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=== [{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=980 The Great Winter Hunt Returns!] ===
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''{{date|9|December|2025}}''
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'''Start sending golems to collect loot'''
  
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Visit the Great Winter Taiga and Confront the Frost King once again
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=== Marketplace Madness ===
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==== The Frost King's Latest Attack ====
''{{date|23|July|2014}}''
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The return of wintry weather has once again allowed the Frost King to construct his massive Ice Fortress. Hunters will need to smash their way through the Frost King's protective ice shield in order to end his plan to plunge Gnawnia into perpetual winter.
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The new and improved Marketplace is here at last! Terrific improvements in trading technology have made their way to Gnawnia. Buy and sell with equal ease! List multiple items at once! Check out your full Marketplace history! And more!
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Visit the Great Winter Taiga to find magical snow golems that are perfect for collecting all sorts of resources! Along with useful hunting supplies, your golems can collect powerful Hailstones to smash through the Ice Fortress' shield.
  
====New Layout, New Love!====
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The new Marketplace is now an on-page popup, so you don't have to leave what you're doing in order to pick up a few choice crafting ingredients or a fancy new skin. Plus, we've added a ton of useful new tabs to help you manage your listings. In short? There's more stuff!
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====What's New? What's in Demand?====
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The first new tab you'll see is the Featured tab, which showcases interesting items. Things that are new to the game, or really expensive, or traded frequently, or that have fallen drastically in price recently, and more! We update the list through the day, so check back to see what's hot and why!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''25 Festive Jingle Bells'''<br>Instantly return a golem!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Magical Holiday Hat'''<br>+3 loot to ANY level golem!
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Plus, go and look through the list of items for trade! You'll find a bunch of new items that weren't tradable before!
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<div style="text-align: center;">Collect the Frost King's Magical Holiday Scarf to construct an especially rewarding golem!</div>
  
====I Want It, But On My Terms====
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==== Uncork Festive Spirit ====
Tired of trying to buy something, but not finding the prices to your liking? Well now you can create an offer to buy for a price you like, just like how you could create a sell offer before! Just choose the item you want to buy, click "Create Your Own Offer To Buy", enter your quantity and price, and wait for someone to sell it to you!
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When all the warm and fuzzy feelings from the holiday season are condensed and coalesced by a crisp north wind it produces this truly miraculous vapour that is believed to be the physical manifestation of joy itself.
  
This also means that on the Sell page, you'll find brand-new listings of people who will buy your items ''instantly''! No more waiting!
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<div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em">Double Compressed Cinnamon anytime a mouse drops it!
  
====More Slots for Buying and Selling!====
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+1 progress to all active forges in the Golem Workshop!
With all this new functionality, it would be really swell if you could list more than one item at a time, right? Well, now you can!
 
  
Everyone starts with three (count 'em ''three'') buy slots and three sell slots, meaning you can offer to buy and sell a total of six items at a time. Hunters with the Lucky Golden Shield get an extra slot of each type, and if you visit the General Store in the King's Arms, you'll find a Regal Marketplace Display Case and a Regal Marketplace Stool, which will give you +1 sell slot and buy slot, respectively!
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+1 shield damage when '''any''' cannon is fired (for a possible max of four)
  
====History Is No Longer a Mystery====
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Conjures 1 Throwable Snowball each and every hunt!
We now do a better job of showing off useful Marketplace information for items. Average price, price history, and sales history, all in graph form! All these are available to help you make better trading decisions.
 
  
Furthermore, we now offer a complete history of your Marketplace transactions on the My History tab, so you can see just how much of what you bought and sold over the years!
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Double loot drops of a wide variety of festive-themed items at the Taiga!</div>
  
====Go Give It a Try!====
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You can obtain Festive Spirit by hunting with standard cheese, completing Naughty Maps, opening doors on your Advent Calendar, and by purchasing it from the Premium Shop.
The new Marketplace is live '''now now now''', so [{{MHdomain}}/marketplace.php go and try it out!]
 
