DiGs,

ETA: I'm now at 153 Dewthief Petals. Yesterday was a bit slower farming them because I decided to buy a round of Sponge Charms and do the "minigame" for the Living Garden. It hasn't been overwhelmingly great, but the three Thirsty Mice I've caught have made up for the Aleth Essences spent on the charms.

Somehow all the information about the Living Gardens (and I read all the spoilers ) has made me relax and calm down and not mind at all that I'm not there yet.

At my level there's still so much else to explore. As the MHWiki Commonly Asked Questions page says, "Do you consider MouseHunt a race to be won - or a place to explore?"

I raced to become a Master, because a Master is able to give back proper gifts to all his generous friends. And when I became a Master, we had just started the Halloween Event, and there were Treasure Hunts to race through, and tournaments to race through, and hardly any time at all to explore the tasks of a Master. I'm now Legendary (3 %), and I still haven't finished those tasks.

So I'm back at the Great Gnarled Tree - I quite like it, and the Mice of the Forest Guild. Perhaps I can catch enough Goldleaf mice to earn me a Bronze Crown - or yet another Curious Chemist?

When I've done all that - and perhaps gone back to Gnawnia to catch some of the mice that I missed there on the first run-through - then I can go back to Furoma and the Training Grounds, where I raced round to get what I needed to catch a Black Widow during a Treasure Hunt. Waiting for the right loot to drop will take time, and so will farming the gold that I'll need - but I find that this game is made to have you succeed, if you're not too impatient.

And in the middle of all that there will be a new event, and more racing again ...

... or a place to explore?"

This has been my experience with the game. Explains some of willingness to stay put in one area for a long time like the King's Gauntlet. Nice to go back to some areas and not get beaten to death by the moose due to having stronger traps.

I guess in a way mouse hunt is a place to explore but has like competitiveness in exploring, like me and my real life friends who play mh we race to see who can finish an area first, however exploring back to previous places is still fun, although the most explored places for me r probably furoma where u farm in lots of gold
Ummm...i figured u get more of that petal from the shadow place then from the water place, I'm getting a lot more of it there at least, which ones do we need for the changing place cheese? I realy don't know

I suppose some of the great success of MouseHunt comes from the fact that it's providing both - basically it might be about patience and exploring, but it also gives great opportunities for competition, if that is what a hunter wants.

The tournaments are definitely competitions - and you can make your own competition with your friends, as you say - and you can just try to climb on the points scoreboards (I'm now 185 643rd on the list ).

My long-term ambition is to catch every mouse at least once, and to get Silver Crowns for the pretty ones (my favorite catch so far has been the Goldleaf, and I hope at least to get a Bronze Crown for it). There will be lots to explore.

I just caught the Magic mouse, after having hunted for it for a while, and I'm now hunting for the Abominable Snow Mouse. When I can craft some more Limelight cheese, I'll go for more of the Digby Dirt Dwellers - another Mouse Group that I really like.

Then eventually I'll go to Furoma - and if it's good for farming gold, I should be able to buy stronger traps!

I guess I could even go to the King's Gauntlet - the first tiers are open to my rank ...

Then eventually I'll go to Furoma - and if it's good for farming gold, I should be able to buy stronger traps!

The Mousoleum and Catacombs are MUCH better. . . you might look into those before too long.