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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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=== MouseHunt is turning seven! ===
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==== The Frost King's Latest Attack ====
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''{{date|5|March|2015}}''
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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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MouseHunt is turning seven years old! WOW! The King is celebrating with cupcakes for everyone<br/><br/>
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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.
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{| style="width: 100%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em; text-align: center"
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | Collect Pecan Pecorino to loot Golem Parts
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | Forge more Golem Parts at the Workshop
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | Send Golems out to collect loot and Hailstones
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | Fire Hailstones at the fortress to stop the Frost King
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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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<div style="text-align: center;">Collect the Frost King's Magical Holiday Scarf to construct an especially rewarding golem!</div>
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==== Uncork Festive Spirit ====
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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.
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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!
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+1 progress to all active forges in the Golem Workshop!
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+1 shield damage when '''any''' cannon is fired (for a possible max of four)
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Conjures 1 Throwable Snowball each and every hunt!
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Double loot drops of a wide variety of festive-themed items at the Taiga!</div>
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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.
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''25 Festive Spirit'''<br>More loot!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''100 Festive Spirit'''<br>Storm the Ice Fortress!
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 115%;">Festive Spirit '''will double''' the following items dropped by mice in the Great Winter Taiga:</div>
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Pecan Pecorino
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Winter Hunt Gift Boxes
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| style="width: 20%; padding: 0.416em" | Gift Wrapped Charms
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| style="width: 20%; padding: 0.416em" | All types of Snowball Charms
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| style="width: 20%; padding: 0.416em" | Festive Ultimate series charms
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| style="width: 20%; padding: 0.416em" | Ultimate Charms
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'''Golem Parts'''
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'''Magical Holiday Hat'''
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'''Magical Holiday Scarf'''
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'''Festive Spirit itself'''</div>
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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.
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'''''(NEW)''  Storm Condenser Base'''
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<div style="text-align: centre; padding-left: 0.416em">'''Limited Edition'''</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">While armed at Moussu Picchu, prevents the weather from intensifying!</div>
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
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'''''(NEW)''  Steam AugerBot 3000'''
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<div style="text-align: centre; padding-left: 0.416em">'''Limited Edition'''</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">While hunting at the Iceberg, has a chance of doubling your forward progress!</div>
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
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'''''(NEW)''  Cozy Chalet Journal Theme'''
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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>
  
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The King has organized a birthday cupcake extravaganza! However, several mice with a sweet tooth are proving to be a usual nuisance by stealing cupcakes. The King needs the help of hunters to recover the stolen cupcakes and ship out orders. Just make sure to dust a bit of the rodent fur off before shipping them for consumption...<br>
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Upon arriving at the birthday celebration, you can pick up to three orders to work on at once from the heads-up display. There are seven different varieties of orders available, each celebrating a different year of MouseHunting. While you have a particular order active, you'll notice a few mice visiting your trap that originally appeared in the Kingdom during the order's respective year. These mice almost always carry a cupcake and a few even have other bonus loot with them!
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'''''(NEW)''  Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box'''
  
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====Collecting Cupcake Colby====
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<div style="text-align: centre; padding-left: 0.416em">'''Winter Aura Reward'''</div>
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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>
  
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In order to lure cupcake carrying mice, you'll need similarly-themed bait: Cupcake Colby. This sweet cheese is produced by Cupcake Colby Potions that can be collected as loot at the birthday party zone. Once you've stock piled some Cupcake Colby, arm it to lure cupcake-dropping mice out of hiding!<br/><br/>
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">New Festive Trap Skins in the Premium Shop</div>
  
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There are five types of cupcakes that can be found as loot while hunting with Cupcake Colby. Cupcakes may also occasionally show up as the Gift of the Day to send to friends for free!<br/><br/>
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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.
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Red, Yellow, and Blue Cupcakes are the most commonly found type of cupcakes. They're used in every variety of order. If you find yourself with a few too many of a specific colour, visit the General Store where you can exchange 12 of a single colour for 6 differently-coloured cupcakes.<br/><br/>
 
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Green and Rainbow are harder to find than the other three cupcakes. More difficult orders will require more Green, and orders from year six and seven always require one or two Rainbow cupcakes. You'll also find these cupcakes in Daily Loyalty Chests!
 
  
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There are seven different types of orders you can fulfill, one for each year of MouseHunting! Later year orders require more cupcakes, but they come with greater rewards!<br/><br/>
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While you're actively working on an order, a few mice that were released during that year can be encountered. Although these mice may vary in power type weaknesses, their insatiable love of sugar has them on an out-of-control sugar rush. Mice you encounter at the birthday party zone will have weaknesses to ALL power types, although, their typical weaknesses are still likely to be their greatest. These mice drop cupcakes the most often so be sure to always have an order on the go!<br/><br/>
 
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'''Choosing orders lets you pick your own level of hunting difficulty and rewards!'''<br/><br/>
 
  
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====Year One====
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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.
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Requires 4 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates Digby, Furoma, Gnawnia, and the Mousoleum!<br/><br/>
 
