Living Garden

Living Garden
Region: Sandtail Desert
Minimum Rank:	Baron/Baroness
Travel Requirement:	Living Garden Key
Required Power Type:	Hydro
Required Cheeses:	Standard Cheese Duskshade Camembert
Recommended Charms:	See Dewdrop Minigame
Number of Mice:	8
Shops:	Cartographer Charm Shoppe Cheese Shoppe General Store Trapsmith
Lose Gold:	Yes
Lose Points:	Yes
Lose Cheese:	Yes
Release Date:	14 November 2012
The mice that live in this garden use the environment to their advantage, fashioning crude armour and weapons from plantlife in order to protect and hoard all the Garden Essences they can find.

Overview

Living Garden is a hunting location in Sandtail Desert region.

Living Garden, Lost City, Sand Dunes, Twisted Garden, Cursed City, and Sand Crypts are 6 connected hunting locations, forming the Living Garden complex.

They require the minimum rank of Baron/Baroness and the Living Garden Key to access.

Living Garden can only be traveled to when the Hunter's map is in Normal state.

Normal World and Twisted World

At a time, among 6 hunting locations in the Living Garden complex, only 3 can be traveled to. This depends on whether the Hunter's map is in Normal or Twisted state:

• Normal state: Living Garden, Lost City, and Sand Dunes are accessible
• Twisted state: Twisted Garden, Cursed City, and Sand Crypts are accessible

The map state can be changed from Normal to Twisted by:

• Catching a Carmine the Apothecary in Living Garden

Doing so will generate a journal entry:

On catching Carmine the Apothecary, a light flashes and a spell she had prepared in advance erupts! Nightmarish tendrils of dark smoke burst from the ground around me, and before I knew it the world had changed before my very eyes into a wild and twisted version of itself.

I can feel this world itself attempting to reject me and send me back, but I must stay as long as I am able to find out what Carmine is doing in this hidden, dark place.

The map state can be changed from Twisted to Normal by either:

• Using any cheese other than Duskshade Camembert or Lunaria Camembert in Twisted Garden
• Using any cheese other than Graveblossom Camembert in Cursed City
• Using any cheese other than Graveblossom Camembert in Sand Crypts

Doing any of the actions above will generate a journal entry:

Almost as if an illusion suddenly shattered, the world around me snaps back to normal. Using X Cheese has brought me back to the normal world.

The Living Garden Sequence

In the Living Garden complex, the Hunter follows 6 main steps in sequence.
Step 1 and 3 can be done in Living Garden.

Step	Location	Cheese Used	Loot	To Obtain
1	Living Garden	Standard Cheese	Dewthief Petal	Dewthief Camembert
2a	Lost City	Dewthief Camembert	Dreamfluff Herbs	Duskshade Camembert
2b	Sand Dunes	Dewthief Camembert	Duskshade Petal
3	Living Garden	Duskshade Camembert		Access to Twisted World
4	Twisted Garden	Duskshade Camembert	Graveblossom Petal	Graveblossom Camembert
5a	Cursed City	Graveblossom Camembert	Plumepearl Herbs	Lunaria Camembert
5b	Sand Crypts	Graveblossom Camembert	Lunaria Petal
6	Twisted Garden	Lunaria Camembert	Living Chest	Fel Essence Gur Essence Fresh Twisted Garden Soil

Dewdrop Minigame

In Living Garden, the Dewdrop mechanics are in effect:

• Using special Charms makes mice drop Dewdrop:
  • Sponge Charm makes mice drop 1 Dewdrop per catch.
  • Blue Double Sponge Charm makes mice drop 2 Dewdrop per catch.
• Dewdrop can be collected up to a maximum of 20.
• Pouring will consume all Dewdrop and change the state to Poured for a number of hunts.
  • In Poured state, Thirsty Mouse can be attracted using Standard Cheese.
  • In this state, Sponge Charm and Blue Double Sponge Charm will not make mice drop Dewdrop.
  • The number of hunts depends on the number of Dewdrop poured based on the following table:

Dewdrop poured	Number of hunts
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10	10
11	12
12	14
13	16
14	18
15	20
16	22
17	24
18	26
19	28
20	35

Finishing collecting 20 Dewdrop generates a journal entry:

I've filled up on Dewdrops. Time to pour them out and start attracting Thirsty Mice!

Pouring generates a journal entry:

I poured out my collected Dewdrops, and started attracting some thirsty mice for the next X hunts!

I should unequip my Sponge Charms and save them for later.

When the hunts run out and state switches back from Poured to normal, a journal entry is generated:

With the ground now dry, the Thirsty mice have retreated.

Heads-Up Display

The Hunter can access and track the following in the HUD:

• Dewdrop Minigame
  • The number of Dewdrop is displayed.
  • There is a Pour button, which the Hunter can click to switch state to Poured.

Clicking it will pop out a confirmation message:

Are you sure you want to pour out your collected Dewdrops?

If you do, you'll attract some very thirsty mice for X hunt!

Click Cancel to cancel

Click Confirm to switch state

• Garden Petals and Herbs
• Garden Essences
• Book of Living Recipes

Mice

All mice found in Living Garden are part of the Living Garden Mice group.

Only Hydro power type is effective against the mice here.

Standard Cheese can attract all mice except Carmine the Apothecary which requires Duskshade Camembert. Thirsty Mouse can only be attracted in Poured state.

Most mice here can drop Dewthief Petal which can be used to purchase Dewthief Camembert to hunt in Lost City and Sand Dunes.

Catching Carmine the Apothecary will transfer the Hunter to Twisted Garden and enable traveling to Cursed City and Sand Crypts.

