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===Happy Valentine's Day===
 
''{{date|14|February|2018}}''
 
  
Love is in the air at all event locations!
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===Explore The Valour Rift===
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''{{date|8|October|2019}}''
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''The first Archduke/Archduchess area''
  
 
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====Valentine's Mice Appear at All Event Locations====
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====Valour Rift Entrance Stabilized====
A few romantic mice arrived at each of the Lunar New Year event locations and, with much love in their eyes, quickly multiplied and have nearly overtaken the areas! Eww! Head to any of the Lunar New Year event locations to encounter these lovey-dovey mice and collect some lovely charms and tasty Nian Gao'da Cheese while you're at it.
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After much careful and diligent research from Gnawnia's finest scientists, a means of stabilizing an entrance into the Valour Rift has been discovered! Hunters ranked Archduke/Archduchess and above who have recovered 2,000 Rift Distortions and acquired a map of the Valour Rift can now enter this new area within the Rift Plane.
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If you have not yet obtained a map of the Valour Rift, doing so requires the rank of Grand Duke/Grand Duchess and access to the Bristle Woods Rift. Visit the Cartographer at the Bristle Woods Rift to purchase a Rift Chronometer which will allow you to recover the 2,000 Rift Distortions the Cartographer needs to issue you a map. Accessing the Valour Rift is outlined as the first step in the new Archduke/Archduchess adventure "End the Total Eclipse".
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====Preliminary Rift Gauntlet Research====
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During the stabilization research, the King's scientists collected some preliminary information on what awaits hunters within the Valour Rift. The Rift Gauntlet is an expansive area with powerful mice and no doubt rewarding secrets to discover. Although there's still much to learn about this new area within the Rift Plane, one thing is for certain: It's going to take a while to explore everything there!
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'''Endless Tower'''<br>
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The Valour Rift is an especially twisted version of our reality, mirroring the King's Gauntlet in a sinister way. The tower appears to endlessly stretch into a starry abyss with no end in sight. The interior of the tower presents an even more baffling paradox. Early attempts at navigation revealed 8 uniquely themed floors within the tower. However, upon exiting the eighth floor, these early navigators found themselves back where they started, yet further from their destination. A truly confusing experience!
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'''Gauntlet Elixir and Champion's Fire'''<br>
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Early attempts at navigating the Valour Rift Gauntlet revealed a timid, yet critical character -- The Terrified Adventurer Mouse. Despite a clear lack of prowess, this battle-hardened adventurer is determined to conquer its fear by climbing to the top of the tower!
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This mouse appears throughout the tower and carries knowledge of shortcuts which can be utilized by hunters to traverse the tower more quickly. Capturing the Terrified Adventurer Mouse will grant x2 progress within the tower, helping you reach greater heights! However, the Terrified Adventurer has a very specific cheese taste. You'll need Gauntlet String Cheese which can be purchased from the local Cheese Shoppe by exchanging Gauntlet Elixirs collected outside the tower.
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Champion's Fire can be used to light your way both inside and outside the Rift Gauntlet. Burning this fire provides +1 to many loot drops both inside and outside the tower. Additionally, while ascending the Rift Gauntlet, lighting Champion's Fire will move you forward +1 step with each capture.
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*'''250 Gauntlet String Cheese'''<br>
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:Attract the Terrified Adventurer within the Rift Gauntlet
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*'''250 Champion's Fire'''<br>
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:Adds +1 to loot drops and +1 step with each catch
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'''Syncronizing with the Tower'''<br>
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The Rift Chronometer has revealed some secrets on how the Gauntlet Tower within the Valour Rift keeps itself out of sync with our timeline. Although the Chronometer will allow you to enter the tower, you'll fall slightly out of sync with the tower after each hunt. Eventually, the stairs below your feet will cease to exist in your timeline, sending you back down to the tower entrance.
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'''Floor Caches'''<br>
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The hordes of Rift Stalkers within the tower appear to be guarding items of great value! Each floor within the tower contains a cache of gold, magical sigils, and other artifacts attuned to the energy of the tower.
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Ascend to greater heights to reveal greater quantities of treasure!
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'''Tower Augmentations'''<br>
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The magical markings on the Tower Sigils revealed some of the secrets of how the mice have managed to distort reality.
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Recover Tower Sigils and other powerful artifacts from within the Rift Gauntlet to distort the tower to your own advantage. As you learn more about the tower, you'll be able to utilize this power in the form of augmentations that will transform the tower before entering it. However, these augmentations will only persist until you exit the tower.
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'''Ultimate Umbra'''<br>
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Perhaps the most powerful tower augmentation is '''Ultimate Umbra'''. This augmentation will wrap the tower in utter darkness and summon more powerful mice which are sure to lead to greater rewards! Take warning: The pitch dark of an Ultimate Umbra will embolden the mice within the tower, giving them the ability to push you backwards on the stairwell.
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====Valour Rift Trapsmith and General Store====
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The intrepid Trapsmith and General Store owner at the Valour Rift have used the preliminary research to acquire a stock of powerful hunting equipment utilizing resources found within the Valour Rift.
  
