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The Turmaculus

The Turmaculus, affectionately referred to as Turmy, is a GIANT Turmac petpet located in Meridell. Your active Neopet can visit him while slumbering, provided it has a petpet attached.

Waking Turmaculus

The king of Petpets is awake for one random hour every day. Actually, it's not completely random; there are some complicated patterns to predict which hours he could be asleep, and you can check the /~Brownhownd pet page to see which hours are possible for a given day.

If a Jellyneo staffer happens to confirm Turmy is awake at a particular hour, we will trigger an alert. Look for the bell icon in the top right corner of the page. It will have a red dot whenever any Neopets alert is active and not yet seen by you:

You can choose to wake Turmy with any method available; all of them work the same and have no relationship to the possible prizes:

• Hit him with Stick
• Ring a Bell
• Kick Him
• Sing to Him
• Tap Dance for Him
• Blow Your Nose
• Sneeze
• Dump Cold Water on Him
• Scream
• Bang Pots and Pans

Outcomes

If you do manage to wake Turmy, he will reward you (not-so) greatly with one of several possible outcomes.

Eat Your Petpet

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
AHHHHHH!!!! Turmaculus ate your petpet! BURP

Result: Turmy will eat your Petpet (and Petpetpet, if it has one), deleting it forever, but awarding you an avatar and a Battledome challenger! You can receive this outcome even after getting the avatar and challenger—no visiting Petpet is ever fully safe!

Turmaculus / Guide

Get your petpet eaten by Turmaculus.

Released: June 10, 2004

Exclusive Item Prize

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and he has given you a [ITEM NAME]!!!

Result: One of the exclusive item prizes in the table below.

Prior to February 7, 2018, the below prizes were also available, but are now retired.

Well, someone must've whispered into Turmy's ear to ask him to for new prizes, and maybe he woke up on the right side of the grass today because we hear he actually has been handing out some new prizes! Try your luck and see if you can nab one at just... the... right... time!

Neopoint Prize

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and he has decided to give you [###] neopoints!!!

Result: Either 100 or 350 Neopoints are added to your on hand total.

Stat Increase

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and now your pet is a little stronger thanks to Turmaculus!

Result: Increases your active pet's strength by 1 point.

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and he has decided to grant your petpet a level!!!
Your petpet is now level [##]!

Result: Increases your Petpet's level by 1.

Full Heal

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and he has completely restored your pet's hp...

Result: Your active Neopet is restored to full hit points.

Nothing!

[PETPET NAME] did everything possible, but did not wake him.

Result: Nothing! Turmaculus might not awaken for you, even if he awakens for other users. If this is the case, there will be no "Try Again" button; this button only appears when Turmaculus cannot be awakened by anyone.

Past Alerts

Below is a short history of the recent Turmaculus alerts Jellyneo has posted. If no alert was set, it likely means a JN staffer wasn't available to set one.

You may also reference past alerts (or check if one was already set for today) from our alerts hub.

This page was written by Ruby and last updated on April 7, 2025.