Ancient Relic

With the dust cleaned off, this jade and gold statue is indescribably beautiful. It represents an ancient period of time in mouse culture, where master sculptors might spend entire years perfecting a single curve of a single statue, chipping out the tiniest piece of jade and polishing for hours and hours and hours.
It's no surprise that the Relic Hunter Mouse is desperate to catch even a glimpse of these artifacts - they represent an incredible wealth of cultural and artistic knowledge.

Overview

The Ancient Relic is a collectible and a currency and Hunters must have one in their inventory to be able to attract the Relic Hunter Mouse.

The Hunter's inventory of Ancient Relics can be viewed through the Treasure Maps pop-up and in Inventory in the Special tab under Currency.

Relic Hunter Mouse

The Relic Hunter Mouse will drop the Relic Hunter Scroll Case as loot unless a Hunter has reached the maximum of 20 Relic Hunter Scroll Cases in their inventory.
The Relic Hunter Mouse will remove one Ancient Relic from the Hunter's inventory with each successful catch unless a Hunter has reached the maximum of 20 Relic Hunter Scroll Cases in their inventory.

Cartographers

Ancient Relics can be used at most Cartographers to purchase Scroll Cases that contain area- or event-specific treasure maps.

Golden Jade Treasure Chests

Golden Jade Treasure Chests contain Ancient Relics as a reward for completing Golden Jade Treasure Maps.

Mice that drop the Ancient Relic

The following table shows mice that can drop Ancient Relics, although they are not guaranteed to drop with every catch.

Region	Location	Mice
Gnawnia	Meadow	Mole
	Town of Gnawnia	Longtail Nibbler
	Windmill	Captain Croissant Longtail Mole
	Harbour	Black Widow
	Mountain	Abominable Snow Black Widow
Valour	King's Arms	Black Widow Longtail Nibbler
	Tournament Hall	Nibbler
	King's Gauntlet	Necromancer - Tier 7 Eclipse - Tier 8
Whisker Woods	Calm Clearing	Black Widow
	Great Gnarled Tree	Black Widow Nibbler
	Lagoon	Black Widow Silth
Burroughs	Laboratory	Black Widow Monster
	Town of Digby	With Standard Cheese Black Widow Nibbler With Limelight Cheese Big Bad Burroughs Nugget
	Mousoleum	Black Widow Lycan Monster
	Bazaar	Black Widow Nibbler
	Toxic Spill	None
Furoma	Training Grounds	Black Widow Nibbler
	Dojo	Assassin
	Meditation Room	None
	Pinnacle Chamber	Dojo Sensei
Bristle Woods	Catacombs	Black Widow Lycan
	Forbidden Grove	Black Widow Lycan Realm Ripper Reaper
	Acolyte Realm	Acolyte Black Widow Chrono
Tribal Isles	Cape Clawed	Aged Elder Grandfather Nibbler
	Elub Shore	Black Widow
	Nerg Plains	Black Widow
	Derr Dunes	Black Widow
	Jungle of Dread	None
	Dracano	Dragon
	Balack's Cove	Balack the Banished
Varmint Valley	Claw Shot City	None
	Gnawnian Express Station	Black Powder Thief Magmatic Crystal Thief Magmatic Golem
	Fort Rox	Monster of the Meteor Heart of the Meteor
Queso Canyon	Queso River	Queen Quesada
	Prickly Plains	Inferna, The Engulfed
	Cantera Quarry	Nachous, The Molten
	Queso Geyser	Emberstone Scaled
Rodentia	S.S. Huntington IV	Cook Leviathan Nibbler Shelder Squeaken
	Slushy Shoreline	None
	Iceberg	Deep General Drheller Icewing
	Seasonal Garden	Fall Familiar Spring Familiar Summer Mage Winter Mage
	Zugzwang's Tower	Chess Master
	Crystal Library	Aether Zurreal the Eternal
	Sunken City	Ancient of the Deep Tritus
Sandtail Desert	Fiery Warpath	Artillery Commander - Wave 4 Gargantuamouse - Waves 1 - 3 Warmonger - Wave 4
	Muridae Market	None
	Living Garden	None
	Twisted Garden	Shattered Carmine
	Lost City	None
	Cursed City	Dark Magi
	Sand Dunes	None
	Sand Crypts	King Scarab
Hollow Heights	Fungal Cavern	Crystal Behemoth Diamondhide Huntereater
	Labyrinth	None
	Zokor	Manaforge Smith - Tech Paladin Weapon Master - Fealty Retired Minotaur Soul Binder - Scholar
	Moussu Picchu	Ful'Mina, The Mountain Queen
Rift Plane	Gnawnia Rift	Goliath Field
	Burroughs Rift	Big Bad Behemoth Burroughs Menace of the Rift Monstrous Abomination
	Whisker Woods Rift	Centaur Ranger Cyclops Barbarian Monstrous Black Widow Tri-dra
	Furoma Rift	Ascended Elder Grand Master of the Dojo Supreme Sensei
	Bristle Woods Rift	Absolute Acolyte Harbinger of Death

History and Trivia

• 29 August 2012: The Ancient Relic was introduced into the game with the release of the Relic Hunter Mouse.
• 19 September 2013: The Mole Mouse relic drop rate at the Windmill and Meadow was greatly reduced and in the Town of Digby it stopped dropping relics entirely.
• 28 June 2016: Golden Jade Scroll Cases are released at Ronza's Traveling Shoppe 2016 and Golden Jade Treasure Chests begin rewarding Ancient Relics.

Links

• Larry's Loot Lexicon
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