Each of the Valentine's mice will drop either a Valentine Charm or Lucky Valentine Charm. In addition to their Valentine Charm drop, each of these new event mice have a chance to drop a piece of Nian Gao'da Cheese.
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'''Celestial Dissonance Trap'''<br>
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3,500 Rift Power, +10 Luck
  
The arrival of these new event mice has not affected the population of costumed Lunar New Year mice.
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A powerful upgrade for the Timesplit Dissonance utilizing Eclipse Cores. This formidable trap is the most effective Rift Weapon yet discovered!
  
Feel the love while you can! These heart-loving event mice will leave on Friday, February 16.
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'''Prestige Base'''<br>
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??? Power, ??? Luck
  
====Limited Time Premium Shop Items====
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The Prestige Base is a truly unique (and potentially powerful) piece of hunting equipment. Although its stats appear meager at first, its special attunement to the hunter which owns it and the Rift Gauntlet itself will provide permanent stat bonuses based on how high you've climbed the Rift Gauntlet during Ultimate Umbra.
To help spread the love, the King has stocked the Premium Shop with a lovely new skin for the Meteor Prison Core Trap as well as a supply of Valentine and Lucky Valentine Charms.
 
  
Grab these deals while you can! They'll disappear on Friday, February 16 when the Valentine's event mice leave.
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The Prestige Base stats increase based on '''the highest''' floor you've reached during Ultimate Umbra. The base will permanently maintain these stats throughout the entire Kingdom!
  
*'''Valentine Heart Core Trap Skin'''<br>
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'''+10 Power per floor reached and +1 Luck for every 8 floors reached during Ultimate Umbra'''
:Skin the Meteor Prison Core
 
*'''50 Lucky Valentine Charms'''<br>
 
:Luck and Attraction!
 
*'''15 Valentine Charms'''<br>
 
:25% Attraction Bonus
 
*'''<3 Gift Basket'''<br>
 
:Great gift!
 
