The game announces it. Players run to Ashwold. Then everybody stands there looking silly.
Diablo Immortal has another Haunted Carriage complaint on the board, and this one is almost impressive in how basic it is. In a fresh Blizzard bug report, a player says the game throws up the usual warning that the Haunted Carriage is coming in three minutes, tells everyone to head to Ashwold, and then… no event. No carriage. No boss. No spooky procession. Just a crowd of players showing up on time for a world event that apparently decided not to attend its own appointment.
What players are actually reporting
The report is short, but the hook is clean: this is not being described as a one-off fluke. The player says it does not happen every time, but “like half” of the Haunted Carriage attempts simply do not spawn. That is what makes it a usable story. If the event notification fires and players respond the way the game expects, only for the event itself to ghost them, then the whole loop starts to feel less like scheduled content and more like Sanctuary’s least reliable bus service.
It also fits a broader Haunted Carriage pattern
This is not even the first Haunted Carriage-related headache Diablo Immortal players have been dealing with lately. Blizzard’s own Bug Report board showed multiple Haunted Carriage threads active around April 6–7, including the new non-spawn report and other recent complaints tied to Haunted Carriage progress. There was also a separate March report about the Horrid Haunted Carriage event notification not taking players to the event, which Blizzard marked resolved, plus older threads where players said Haunted Carriage kills or completion were not registering properly. So even if this specific non-spawn issue is new, the broader Haunted Carriage track record is not exactly clean.
Why this matters more than it sounds
A world event bug like this is not as dramatic as a login failure or vanishing paid bundle, but it is exactly the kind of thing that makes a live-service game feel sloppy. Diablo Immortal is built on timers, routines, and quick little loops where players jump in, knock something out, and move on. If the game pings the server with “event’s up” energy and then serves empty cemetery air, people notice fast. And right now, Diablo Immortal is not exactly short on trust issues. We already covered the shop loading bug that keeps blocking rewards, the Battle.net purchase bug where claimed bundles can vanish, and the Party Finder bug that hides activities. Another event acting weird is not catastrophic on its own, but it absolutely adds to the “what is broken today?” mood.
The weird little problem with event-based games
The funniest part is that this is the sort of bug that makes players feel foolish more than angry at first. They got the prompt. They went where the game told them to go. They did the responsible little live-service thing. And then Diablo Immortal basically left them standing in Ashwold waiting for a ghost cart that never arrived. If more players start reporting the same thing, this could turn from a stray annoyance into a very real event-reliability problem. For now, it is one of those wonderfully dumb bugs that sounds fake right until it wastes your evening.
