Great Winter Hunt 2010

Description and Requirements

The Festive Comet is a special location available during the Great Winter Hunt 2010. The description for the area in the first two years was: This celestial event of festive proportions has crashed into Gnawnia! Although the original origin of this cheer-spreading comet are unknown, hunters from across the Kingdom are calling its arrival cause for festive celebration!. There are no special requirements for hunters to enter this area. Mice are unable to steal gold or points in this location but may steal cheese if not caught.

Catch statistics from the Festive Comet are grouped with those from the Heart of the Tiger Party under the King's Party Zone location name.

Hunters remaining at the Festive Comet as it melted were silently relocated to the Vacant Lot at the same location on the Travel map, but with a much smaller selection of mice. The developers stated that after the majority of hunters traveled out on their own, the stragglers would be relocated to the Meadow.

Shops

These are the shops that can be found in the Festive Comet:

• Cheese Shoppe
• General Store
• Trapsmith

The Trapsmith, Cheese Shoppe and Cartographer were introduced during the Great Winter Hunt 2010 event.

Festive Comet Mice

Mouse	Points	Gold	Mouse Group	Loot
Abominable Snow	1,750	1,750	Indigenous Mice
Bear	310	575	Indigenous Mice
Candy Cane	600	600	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage
Centaur	3,800	960	Forest Guild
Christmas Tree	2,600	1,200	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Gingerbread Base Blueprints
Diamond	1,200	600	Indigenous Mice
Dwarf	225	450	Indigenous Mice
Elf	900	750	Event Mice	Blue Winter Hunt Gift Box Gingerbread House Plans Green Winter Hunt Gift Box Red Winter Hunt Gift Box
Frosty Snow	600	300	Indigenous Mice
Frozen	300	300	Indigenous Mice
Gladiator	8,365	8,250	The Derr Tribe	Ski Sign
Gold	600	1,200	Indigenous Mice
Harpy	11,100	3,100	Forest Guild
Hydra	9,640	5,760	Aquatic Order	Bolt of Cloth Rope Scrap Metal Splintered Wood
Lambent Crystal	9,000	3,000	Digby Dirt Dwellers
Missile Toe	1,600	900	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Holiday Explosives
Monster	9,100	9,100	Indigenous Mice	Brie cheese Cheddar cheese Living Shards Marble cheese Swiss cheese
Mouse of Winter Future	4,000	3,000	Event Mice	Misplaced Missile Cone
Mouse of Winter Past	4,000	3,000	Event Mice	Lava Bucket
Mouse of Winter Present	4,000	3,000	Event Mice	Festive Mines
New Year's	2,200	200	Event Mice	King's Reserve Bubbleh Satchel of Gold worth 2,011 gold
Nutcracker	3,000	300	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage
Ornament	900	2,600	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Gingerbread Base Blueprints
Present	900	900	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage
Scrooge	70	3,000	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Heart of Ice
Slay Ride	8,000	4,000	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Sled
Snow Fort	3,400	1,200	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Packed Snow
Squeaker Claws	10,000	1,400	Event Mice	2010 Ronza Voucher 2010 Winter Star Blue Winter Hunt Gift Box Green Winter Hunt Gift Box Red Winter Hunt Gift Box
Stealth	500	295	Gauntlet Gladiators	Climbing Pitons
Steel	270	500	Indigenous Mice	Scrap Metal Seasoned Gouda Potion
Stocking	900	300	Event Mice	Festive Fuse Frozen Fromage
Toy	500	500	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage
Treant	1,300	600	Forest Guild	Splintered Wood
Troll	8,190	8,190	Forest Guild	Brie cheese Cheddar cheese Marble cheese Swiss cheese Satchel of Gold worth 1,000 gold
Vinetail	13,172	6,580	Seasonal Soldiers
White	70	100	Indigenous Mice	Cheddar cheese Marble cheese
Worker	300	2,200	Followers of Furoma	Gingerbread House Plans Splintered Wood
Wreath Thief	2,200	700	Event Mice	Frozen Fromage Icicles
Zombie	2,700	2,700	Indigenous Mice	Seasoned Gouda Potion

The 12 Mice of Winter

Starting on 29 November 2010 through 23 December 2010 mice and gifts are released every so often per calendar:

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
28 Nov	29 Nov Toy	30 Nov New gift	1 Candy Cane	2 Elf Madness	3 Present	4
5	6 Christmas Tree	7 New gift	8 Ornament	9 Elf Madness	10 Nutcracker	11
12	13 Stocking	14 New gift	15 Scrooge	16 Elf Madness	17 Missile Toe Mouse of Winter Past	18
19	20 Wreath Thief Mouse of Winter Present	21 New gift	22 Snow Fort Mouse of Winter Future	23 Slay Ride Squeaker Claws	24	25

After mice invaded the Festive Comet during the Great Winter Star Ceremony, hunters were required to restore Holiday Cheer and retrieve the Winter Star. On catching the 12 Mice of Winter and lighting all 12 Festive lights, hunters could thaw their Frozen Fromage and the final Festi-villain, the Squeaker Claws Mouse, became available to catch.

6 Limited Edition collectibles were dropped as loot by specific event mice. These 6 items could be exchanged, along with 10,000 gold, at the trapsmith for the Explosive Toboggan Ride trap. A further 5 loot drops from 5 different, stronger mice, could be used to upgrade this trap to the Double Diamond Adventure trap.

Hunting Strategy

In this location, there are mice that are weak to different power types (Hydro, Physical, Forgotten and Tactical). The hunters need to pick the trap with the power type effective against their most desired mice. Alternatively, hunters may consider using the luckiest trap available to them.

SUPER|brie+ and Gingerbread Cheese are the only cheeses that are consistently effective in attracting all of the festive mice that are exclusive to this location, though SUPER|brie+ seems to be better in obtaining the Christmas Tree Mouse (see the main Christmas Tree Mouse article) and is essentially necessary to attract the Worker Mouse. The use of conventional cheeses such as Brie or Swiss does not attract the festive mice as much and eliminates altogether the attraction of several mice including the Scrooge, Christmas Tree, Troll, Hydra and Gargoyle. The overall attraction rate of regular cheese is rather low in this location, but the Abominable Snow Mouse is still attracted to your trap. During the Great Winter Hunt 2010, a new wave of mice invaded the Festive Comet. Led by the Scrooge Mouse, these stronger mice (Diamond, Gladiator, Gold, Harpy, Lambent Crystal, Monster, Mouse of Winter Past, Stealth, Vinetail, and Zombie) have been found to be especially attracted to Seasoned Gouda cheese. The Squeaker Claws Mouse can only be attracted once a hunter has lit their 12 Festive lights by catching the 12 Mice of Winter; this mouse has been found to be especially attracted to Nutmeg cheese. If hunters find the 2010 Winter Star, they will have saved the Great Winter Hunt 2010 and restored Holiday Cheer to the Festive Comet.

Hunting tips by Larry

Welcome to the Festive Comet, MouseHunter!

This massive snowy comet smashed into Gnawnia resulting in an explosion of candy canes and snow! It's arrival in Gnawnia marks the beginning of the Great Winter Hunt!

Some pesky Elf mice have ran off with presents. If you catch an Elf mouse you'll find a gift specially wrapped depending on your Hunter's Title. Many of the gifts contain a little cheese to help you in your hunting, but occasionally you may just find something a little more special. To attract Elf mice more often, I suggest using SUPER|brie+ or Gingerbread Cheese as bait.

During the lighting of the Great Winter Tree, barrels of egg nog suddently exploded and the mice used the distraction to steal the star from the top of the tree! The mice have a schedule for their devious plot, and the bosses will only reveal themselves if the minions fail. Click the calandar icon on your heads-up display to see when each mouse is being released.

Don't forget your mittens and toque! Happy holiday hunting!

Festive Hunting tips by Larry

There's a lot going on at the Festive Comet and Larry the Friendly Knight wanted to give a few pointers to hunters on how best to hunt the various groups of mice invading the comet.

Gingerbread will attract the 12 Mice of Winter, with SUPER|brie+ being even more effective.

Seasoned Gouda will not only attract the 12 Mice of Winter, but will also attract The Three Ghosts of Winter and other powerful mice that drop upgrade pieces for the Explosive Toboggan Ride.

Links

• Banner image (2010 - initial)
• Banner image (2010 - while collecting Festive mice)
• Banner image (2010 - after saving Winter Star)