Great Winter Hunt 2016
| Great Winter Hunt 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Region: Gnawnia | |
| Minimum Rank: | Recruit |
| Travel Requirement: | None |
| Number of Mice: | 59 |
| Shops: | Cartographer Charm Shoppe Cheese Shoppe General Store Trapsmith |
| Lose Gold: | No |
| Lose Points: | No |
| Lose Cheese: | Yes |
| Opening Date: | 13 December 2016 |
| Closing Date: | 10 January 2017 |
| Vacant Lot: | 10 - 17 January 2017 |
| A whole winter wonderland and workshop has arrived with this year's Festive Comet! The collision caused the workshop's warehouse to explode, spreading decorations, toys, skis and sleds all over!
Hop on Larry's Twin Temporal Turbine sleigh and help collect the missing items to get them all packaged back up and save the Great Winter Hunt celebration! | |
Vacant Lot
On 10 January the Great Winter Hunt 2016 closed, leaving the Vacant Lot behind.
Hunters could continue to make purchases at the Great Winter Hunt Shops, except the Cartographer. Rewards earned in flight could still be claimed through a small HUD over the Hunter's Journal.
Fireworks
On 11 January, Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks were added to the General Store where they could be purchased at the cost of 1 Festive New Year's Fireworks and 1,000 gold.
Vacant Lot Mice
The following mice could be found in the Vacant Lot:
- Bionic Mouse
- Black Widow Mouse
- Brown Mouse
- Cowardly Mouse
- Diamond Mouse
- Dwarf Mouse
- Field Mouse
- Flying Mouse
- Gold Mouse
- Granite Mouse
- Grey Mouse
- Lightning Rod Mouse
- Mole Mouse
- Pirate Mouse
- Spotted Mouse
- Steel Mouse
- Tiny Mouse
- White Mouse
Overview
During the Great Winter Hunt 2016 Hunters must collect gifts from various zones and wrap gift orders. Once they have wrapped 10 gift orders Hunters will be able to Take Flight and hunt the Great Winter Impostor. Rewards are given to Hunters as they cross certain distance markers while flying.
Beginning on 29 December, Hunters can collect Festive New Year's Fireworks in New Year's Party zones. Taking flight will automatically deploy these fireworks with each hunt. Accumulating Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks will unlock special items in the General Store.
Hunt with Standard Cheeses to collect Arctic Asiago. Hunt with Arctic Asiago or other Great Winter Hunt Cheese on the ground to attract mice that drop gifts, and in flight for the best chance of attracting the Great Winter Hunt Impostor.
HUD
The Heads-Up Display tracks the following items both on the ground and in flight:
- On the left side, the inventory of these items is tracked:
- Arctic Asiago Cheese - Can be armed/disarmed through the HUD
- Winter Charms - Can be armed/disarmed through the HUD
- Throwable Snowballs - Can open the Snowball Showdown from the HUD
- On the right side:
- Inventory of Festive Anchor Charms
- Current speed
- Inventory of Sleigh Nitro
- Speed Selector
- Brake - Arms Festive Anchor Charms, reducing speed to 10 meters per hunt. Disabled during flight
- Normal - Speed is 30 meters per hunt on the ground and 800 meters per hunt in flight
- Boost - Consumes 1 Sleigh Nitro per hunt. Speed is 250 meters per hunt on the ground and 900 meters per hunt in flight
- Turbo - Consumes 3 Sleigh Nitro per hunt. Speed is 500 meters per hunt on the ground and 1,000 meters per hunt in flight
- Distance Flown - Shows the total distance traveled during all flights. Does not track distance traveled on the ground
- Across the bottom, the inventory of these items is tracked:
- Simple Tree Ornament
- Deluxe Tree Ornament
- Simple Pair of Skis
- Deluxe Riding Sled
- Simple Toy Top
- Deluxe Toy Block
- and
- The popup for this item will show the quantity of Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks
- ? - Selecting this opens a pop-up which reads:
- All across Gnawnia, children have written the King with their holiday wishes!
- The King has asked hunters to help fulfill their requests. Drive your sleigh across the ice and snow to gather special gift loot items and wrap them up for the good citizens of Gnawnia! Every time you wrap a gift, you'll power your sleigh with holiday cheer.
- Once you have wrapped 10 gifts, your sleigh will be able take flight and earn festive rewards! The further you fly, the greater gifts you'll find.
