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=== Database Maintenance ===
 
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''{{date|14|May|2009}}''
 
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<p>Hello MouseHunters. We would like to thank everyone for their patience today while the game was unavailable for database maintenance. Something came to our attention that would have negative effects on the game if left uncorrected and needed to be addressed sooner rather than later.</p>
 
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<p>Due to the short notice of the significant downtime Glitchpaw mice have been released for the next 24 hours. Good luck capturing your first or adding a few more to your collection!</p>
 
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''{{date|14|May|2009}}''
 
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<p>There was some recent controversy about subbing people in and out of Hunting Parties to inflate the number of possible hunts. In order to level the playing field against parties using this tactic, you will now only be able to invite hunters to your Hunting Party post tournament start if your entire party has been inactive for 15 minutes. Thus, the captain invitation tab will disappear as soon as the first tournament horn is sounded and will only re-appear if no one in the party sounds the horn for 15 minutes.</p>
 
  
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<p>Also, another tournament has been posted and it's called the Furoma Connection. Check it out!!! Only 10000 gold to enter.</p>
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<p>Good luck to everyone in the upcoming Tourney!</p>
 
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<p>The Three Blind Mice Tournament is available to join and will start at May 14th 2009 - 20:00 GMT.</p>
 
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<p>It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce the biggest new feature addition to MouseHunt since MouseHunt 2.0: MouseHunt Tournaments and Hunting Parties! If you are of Apprentice rank or higher, you will now be able to form unique groups of hunters to hunt competitively in a series of regularly scheduled tournaments!</p>
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<p>How do you sign up and how does this all work you ask? You can read all about how to join or create a Hunting Party and play in a MouseHunt Tournament by going to the Organize Party link under the Friends tab or following this url:<br/>
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<p>We're going to start with a few short daily tournaments so everyone can learn how things work and get their parties together. These tournaments will be available shortly</p>
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<p>Occasionally, there will be prizes given out for MouseHunt Tournament winners. Also, there are two new boards that we've added to the forums: Tournament Talk and Meet and Greet. The Tournament Talk board can be used to discuss all things tournaments and the Meet and Greet can be used to recruit other hunters for your parties.</p>
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Some tournaments will be free to join, others will have an entrance cost of cheese, gold or some combination of the two. Tournament Scoreboards for tournaments your current party has hunted in may be found by going to the Tournament Scoreboard link under the Lore tab and are updated hourly.<p>
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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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<p>Finally, a special thanks to all of the beta testers! You've been so unbelievably helpful in getting these features to where they are now.</p>
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'''Start sending golems to collect loot'''
  
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<p>We're all very excited about this new addition and really hope everyone enjoys it and demonstrates good hunting etiquette!<br/>
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Visit the Great Winter Taiga and Confront the Frost King once again
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Good luck everyone and PARTY HARD!<br/>
 
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<p>We released an update today that has been unpopular with some of our players. We always listen and want to address some of your concerns.</p>
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==== The Frost King's Latest Attack ====
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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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<p>We want to make clear the reasons for the changes so we can better work together to find a solution that everyone can be happy with.</p>
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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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<p>Some players are upset that the +7 luck bonus of the lucky shield gives too great of an advantage to donators. This is our own fault for never fully explaining how luck works. Luck is the least important stat your trap has and only provides a very small occasional boost to help catch mice. Seven luck on average equates to about one less miss a day. Luck also boosts your ability to get loot in a very small way. Traps with around 20 luck will increase your odds by less than 2% for most items in the game.</p>
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<p>If you play for free it is because someone else is not and we wanted to give a small, unique token of thanks to those who allow hundreds of thousands of players to play MouseHunt for free everyday.</p>
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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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<p>People who donate by completing offers will also now be rewarded with a Lucky Golden Shield. This should allow people who are not able to donate via PayPal to receive the shield.</p>
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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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<p>The trade request system was starting to become unbalanced. The buyer's section was almost pointless, full of posts that were never responded to. Players would have to reply to dozens of posts to try and scrape together enough sellers to meet their needs. These problems all stem from the root cause that SUPER|brie+ is worth more than 1,000 gold a piece to a majority of players. One of our most requested changes has been to remove the price cap on SUPER|brie+ in trade requests. We remind everyone that 10,000 is not the minimum but rather the maximum. We tried to pick a number that we know no one would ever buy for. We in no way are trying to make a piece worth 10,000. That number is merely in place to avoid errors and scams.</p>
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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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+1 progress to all active forges in the Golem Workshop!
  
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<p>MouseHunt started as a very simple game where there were no locations, special types of cheese or trading. As more rich content and strategy is added to the game it is sometimes necessary to rebalance some of the core features of the game. We apologize for the oversights we made while making these changes and any stress they may have caused. At times it may hurt, but the vocalness of the community is a great asset to the game. We appreciate everyones feedback and look forward to continuing to making mousehunt the best it can be.</p>
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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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<p>On the topic of the SB+ trading cap increase our intention was to basically remove the cap and allow SB+ to find it's own fair market value. The 10,000 per piece limit is only in place to prevent players from moving large amounts of gold by trading a single piece of cheese. The price will come down as sellers realize what constitutes as a fair price.</p>
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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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<p>With the scent of Gnarled cheese in the air some hunters have reported strange happenings in Whisker Woods. Slightly dampened foot prints have been spotted around the tree heading to the west. The King dispatched hunters to investigate only to have them returned with their courage crippled by what they described only as a winged terror.</p>
 
  
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'''Golem Parts'''
  