  
-- {{MHP|577907772|Dan Hulton}}
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=== Discover the Sunken City ===
 
''{{date|02|July|2014}}''
 
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A new city and hunting location has been discovered, deep under the Rodentia Ocean! This new, permanent hunting area for Count/Countess hunters contains 60 new mice, new Hydro traps, a powerful new base, and much more!
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====Sunken City Discovered in Rodentia====
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'''Golem Parts'''
Sandtail lore speaks of a city that was once perched on the far west cliffs of the desert until the arid soil cracked and shifted, causing the city to slide into the water. The story was long thought to merely be a popular tale perpetuated by thirsty desert denizen, fascinated by a city with access to an infinite supply of water. However, it appears the stories are true, as an ancient Sunken City has been discovered just off the coast near Daredevil Canyon!
 
  
====Learning to Enter the Sunken City====
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'''Magical Holiday Hat'''
Traveling down to the city requires knowledge of its layout, which can learned by purchasing a Sunken Souvenir from the Muridae Market Cartographer. The souvenir is an accurate model of the city, allowing a hunter to learn the best means with which to approach the underwater city and the location of the airlock to safely enter it once there. The souvenir is made of high-quality Sandtail glass, and as such, the Cartographer there will ask to be compensated with 90 Molten Glass in exchange for the souvenir. However, during the first week of the city's discovery, the Cartographer is offering the souvenir for merely the gold cost. How generous!
 
  
====Preparing for Underwater Exploration====
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'''Magical Holiday Scarf'''
Although not much is known about the Sunken City, one thing is clear: It's not immune to the mouse invasion consuming the rest of the Kingdom! The mice in the city have been exploring the ocean, recruiting the aquatic mice there and gathering underwater resources. The King needs you to use a state-of-the-art totally fully-tested and safe to use submersible sea shuttle to explore the deep sea in order to see how far the reach of the Sunken City goes and to stop those mice waiting to strike from the sea!
 
  
Your ultimate goal is to travel as far along the ocean floor as possible, researching powerful mice and finding the valuable loot they carry. Achieving this is no simple task, however, and will require some careful planning.
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'''Festive Spirit itself'''</div>
  
Upon arriving at the Sunken City, your first task will be to prepare to explore the ocean floor. You'll have access to a sea shuttle to explore, however, you'll need an ample supply of Oxygen Canisters in order to brave the ocean depths to hunt the mice that live underwater. Oxygen Canisters can be collected by hunting mice within the Sunken City. At first, not many mice will be attracted to your bait, however, after exploring the ocean you'll be able to craft a much more effective type of bait -- Fishy Fromage.
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Each time you claim a golem reward, you'll progress a reward track to earn bonus rewards including two new pieces of Limited Edition hunting equipment.
  
====Conducting Underwater Exploration====
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Once you have some Oxygen Canisters stockpiled, you can begin a dive. Exiting the airlock in the city will consume 10 Oxygen Canisters, so make sure you have enough to make your exploration worthwhile before diving -- about 100 for your first dive will last you a good day or two of underwater hunting! Once you exit the city into the water, each hunt you take will consume one Oxygen Canister. Successfully capturing a mouse will reveal a good portion of the seafloor ahead, moving your submersible forward by 30 meters. Failing to capture a mouse will reveal much less, moving your submersible forward by only 10 meters. Finally, failing to attract a mouse will not reveal any new territory, meaning your submersible will not move at all.
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'''''(NEW)''  Storm Condenser Base'''
  
As you move forward you'll discover different areas of the ocean floor, each with a unique population of mice and loot to explore! There are a lot of mice and a ton of loot to be found, including materials needed to craft the valuable Fishy Fromage, which will dramatically help you resupply for your next dive!
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">While armed at Moussu Picchu, prevents the weather from intensifying!</div>
  
The Rodentia Ocean is quite expansive. In fact, you'll likely find that it seems quite endless! There does not appear to be any limit to how far away from the city your submersible can travel, however, take caution as the further out you go, the more powerful the mice you'll encounter! That said, with great risk comes great reward, meaning the further out you go, the more valuable loot there is to be found! Carefully managing your diving supplies will be crucial to routinely reaching far depths of exploration.
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
  
====Fishy Fromage and Resupplying====
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While exploring the ocean, you'll find Damaged Coral Fragments, Mouse Scales, and Barnacles. These ingredients can be exchanged at the shop (or crafted together) to create Fishy Fromage! Although this unique "flavour" of cheese smells horrible, the mice within the Sunken City cannot resist it, making it the best bait for collecting Oxygen Canisters to resupply in between dives. Use Fishy Fromage while in between dives to attract new types of mice in the Sunken City which drop Oxygen Canisters much more frequently and in greater quantities.
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'''''(NEW)''  Steam AugerBot 3000'''
  