*'''Lovely Valentine Bouquet'''<br>
 
:Show them you care
 
  
'''Valentine's event mice leave on Friday, February 16.'''
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'''Two Celestial Dissonance Skins'''<br>
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The Trapsmith has two unique trap skins for the Celestial Dissonance Trap. However, the exact schematics have been lost in the Rift Gauntlet. Search the tower for 1,000 Tattered Celestial Skin Patterns and exchange them at the Trapsmith for either of the unique skins. Both trap skins can be traded on the Marketplace and shared with friends.
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'''Codex of Valour'''<br>
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Completing the '''End the Total Eclipse''' adventure will reward you with the Codex of Valour. This book binding is initially empty, however, the General Store owner sells 8 unique pages to add powerful power type bonuses that work throughout the entire Kingdom. Fully stock your codex to unlock different sets of 5% Power Bonuses and +1 Luck bonuses depending on the power type of your armed trap.
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====Gift Baskets and Supply Kits====
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*'''500 Gauntlet String Cheese'''<br>
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:Jump start your tower exploration
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*'''Valour Rift Gift Basket'''<br>
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:30 Gauntlet String and 20 Champion
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*'''Valour Rift Supply Kit'''<br>
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:250 Gauntlet String and 250 Champion
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*'''Valour Rift Large Supply Kit'''<br>
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:1,000 Gauntlet String, 1,000 Champion
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'''This research is only the beginning! The endless Rift Gauntlet is full of secrets to discover and rewards to unlock for hunters with the persistence to ascend to the greatest heights!'''
  
 
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</blockquote>
  
===Winter Games Celebration===
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===Partial Scoreboard Recovery===
''{{date|9|February|2018}}''
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''{{date|3|October|2019}}''
  
New mice at Lunar New Year locations!
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''Some scoreboards recovered from backup''
  
 
<blockquote>
 
<blockquote>
  
====Sporty Mice Appear at All Event Locations====
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====Some Scoreboards Recovered====
A brief cold snap was felt throughout all Lunar New Year event locations as a wave of wintery, sporty mice suddenly appeared. It seems they're holding some sort of competition to see which of them can best outrun and avoid hunters' traps while trying to stay upright in all the snow and ice!
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Greetings once again hunters. We have another update on our efforts to restore scoreboard data that was lost during last week's infrastructure problems with the game.
  
The various sporty event mice all carry with them some magical torches that can be used as hunting charms! Hunting with a Torch Charm will cause it to burn up and reveal a random item that will be added to your inventory.
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Yesterday afternoon, after some more research, we were able to recover some scoreboards in their entirety. Although the scoreboard data backups were corrupted, we discovered that each scoreboard in the backup was either entirely lost or entirely present. This means we are able to restore a few of the scoreboards as they were on September 21.
  
It's worth noting that the arrival of these mice hasn't affected the population of the costumed Lunar New Year mice, so targeting those mice and collecting Lunar Candles won't be any more challenging due to the presence of these sporty mice.
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:'''Scoreboards we were able to recover'''
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::*Relic Hunter: Treasure Maps Completed
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::*Relic Hunter: Season 3 Treasure Maps Completed
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::*Relic Hunter: Season 4 Treasure Maps Completed
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::*Relic Hunter: Season 5 Treasure Maps Completed
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::*Iceberg: Best Run
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::*Living Garden: Ultimate Charm Catch Streak
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::*Sunken City: Farthest Distance Traveled
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::*Fort Rox: Highest Monster of the Meteor Catch Streak
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::*Queso Canyon: Nachore Mined
  
The competition being held by the sporty event mice lasts just for the weekend, so get your Torch Charms while you can!
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These scoreboards should now appear as they were on September 21 and will actively update as hunters contribute to them.
  
The sporty mice will leave on Monday, February 12.
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====Rebuilding Mouse Scoreboards====
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Scoreboards that track the number of times hunters have caught a specific type of mouse can technically be rebuilt by using hunters' catch statistics. This data was effectively being stored in two places, meaning we can use that redundancy to repopulate scoreboards for specific mouse catches.
  
====Limited Time Premium Shop Items====
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We're a bit stretched for developer resources while working on infrastructure stability and wrapping up work on the upcoming Valour Rift release. However, once the Valour Rift is released and the infrastructure upgrade work is completed, we'll be looking into repopulating these mouse scoreboards.
To celebrate this new hunting challenge, the King has stocked the Premium Shop with a chilly looking trap skin for the Timesplit Dissonance Trap, as well as a supply of Torch Charms.
 