Mouse	Points	Gold	Standard Cheese	Duskshade Camembert	Loot
Bark	11,250	1,950	X		Aleth Essence Dewthief Petal
Calalilly	15,250	2,050	X		Aleth Essence Dewthief Petal
Camoflower	11,000	1,250	X	X	Aleth Essence Dewthief Petal
Carmine the Apothecary Capture moves the Hunter to Twisted World	12,500	800		X
Shroom	12,500	2,650	X	X	Aleth Essence Dewthief Petal
Strawberry Hotcakes	14,500	1,950	X		Ber Essence Dewthief Petal
Thirsty Requires Poured state	1,000	1,000	X		Ber Essence Cynd Essence Dewthief Petal
Thistle	9,050	1,150	X		Aleth Essence Dewthief Petal

Hunting Strategy

Hunting Tips by Larry

Hail, brave hunter!

You know, I spent so much time staring at this place, wondering what could be inside... Would it be exotic monsters, or crazed plants? But now that I'm here, all I really know is that something weird is going on!

If you watch carefully, you can observe tiny raids from other mouse tribes coming to the garden and stealing the Garden Essences that accumulate here. You can gather your own as well by trapping the mice that reside here, and then put them to use here in the Garden!

If you check the shop, you'll see that you can purchase Sponge Charms for Aleth Essences and use those to collect dewdrops. Collect enough dewdrops and you can cover the ground in moisture, attracting Thirsty Mice who drop even more and better Garden Essences!

While you're here, make sure to collect as many Dewthief Petals as you can - you'll need them to buy cheese to hunt with later on!

Oh, and don't forget to check out the Book of Living Recipes to find out all the incredible new things you can make out of these Garden Essences!

Perhaps much later, you'll find a cheese you can use to come back here and catch rare and powerful mice!

Adventure Book

• The Hunter can complete the Obtain a Rift Detector adventure in Living Garden.
• The Hunter can complete some steps of the Defeat Twisted Carmine adventure in Living Garden.

Location-Specific Effects

Bases

• Aurora Base - has a chance to generate a random Garden Essence
• Hothouse Base - doubles the range of Dewthief Petal dropped by mice
• Living Base - doubles the range of Dewthief Petal dropped by mice
• Desert Heater Base - consumes a Flameshard per hunt to generate a random Sandtail Desert item per mouse catch

Charms

• Sponge Charm - makes mice drop 1 Dewdrop per catch
• Double Sponge Charm - makes mice drop 2 Dewdrop per catch

Shops

These are the shops found in Living Garden.

Cartographer

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Rift Detector	120,000 gold 5 Dol Essence	None	N/A
Living Garden Scroll Case	6 Ancient Relic	None	N/A

Charm Shoppe

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Charmbit	25 gold	None	20 gold
Sponge Charm	200 gold 1 Aleth Essence	None	N/A
Epic Orb	125,000 gold	None	125,000 gold
Aromatic Oil	1,000,000 gold	None	1,000,000 gold
Lucky Power Charm	900 gold	None	270 gold
Super Power Charm	500 gold	None	150 gold
Super Luck Charm	750 gold	None	225 gold
Super Lucky Power Charm	2,500 gold	None	750 gold
Extreme Power Charm	1,500 gold	None	450 gold
Extreme Luck Charm	4,500 gold	None	1,350 gold

Cheese Shoppe

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Dewthief Camembert	750 gold 1 Dewthief Petal	None	N/A
Dewthief Camembert 4-Pack	3,000 gold 3 Dewthief Petal 1 Magic Essence	None	N/A
Duskshade Camembert	1,100 gold 1 Duskshade Petal 1 Dreamfluff Herbs	None	N/A
Duskshade Camembert 4-Pack	4,400 gold 3 Duskshade Petal 3 Dreamfluff Herbs 1 Magic Essence	None	N/A
Graveblossom Camembert	1,500 gold 1 Graveblossom Petal	None	N/A
Graveblossom Camembert 4-Pack	6,000 gold 3 Graveblossom Petal 1 Magic Essence	None	N/A
Lunaria Camembert	1,775 gold 1 Lunaria Petal 1 Plumepearl Herbs	None	N/A
Lunaria Camembert 4-Pack	7,100 gold 3 Lunaria Petal 3 Plumepearl Herbs 1 Magic Essence	None	N/A
Swiss Cheese	100 gold	None	100 gold
Brie Cheese	200 gold	None	200 gold
Gouda Cheese	600 gold	None	600 gold

General Store

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Curds and Whey	12 gold	None	3 gold
Ionized Salt	450 gold	None	150 gold
Essence Prism	500 gold	None	500 gold
Plant Pot	900 gold	None	900 gold

Trapsmith

Bases

Item	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Soiled Base	1 Fel Essence 1 Gur Essence 1 Hix Essence 3 Fresh Twisted Garden Soil 1 Dewthief Petal 1 Duskshade Petal 1 Graveblossom Petal 1 Lunaria Petal	None	N/A
Rift Base	7,500,000 gold 1 Rift Crystal 1 Rift Mist 1 Rift Stars	None	N/A

Weapons

Item	Power Type	Cost	Requirement	Refund
Phantasmic Oasis Trap	Hydro	3,000,000 gold 1 Est Essence 1 Fel Essence 1 Icuri Essence 1 Oasis Water Node Trap	None	N/A
Clockwork Portal Trap	Shadow	4,000,000 gold 1 Fel Essence 1 Icuri Essence 1 Clockapult of Time	None	N/A
Grand Arcanum Trap	Arcane	4,900,000 gold 1 Gur Essence 1 Icuri Essence 1 Arcane Capturing Rod Of Never Yielding Mystery	None	N/A

History and Trivia

• 2 June 2011: The Living Garden appeared on the Travel page, but could not be visited.
• 14 November 2012: The Living Garden can be traveled to.

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