Rockforth Cheese

Rockforth Cheese

This electric mellow classic will make any mouse want to gorge themselves on its roque (fort) 'n roll goodness. Since it's crafted with all the hard-core awesomeness of a ten-minute drum solo, the flavor beats of up to eleven different kinds of cheese will strum a power chord on the taste buds of even the most reserved mice.

The Limited Edition cheese which attracts the Rockstar Mouse and other regular mice.

You have to hunt at Ronza's Shoppe. The Rockforth are only dropped by the Gold Mouse, the Diamond Mouse and the Nibbler Mouse. For best harvesting results, use Super Brie - Nibblers drop the most Rockforth. For those on a tight budget, the white cheddar works as decently as the Swiss Cheese and slightly worse than Brie.

Gouda Cheese

The Gouda cheese is the basic cheese that works best on the mice of Tribal Isles.

It was first seen being given out as King's reward a month or so ago..

Gouda arrives in crates that float into the Harbour, seemingly from areas off the eastern coast of Gnawnia. It has a very good chance to attract a variety of mice, and its sharp flavour is a special favourite of the mice who inhabit the islands from where it is assumed to originate.

The Gouda is especially useful for harvesting the seashells, savoury vegetables and delicious stones from the tribal mice locations on the Isles.

Gouda can now be bought at the Cheese Shoppe at Cape Clawed.

Radioactive Blue Cheese

The Radioactive Blue Cheese is a specialised taste for the Shadow Mice and Forgotten Mice. Super Brie holds little or no interest for these mice families, so it's worthwhile farming a stash of RB. The Monster mouse, one of the Physical mice, also has a weakness for these. Must be a close cousin effect with the Lycan (ala frankenstein and werewolf). Just my theory.. How to get RB?

1. Imbued from Radioactive Blue Potions, from Brie or Super Brie [best way]
2. Some Mice also drop these (e.g. the Forgotten mice and a few others) [prolongs the game just a little]

Radioactive Blue can turn stale when left uneaten on traps for too long. Degrades to Radioactive Sludge.

SUPER|brie+ Cheese

SUPER Brie+ (SB+ for short) is the creme ala creme of the normal kind of cheese available in the mousehunt game. It used to yield a 99% attraction rate and never go stale. Now it's been tweaked to only have it's best effect on Physical-Type Mice and more often goes stale. This now gives even more possibilities for the game world to be expanded further. How to get SUPER Brie?

1. Make a Donation to the MouseHunt Application [most direct]
2. Complete a Offerpal signup from MH App [sometimes fails]
3. Join one of the many contests on the MH Forum [most fun]
4. Get a Mentor (Join AN/AM or another support group) [great for beginners]
5. Catch a Prize Mouse (seasonal) [and join in the griping/boasting on the forums]
6. Some Non-Prize Mice may also drop some (e.g. Black Widow, Burglar, Monster ) [don't hold your breath for them]
7. Use the Search Bar on the MouseHunt Toolbar (note: not the MHG Toolbar) [new, currently max 3 per day]

The SUPER Brie Cheese can be hammered down into the Magic Essence. It can also turn into Stale SB+ when left uneaten too long on traps.

Cheese Recipe - Ancient Cheese

ANCIENT CHEESE: Recipe #1 : This recipe makes 3 pieces of Ancient Cheese 3 x Stale Cheese 6 x Ionized Salt Total cost per piece: Varied dependent on what your cheese you used to make stale cheese, but at a minimum 910pp - wow expensive stuff! Cheese effect: These tender morsels spark with electric energy that bind together dust-like particles of stale cheese. Ancient cheese expels a strong stale scent and is extremely volatile. Recipe #2: This recipe makes 6 pieces of Ancient Cheese 3 x Magic Essence 3 x Stale Cheese 6 x Ionized Salt

Corrupted Radioactive Blue Potion

I'm thinking that the only benefit of this is that one can convert Radioactive Blue without leaving the Catacombs.

Legendary:
309/pc One potion converts 30 Super Brie to 30 Radioactive Blue.
613/pc One potion converts 10 Brie to 10 Radioactive Blue.

Hero:
309/pc One potion converts 33 Super Brie to 33 Radioactive Blue.
613/pc One potion converts 11 Brie to 11 Radioactive Blue.

