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. It is required to attract Relic Hunter Mouse.
The Hunter's inventory of Ancient Relic can be viewed through the Treasure Map interface and in Inventory in the Special tab under Currency.

Source

Special

• Golden Jade Treasure Chest
• Rare Golden Jade Treasure Chest
• Unstable Broom

Mouse loot

Ancient Relic is dropped by most boss mice and rare mice.

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 Eclipse
Whisker Woods	Calm Clearing	Black Widow
	Great Gnarled Tree	Black Widow Nibbler
	Lagoon	Black Widow Silth
Burroughs	Laboratory	Black Widow Monster
	Town of Digby	Big Bad Burroughs Black Widow Mole Nibbler Nugget
	Mousoleum	Black Widow Lycan Monster
	Bazaar	Black Widow Nibbler
Furoma	Training Grounds	Black Widow Nibbler
	Dojo	Assassin
	Pinnacle Chamber	Dojo Sensei
Bristle Woods	Catacombs	Black Widow Lycan Monster
	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
	Dracano	Dragon
	Balack's Cove	Balack the Banished
Varmint Valley	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	Corkataur Emberstone Scaled Kalor'ignis of the Geyser (not directly dropped, found in Dragon Nest) Pyrehyde Stormsurge, the Vile Tempest (not directly dropped, found in Dragon Nest)
Rodentia	S.S. Huntington IV	Cook Leviathan Nibbler Shelder Squeaken
	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 Gargantuamouse Warmonger
	Twisted Garden	Shattered Carmine
	Cursed City	Dark Magi
	Sand Crypts	King Scarab
Hollow Heights	Fungal Cavern	Crystal Behemoth Diamondhide Huntereater
	Zokor	Manaforge Smith Paladin Weapon Master Retired Minotaur Soul Binder
	Moussu Picchu	Ful'Mina, The Mountain Queen
	Floating Islands	Agent M Aristo-Cat Burglar Captain Cloudkicker Cloud Strider Consumed Charm Tinkerer Empyrean Appraiser Empyrean Empress Empyrean Geologist Empyrean Javelineer Forgotten Elder Fortuitous Fool Glamorous Gladiator Mist Maker Paragon of Arcane Paragon of Dragons Paragon of Forgotten Paragon of Shadow Paragon of Strength Paragon of Tactics Paragon of the Lawless Paragon of Water Peggy the Plunderer Regal Spearman Rocketeer Shadow Sage Sky Glider Sky Highborne Sky Squire Spheric Diviner Warden of Fog Warden of Frost Warden of Rain Warden of Wind Zealous Academic
Folklore Forest	Foreword Farm	Loathsome Locust Monstrous Midge
	Prologue Pond	Architeuthulhu of the Abyss
	Table of Contents	Bitter Grammarian Mythweaver
	Bountiful Beanstalk	Vinneus Stalkhome Gate Keeper Key Master Wrathful Warden Dungeon Master Violent Violinist Chafed Cellist Treacherous Tubaist Malevolent Maestro Dastardly Duchess Malicious Marquis Pernicious Prince Mythical Giant King
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
	Valour Rift	Shade of the Eclipse The Total Eclipse

Usage

Cartographer

Ancient Relic can be used at most Cartographers to purchase Scroll Cases that contain area- or event-specific Treasure Maps.

Relic Hunter Mouse

If the Hunter has at least 1 Ancient Relic in inventory, they can attract Relic Hunter Mouse.
The mouse will remove 1 Ancient Relic and drop a Relic Hunter Scroll Case unless the Relic Hunter Scroll Case item limit of 20 has been reached.

History and Trivia

• 29 August 2012: The Ancient Relic was introduced along 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 Case was introduced at the beginning of Ronza's 2016 visit.

Links and Images

• Larry's Loot Lexicon
  • Ancient Relic
• Images
  • Ancient Relic
  • Ancient Relic (low-resolution)