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Happy New Year!

28 December 2023

Celebrate the New Year at the Taiga Three new mice have joined the party and there are new rewards to earn!

Happy (almost) 2024, MouseHunters!

Three new mice can now be found at the Great Winter Taiga! Frightened Fireworks mice are at Cinnamon Hill, Party Head mice are at the Golem Workshop, and New Year's mice are at the Ice Fortress. All three of these festive party animals are carrying Firework Sugar Cookies as loot which can be exchanged at the Trapsmith, General Store, and Cartographer within the Taiga for new rewards!

2024 New Year's Base Limited Edition A party-powered base featuring +10 Luck and the ability to create 2024 Charms! Cost: 30 Firework Sugar Cookies

2024 Lucky Codex Limited Edition Provides +1 Luck until the end of 2024! Cost: 70 Firework Sugar Cookies

New Year's Party Scroll Case A map with space for 10 Hunters! Cost: 100 Firework Sugar Cookies & 3 Ancient Relics

New Bundles for a New Year!

New bundles and supplies have arrived at the Premium Shop and are available until January 16.

New Year's Party Bundle Includes a Scroll Case! (Limit 3)	100 2024 Charms Ring in the New Year!
100 Rift 2024 Charms Massive Power!

Reminder:

On Tuesday, January 9 2024, the Great Winter Hunt event will enter its shutdown phase.

At this time, Pecan Pecorino and Golem Parts can no longer be found as loot drops.

Forges will still work at the Golem Workshop and Cannons can still be fired at the Ice Fortress but Compressed Cinnamon will no longer drop in Cinnamon Hill.

-- Dave Vanderburg

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Another Animated Snow Storm Incoming!

18 December 2023

Batten down the hatches! A second Animated Snow Storm is arriving on December 19

The Second and Final Animated Snow Storm Approaches

Another Animated Snow Storm is quickly approaching the shores of the Great Winter Taiga!

This storm will begin on Tuesday, December 19 at 4:00pm UTC and will last for 24 hours.

It will end on Wednesday, December 20 at 4:00pm UTC and this will be the last Animated Snow Storm of the season!

An Animated Snow Storm

During the Animated Snow Storm, ALL mice at the Great Winter Taiga will drop Animated Snow!

Most mice will drop 1 to 3 per catch but the Snowflake, Joy, and Glazy mice will each drop 5 to 7 per catch!

Special Limited Time Bundle Ending Soon

The Limited time Snow Storm Survival Bundle will end on Wednesday, December 20 at 4:00pm UTC when the last Animated Snow Storm dissipates. So if you haven't picked one up yet then make sure to do so before it's gone!

Snow Storm Survival Bundle DOUBLE your Animated Snow drops!

The Grand Gift Opening Ceremony Coming Soon

The Grand Gift Opening ceremony will commence on Wednesday, December 20 at 4:00pm UTC! At that time, you'll be able to visit your Hunter Profile and open all the gifts under your tree.

Once the ceremony begins, you will no longer be able to send any more gifts so make sure to send them out before then!

Final Animated Snow Storm Forecasted!
Storm begins at 4:00pm UTC on December 19 and lasts for only 24 hours!

While the storm is active all mice at the Great Winter Taiga will drop Animated Snow

The Snowflake, Joy, and Glazy mice will each drop the most Animated Snow

As usual, Festive Spirit will add DOUBLE Animated Snow whenever a mouse drops some

Limited time Snow Storm Survival Bundle will be gone when the storm ends!

The Grand Gift Opening Ceremony also begins when the storm ends!

-- Dave Vanderburg

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Animated Snow Storm Incoming!

13 December 2023

Prepare for a valuable blizzard! A powerful Animated Snow Storm is projected to strike the Taiga on December 14

Weather Event Approaching!

A gust of warm, humid air from the Tribal Isles is approaching the now chilled waters south of the Great Winter Taiga. When the moisture-soaked air strikes the frigid atmosphere of the Taiga a blizzard is certain to occur!

This weather event is forecasted to begin Thursday, December 14 beginning at 4:00pm UTC and will last for 24 hours.

