Phasmophobia: Halloween 2023 Event Guide

Welcome back to another guide! For this annual Halloween event, find multiple recipe cards scattered across the maps and brew a potion in Maple Lodge Campsite.

There are 9 cards you can find throughout: Tangle, Edgefield, Rdiegview, Grafton, Willow, Bleasdale, Prison, Maple Lodge and Camp Woodwind. If you felt like you may have missed a couple (having terrible memory like me), you can check the map board to track where cards have already been found. Find all the cards and create the potion at the cauldron inside Maple Lodge before the 10th of November (two weeks), and you’ll complete this event.

The tick indicates that the challenge is completed for that map.

This event is pretty straightforward (no Undead Santa or Easter Bunny of Caerbannog chasing us, thankfully.) I would recommend a custom difficulty with infinite sprint and friendly ghost enabled. Load up one of the maps with the Pumpkin icon on the maps of your preferred difficulty and equipment, follow the guide and correctly guess the ghost to complete that map. The event doesn’t contain prerequisite or extra steps for us too follow, a simple find the card and go back to the van.

My equipment and difficulty. ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ One of the Recipe cards.

Don’t forget that you can press ALT and Tab to bring up the steam overlay and this guide mid-game. This might be easier than having to pause a Youtube video on your phone or another tab.

WARNING: There is going to be a lot of spoilers on this guide. You technically don’t have to collect the cards – so click here if you want to go straight to the recipe. Or Here to see the rewards this season.

When you’re playing with a group, each member of your team will need to pick up and look at the card for it to be ticked off on the board.

The first card on the list is in Tanglewood Drive. Go into the house as you normally would, enter the kitchen and underneath the foot-rest is a pumkin. Inside the mouth is the recipe card. Once you got this, you can leave via the van.

The next card is located insidethe Boys Bedroom. Head up the stairs and follow the hallway around the corner and the second room on the right is the room you’re looking for. It’s the one with the blue walls. By the right hand side of the desk is a pumpkin with the next recipe card.

Onto (f)fridgeview. This one is a bit tricky and easy to miss. Head down into the basement and take a left. The pumpkin is on one of the metal shelves rather inconspicuously, you might not see it till you face the wall where you enter.

This is an easy one thankfully. Head round the building to the right, or the left, heck even through the house if you’re adventurous, and you should be able to spot the glow of the Pumpkin in a parch of other normal ones.

Another sneaky one, Do a whole loop of the house, starting with the basement, then the garage and kitchen, step outside and then notice the Pumpkin is in actuality by the Post (Letterbox) as you leave the van.

Head into the building, go up the first flight of stairs, follow the hallway till you reach the attic stairs, and head up those. Once you’re up here, turn right and there is some cardboard boxes, behind those is your pumpkin with the recipe card.

Trust me this one is a pain. So enter the prison and continue down the hallway. Unlock the jail door to your left and go through it, on your immediate left/in-front is a room called “Central Control Unit.” Head in there and on the back left of the room is a Pumpkin and recipe card in its mouth.

Head through the gates, Loop the campfire twice, Crouch 3 times and then turn back to the gate, your silly dance may have spawned the Pumpkin and recipe behind the pole, by the fence on right. Or left as you enter if you don’t have a sense of humour.

Easiest one to find, as you enter the camp (it’s very posh now) head left towards the campfire/cauldron and around it on the log seating is the pumpkin and recipe card. You can go straight into making the cauldron if you like.

Now you know all the ingredients, you can head back to Maple Lodge Campsite. Once there start by collecting the ominously named ingredients. I would recommend throwing them into a pile beside the cauldron till everything has been collected. I’ve wrote this in the way that requires the least amount of back and fourth, but you can of course do this in any order you like.

You will need to collect all the cards to get the badge and the trophy. Doing the cards will give you the badge and the cauldron will grant you the trophy once completed.

Warning: If at any point the liquid in the cauldron disappears, you have put a wrong ingredient in and will need to restart the level.

A list of what you will need and where to find it.

Jar of Mind. Enter the Camp Lobby and on the left, lying on a coffee table is a jar with something floating around inside. Toe of Frog. Staying in the lobby, to the right of where you found the jar, there is a green Voodo doll. Bring both these items to the cauldron and dump them for later.

Head back the way you came and into the staff area via the door ahead. As you continue you can hear some flies, on the knocked over box on the ground with rotten apples. You will need to grab 3 of these. Drop your flashlight for now and grab all 3 for the pile.

Follow through the staff area to enter Campsite B. From here you can make your way to the cabin. Don’t enter yet, on the side by the lakeside is a skeleton couple, one of them has a flower (Lover’s Blossom). Head into the cabin using the key under the matt, on the left, thr kitchen counter/worktop has a bowl of teeth. Grab both the bowl and flower and head right on the way back.

In campsite B, there is a campfire by the tents; look for a large red tent. On one of the log seats there is a skull, drop your flashlight and bring the 3 ingredients to the cauldron pile.

The last few ingredients are close I promise. You might think the potion calls for 3 cans of beans (Sack of Beans), but it actually requires Bean Bags (also called hackey sacks) that can be found in the equipment tent in front of the cauldron. While you’re there, collect the two eyes in the Campsite A bathroom Sink.

The last Ingredient has been in your heart and hands this whole time: your torch. You might need to grab another from the van.

Once you’re ready throw in all of the ingredients, in any order you like. Make sure you don’t add too much of anything or miss an ingredient!

Once you added all the ingredients the potion will bubble and release souls into the skies! Once this is done, the whole map will be tinted red,spoooky. Leave to unlock your rewards.

Unusual Guests in our base of operations…

A ghost peeking through the window.

sad pumpkin 🙁

Whelp, that’s all i got this time. I really hope you enjoyed my guide for this event. Special thanks to my friends on Tanglewood (Robert, Sarah, Reina, Alex, Lukas, Jay and Corey) for their love and support. Helping me get thru everything in life, as much as each other, I love you all <3 If you ever see me on phasmo do say hi, give feedback! I also have a discord community if you want to hang out with some casual Phasmo/Valo/Zomboid and Terraria players. If you like the guide do leave a like, rating or comment, and let me know if you would like more guides!

With that said, thank you very much for reading, love you all, be kind to each other and have a awesome Halloween, ciao <3