Fishy Fromage is so effective at collecting Oxygen Canisters that after several dives you may find yourself with an ample supply of the bait. Fortunately, the Charm Shoppe in the Sunken City provides another use for your underwater loot in the form of an extremely powerful Water Jet Charm. Capturing a mouse while having a Water Jet armed will propel your submersible forward by 500 meters! They're rather expensive, however, so make sure to choose when to use them wisely and balance your supply of Fishy Fromage and Water Jet Charms carefully!
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====Sunken City Shopkeepers====
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
The shopkeepers within the Sunken City deal in more than just Gnawnian Gold. Some of their wares cost loot items, including a currency unique to the Sunken City called Sand Dollars. Sand Dollars can be found during diving expeditions along with various other loot items that will help you become a diving expert!
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'''''(NEW)''  Cozy Chalet Journal Theme'''
  
'''[[Tidal Base]]'''
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">A new journal theme to keep keep your Hunter's Journal cozy and warm!</div>
Harnessing the power of ocean currents, the Tidal Base adds an impressive 800 Power to your trap along with a generous 8% Power Bonus!
 
  
'''[[Rune Shark Trap]]'''
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The King had one simple request. And that was to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently the aquatic trapsmiths have informed the King that such a thing can indeed be done. Better yet, the runes within the shark provide power to their "hover fins", making this trap equally effective on land!
 
  
'''[[School of Sharks]]'''
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This is it: The Hydro trap that has it all. If sharks with lasers were not intimidating enough, how about an entire school of sharks with upgraded lasers and the latest in mouse-tracking projectiles? The School of Sharks Trap is the pinnacle of Hydro traps. In fact, it's hard to imagine anything surpassing it! With 9,850 Power, 15% Power Bonus, and +30 Luck, the School of Sharks can be challenging to control, requiring a high level of hunting experience: 450,000,000 points worth, to be exact, but it's absolutely worth the training to use such an amazing trap!
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'''''(NEW)''  Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box'''
  
'''[[Water Jet Charm]]s'''
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<div style="text-align: centre; padding-left: 0.416em">'''Winter Aura Reward'''</div>
These projectile charms provide a massive output boost to your submersible's propellers while exploring the ocean, launching you forward by 500 meters upon catching a mouse! However, they're rather expensive. Carefully planning how often you equip these, and where to use them, is key to routinely reaching great distances underwater.
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">Hunters ranked Viceroy and up will occasionally receive a Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box from their Winter Aura instead of the regular Orange Gift Box!</div>
  
'''[[Predatory Processor]]'''
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'''Viceroy+ Loot Drop'''
These futuristic segmented processing units can be used to upgrade the Rune Shark Trap into a formidable School of Sharks! The assembly process is conducted inside of a secretive, specialized cleanroom within the Sunken City, meaning you'll need to have the local Trapsmith assemble the upgrade, rather than craft it yourself.
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These powerful processors can be purchased using Sand Dollars, or on rare occasion, found as loot drops from the most powerful mice in the far depths of the ocean.
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">New Festive Trap Skins in the Premium Shop</div>
  
'''Underwater Loot Lunch Packs'''
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The Premium Shop is stocked with four new festive trap skins! Visit the Premium Shop to see the new skins as well as a convenient bundle that includes all of them along with some bonus items.
The General Store is stocked for hungry hunters and mice alike! Have way too many of one type of ocean loot and no where near enough of others? Exchange your excess loot using gold and a Sand Dollar for something you need instead!
 
  
====Show Off Your Diving Skill====
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The length of the Rodentia Ocean has no end in sight! With such an expansive area to explore, the King has put up a few new scoreboards to record which hunter has braved the dangerous waters and reached the furthest distances, among other important watermarks.
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Compete with friends, or against all hunters, for longest distance traveled, most catches during a dive, most Oxygen Canisters and Water Jet Charms consumed in total. What strategy will you pursue? Will you stockpile tons of Oxygen Canisters, or skillfully employ Water Jet Charms to reach new and awesome lengths?
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==== Festive Activities ====
  
====Underwater Supply Kits====
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The Great Winter Hunt is one of the biggest events of the year and there's so much more than golems. Hunt with friends to complete Nice and Naughty List Treasure Maps, reveal loot and prizes in the Snowball Showdown, leave something special under a friend's profile tree, and so much more! To help keep tabs on when things are happening, a calendar can be viewed via the heads-up display at the Great Winter Taiga.
To help in you underwater exploration efforts, the King has put together a few supply kits and gift baskets stocked with SUPER|brie+ and a few fishy supplies!
 
