Everything you need to thrive in Moonlight Peaks
Hand-written guides — from your first moonrise on the farm to romancing the seven families. Updated regularly through launch.
Overview
Moonlight Peaks Dark Diversions: Every Hobby & Side Activity
A complete overview of the hobbies — 'dark diversions' — in Moonlight Peaks: flower arranging, pottery, embroidery, cooking, fishing, foraging, bug catching, marshmallow roasting, stargazing, yoga and the Nokturna card game, and how each one feeds back into the wider game.
Read guideThe Art of Moonlight Peaks: How a Vampire Farm Sim Got Its Look
Inside the making of Moonlight Peaks — how Little Chicken landed on the vampire theme, the 3D character redesign the fans nearly rejected, how portraits and cozy-gothic interiors are built, and why the whole game is so very purple.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks vs Stardew Valley: How the Vampire Farm Sim Compares
Is Moonlight Peaks just 'Stardew Valley with vampires'? A fair, hands-on comparison of the two cozy farm sims — day vs night, combat vs no combat, magic and shapeshifting, decorating, romance, length and price — to help you decide which to play.
Read guide10 Cozy Games Like Moonlight Peaks to Play Next
If you love Moonlight Peaks, here are 10 cozy games with the same magic — witchcraft, farming, romance and supernatural charm — from Witchbrook and Wylde Flowers to Coral Island, Stardew Valley and more.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks: Everything We Know
A living overview of Moonlight Peaks — the cozy vampire life-sim's setting, farming, witchcraft, romance, platforms and launch-build details, with confirmed facts kept separate from rumours.
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Moonlight Peaks Jobs & Job Board: Requests, Rewards & Best Picks
How the Moonlight Peaks job board works, which resident requests are currently documented, their time limits and rewards, and which jobs are worth taking first.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Story Quests: Every Main Quest, Objectives & Rewards
A full walkthrough of the main story quests in Moonlight Peaks — from Orlock's Wine Scheme to the cursed bridge and the Ambrosia dinner party — with every objective, what each quest unlocks, and the money-saving tricks players found along the way.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Tips: 30 Things Early Players Wish They Knew
The big Moonlight Peaks tips guide — 30 specific things players who logged 6–20+ hours of the pre-release build learned the hard way, from the universal storage trick and night-length upgrade to mana regen, gift tracking, cooking, fishing, festivals, soul-blob rewards and the processing economy that actually makes money.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Character Creator: Every Option & Customisation Tip
A full look at the Moonlight Peaks character creator — skin tones, eyes, hairstyles, outfits, naming your farm and Hellkitten, and the quirks to know before you lock in your vampire.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks: Your First Night & First Week (Beginner Walkthrough)
A step-by-step start guide for Moonlight Peaks — what to do on night one, how to unlock magic, the first quest, and the early traps to avoid in your opening week as a farming vampire.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Money Guide: What to Sell, What to Keep & How to Earn Fast
How money works in Moonlight Peaks — who buys your goods, which crops and processed items are worth selling, what to hold onto, and where to spend your first coins as a farming vampire.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Beginner's Guide: 10 Tips for Your First Nights
New to Moonlight Peaks? Here are practical beginner tips for your first in-game week — what to plant, how night-time works, and where to spend your early energy in the cozy vampire farm sim.
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Moonlight Peaks Dark Wood Guide: Weeping Willows, Respawns & Planning
Where to look for Dark Wood in Moonlight Peaks, how the 1.1.45 patch changed Weeping Willow respawns in Howling Marshes, and how to avoid turning community tips into unreliable guarantees.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Greenhouse: Unlock, Cost & Year-Round Crops
How to unlock the Greenhouse in Moonlight Peaks: reach 80% Museum completion, trigger the Jada and Howling Hammer scenes, buy it from Ridge for 50,000 coins, and use it for out-of-season crops.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Flowers: Every Colour, Where to Find Them & Who Loves Them
Every flower type and colour in Moonlight Peaks — Tulips, Roses, Azaleas, Plumeria, Kthonia and more — where they grow, what they sell for, and how to match a flower's colour to the resident who'll love it as a gift.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Farm Helpers: Every Machine, Recipe & What It Makes
Every Farm Helper machine in Moonlight Peaks — Keg, Refiner, Furnace, Herb Garden, Bee House, Mana Extractor and more — with launch-build crafting recipes, processing chains and community-verified output values.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Tools & Upgrades Guide
A guide to the tools in Moonlight Peaks — the tool wheel, what each tool does (watering can, hoe, axe, pickaxe, fishing rod, net, shovel and wand), and how to upgrade your gear and build crafting stations with materials and money.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Crops List: Every Crop, Season & Magical Plant
A full Moonlight Peaks crops list — all farmland crops, herb-garden herbs and tree crops, which season each grows in, and which are magical plants that need enchanted water.