  
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">Reminder: Each Gnawnian Day begins at midnight UTC</div>
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Requires 6 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates Tournaments, the S.S. Huntington, Tribal Isles, Whisker Woods, Catacombs, and the Acolyte Realm!<br/><br/>
 
  
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Requires 8 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates Digby Dirt Dwellers, Balack’s Cove, the King’s Gauntlet, Zugzwang’s Tower and the Seasonal Garden! Requires a few more red cupcakes than other orders.<br/><br/>
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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>
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Requires 8 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates Charms, Muridae Market, Fiery Warpath, and the Crystal Library! Requires a few more yellow cupcakes than other orders.<br/><br/>
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'''Animated Snow Storm'''
  
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Requires 8 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates the Relic Hunter, Iceberg, and the Living Garden! Requires a few more blue cupcakes than other orders.<br/><br/>
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'''Grand Gift Opening Ceremony'''
  
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Requires 10 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates the MouseHunt Mobile App, Gnawnian Express, and Claw Shot City! Always requires a rainbow cupcake.<br/><br/>
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'''New Year's Celebration'''
  
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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>
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Requires 12 cupcakes to complete. Celebrates the Toxic Spill, Sunken City, Gnawnia Rift, Burroughs Rift, and the Whisker Woods Rift! Always requires two rainbow cupcakes.<br/><br/>
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'''Naughty and Nice Lists'''
  
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'''Snowball Showdown'''
  
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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>
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Carefully arranged colourful cupcakes create a base that will tempt the sweet tooth of both mice and hunter alike! The Cupcake Birthday Base attracts mice with a particular fondness for cupcakes; Mice captured with this base will occasionally drop a Cupcake Charm that adds +7 Luck, 7% Attraction Bonus, and a fresh cheese effect!<br/><br/>
 
  
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This trap is rewarded for shipping one of each type of cupcake order.<br/>
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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!
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This ancient-powered golem is a surprisingly potent Forgotten weapon. Its sacrifices luck for power, with 6,700 power and a 7% power bonus it will prove useful against some of the more powerful Forgotten Mice lurking in the spookier areas around the Kingdom.<br/><br/>
 
  
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This journal theme is rewarded for shipping a total of 100 cupcakes.<br/>
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Prove yourself as the ultimate baker and forager of cupcakes with this snazzy journal theme!<br/><br/>
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Golem Body Builder Bundle'''<br>Get huge gains with one entire golem! (Limit 1)
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Animated Snowball Starter Bundle'''<br>Arm yourself with snowballs! (Limit 3)
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Golem Gang Bundle'''<br>Golems, Pecorino, Charms, and more! (Limit 3)
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''100 Festive Spirit'''<br>Super charge the Taiga!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''500 Pecan Pecorino Cheese'''<br>Gather Golem Parts!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''500 Glazed Pecan Pecorino'''<br>Unique event mice!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''3 Magical Holiday Hat'''<br>Enhanced Golem rewards!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''25 Festive Jingle Bells'''<br>Speed up your golems!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Snowball Showdown Dust'''<br>Amp up showdown rewards
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Winter Taiga Gift Basket'''<br>Great gift!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Winter Taiga Small Supply Kit'''<br>Jump start festivities!
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Winter Taiga Large Supply Kit'''<br>Stock up!
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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>
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Found inside 2015 Birthday Treasure Chests<br/>
 
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Two new birthday-themed skins for Chesla's Revenge and the Chrome MonstroBot, along with four unique birthday skins for the Forgotten Art of Dance Trap, can be found inside of the 2015 Birthday Treasure Chests earned by completing a Seventh Birthday Treasure Map.<br/>
 
  
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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>
  
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Each time you ship an order of cupcakes you'll get a variety of loot rewards based on the type of order shipped! There's a wide range of items and each time you complete an order the rewards are a little different. Find bait ranging from Brie to SUPER|brie+ and Magical String! Furoma Token Packs, Tournament Tokens, Inferno Havarti, Gauntlet Potions, a wide array of charms and orbs, Rare Map Dust, Living Garden Essences, Varmint Valley loot, Oxygen Canisters, Refined Pollutinum, and more!<br/><br/>
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'''15 Cupcake Colby'''<br/>
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*Magical Holiday Scarf
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'''500 Cupcake Colby'''<br/>
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Stock up!<br/><br/>
 
  
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'''15 Cupcake Charms'''<br/>
 
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+7 Luck!<br/><br/>
 
  
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'''100 Cupcake Charms'''<br/>
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Better deal on sweet luck!<br/><br/>
 
  
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'''1,600 Cupcake Colby'''<br/>
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-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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So many sweets.<br/><br/>
 
  
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'''Cupcake Combo Kit'''<br/>
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500 Cupcake Colby and Charms<br/><br/>
 
  
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'''Chesla's Flame 'n' Fire Skin'''<br/>
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Skin for Chesla's Revenge<br/><br/>
 
  
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Latest revision as of 21:11, 10 December 2025

For older updates, visit the Archive.

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



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