Mon Studios has announced the start of the Blood Moon event in Spellborne, giving players an experimental period of new PvP rules to play and earn in for a refreshed blockchain gaming experience.

What Is Spellborne?

Spellborne is a free to play MMORPG that combines classic monster-catching gameplay with farming, crafting, seasonal content, and competitive turn-based combat. Players begin as one of 3 hunter characters and explore a retro inspired 2D fantasy world that takes cues from traditional creature collecting games. The world is filled with monsters, resources, and areas designed for progression at a steady pace.

The game is developed by Mon Studios and includes a player-driven blockchain economy that remains optional in order to make the experience enjoyable for a web2 audience as well. Monsters, apartments, items, and cosmetics can exist as NFTs. Players can also earn or interact with tokens if they choose to. However, the core gameplay such as exploration, crafting, and story content is fully accessible without blockchain features. This structure allows traditional players to enjoy a familiar MMORPG experience while still providing web3 users with opportunities to collect, own, and trade on-chain assets.

There are also various guild systems, guild wars, seasonal events, and PvP leagues that allow players to engage in both cooperative and competitive play. This provides multiple paths for advancement across PvE and PvP content while keeping the experience open to a wide audience. After introducing a big Season 2 update in September, players now have a new Halloween-like competitive period to play and earn in. For this month’s event in particular, the focus is on PvP. Here’s how it works.

What Is the Blood Moon Event in Spellborne?

The Blood Moon is an experimental event that introduces a test version of new PvP league rules. These rules are described as highly experimental and may be updated throughout the event period. Players are advised to review the rules frequently in case adjustments are made.

The core change is that battles follow a harsher set of restrictions that increase the pace of matches and reduce the ability to stall or prolong encounters. Healing moves cannot be used at any point. If a monster remains on the battlefield for more than 3 consecutive turns, it becomes affected by a bleeding effect. This effect increases in strength each turn. The first loss is 5% of maximum HP, then 10%, then 25%, then 50%, until the monster eventually gets taken out.

Status effects that normally cause sleep, freeze, or flinch do not function during this event. Moves intended to apply these effects will fail, while moves that have these effects as secondary effects will not apply them.

Every 3 turns, each monster on the battlefield receives a single stage increase in a random stat. This stat may be ATK, DEF, SpATK, SpDef, or SPD. This begins after both monsters have entered the battlefield at the start of the match. Switching out a monster results in a loss of 4% of its maximum HP.

These rules create faster matches that require careful timing, controlled aggression, and efficient resource management. Long term defensive strategies are limited by the anti-stall mechanics, while offensive approaches must still account for the health loss caused by switching.

Not only does this event reshape PvP gameplay, but it also brings its own set of rewards with to play to earn. Let’s get into those and see how we can get started with earning them.

How to Play and Earn in Spellborne's Blood Moon Event

The Blood Moon event started on November 12 can be enjoyed by anyone for free by playing Spellborne on your web browser through the game’s official website or if you prefer to play on the go, you can then download the on-chain title for your Android or iOS mobile device via the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Anyone can easily set up an account using social sign in options and participate in the event by simply playing in the game’s standard ranked PvP system.

This event includes several reward systems that allow players to earn in-game items and web3-related prizes based on performance, participation, and spending within the event period, which does not seem to have an end date at the time of writing.

Winning matches grants players battle chests. Higher league placements provide chests with stronger rewards. Chests can contain unspecified items of increasing value depending on the tier of the chest. The event also reduces chest costs while increasing the overall rewards provided across all chest tiers.

Players can also use the game’s core $BORNE token to speed up chest unlock times. Spending at least 50% of the maximum speed up cost grants additional rewards in the form of Abstract Shards or Summoner Tickets. These rewards are distributed based on the player’s preferred chain.

A special Halloween Chest is also available during the event. This chest guarantees 2 Abstract Shards or 2 Summoner Tickets, also based on the player’s chain of choice. The Halloween Chest is awarded in addition to any other rewards that may be earned from normal battle chests.

The event does track how much $BORNE each player spends on chest speed-ups. This determines placement on a weekly spending leaderboard, with the team set to finalize reward amounts and distribution based on overall player participation during the event period. Players who spend more $BORNE on chest acceleration will place higher on the leaderboard and may receive additional end of event rewards.

If you enjoy old school turn-based gameplay and are a fan of Pokémon-like games, then now might be the time to hop into Spellborne. For more competitive gameplay, check out our video on the top 5 play to earn PvP games for this November.