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Drillbot Mouse Trap

Finally saved up for my own Drillbot.

Seen here with a Stone base and Brie as bait.
[forward time]
Gosh.. Can't believe that this original entry was made in 2008.

Anyway, a much overdue update :

Digby DrillBot  ( 3200 power )
Power Type: Physical
Power Bonus: 18%
Attraction Bonus: n/a
Luck: 5
Cheese Effect: No Effect

The scientists of Digby used their knowledge of tunnel digging technology to create the ultimate mouse adversary. Using its two massive high-speed drills this titan can easily destroy any mouse put in its path.

If you joined us in time for Christmas 2009, you'd probably have bought the Chrome Drillbot version of this from Ronza.

mhabbr : db

Master Burglar Mouse

Amy White has the honor of catching the First Master Burglar Mouse in the Town of Gnawnia. She was handsomely rewarded with $1000 (real ones, folks)

My Worst Day At Mousehunt Ever

I'm past the venting, but I thought that I should share the numbers of my worst day hunting at the Mousoleum. The idea is to encourage fellow hunters if you ever get a down day. It does happen, so perk up! First posted on the Tavern Discussion Board (minus the venting)..

Fri. Sep. 5, 2008 1:30am: A log of mice I've caught in the last 2 days 3 hours: 4 Zombie mice, 2 Ghost mice, 4 Mummy mice, 2 Vampire mice, and 4 Bat mice. Total points: 55,646 Total gold: 50,798 Hunted with Sinister Portal/target+stone+exp base/brie + radioactive brie.. Been switching stuff hoping to improve the numbers, but nah - just didn't seem to work. Lots of eaten cheese, stolen cheese, and plain ignored.

Mikko Sarmanne (Finland) wrote on Sep 4, 2008 at 1:24 PM

There is absolutely no point in using the target base in mousoleum. I was there for 4.5 days and used sinister/exp the whole time. The attraction rate was about 95%, so there is no need to try to improve it with the target base.. It's best to just keep the trap power at max, because the portals don't have any luck. The power is the only thing that will catch mice if you're using a portal. Here are some statistics that I collected about the earnings.. - 331 RB used - 114 red boxes (34.44%) - 387477 points of which 113689 (29.34%) was stolen - 370853 gold of which 51172 (13.80%) was stolen - average amounts stolen: 2145 points and 839 gold So I made 273788 points and 319681 gold with 331 pieces of RB, which is about 880 points and 965 gold per piece. Despite the massive stealing the earnings are way better than anywhere..

I've calculated that to be about 106,560 gold over 1.5 days in the normal report duration. That's actually still a little bit on the low side. Most others report a normal 1.5 day to gain closer to 120,000 gold, on a Forcefield/explosive base/RB trap. Happy hunting!

Greater Radioactive Blue Cheese Curd Potion

Latest Potion found so far! (note this is a post rewrite) The potions now react to your Hunter level. Higher levels, better results. Greater Radioactive Blue Cheese Curd Potion ( 1 potion ) Master: 0/pc One potion converts 40 Super Brie to 40 Radioactive Blue. 350/pc One potion converts 15 Brie to 15 Radioactive Blue. Grandmaster: 0/pc One potion converts 48 Super Brie to 48 Radioactive Blue. 350/pc One potion converts 18 Brie to 18 Radioactive Blue. Legendary: 0/pc One potion converts 56 Super Brie to 56 Radioactive Blue. 350/pc One potion converts 21 Brie to 21 Radioactive Blue. At the Mousoleum, the Vampire Mouse may drop these. Lately, I've seen other mice also having the possibility to drop this potion too.. that's Mutated White, Steel, Bionic etc.. In the Lab, the Zombie Mouse have them in their teeth. Have not yet experienced other mice that drop this potion yet.

Polled: Where did you catch your Black Widow?