The Storm Storm will end on Friday, December 15 at 4:00pm UTC but forecasts are already calling for a second storm to arrive next week!

An Animated Snow Storm

Thursday will be no ordinary blizzard! There's still magic in the air from when the Festive Comet came crashing down causing these flurries to be made of Animated Snow!

During the Animated Snow Storm, ALL mice at the Great Winter Taiga will drop Animated Snow!

Most mice will drop 1 to 3 per catch but the Snowflake, Joy, and Glazy mice will each drop 5 to 7 per catch!

Special Limited Time Bundle

The King is offering a very limited time bundle to help hunters make the most of the incoming Animated Snow Storms. This bundle of Festive Spirit will be available for ONE WEEK ONLY starting today!

Snow Storm Survival Bundle DOUBLE your Animated Snow drops!

Travel to the Great Winter Taiga!
Storm begins at 4:00pm UTC on December 14 and lasts for only 24 hours!

While the storm is active all mice at the Great Winter Taiga will drop Animated Snow

The Snowflake, Joy, and Glazy mice will each drop the most Animated Snow

As usual, Festive Spirit will add DOUBLE Animated Snow whenever a mouse drops some

Limited time Snow Storm Survival Bundle available for one week only starting today

-- Dave Vanderburg

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The Great Winter Hunt has begun!

7 December 2023

Thwart the Frost King! Travel to the Great Winter Taiga, storm the Ice Fortress, and prevent eternal winter!

The Frost King Returns!

The arrival of winter has brought the return of cold weather and heavy snow to the Great Winter Taiga creating the perfect conditions for the Frost King to rebuild his massive Ice Fortress!

From the safety of his Ice Fortress in the north, the Frost King is projecting an icy spell that is creeping south even faster than his Frost Globe assault from last year. Hunters must storm the Ice Fortress and capture the Frost King to put a stop to his relentless quest to freeze all of Gnawnia forever!

Let the Great Winter Hunt Begin!

Following its usual celestial schedule, the Festive Comet has crashed into Gnawnia! With hunters needed again at the Great Winter Taiga, the King's fleet is busy shipping the comet's snow to the taiga to help thwart the Frost King. Supply ships are ferrying mounds of unprocessed snow from the Harbour to the Golem Workshop in order to utilize Winter Hunt Snow Golems to aid the battle against the Ice Fortress.

At the Golem Workshop, a trio of droids are standing ready to operate deep-freeze forges to produce golem parts. All the droids need is Compressed Cinnamon as a source of power. Collect Compressed Cinnamon from the nearby Cinnamon Hill to power the forges so that the droids can manufacture more golem parts! Then, send your golems out on expeditions to collect extremely dense and powerful Hailstones which will make the perfect ammunition to blast through the Frost King's Ice Shield.

Golem Exploration

Use Pecan Pecorino or Glazed Pecan Pecorino anywhere in the Great Winter Taiga to collect Golem Parts as loot drops. Additionally, once you have a stash of Compressed Cinnamon you can power the forges at the Golem Workshop to produce additional heads, torsos, and limbs. Once you have a head, a torso, and four limbs you can construct a golem and send it out on a loot collection expedition!

Send out golems to collect area-specific loot!

After 25 hunts your golems will return with a variety of loot from the location you sent them to. Additionally, no matter where you send a golem, it will return with Reinforced Ice Shards which can be used to upgrade its loot collecting capabilities. All golems also return with Hailstones which you can utilize to smash the shield at the Ice Fortress. The most renowned ballistics experts from Fort Rox have reinstalled three powerful cannons that are capable of firing Hailstones at the Ice Shield. Enable one, two, or all three cannons and fire away until the Ice Shield shatters!

Golems return with Hailstones which you can use to destroy the Ice Shield!

25 Festive Jingle Bells Instantly return a golem!

Magical Holiday Hat +3 loot to ANY level golem!

Loot the Frost King's Magical Holiday Scarf to create an extremely rewarding golem!

