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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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===[{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=419 The 2019 Great Winter Hunt Begins]===
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==== The Frost King's Latest Attack ====
''{{date|10|December|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: 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.
  
''...And the epic Loot Golems are BACK!''
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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!
  
====Festive Comet Smashes Into Gnawnia====
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+1 shield damage when '''any''' cannon is fired (for a possible max of four)
  
The yearly celestial event known as the Festive Comet has crashed into Gnawnia just south of the Town of Gnawnia Castle with a snowy kaboom! The collision instantly transformed the Kingdom into a wintery wonderland full of festive snow and holiday cheer! However, it seems one mouse is bent on destroying the snowy ambience by using several over-sized space heaters to melt the lovely festive landscape into a slushy and disgusting mess. Yuck!
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Conjures 1 Throwable Snowball each and every hunt!
  
====Building Golems to Destroy Heaters====
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Double loot drops of a wide variety of festive-themed items at the Taiga!</div>
  
'''Explosive Christmas Crackers'''
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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.
  
Luckily, the blast of winter weather has also brought with it beloved Winter Snow Golems. These powerful friends can be sent out to any location you've mapped and gained access to in order to retrieve all sorts of useful goodies! Where you send your golems will determine the type of loot which with they return. However, no matter where you send them, they'll bring back Explosive Christmas Crackers. These festive ordnance are just what you'll need to demolish the space heaters which are trying to turn the Great Winter Hunt into the Great Muddy Waterfront. Again I say: Yuck!
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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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'''Pecan Pecorino'''
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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" | Winter Hunt Gift Boxes
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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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Collect Pecan Pecorino to attract mice carrying golem parts and assemble a golem to send on a loot mission. Once dispatched, your golem will return, after you take 25 hunts, with valuable loot and Explosive Christmas Crackers. Carefully pull the tab on your crackers to detonate its cheer in the direction of a space heater, obliterating both in the process. The Shorts-All-Year Mouse has setup 10 heaters in a row, each larger the the last, requiring more and more explosives to destroy.
 
  
*'''15 Pecan Pecorino Cheese'''
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<div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em; font-size: 110%"><div style="font-size: 125%">Festive Spirit '''will not double''' the following items dropped by mice:</div>
:Start collecting Golem Parts
 
*'''15 Glazed Pecan Pecorino'''
 
:Attract the Glazy Mouse which always drops Golem Parts
 
  
====Repurposed Heat Exchanger Coils====
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'''Golem Parts'''
  
The Explosive Christmas Crackers provide a powerful, yet precise, bombardment. In the rubble of a demolished heater, you'll find useful Heat Exchanger Coils which you can re-purpose to upgrade your Golem Generators! Level up your golems to have them return with a greater quantity of more valuable loot, including more Explosive Christmas Crackers. Keep on upgrading and your loot collection abilities will really start to snowball!
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'''Magical Holiday Hat'''
  
*'''Magical Winter Hunt Holiday Hat'''
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'''Magical Holiday Scarf'''
Upgrade your Golem Rewards
 
*'''Festive Summoning Bell'''
 
Instantly returns a golem
 
  
====Brief Fashion Lesson in Shorts====
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'''Festive Spirit itself'''</div>
  
If you manage to destroy all of the heaters setup by the Shorts-All-Year Mouse, you'll be able to confront him in the cold. In this weakened state, you'll be able to catch him with his pants down... so to speak. Capturing the Shorts-All-Year Mouse will recover a pair of Plain Shorts which you can then fashion into a much more elaborate festive version using the heads-up display.
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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'''
  
Each time you capture the Shorts-All-Year Mouse, he'll drop another pair of Plain Shorts. Collect four to fashion each variety of festive shorts available. These shorts not only look amazing but are also incredibly itchy decorative!
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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>
  
Once fashioned into festive shorts, you can wear them to attract mice with a similar theme to your shorts. These themed mice in turn drop themed Sugar Cookies which you can spend at the various Winter Hunt shoppes for all sorts of rewards!
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
  
====Sweet, Sugary Rewards====
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Make sure to cycle through each variety of shorts while hunting to attract all of the Great Winter Hunt mice and collect each variety of Sugar Cookie. Visit the shop and trade your cookies for SWEET rewards!
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'''''(NEW)''  Steam AugerBot 3000'''
  
'''Father Winter's Timepiece Trap'''
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<div style="text-align: centre; padding-left: 0.416em">'''Limited Edition'''</div>
''Increases in power with each Acolyte Mouse Catch, adds bonus loot to Chrono Mouse''
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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>
This carefully tuned timepiece is capable of siphoning power from the Acolyte Mouse within the Acolyte Realm. Each time you capture an Acolyte, the trap's power within the Acolyte Realm will increase by 2,000! The Chrono Mouse is the only mouse capable of rewinding the timepiece, releasing bonus items in the process! The more Acolytes you capture with this trap before capturing a Chrono Mouse, the more loot the Chrono Mouse will drop, but doing so will also revert the trap to its original power.
 