Knight:
309/pc One potion converts 36 Super Brie to 36 Radioactive Blue.
613/pc One potion converts 12 Brie to 12 Radioactive Blue.

Lord/Lady:
309/pc One potion converts 39 Super Brie to 39 Radioactive Blue.
613/pc One potion converts 13 Brie to 13 Radioactive Blue.

Baron/Baroness:
309/pc One potion converts 42 Super Brie to 42 Radioactive Blue.
613/pc One potion converts 14 Brie to 14 Radioactive Blue.

Radioactive Blue Cheese Curd Potion (MH2)

(Latest potion conversions, thanks to my readers)
Master:
0/pc One potion converts 30 Super Brie to 30 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 10 Brie to 10 Radioactive Blue.

Grandmaster:
0/pc One potion converts 35 Super Brie to 35 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 12 Brie to 12 Radioactive Blue.

Legendary:
0/pc One potion converts 40 Super Brie to 40 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 14 Brie to 14 Radioactive Blue.

Hero:
0/pc One potion converts 45 Super Brie to 45 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 15 Brie to 15 Radioactive Blue.

Knight:
0/pc One potion converts 50 Super Brie to 50 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 17 Brie to 17 Radioactive Blue.

Lord/Lady:
0/pc One potion converts 54 Super Brie to 54 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 18 Brie to 18 Radioactive Blue.

Baron/Baroness:
0/pc One potion converts 59 Super Brie to 59 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 20 Brie to 20 Radioactive Blue.

Greater Radioactive Blue Cheese Curd Potion (MH2)

[Brie to RB conversions have been bumped up, Feb 2009]
Master:
0/pc One potion converts 40 Super Brie to 40 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 30 Brie to 30 Radioactive Blue.

Grandmaster:
0/pc One potion converts 48 Super Brie to 48 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 36 Brie to 36 Radioactive Blue.

Legendary:
0/pc One potion converts 56 Super Brie to 56 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 42 Brie to 42 Radioactive Blue.

Hero:
0/pc One potion converts 64 Super Brie to 64 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 48 Brie to 48 Radioactive Blue.

Knight:
0/pc One potion converts 72 Super Brie to 72 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 54 Brie to 54 Radioactive Blue.

Lord/Lady:
0/pc One potion converts 80 Super Brie to 80 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 60 Brie to 60 Radioactive Blue.

Baron/Baroness:
0/pc One potion converts 88 Super Brie to 88 Radioactive Blue.
300/pc One potion converts 66 Brie to 66 Radioactive Blue.

Jester's Cheese Sweet Spot Strategy

I think I've found the sweet spot for the number of cheese of each type I should be bringing into the tough-mice areas. Tough mice areas are where mice can steal your cheese/gold/score when they raid your trap. These are areas accessible to hunters above the Novice class. Sweet spot for cheese? This means the amount of cheese that you as the hunter carries into that area and experience the minimal frequency of cheese theft in your hunt duration there. Note I said cheese theft. You will still experience score-theft, but the King's rewards frequently puts this back. You will still experience gold-theft, but lesser when you go in broke. Broke? Read my Cheese-Bank Tag. Your gold-theft usually increases as you gain success catching mice as your pot increases. If you go into the area (e.g. mountain) broke, your first 20-40k of gold is almost untouched. It starts getting bad closer to 60k, but by then, you would be close to returning to the town to reload your cheese. Back to the sweet spot. I've arrived to these numbers by trying out 50/80/100/150 pieces of cheese for each type and the number so far works for me (note the caveats) at the harbour, the mountain and the Lab. I'm still new to the Mousoleum, but I suspect that the numbers are about the same. Without being too mathematical, I've factored in the stolen rate of the cheese and the gold, and the travel fare for the area. I've found that these cheese sweet spot numbers hold well for me. Brie : 90 Swiss : 80 Marble : 80 Cheddar : used as bank I've not reached the point where I own a Drillbot yet, but I suspect that having a stronger mousetrap in a relatively weaker area (like harbour) will benefit your cheese-theft ratio.

Greater Brie Alchemy Potion

Nowadays not a very common drop. Costs have also changed since the early days - Now every conversion is free. That is, 0/pc.

The Greater Brie Alchemy Potion has the following conversions.

