Year of the Rooster

Overview

During the Year of the Rooster, Hunters can encounter mice in Stockpile locations throughout the Kingdom that drop Dumpling Cheese. Dumpling Cheese can be armed in those same Stockpile locations to attract Lunar New Year Mice.

Lunar New Year Charms have no special attraction affects during this event.

HUD

Hunters can track their progress with the event through the Heads-Up Display.

It tracks the following items:

Dumpling Cheese - Arm and disarm.

When armed in a non-stockpile location, the following warning appears:

There are no Lunar New Year mice here!

You should select another bait.

Costumed Mice - The 8 costumed mice are shown in the order they were introduced to the game and must be caught in that order.

Initially, only the Costumed Tiger is available. Capturing the Costumed Tiger will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Rabbit.

Capturing the Costumed Rabbit will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Dragon. This pattern continues until the Costumed Rooster is captured.

Capturing the Costumed Rooster allows all the costumed mice to appear in stockpile locations at the same time.

Rooster Lunar Lantern - Turn on and off

Tracks the Hunters supply of Lunar Lantern Candles which are required to activate the lantern's effects.

The lantern consumes 1 candle per hunt while active.

While turned on, the lantern will provide a Luck bonus and will double most loot dropped by mice. This effect works in all locations throughout the Kingdom

Lunar Lantern Candles lit - This is the cumulative total of all candles consumed by the Rooster Lunar Lantern.

Every 10 candles burned will provide a bonus of +1 Luck while the lantern is active.

Luck Boost - the bonus luck earned from burning candles.

Every 10 candles burned will provide a bonus of +1 Luck while the lantern is active.

The maximum possible luck is +50.

Loot Doubler - On or Off

The loot doubling effect is off when the lantern is not active.

The loot doubler is on when the lantern is active.

Stockpiles of Dumpling Cheese

Stockpiles of Dumpling Cheese can be found in 9 locations within the Kingdom.
Hunt with the cheeses that attract the mice normally found in these locations to obtain Dumpling Cheese as loot.
Hunting with Dumpling Cheese in Stockpile locations is the only way to attract the Lunar New Year Mice.

Recruit and above

Town of Gnawnia

Master and above

Great Gnarled Tree

Grandmaster and above

Dojo

Legendary and above

S.S. Huntington III

Hero and above

King's Gauntlet

Lord/Lady and above

Claw Shot City

Baron/Baroness and above

Muridae Market

Count/Countess and above

Gnawnia Rift

Duke/Duchess and above

Fungal Cavern

Lunar Lantern and Candles

Hunters must capture the Costumed Rooster Mouse to acquire the Rooster Lunar Lantern. The Rooster Lunar Lantern is powered by Lunar Lantern Candles which are dropped by the Lunar New Year mice found in the stockpile locations.

Luck Boost

Activating the Rooster Lunar Lantern will consume 1 candle with each hunt. Every 10 candles burned will add +1 luck to the Luck Boost effect of the lantern while it is active. The maximum possible luck boost is +50.

This luck boost will be effective throughout the Kingdom, but only while the Rooster Lunar Lantern is active.

Loot Doubling

Activating the Rooster Lunar Lantern will provide a loot doubling effect throughout the Kingdom.

Almost any item that appears as loot in the journal entry for the captured mouse will be doubled. Any items that show up in a separate journal entry will not be doubled.

The following items will not be doubled:

Dumpling Cheese
Lunar Lantern Candles
Map Pieces
Treasure Map Clues
A mouse's gold or points
Items added by bases, charms or auras (unless the items appear in the mouse's journal entry)
Certain items with quantity restrictions
Itself
Hunters

"Attempting to duplicate any of these items could break the laws of space-time itself! The King frowns upon that sort of thing."

Lunar New Year Mice

These are the Lunar New Year event mice that may be encountered in stockpile locations during the Year of the Rooster event.

Costumed Mice

Arming Dumpling Cheese will add the Calligraphy, Dumpling Chef, and Red Envelope mice to the mouse population, but, initially, the costumed mice must be caught in order.
The Costumed Tiger is the first mouse made available.

Capturing the Costumed Tiger will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Rabbit.

Capturing the Costumed Rabbit will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Dragon.

Capturing the Costumed Dragon will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Snake.

Capturing the Costumed Snake will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Horse.

Capturing the Costumed Horse will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Sheep.

Capturing the Costumed Sheep will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Monkey.

Capturing the Costumed Monkey will remove it from the mouse population and add the Costumed Rooster.

Capturing the Costumed Rooster allows all the costumed mice to appear in stockpile locations at the same time.

Cheese Preference and Loot

Dumpling Cheese is required to attract these mice in stockpile locations.

Mouse	Points	Gold	Loot
Calligraphy	1,888	888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Dragon	2,888	888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Horse	2,888	5,888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Monkey	2,888	5,888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Rabbit	1,888	888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Rooster	2,888	5,888	Lunar Lantern Candle Rooster Lunar Lantern Satchel of Gold (10,000)
Costumed Sheep	2,888	5,888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Snake	2,888	5,888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Costumed Tiger	1,602	888	Lunar Lantern Candle
Dumpling Chef	2,866	3,000	Lunar Lantern Candle
Red Envelope	888	221	Lunar Lantern Candle Red Pocket Envelope