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News

Something swampy this way comes!

18 October 2012

Something swampy this way comes!

In a cloud of noxious gasses and bellowing a mighty roar, the Swamp Thang Mouse has burst forth from the Living Garden and charged headlong into Gnawnia! Finding the Haunted Terrortories there waiting for him, he kicked Mousevina from her throne and has settled in.

Now he's guarding a whole horde of loot from last year and new treasures besides!

How to hunt at the Haunted Terrortories

Navigating the Haunted Terrortories will require a hunter to both trick and treat the mice there by hunting with Ghoulgonzola (trick) and Candy Corn (treat) Cheese.

Gathering trick and treat cheese in Gnawnia is a familiar tradition. Each day, hunters may visit up to 10 friends and receive some bait. Before you visit others, be sure to visit your own profile and choose what type of cheese you're handing out! If you find yourself getting low on cheese, you can also hunt at the Terrortories using Swiss, Brie, Gouda or SUPER|brie+ to attract Hollowhead Mice that drop Halloween Cheese. Additionally, you may find it inside Pumpkin Treat Baskets which you can send as gifts to friends!

The Haunted Terrortories consists of three areas: The Corn Maze, Haunted Manor and the Pumpkin Patch. You must both trick AND treat enough mice in your current area to begin attracting mice from the next. Your trick and treat progress will be displayed while hunting in the Haunted Terrortories.

Are you an experienced hunter looking to hunt more challenging and rewarding mice? Visit the Charm Shoppe at the Haunted Terrortories and purchase Spooky Charms which, when armed, will attract more fearsome mice worth greater rewards!

Spooky Rewards

The Swamp Thang Mouse has a variety of goodies to plunder this year! A terrifying new trap, a chance at a haunted new map, and some... scraps of paper? I'm sure they'll be useful for something...

While visiting friends and hunting your way toward the Swamp Thang Mouse, you may also find a few morsels of Halloween Candy, and if you're especially lucky you may even come across rare Cobwebs. These Halloween Candies and Cobwebs can be exchanged at the various Haunted Terrortories shops to purchase a wide variety of exciting loot, including fantastic charms and never-before-seen trap skins!

Customize MouseHunt with Themes!

Look on your profile and you'll see a new button labelled "Select Theme". Click on it to launch MouseHunt's new theme chooser, where you can pick a special theme to change the entire appearance of your Hunter's Journal! These themes will be shown on your Camp, as well as your Profile for all to see!

You can unlock the Golden Shield theme by having the Golden Shield, and the Hallowe'en Theme by gathering Hallowe'en Theme Scraps and crafting them together into the Completed Hallowe'en Theme. The first scrap can be found on the Swamp Thang Mouse, but the other two will require some investigating to find!

Halloween Baskets and New Skins

Looking for some spooky gifts to give to friends? Or perhaps you have a sweet tooth yourself and want to dive into a goodie bag of treats! For the Halloween season, the King is offering a few special haunting supplies, and a boatload of brand-new skins!


Halloween Basket
A Hallowe'en gift basket perfect for giving to someone special. The basket contains 75 SUPER|brie+, 25 Candy Corn Cheese, and 25 Ghoulgonzola!

Spooky Supply Kit
This slightly haunted kit will help you hunt the more fearsome mice of the Haunted Terrotories! Inside you'll find 100 SUPER|brie+, 50 Spooky Charms, 25 Ghoulgonzola, and 25 Candy Corn!

Jumbo Halloween Goodie Bag
This spookily-themed bag is JUST bursting with SUPER|brie+ and Halloween Cheese! Mixed inside, you'll also find a few pieces of Halloween Candy with which to satisfy your sweet tooth!

Steam Maw
A combination of flaming-hot Ethereal Charcoal and Eldritch Fog ensure that this version of the Steam Laser Mk. III is no less effective, but far spookier.

Lovecraft Shelf
Some books are written about Eldritch Horrors, some books are written by Eldritch Horrors, and some books literally contain Eldritch Horrors. Be very careful when setting up, walking near, or thinking about this trap.


Halloween is here!

  • Setup your hunter profile to hand out treats to friends!
  • Visit friends and collect Ghoulgonzola and Candy Corn
  • Hunt with your Halloween cheese at the Haunted Terrortories
  • Earn a new trap, exciting loot, trap skins and more!

Click here to travel to the Haunted Terrortories | Click here to see the New Skins

-- Giorgio Sintichakis


The Leprechaun Has Returned!

10 October 2012

The Leprechaun Has Returned!