Only 15 hunters responded. Maybe it's too rare, or the traffic to this poll is not yet there. I may re-run this poll again in the near future.. Meanwhile.. Town of Gnawnia : 0 (0%) Harbour : 6 (40%) Mountain : 6 (40%) Lab : 0 (0%) Mousoleum : 2 (13%) Digby : 1 (6%)

Polled: Did you buy the Trebuchet or the Rocketine first?

Thanks to the 125 hunters that answered the poll, we have the following numbers.. Trebuchet : 106 (84%) Rocketine : 11 (8%) Skipped both, waited for the Swiss Army : 3 (2%) Adopted, bought both : 5 (4%)

Introduction and Overview to Mousehunt

[Jester: Best Introduction and Overview of the whole Mouse Hunt ever!.. Thanks to Tess Ofner!] Hello Mousehunters :o) For anyone wanting to figure out how this game works, I've written a basic summary of where you can travel, what you need to be able to travel, what mice drop what maps etc. Object of the game: buy cheese, bait traps (updated as you get more mice and gold), catch mice, make gold, travel to new areas as your experience level goes up, make friends and have fun! Oh, there are also a stack of groups you can join that give useful info and help out new players. Such as the NVMRC (non violent mousehunt removal charity), Mouse Hunters Guild, Adopt a Novice/Apprentice, The Sacred Order of the Mouseman, (NDBL) MouseHunt Newbie and Begging Deterrent League, Mouse Hunt Guide Group and many others, sorry guys I know there are others but can't think of all of them. Ok, so I've trawled the boards, got advice from others and played the game and put together this guide which will hopefully help out some new players. It is not a complete guide meaning there is a lot of other information out there that may be useful to you, I just tried to summarise the most of it to make it a little easier to navigate your way through. Hope its helpful :o). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You start off NOVICE and can only hunt in Gnawnia town and the meadow. It costs 50 gold to travel to the meadow but does not cost anything to travel to Gnawnia town. In Town you can access the Cheeseshoppe and the Trapsmith where you can stock up on all types of cheese (other than Radioactive Blue cheese), and upgrade your traps (traps require a certain point value so as your experience level goes up, you are able to buy better traps – click on Trapsmith to see how much each trap costs and to see what points are required for each). If traveling to other areas (i.e. Meadow, Harbour, Mountains, Lab or Mousoleum) you need to stock up on cheese as you cannot purchase cheese or traps there. In Town, you can also access the Marketplace where you can buy and sell maps and SB+. You may catch more than one map piece or key (which you can sell here), but you must have at least 2 of an item to sell it (i.e. you cannot sell a map piece if you only have one – you need it for yourself to access that area). Note: Beware of purchasing keys/maps that you will not be able to use until you reach a certain level. You then move up to APPRENTICE (hold the cursor over your status bar and it'll tell you what percentage you're at) and can hunt in the Harbour. It cost 1000 gold to travel to the Harbour. There you can catch more pirate, burglar and zombie mice (although you can also get them in Town). You can also catch Black Widow mice here that drop SuperBrie+ (SB+) and Radioactive Brie (RB). But… mice will also steal gold, cheese and points from you if you don't catch them. Then you move up to JOURNEYMAN and can hunt in the Mountains. It costs 4500 to travel to the mountains. There you need to catch the Ninja mouse that will drop a lab map piece (bear in mind that not every ninja has a map – this is the same for any loot dropping mice). You also have a better chance of catching Black Widow mice here though - I think. Once you've made MASTER, you will be allowed to travel to the Burroughs region where you can hunt in the lab, picking up radioactive blue cheese potions from various mice which turns 30 SB+ (no cost) or 5 regular Brie (at a cost of 300 p/p) into Radioactive Blue Cheese (you need this to hunt in the Mousoleum). It costs 19500 to travel to the lab. You will also need to get a key to