Posted by: @gymfan15

In other news, I feel like I've made some good progress on my mini-goals of completing all the traps, bases, skins and collectables in the game. I've only got one trap missing (Rune Shark Trap; stupid Sand Dollars are so annoying to farm) and I *had* all the bases until the new area came out. 😀 I've got two collectables to go and maybe 30 trap skins? Maybe I'll have them all in a few years lol!

I guess some of those trap skins are ones that I have promised to send you, but haven't got around to sending yet. It may take me some weeks still to find the spare time for keeping my promise  

Been a hot minute since I've been in here.

I have yet to finish everything in the Bountiful Beanstalk, and thus am thankful that this area does not look like it will take a year to complete. . . I just entered yesterday for the first time, as we had been working on a M1000 map since the end of the Easter event (oy vey that was a headache. . . )

I figured I'd potter around in this area for a minute or two to see what it's like before opening that M1000 solo map and doing that.  

The base and the codices together will definitely help me finish the bountiful beanstalk, primarily because I do not have the golden quill upgrade in the table of contents, and that forgotten boost along with the better base will allow me to get enough mythweavers to get that upgrade, which then in turn doubles the amount of loot I get when using upgrades in the beanstalk.  Regardless, I will definitely finish that area sometime this year.  But I do need several hundred thousand more eggs.  Who knows. . . maybe Ronza will help if she visits sometime soon.  We should be due for a Ronzian visit sometime in the near future.

I'm currently in a very boring holding pattern, which is fine because real life has become SO busy that I just don't have much time to pay attention to my hunting. I'm just hanging out in the Folklore Forest, farming Condensed Creativity. If I get an invite onto one of the maps (and I'm paying close enough attention to accept) I move on over there and participate there for a bit. 🙂 But otherwise I am completely done with the School of Sorcery. Nice, fun, short area. 🙂 

How's Ronza hunting going for everyone?

I'm up to 53 ice grubs and got my Chrome Dragon Slayer trap this morning. 

Painfully slow. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm only up to 28 ice grubs and 79 chrome bits.

I hope you've had a better time the last couple weeks Kat. The good news is that the other mice drop their items far more rapidly to minimize the grind. 😉 

I got my map piece and then saw in the news that I can collect an additional 100 of each type of grub, so I'm doing that now. 🙂 

I finally maxed out everything. I'm working on getting more grubs as well. I keep having more trouble with the first grub than the others.

Today I caught all the rest of the mice in the Draconic Depths. I had a decent first run catching the final dragon mice, though I wouldn't say great. It was good enough to buy both of the dragon tomes though, so there's that. I like the art work here I might add. Except for the poison mice, they're gross. LOL

Well I have finally managed to fall into a rhythm for the Draconic Depths. Took me a while. I realized that if I just burn all of my loot instead of keeping it, and then use almost all of the Dragon Embers to reinforce the next cave I go in, I exponentially increase all of the cheese and things I get. Although it hurt my soul the other day to burn up an Ultimate Charm and some Dragon Eyes that dropped, but oh well. My massive stockpile of Condensed Creativity is used up as well. I'll need to buy more of that before the next big run. 

I've been through the deepest tunnel to catch the Elemental Dragons a couple times now, though I haven't had any Mythical Dragon Hearts drop yet. I've noticed that the longer I stay in the other three tunnels, the better loot drops I get so I'm thinking I may need to go in with more than 30-50 cheese (I run out of embers before I run out of cheese) and then MAYBE I'll get some good loot at the end. I was a little dismayed on my last run to see that the Baitkeeper Charms only have a 50% success rating here. What's up with that?  

Had a good Halloween run collecting potions, though admittedly I'm not using potions where I'm located that often. Maybe I should pay more attention when I'm on the treasure maps to make use of those so I'm not just grinding out high level cheese and charms otherwise. 

Also noticed entirely by accident that there's a new Regal Codex in the King's Cart, so I've been using Regal Charms to farm pages to buy the Codex. Currently at 81/100 pages. Almost there.  

