The player is able to select a spell from the backpack and a confirmation message appears, but the effect is not applied and the spell is not consumed.
Shortly after that the Tough Break Update made Halloween spells untradable as an undocumented change, thus removing the loophole of applying any previously existing Halloween Spells.
Since Scream Fortress 2015, Halloween spells are not acquirable, as Haunted Halloween Gifts were replaced with the Soul Gargoyle, which did not distribute spells. Spell effects were no longer removed from the items they had been applied to, but spell potions that had not been applied to an item vanished from a player's backpack if the game was opened after the Halloween event.Īs of the OctoPatch, Halloween spell potions were tradable even outside the time frame of a Halloween event.
As of the NovemPatch, the effects of Halloween spells were made visible only during Halloween events, Full Moons, or on servers under the effects of the Enchantment: Eternaween tool item. They were enabled and made obtainable again for Scream Fortress 2013, which lasted from Octoto November 11, 2013.
Any spell effects that were applied to any items, along with any unused spells, were erased from players' inventories upon launching Team Fortress 2 after the end of this event. They could be found during Halloween events inside of Haunted Halloween Gifts on Ghost Fort, or from a Pile Of Curses. The Spell Items released during the Scream Fortress 2012 event lasted from Octoto November 9, 2012. They were added during Scream Fortress 2012, and were enabled and obtainable annually during subsequent Halloween events, prior to Scream Fortress 2015. Halloween Spells are single use tool items that are used to give various Halloween themed effects to weapons, cosmetic items, or classes, depending on the spell.