- Wrap gifts, spread joy and holiday cheer, and enjoy the winter wonderland during this Great Winter Hunt!
- The pop-up shows the four rewards that can be earned and the distance required to earn them. Earned rewards can be claimed through the pop-up even while on the ground.
- 10km - SUPER|brie+ Supply Pack - Contains 30 SUPER|brie+ and provides 5 days of the Lucky Golden Shield when opened.
- 40km - Holiday Hydro Hailstone Trap
- 80km - Joyous Holiday Theme
- 130km - Festive Forgotten Fir Trap
Clicking on the sleigh opens a pop-up which shows a minimum of 1,250 meters and a maximum of 1,750 meters of the Zones around the Hunter's location.
HUD - On the ground
- Top: The current zone and distance remaining.
- Middle: The Hunter's sleigh is shown, as well as 1,000 meters of the Zones around the Hunter's location. The current zone is highlighted.
- Bottom: Open gift orders. Hunters will have 3 orders shown at a time. When an order can be wrapped, the wrap button will be highlighted.
- Wrapping a gift order will increase the Gifts Wrapped counter by 1.
- Wrapping the tenth gift order will allow the Hunter to take flight.
- The open gift orders will be replaced by a notice that reads: Sleigh full! Time to... ...take flight!
- Open orders are not lost but only hidden from view.
- Bottom Right:
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- The popup for this item will show the quantity of Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks
- Gifts Wrapped counter that reads x/10. Wrapping gift orders advances the counter
- Take Flight button: Highlighted when Hunters achieve 10 of 10 wrapped gift orders.
- Selecting Take Flight will launch the Hunter's sleigh and allow the attraction of the Great Winter Hunt Impostor and earn rewards for passing specific distance markers.
HUD - In Flight
- Top: Now exploring: Winter Wonderland - There are no zones while in flight.
- Land - Hunters may land before exhausting their hunts, but only if they have no Festive New Year's Fireworks in their inventory.
- Middle: The Hunter's sleigh is shown, as well as 1,000 meters of the Winter Wonderland around the Hunter's location.
- Bottom: Rewards and the distance required to receive them. The distance will be replaced with a claim button once the reward is earned.
- 10km - SUPER|brie+ Supply Pack - Contains 30 SUPER|brie+ and provides 5 days of the Lucky Golden Shield when opened.
- 40km - Holiday Hydro Hailstone Trap
- 80km - Joyous Holiday Theme
- 130km - Festive Forgotten Fir Trap
- Bottom Right:
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- The popup for this item will show the quantity of Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks
- Hunts Remaining while in flight. Hunters start each flight with 20 hunts.
- Capturing the Great Winter Hunt Impostor will reward 2 additional hunts without consuming a hunt
- Capturing any other mouse will consume a hunt.
- A Failure To Catch (FTC) will consume a hunt
- A Failure to Attract (FTA) will have no effect on the hunt count.
Hunting On the Ground
While on the ground, Hunters can gather Arctic Asiago while hunting with Standard Cheese or SUPER|brie+. Hunters can use Arctic Asiago or other Great Winter Hunt Cheese to attract mice that drop various gifts. Gifts are collected to fill orders. Wrapping 10 orders will allow the Hunter to take flight and encounter the Great Winter Hunt Impostor and earn various rewards.
Zones
Mice vary by zone when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheeses.
Arctic Asiago provides a nearly perfect attraction rate and is required for attracting certain mice.
Each zone provides a different gift type.
Zones are a minimum of 250 meters in length, with longer zones being a multiple of 250 meters. There does not appear to be an upper limit to a zone's length, but zones over 1,250 meters are very rare.
Brake: Using any charm with Anchor in its name will slow the Hunter's sleigh to 10 meters per hunt.
Normal: Hunters travel 30 meters per hunt.
Boost: Using 1 Sleigh Nitro will increase the speed of the Hunter's sleigh to 250 meters per hunt.
Turbo: Using 3 Sleigh Nitro will increase the speed of the Hunter's sleigh to 500 meters per hunt.
- Winter Wasteland
- Mice found here rarely drop toys, so this is a good location to arm Standard Cheese or SUPER|brie+ and farm Arctic Asiago.
