Updated: March 29, 2026

Hooked Update March 2026 — Easter Event Blast Garden

By Earnaldo Team • March 29, 2026 • 8 min read

Hooked launched its Easter Event on March 28, 2026, and it's packed with more content than the game's previous updates combined. A new Blast Garden map with a bunny monster environmental hazard, 6 randomized Map Events that alter gameplay mid-round, the coin-farming Egg Scramble mechanic, and two permanent game modes — Free for All and Duel Mode — all landed in a single patch. The event runs through approximately April 4, giving you about a week to farm everything.

What's New in the Easter Event

The Easter Event touches nearly every aspect of the Hooked gameplay loop. The new map changes how you fight, the Map Events add unpredictable modifiers to every match, and the permanent modes give you new ways to compete long after Easter is over.

Blast Garden Map

The Blast Garden is the centerpiece of the Easter Event. It features a wide, open garden layout that's greener and more spacious than any previous arena in the game. The extra space changes how fights play out. There's more room to reposition, hook angles have more variety, and the additional verticality creates opportunities for aerial plays that weren't possible on tighter maps.

But the real twist is the bunny monster. This environmental hazard patrols sections of the Blast Garden, swinging its massive hand at any player who gets too close. Contact with the swing deals significant damage, making certain areas of the map temporarily dangerous. The bunny monster follows set patrol routes, so learning its patterns is essential for surviving on this map.

Smart players are already using the bunny monster as a weapon. Since the swing damages anyone in range regardless of team, you can bait opponents into the creature's attack zone and let it do the work for you. Positioning near the monster's patrol path while staying just outside swing range is the key to this strategy.

The Blast Garden features open spaces and a roaming bunny monster hazard

6 Map Events

Map Events are randomized modifiers that fire at unpredictable intervals during any match. When a Map Event triggers, it applies to every player in the lobby simultaneously. You can't opt out, choose them, or predict when they'll happen. They simply change the rules for everyone at once.

Here's a breakdown of all 6 Map Events and how they affect gameplay.

The Map Events create genuine variety in every match. One round you might be dealing with Giant Mode making everyone an easy target, and the next round Short Hooks forces you into melee range. The Randomizer event is particularly chaotic — getting random skills after every kill means you can't plan around a specific loadout. You just have to adapt.

Speed Zone and Jump Boost tend to favor aggressive playstyles. Both increase mobility in ways that let you close gaps and apply pressure faster. Short Hooks and Mini Mode reward defensive play, since the reduced range or smaller hitboxes make it harder for aggressive players to connect their attacks.

Map Events like Speed Zone and Giant Mode fire randomly during matches

Egg Scramble

The Egg Scramble is a special event mechanic layered on top of regular matches during the Easter Event. Here's how it works: eggs spawn every 30 seconds and remain in the game for 20 seconds. Teams claim eggs by hitting them, and the egg changes to the team's color to indicate ownership. If your team holds an egg until it expires, you earn bonus coins or health.

Egg Scramble is one of the most efficient ways to farm coins during the Easter Event. The bonus coins from holding eggs stack on top of your normal match earnings, so you're essentially double-dipping on rewards. During a typical match with Egg Scramble active, you can earn roughly 40-60% more coins than a standard round.

The tactical layer here is interesting too. Do you risk leaving a fight to claim a newly spawned egg, or do you focus on eliminating opponents and hope your teammates handle the eggs? In team modes, having one designated "egg runner" while the others provide cover turns out to be the most efficient approach.

Permanent Game Modes: Free for All and Duel Mode

These two modes aren't tied to the Easter Event — they're permanent additions to Hooked. That makes them the most impactful part of this update in the long run.

Free for All (FFA) strips away team dynamics entirely. Every player in the lobby is an enemy. Victory goes to the player with the most eliminations when the timer runs out. FFA rewards pure mechanical skill since you can't rely on teammates to cover your mistakes. It's also the fastest way to improve at the game because you're constantly fighting without downtime.

Duel Mode brings structured competitive play in three formats.

Duel Mode includes a position reset after every elimination to prevent spawn-camping. When a player is eliminated, character positions reset so that neither side has a positional advantage for the next engagement. That's a thoughtful design choice that keeps duels fair.