  
'''Desert Heater Base'''
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
''Generate loot in the Sandtail Desert by consuming Flameshards''
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A repurposed heater salvaged from the wreckage and adjusted to run on Flameshards. Each hunt taken with this based equipped while in the Sandtail Desert will consume a Flameshard and generate bonus loot when capturing a mouse. You'll find all sorts of desert-related loot including Essences, Petals and Herbs, Ionized Salt, Scrap Metal, Warpath Charms, Aromatic Oil, and on very rare occasion, valuable Warmonger loot!
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'''''(NEW)'' Cozy Chalet Journal Theme'''
  
'''Treasure Seeker 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>
''Chance to transform clues into Treasury Clues''
 
The treasure that is the holiday season has been ram-jammed into this tinsel-clad base! While equipped in the Labyrinth, this base has a chance to transform any clue other than Dead Ends into a Treasury Clue! This base is also adorned with the navigational know-how of Saint Nicholas, giving it a chance to navigate you away from Dead Ends, just like the Labyrinth and Minotaur Bases.
 
  
'''Rift Glacier Gatler'''
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'''Adventure Reward'''
''Chance to produce Rift Snowball Charms''
 
Win snowball fights across multiple dimensions with the power of the Rift Glacier Gatler! Capturing a mouse with this trap adds a chance for the mouse to drop a Rift Snowball Charm.
 
  
'''Snowy Journal Theme'''
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''A keepsake to remember your restoration of a wintery wonderland''
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'''''(NEW)'' Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box'''
Mark the occasion with this delightfully snowy journal theme! Adorned with a giant snowman and an igloo decorated with festive lights!
 
  
'''Snowball Showdown'''
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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>
  
Everyone's favourite snow-chucking mini-game is BACK! The mini-game can be accessed from the HUD. Collect Throwable Snowballs as loot drops from mice, snow golem loot rewards, and tournament rewards, then toss them into the field in search of festive shapes.
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'''Viceroy+ Loot Drop'''
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">New Festive Trap Skins in the Premium Shop</div>
  
The shape you uncover will determine the reward. Use Snowball Showdown Dust to UPGRADE your board rewards! Each upgraded board will contain the Magical Hat shape which rewards a Magical Winter Hunt Holiday Hat when uncovered! You'll be rewarded with one Snowball Showdown Dust for completing this year's adventure and can grab more from the Premium Shoppe or via the Marketplace.
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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.
  
-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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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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==== Festive Activities ====
  
===[{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=417 Changes To Tournament Prizes]===
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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.
''{{date|3|December|2019}}''
 
  
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">Reminder: Each Gnawnian Day begins at midnight UTC</div>
  
====Tournament Prize Claim Limit====
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Some players noticed that they were unable to claim prizes from older tournaments. We have since reverted this change to give players the chance to claim these old tournament prizes for one week.
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'''Stuck Snowball Sundays'''
  
Players have until '''December 10, 2019''' to claim these old tournament prizes. Going forward, tournament prizes will need to be claimed within '''one month''' of the tournament end date.
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'''Animated Snow Storm'''
  
This change will allow us to better manage rewards for event tournaments and archive old data. Thanks for your support and understanding!
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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>
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'''Grand Gift Opening Ceremony'''
  
Be sure to claim old tournament prizes from your Team page by '''December 10, 2019'''!
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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>
After December 10, all tournament prizes will expire '''one month''' after the tournament has ended.
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'''New Year's Celebration'''
  
-- {{MHP|501789245|Giorgio Sintichakis}}
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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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'''Naughty and Nice Lists'''
  
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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>
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'''Snowball Showdown'''
  
===[{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=416 December Advent Calendar]===
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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|27|November|2019}}''
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''Delicious chocolates and bonus items!''
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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!
  
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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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====Advent Calendar Coming December 1====
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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>
  
The Winter Hunt Advent Calendar will be available on December 1 where hunters can collect a daily Advent Chocolate and a unique bonus item if they open the door on the same day!
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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>
  
Every day from December 1 to December 24, a new door on the Advent Calendar will be able to be opened. Opening a door '''always''' rewards an Advent Chocolate which you will be able to exchange during the Great Winter Hunt for a variety of unique trap skins, journal themes, and more.
 
  
If you open the door on the same day which it unlocks, you'll also receive a bonus item in addition to the Advent Chocolate! There are a wide variety of bonus items including SUPER|brie+, Magic Essence, Wild Tonic, and Champion's Fire (just to name a few). Make sure to check in each day and see what the calendar has!
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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>
  
'''Each new Gnawnian Day occurs at midnight UTC.'''
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====Upcoming Great Winter Hunt====
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After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:
Feel that slight chill in the air in stark contrast to the warm holiday thoughts of hunters throughout the Kingdom? That can only mean one thing -- a massive frosty comet is nearing the end of its annual collision course with Gnawnia!
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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
  
The Festive Comet has entered the Gnawnian solar system and the fine astronomers employed by the King predict the comet will land just southeast of the Windmill where the Vacant Lot resides. For real this time.
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<div style="text-align: center;">'''Make sure to use up all of these resources before January 13!'''</div></div>
  
As the news spreads through the Kingdom, so do rumours of a warm-weather loving mouse filling with spite and rage over the impending blast of winter. Once the comet lands and brings with it a winter wonderland, hunters are warned to keep an eye out for an all-year shorts-wearing mouse bent on ending any sort of celebrations involving snow and holiday cheer.
 
  
'''Make sure to check back on December 1 to open the first door of the Advent Calendar!'''
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<div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em; font-size: 125%;">'''Travel to the Great Winter Taiga!'''</div>
'''Keep an eye out for the v1.87 mobile update to be able to view the 2019 Advent Calendar from the mobile app!'''
 
  
 
-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
 
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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