Great Winter Hunt 2010

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Description and Requirements

The Festive Comet is a special location available during the Great Winter Hunt 2010. The description for the area in the first two years was: This celestial event of festive proportions has crashed into Gnawnia! Although the original origin of this cheer-spreading comet are unknown, hunters from across the Kingdom are calling its arrival cause for festive celebration!. There are no special requirements for hunters to enter this area. Mice are unable to steal gold or points in this location but may steal cheese if not caught.

Catch statistics from the Festive Comet are grouped with those from the Heart of the Tiger Party under the King's Party Zone location name.

Hunters remaining at the Festive Comet as it melted were silently relocated to the Vacant Lot at the same location on the Travel map, but with a much smaller selection of mice. The developers stated that after the majority of hunters traveled out on their own, the stragglers would be relocated to the Meadow.

Shops

These are the shops that can be found in the Festive Comet:

The Trapsmith, Cheese Shoppe and Cartographer were introduced during the Great Winter Hunt 2010 event.

Festive Comet Mice

Mouse Points Gold Mouse Group Loot
Abominable Snow 1,750 1,750 Indigenous Mice
Bear 310 575 Indigenous Mice
Candy Cane 600 600 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Centaur 3,800 960 Forest Guild
Christmas Tree 2,600 1,200 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Gingerbread Base Blueprints
Diamond 1,200 600 Indigenous Mice
Dwarf 225 450 Indigenous Mice
Elf 900 750 Event Mice Blue Winter Hunt Gift Box
Gingerbread House Plans
Green Winter Hunt Gift Box
Red Winter Hunt Gift Box
Frosty Snow 600 300 Indigenous Mice
Frozen 300 300 Indigenous Mice
Gladiator 8,365 8,250 The Derr Tribe Ski Sign
Gold 600 1,200 Indigenous Mice
Harpy 11,100 3,100 Forest Guild
Hydra 9,640 5,760 Aquatic Order Bolt of Cloth
Rope
Scrap Metal
Splintered Wood
Lambent Crystal 9,000 3,000 Digby Dirt Dwellers
Missile Toe 1,600 900 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Holiday Explosives
Monster 9,100 9,100 Indigenous Mice Brie cheese
Cheddar cheese
Living Shards
Marble cheese
Swiss cheese
Mouse of Winter Future 4,000 3,000 Event Mice Misplaced Missile Cone
Mouse of Winter Past 4,000 3,000 Event Mice Lava Bucket
Mouse of Winter Present 4,000 3,000 Event Mice Festive Mines
New Year's 2,200 200 Event Mice King's Reserve Bubbleh
Satchel of Gold worth 2,011 gold
Nutcracker 3,000 300 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Ornament 900 2,600 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Gingerbread Base Blueprints
Present 900 900 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Scrooge 70 3,000 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Heart of Ice
Slay Ride 8,000 4,000 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Sled
Snow Fort 3,400 1,200 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Packed Snow
Squeaker Claws 10,000 1,400 Event Mice 2010 Ronza Voucher
2010 Winter Star
Blue Winter Hunt Gift Box
Green Winter Hunt Gift Box
Red Winter Hunt Gift Box
Stealth 500 295 Gauntlet Gladiators Climbing Pitons
Steel 270 500 Indigenous Mice Scrap Metal
Seasoned Gouda Potion
Stocking 900 300 Event Mice Festive Fuse
Frozen Fromage
Toy 500 500 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Treant 1,300 600 Forest Guild Splintered Wood
Troll 8,190 8,190 Forest Guild Brie cheese
Cheddar cheese
Marble cheese
Swiss cheese
Satchel of Gold worth 1,000 gold
Vinetail 13,172 6,580 Seasonal Soldiers
White 70 100 Indigenous Mice Cheddar cheese
Marble cheese
Worker 300 2,200 Followers of Furoma Gingerbread House Plans
Splintered Wood
Wreath Thief 2,200 700 Event Mice Frozen Fromage
Icicles
Zombie 2,700 2,700 Indigenous Mice Seasoned Gouda Potion


The 12 Mice of Winter

Starting on 29 November 2010 through 23 December 2010 mice and gifts are released every so often per calendar:

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
28 Nov 29 Nov
Toy
30 Nov
New gift
1
Candy Cane
2
Elf Madness
3
Present
4
5 6
Christmas Tree
7
New gift
8
Ornament
9
Elf Madness
10
Nutcracker
11
12 13
Stocking
14
New gift
15
Scrooge
16
Elf Madness
17
Missile Toe
Mouse of Winter Past
18
19 20
Wreath Thief
Mouse of Winter Present
21
New gift
22
Snow Fort
Mouse of Winter Future
23
Slay Ride
Squeaker Claws
24 25

After mice invaded the Festive Comet during the Great Winter Star Ceremony, hunters were required to restore Holiday Cheer and retrieve the Winter Star. On catching the 12 Mice of Winter and lighting all 12 Festive lights, hunters could thaw their Frozen Fromage and the final Festi-villain, the Squeaker Claws Mouse, became available to catch.

6 Limited Edition collectibles were dropped as loot by specific event mice. These 6 items could be exchanged, along with 10,000 gold, at the trapsmith for the Explosive Toboggan Ride trap. A further 5 loot drops from 5 different, stronger mice, could be used to upgrade this trap to the Double Diamond Adventure trap.

Hunting Strategy

In this location, there are mice that are weak to different power types (Hydro, Physical, Forgotten and Tactical). The hunters need to pick the trap with the power type effective against their most desired mice. Alternatively, hunters may consider using the luckiest trap available to them.

SUPER|brie+ and Gingerbread Cheese are the only cheeses that are consistently effective in attracting all of the festive mice that are exclusive to this location, though SUPER|brie+ seems to be better in obtaining the Christmas Tree Mouse (see the main Christmas Tree Mouse article) and is essentially necessary to attract the Worker Mouse. The use of conventional cheeses such as Brie or Swiss does not attract the festive mice as much and eliminates altogether the attraction of several mice including the Scrooge, Christmas Tree, Troll, Hydra and Gargoyle. The overall attraction rate of regular cheese is rather low in this location, but the Abominable Snow Mouse is still attracted to your trap. During the Great Winter Hunt 2010, a new wave of mice invaded the Festive Comet. Led by the Scrooge Mouse, these stronger mice (Diamond, Gladiator, Gold, Harpy, Lambent Crystal, Monster, Mouse of Winter Past, Stealth, Vinetail, and Zombie) have been found to be especially attracted to Seasoned Gouda cheese. The Squeaker Claws Mouse can only be attracted once a hunter has lit their 12 Festive lights by catching the 12 Mice of Winter; this mouse has been found to be especially attracted to Nutmeg cheese. If hunters find the 2010 Winter Star, they will have saved the Great Winter Hunt 2010 and restored Holiday Cheer to the Festive Comet.

Hunting tips by Larry

Welcome to the Festive Comet, MouseHunter!

This massive snowy comet smashed into Gnawnia resulting in an explosion of candy canes and snow! It's arrival in Gnawnia marks the beginning of the Great Winter Hunt!

Some pesky Elf mice have ran off with presents. If you catch an Elf mouse you'll find a gift specially wrapped depending on your Hunter's Title. Many of the gifts contain a little cheese to help you in your hunting, but occasionally you may just find something a little more special. To attract Elf mice more often, I suggest using SUPER|brie+ or Gingerbread Cheese as bait.

During the lighting of the Great Winter Tree, barrels of egg nog suddently exploded and the mice used the distraction to steal the star from the top of the tree! The mice have a schedule for their devious plot, and the bosses will only reveal themselves if the minions fail. Click the calandar icon on your heads-up display to see when each mouse is being released.

Don't forget your mittens and toque! Happy holiday hunting!

Festive Hunting tips by Larry

There's a lot going on at the Festive Comet and Larry the Friendly Knight wanted to give a few pointers to hunters on how best to hunt the various groups of mice invading the comet.

Gingerbread will attract the 12 Mice of Winter, with SUPER|brie+ being even more effective.

Seasoned Gouda will not only attract the 12 Mice of Winter, but will also attract The Three Ghosts of Winter and other powerful mice that drop upgrade pieces for the Explosive Toboggan Ride.

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