- Decorative Oasis
- Mice found here may drop the Simple Tree Ornament when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Tinsel Forest
- Mice found here may drop the Simple Tree Ornament and Deluxe Tree Ornament when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Bunny Hills
- Mice found here may drop the Simple Pair of Skis when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Frosty Mountains
- Mice found here may drop the Simple Pair of Skis and Deluxe Riding Sled when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Toy Lot
- Mice found here may drop the Simple Toy Top when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Toy Emporium
- Mice found here may drop the Simple Toy Top and Deluxe Toy Block when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Snowball Storm
- Mice found here may drop Throwable Snowballs when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- New Year's Party
- The New Year's Mouse and Party Head Mouse will drop Festive New Year's Fireworks when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
- Mice found here may drop the various Gifts when hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese
Collecting and Wrapping Gifts
As Hunters travel through the zones while hunting with Great Winter Hunt Cheese they will collect gifts.
Hunters will always have 3 orders open at a time, but never more than 2 orders requiring the same item.
- Simple gift orders will require from 4 to 8 items to fill.
- Deluxe gift orders will require from 3 to 4 items to fill.
Filling an order will advance the Gifts Wrapped counter and a new order will be randomly chosen to replace it. When 10 gift orders have been wrapped Hunters will be able to take flight. If Hunters choose not to take flight immediately, they can continue to hunt on the ground and collect gifts, but will be unable to fill any additional gift orders until they have taken flight and exhausted their hunts while in the air. Upon landing, Hunters will be returned to the same spot in the same zone and can resume collecting gifts and wrapping orders.
Taking Flight
Hunters must wrap 10 gift orders in order to be able to Take Flight
There is only a single zone called Winter Wonderland while in flight. Arctic Asiago provides the best attraction rate and the Great Winter Hunt Impostor is more difficult to attract when hunting with other Great Winter Hunt Cheese and exceptionally difficult to attract with Standard Cheese or SUPER|brie+. It is strongly recommended that Hunters do not take flight with fewer than 30 pieces of Arctic Asiago to hunt with.
Number of Hunts
Hunters start each flight with 20 available hunts. Hunters are returned to the ground when their hunts reach zero.
- Capturing the Great Winter Hunt Impostor will reward 2 additional hunts without consuming a hunt
- Capturing any other mouse will consume a hunt.
- A Failure To Catch (FTC) will consume a hunt
- A Failure to Attract (FTA) will have no effect on the hunt count, provides no progress, and will not deploy any fireworks..
Speed and Distance
The base speed while in flight is 800 meters per hunt.
- Brake - Disabled during flight
- Normal - Speed is 800 meters per hunt
- Boost - Consumes 1 Sleigh Nitro per hunt. Speed is 900 meters per hunt
- Turbo - Consumes 3 Sleigh Nitro per hunt. Speed is 1,000 meters per hunt
Rewards
Hunters earn rewards as they reach various distance markers. These rewards must be claimed through the HUD, they are not automatically added to the Hunter's inventory.
- 10km - SUPER|brie+ Supply Pack - Contains 30 SUPER|brie+ and provides 5 days of the Lucky Golden Shield when opened.
- 40km - Holiday Hydro Hailstone Trap - A Limited edition Hydro weapon
- 80km - Joyous Holiday Theme
- 130km - Festive Forgotten Fir Trap - A Limited Edition Forgotten weapon
Distances from each flight are added to the distances achieved on all previous flights. It will take multiple flights to receive all four available rewards.
Beginning at 130,000 meters Hunters will receive a Floating Reindeer Crate every 10,000 meters. These crates are automatically added to the Hunter's inventory. Each crate will have 2 Festive New Year's Fireworks attached, which are automatically added to the Hunter's inventory.
Fireworks
Hunters can collect Festive New Year's Fireworks in New Year's Party zones on the ground. Festive New Year's Fireworks are required to encounter the Frightened Flying Fireworks Mouse while in flight.
Hunting while in flight will deploy 1 Festive New Year's Fireworks per hunt, adding a Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks to the Hunter's inventory. Acquiring sufficient numbers of these deployed fireworks will unlock special items in the General Store.
Each Floating Reindeer Crate will have 2 Festive New Year's Fireworks attached, which will automatically be added to the Hunter's inventory.
When Hunters run out of Festive New Year's Fireworks they will be able to Land if they choose, but this will waste any remaining hunts available during the flight.
Great Winter Hunt Mice
These are the Event mice that may be encountered during the annual Great Winter Hunt.