Read guideDraculambs & Mystical Livestock in Moonlight Peaks
Meet the Draculambs and other mystical livestock of Moonlight Peaks, plus the three-eyed Hellkitten pet — how animals fit into your moonlit farm in the cozy vampire life-sim.
Read guideFarming in Moonlight Peaks: Enchanted Crops & Moonlit Fields
How farming works in Moonlight Peaks — growing enchanted crops and glowing flowers by moonlight, magical watering, and raising mystical livestock like Draculambs.
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Moonlight Peaks Spellcasting & Mana: How Magic Actually Works
How casting works in Moonlight Peaks — repairing your broken wand, drawing spell runes, managing mana, and refilling it by eating. A practical look at the magic system for the vampire farm sim.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Spells List: Every Spell and What It Does
A full list of the spells in Moonlight Peaks and what each one does — watering, maturing crops, clearing rocks, moving objects and trees, summoning rain, and the Witches' Circle teleport — plus how casting and mana work.
Read guideShapeshifting in Moonlight Peaks: Bat Form & Transformations
How shapeshifting works in Moonlight Peaks — turning into a bat to travel the town quickly at night, plus the other forms hinted at for the cozy vampire life-sim.
Read guideWitchcraft & Spells in Moonlight Peaks: Magic Explained
A guide to magic in Moonlight Peaks — learning spells from the town witches, brewing potions like the Alter Ego Elixir, and how witchcraft helps on the farm and while foraging.
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Moonlight Peaks Marriage: How to Propose, Get Married & Divorce
How marriage works in Moonlight Peaks: every marriage candidate, the eight-heart proposal route, wedding scheduling, what changes after marriage, divorce and whether you can have children.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Gift Guide: Loved & Disliked Gifts by Resident
The complete Moonlight Peaks gift guide — every resident's loved and disliked gifts, kept accurate from post-launch wiki.gg player data, plus the colour-matching trick, how friendship and hearts work, and handmade presents.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Romance: All Dating Options, Hearts & Marriage
How romance works in Moonlight Peaks: all 23 dating options, how to start a date at four hearts, what happens at eight hearts, marriage, gifts and the characters worth meeting first.
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Moonlight Peaks Luna Bay Guide: Unlock Mermaids & Aqua Form
How to unlock Luna Bay and Mermaid Form in Moonlight Peaks: A Curious Passage, the fallen tree, Ludo's pizza, special shells, Aqua Form, and the 1.2.x quest-softlock status.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Critter Guide: Bug Catching, Rare Spawns & Best Sellers
How critter catching works in Moonlight Peaks — net butterflies, beetles, snails and bugs by season and location to fill the Almanac and Museum. The highest-value critters, and the special spawns (Midnight, Sprouty, Pumkrawler, Sunny) with unusual catch conditions.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Evernight Festival: Dates, Evernight Coins & the Twilight Showcase
A guide to the Evernight Festival in Moonlight Peaks — the Fall 26–28 Halloween-style celebration hosted by Pumpkin Head. Full schedule, how to earn Evernight Coins, the Twilight Showcase, Jitterbug and Pumpkin Dash mini-games, and everything in Sabrina's Evernight Shop.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Museum Guide: Every Donation Reward & the Five Rooms
How the Museum works in Moonlight Peaks — donate crops, fish, critters and supernatural relics to fill it, and earn a reward every 5%. Full milestone reward list (Firefly Sanctuary, Dracula Insignia Key, Arcane Flame, Seed Sequencer) plus what goes in each of the five rooms.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Moonlight Ball: Date, the Best-Dressed Couple & Moonlight Crowns
A guide to the Moonlight Ball in Moonlight Peaks — the Summer 20 formal gala in the Town Hall gardens, how the best-dressed-couple vote and Moonlight Crowns work, and who shows up.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Loveage Festival: Dates, Stalls & Gift Exchange
Everything about the Loveage Festival in Moonlight Peaks — the Spring 20–21 romance event hosted by the Love Demon Llemi, how the secret-admirer gift exchange works, and what's for sale at Elvira's, Mina's and Luna's stalls.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Caves, Mining & Catacombs Guide
What's underground in Moonlight Peaks — how mining works with no combat, the ore and crystals you'll gather, the magic pickaxe spell, and how the caverns and catacombs feed your furnace, tools and upgrades.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Decorating Guide: Home & Farm Customisation
How decorating works in Moonlight Peaks — placing and rotating furniture, customising your cottage interior and homestead grounds, crafting decor, paths and fairy lights, and the quirks to know.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Festivals & Events Guide
A guide to the seasonal festivals of Moonlight Peaks — the Loveage Festival, the Moonlight Ball, the Mastersoup cooking contest and the Evernight Festival (the Pumpkin-Head Halloween season) — plus how events and their rewards work.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Map, Locations & Fast Travel
A guide to the map of Moonlight Peaks — the town, forest, catacombs and other locations, how the fixed camera and lack of a minimap work, and how to fast-travel with the Witches' Circle and bat form.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Soul Blobs & Vampsters: Collectible Creatures
A guide to the collectible creatures of Moonlight Peaks — soul blobs (floating skull-souls you net to learn how they died, unlocking day-length control) and the 100 hidden bat-hamster vampsters, plus the game's full collectible counts.
