Foreword Farm

Foreword Farm
Region: Folklore Forest
Rank requirement:	Archduke/Archduchess
Map piece:	Legendary Looking Glass
Required Power Type:	Tactical
Required Cheese:	Standard Cheese
Number of Mice:	9
Shops:	Cheese Shoppe Trapsmith Charm Shoppe General Store Cartographer
Release Date:	26 July 2022
Tend these fertile fields to grow a bountiful harvest of Parable Papyrus!

Overview

Foreword Farm is a hunting location in Folklore Forest region.

Foreword Farm, Prologue Pond, and Table of Contents are 3 connected hunting locations.
They require the minimum rank of Archduke/Archduchess and the Legendary Looking Glass to access.

Parable Papyrus earned here can be used to purchase different type of cheese to use in Table of Contents.
Crop Coin earned here can be used to unlock several Upgrades in those 3 locations.

Gameplay Mechanics

Planting

In Foreword Farm, the Planting Mechanics are in effect.

• There are 3 planting plots.
  • The first plot is available as soon as the Hunter enters this location.
  • The second and third plot can be unlocked by spending certain resources in Upgrades.
• There are 6 types of plants.
• Planting consumes a cost and places a plant into one plot.
  • Each plot can hold 1 active plant and 1 queued plant.
  • Plants grow by catching mice.
    • Newly placed plants start at 0 cm.
    • Each catch grows active plants by 10 cm. This can be doubled to 20 cm with the use of Condensed Creativity.
    • Once a plant reaches 200 cm, it will mature, and:
      • The yield is added to the harvest bin.
      • The queued plant becomes active.
• The Hunter can choose to uproot a plant. Doing so will remove the plant from the plot and refund its cost.
• The number and type of active plants determine available mice.

Plant	Cost	Base Yield	Bonus Yield from Upgrades
			Hyper Pollinator	Filtered Well Water	Only Enriched Soil	Only Titanium Pruning Shears	Enriched Soil and Titanium Pruning Shears
Mythical Mulch Plant	10 Papyrus Seed	5 Mythical Mulch 5 Crop Coin	5 Papyrus Seed	10 Mythical Mulch	N/A	N/A	N/A
Magic Mythical Mulch Plant	10 Papyrus Seed 3 Magic Essence	10 Mythical Mulch 5 Crop Coin
Parable Papyrus Plant	10 Papyrus Seed 20 Mythical Mulch	10 Papyrus Seed 100 Parable Papyrus 20 Crop Coin		N/A	100 Parable Papyrus	100 Parable Papyrus	300 Parable Papyrus
Magic Parable Papyrus Plant	10 Papyrus Seed 20 Mythical Mulch 3 Magic Essence	10 Papyrus Seed 200 Parable Papyrus 20 Crop Coin				200 Parable Papyrus	400 Parable Papyrus
Twisted Parable Papyrus Plant	10 Papyrus Seed 20 Mythical Mulch 100 Crop Coin	10 Papyrus Seed 150 Parable Papyrus				150 Parable Papyrus	350 Parable Papyrus
Magic Twisted Parable Papyrus Plant	10 Papyrus Seed 20 Mythical Mulch 100 Crop Coin 3 Magic Essence	10 Papyrus Seed 300 Parable Papyrus				300 Parable Papyrus	500 Parable Papyrus

Upgrades

The Hunter can upgrade their plots to gain different boosts on hunting in the location.
An unlocked upgrade affects all crops currently in the Harvest Bin, even if the plants grew to maturity before the upgrade was purchased.
Unlocking each upgrade rewards 10 Condensed Creativity.

Upgrade	Description	Cost
		Gold	Crop Coin	Gnawbel Prize for Literature
Unlock 2nd Farm Plot	Unlock a second plot in the Foreword Farm!	150,000	15	-
Hire Farmhands	Doubles loot drops of Papyrus Seeds and Crop Coins!	500,000	50	-
Unlock 3rd Farm Plot Requires Unlock 2nd Farm Plot	Unlock a third plot in the Foreword Farm!	1,000,000	200	-
Hyper Pollinator	Adds 5 Papyrus Seeds to all plant yields!	2,500,000	500	15
Filtered Well Water	Adds 10 Mythical Mulch to the yield from all Mythical Mulch Plants!	5,000,000	1,000	150
Enriched Soil	Adds 100 Parable Papyrus to the yield from all Parable Papyrus Plants	10,000,000	1.500	500
Titanium Pruning Shears	Doubles the harvest yield of Parable Papyrus!	10,000,000	3,000	2,500

Heads-Up Display

Top

• A button with a map icon which can be clicked to open an interface to travel among Foreword Farm, Prologue Pond, and Table of Contents.
• A ? button which can be clicked to open Info interface.