  
Grab these deals while you can, they'll disappear on Monday, February 12 when the sporty event mice leave.
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====Restarting Other Scoreboards====
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The final decision to make is what to do about all other scoreboards. We can either restart these scoreboards from scratch or retire them from the game. This is a decision we're looking for feedback on, so please let us know your thoughts in the comments section. If we were to restart these scoreboards, we would most likely place an asterisk next to those boards and note the date at which the scoreboards started on.
  
*'''Winter Cup Dissonance Skin'''<br>
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Some hunters may also view a subtle difference between scoreboards which may be worth feedback and discussion. Some lost scoreboards tracked one off "feats" while others tracked an accumulating stat over time.
:Skin the Infinite Labyrinth Trap
 
*'''100 Torch Charms'''<br>
 
:Find bonus items
 
  
'''Sporty event mice leave on Monday, February 12.'''
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Example: Sunken City: Highest Dive Catches tracked a "best record" of sorts from a single dive, while Oxygen Canisters Depleted tracked an accumulating stat across '''all''' dives. Due to their nature, re-obtaining the best record is feasible while accumulating stats will technically always be inaccurate.
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If restarting some scoreboards is something you're in favour of, let us know if you think both feats and accumulating stats should be restarted, or if only feats should be.
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'''Once again, we want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding while we work through this unfortunate loss of scoreboard data. We've taken the positive comments and constructive feedback to heart and going forward will endeavour to build a better scoreboard system for this amazing community of players.'''
  
 
</blockquote>
 
</blockquote>
  
===Happy Lunar New Year!===
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===Stability Issue Update===
''{{date|6|February|2018}}''
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''{{date|2|October|2019}}''
  
Celebrate with double and TRIPLE loot!
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''Scoreboard and team changes''
  
 
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====Dog Lunar Lantern====
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====Update on Recent Stability Issues====
Costumed Dog mice, along with other Lunar New Year mice, have appeared in 10 different hunting locations throughout the Kingdom! Find out where these event mice are by viewing the Lunar Banner above your Hunter's Journal on the Camp page and travel to capture them.
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Greetings, MouseHunters. We've been working through problems caused by the infrastructure issues we faced last week and would like to share our progress and results.
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:*Lost Scoreboard Data
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::The infrastructure issue last week primarily affected the server we use for tracking scoreboards. The data became corrupted and upon attempting to restore from a backup we noticed the backups were also corrupted. Our technical research into restoring from a corrupt backup had mixed results. We were able to restore some of the data, however, due to the nature of scoreboards only having a partial set of data is not useful.
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::For the time being, we've taken down these affected scoreboards, which are unfortunately the majority of scoreboards in the game. The scoreboards which remain are: Points, Gold, Catches, Library Points, Map Clues Collected, and Scavenger Hunt Hints Collected. These scoreboards will automatically update the '''next time''' you contribute to them. For example: If you're currently unranked for Map Clues Collected, finding a Treasure Map Clue will place you back on the scoreboard with your total number of clues found.
  
In each of the 10 Lunar New Year locations, you can collect special cheese to then lure the various costumed mice to your trap. The various costumed mice from previous years will come out of hiding in a specific order with the Costumed Dog Mouse being last. Capturing the Costumed Dog Mouse will reward the Dog Lunar Lantern, which can be used to double or even triple loot ANYWHERE in the Kingdom!
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::We'll be continuing work to reinstate other scoreboards in a way which will minimize the chances of similar instability occurring in the future. Unfortunately, any other scoreboards we bring back aside from the ones mentioned above will come back in a reset state, meaning hunters will have to compete again from scratch. The scoreboard system needs an extensive overhaul to make it easier to maintain and scale better with a large number of active scoreboards.
  