  
'''[[Sunken Gift Basket]]'''
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">Reminder: Each Gnawnian Day begins at midnight UTC</div>
SUPER|brie+ and an aquatic item
 
  
'''[[Ocean Crafting Kit]]'''
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SUPER|brie+ and a few crafting items
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'''Stuck Snowball Sundays'''
  
'''[[Diving Kit]]'''
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left 0.416em">Stuck Snowball mice will drop a quantity of Throwable Snowballs or Super Snowball Charms equal to the number of Stuck Snowball mice you've captured during this year's event.</div>
SUPER|brie+, Fishy Fromage, and Oxygen!
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'''Animated Snow Storm'''
  
'''[[Submersible Supplies]]'''
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SUPER|brie+, Fishy Fromage, Oxygen, and charms!
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'''Grand Gift Opening Ceremony'''
  
'''Sunken City discovered!'''
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:*Purchase a Sunken Souvenir from Muridae Market
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:*Explore the Rodentia Ocean floor
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'''New Year's Celebration'''
:*Hunt 60 new breeds of mice!
 
:*Unlock new, powerful Hydro traps
 
:*Compete for furthest dive distance and other great feats
 
  
[[Travel|Visit Muridae to Purchase the Sunken Souvenir]]
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left 0.416em">Keep an eye out for an update on '''December 30 at approximately 4:00pm UTC''' to start the New Year's celebration! There will be a map to complete and new rewards to earn!</div>
-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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'''Naughty and Nice Lists'''
  
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'''Snowball Showdown'''
  
===Larry's Football Challenge!===
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left 0.416em">Reveal festive rewards including golem parts, charms, and more in this classic game!</div>
''{{date|10|June|2014}}''
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[[Larry]] hosts his very first event! Join us in celebrating his Football Challenge!
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==== Festive Supplies, Gift Baskets, Kits, and Skins! ====
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The King has assembled a variety of supply kits and baskets to give you a jump start on the Great Winter Hunt!
  
====Larry's Football Challenge!====
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<p>Larry the Friendly Knight is excited to present to you: [[Larry's Football Challenge]]! Support your favourite team, collect footballs from your friends, take on the challenge, and score goals in the Bronze, Silver and Gold Leagues!</p>
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<p>Compete against the mice of the Kingdom in football trials and score goals for your team! Will you take the easy route and shoot on the first net, or will you go the distance, defeat the Football Superstar and climb to the top of the Gold League?</p>
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<div style="text-align: left; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 115%;">'''The Great Winter Hunt will enter shutdown phase on'''<br>'''Tuesday, January 6, 2026'''</div>
  
====Setting Up Your Profile====
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On Tuesday, January 6, 2026, the Great Winter Hunt event will enter its shutdown phase. At this time, Pecan Pecorino and Golem Parts will no longer be found as loot drops. Forges will still work at the Golem Workshop and Cannons can still be fired at the Ice Fortress but Compressed Cinnamon will no longer drop in Cinnamon Hill.</div>
<p>Visit your MouseHunt profile page to select your favourite team and show your support! Then, visit up to 5 of your friends' profiles '''daily''' to collect [[Gnawnian Football]]s! Each football counts toward an attempt in Larry's Football Challenge!</p>
 
  
<p>Remember to check back '''every day''' to collect more footballs and take on the challenge as much as you can! There's a different set of mousey defenders and a new challenge to face every day!</p>
 
  
====Taking on the Challenge!====
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<p>Larry's Football Challenge is quite simple! It costs 1 Gnawnian Football per attempt, and the goal is to get past as many mice defenders as possible and score on the nets! There are three nets: Bronze, Silver, and Gold! The further you go, the better the rewards, but the tougher the challenge!</p>
 
  
<p>Each goal is tallied on the scoreboard and counts toward your chosen country flag for the type of net you scored on. Additionally, if your team has a match that day, it will appear under [[Larry's Football Challenge|Today's Matches]]! Score big points for your team in one of the three leagues and show off your own personal goals on the [[Scoreboard]]s.</p>
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Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.
  
