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News

Return of the Haunted Terrortories!

17 october 2013

Brains, brains, BRAINS!

Halloween in Gnawnia means one thing -- The return of the Haunted Terrortories!
If you're in the mood for some frightfully haunted hunting, pack a powerful trap and travel to the Haunted Terrortories in Gnawnia!
You'll need to look lively while hunting, because this year, more mice than ever are undead!

Read all about the Spooky Supplies, a Boss with no Brain, Halloween Treasure Maps and Crystal Library Assignments, journal themes, collectibles, Spooky Skins, baskets, and more in the Official Newspost

Started: October 17, 2013 01:26pm gmt.

-- Dave vanderBurg

Spring Egg Hunt 2013

25 March 2013

Spring Egg Hunt!
The Chocolate Factory has re-opened its doors and this year's Spring Egg Hunt has begun in Gnawnia! But, like clockwork, some trouble-making mouse harbouring a strange obsession with eggs has hatched a plan to sabotage the Eggscavator, making it impossible for hunters to track down eggs!
Hunters must travel to the Chocolate Factory, catch mice to find and use Marshmallow Monterey, and capture 10 eggs being dropped by the mice there in order to re-calibrate the Eggscavator. Once it's been re-tuned, hunters can then travel across the land and collect special eggs from mice and areas! Hunters who don't yet have an Eggscavator from last year's Spring Egg Hunt can pick one up in the Chocolate Factory's General Store and begin the hunt to re-calibrate it.
The factory doors close and the production of eggs ends on Monday, April 15, so get on out there and get crackin'!

EGGS!
Each egg holds a special treasure inside and hunters can collect as many of them as they like! Can you complete your entire collection of eggs? Or will you go for as many of your absolute favourite eggs as possible?
When you find an egg, visit the Special [1] section of your inventory to smash it open!

Re-acquire, Re-tune, Re-calibrate

Marshmallow Monterey
Hunt in the Chocolate Factory to find mice carrying Marshmallow Monterey. This strangely sweet 'n' peppery cheese has an aroma and flavour only a mouse could love.

Faulty Eggscavator
The Eggscavator may look to be in working order, but it's having trouble tracking down the special egg signal that Spring Egg Hunt eggs broadcast. In order to get it re-calibrated so that you can hunt down those eggs, you'll need to use Marshmallow Monterey to capture mice that drop special factory eggs. Once these have been re-acquired, the Eggscavator will pick up the "scent" and you'll be able to hunt all across the land for Spring Egg Hunt eggs!
When you find an egg, visit the Special [2] section of your inventory to smash it open!

Eggy Charms

Eggscavator Charge Charms
Some special charms have appeared in the Chocolate Factory Charm Shoppe that allow you to charge up your Eggscavator (after it's been re-calibrated) in order to find special Charge eggs! When you hunt with Eggscavator Charge Charms equipped, you build up 1 charge per catch on your Eggscavator and have a chance to find special Charge eggs based on the number of charges built up. Keep your Eggscavator charged at all times for the best chance to find these extra-special Charge eggs!

Eggstra Charms
The incredible magic of these charms will duplicate any bonus eggs dropped by mice, giving you TWO eggs instead of just one. Use Marshmallow Monterey in the Chocolate Factory Charm Shoppe to create these charms, or pickup an Egg Hunting Kit which comes with 5 charms and plenty of Marshmallow Monterey.
Use Marshmallow Monterey in the Chocolate Factory Charm Shoppe to create these eggy charms. After the Spring Egg Hunt is over, any eggcess charms can be smashed with your Hunter's Hammer to create Dark Chocolate Charms.

Dark Chocolate Charms

Made of 88% coco and 12% evil, this sinister piece of confectionery will attract spooky mice when hunting at the Chocolate Factory! Before you arm this charm make sure your trap is properly prepared and that you're up for a challenge! Buy some from the Charm Shoppe!

Spring Gifts and Gift Eggs for Friends!

Gift Egg

These eggs have a variety of items inside to help you in your hunting endeavours. I wonder what's inside this one... Send your friend a Gift Egg this Spring!

Scrambles!
Scrambles the Hunting Seer is full of sage hunting advice that will help you see the sunny side of hunting. When you're questioning your hunting strategy, just ask Scrambles for help. Make sure to consult Scrambles before sounding your horn. You never know what piece of advice you'll get from this cuddly little chicken.

Check them all out here [3]

Spring Tournament

Join a tournament while you're in the Chocolate Factory! Score tournament points while you re-calibrate your Eggscavator!

Check them out here! [4]

Spring Gift Basket and Egg Hunting Kit

Spring Gift Basket
This gift basket is filled with yummy goodies to help you during the Spring Egg Hunt! Inside you'll find 80 Marshmallow Monterey and 20 Dark Chocolate Charms. It also provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 1 month when opened. Buy one and give it to a friend!