Info interface

Each tab provides information on what to do in each location.

Foreword Farm

Tend your fields and harvest Parable Papyrus in the Foreword Farm!

Hunt with any standard bait to collect Papyrus Seeds.

Use Papyrus Seeds to plant Mythical Mulch Plants.

Defend your crops from the hungry pest mice. Each catch will grow your plants!

Harvest Mythical Mulch and use it with Papyrus Seeds to plant Parable Papyrus Plants.

Grow your plants to maturity and harvest Parable Papyrus.

Prologue Pond

Go fishing for Inspiration Ink at the Prologue Pond!

Hunt with any standard bait to collect Ingenuity Grubs then use them to craft Grubbeen Cheese.

Hunt with Grubbeen Cheese to collect Pond Pennies and use them to craft Brainstorm Chum.

Scatter Brainstorm Chum while hunting with Grubbeen cheese to collect Cleverness Clams.

Use Cleverness Clams to craft Clamembert Cheese and use it with Brainstorm Chum to collect Inspiration Ink.

Table of Contents

Write your masterpiece in the Table of Contents to earn Gnawbel Prizes for Literature!

Start writing a book with any standard bait and collect Draft Derby Curds.

Catch mice to write words! The mouse's point value will determine how many words you write per catch.

Use Draft Derby Curds with Parable Papyrus and Inspiration Ink to craft the various tiers of Draft Derby Cheese.

Each tier of Draft Derby cheese will attract mice with higher point values, allowing you to write longer books.

Longer books will reward more Draft Derby Curds and more Gnawbel Prizes for Literature!

Once you reach the Encyclopedia of Lore, you can use Final Draft Derby to attract the Mythweaver!

Left

• An Upgrades button to bring out the Upgrade interface which contains:
  • 3 tabs for 3 locations:
    • Foreword Farm Upgrades
    • Prologue Pond Upgrades
    • Table of Contents Upgrades
  • The Hunter's inventory of items used to upgrade:
    • Gold - Earned throughout Gnawnia
    • Crop Coin - Earned in the Foreword Farm
    • Pond Penny - Earned in the Prologue Pond
    • Gnawbel Prize for Literature - Earned in the Table of Contents
• Folklore Forest Inventory with hints for source and usage of each item
  • Foreword Farm
    • Papyrus Seed - Used for planting all plants
    • Mythical Mulch - Used for panting Parable Papyrus plants
    • Parable Papyrus - Used for making Draft Derby Cheeses
    • Crop Coin - Earned in the Foreword Farm
  • Prologue Pond
    • Ingenuity Grub - Used for making Grubbeen Cheese
    • Cleverness Clam - Used for making Clamembert Cheese
    • Inspiration Ink - Used for making Draft Derby Cheeses
    • Pond Penny - Earned in the Prologue Pond
  • Table of Contents
    • Draft Derby Curd - Used for making Draft Derby Cheeses
    • Gnawbel Prize for Literature - Earned in the Table of Contents

Center

• Current Planting status

Right

• Condensed Creativity

Bottom

• Standard Cheese
• Pest level implying available mice
• Growth per Catch

Mice

All mice found in Foreword Farm are part of the Foreword Farmers group.

Only Tactical power type works against these mice.

The mouse attraction pool depends on the number of plant growing.

Condensed Creativity doubles the loot drop of Crop Coin, Parable Papyrus, and Papyrus Seed.

Mouse	Points	Gold	Sub-group	0 Plant	1 Plant	2 Plants	3 Plants	3 Parable Papyrus Plants	3 Twisted Parable Papyrus Plants	Loot
Land Loafer	50,000	7,000	Seed Stowers	X						Papyrus Seed
Root Rummager	55,000	7,500	Seed Stowers	X	X					Papyrus Seed
Grit Grifter	58,000	9,000	Seed Stowers	X	X	X				Papyrus Seed
Crazed Cultivator Requires SUPER|brie+	50,000	5,000	Seed Stowers	X	X	X	X	X		Condensed Creativity Papyrus Seed
Angry Aphid	55,000	7,500	Petulant Pests		X	X	X	X		Condensed Creativity Crop Coin
Wily Weevil	58,000	8,500	Petulant Pests			X	X	X		Condensed Creativity Crop Coin
Mighty Mite	60,000	10,000	Petulant Pests				X	X		Condensed Creativity Crop Coin
Loathsome Locust	65,000	20,000	Petulant Pests					X		Ancient Relic Condensed Creativity Crop Coin Flawless Orb Parable Papyrus
Monstrous Midge	100,000	30,000	Petulant Pests						X	Ancient Relic Condensed Creativity Parable Papyrus

Hunting Strategy

Hunting Tips by Larry

Greetings hunter and welcome to the Foreword Farm!

