Checkmate Cheese

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Checkmate Cheese
Category: Zugzwang's Tower
Cheese Info
Cost: 5,400 gold
Shoppe: None
Potion: None
Craftable: Yes
Tradeable: No
Giveable: No
Smashes To: N/A
Stales To: Stale Cheese
Larry's Loot Lexicon: MouseHunt Info Page
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This cheese is the only food which can entice the Chess Master, for its delicate aroma carries the scent... of victory! The Kings of both teams long for a morsel of this cheese, believing it will bring them mastery over the game, but if you can defeat them, the Chess Master himself will challenge you for a piece. Don't leave this cheese out too long, though, or you may find yourself with a stale, mate.

Obtaining Checkmate Cheese

Crafting

Checkmate Cheese can be crafted using the proper ingredients.

Checkmate Cheese - 3 Piece Recipe

Hunters must reach the rank of Lord or Lady before they can use this recipe.

Formula: Checkmate Cheese (3 pieces)
Recipe can be unlocked by: Capture a Mystic King mouse and a Technic King mouse
Item Item
Qty
Item
Cost
Item Source
Mystic Curd 1 N/A
Technic Cheese Mould 1 N/A
Ionized Salt 12 450
(5,400 total)
Total 5,400 gold Cost Per Piece: 1,800 gold
Recipe costs represent Shoppe prices only. The cost of items obtained through other sources will affect the total cost of crafting.

Checkmate Cheese - 9 Piece Recipe

Hunters must reach the rank of Lord or Lady before they can use this recipe.

Formula: Checkmate Cheese (9 pieces)
Recipe can be unlocked by: Capture a Mystic King mouse and a Technic King mouse
Item Item
Qty
Item
Cost
Item Source
Mystic Curd 1 N/A
Technic Cheese Mould 1 N/A
Magic Essence 6 N/A
  • Loot when opened:
  • Loot when used:
Ionized Salt 12 450
(5,400 total)
Total 5,400 gold Cost Per Piece: 600 gold
Recipe costs represent Shoppe prices only. The cost of items obtained through other sources will affect the total cost of crafting.

Other Sources

Using Checkmate Cheese

Locations

  • Zugzwang's Tower - using Checkmate Cheese improves the chance a Hunter will encounter the mice needed to fill empty silhouettes in the HUD. For example, if a Hunter needs to attract a Mystic Rook to unlock access to the Mystic Queen, arming Checkmate Cheese will increase the chances of encountering the Mystic Rook.

Mice


When doing a double run, the mice attraction pool changes when Checkmate Cheese is armed.

  • Upon capturing the first King (either with Checkmate Cheese or with any Standard Cheese with Stalemate Charm):
    • If Checkmate Cheese is armed, the mice pool will include the Chess Master, the Rook of the first side done, and whichever mice have been unlocked from the second side.
    • If Standard Cheese is armed, the mice pool will include the Pawn of the first side done, and whichever mice have been unlocked from the second side.

Related Items

Staling Effect

  • Stale Cheese - Produced by Checkmate Cheese when it fails to attract a mouse and goes stale.

History and Trivia

  • 29 August 2010: Checkmate Cheese is introduced.