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===Spring Egg Hunt===
 
''{{date|27|March|2018}}''
 
  
It’s that time of the year again!
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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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====Fill Egg Cartons with the Help of Your Friends====
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====Valour Rift Entrance Stabilized====
An Egg Carton is an activity you can do with up to 3 friends during the Spring Egg Hunt by opening an Unfilled Spring Egg Carton. Once opened, you will be given an egg carton that has 12 empty slots for Spring Hunt Eggs. Any time anyone in your Egg Hunting group finds a Spring Hunt Egg as a loot drop, a unique copy of that egg will be placed into the egg carton (excluding the 10 basic Spring Hunt stockpile eggs and charge eggs).
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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.
  
Once the carton is full, everyone on the team can smash the carton and receive the loot based on the contents of each egg! How eggciting! You can find an Unfilled Spring Egg Carton inside of this year's Golden Egg, in Stockpile General Stores, and in the Premium Shop.
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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
  
*'''Unfilled Spring Egg Carton'''
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'''Syncronizing with the Tower'''<br>
:Egg Hunt with friends!
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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.
*'''Egg Hunter Supply Kit'''
 
:Stock up, Egg up and Team up!
 
  
====Hidden Spring Hunt Eggs====
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'''Floor Caches'''<br>
Mice throughout the Kingdom are carrying special eggs containing tasty treats of bonus loot! Travel throughout the Kingdom and hunt mice in search of these hidden eggs, then crack them open to see what's inside!
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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.
  
To get started, you'll need a special egg-finding piece of equipment called an Eggscavator. If you do not already own one, you can purchase one from the King for 10,000 gold from the special Spring Egg Hunt heads-up display. Or, you can track down the Eggscavator Mouse in areas throughout the Kingdom to find one for free.
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Ascend to greater heights to reveal greater quantities of treasure!
  
====Marshmallow Monterey Stockpiles and Spring Hunt Event Mice====
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'''Tower Augmentations'''<br>
The changing of the season has attracted several event mice to certain locations. These hunting spots are home to "stockpiles" of Marshmallow Monterey -- a special cheese that will lure event mice to your trap.
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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.
  
To collect Marshmallow Monterey, visit one of the stockpile locations (listed below) and hunt as you normally would there to collect Marshmallow Monterey as loot.
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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.
  
Marshmallow Monterey Stockpile Locations:
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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.
  
*Town of Gnawnia (Recruit)
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====Valour Rift Trapsmith and General Store====
*Great Gnarled Tree (Master)
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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.
*Town of Digby (Master)
 
*Dojo (Grandmaster)
 
*Catacombs (Legendary)
 
*S.S. Huntington (Legendary)
 
*Cape Clawed (Legendary)
 
*King's Gauntlet (Hero)
 
*Claw Shot City (Lord/Lady)
 
*Muridae Market (Baron/Baroness)
 
*Gnawnia Rift (Count/Countess)
 
*Fungal Cavern (Duke/Duchess)
 
*Moussu Picchu (Grand Duke/Duchess)
 
  
Once you've obtained some Marshmallow Monterey, you can use it in any stockpile location to attract Spring Egg Hunt event mice! These mice drop 10 especially valuable eggs that each hunter can loot only once. Event mice also drop special charms to boost the power of your Eggscavator!
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'''Celestial Dissonance Trap'''<br>
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3,500 Rift Power, +10 Luck
  
*'''15 Marshmallow Monterey'''
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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!
:Tasty Spring Cheese
 
*'''500 Marshmallow Monterey'''
 
:Hunt for event mice
 
  
====Eggscavator Charge Charms and Eggstra Charms====
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'''Prestige Base'''<br>
You can obtain special charms to boost your Eggscavator by exchanging Marshmallow Monterey at the Charm Shoppe in any Stockpile location, or, you can hunt for event mice in those locations to obtain charms as loot drops. Charging up your Eggscavator will allow you to find special Charge Eggs and using Eggstra Charms will double your egg drops!
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??? Power, ??? Luck
  
*'''Eggscavator Charge Charm'''
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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.
:Capturing a mouse with this charm armed will add a charge to your Eggscavator. You'll lose a charge each hunt taken without a charge charm equipped. Depending on the charge level of your Eggscavator, you'll find Low, Medium, and High Charge Eggs that contain Spring Hunt loot!
 