The Frost King also occasionally drops a Magical Holiday Hat

Festive Jingle Bells can be purchased with Animated Snow from any Winter Taiga General Store

Uncork Festive Spirit

When all the warm and fuzzy feelings from the holiday season are condensed and coalesced by a crisp north wind it produces this truly miraculous vapour that is believed to be the physical manifestation of joy itself.

Double Compressed Cinnamon anytime a mouse drops it!

+1 progress to all active forges in the Golem Workshop!

+1 shield damage when any cannon is fired (for a possible max of four)

Conjures 1 Throwable Snowball each and every hunt!

Double loot drops of a wide variety of festive-themed items at the Taiga!

You can obtain Festive Spirit by hunting with standard cheese, completing Naughty Maps, opening doors on your Advent Calendar, and by purchasing it from the Premium Shop.

25 Festive Spirit More loot!

100 Festive Spirit Storm the Ice Fortress!

Festive Spirit will double the following items dropped by mice in the Great Winter Taiga:

Animated Snow

Compressed Cinnamon

Pecan Pecorino

Reinforced Ice Shards

Winter Hunt Gift Boxes

Throwable Snowballs

Festive Jingle Bells

Gift Wrapped Charms

All types of Snowball Charms

Festive Ultimate series charms

Ultimate Charms

Festive Spirit will not double the following items dropped by mice:

Golem Parts

Magical Holiday Hat

Magical Holiday Scarf

Festive Spirit itself

Naughty List Printing Press Base

In addition to the hoards of treasure you can earn from golems, the King has organized a brand new reward track to encourage hunters to send out golems and fight back against the Frost King. One of the rewards is a brand new limited edition base!

(NEW) Naughty List Printing Press Base Limited Edition Print the names of mice onto the Naughty List to gain a massive stat bonus! While hunting in any Folklore Forest location, this base will consume one Prolific Printing Paper per hunt to increase its stats. Boosted Stats: Power: 4,500 Power Bonus: 35% Attraction Bonus: 35% Luck: 57 Claimed from the Reward Track

The bonuses of the Naughty List Printing Press Base work throughout the Folklore Forest region! This includes areas that will be discovered in the future!

Some Prolific Printing Paper will come with the base when you claim it from the reward track. You can purchase more from any General Store in the Folklore Forest Region.

Trap Skins

New trap skins are available for purchase in the Premium Shop! Last year's newly introduced Trap Skins can now be purchased from the Trapsmith for Advent Chocolates.

Legendary Snowy KingBot Trap Skin For use with the Legendary KingBot!

Infinite Holiday Magic Windows Trap Skin For use with the Infinite Dark Magic Mirrors Trap!

Chrome School of Aquatic Ornaments Trap Skin For use with the Chrome School of Sharks Trap!

Hibernating Snow Boulder Trap Skin For use with the Slumbering Boulder Trap!

Chrome Ice Angel of Freezing Trap Skin For use with the Chrome Circlet of Pursuing Trap!

Winter Taiga Trap Skin Bundle Skins, Throwable Snowballs, Showdown Dust!

Animated Snow Storm Forecast

The sudden arrival of cold weather at the Great Winter Taiga isn't without side effects in other regions. The King's Meteorologists are well-studied in the phenomenon that occurs when the cool air from the North meets the warm, moist air from the Tribal Isles to create an Animated Snow Storm!

Though the storms will be slightly less severe, this year's forecast is calling for TWO Animated Snow Storms this season! The first storm will arrive on December 14. Keep watching the news section for more weather information as it becomes available.

Other Winter Festivities

While touring the Great Winter Taiga there's lots of festive fun to explore!

A New Adventure Awaits!

It's time to showdown once again as everyone's favourite snowball fight is back! Your golems return with Throwable Snowballs once they reach level four so you can toss some snow to reveal shapes and earn prizes!

Take on a more rewarding version of the Snowball Showdown by using Snowball Showdown Dust when starting a new game! Have you got more snowballs than you can possibly throw? Visit any General Store in the Taiga to exchange 175 Throwable Snowballs for one Snowball Showdown Dust.

