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''For older updates, visit the [[MHWiki:Current events/Archive|Archive]].''
 
''For older updates, visit the [[MHWiki:Current events/Archive|Archive]].''
 
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=== [{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=960 The Folklore Forest Finale has begun!] ===
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=== [{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=980 The Great Winter Hunt Returns!] ===
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''{{date|2|September|2025}}''
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''{{date|9|December|2025}}''
  
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'''The first part of the conclusion begins here.'''
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'''Start sending golems to collect loot'''
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Explore the Afterword Acres and Epilogue Falls!
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Visit the Great Winter Taiga and Confront the Frost King once again
  
 
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==== The Folklore Forest Finale has begun! ====
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==== The Frost King's Latest Attack ====
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Thanks to the tireless efforts from hunters over the last several years, the Mythweaver's final plan has been deciphered. It involves two new, recently discovered areas in the Folklore Forest: the '''Afterword Acres''' and the '''Epilogue Falls!'''
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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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|-
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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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|}
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{| style="width: 100%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em"
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|- style="text-align: center"
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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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|}
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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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The King is calling upon all hunters ranked '''Viceroy''' and above to venture into these mysterious new locations and gather the resources they will need to put a stop to the Mythweaver once and for all.
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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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==== The End Begins Here ====
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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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If you haven't already earned the '''Mythweaver's Guide to World Domination''' then visit the '''Draconic Depths Cartographer''' to purchase it for 2,000 Dragon's Breath Opals and 1,000,000 Gold.
 
  
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Owning this book will unlock access to the Afterword Acres and Epilogue Falls.
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+1 progress to all active forges in the Golem Workshop!
  
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==== Fight the Blight and Save the Infinitree ====
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+1 shield damage when '''any''' cannon is fired (for a possible max of four)
  
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Your adventure begins in the '''Afterword Acres''' where you must take on the daunting task of fending off the terrible blight that has gripped that once fertile land.
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Conjures 1 Throwable Snowball each and every hunt!
  
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Use your trusty droids to harvest '''Literary Logs''' from the Infinitree and then carve them into '''Poetic Planks'''.
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Double loot drops of a wide variety of festive-themed items at the Taiga!</div>
  
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Be warned that an invasive species has taken over that place so you'll need to fight them off and reduce their terrible blight in order to make your droids more efficient.
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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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Arm your best '''Tactical''' trap and venture into the woods!
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{| style="width: 100%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em"
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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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|}
  
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<div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0; font-size: 115%">
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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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'''Start Your Adventure Here'''
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</div>
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|- style="text-align: center;  margin: auto"
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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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|}
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{| style="width: 100%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em; text-align: center"
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|- style="text-align: center;  margin: auto"
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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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|}
  
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==== Ride the Rapids and Defeat the Falls Guardian ====
 
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Use the Poetic Planks you carved in the Afterword Acres to build barrels for riding the rapids in the '''Epilogue Falls'''!
 
  
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These rushing waters are teeming with useful loot but also dangerous, aquatic mice so arm your best '''Hydro''' trap before embarking.
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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>
  
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Battle against the forceful currents to reach the waterfall at the end where a powerful guardian awaits you!
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'''Golem Parts'''
  
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<div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0; font-size: 115%">
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'''Magical Holiday Hat'''
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'''Continue Your Adventure Here'''
 
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</div>
 
  
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==== Unravel the Mythweaver's Plot ====
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'''Magical Holiday Scarf'''
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The King's best folklore scholars are still trying to find the Mythweaver's exact whereabouts but so far they've been able to determine one very important clue: the Mythweaver's minions will have a taste for '''Plotting Paneer Cheese'''.
 
  
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'''Plot Hooks''' are the key ingredient to making this devious delicacy and they can be found floating near the waterfall at the Epilogue Falls.
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'''Festive Spirit itself'''</div>
  
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Therefore, the scholars are recommending that hunters begin collecting Plot Hooks in anticipation of their eventual discovery of a third, upcoming location known as the '''Conclusion Cliffs'''.
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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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==== Master the Metaphor ====
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'''Metaphor Morsels''' can be found in the Afterword Acres and on the shore of the Epilogue Falls when hunting with any standard bait.
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'''''(NEW)''  Storm Condenser Base'''
  
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Use them to create the marvelous '''Metaphor Manchego Cheese''' which has unique and lucrative effects in both areas!
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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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Alternatively, you can purchase Metaphor Manchego from the Premium Shop and start benefiting from this powerful new cheese right away.
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'''Claimed from the Reward Track'''
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{| style="width: 100%; border-spacing: 1em"
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| style="width: 50%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" |
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''100 Metaphor Manchego Cheese'''<br>A few metaphors
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'''''(NEW)''  Steam AugerBot 3000'''
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| style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''300 Metaphor Manchego Cheese'''<br>A mountain of metaphors
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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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| style="width: 50%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" |
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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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'''Adventure Reward'''
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| style="width: 50%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" |
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'''''(NEW)''  Golden Winter Hunt Gift Box'''
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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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'''Viceroy+ Loot Drop'''
 
|}
 
|}
  
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==== Two New Trapsmiths with Lots to Offer ====
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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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A new Trapsmith has set up shop in the Afterword Acres and another in the Epilogue Falls and they each have unique items to aid your adventure.
 