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Moonlight Peaks Cooking & Recipes: Restore Stamina and Mana
How cooking works in Moonlight Peaks — recipes, where dishes are made, gathering ingredients, and why cooked food is the key to refilling both stamina and mana in the vampire farm sim.
Read guidePotion Brewing in Moonlight Peaks: The Alter Ego Elixir & More
How potion brewing works in Moonlight Peaks — crafting brews like the Alter Ego Elixir to change your appearance, and how potions tie into witchcraft and foraging.
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Moonlight Peaks Embroidery: Cross-Stitch Patterns & Decor
How embroidery works in Moonlight Peaks — stitching pixel-art patterns on a hoop, the colour palette and mirror tools, and using your designs as decoration and gifts in the cozy vampire sim.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Flower Arranging: Bouquets, Flowers & Gifts
How flower arranging works in Moonlight Peaks — building bouquets from the flowers you grow, the cost of stems, and using arrangements as gifts and decoration in the cozy vampire sim.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Nokturna Guide: Rules, Deckbuilding & Card Sources
Learn Moonlight Peaks' Nokturna card game: match rules, the 20-card and 60-point deck limits, every confirmed opponent, card sources, archetypes, and a safe first-deck plan.
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Moonlight Peaks Fish List: All 22 Fish, Locations & How to Catch Them
Every fish in Moonlight Peaks — all 22 species with where to catch them, their rarity, the season, time, weather or moon phase they need, plus sell price and energy. Everything you need for the Fishing Pro achievement.
Read guideFishing & Foraging in Moonlight Peaks
A guide to fishing and foraging in Moonlight Peaks — working the pier and forest at night for fish, mushrooms and ingredients in the cozy vampire life-sim.
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Moonlight Peaks Modding Guide: Safe Setup, Saves & Boundaries
A cautious introduction to Moonlight Peaks PC modding: what the official wiki documents, why BepInEx and Unity appear in the workflow, how to protect saves, and what not to assume about platform support.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Save Backup & Recovery Guide (PC, Mac & Steam Cloud)
Back up Moonlight Peaks saves safely on Windows, Mac, and Linux/Steam Deck. Find the Steam Cloud save folder, avoid sync mistakes, and collect the right details for a recovery report.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Achievements: Full List & How to 100% Them
Every achievement in Moonlight Peaks — all 58 milestones including the secret ones — grouped by theme, with what each requires: getting married, completing the Museum, unlocking every shapeshifting form, catching all fish, and mastering Nokturna.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Controls & UI Guide: HUD, Tool Wheel & Keybinds
How Moonlight Peaks' interface works — reading the minimal HUD, the radial tool wheel, decorate mode, menus and storage, plus observed keybinds and why the game is built controller-first.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Demo vs Full Game: Save Carry-Over & What's Different
Does the Moonlight Peaks demo save carry over to the full game? What's in the demo vs the full release, how long the demo is, and whether it's worth playing before buying.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks on Steam Deck: Performance & Controller Guide
How Moonlight Peaks runs on Steam Deck — its Deck Verified status, real-world performance from players, the official gamepad layout, and why a controller-first design makes it a natural handheld farm sim.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks on Nintendo Switch & Switch 2: Release, Price & Differences
Moonlight Peaks is available now on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Here's the release date, Switch vs Switch 2 difference, price, free demo, physical edition, and whether it's the version to buy.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks PC System Requirements & Performance
The official minimum and recommended PC and Mac system requirements for Moonlight Peaks, straight from Steam, plus Switch, Switch 2 and Android availability.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Release Date, Platforms & Where to Play
Moonlight Peaks is out now on PC, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2 and Android. Here's the release date, price, demo, Digital Deluxe bundle, physical edition, PS5/iOS status, and where to play.
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Moonlight Peaks Previews & Early Reception: What Critics Say So Far
Is Moonlight Peaks any good? A roundup of every major hands-on preview ahead of the July 7, 2026 launch — what critics praise, what they criticize, and the developer's own take. Honest, sourced, and updated as reviews land.
Read guideMoonlight Peaks Demo: How Long It Is, What's In It & How to Play
Everything about the free Moonlight Peaks demo — what's included, how long it lasts, whether progress carries over, and how to download it on Steam and Nintendo Switch.
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