Digby which will be dropped by a Dwarf mouse and a tattered cloth map to the Mousoleum which will be dropped by a Zombie mouse. In the lab, you won't get white, brown or grey mice, but you will catch both mutated white and mutated grey mice (worth 500 gold each – or there about). Mice here also drop lab research worth either 500, 750 or 1000 points. After a while you will make MASTER, you will then be allowed into Digby (assuming you've got a key). It does not cost anything to travel to Digby from any location. Once there, you can purchase a portal trap (at this stage either Ambrosial or Sinister) from the Digby Trapsmith (the portal traps, Forcefield trap and Drillbot are only available for purchase from the Digby Trapsmith) that will allow you to catch various ghostly mice in the Mousoleum - you may catch other mice the Mousoleum (bat mice, zombies etc), but not ghostly mice unless you have a portal trap. Some mice in Digby also drop Radioactive Blue cheese. Here you can catch various mice (but not ghostly mice or mutated mice) as well as Mole mice (Mole mice seem to be most active in the Meadow and both Towns). In Digby, you can access the Marketplace where you can buy and sell maps and SB+. You can also access the Digby Cheeseshoppe and Trapsmith. In the Cheeseshoppe you can only purchase cheddar for 20 gold p/p and refund for 10 gold p/p. In the Trapsmith you can buy portal traps (which you’ll need for the Mousoleum), the Drillbot and Deathbot (slightly cheaper than in Gnawnia shop) and the Forcefield trap as well as the stone base (more expensive than in Gnawnia). If you have picked up the tattered cloth and have a stock of Radioactive Blue cheese, you can now travel to the Mousoleum where you can catch ghostly mice that drop Brie Alchemy potions which turns Swiss cheese into Brie – at a cost, and Greater Brie Alchemy potions (dropped by the Vampire in the Mousoleum) which turn swiss (115pp to 16 pieces), marble (120pp to 12 pieces) & cheddar (125pp to 8 pieces) cheeses into Brie. It costs 5500 gold to travel to the Mousoleum. You can only bait your trap with Radioactive Blue cheese here (if you want to catch any mice that is lol). So you need to collect as many potions as you can from the lab and have lots of SB+ or regular Brie to convert before you travel here. These ghostly mice are worth a ton in points and cheese. They include the Vampire mice, Mummy mice, Ghost mice and the Ravenous Zombie mice. Be warned: the mice here are VERY hungry – you’ll get more red boxes than catches, but it seems to be worth it given the huge point and gold value of the mice you do catch. Stick it out and you’ll come out on top! At some stage you will make GRANDMASTER and then LEGENDARY and after that HERO (who knows what comes next – no ones made it that far yet lol) With the new update, it seems that at some stage you will also be able get a new potion which allows you to hunt every 5 minutes (not sure which mice will drop this or where, but I'd think that Mousoleum mice will drop this). Also there looks to be a new area for Grandmasters, perhaps with Mousoleum mice dropping a new map piece? SHORT SUMMARY: Start in Town and Meadow. Move to Harbour. Move to Mountains – catch Ninja with Lab map. Move to Lab – catch Dwarf with Digby key, Zombie with Tattered Cloth map and collect Radioactive blue cheese potions. Move to Digby – buy a portal trap. Move to Mousoleum and catch bigger and better mice!

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.

DeathBot (Chrome Edition) Limited

Ronza's Traveling Shoppe is currently moored at the Town of Gnawnia and has the following in stock for a limited time only.

DeathBot (Chrome Edition) ( 2800 power )
Cost: 512,800 gold
Power Type: Physical
Power Bonus: 20%
Accuracy Bonus: 15%
Luck: 30
Cheese Effect: Very Negative
This limited edition version of the classic DeathBot features shiny chrome-plated panels, with a lot o' bling. The motors have been tweaked a little to bring more power to the chain gun and saw blade, the laser power has been increased by 5 kilowatts, and the missile guidance system has been improved using the newest in mouse-seeking technology.

mhabbr : cdb, chromebot