*'''Eggstra Charm'''
 
:The Eggstra Charm will double the quantity of any eggs found while hunting! The charm is only consumed when you find an egg.
 
*'''Eggstra Charge Charm'''
 
:This special charm combines the abilities of the Eggscavator Charge Charm and the Eggstra Charm both charging your Eggscavator and doubling the quantity of any eggs found! This charm is consumed upon each successful capture of a mouse.
 
  
====New Eggs for 2018 Spring Egg Hunt====
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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!
*'''White Egg'''
 
:Simply white.
 
*'''Grey Egg'''
 
:Slightly fiesty.
 
*'''Brown Egg'''
 
:Challenging for a Novice.
 
*'''Abominable Snow Egg'''
 
:Cold and frosty!
 
*'''Bristle Woods Rift Egg'''
 
:Tick, tock, tick, tock.
 
*'''Absolute Acolyte Egg'''
 
:Absolutely powerful in those robes.
 
*'''Chamber Cleaver Egg'''
 
:Grab it before it phases away.
 
*'''Mutated Behemoth Egg'''
 
:Trashiest of the trashy.
 
*'''Ful'Mina Egg'''
 
:Rests high above thunderous clouds.
 
*'''Thunder Egg'''
 
:Oh, I think you know...
 
*'''Wind Egg'''
 
:Oh high winds, these fly!
 
*'''Rain Egg'''
 
:When it rains, these pour!
 
*'''Relic Hunter Egg'''
 
:Doesn’t stay in one place for long...
 
  
====Spring Egg Hunt Supply Kits and Baskets====
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'''+10 Power per floor reached and +1 Luck for every 8 floors reached during Ultimate Umbra'''
To help in your egg-hunting endeavours, the King has assembled a stockpile of supplies, gift baskets, and kits!
 
  
*'''Marshmallow Gift Basket'''
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'''Two Celestial Dissonance Skins'''<br>
:60 Marshmallow Monterey
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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.
*'''Bonus Egg Hunting Kit'''
 
:75 SB+, 25 Charge Charms, 10 Eggstras
 
*'''Eggstra Charge Charm Kit'''
 
:300 SB+, 250 Eggstra Charge Charms
 
*'''1200 Marshmallow Monterey'''
 
:Exchange for charms!
 
  
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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.
  
===Feeling Green with the Lucky Mouse===
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====Gift Baskets and Supply Kits====
''{{date|16|March|2018}}''
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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
  
Collect tons of magical sewing supplies!
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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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====Lucky Mouse Arrives at the Mysterious Anomaly====
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===Partial Scoreboard Recovery===
The Lucky Mouse has been spotted at the Mysterious Anomaly to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! This lucrative mouse carries with it a wide variety of loot to bring some luck your way!
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''{{date|3|October|2019}}''
  
'''With each Lucky Mouse capture, you'll loot:'''
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''Some scoreboards recovered from backup''
:*A variety of Luck Charm
 
:*1 or 2 Rewind Raclette
 
:*3 or 4 magical sewing supplies depending on which year you're hunting in
 
  
There's also a small chance to find the Seven Leaf Clover Cap collectible from the Lucky Mouse, if you have not found it in years past. Alternatively, travel to year 2008 and capture a White Mouse and guarantee to loot its Seven Leaf Clover Cap!
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Finally, it's worth noting that the arrival of the Lucky Mouse has not affected the encounter rate of the Reality Restitch Mouse. While you have a Reality Restitch Charm armed, you'll have the same chance to encounter a Reality Restitch Mouse as before, and whether or not you have the charm equipped, you'll have the same chance of encountering the Lucky Mouse. So, arm Reality Restitch Charms and watch the magical sewing supplies pour in!
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====Some Scoreboards Recovered====
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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.
  
