Checkmate Cheese

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Checkmate Cheese
Category: Zugzwang's Tower
Cheese Info
Cost: 5,400 gold
Shoppe: None
Potion: None
Craftable: Yes
Tradeable: No
Giveable: No
Smashes To: N/A
Stales To: Stale Cheese
Larry's Loot Lexicon: MouseHunt Info Page
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This cheese is the only food which can entice the Chess Master, for its delicate aroma carries the scent... of victory! The Kings of both teams long for a morsel of this cheese, believing it will bring them mastery over the game, but if you can defeat them, the Chess Master himself will challenge you for a piece. Don't leave this cheese out too long, though, or you may find yourself with a stale, mate.

Obtaining Checkmate Cheese

Crafting

Checkmate Cheese can be crafted using the proper ingredients.

Checkmate Cheese - 3 Piece Recipe

Hunters must reach the rank of Lord or Lady before they can use this recipe.

Formula: Checkmate Cheese (3 pieces)
Recipe can be unlocked by: Capture a Mystic King mouse and a Technic King mouse
Item Item
Qty
Item
Cost
Item Source
Mystic Curd 1 N/A
Technic Cheese Mould 1 N/A
Ionized Salt 12 450
(5,400 total)
Total 5,400 gold Cost Per Piece: 1,800 gold
Recipe costs represent Shoppe prices only. The cost of items obtained through other sources will affect the total cost of crafting.

Checkmate Cheese - 9 Piece Recipe

Hunters must reach the rank of Lord or Lady before they can use this recipe.

Formula: Checkmate Cheese (9 pieces)
Recipe can be unlocked by: Capture a Mystic King mouse and a Technic King mouse
Item Item
Qty
Item
Cost
Item Source
Mystic Curd 1 N/A
Technic Cheese Mould 1 N/A
Magic Essence 6 N/A
  • Loot when opened:
  • Loot when used:
Ionized Salt 12 450
(5,400 total)
Total 5,400 gold Cost Per Piece: 600 gold
Recipe costs represent Shoppe prices only. The cost of items obtained through other sources will affect the total cost of crafting.

Other Sources

Using Checkmate Cheese

Locations

Mice

Checkmate Cheese is required to attract the Chess Master.

Checkmate Cheese will attract all the mice in Zugzwang's Tower, but arming it improves the chance a Hunter will encounter the mice needed to fill empty silhouettes in the HUD. For example, if a Hunter needs to attract a Mystic Rook to unlock access to the Mystic Queen, arming Checkmate Cheese will increase the chances of encountering the Mystic Rook.

When doing a double run, upon capturing the first King with Checkmate cheese armed, the mouse population changes, if Checkmate cheese is armed, the available mice will be the Chess Master, the Rook of the first side done, and whichever mice have been unlocked from the second side., if Standard Cheese is armed, the available mice will be the the Pawn of the first side done, and whichever mice have been unlocked from the second side.

Related Items

Staling Effect

  • Stale Cheese - Produced by Checkmate Cheese when it fails to attract a mouse and goes stale.

History and Trivia

  • 29 August 2010: Checkmate Cheese is introduced.