====Double and Triple Loot====
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:*Lost Team Trophy Data
Once you've obtained the Dog Lunar Lantern, you can use it to boost loot drops ANYWHERE by igniting it which burns one candle per hunt. There are two types candles to choose from which determine whether you'll receive double or triple loot: Lunar Lantern Candles and Red Lunar Lantern Candles.
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::The collection of Tournament Trophies and Badges earned by a specific team was unfortunately lost. We've replaced the section on team profiles to instead show the total collection of Trophies and Badges held by '''current''' team members. This means the trophy and badge count will change when players join or leave a team.
  
Each candle you burn will also raise your Dog Lunar Lantern upwards into the sky. As you reach certain height milestones, you'll find special rewards including a new event cheese and trap skin. Raising your lantern will also unlock luck bonuses while your lantern is lit, up to an amazing +50 Luck for raising your lantern to 500 feet!
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::We've also removed any restrictions on unlocking new team slots based on trophies and badges collected. Instead, all teams will now be able to add the maximum number of hunters without first earning trophies or badges.
  
*'''Lunar Lantern Candle'''<br>
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::We've restored as much team tournament history as we could from the corrupted backup and new tournament scheduling will resume soon.
:You'll find these candles as loot drops by hunting with Dumpling Cheese in any of the 10 Lunar New Year event locations. Using these candles will double loot drops.
 
*'''Red Lunar Lantern Candle'''<br>
 
:You'll find these candles as loot drops from the Lunar Red Candle Maker Mouse by hunting with Nian Goa'da Cheese in any of the 10 Lunar New Year Event locations. You'll find Nian Gao'da Cheese as a reward for raising your lantern into the sky.<br>
 
'''Remember: The lantern's doubling and tripling effect works anywhere in the Kingdom!'''<br>
 
*'''100 Nian Gao'da Cheese'''<br>
 
:Attracts Red Candle Maker!
 
*'''10 Red Lunar Lantern Candles'''<br>
 
:Triple Loot Drops!
 
  
====Items Not Affected by the Lantern====
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:*Difficulties Remaining Logged In
The magic of the Dog Lunar Lantern has no effect on a few items: Dumpling Cheese, Nian Gao'da Cheese, Lunar Lantern Candles, Red Lunar Lantern Candles, Map Pieces, Treasure Map Clues, and the regular points and gold reward for capturing a mouse.
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::The same infrastructure used to host scoreboards is also used to keep hunters logged in. Before the instability we were already in the process of refactoring this system to not use scoreboard infrastructure. The infrastructure issues certainly boosted the priority of this project. We've completed refactoring, however, with the scoreboard infrastructure now stabilized we'll be allowing ourselves more time to do testing to ensure a smooth transition.
  
Additionally, the lantern's magic is only able to affect items directly dropped as loot from a mouse. Any bonus items found by using charms or other specialized hunting equipment will not be affected.
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'''Understandably the loss of scoreboard data is upsetting and further more, our inability to restore from a backup is disappointing.'''
  
====Lunar Gift Baskets and Kits====
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'''We've made the difficult decision to leave several scoreboards removed to make sure that when we rebuild the system we create one we can maintain with the limited resources our small team has and provide the type of scoreboard system hunters deserve.'''
Celebrate Lunar New Year with gift baskets for friends, or stock up on cheese and candles to raise your lantern to amazing heights!
 
  
*'''300 Nian Gao'da Cheese'''<br>
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====iOS 13 Issues====
:Collect Red Candles
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After some more technical research, we have identified the issue causing some buttons in the mobile app to be unresponsive or register as a double tap on devices running iOS 13. The update was recently approved by Apple. Keep an eye out for version 1.84.0 (or higher) in the App Store.
*'''100 Red Lunar Lantern Candles'''<br>
 
:Stock up for triple drops
 
*'''Year of the Dog Gift Basket'''<br>
 
:Great Gift
 
*'''Year of the Dog Supply Kit'''<br>
 
:Candles and cheese
 
  
 
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News

Explore The Valour Rift

8 October 2019

The first Archduke/Archduchess area

Valour Rift Entrance Stabilized

After much careful and diligent research from Gnawnia's finest scientists, a means of stabilizing an entrance into the Valour Rift has been discovered! Hunters ranked Archduke/Archduchess and above who have recovered 2,000 Rift Distortions and acquired a map of the Valour Rift can now enter this new area within the Rift Plane.