Egg Hunting Kit
This eggy kit is choco-full with tons of eggy goodness to really help you during the Spring Egg Hunt! Inside you'll find 200 Marshmallow Monterey, 100 Dark Chocolate Charms, and 5 Eggstra Charms, which give you TWO eggs instead of just one when used with the Eggscavator.

Marshmallow Monterey

This strange flavour is one of the most bizarre, foul tasting flavours of cheese ever made! Despite its vile peppery-sweet flavour, the Spring Mice just love this bait! Arm some of this cheese and one is sure to come your way...

In Short:

Spring Egg Hunt

• Head to the Chocolate Factory
  
• Collect and use Marshmallow Monterey cheese
  
• Obtain an Eggscavator from the General Store, if you don't have one
  
• Collect eggs from the mice to re-calibrate the Eggscavator
  
• Use the Eggscavator to locate other bonus eggs across the land
  
• Use Eggstra Charms to double the bonus eggs looted from mice!
  
• Use Eggscavator Charge Charms to find special Charged eggs!
  
  

Travel to the Chocolate Factory [5] | Buy a Spring Gift Basket for a friend or get an Egg Hunting Kit for yourself!

-- Giorgio Sintichakis

Ronza Is Under Attack!

7 March 2013

It's MouseHunt's 5th Birthday, and who else should arrive to help celebrate but RONZA! Her fantastic flying airship is - as always - loaded down with fantastic traps and goodies to help capture the varied and vengeful mice of Gnawnia. You'll need them too, as those mice have finally had enough, and have formed the Mouse Force Five; a super-team with the goal of destroying Ronza forever!

Purchase and equip your most powerful traps and use them to defeat the individual members of the Mouse Force Five, collecting robot scraps as you do. When you have enough, visit Ronza's trapsmith to purchase something that could be used as a robot head, then craft your own Super Robot Trap in her store to challenge the Mouse Force Five's evil super robot! Defeat it enough times in open combat so they'll break off their attack, and you'll have saved Ronza!

Help fight off the robot before Monday, March 18 and Ronza will reward you with a birthday cake! Ronza takes off on that day giant evil robot or no, so be sure to visit her before she's gone!

Robot Menace Terrorizes Gnawnia!

A GIGANTIC robotic mouse is stomping all over Gnawnia, threatening the Kingdom and making Ronza feel a little stressed out! Help fight off this colossal mousey robo-beast and keep Gnawnia and Ronza safe!

Mouse Force Five

Members from a new elite mouse team called the Mouse Force Five are attacking Ronza's airship! You must hunt them down and collect Robot Scraps from each of the 5 mice in order to build your own massive robot trap.

Robot Scraps

Each member of the Mouse Force Five drops a different Robot Scrap that you will need to collect. Once all 5 types have been collected, you can piece them together to create the arms, legs, and torso of your very own giant robot trap!

Repurposed Robot Head

The only thing missing from your robot is the head! Luckily, Ronza has tons of spare trap parts lying around and these can be repurposed to form the final piece of your Ultra MegaMouser MechaBot Trap! Visit her General Store to buy one.

Amazing New Ronza Traps!

Ronza is known for bringing the foremost in trap technology, and this year is no different. Her wares are sure to impress and scare even the most jaded of mouse, and perhaps cause them to think twice before attempting to steal that chunk of cheese.

The Isle Idol Trap

When hunting in the Tribal Isles with this fantastic new trap, you'll get double the crafting drops from the Derr, Nerg, and Elub mice! "But they're all different power types!" I hear you say. True! Which is why this amazing trap comes with two skins that change the power type from Physical to Hydro to Tactical and back again, while maintaining the double-drop powers!

Tarannosaurus Rex Trap

You wanna talk ancient and Forgotten? What's more ancient than dinosaur bones? Dread magic animates these primeval bones while boiling, bubbling tar drips all around. Any mouse brave or foolish enough to attempt to steal cheese from beneath its claws must be careful to avoid the sticky tar and the swift claws. Only the strongest and quickest mice will escape!

Chrome MonstroBot

Introducing the peak pinnacle of power, last legacy of luck, the absolute authority of awesomeness... the Chrome MonstroBot! Smash down your existing Sandstorm MonstroBot, dip the parts in the brand-new Chrome MonstroBot Upgrade Kit Ronza has brought, and then re-assemble them into the biggest, the shiniest, the straight-up wildest trap MouseHunt has ever seen!

It's a Charming Party!

Looking for an extra challenge? Pick up some Party Charms at Ronza's Trapsmith, or in the Birthday Party Pack or the Super MechaParty Box, then equip them to attract more interesting and challenging mice while hunting down the Mouse Force Five!