*'''15 Reality Restitch Charms'''
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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.
:Collect even MORE loot!
 
  
====Boost Your Luck even FURTHER====
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:'''Scoreboards we were able to recover'''
The King is offering some limited time baskets and kits to push your trap's luck to great heights! Grab these great deals before they disappear.
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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
  
*'''Lucky Hunting Kit'''
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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 gift of luck
 
Makes a great gift for a friend! Inside you'll find 100 SUPER|brie+, 100 Luck Charms, and 30 Super Luck Charms.
 
*'''Lucky Clover Kit'''
 
:Shamrock Charms and more
 
Grab 300 of the exclusive Shamrock Charms (+3 Luck) inside this kit. Inside you'll also find 750 SUPER|brie+ and 10 Rainbow Luck Charms.
 
*'''Lucky Rainbow Kit'''
 
:Lots of Rainbow Charms
 
Stock up with 100 of the magically bright Rainbow Luck Charms which have a +12 Luck Bonus and 800 Power. Inside you'll also find 1,000 SUPER|brie+ and 750 Shamrock Charms!
 
  
'''Make each hunt count!'''
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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.
  
'''The Lucky Mouse will leave the anomaly on Tuesday, March 20.'''
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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.
  
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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.
  
===Temporal Tear in Time Threatens Timeline!===
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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.
''{{date|5|March|2018}}''
 
  
A call for help from Larry!
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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.
  
====Strange Anomaly in Gnawnia====
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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.'''
Oh thank goodness, a fellow hunter! I was helping some new recruits in the Meadow when suddenly a flash of light swept over us. When our vision cleared everything was... different!
 
  
The Harbour is destroyed, the Eclipse Mouse roams free, the Marching Flame has secured the entirety of the Sandtail Desert, and most shocking of all: A '''mouse is now King!''' Something is terribly wrong, hunters!!!
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This can't be a coincidence. The strange anomaly emanating from near the castle must be responsible for this change which I can only surmise is a shift in the timeline!
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===Stability Issue Update===
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''{{date|2|October|2019}}''
  
====10 Years of Altered History====
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''Scoreboard and team changes''
From what I've gathered, it seems this pretender "mouse king" has made critical changes to the past 10 years that have resulted in mice achieving total victory against hunters.
 
  
The culprit king is a fashion-obsessed mouse that has used various magical sewing supplies such as Time Thread, Spacetime Spool, and Fabric of Time to travel back and change events over the last 10 years.
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You must explore the strange anomaly, track down these resources yourself, and repair the Quilt of Time, as it were, to unravel what the Time Thief Mouse has sewn!
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====Update on Recent Stability Issues====
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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.
  
====Changing History to Help Hunters====
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:*Lost Scoreboard Data
If you're successful, perhaps you can can alter history to give hunters a special edge. If you restore the timeline, you'll be able to share current era trap knowledge with trapsmiths of the past, resulting in some serious trap upgrades! Just be sure to keep it a secret from the Department of Temporal Investigations. Which may or may not even exist right now...?
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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.
  
Check out the Trapsmith at the anomaly for a glimpse at what will be once the timeline is restored. There are plans for five special Anniversary Edition traps that offer some serious bonuses to iconic traps of the past. These traps all have an impressive Luck Bonus as well as a 10% chance to unleash years of hunting power against a mouse to instantly catch it.
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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.
  
Completing the adventure to restore Gnawnia's 10-Year Timeline also comes with a host of new and unique rewards! You'll be rewarded with a 10 Layer Birthday Cake Base, a Magical Birthday Cake, and 100 Hunter's Horn Rewind Charms.
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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.
  
*'''10 Layer Birthday Cake Base'''
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:*Lost Team Trophy Data
:Combines 10 different flavours of cake into one delicious base sporting a handy +10 Luck Bonus! The cupcake portions of the base also contain a few magical sprinkles that will cause mice to occasionally drop Cupcake Charms as loot.
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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.
*'''Magical Birthday Cake'''
 
:This magical cake comes lit with blazing candles for you to blow out. Blowing out the candles on the cake will reward you 10 SUPER|brie+ for each year you've been a MouseHunter. If you've yet to play an entire year, you'll receive 10 SUPER|brie+. Finally, the magical candles will relight on your MouseHunt Anniversary (the date you became a MouseHunter). Look forward to blowing out the candles each year!
 