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<p>Ever wish there was something you could do to help maximize your odds of finding a map piece, potion or other rare drop? The latest research by the King's diligent Royal Trapsmith has revealed that luck now provides a small boost to a hunter's chance to receive loot when catching a mouse.</p>
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<p>In our old system we were no longer able to generate 24 trap checks per day due to the large number of players we have now reached. Writing all the journals, awarding points, gold and loot creates a lot of database activity that slowly but surely adds up and brings things to a crawl.</p>
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'''Adventure Reward'''
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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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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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<p>Trap checks are currently very broken. Despite our best efforts to find a solution this problem persists. The entire team is brainstorming ideas on how we can restructure the way trap checks work because the current implementation is not capable of providing trap checks to the amount of players who play everyday.</p>
 
  
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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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<p>Also in this update:</p>
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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: 100%; margin: auto; border-spacing: 1em; text-align: center"
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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="text-align: left;  margin: auto"
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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="text-align: left;  margin: auto"
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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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<p>- Some optimizations and better tracking reports for the trap check system.</p>
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<div style="text-align: left; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 115%;">'''The Great Winter Hunt will enter shutdown phase on'''<br>'''Tuesday, January 6, 2026'''</div>
  
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<p>- Some players noticed a reference to 'Hunting Parties' on their profile pages for a few minutes after we applied the update. That text was accidently added to this release. Parties are something we're working on for the near future and is not quite ready yet. We'll have more information as this feature gets closer to release.</p>
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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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<p>- We have fine-tuned our bot detection scripts so that non-malicious scripts will not trigger our pattern tracking. We remind players that anything that automatically refreshes or loads a page violates the game's rules and is not to be used.</p>
 
  
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<div style="text-align: left; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 115%;">'''The Great Winter Hunt will end completely on'''<br>'''Tuesday, January 13, 2026'''</div>
  
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<p>We would also like to remind everyone that the boards are meant as a fun and friendly atmosphere. We get swamped with complaints regarding swearing, insulting, etc. We are beginning to crack down on inappropriate behaviour on the boards so please think before you post.</p>
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Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.
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-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
 
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=== Forum 'Enhancer' Scripts ===
 
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''{{date|8|April|2009}}''
 
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<p>It has come to our attention that some browser scripts/plugins that are designed to integrate MouseHunt player statistics into the discussion board are making undo requests to the game.</p>
 
  
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<p>These extra requests happen behind the scenes loading MouseHunt pages to grab the necessary data. The problem is that this extra activity triggers King's Reward codes without the player ever seeing them.</p>
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After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:
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*Golem Parts
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*Animated Snow
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*Reinforced Ice Shards
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*Compressed Cinnamon
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*Hailstones
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*Firework Sugar Cookies
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*Magical Holiday Scarf
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*Golem Gift Box
  
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<p>This leads to a few problems where players have an unclaimed reward without ever knowing it and strange errors due to the massive amount of requests all coming from the same address.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;">'''Make sure to use up all of these resources before January 13!'''</div></div>
  
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<p>The extra requests also massively boost how active the game thinks you are. This triggers some of our bot-detection and tracking systems.</p>
 
  
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<p>We are working on fine-tuning our bot tracking systems as well as working with the developers of these types of scripts so that do not trigger our tracking systems. In the meantime we kindly ask any players who are using any sort of script or plugin that modifies the Facebook discussion boards to add MouseHunt statistics to uninstall them immediately.</p>
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<p>To make things clear: If you have installed or use anything that modifies the way Facebook discussion boards look or function please uninstall them.</p>
 
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<p>This will avoid your account being falsely flagged for bot usage as well as save countless requests to our server to help to make the game quicker and more responsive for everyone!</p>
 
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<p>Thanks for your corporation.</p>
 
 
-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
 
-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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=== System Update ===
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''{{date|7|April|2009}}''
 
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<p>Today's minor system update was to address a few issues players have been reporting along with various optimizations 'behind-the-scenes'.</p>
 
  
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<p>Thanks for your patience during the few minutes the game was unavailable.</p>
 
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-- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
 
 
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=== Using "Bots" WILL get you BANNED! ===
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<p>Hello Everyone!</p>
 
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<p>This is an announcement to let you all know that we will be banning accounts, without warning, that we detect are using any kind of automated method to play the game.</p>
 
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<p>We are able to use tracking methods within the game to distinguish players from bots and have already disabled dozens of accounts. Some of these accounts had large amounts of points and gold, do not risk losing your progress in the game!</p>
 
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<p>Anything that clicks, refreshes a page or takes any other action in the game via an automated process will trigger these tracking methods. Timers are fine so long as they do not sound the horn at the end of their timer and still require you to be at your computer and click something to actually sound the horn.</p>
 
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<p>Anything that will play the game on its own while you are not at your computer constitutes as using a "bot" and will get you banned.</p>
 
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<p>Thank you.</p>
 
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-- {{MHP|510239199|Franco D'Auria}}
 
 
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<p>Hello MouseHunt communit-tay!</p>
 
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<p>As many of you are aware, trap checks have not been functioning correctly for quite some time. The problem is proving to be challenging to solve without changing some fundamental gameplay elements that contribute to the passive nature of the game.</p>
 
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<p>This issue is a priority for us and we can only ask for your patience while we work on a solution.</p>
 
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<p>How else can you help us? Well as every seasoned MouseHunter knows all of life's problems can be blamed on the dreaded Glitchpaw mouse and it's about time we fought back with traps! So grab your best trap and be on the lookout for any Glitchpaw mice that come your way. Every one caught is sure to help!</p>
 
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-- {{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



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