Rockforth to the Beat!

Collect and equip Rockforth Cheese from mice at Ronza's Traveling Shoppe to draw out the elusive Rockstar Mouse, who only shows up when there's a big enough party to attend!

Birthday Party Kits!

Need some extra gold to afford all the goodies Ronza brought? Or maybe you just want a leg up on the evil Mouse Force Five! Pick up some birthday kits chock-full of SUPER|brie+ and Party Charms for a great time!

Birthday Party Pack

This party box is filled with fun goodies to celebrate MouseHunt's 5th Birthday!

Inside you'll find 105 SUPER|brie+ and 25 Party Charms.

Buy one and give it to a friend!

Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 1 month from date of opening.

Super MechaParty Box This robotic box is geared up to really celebrate MouseHunt's 5th Birthday and help hunters SAVE RONZA!

Inside you'll find 455 SUPER|brie+ and 55 Party Charms!

Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 1 month from date of opening.

Help Save Ronza!

• Travel to Ronza's Traveling Shoppe.
• Capture the Mouse Force Five and collect robot scraps.
• Buy a Ultra MegaMouser MechaBot Trap of your own from Ronza.
• Equip your new trap and defeat the evil super robot!
• Make sure to check out Ronza's Shoppe for fantastic goodies!

Buy Birthday Party Kits for you or your friends | Travel to Ronza's Traveling Shoppe -- Giorgio Sintichakis

The Year of the Snake begins!

11 February 2013

The Year of the Snake begins!

With the Lunar New Year and Valentine's happening so closely together, Calamity Carl has decided to try to combine the two in a unique way: A Cozy Cruise around some of the sights of Gnawnia, packed with eye-catching fireworks with which to celebrate! However, he's gotten far more than he's bargained for, as the shape and colour of his cruise ship have proven absolutely alluring to every single water snake in the region and they are slowing down the cruise with their sheer bulk. On top of that, mice have invaded the cruise and run off with all the fireworks!

Thankfully, the snakes can't abide the bright lights and loud noise of fireworks, so it's going to be your job to help out! Hunt down the thieving mice and take back the Firecracker Charms. Arm them on your trap to both scare off the snakes (allowing you to move faster) and attract mice who carry potions to build bigger and better fireworks, all the way up to the incredible Snakebite Charm firework!

The festivities will continue until February 25, where the cruise ship will end its tour, docking at the Harbour. The ship's various Shops will still be open for some time before it finally leaves.

Collect Cruise Bux

On your cruise, you'll be rewarded with Cruise Bux when you pass from place to place, and you may find some on the mice you catch as well. Save them up, and when you have finished your cruise you can visit the ship's Shops and pick up new traps, bases, skins, and more!

Launch another cruise and tour around Gnawnia a second (or third!) time to get even MORE Cruise Bux!

Catch Celebrating Mice

You'll find many mice have flocked to the cruise, from the simple White Mouse to the Students of Furoma, all celebrating and having a grand time, and every stage of the cruise will have visitors from that area - perhaps mice you haven't yet had a chance to see, even!

Also, if you equip a Valentine Charm, you may attract a Firecracker Charm-carrying Totally Not Bitter Mouse. He's having a pretty hard Valentine's Day.

Gather Souvenirs

Each area you visit along your cruise will have a special souvenir associated with it. There is a rare chance you will get the souvenir from each area from the mice there, so try to collect them all!

If you're having trouble picking any up, you can visit the ship's General Store after your first successful cruise to complete your souvenir set!

Fireworks, Gift Baskets, and Cruise Crates

Want to jump-start your cruise with a few extra fireworks? Or maybe a whole crate of poppers is more your style? Whatever your tastes, there's something there for everyone!

• 15 Firecracker Charms

These crackly charms twitch and vibrate in your hands, giving your trap an extra boost of power, while also attracting the Costumed Tiger and Costumed Rabbit mice. Handle them with care!

While using these on Calamity Carl's Cozy Cruise, you will scare away the water snakes for a short time, helping the ship move a little faster.

• Cozy Cruise Gift Basket

A huggably soft gift basket perfect for giving to friends this Lunar New Year. The wrapping paper is made of cozy blankets!

The basket contains 100 SUPER|brie+ and 35 Firecracker Charms!

• Cruise Commander Crate

Command your perfect cruise ship experience with this crate of explosive gear, fully stocked with everything needed to celebrate the Lunar New Year!

Inside you'll find 250 SUPER|brie+, 100 Firecracker Charms, and 15 Nitropop Potions!

The Year of the Snake begins!