<p>When the challenge ends, which teams will be at the top of the Bronze, Silver, and Gold League Scoreboards? Will you settle for Bronze or Silver? Or will you go the distance and score big?!</p>
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After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:
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*Golem Parts
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*Animated Snow
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*Reinforced Ice Shards
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*Compressed Cinnamon
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*Hailstones
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*Firework Sugar Cookies
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*Magical Holiday Scarf
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*Golem Gift Box
  
====Footballs and Footlockers====
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<p>While Larry's Football Challenge is running, you can find special green-coloured [[Football Footlocker]]s on mice that you catch! Inside, you'll find some helpful loot and even a chance to find an extra [[Gnawnian Football]] for another attempt at Larry's Football Challenge!</p>
 
  
<p>In addition to the Football Footlocker, scoring goals on the Bronze, Silver and Gold nets will earn you a [[Bronze Footlocker|Bronze]], [[Silver Footlocker|Silver]] or [[Gold Footlocker]]! Inside of these are some helpful charms, a chance to find a Journal Theme Scrap for the [[Football Journal Theme]], and sometimes, even some {{SB}}! Additionally, the Gold Footlockers always contain 1 [[King's Credit]] and 1 [[Striker Charm]]!</p>
 
  
<p>'''Collect your daily footballs from friends, open up the Football Footlockers found on mice, and go for gold in [[Larry's Football Challenge]] every chance you get!!'''</p>
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====Striker Charms====
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-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
<p>Professional athletes around the world know you can't play well without training, and you can't train without the right equipment!</p>
 
  
<p>Arm this charm to receive TWO Football Footlockers instead of one when mice drop them as loot!</p>
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<p>This charm can be found inside of Gold Footlockers or purchased in a bundle of 15 from the premium shop!</p>
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:*[[Profile|Pick your flag and support your favourite team]]
 
:*Visit friends' profiles daily to collect footballs
 
:*Collect Football Footlockers from mice
 
:*Take on [[Larry's Football Challenge]] and win rewards
 
:*Score big for your team and show off your goals!
 
  
-- {{MHP|501789245|Giorgio Sintichakis}}
 
 
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Latest revision as of 21:11, 10 December 2025

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The Great Winter Hunt Returns!

9 December 2025

Start sending golems to collect loot

Visit the Great Winter Taiga and Confront the Frost King once again

The Frost King's Latest Attack

The return of wintry weather has once again allowed the Frost King to construct his massive Ice Fortress. Hunters will need to smash their way through the Frost King's protective ice shield in order to end his plan to plunge Gnawnia into perpetual winter.

Visit the Great Winter Taiga to find magical snow golems that are perfect for collecting all sorts of resources! Along with useful hunting supplies, your golems can collect powerful Hailstones to smash through the Ice Fortress' shield.

Collect Pecan Pecorino to loot Golem Parts Forge more Golem Parts at the Workshop
Send Golems out to collect loot and Hailstones Fire Hailstones at the fortress to stop the Frost King
25 Festive Jingle Bells
Instantly return a golem!
Magical Holiday Hat
+3 loot to ANY level golem!
Collect the Frost King's Magical Holiday Scarf to construct an especially rewarding golem!

Uncork Festive Spirit

When all the warm and fuzzy feelings from the holiday season are condensed and coalesced by a crisp north wind it produces this truly miraculous vapour that is believed to be the physical manifestation of joy itself.

Double Compressed Cinnamon anytime a mouse drops it!

+1 progress to all active forges in the Golem Workshop!

+1 shield damage when any cannon is fired (for a possible max of four)

Conjures 1 Throwable Snowball each and every hunt!

Double loot drops of a wide variety of festive-themed items at the Taiga!

You can obtain Festive Spirit by hunting with standard cheese, completing Naughty Maps, opening doors on your Advent Calendar, and by purchasing it from the Premium Shop.

25 Festive Spirit
More loot!
100 Festive Spirit
Storm the Ice Fortress!
Festive Spirit will double the following items dropped by mice in the Great Winter Taiga:
Animated Snow Compressed Cinnamon Pecan Pecorino Reinforced Ice Shards Winter Hunt Gift Boxes Throwable Snowballs
Festive Jingle Bells Gift Wrapped Charms All types of Snowball Charms Festive Ultimate series charms Ultimate Charms


Festive Spirit will not double the following items dropped by mice:

Golem Parts

Magical Holiday Hat

Magical Holiday Scarf

Festive Spirit itself

New Festive Rewards

Each time you claim a golem reward, you'll progress a reward track to earn bonus rewards including two new pieces of Limited Edition hunting equipment.

