MouseHunt: Halloween Trick and Treat Event

The Halloween Treat and Trick event began on 20th October 2010. The event was not same as what to expect last year Halloween, only to catch Hollowhead mouse (limited edition) running rampant all around the Kingdom.

Quotes from Dave Vanderburg (MH developer):

Attention all MouseHunters!

An insane mouse has proclaimed itself to be the King of Halloween and has setup a spooky obstacle to protect itself from hunters! The King needs your help to explore this new haunted area and track down the pesky mouse at the heart of it all!

In order to fully explore the Haunted Terrortories of Gnawnia, you'll need plenty of Ghoulgonzola and Candy Corn Cheese. You can collect these two new types of cheese by visiting up to 10 of your friends' hunter profiles a day to go Trick-or-Treating. Just click the "Trick-or-Treat" button to discover if your friend decided to trick, or treat you! You'll receive Ghoulgonzola for a trick, and Candy Corn Cheese for a treat. You can also collect both of these flavours of cheese by hunting mutated or Hollowhead mice at the Haunted Terrortories.

During the Halloween event Ghoulgonzola and Candy Corn cheese carry a very high attraction rate in not only the Haunted Terrortories, but many other hunting locations in the Kingdom. Their ability to attract mice is closely tied to the magic of the Haunted Terroroties, meaning they will be slightly less powerful when the Halloween event ends.

When you arrive at the Haunted Terrortories you'll notice two new progress bars on your heads-up-display. These progress bars are filled by catching mice using Ghoulgonzola and Candy Corn Cheese. Trick AND treat enough mice to fill both bars in your current location to attract mice from the next! You TRICK mice using Ghoulgonzola and TREAT them with Candy Corn Cheese.

You'll have to trick and treat your way through the Corn Maze, into the Haunted Manor and finally to the Pumpkin Patch where the Trick, Treat and Gourdborg mice await you!

What sort of haunted loot waits for you at the end of your journey? With a little farming knowledge, an evil pumpkin seed from the Gourdborg mouse can be used to create a spooky (and shadowy) limited edition trap that will let you hunt with fearsome Halloween style! Rumor even has it that with some creative crafting an even more fearsome trap can be constructed...

There's more Halloween fun yet! Gifting is up and running and features a limited edition Pumpkin Treat Basket to celebrate Halloween! Who knows what treats could be inside?

Let the trick-or-treating begin! Have fun and happy haunting MouseHunters!
The Haunted Terrortories consist of three unique areas; The Corn Maze, The Haunted Manor and the Pumpkin Patch.Watch out for Hollowhead mouse to drop 2 loots of different cheese: Ghoulgonzola & Candy Corn.
Therefore, Mutated Grey mouse & Mutated White mouse also drop Candy Corn & Ghoulgonzola respectively.

Ghoulgonzola (left) is used for Tricked Mice & Candy Corn (right) is used for Treated Mice.

The 4 event mice are released for a limited time.The 2 new traps are also released with recipes together.Reminder:

Be prepare to keep your gold to purchase a new Pumpkin Pummeler Blueprint cost 168,000 gold which appears in Haunted Terrortories General Store.

The event ended on 2nd November 2010, so every hunters had a great hunting to get a rare mice dropping its loots.

Happy Hunting!! :)

MouseHunt: Daily Raffles, Tidal Fisher & Realm Ripper mice

Quotes from Dave Vanderburg (MH chief developer)
On the 21st September 201o, a daily raffle tab has been added to the camp page where a new prize item will be up for grabs each day. To start, this will be various amounts of Super|Brie+. Hunters can get tickets for the daily raffle in three ways:

• Purchase tickets with gold (the cost of the ticket will vary with the prize)
• Each of your friends can send you one free ballot a day
• If you send a friend a free ballot, you'll get free bonus ballot in return

To send a friend a ballot you either view their hunter's profile and click the send daily ballot button, or you can view your friends page where the same send ballot button will appear to the right of each of your friends.