Loving the giant maps event! Happy to have had enough supplies to open a Origin of Dragons map before the end!

The Great Winter Hunt is around the corner!

Sad news - one of the devs passed away this week.  

Franco D'Auria passed on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at the age of 40.

I remember him popping in occasionally in Dave's Feedback Friday - he always was so much fun. And he did a great job with developing MouseHunt since the beginning of the game. 

He will be sorely missed.
R.I.P., Franco.

This years' GWH was interesting for me. I started off badly, which I don't think has happened before. Partly my fault as I accidentally converted a very large amount of animated snow to jingle bells, and partly because I couldn't the correct drops to get into the same rhythm I have in the past where I was constantly churning out snow golems. 
But then I discovered that Glazed Pecan Pecarino cheese was available on the Marketplace and I bought....a lot. (In fact it's so cheap on the Marketplace now that I bought a bunch for next year for a good start next year. Hope they don't discontinue it!) In the end, I think I caught back up to where I'd been previous years. I ought to have recorded my Golem levels in past years. This year I hit 16, 15, 15. 

As far as loot drops go, I obviously focused primarily on the Draconic Depths. In that regard I have enough loot now to HOPEFULLY get the 3-4 Mythical Dragon Hearts I need (I didn't get any from the golems, did any of you?) But I'm planning to be patient. The CNY is only a few weeks away so I'm there now to finish up the map I started back during the special map event where 10 people could join, and then I'm leaving and holding the rest of my loot for that event. 

I also sent a handful of golems to the Queso Canyon area. My loot there had fallen to pitifully low levels which I don't normally have happen. But now I need two more Ribs, so I'll be hunting there until the event. Yay. 

Also on my loot list, I restocked my diamond stash from the Fungal Cavern, got a couple Ful'Mina teeth, and got a handful additional Rare Map Dusts. I think that was it. 🙂 

Looking forward to CNY!

I finally managed to get the base from the school of sorcery. I have two more mice I need to catch in that area and I think I'll be finished. 

Any tips on the beanstalk? I'm still slogging through in there. 

I sent most of my golems to the Draconic depths. I got over 10k in dragon embers and almost 100 pieces of the final cheese. I think I'm set up for that first run, but I decided to hold off until the CNY starts. No golem hearts, but I got 1,000 dragon embers more than once and I still have 900-1000 of each of the grub cheeses. 

Why do we need more ribs? I missed that part 

Posted by: @starkat

I finally managed to get the base from the school of sorcery. I have two more mice I need to catch in that area and I think I'll be finished. 

Any tips on the beanstalk? I'm still slogging through in there. 

I found these two areas to be pretty much identical. Build up enough resources for one really good run! Did you send any Snow Golems there to help collect loot? 

Posted by: @starkat

Why do we need more ribs? I missed that part 

Once you get the Dragon Devastator Multi-cannon trap there's a skin you can buy to go with it. It's called the Crux of Dragon Devastation Transmuting Trap Skin. Description: "By extracting the essence from some of the most powerful dragons in existence, the Trapsmith at the Draconic Depths was able to forge the Kingdom's first Transmuting Trap Skin! This extraordinary creation imbues the Dragon Devastator Multi-cannon with the ability to augment its appearance to match the surrounding environment or the cheese that is used with it. The core components used to create it still contain the vitality of the dragons from which they were extracted so when combined with an appearance that looks extremely well-adapted to its environment, this trap skin is bound to strike fear in the hearts of dragons everywhere."

The skin requires a rib to buy. 

@fantasia thanks for the info on the ribs.

I have quite a bit of loot for both areas. My problem with the beanstalk is getting enough golden eggs to get geese to get the last trap I need. I haven't been able to actively hunt in awhile because the horn widget doesn't work on my phone for some reason. So I get like one hunt and I have to disarm or leave and it may be months before I get back.