The rumours are true! More and more Leprechaun Mouse sightings have been reported in the last week, and it looks like they are here to stay! What's more, hunters can expect to see even more Leprechaun mice in the coming week, all carrying great rewards and each with a chance to win a real cash prize!

Until Wednesday, October 17, there will be more prize mice and Leprechaun mice than usual roaming the lands! When this little streak of luck is over, the Leprechaun mice and other prize mice will be harder to find, but they are here to stay!

Use common cheese (Cheddar, Brie, Gouda, SUPER|brie+, or anything not overly special, rare, or difficult to obtain) to attract a prize mouse to your trap, but be warned for they are tough and will put up a fight! If you catch one, you have a chance at winning a real cash prize!

Mystery Pot of Gold

Every Leprechaun mouse carries with it a Mystery Pot of Gold. If you manage to attract and catch one of these elusive mice, you'll be guaranteed this wonderful prize! What's inside? Tons of GOLD, of course! Along with a bunch of SUPER|brie+ and some Ultimate Luck Charms.

And sometimes, at the bottom, there's an even greater prize lying under all that gold!

Will you be one of these lucky hunters?


The Leprechaun Has Returned!

  • The Leprechaun has returned and is here to stay!
  • More-than-usual prize mice and Leprechaun mice until October 17
  • Use common cheese to attract a prize mouse
  • Leprechaun mice will drop a Mystery Pot of Gold when caught
  • There's a chance of a real cash prize inside these Pots of Gold!

Hunt for prize mice with regular bait across the land!

-- Giorgio Sintichakis

Treasure Hunting Update, King's Gauntlet Tourneys, and Checkout Shop Overhaul!

10 September 2012

Treasure Hunting Update, King's Gauntlet Tourneys, and Checkout Shop Overhaul!

A lot of work went into MouseHunt in the last week and it's finally time to release it all at once!

The Relic Hunter and treasure hunting in general has gotten a much needed once-over to clear up some lingering bugs and to also improve the displaying maps and inviting friends!

Along with that, with great help from the community, the new King's Gauntlet tournaments are now ready to go! Look for one on the Tournament Listings page!

And finally, the checkout shop has had a much-needed massive overhaul, allowing us to bring back the beloved kits from the past that just couldn't fit anymore!

Treasure Hunting Update

Wow. Wow! So much treasure hunting has gone on. How much? So much! Over 65,000 maps have been found and completed so far. That's... That's a LOT of treasure hunting!

Ancient Relics

With so many hunters all digging for treasure at once, the delicate Treasure-Hunting Ecosystem has been forever altered!

What does this mean? For one, all the easy Ancient Relics have been found, and mice that had large stockpiles of relics in the past have noticed their reserves are dwindling. No mouse drops an Ancient Relic on every catch any more, though some are still more common than others. Keep an eye out!

Treasure Chests

However, all this is good news for treasure chests! With the increased rarity of relics, all the Treasure Chests now have more and more varied treasure in them!

Harder chests will reward more points and gold than before, with Arduous maps being significantly improved to balance out the incredible difficulty of the mice required. That means hunters will earn more rewards for their hard work!

So keep hunting, hunters! Treasure hunting has never been more rewarding than now!

King's Gauntlet Tourneys

Due to popular demand, the King is proud to announce the grand opening of the King's Gauntlet tournaments! He reached out to the many hunters in the land for aid and assistance, and the resulting tournaments are entirely community created!

Wait, tournaments? That's right! There are two tournaments for the King's Gauntlet – one for the higher floors, and one for the lower ones! No matter where you are through the Gauntlet, you should have ample opportunity to play and win!

Checkout Shop Overhaul

We've been slowly rolling out a new checkout system a few users at a time, so some of you may have seen this already, but today we're opening it up to everyone: a brand-new checkout!

It's a lot cleaner, allows us to offer a lot more information to you about your purchases, provides a nicer shopping cart system, and most importantly, allows us to bring back a lot more of your favourite packages!

No more needing to remove old packages due to size restrictions, so your Tournament Kits, Tribal Isle Kits, Warpath Kits and more should always be available in the future!

Wanna see what it looks like? Click here!


Treasure Hunting Update, King's Gauntlet Tourneys, and Checkout Shop Overhaul!

  • Treasure Chests have greater rewards!
  • Community-made King's Gauntlet tourneys are live!
  • A better, cleaner, more awesomer Checkout Shop!

Hunt tough mice to find Ancient Relics | Check out the new Checkout Shop!

-- Giorgio Sintichakis