Therefore, a number of hunters in the Forbidden Grove and Balack's Cove increased, the process of manually moving thousands of hunters to a new location all at once was becoming increasingly problematic.
When hunting in the Forbidden Grove a new custom heads-up display will be visible showing how long until the grove will close. When the heavy stone gates close, the area is filled with a dense black fog and a new mouse, the Realm Ripper will be present. This mouse is extremely weak to Arcane traps and upon being captured will transport the hunter to the Acolyte Realm.Balack's Cove has been given a similar upgrade, where catching a Riptide mouse will wash the hunter out into the Jungle of Dread. When hunting in the cove a custom heads-up display is also displayed showing the current height of the tides. The tides have three possible heights; Low, medium and high. During low tide no Riptide mice are present, during medium tide the Riptides become abundant and finally during high tide only Riptide mice can be encountered. Low tide lasts the longest, while high tide is very short. Due to the Riptide mice concentrating their power on raising the tide, they're a little weaker than they were before. A new mouse has also been added to the cove that can only be encountered during low tide to keep a similar variety of the mice you can catch in Balack's Cove.

MouseHunt: 24,000th mice caught

On the 17th September 2010, my hunter's journal showed 24,000th mice caught. Currently still hunting at King's Gauntlet Tier 5 until finished off Tier 8 to capture Eclipse Mouse. The hunt continues...

MouseHunt: New traps at Seasonal Garden & Zugzwang's Tower

Mystic Pawn Pincher and Technic Pawn Pincher are available for sale at the Seasonal Garden Trapsmith which introduced on 26th August 2010 when Zugzwang's Tower became accessible.

The Mystic Pawn Pincher can be purchased for 643,750 gold from the Seasonal Garden. It refunds for 77,250 gold at the same location.

The Technic Pawn Pincher can be purchased for 643,750 gold from the Seasonal Garden. It refunds for 77,250 gold at the same location.

On the 29th August 2010, Blackstone Pass Trap and Obvious Ambush Trap are crafted for the first time.

The Blackstone Pass Trap is not sold by any Trapsmith, thus it is non-refundable. It can only be crafted given the proper ingredients.

Keep in mind that the minimum points required to craft this item, you will not be able to craft this weapon until you have the necessary

58,000,000 points.

The Obvious Ambush Trap is not sold by any Trapsmith, thus it is non-refundable. It can only be crafted given the proper ingredients.

Keep in mind that the minimum points required to craft this item, you will not be able to craft this weapon until you have the necessary 58,000,000 points.

MouseHunt: 23,000th mice caught

On the 4th September 2010, my hunter's journal showed 23,000th mice caught. Still the same location to hunt more mice of Tier 2 till Tier 8. I'm currently hunting for mice of Tier 3 to drop a loot of Tier 4 potions. The hunt continues...

MouseHunt: Zugzwang's Tower with new mice

On the 24th August 2010, the MH developers announced a news of new location is called Zugzwang's Tower but is not officially opened.
The quotes from Dave Vanderburg (MH developer):
Hello to all you Lords and Ladies in the Seasonal Garden!
We have now hunted through Winter, Spring and Summer! Fall is just around the corner, and with it comes the final key shard. Once you find all four key shards, they can be combined to gain access to Zugzwang's Tower.
With all the commotion out in the garden, it seems the mice in the tower have been busy barricading the door! It may be another day or two before the barricade can be broken down, so until then, Zugzwang's Tower will remain locked, regardless of whether or not players have the key.
Once we've finished putting some of the finishing touches on Zugzwang's Tower, we'll remove the barricade and let hunters in. To get you the highest quality updates as quickly as possible, we usually keep on tweaking and testing right up until the moment before release, so, sometimes, things change or take a bit longer than expected. We aren’t afraid to change our plan if necessary, as we will never launch an update before it is ready.
Keep your eyes on the news section for an announcement about when the tower is officially open.
Happy hunting!