If you have not yet obtained a map of the Valour Rift, doing so requires the rank of Grand Duke/Grand Duchess and access to the Bristle Woods Rift. Visit the Cartographer at the Bristle Woods Rift to purchase a Rift Chronometer which will allow you to recover the 2,000 Rift Distortions the Cartographer needs to issue you a map. Accessing the Valour Rift is outlined as the first step in the new Archduke/Archduchess adventure "End the Total Eclipse".

Preliminary Rift Gauntlet Research

During the stabilization research, the King's scientists collected some preliminary information on what awaits hunters within the Valour Rift. The Rift Gauntlet is an expansive area with powerful mice and no doubt rewarding secrets to discover. Although there's still much to learn about this new area within the Rift Plane, one thing is for certain: It's going to take a while to explore everything there!

Endless Tower
The Valour Rift is an especially twisted version of our reality, mirroring the King's Gauntlet in a sinister way. The tower appears to endlessly stretch into a starry abyss with no end in sight. The interior of the tower presents an even more baffling paradox. Early attempts at navigation revealed 8 uniquely themed floors within the tower. However, upon exiting the eighth floor, these early navigators found themselves back where they started, yet further from their destination. A truly confusing experience!

Gauntlet Elixir and Champion's Fire
Early attempts at navigating the Valour Rift Gauntlet revealed a timid, yet critical character -- The Terrified Adventurer Mouse. Despite a clear lack of prowess, this battle-hardened adventurer is determined to conquer its fear by climbing to the top of the tower!

This mouse appears throughout the tower and carries knowledge of shortcuts which can be utilized by hunters to traverse the tower more quickly. Capturing the Terrified Adventurer Mouse will grant x2 progress within the tower, helping you reach greater heights! However, the Terrified Adventurer has a very specific cheese taste. You'll need Gauntlet String Cheese which can be purchased from the local Cheese Shoppe by exchanging Gauntlet Elixirs collected outside the tower.

Champion's Fire can be used to light your way both inside and outside the Rift Gauntlet. Burning this fire provides +1 to many loot drops both inside and outside the tower. Additionally, while ascending the Rift Gauntlet, lighting Champion's Fire will move you forward +1 step with each capture.

  • 250 Gauntlet String Cheese
Attract the Terrified Adventurer within the Rift Gauntlet
  • 250 Champion's Fire
Adds +1 to loot drops and +1 step with each catch

Syncronizing with the Tower
The Rift Chronometer has revealed some secrets on how the Gauntlet Tower within the Valour Rift keeps itself out of sync with our timeline. Although the Chronometer will allow you to enter the tower, you'll fall slightly out of sync with the tower after each hunt. Eventually, the stairs below your feet will cease to exist in your timeline, sending you back down to the tower entrance.

Floor Caches
The hordes of Rift Stalkers within the tower appear to be guarding items of great value! Each floor within the tower contains a cache of gold, magical sigils, and other artifacts attuned to the energy of the tower.

Ascend to greater heights to reveal greater quantities of treasure!

Tower Augmentations
The magical markings on the Tower Sigils revealed some of the secrets of how the mice have managed to distort reality.

Recover Tower Sigils and other powerful artifacts from within the Rift Gauntlet to distort the tower to your own advantage. As you learn more about the tower, you'll be able to utilize this power in the form of augmentations that will transform the tower before entering it. However, these augmentations will only persist until you exit the tower.

Ultimate Umbra
Perhaps the most powerful tower augmentation is Ultimate Umbra. This augmentation will wrap the tower in utter darkness and summon more powerful mice which are sure to lead to greater rewards! Take warning: The pitch dark of an Ultimate Umbra will embolden the mice within the tower, giving them the ability to push you backwards on the stairwell.