Charm Use
- Winter and Festive Charms
- Using any charm with the word Winter or Festive in its name will attract the Snowflake Mouse
- Anchor Charms
- Using any charm with Anchor in its name will slow the Hunter's sleigh to 10 meters per hunt while hunting on the ground.
- WARNING #1: The area-specific effects of these charms have no effect in the event location. The use of a Golden Anchor Charm, Spiked Anchor Charm, or Ultimate Anchor Charm is not recommended.
- WARNING #2: It is possible to arm the anchor charms during Flight but they will not slow the progress of the sleigh.
- Empowered Anchor Charm
- Festive Anchor Charm
- Golden Anchor Charm
- Spiked Anchor Charm
- Ultimate Anchor Charm - The guaranteed catch effect works only in Sunken City. Do Not Use This Charm in the Great Winter Hunt 2016.
Cheese Preference and Loot
- Hunting on the ground
- Standard Cheese and SUPER|brie+ will attract mice that drop Arctic Asiago.
- Arctic Asiago will attract all mice that drop gifts..
- Other Great Winter Hunt Cheeses will attract most mice that drop gifts, but the attraction rate is lower than with Arctic Asiago.
- Hunting In Flight
- Arctic Asiago provides the best attraction for the Great Winter Hunt Impostor.
- Other Great Winter Hunt Cheeses, Standard Cheeses, and SUPER|brie+ add the Abominable Snow Mouse, Diamond Mouse, and Gold Mouse to the population and attract the Great Winter Hunt Impostor less often.
- The Gingerbread Mouse avoids traps armed with any Festive or Winter charms combined with Arctic Asiago, Standard Cheeses, and SUPER|brie+. It can be attracted with those charms armed when hunting with other Great Winter Hunt Cheeses.
Activities
Adventure Book
Hunters can complete the Event Adventure Spread Joy Throughout the Land.
Collect gifts on your sleigh and wrap them for the citizens of Gnawnia. Take flight and spread joy and holiday cheer across the land!
This adventure takes place in: Great Winter Hunt 2016
Gather Gifts
- Collect Arctic Asiago
- Find Simple Tree Ornament or Deluxe Tree Ornament
- Find Simple Pair of Skis or Deluxe Riding Sled
- Find Simple Toy Top or Deluxe Toy Block
Spread Holiday Cheer!
- Wrap 10 gifts to prepare your sleigh for flight.
Take Flight and Defeat the Impostor!
- Take flight
- Catch the Impostor before he steals too much good cheer!
- Location: Great Winter Hunt
Rewards:
- Winter Aura
- 50,000 Gold
- 100,000 Points
- 50 King's Credits
Snowball Showdown
Collect Throwable Snowballs in Snowball Storm zones and use them to reveal shapes and earn prizes!
Shops
These are the shops found in the Great Winter Hunt.
Cartographer
| Item |
Cost |
Refund |
Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sealed Nice List | 2 Ancient Relics | N/A | None |
| Sealed Naughty List | 5 Ancient Relics | N/A | None |
Charm Shoppe
| Item |
Cost Per Piece |
Refund Per Piece |
|---|---|---|
| Winter Charm | 2 Arctic Asiago Cheese | N/A |
| Festive Ultimate Power Charm | 1 Advent Chocolate | N/A |
| Festive Ultimate Luck Charm | 1 Advent Chocolate | N/A |
Cheese Shoppe
| Item |
Cost Per Piece |
Refund Per Piece |
|---|---|---|
| Cheddar | 10 | 10 |
| Marble | 50 | 50 |
| Swiss | 100 | 100 |
| Brie | 200 | 200 |
| Gouda | 600 | 600 |
General Store
| Item |
Cost Per Piece |
Requirement (Not Spent) |
|---|---|---|
| Deployed Festive New Year's Fireworks | 1,000 gold 1 Festive New Year's Fireworks |
N/A |
| Deluxe Tree Ornament | 5 Simple Tree Ornament | N/A |
| Deluxe Riding Sled | 5 Simple Pair of Skis | N/A |
| Deluxe Toy Block | 5 Simple Toy Top | N/A |
| Winter Hunt Theme | 15,000 gold 3 Advent Chocolates |
N/A |
| Snowball Journal Theme | 15,000 gold 3 Advent Chocolates |
N/A |
| Extreme Toboggan Journal Theme | 15,000 gold 3 Advent Chocolates |
N/A |
| Iceball Brawl Theme | 15,000 gold 3 Advent Chocolates |
N/A |