  
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{| style="width: 66%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em; text-align: center"
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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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'''Lumberdroid Sawmill Trap'''<br><br>
 
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<div style="text-align: left; padding: 0.416em">A powerful alternative for hunters without a Slumbering Boulder Trap</div><br>
 
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'''Stats:'''
 
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">
 
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*Power: 10,000
 
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*Power Bonus: 20%
 
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*Attraction Bonus: 10%
 
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*Luck: 35
 
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*Cheese Effect: Very Stale
 
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'''''Available in the Afterword Acres'''''</div>
 
  
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| style="width: 33%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" |
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{| style="width: 33%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em"
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'''Bionic Sea Turtle Trap'''<br><br>
 
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<div style="text-align: left; padding: 0.416em">Serene, sophisticated, and strong!</div><br>
 
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'''Stats:'''
 
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">
 
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*Power: 15,000
 
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*Power Bonus: 25%
 
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*Attraction Bonus: 20%
 
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*Luck: 36
 
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*Cheese Effect: Insanely Fresh
 
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'''''Available in the Epilogue Falls'''''</div>
 
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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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'''Massive Mecha Snapping Turtle Trap'''<br><br>
 
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<div style="text-align: left; padding: 0.416em">Massive mechanical marvel!</div><br>
 
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'''Stats:'''
 
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<div style="text-align: left; padding-left: 0.416em">
 
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*Power: 17,500
 
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*Power Bonus: 30%
 
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*Attraction Bonus: 25%
 
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*Luck: 42
 
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*Cheese Effect: Ultimately Fresh
 
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*Requires: Bionic Sea Turtle Trap
 
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'''''Available in the Epilogue Falls'''''</div>
 
 
|}
 
|}
  
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==== New Codices at the General Store ====
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==== Festive Activities ====
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New installments in the Folklore Motif-Index collection are available now!
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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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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold">Reminder: Each Gnawnian Day begins at midnight UTC</div>
  
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  | style="width: 33%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" | '''Folklore Motif-Index:'''<br>''' Tactical Luck'''<br>Provides +5 Luck whenever a Tactical trap is armed<br>'''''Available in the Afterword Acres'''''
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  | style="width: 33%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" | '''Folklore Motif-Index:'''<br>'''Tactical Power'''<br>Provides 20% Power Bonus whenever a Tactical trap is armed<br>'''''Available in the Afterword Acres'''''
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'''Stuck Snowball Sundays'''
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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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  | style="width: 33%; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em" | '''Folklore Motif-Index:'''<br>'''Hydro Power'''<br>Provides 20% Power Bonus whenever a Hydro trap is armed<br>'''''Available in the Epilogue Falls'''''
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'''Animated Snow Storm'''
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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'''
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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>
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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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'''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'''
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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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|}
  
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==== Give this ending a head start at the Premium Shop ====
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==== Festive Supplies, Gift Baskets, Kits, and Skins! ====
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The King is offering some limited time bundles to aid your adventure!
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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: 100%; border-spacing: 1em"
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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: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Postscript Starter Bundle'''<br>Creativity, SB+, and Manchego!
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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: 100%; border-spacing: 1em"
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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: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Back Matter Mega Bundle'''<br>CC, SB+, Manchego, and Rainbow Spores!
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  | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''500 Glazed Pecan Pecorino'''<br>Unique event mice!
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|- style="text-align: left; margin: auto"
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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: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Stylish Book Cover Bundle'''<br>Judge these books by their covers!
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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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  | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Folklore Finale Gift Basket'''<br>Give the gift of adventure!
 
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  | style="width: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Folklore Finale Supply Kit'''<br>A hefty kit of supplies!
 
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  | style="width: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Folklore Finale Large Supply Kit'''<br>An overflowing load of supplies!
 
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  | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Delicious Decoy House Trap Skin'''<br>High in sugar
 
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  | style="width: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Benevolent Frog Prince Trap Skin'''<br>Aquatic royalty
 
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  | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Big Bad Slumbering Wolfbot Trap Skin'''<br>A big bad surprise
 
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  | style="width: 30%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Ferocious Solitary Beast Trap Skin'''<br>A skin as old as time
 
 
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<div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0">
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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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<div style="font-size: 115%>'''The Final Showdown Begins Here!'''
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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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<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>
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Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.
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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
  
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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



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