Then later on the 26th August 2010, the Zugzwang's Tower is officially opened for Lord/Lady hunters & above levels.
The quotes for Dave Vanderburg:
Zugzwang's Tower is located in the Rodentia Region, and hunters can gain access to it once they have collected four key shards from the Seasonal Garden and assembled them into Zugzwang's Tower Key. The tower is like no other hunting location in the game, featuring a brand new way to hunt mice!
If you have been hunting in the new Seasonal Garden area, you have no doubt noticed your increasing 'Tower Amplifier' stat on the heads-up display. With the tower now open, it's time to put that amplifier to use! When hunting in Zugzwang's Tower, your trap's power will be multiplied by your Tower Amplifier, providing a power bonus of up to 75%. When your amplifier drops below 100%, your trap's power and luck will begin to reduce, until they become zero and you are incapable of capturing mice. When your amplifier runs low, make sure to return to the Seasonal Garden to recharge it.
Your amplifier won't be the only new stat displayed on your heads-up display while in Zugzwang's Tower. Additionally, two new progress bars will appear showing how many Technic and Mystic mice you have caught since you entered. Upon capturing the correct mice, new types will then be available along with previous varieties. The correct order of capture is: Eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and finally the king. In order to win, you will have to battle your way through all the chess pieces in the Tower.
There's lots of new items and loot to be found in the tower! Hunting kings may reveal how to attract a more fearsome adversary who holds a key item to crafting a very powerful base. The Seasonal Garden's trapsmith and general store have new items for sale specifically for hunting within Zugzwang's Tower. Winning this game of chess will require some thought and strategy, so study these new traps and items carefully and plan your moves in advance!
Put on your thinking caps, and good luck conquering the Tower, MouseHunters!

There's a lot more than a new area in this release! We've overhauled a few existing pages and even added a brand new section!
Here's a breakdown of what else is new with this update:
Loot items are now clickable in journal entries and link to a new page called "Larry's Loot Lexicon". This new page shows some basic item information to help reduce confusion when finding a new item for the first time.
We added black and white thumbnails and search filters to the stats section of the mice page and hunter profiles. This change will easily allow hunters to see what mice in a group they have yet to catch to help to see how to complete their collection!
The items tab on hunter profiles has been given collection stats. If you're a collector of trap parts or map pieces, having all of these items earns you a check-mark on your profile. Limited edition items do not count towards collection totals and are instead displayed in brackets as a bonus.
We overhauled the look and functionality of crafting and the recipe book. We also corrected a problem where page popups would appear at the top of the page while scrolled down. The recipe book is now sorted into categories to make it easier to find what you're looking for.
We improved mouse popups on the adversary page. Clicking the image of the mouse now displays a higher-resolution image. Global stats have also been added in the popups, which update once a day.
We reduced the frequency of a problem where players went on two simultaneous hunts, registering an extra caught mouse in their stats without record of a journal or loot.
We corrected a problem where Student of the Cheese Belt mice would not steal gold or points.
We corrected a problem where King's Crown journal entries would be improperly time-stamped for trap checks.
We corrected a problem where brown and grey mice were being shown on Furoma's regional mice page.
Phew! We hope everyone enjoys this massive update, packed with cheesy deliciousness!
Happy hunting!

Zugzwang's Tower is a location in the Rodentia region requiring a minimum rank of Lord or Lady and the Zugzwang's Tower Key to enter.
Upon catching a Mystic King or a Technic King, the hunter is automatically transported back to the Seasonal Garden with the following message:
Checkmate! I defeated a Technic King Mouse! I was transported to the Seasonal Garden.
OR
Checkmate! I defeated a Mystic King Mouse! I was transported to the Seasonal Garden.
Upon exiting Zugzwang's Tower, by traveling, catching a King or getting an amplifier percentage of 0%, the Tower Progress will reset as well as the Tower Amplifier.

All mice in the Zigzwang's Tower are the Wizard's Pieces group. They have a weakness to Tactical weapons, Enjoy hunting!!!

MouseHunt: 22,222th mice caught

On the 24th August 2010, my hunter's journal showed 22,222th mice caught. The earlier post about 21,000th & 22,000th mice caught did not make it due to MH technical glitch that may caused stir up with overall mice caught in MH's end-users.
I'm still hunting at King's Gauntlet to complete all levels of cheese Tier 2 to Tier 8. My strategy is to hunt 150 potions of Tier 2 to convert 600pcs of cheese Tier 2, then follow by the remaining potions of cheese Tier 3 drop by mice at level 2. The hunt continues...