, and the bread has no opinion about it.
Mr. Crumbwell would like to state that he is not responsible for the bread. He would also like a receipt.