*'''Hunter's Horn Rewind Charm'''
 
:These charms are imbued with temporal time-controlling energy that is unleashed when you fail to capture a mouse. When activated, the charm will rewind time on your Hunter's Horn to five seconds before you last sounded it, allowing you to hunt again within moments. Note that your cheese is outside the control of this charm, so you'll still lose your bait when it activates.
 
  
====Anniversary Aura====
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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.
There are four types of Treasure Maps to embark upon to earn great rewards, including a special Anniversary Aura that gives any mouse a chance of dropping a piece of SUPER|brie+! Opening any of the new Birthday or Time Traveler Themed Treasure Chests will reward or extend this aura.
 
  
*Birthday Treasure Chests provide 1 day of aura.
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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.
*Time Traveler's Treasure Chests provide 2 days of aura.
 
*Gilded Birthday Treasure Chests provide 2 weeks of aura.
 
*Gilded Time Traveler's Treasure Chests provide 1 month of aura.
 
  
Although opening additional chests will extend the aura, the magic of the Anniversary Aura may not be extended beyond March 7, 2019.
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:*Difficulties Remaining Logged In
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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.
  
====Hunting Supplies to Travel Through Time====
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'''Understandably the loss of scoreboard data is upsetting and further more, our inability to restore from a backup is disappointing.'''
Along with the altered timeline have also come new items that can be used to gain an advantage for hunters! Rewind Raclette, a new time-sensitive cheese, is a favourite of the time weaving mice, and a Reality Restitch Charm will pull an especially lucrative mouse into phase and towards your trap.
 
  
The time shift has also caused two new Gilded Scroll Cases to appear which are sure to lead to impressive treasure, including the Lucky Golden Shield!
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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.'''
  
*'''100 Rewind Raclette'''
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====iOS 13 Issues====
:Attract event mice
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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.
Rewind Raclette will lure various event mice towards your trap, including those carrying magical sewing supplies. You'll find it as loot drops, especially when hunting with SUPER|brie+.
 
*'''15 Reality Restitch Charms'''
 
:Collect more resources
 
The Reality Restitch Charm will occasionally pull the lucrative Reality Restitch Mouse into phase with time, luring it towards your trap. This mouse drops a variety of magical sewing supplies depending on the year in which it's caught.
 
*'''Gilded Birthday Scroll Case'''
 
:Hunt for 20 mice
 
The Gilded Birthday Scroll Case contains a treasure map consisting of 20 mice spread throughout 2008 through 2013. The chest found at the end of this map rewards the Lucky Golden Shield for one month, 50,000 Gold and Points, 100 Ancient Charms, 25 Gilded Charms, as well as some Rewind Raclette Cheese, and the chance of a birthday themed trap skin!
 
*'''Gilded Time Travel Scroll Case'''
 
:Hunt for 40 mice
 
The Gilded Time Traveler's Scroll Case contains a treasure map consisting of 40 mice spread throughout 2008 to 2017. The chest rewards the Lucky Golden Shield for one month, along with an impressive 100,000 Gold and Points, 200 Ancient Charms, 50 Gilded Charms, as well as a stash of Rewind Raclette Cheese, Reality Restitch Charms, King's Credits, and a chance of a birthday themed trap skin!
 
*'''Rare Map Dust'''
 
:Boost your rewards!
 
As with any gilded map reward chest, both the Gilded Birthday and Gilded Time Traveler's Treasure Chests have a chance of containing a Slayer Scroll Case. Using Rare Map Dust will lead to a rare version of the chest that has double points, gold, and ancient charms, a higher chance to contain a Slayer Scroll Case, and a guaranteed birthday themed trap skin!
 
  
 
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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.