115/pc One potion converts 16 Swiss to 16 Brie.
120/pc One potion converts 12 Marble to 12 Brie.
125/pc One potion converts 8 Cheddar to 8 Brie.

Dropped by a Vampire Mouse at the Mousoleum.
Dropped by Abominable Snow mice and Elf mice during Christmas.

Cheese Shoppe at Digby

In case you missed this, Cheddar costs 20g in Digby compared to 10g in the Town of Gnawnia. Refund value is still at 10g. Maybe this was a hint - some mousehunters have reported interesting catches with Cheddar in these areas. (have read posts about moles and widows)

Brie Alchemy Potion

There is another type of potion dropped in the Lab besides the Radioactive one. This is the Brie Alchemy Potion.

The Brie Alchemy gives one of the following upgrades to your cheese:

• 150/pc. One potion converts 10 cheddar into 10 brie
  
• 100/pc. One potion converts 15 marble into 15 brie
• 50/pc. One potion converts 20 Swiss into 20 brie

Explosive Base vs Swiss Army Trap

A very good question posed by a Mouse Hunt Apprentice about purchasing the Explosive Base before the Swiss Army Trap. Should you buy the Exp base first, since it becomes affordable before the Swiss Army? There has been some discussion in the boards, but typically not very conclusive. I assume that at this point, you are already using a Trebuchet/Target (or stone) and have been hunting at the harbour with mixed results.. Here's where my unscientific observation comes in.. If you are active in group hunts and luck is on your side, you could be generating between to 8-10k gold profit at the harbour daily. That's profit after replenishing your used cheese and travel fare to the harbour. If this is how your game is turning out, wait out for the Swiss Army. You are only about a week away from owning this. Use the Swiss/target trap combi thereafter. Marble should be sufficient, with the occasional swap to Swiss cheese. If you are not that active (some of us have offline lives) or your luck needs a wash (lots of red logs in your game) then you might consider getting the Explosive base first. But you must use the Trebuchet to offset the Cheese Effect. Again Marble is sufficient, but you may find yourself swapping up to Swiss Cheese more often as you tend to have more going stale. If luck is totally against you, and you need to sit in the Town/Meadow to recoup some gold, remember to switch back to the Target or Stone base - or else you will have a very high stale rate.

Cheese to Use in the Mousoleum

Radioactive brie is the most effective cheese for luring mice in the Mousoleum. To make radioactive brie, you need to get dropped potions from the mice in the Lab. Conversion: One potion converts 30 Super Brie to 30 Radioactive Blue, no cost One potion converts 5 Brie to 5 Radioactive Blue, but costs 300 gold per piece of cheese, so for one potion, 1500g [thanks Joanna] Normal Brie can be used but with poorer results.

Cheese Bank

Jester Nim wrote on Jul 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM

Just crossed over the apprentice bar yesterday and hurried over to the Harbour armed with a treb/stone with lotsa cheese of every type. Boy, was I pillaged by fierce mice.. 30 swiss were stolen (excl eaten and stale) within my first 3 hours!

Tip Title : Banking Facility for your Gold One of the tough things ex-novices learn at the harbour is that mice can steal anything from you. But not everything! Yes, they can steal your score and your gold and your cheese. But NOT ALL your cheese. Only the cheese type that you have baited. That means if you have baited marble cheese and a burglar/pirate mouse comes happily along, it can only take the extra cheese from this type. The other cheese types are untouched. How does this help you? When you are stocking up cheese in Gnawnia, you're probably going to buy a sizeable quantity of every type because the bus fare to the harbour is 1000 gold. I won't comment yet on the quantity to buy because I'm still testing some numbers. However, you're probably going to realize that cheddar is pretty useless as bait for the harbour. You will therefore USE CHEDDAR as your ZERO-TAX BANKING FACILITY. Yes folks, buy what you need of all other types of cheese to enable hunting action. The remaining of your gold pieces, buy cheddar. Leave only enough for your bus fare (1000 gold). You are now READY to go to the harbour. If the mice really do clean you out of cheese and earned gold, you can still return to town free and refund your bank of cheddar. NEVER BAIT YOUR BANK (cheddar) ! Cheers,