• Travel to Calamity Carl's Cozy Cruise
• Collect Firecracker Charms
• Hunt with Firecracker Charms to collect potions to create bigger and brighter fireworks!
• Equip the best firework charms you have to scare the water snakes and move quickly through the cruise
• Collect Cruise Bux and finish your cruise to buy fantastic traps, skins, and bases!

Buy a Festive Kit or a Gift Basket for you or a friend | Travel to Calamity Carl's Cozy Cruise

-- Giorgio Sintichakis

New Fearsome Mice Have Been Sighted!

14 January 2013

New Fearsome Mice Have Been Sighted!

Fear and awe have spread through mice and hunters alike in recent days, as rumours of terrifying new mice have quickly spread.

In the Twisted Garden, a super-charged mouse lurks in the depths, shocking (both literally and figuratively) anyone that comes near!

In the Cursed City, an ancient and evil magical mouse is inventing new and dangerous curses to cast over the whole of Gnawnia!

And in the Sand Crypts, a hyper-evolved mouse has reared his exceptionally ugly head and is devouring all he sees!

All-new recipes!

In order to face these new mice, you'll need the power of the all-new Shattering Charm, which can only be crafted by utilizing the power of an Icuri Essence.

The mysterious Rift Base harnesses the very power of the rift between our world and the next, and will be immensely useful in coming battles. But how to craft it? Only patient and powerful hunters will ever know.

If there was ever a mouse that proved a little too tough, or thought he was a little too much for you, the Ultimate Charm will prove them wrong. What does it do? It catches mice. Period. Regardless of any other factors, this charm will catch the very next mouse that wanders too close. Then, if it wasn't jostled too hard in the process, maybe it stays around for another try. Try to see how many mice yours lasts for!

Finally, to prove your dominion over the Living Garden, there's the all-new Living Garden theme. Anyone viewing your journal when you have this theme active will definitely know that you are the true master of the Living Garden!

Kits and Charm Packs

• Twisted Essence Collector Kit

This package contains 20 Red Sponge Charms, 20 Yellow Sponge Charms, 6 Bravery Charms, 6 Clarity Charms, 6 Shine Charms, 20 Grub Salt Charms, 2 Grub Scent Charms, and 250 SUPER|brie+ for use in hunting in the Twisted Garden, Sand Crypts, and Cursed City.
Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 2 months from date of opening.

• Twisted Garden Charm Pack

This package contains 10 Red Sponge Charms and 10 Yellow Sponge Charms for use in collecting coloured dewdrops in the Twisted Garden.
Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 1 month from date of opening.

• Cursed City Charm Pack

This package contains 3 Bravery Charms, 3 Clarity Charms, and 3 Shine Charms for use in dispelling curses in the Cursed City.
Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 1 month from date of opening.

• Sand Crypts Charm Pack

This package contains 10 Grub Salt Charms and 1 Grub Scent Charm for use in hunting the Grub King Mouse in the Sand Crypts.
Provides the Lucky Golden Shield for 1 month from date of opening.

The Living Garden To The Next Level!

• Brand-new and terrifying mice now inhabit the garden!
• Craft Shattering Charms to challenge them
• Build your own Rift Base to be prepared for what's coming
• Craft and collect Ultimate Charms and catch mice... guaranteed!
• Proudly display your very own Living Garden Theme

Buy a Twisted Essence Collector Kit for you or a friend | Travel to the Living Garden

-- Dan Hulton

Bonus Luck Weekend!

11 January 2013

Bonus Luck Weekend!

It looks like a light smattering of lucky fairy dust has settled over Gnawnia. Or perhaps the Digby scientists have been up to more of their irresponsible experiments? Maybe everyone's just on an incredible streak. Whatever it is, every trap is lucky this weekend, and everyone gets a +5 luck bonus on every hunt!

Take advantage of all that extra luck and hunt down some of the tougher mice this weekend!

Lucky Mouse

This little guy has collected a pile of "Lucky" trinkets: a funky lucky sock that he'll never remove because he claims it once messed up a Monstrobot's sensors, lucky beads that managed to jam a trap's trigger mechanism without him even noticing, and his lucky belt that has... been a good conversation starter at least.

But also in his possession is a collection of actual Luck Charms, Super Luck Charms, and even Ultimate Luck Charms! Seek him out and catch him in your trap to claim your lucky prize!

Lucky Hunting Kit

Looking for even more luck? This kit comes jam-packed with it! 200 SUPER|brie+, 100 Luck Charms, an incredible 30 Super Luck Charms, and a 1 month Lucky Golden Shield will boost your luck to incredible levels.

Get One Now!

Bonus Luck Weekend!

• +5 luck bonus on every hunt!
• A new Lucky Mouse wandering the lands
• Find that mouse!

Travel around to find the mouse

Buy a Lucky Hunting Kit for you or a friend

-- Giorgio Sintichakis