Merge Compensation

Merge Compensation was given out to Habbos when the English-speaking hotels merged. Because different hotels had released different rares at different times the merge caused many issues in terms of how much each rare was worth afterwards, so in order to react against this and to prevent mass-selling of items pre-merge the staff issued Merge Compensation furni. The intention was that drops in furni price wouldn't cause someone to lose all of their accumulated worth.

Gift

After merging their accounts and moving over to the newly merged hotel, users would receive a gift from the hotel management with merge compensation furniture inside.

Unopened merge compensation gift and label

The Merge Compensation gift contained a range of furniture items, some with less likelihood of being received than others and so some being considered rarer as a result. The Ultramarine has since become the rarest item, followed by the various colours of Carp, while the Ultimate Machine remains plentiful and tends to be cheaply listed in the marketplace.

The Merge Compensation gifts were awarded based on how much value a users existing collection of rare furniture was in the pre-merged hotel, in relation to the loss of value in the newly merged hotel. The gifts were tiered on this basis, with the Ultimate Machines most common (and so given to users will very little value loss), then the Carps (for greater loses), and lastly, the ultramarine (for significant losses). This then explains their rarity in the following years, with only the users with the greatest to lose in terms of the new rare values awarded the Ultramarine.

A recolour of the Ultramarine would later be released in the form of a Blue Submarine in the Easter 2013 campaign.

Although not a piece of Merge Compensation, the Travel Trunk was also gifted to all Habbo's who experienced the merge, meant to symbolise the packing-up of belongings in one hotel and the moving over to the next.

Very few of these gift boxes remain as Habbos were keen to see what items they had been awarded in the merge. However, only a few months following the merged users began reporting faults with their gift opening such as displaying "error: 1" when the user clicked 'open'. Habbos were advised to use the Help Tool to request staff to open it for them. Very few of these gift boxes remain on the hotel, though a few examples can still be found.

The merge gift is of the default present style and with a hidden sender (distributed by hotel management) - in this way, it appears similar today to the 2002 gift from Ione.

Known Examples

Room	Owner	Date Checked
Nicky's Merge Day Gift	Cymru / Nicky	04/11/2023
Hosko's Habbo Archive	000546	16/04/2025

Furniture

Name	Description	Image
Travel Trunk	Non-tradeable merge compensation item
Black Carp	Queen of the River
Blue Carp	Queen of the River
Golden Carp	Queen of the River
Green Carp	Queen of the River
Red Carp	Queen of the River
Silver Carp	Queen of the River
Red Ultimate Machine	Merge Compensation Item
Blue Ultimate Machine	Merge Compensation Item (Never released)
Yellow Ultimate Machine	Merge Compensation Item (Never released)
Ultramarine	Merge Compensation Item