Valour Rift Trapsmith and General Store

The intrepid Trapsmith and General Store owner at the Valour Rift have used the preliminary research to acquire a stock of powerful hunting equipment utilizing resources found within the Valour Rift.

Celestial Dissonance Trap
3,500 Rift Power, +10 Luck

A powerful upgrade for the Timesplit Dissonance utilizing Eclipse Cores. This formidable trap is the most effective Rift Weapon yet discovered!

Prestige Base
??? Power, ??? Luck

The Prestige Base is a truly unique (and potentially powerful) piece of hunting equipment. Although its stats appear meager at first, its special attunement to the hunter which owns it and the Rift Gauntlet itself will provide permanent stat bonuses based on how high you've climbed the Rift Gauntlet during Ultimate Umbra.

The Prestige Base stats increase based on the highest floor you've reached during Ultimate Umbra. The base will permanently maintain these stats throughout the entire Kingdom!

+10 Power per floor reached and +1 Luck for every 8 floors reached during Ultimate Umbra

Two Celestial Dissonance Skins
The Trapsmith has two unique trap skins for the Celestial Dissonance Trap. However, the exact schematics have been lost in the Rift Gauntlet. Search the tower for 1,000 Tattered Celestial Skin Patterns and exchange them at the Trapsmith for either of the unique skins. Both trap skins can be traded on the Marketplace and shared with friends.

Codex of Valour
Completing the End the Total Eclipse adventure will reward you with the Codex of Valour. This book binding is initially empty, however, the General Store owner sells 8 unique pages to add powerful power type bonuses that work throughout the entire Kingdom. Fully stock your codex to unlock different sets of 5% Power Bonuses and +1 Luck bonuses depending on the power type of your armed trap.

Gift Baskets and Supply Kits

  • 500 Gauntlet String Cheese
Jump start your tower exploration
  • Valour Rift Gift Basket
30 Gauntlet String and 20 Champion
  • Valour Rift Supply Kit
250 Gauntlet String and 250 Champion
  • Valour Rift Large Supply Kit
1,000 Gauntlet String, 1,000 Champion

This research is only the beginning! The endless Rift Gauntlet is full of secrets to discover and rewards to unlock for hunters with the persistence to ascend to the greatest heights!

Partial Scoreboard Recovery

3 October 2019

Some scoreboards recovered from backup

Some Scoreboards Recovered

Greetings once again hunters. We have another update on our efforts to restore scoreboard data that was lost during last week's infrastructure problems with the game.

Yesterday afternoon, after some more research, we were able to recover some scoreboards in their entirety. Although the scoreboard data backups were corrupted, we discovered that each scoreboard in the backup was either entirely lost or entirely present. This means we are able to restore a few of the scoreboards as they were on September 21.

Scoreboards we were able to recover
  • Relic Hunter: Treasure Maps Completed
  • Relic Hunter: Season 3 Treasure Maps Completed
  • Relic Hunter: Season 4 Treasure Maps Completed
  • Relic Hunter: Season 5 Treasure Maps Completed
  • Iceberg: Best Run
  • Living Garden: Ultimate Charm Catch Streak
  • Sunken City: Farthest Distance Traveled
  • Fort Rox: Highest Monster of the Meteor Catch Streak
  • Queso Canyon: Nachore Mined

These scoreboards should now appear as they were on September 21 and will actively update as hunters contribute to them.

Rebuilding Mouse Scoreboards

Scoreboards that track the number of times hunters have caught a specific type of mouse can technically be rebuilt by using hunters' catch statistics. This data was effectively being stored in two places, meaning we can use that redundancy to repopulate scoreboards for specific mouse catches.

We're a bit stretched for developer resources while working on infrastructure stability and wrapping up work on the upcoming Valour Rift release. However, once the Valour Rift is released and the infrastructure upgrade work is completed, we'll be looking into repopulating these mouse scoreboards.