50 Throwable Snowballs Start tossing!

Snowball Showdown Dust Better rewards!

Profile Gifting

During the Great Winter Hunt, you can visit friends' and teammates' profiles to leave gifts under their festive tree which they'll be able to open during the Grand Gift Opening Ceremony on Wednesday, December 20! Keep in mind that after the gift opening ceremony begins, you'll no longer be able to send gifts. So don't delay, gift today!

Make sure to check your own Hunter Profile where you'll find at least three gifts: one from Larry, one from Ronza, and one from the King himself! These gifts, just like the ones given by friends, can be opened on December 20.

This year's Gift Opening Ceremony is on Wednesday, December 20.
Gifts can no longer be sent after the ceremony begins.

Naughty and Nice Lists

These unique treasure maps will have you track down Great Winter Hunt mice in search of valuable treasure chests! The chests contain goodies to help you in your festive hunting endeavours and can even contain an Advent Chocolate. Using Rare Map Dust will result in a rare chest which contains more Festive Spirit and increased quantities of other loot items, including at least one Advent Chocolate!

Using intelligence gathered from last year's Great Winter Hunt, Nice and Naughty Treasure Chests are now easier to track down!

Nice Lists now contain only 12 mice (previously 15)
Naughty Lists now contain only 15 mice (previously 20)

Nice Lists are less rewarding but not as difficult. You and your map mates will have to track down a variety of event mice using both standard cheese and Pecan Pecorino cheese. These are great when you're first getting started to bolster your stash of Pecan Pecorino.

Naughty Lists are more difficult but also more rewarding! To complete these maps you'll need to capture the Frost King himself meaning you'll need an ample supply of Hailstones at your disposal. The treasure chest at the end of these maps contains Festive Spirit!

Rare Map Dust Always find Advent Chocolate!

New Year's Celebrations at the Winter Taiga

The appearance of the Frost King surely can't spoil a grand celebration to ring in the new year! As the new year approaches, the Party Head, New Year's, and Frightened Fireworks mice are sure to join the celebration! You'll encounter each mouse in a different location at the Great Winter Taiga where they'll be carrying Firework Sugar Cookies. These cookies can be exchanged in the shops for unique New Year's rewards, including the New Year's Party Scroll Cases!

The New Year's event will begin on Thursday, December 28, 2023!

Festive Supplies, Gift Baskets, Kits, and Skins!

The King has assembled a variety of supply kits and baskets to give you a jump start on the Great Winter Hunt!

Golem Body Builder Bundle Get huge gains with one entire golem! (Limit 1)	Animated Snowball Starter Bundle Arm yourself with snowballs! (Limit 3)
Golem Gang Bundle Golems, Pecorino, Charms, and more! (Limit 3)	100 Festive Spirit Super charge the Taiga!
500 Pecan Pecorino Cheese Gather Golem Parts!	500 Glazed Pecan Pecorino Unique event mice!
3 Magical Holiday Hat Enhanced Golem rewards!	25 Festive Jingle Bells Speed up your golems!
Snowball Showdown Dust Amp up showdown rewards	Winter Taiga Gift Basket Great gift!
Winter Taiga Small Supply Kit Jump start festivities!	Winter Taiga Large Supply Kit Stock up!

The Great Winter Hunt will enter shutdown phase on
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

On Tuesday, January 9 2024, the Great Winter Hunt event will enter its shutdown phase. At this time, Pecan Pecorino and Golem Parts will no longer be found as loot drops. Forges will still work at the Golem Workshop and Cannons can still be fired at the Ice Fortress but Compressed Cinnamon will no longer drop in Cinnamon Hill.

The Great Winter Hunt will end completely on
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.

After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:

• Golem Parts
• Animated Snow
• Reinforced Ice Shards
• Compressed Cinnamon
• Hailstones
• Firework Sugar Cookies
• Magical Holiday Scarf
• Golem Gift Box

Make sure to use up all of these resources before January 16!

Travel to the Great Winter Taiga!

-- Dave Vanderburg

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