The soil here seems to be enchanted and is unlike anywhere else in the Kingdom! Under the right conditions, you should be able to grow and harvest a new and very valuable crop called Parable Papyrus!

Start by collecting Papyrus Seeds from the Seed Stower mice that are wandering the fields and use them to plant Mythical Mulch Plants. Once you start growing any kind of plant, you'll begin to attract the Petulant Pest mice who have an insatiable appetite for your delicious crops. The more plants you grow, the more pests you'll attract so be ready for these ravenous rascals. Defend your plants from these pests and grow them to maturity in order to collect their bountiful harvest.

Harvesting Mythical Mulch Plants will earn you a potent material called... you guessed it, Mythical Mulch! By planting Papyrus Seeds and Mythical Mulch together, you can grow the extremely valuable Parable Papyrus Plant! The Parable Papyrus that you harvest from this precious plant will become very useful when you get to the Table of Contents.

There is another type of plant available to cultivate here but hunters should be warned that although it's quite valuable to harvest, planting too many of these Twisted plants may attract a very dangerous adversary to your field!

Happy hunting and harvesting!

Adventure Book

The Hunter can complete steps of the Outwrite the Mythweaver adventure in Foreword Farm.

Location-Specific Effects

Bases

• Naughty List Printing Press Base or Folklore Printing Press Base
  • When the Hunter has at least 1 Prolific Printing Paper in their inventory, the base's stats are boosted to:
    • 4,500 Power
    • 35% Power Bonus
    • 35% Attraction Bonus
    • 57 Luck
  • Consumes 1 Prolific Printing Paper per hunt

Shops

These are the shops found in Foreword Farm.

Cheese Shoppe

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Gouda Cheese	600 gold	None	600 gold
Brie Cheese	200 gold	None	200 gold
Swiss Cheese	100 gold	None	100 gold

Trapsmith

Weapons

Item	Power Type	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Tome of the Mind's Eye Trap	Forgotten	15,000,000 gold 100 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Charming PrinceBot	Physical	26,000,000 gold 2,500 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Dark Magic Mirrors Trap	Shadow	59,000,000 gold 2,500 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A

Bases

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Folklore Printing Press Base	20,000,000 gold 5,000 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A

Skins

Item	Used With	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Chrome Crop Obliterator Trap Skin	Chrome Thought Obliterator Trap	5,000,000 gold 1,200 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A

Charm Shoppe

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Charmbit	25 gold	None	20 gold
Spore Charm	750 gold 15 Crop Coin	None	N/A
Super Spore Charm	1,000 gold 2 Spore Charm	None	N/A
Extreme Spore Charm	2,000 gold 2 Super Spore Charm	1 Outwrite the Mythweaver	N/A
Ultimate Spore Charm	2,500 gold 2 Extreme Spore Charm 20 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	1 Outwrite the Mythweaver	N/A
Super Lucky Power Charm	2,500 gold	None	750 gold
Extreme Power Charm	1,500 gold	None	450 gold
Extreme Luck Charm	4,500 gold	None	1,350 gold
Extreme Lucky Power Charm	12,000 gold	None	3,600 gold

General Store

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Mythical Mulch	1,000 gold 10 Papyrus Seed	None	N/A
Curds and Whey	12 gold	None	3 gold
Ionized Salt	450 gold	None	150 gold
Unstable Manuscript	5 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Unstable Magnum Opus	1,000 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Prolific Printing Paper	40,000 gold 180 Crop Coin	None	N/A
Floating Bookmobile Airship Balloon	1,500,000 gold 300 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Floating Bookmobile Airship Sail	1,500,000 gold 300 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Floating Bookmobile Airship Hull	1,500,000 gold 300 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A
Table of Contents Journal Theme	2,500,000 gold 3,000 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A

Cartographer

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Tale of the Bountiful Beanstalk	1,000,000 gold 1,000 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	1 Outwrite the Mythweaver	N/A
Farming and Fishing Scroll Case	3 Ancient Relic	None	N/A
Folklore Forest Prelude Scroll Case	10 Ancient Relic 100 Gnawbel Prize for Literature	None	N/A

History and Trivia

• 26 July 2022: Foreword Farm, together with Prologue Pond and Table of Contents, was released as part of a new region, Folklore Forest.
• 27 September 2022: A Cartographer is added to the location as part of the Treasure Map update for Folklore Forest.
• 7 December 2023: The General Store started selling Prolific Printing Paper with the introduction of Naughty List Printing Press Base.

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