Restarting Other Scoreboards

The final decision to make is what to do about all other scoreboards. We can either restart these scoreboards from scratch or retire them from the game. This is a decision we're looking for feedback on, so please let us know your thoughts in the comments section. If we were to restart these scoreboards, we would most likely place an asterisk next to those boards and note the date at which the scoreboards started on.

Some hunters may also view a subtle difference between scoreboards which may be worth feedback and discussion. Some lost scoreboards tracked one off "feats" while others tracked an accumulating stat over time.

Example: Sunken City: Highest Dive Catches tracked a "best record" of sorts from a single dive, while Oxygen Canisters Depleted tracked an accumulating stat across all dives. Due to their nature, re-obtaining the best record is feasible while accumulating stats will technically always be inaccurate.

If restarting some scoreboards is something you're in favour of, let us know if you think both feats and accumulating stats should be restarted, or if only feats should be.

Once again, we want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding while we work through this unfortunate loss of scoreboard data. We've taken the positive comments and constructive feedback to heart and going forward will endeavour to build a better scoreboard system for this amazing community of players.

Stability Issue Update

2 October 2019

Scoreboard and team changes

Update on Recent Stability Issues

Greetings, MouseHunters. We've been working through problems caused by the infrastructure issues we faced last week and would like to share our progress and results.

  • Lost Scoreboard Data
The infrastructure issue last week primarily affected the server we use for tracking scoreboards. The data became corrupted and upon attempting to restore from a backup we noticed the backups were also corrupted. Our technical research into restoring from a corrupt backup had mixed results. We were able to restore some of the data, however, due to the nature of scoreboards only having a partial set of data is not useful.
For the time being, we've taken down these affected scoreboards, which are unfortunately the majority of scoreboards in the game. The scoreboards which remain are: Points, Gold, Catches, Library Points, Map Clues Collected, and Scavenger Hunt Hints Collected. These scoreboards will automatically update the next time you contribute to them. For example: If you're currently unranked for Map Clues Collected, finding a Treasure Map Clue will place you back on the scoreboard with your total number of clues found.
We'll be continuing work to reinstate other scoreboards in a way which will minimize the chances of similar instability occurring in the future. Unfortunately, any other scoreboards we bring back aside from the ones mentioned above will come back in a reset state, meaning hunters will have to compete again from scratch. The scoreboard system needs an extensive overhaul to make it easier to maintain and scale better with a large number of active scoreboards.
  • Lost Team Trophy Data
The collection of Tournament Trophies and Badges earned by a specific team was unfortunately lost. We've replaced the section on team profiles to instead show the total collection of Trophies and Badges held by current team members. This means the trophy and badge count will change when players join or leave a team.
We've also removed any restrictions on unlocking new team slots based on trophies and badges collected. Instead, all teams will now be able to add the maximum number of hunters without first earning trophies or badges.
We've restored as much team tournament history as we could from the corrupted backup and new tournament scheduling will resume soon.
  • Difficulties Remaining Logged In
The same infrastructure used to host scoreboards is also used to keep hunters logged in. Before the instability we were already in the process of refactoring this system to not use scoreboard infrastructure. The infrastructure issues certainly boosted the priority of this project. We've completed refactoring, however, with the scoreboard infrastructure now stabilized we'll be allowing ourselves more time to do testing to ensure a smooth transition.

Understandably the loss of scoreboard data is upsetting and further more, our inability to restore from a backup is disappointing.

We've made the difficult decision to leave several scoreboards removed to make sure that when we rebuild the system we create one we can maintain with the limited resources our small team has and provide the type of scoreboard system hunters deserve.

iOS 13 Issues

After some more technical research, we have identified the issue causing some buttons in the mobile app to be unresponsive or register as a double tap on devices running iOS 13. The update was recently approved by Apple. Keep an eye out for version 1.84.0 (or higher) in the App Store.