How This Affects Gameplay

The Map Events are the biggest gameplay shift. Before this update, every Hooked match followed the same basic formula. You knew the rules going in and could plan accordingly. Now, a Speed Zone or Randomizer event can completely flip the dynamic mid-round. Players who can adapt quickly have a real advantage over those who rely on a single practiced strategy.

The Blast Garden map's open layout also changes the hook meta. On tighter maps, close-range hooks were dominant because there was nowhere to run. Blast Garden's spacious design means long-range hooks and aerial plays are more viable. If you've been neglecting your ranged hook accuracy, now's the time to practice.

The bunny monster adds a third variable to fights. It's not just you versus your opponents anymore — it's you versus your opponents versus the environment. This kind of PvPvE element has worked well in other competitive games, and it's a smart addition for Hooked. The monster creates dynamic no-go zones that shift as it patrols, forcing players to constantly reposition.

For the coin economy, Egg Scramble is a significant boost. Players who grind matches during the Easter Event will build up coin reserves faster than at any point in the game's history. If there are items or upgrades you've been saving for, this is the window to farm them.

New Codes

Several Hooked codes are active right now. Redeem them before they expire.

To redeem codes, click the cogwheel button in the top-right corner of the screen, type the code into the text box, and hit Claim. For the full updated list, check our Hooked codes page. New codes often drop on the game's official Discord server, so joining that is worth your time too.

Egg Scramble adds team-colored eggs that reward bonus coins when held

Updated Tips and Strategies

Mastering the Blast Garden

Learn the bunny monster's patrol routes first. Spend a few rounds just observing where it walks and how wide its swing arc reaches. Once you've memorized the pattern, you can use the monster as a weapon by kiting opponents into its attack zone. Stay just outside the swing radius yourself — close enough to bait enemies in, far enough to avoid getting clipped.

The open layout rewards hook accuracy at range. Practice your long-range hooks in FFA mode where the constant combat gives you more opportunities per minute than team modes. If you're consistently landing hooks from medium range, you'll dominate on Blast Garden because most players are still playing as if they're on a tighter map.

Adapting to Map Events

The key to Map Events is flexible thinking. Don't commit to a single playstyle at the start of a match. When Speed Zone activates, switch to aggressive pressure. When Short Hooks hits, fall back to defensive positioning and wait for enemies to overextend. The players who react fastest to event changes will consistently outperform those who keep doing the same thing regardless of the modifier.

Randomizer is the wildcard. Since you get random skills after every kill, your first kill matters most because it sets your ability loadout for the next engagement. Focus on securing that initial elimination cleanly, then figure out what skills you've been given before re-engaging.

Maximizing Egg Scramble Coins

In team modes, designate one player as the egg runner. That player's job is to hit every egg as soon as it spawns and then survive for 20 seconds until it expires. The other teammates focus on fighting and keeping enemies away from the egg runner. This division of labor produces the highest coin output per match.

If you're playing FFA, the math changes. You need to balance fighting for eliminations with claiming eggs. The best approach is to grab eggs that spawn near you organically, but don't chase eggs across the map. The time you spend running to a distant egg is time you could have spent getting a kill, which also earns coins.

Community Reaction

The Hooked community has been very receptive to the Easter Event. The Map Events system is the most-discussed addition, with players generally praising the unpredictability it brings to matches. Some competitive players have pushed back against the Randomizer event specifically, arguing that random skill assignments add too much luck to a skill-based game. But the majority of the player base seems to enjoy the chaos.

The bunny monster on Blast Garden has been a hit. Players are sharing clips of baiting opponents into the monster's swing for environmental kills, and it's become one of the most popular moments to capture in gameplay videos. The monster strikes a good balance between being dangerous enough to matter and predictable enough that skilled players can use it strategically rather than being victimized by it.

Free for All and Duel Mode being permanent additions has generated the strongest positive reaction. Players have been requesting solo competitive modes for months, and the 1v1 Duel format in particular is getting a lot of attention from the competitive community. The position reset after eliminations has been universally praised as a smart anti-camping mechanic.

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Free for All and Duel Mode are permanent additions to Hooked

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