Cheese Effect Explained

Miriam MacLaren (St. Catharines / Niagara, ON) wrote on Jun 28, 2008 at 12:20 PM Please? Jadey Allen Hansen replied to Miriam's post on Jun 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM Very Positive = Cheese will not go stale very often, and you will not have to replace it with a new piece hence saving you money on cheese. Very Negative = Cheese will go stale more often and you will have to replace it with a new piece, hence costing you valuable gold. Townsend Duong (Stanford) replied to Miriam's post on Jun 28, 2008 at 5:31 PM Cheese can only go stale if you fail to attract a mouse. So you have 2 ways to deal with negative cheese effect: 1 - balance with positive cheese effect from the weapon or base 2 - increase your attraction accuracy with better cheese or trap accuracy bonus

Walkthroughs #5

Garry John Riechert (Australia) wrote on Jun 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM Advice to newbies (any one with less than the Swiss army trap and hunting in the meadows or town). There seems to be a little confusion how the hunt happens. Heres the walk through. Lets keep things in Gnawnia.(Meadow,Town,Harbour,Mountains) action1/ You set your trap, baited with cheese. *pants heavily* action2/ Depending on the type of cheese you will attract or not attract a mouse.(this is dependent on your cheese, your accuracy value and now possibly your location) -If you fail to attract then there is a chance your cheese will go stale, is independent of everything except your trap which has an effect on your cheese.(If it goes stale you lose the cost of your cheese.) *bugger I'm going to get that cheese shoppe charlatan* -If you attract a mouse you move to the next action. action3/ Forget the cheese its gone. Your mouse has taken the bait, be it 10goldCheddar or 450goldSbrie. This is the cost of catching a mouse. - Your luck is tested, if you are lucky, you catch the mouse no questions asked.*OMG I caught a Zombie with Glue and Target base* -If you are not lucky, the power of your trap is compared with the power of the mouse with a random roll to mix things up. If you prove stronger you catch your mouse.*smug look of satisfaction* If you prove weaker you miss your mouse who is now dining on a 10goldCheddar or 450goldSbrie.*lips smacking* If you prove weaker in the Harbour or the Mountains by too great a margin, the mouse waits for the hunter and steals more cheese or gold or says 'boo' and takes away some courage(points). *I can't take it no more I'm going to the meadow for rehab!* 200gold and Sbrie at over150gold is a waste of gold if you fall under these criteria. You have a low powered trap (Anything under Swiss) or if you hunt in the Meadow or Town. ::::::::::: :::::::::::: It is because the majority of the mice you do catch won't cover the cost of the cheese you used. :::::::::::::::::::::: You'll do better using Swiss and Marble, you won't attract as many mice but you'll collect gold quicker which means you can upgrade to the next trap quicker and thats how you can steam ahead. Once you get the Swiss army trap and/or are in the Mountains or Harbour more factors get involved so you might have a new opinion. Do not confuse cheese attraction with the chance of catching a mouse. The more you hunt the more chance you have of getting ahead. Although there is some correlation between what cheese you use and what types of mice the cheese attracts.

Walkthroughs #4

Townsend Duong (Stanford) wrote on Jun 26, 2008 at 11:52 PM Some new concepts that have come out since this walk-through was originally written. Restrictions on travel: Due to the dangers of mice in certain areas beyond the city walls, the King has decided to restrict travel in such a way that hunters must reach certain experience level requirements to go to some locations. Currently, all hunters may travel to the Meadow or the Town of Gnawnia without restriction. Only hunters who have reached at least the status of Apprentice may travel to the Harbour. Hunters must be at least Journeyman rank to travel to the Mountain. Only hunters with the title of Master or above may travel to the Burroughs Laboratory. The requirements are listed on the map screen with the color-coded shield. Maps, Burroughs Region, Laboratory Location: The game has introduced the possibility of finding map pieces as dropped loot from caught mice. These map pieces may reveal new locations in the MouseHunt world, and they might be relatively rare. It is possible to obtain more than one of the same map piece. Although there is currently no use for the extra pieces, it is believed that hunters will soon be able to transfer these maps to other hunters, opening up the possibility of selling extra map pieces. Currently, the only known new map piece is the map to the Burroughs Laboratory. The Burroughs is a new "region" in MouseHunt, and the Laboratory is for now the only "location" where hunters can travel and hunt within the Burroughs. The Burroughs region and the Laboratory location will not appear on your map until you find the map piece. To obtain the Burroughs Laboratory map piece, hunters must reach Journeyman rank, travel to the Mountain, catch a Ninja mouse in the Mountain, and receive the map piece from the Ninja mouse. Not all Ninja mice in the Mountain drop the map piece, and only Ninja mice in the Mountain will drop the map piece. Potions: The game has introduced the possibility to use potions to modify your cheese. This is described in the How To Play manual. Potions might be found from mice as loot. They will appear on the Inventory screen under the Potions tab, and the description and instructions will be shown there. To use a potion, select the option in your Inventory screen and confirm the action. Currently, there are 2 known potions, and they are both found in the Burroughs Laboratory and are received by catching mice who might drop the potions as loot. The Brie alchemy potion converts Cheddar, Marble, or Swiss cheese into Brie cheese. The Radioactive blue cheese curd potion converts Brie cheese or SUPER|brie+ into Radioactive blue cheese. The costs and quantities depend on the cheese used for the conversion. Lab Research: Some mice will drop Lab Research as loot when you catch them. The Lab Research is worth points, which are added to your score. There is currently no other known use for the Lab Research.

