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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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===Slay the Geyser Dragon===
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==== The Frost King's Latest Attack ====
''{{date|30|April|2019}}''
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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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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" | '''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" | Animated Snow
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Compressed Cinnamon
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Pecan Pecorino
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Reinforced Ice Shards
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Winter Hunt Gift Boxes
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| style="width: 16.6%; padding: 0.416em" | Throwable Snowballs
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| style="width: 20%; padding: 0.416em" | Festive Jingle Bells
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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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==== New Festive Rewards ====
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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>
  
Explore Queso Geyser and uncover powerful new traps!
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'''Adventure Reward'''
  
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'''''(NEW)''  Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box'''
  
====Explore Queso Geyser====
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<div style="text-align: centre; padding-left: 0.416em">'''Winter Aura Reward'''</div>
The King's Royal Geologists have completed their survey of Queso Geyser, allowing hunters with the Queso Geyser Replica Clay Model to access the geyser as a new hunting location!
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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>
  
The frequent eruptions of molten queso have attracted all sorts of powerful Draconic mice to the area! Working with Larry, the King's Geologists have devised a plan for luring these high-flying beasts towards a trap. Three words: Massive. Geyser. Corks.
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'''Viceroy+ Loot Drop'''
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Collect Cork Bark held by various mice native to the geyser to construct an impressively-sized cork to stick in the geyser. Then, defend your newly constructed cork from mice to allow the pressure to build to massive levels and trigger impressive eruptions of liquid cheese.
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">New Festive Trap Skins in the Premium Shop</div>
  
Once an eruption occurs, powerful breeds of Draconic mice will swoop down from the sky towards the airborne queso and come within range of your trap. The constant flow of molten cheese will make collecting loot too dangerous, however, each item a dragon drops will go into a nest that you can safely loot once the eruption subsides.
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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.
  
Some members of the King's Royal Council have expressed concern over the idea of constructing enormous corks to temporarily seal the geyser and build cheesy pressure in an already unstable section of ground, but the geologists have assured us that it's *perfectly* safe...
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Winter Taiga Trap Skin Bundle'''<br>Skins, Throwable Snowballs, Showdown Dust!
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====Types of Geyser Corks====
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There are four different varieties of cork you can construct to withstand different levels of pressure and, as a result, trigger differently-sized queso eruptions. The larger the eruption, the larger (and more lucrative) Draconic mice you'll attract!
 
  
Using spicier flavours of queso cheese will attract more powerful dragons that drop more cork, increase pressure more, and are more lucrative to hunt. With a little experimentation, you will find which flavour of queso works best for each circumstance.
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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.
  
'''Small Cork'''<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>
Made from Cork Bark<br>
 
Collect Cork Bark in the area to construct this lightwight cork capable of withstanding a pressure of 35 kPA to trigger a small eruption.
 
  
'''Medium Cork'''<br>
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Made from Cork Bark and Rubber<br>
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Collect a single Congealed Rubber during a small eruption to create a medium-sized cork. These corks can withstand pressures up to 175 kPA to trigger a medium eruption.
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'''Stuck Snowball Sundays'''
  
'''Large Cork'''<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>
Made from Cork Bark and Geyserite<br>
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Collect a unique rock-like material called Geyserite during a medium eruption to create a large-sized cork. These corks can withstand a much greater pressure of 1,000 kPA to trigger a large eruption.
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'''Animated Snow Storm'''
  
'''Epic Cork'''<br>
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left 0.416em">During the 48 hour storm, all mice in the taiga will drop Animated Snow with the Snowflake, Glazy, and Joy mice dropping the most.</div>
Made from Cork Bark and Tungsten<br>
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Tungsten is an extremely dense material that can be collected during a large eruption to create an epic-sized cork. These corks can withstand a whopping 3,000 kPA to trigger an epic eruption!
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'''Grand Gift Opening Ceremony'''
  
====Looting a Dragon Nest and Rewards====
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left 0.416em">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.</div>
During an eruption, the flow of molten queso makes it too dangerous to collect loot. Instead, a nest fills with loot with each capture. After each eruption subsides you can collect all the loot dropped by the various Draconic mice inside the nest and find all sorts of rewards. You'll find Bland Queso, various Spice Leaves, trap components, and other supplies!
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'''New Year's Celebration'''
  