(NEW) Storm Condenser Base

Limited Edition
While armed at Moussu Picchu, prevents the weather from intensifying!

Claimed from the Reward Track

(NEW) Steam AugerBot 3000

Limited Edition
While hunting at the Iceberg, has a chance of doubling your forward progress!

Claimed from the Reward Track

(NEW) Cozy Chalet Journal Theme

A new journal theme to keep keep your Hunter's Journal cozy and warm!

Adventure Reward

(NEW) Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box

Winter Aura Reward
Hunters ranked Viceroy and up will occasionally receive a Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box from their Winter Aura instead of the regular Orange Gift Box!

Viceroy+ Loot Drop

New Festive Trap Skins in the Premium Shop

The Premium Shop is stocked with four new festive trap skins! Visit the Premium Shop to see the new skins as well as a convenient bundle that includes all of them along with some bonus items.

Winter Taiga Trap Skin Bundle
Skins, Throwable Snowballs, Showdown Dust!

Festive Activities

The Great Winter Hunt is one of the biggest events of the year and there's so much more than golems. Hunt with friends to complete Nice and Naughty List Treasure Maps, reveal loot and prizes in the Snowball Showdown, leave something special under a friend's profile tree, and so much more! To help keep tabs on when things are happening, a calendar can be viewed via the heads-up display at the Great Winter Taiga.

Reminder: Each Gnawnian Day begins at midnight UTC

Stuck Snowball Sundays

Stuck Snowball mice will drop a quantity of Throwable Snowballs or Super Snowball Charms equal to the number of Stuck Snowball mice you've captured during this year's event.

Animated Snow Storm

During the 48 hour storm, all mice in the taiga will drop Animated Snow with the Snowflake, Glazy, and Joy mice dropping the most.

Grand Gift Opening Ceremony

Players can leave gifts under profile trees up until the ceremony on December 18. Once the ceremony is held, gifts can be opened but no longer sent.

New Year's Celebration

Keep an eye out for an update on December 30 at approximately 4:00pm UTC to start the New Year's celebration! There will be a map to complete and new rewards to earn!

Naughty and Nice Lists

Visit a Cartographer anywhere in the taiga to start one of these festive maps!

Snowball Showdown

Reveal festive rewards including golem parts, charms, and more in this classic game!

Festive Supplies, Gift Baskets, Kits, and Skins!

The King has assembled a variety of supply kits and baskets to give you a jump start on the Great Winter Hunt!

Golem Body Builder Bundle
Get huge gains with one entire golem! (Limit 1)
Animated Snowball Starter Bundle
Arm yourself with snowballs! (Limit 3)
Golem Gang Bundle
Golems, Pecorino, Charms, and more! (Limit 3)
100 Festive Spirit
Super charge the Taiga!
500 Pecan Pecorino Cheese
Gather Golem Parts!
500 Glazed Pecan Pecorino
Unique event mice!
3 Magical Holiday Hat
Enhanced Golem rewards!
25 Festive Jingle Bells
Speed up your golems!
Snowball Showdown Dust
Amp up showdown rewards
Winter Taiga Gift Basket
Great gift!
Winter Taiga Small Supply Kit
Jump start festivities!
Winter Taiga Large Supply Kit
Stock up!
The Great Winter Hunt will enter shutdown phase on
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
On Tuesday, January 6, 2026, the Great Winter Hunt event will enter its shutdown phase. At this time, Pecan Pecorino and Golem Parts will no longer be found as loot drops. Forges will still work at the Golem Workshop and Cannons can still be fired at the Ice Fortress but Compressed Cinnamon will no longer drop in Cinnamon Hill.


The Great Winter Hunt will end completely on
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.

After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:

  • Golem Parts
  • Animated Snow
  • Reinforced Ice Shards
  • Compressed Cinnamon
  • Hailstones
  • Firework Sugar Cookies
  • Magical Holiday Scarf
  • Golem Gift Box
Make sure to use up all of these resources before January 13!


Travel to the Great Winter Taiga!

-- Dave Vanderburg