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Happy Lunar New Year!

9 February 2021

Celebrate the Year of the Ox
Light your Lunar Lantern to celebrate the Year of the Ox

Year of the Ox

Celebrate the Year of the Ox with lanterns, luck, and loot! The costumed mice have returned to Gnawnia for the festivities and are celebrating in twelve specific locations throughout the land. This year they are accompanied by the Costumed Ox Mouse who carries the mighty Ox Lunar Lantern with him.

Capture all the costumed mice, collect Lunar Lantern Candles, and retrieve the Ox Lantern so that you can start your own celebration by earning double or triple loot anywhere in the Kingdom!

How to Celebrate

Stockpile Locations The first step on your journey will be to travel to any one of these stockpile locations.

Town of Gnawnia Laboratory Great Gnarled Tree Dojo S.S. Huntington IV Claw Shot City Muridae Market Gnawnia Rift Fungal Cavern Moussu Picchu Queso River Floating Islands (LP) You can find them listed in the Lunar New Year Heads-Up Display along with a convenient travel button to take you there immediately.

Gather Dumpling Cheese Once you're in a stockpile location, you can gather Dumpling Cheese by just hunting the regular mice in the area with standard cheese.

Catch all the Costumed Mice Use your Dumpling Cheese to attract a whole slew of Lunar New Year mice, including the infamous costumed mice. These elusive critters will need to be caught in a specific order so once you catch the Costumed Tiger Mouse then you'll be able to attract the Costumed Rabbit Mouse and so on. The final mouse will be the new Costumed Ox Mouse and upon catching this elderly fellow, you'll be rewarded with his Ox Lunar Lantern.

Light the Lantern and Gain Rewards While hunting with Dumpling Cheese, you'll have undoubtedly picked up quite a few Lunar Lantern Candles by this point. And if you were hunting with the premium Nian Gao'da cheese then you've also likely found some Red Lunar Lantern Candles. Well, now it's time to use them! Once you own the Ox Lunar Lantern, you can begin lighting these candles and reaping their rewards!

When your lantern is lit with Lunar Lantern Candles, you will find DOUBLE loot from mice anywhere in the Kingdom! And if you're lighting Red Lunar Lantern Candles then you'll find TRIPLE loot!

But that's not all that these wonderful candles have to offer! While your lantern is lit, it will begin rising up into the air in search of other lucrative rewards. Each hunt you take with the regular candles burning will raise your lantern by one foot and each hunt with the red candles burning will raise your lantern by two feet!

Every ten feet that your lantern ascends, you'll receive a +1 Luck bonus to your trap that will apply whenever the candles are burning. The bonus is cumulative so the higher you go, the more luck you'll get!

Every thirty feet that your lantern ascends, you'll receive an extra reward in addition to the +1 Luck and the rewards keep getting better the higher you ascend! Be sure to check out the Heads-Up Display to get a glimpse of all the valuable items that await you along the reward track!

Love is in the Air

Valentine's Day is right around the corner so from February 11 to 16 you'll occasionally come across some especially amorous mice while hunting. Every so often, after catching one mouse, you'll notice that it wasn't alone! Special Valentine's mice will occasionally appear as bonus hunts after a successful catch! They won't consume any cheese or charms and won't affect area gameplay progression in any way but they will drop some unique Valentine's loot so keep an eye out for these romantic rodents.

The Valentine's Matchmaker Mini-Event will run from February 11 to 16

Treasure Seekers

A new Lantern Lighter Scroll Case is available at the Cartographer in all stockpile locations. Following the clues of this map will lead you to a chest of rewards that will help to speed up your candle collecting.

The Valentine's Matchmaker Scroll Case is returning this year and will be available at every Cartographer in the kingdom but only for a limited time! So if you're looking for some passionate prizes then get one while you can!

Celebration Supplies

The King is offering an enticing collection of supplies to get your celebrations started!

• Lunar Lantern Starter Pack

Start off strong!

• Year of the Ox Gift Basket

Give to friends!

• Year of the Ox Supply Kit

Stock up!

• Year of the Ox Large Supply Kit

The biggest celebration!

• 15 Nian Gao'da Cheese

Find Red Candles!

• 10 Lunar Lantern Candles

Start burning!

• 10 Red Lunar Lantern Candles

These burn the brightest!

Only available from February 11 to 16

• Be Mine Bouquet

For that special someone!

• 50 Lucky Valentine Charms

Get lucky!

All Good Things...

The Lunar New Year event will end on February 23, 2021 As of February 23, you will no longer be able to light your lunar lantern candles and won't be able to make any more progress on the reward track.

However, for one more week, you will still be able to claim any unclaimed track rewards and spend any unused candles on the Lunar New Year specific items in the shops of stockpile locations. As of March 2, you'll no longer be able to claim any Lunar New Year rewards.