'''Amber Queso'''<br>
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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>
Purchase Trap Parts<br>
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This valuable fossilized queso is highly sought after by the General Store owner at Queso Geyser. Collect the greatest quantities during epic eruptions by hunting the most powerful Draconic mice.
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'''Naughty and Nice Lists'''
  
'''Geyser Smolder Stone'''<br>
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left 0.416em">Visit a Cartographer anywhere in the taiga to start one of these festive maps!</div>
Purchase a Physical Trap<br>
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Collect or purchase three of these stones to purchase the Smoldering Stone Sentinel Trap. This impressive trap has an astonishing 12,000 Power, making it the most powerful trap in the entire Kingdom!
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'''Snowball Showdown'''
  
'''Thermal Chisel'''<br>
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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>
Purchase a Tactical Trap<br>
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Collect or purchase three of these chisels to purchase the Gouging Geyserite Trap. This trap boasts 9,000 Power, making it the most powerful Tactical trap ever created!
 
  
'''Queso Thermal Spring'''<br>
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==== Festive Supplies, Gift Baskets, Kits, and Skins! ====
Purchase a Hydro Trap<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!
Collect or purchase three springs to purchase the Queso Fount Trap. With 11,000 Power, the Fount Trap is the most powerful Hydro trap ever discovered!
 
  
'''Kalor'ignis Rib'''<br>
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Research a Draconic Trap<br>
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This mysterious item exists only as a rumor spread by the local trapsmith. The trapsmith at Queso Geyser claims this rare and powerful item could be used to create an extremely powerful and high-luck Draconic trap. However, the exact design remains a mystery.
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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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'''Should you uncover the Kalor'ignis Rib, be sure to visit the Trapsmith where you can offer to help and begin a quest to research this mysterious Draconic trap design.'''
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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>
  
'''Magic Nest Dust'''<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>
Adds +5 items to each nest<br>
 
Before looting a nest, you can sprinkle this dust to magically add 5 items to the nest! Dusting a nest will add Cork Materials, Amber Queso, Bland Queso, Spice Leaves, and final random item. Dusting nests after larger eruptions will reward greater quantities of higher-tier items.
 
  
*'''1 Magic Nest Dust'''
 
:Adds five items to nests!
 
  
====Magical Properties of Wild Tonic====
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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 end completely on'''<br>'''Tuesday, January 13, 2026'''</div>
The powerful elixir native to Queso Canyon has a number of unique effects on the geyser that you can use to your advantage!
 
  
'''Double Cork Bark'''<br>
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Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.
Enable your Wild Tonic while collecting Cork Bark to '''double''' each drop! Pair your tonic with spicier flavours of Queso to maximize your drops!
 
  
'''Double Pressure Gain'''<br>
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After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:
Once you construct a cork you'll have a limited amount of time to reach its maximum pressure before the cork degrades. Enable your Wlid Tonic while building pressure to froth up the underground queso and '''double''' the pressure gained with each hunt!
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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
  
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<div style="text-align: center;">'''Make sure to use up all of these resources before January 13!'''</div></div>
Enable your Wild Tonic during an eruption to shake loose some extra loot with each catch and increase the size of the loot nest!
 
  
*'''150 Wild Tonic'''
 
:Endless uses!
 
  
====Queso Geyser Supply Kits and Baskets====
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*'''Queso Geyser Gift Basket'''
 
:Tonic, Dust, and Medium Spice
 
*'''Queso Geyser Starter Pack'''
 
:Tonic, Dust, and Pump Charms
 
*'''Queso Geyser Supply Kit'''
 
:Tonic, Dust, Pump Charms, Bland Queso, and Hot Spice!
 
  
====Dragonshard Eggs No Longer Available====
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-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
With the Spring Egg Hunt coming to an end and the geyser eruptions now more predictable, mice throughout the Kingdom have stopped dropping Dragonshard Eggs. Make sure to open all of your eggs and then visit any General Store, Charm Shoppe, or Cartographer where you can spend your remaining Dragonshards. The various shopkeepers will stop accepting Dragonshards in a few days time, so make sure to spend them now!
 
  
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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