Cheese Advice #1

Semira Jenkins (Bristol) wrote on Jun 16, 2008 at 2:43 PM whats the best cheese to stock up on other then sb?Reply to Semira Townsend Duong (Stanford) replied to Semira's post on Jun 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM Use the cheapest cheese that will give you an acceptable attraction rate but is also appropriate for your trap power. It is a waste of gold to use expensive Brie if Swiss attracts mice frequently enough for you, but also if your trap is too weak to catch most of the mice that you attract. I would recommend using Marble and Cheddar until you get 500-lb Crusher or Mary O'Nette, then use primarily Marble. Once you get Treb or Rocketine, switch to a mix of Swiss and Marble. When you have the Swiss Army trap, switch to all Swiss cheese. It is probably not worth using Brie until you are in the Mountain. SB+ has some strategic benefits besides the attraction rate, but it's probably not worth using it as bait until you have the Deathbot or at least the Swiss Army trap in the Mountain. Really you can get excellent attraction rates with Swiss cheese, and this saves a lot of gold, especially in places where mice steal cheese from you. Also keep in mind that your accuracy improves attraction rate as well. If you are using the Target base, you might not need to use a higher quality cheese. Good hunting! Townsend Duong (Stanford) replied to Townsend's post on Jun 16, 2008 at 3:05 PM Until you buy your Deathbot, you should be balancing the need for better cheese with the need to save gold for the long term goal. If you find yourself with lots of extra gold, it can be tempting to spend your extra gold on better cheese, but it will help more to save that gold for your next upgrade. All other things being equal, better cheese tends to improve your average points per hunt, but it also tends to decrease your average gold profit per hunt. Until you get the Deathbot, gold should be the priority of the two. You should still be earning enough points as you go along through catches, horn blows, and King's rewards to meet requirements for upgrading traps.

Apprentice at the Harbour

Townsend Duong (Stanford) replied to Bok's post on Jun 16, 2008 at 1:10 AM Bok, First of all, thanks for remembering me! I see you are hunting in the Meadow with your Mary/Stone setup. The problem with the Meadow is that it is supposed to be full of mostly White/Grey/Brown mice. Since Demi and I never spent much time in the Meadow, we're not first-hand experts on it. Until you reach Apprentice level, you will only be allowed to travel to Town and the Meadow. When you get to Apprentice level, the game will allow you to go to the Harbour. The Mary O'Nette is probably too weak to do well in the Harbour now. You should probably stay in Town until you can buy the Trebuchet or Rocketine. There is a good variety of mice in Town, and you will probably catch a better mix. Since the Harbour has become so risky, many hunters are now choosing to hunt in Town until they get their Swiss Army trap. If you are going to be in Town, you should be able to use a mix of Marble and Swiss cheese. In the Meadow, you should probably use Marble only because the mice are so low value as you realized. However, as I am writing this, I am running a giveaway contest for hunters in the Meadow of all levels (but mostly Novice hunters will take part). It's another opportunity for you to earn some extra gold if you want to stay in the Meadow and hunt White mice. Good hunting!