The Great Winter Hunt has begun!
The Frost King Returns!
The arrival of winter has brought the return of cold weather and heavy snow to the Great Winter Taiga creating the perfect conditions for the Frost King to rebuild his massive Ice Fortress!
From the safety of his Ice Fortress in the north, the Frost King is projecting an icy spell that is creeping south even faster than his Frost Globe assault from last year. Hunters must storm the Ice Fortress and capture the Frost King to put a stop to his relentless quest to freeze all of Gnawnia forever!
Let the Great Winter Hunt Begin!
Following its usual celestial schedule, the Festive Comet has crashed into Gnawnia! With hunters needed again at the Great Winter Taiga, the King's fleet is busy shipping the comet's snow to the taiga to help thwart the Frost King. Supply ships are ferrying mounds of unprocessed snow from the Harbour to the Golem Workshop in order to utilize Winter Hunt Snow Golems to aid the battle against the Ice Fortress.
At the Golem Workshop, a trio of droids are standing ready to operate deep-freeze forges to produce golem parts. All the droids need is Compressed Cinnamon as a source of power. Collect Compressed Cinnamon from the nearby Cinnamon Hill to power the forges so that the droids can manufacture more golem parts! Then, send your golems out on expeditions to collect extremely dense and powerful Hailstones which will make the perfect ammunition to blast through the Frost King's Ice Shield.
Golem Exploration
Use Pecan Pecorino or Glazed Pecan Pecorino anywhere in the Great Winter Taiga to collect Golem Parts as loot drops. Additionally, once you have a stash of Compressed Cinnamon you can power the forges at the Golem Workshop to produce additional heads, torsos, and limbs. Once you have a head, a torso, and four limbs you can construct a golem and send it out on a loot collection expedition!
After 25 hunts your golems will return with a variety of loot from the location you sent them to. Additionally, no matter where you send a golem, it will return with Reinforced Ice Shards which can be used to upgrade its loot collecting capabilities. All golems also return with Hailstones which you can utilize to smash the shield at the Ice Fortress. The most renowned ballistics experts from Fort Rox have reinstalled three powerful cannons that are capable of firing Hailstones at the Ice Shield. Enable one, two, or all three cannons and fire away until the Ice Shield shatters!
Uncork Festive Spirit
When all the warm and fuzzy feelings from the holiday season are condensed and coalesced by a crisp north wind it produces this truly miraculous vapour that is believed to be the physical manifestation of joy itself.
You can obtain Festive Spirit by hunting with standard cheese, completing Naughty Maps, opening doors on your Advent Calendar, and by purchasing it from the Premium Shop.
Festive Spirit will double the following items dropped by mice in the Great Winter Taiga:
Festive Spirit will not double the following items dropped by mice:
Golem Parts
Magical Holiday Hat
Magical Holiday Scarf
Festive Spirit itself
Naughty List Printing Press Base
In addition to the hoards of treasure you can earn from golems, the King has organized a brand new reward track to encourage hunters to send out golems and fight back against the Frost King. One of the rewards is a brand new limited edition base!
New Naughty List Printing Press Base
Limited Edition
Print the names of mice onto the Naughty List to gain a massive stat bonus!
While hunting in any Folklore Forest location, this base will consume one Prolific Printing Paper per hunt to increase its stats.
Boosted Stats:
- Power: 4,500
- Power Bonus: 35%
- Attraction Bonus: 35%
- Luck: 57
Claimed from the Reward Track
Some Prolific Printing Paper will come with the base when you claim it from the reward track. You can purchase more from any General Store in the Folklore Forest Region.
Trap Skins
New trap skins are available for purchase in the Premium Shop! Last year's newly introduced Trap Skins can now be purchased from the Trapsmith for Advent Chocolates.
New Legendary Snowy KingBot Trap Skin
For use with the Legendary KingBot!
New Infinite Holiday Magic Windows Trap Skin
For use with the Infinite Dark Magic Mirrors Trap!
New Chrome School of Aquatic Ornaments Trap Skin
For use with the Chrome School of Sharks Trap!
New Hibernating Snow Boulder Trap Skin
For use with the Slumbering Boulder Trap!
New Chrome Ice Angel of Freezing Trap Skin
For use with the Chrome Circlet of Pursuing Trap!
Animated Snow Storm Forecast
The sudden arrival of cold weather at the Great Winter Taiga isn't without side effects in other regions. The King's Meteorologists are well-studied in the phenomenon that occurs when the cool air from the North meets the warm, moist air from the Tribal Isles to create an Animated Snow Storm!
Though the storms will be slightly less severe, this year's forecast is calling for TWO Animated Snow Storms this season! The first storm will arrive on December 14. Keep watching the news section for more weather information as it becomes available.
Other Winter Festivities
While touring the Great Winter Taiga there's lots of festive fun to explore!
Snowball Showdown
It's time to showdown once again as everyone's favourite snowball fight is back! Your golems return with Throwable Snowballs once they reach level four so you can toss some snow to reveal shapes and earn prizes!
Take on a more rewarding version of the Snowball Showdown by using Snowball Showdown Dust when starting a new game! Have you got more snowballs than you can possibly throw? Visit any General Store in the Taiga to exchange 175 Throwable Snowballs for one Snowball Showdown Dust.
Profile Gifting
During the Great Winter Hunt, you can visit friends' and teammates' profiles to leave gifts under their festive tree which they'll be able to open during the Grand Gift Opening Ceremony on Wednesday, December 20! Keep in mind that after the gift opening ceremony begins, you'll no longer be able to send gifts. So don't delay, gift today!
Make sure to check your own Hunter Profile where you'll find at least three gifts: one from Larry, one from Ronza, and one from the King himself! These gifts, just like the ones given by friends, can be opened on December 20.
Gifts can no longer be sent after the ceremony begins.
Naughty and Nice Lists
These unique treasure maps will have you track down Great Winter Hunt mice in search of valuable treasure chests! The chests contain goodies to help you in your festive hunting endeavours and can even contain an Advent Chocolate. Using Rare Map Dust will result in a rare chest which contains more Festive Spirit and increased quantities of other loot items, including at least one Advent Chocolate!
Using intelligence gathered from last year's Great Winter Hunt, Nice and Naughty Treasure Chests are now easier to track down!
Nice Lists are less rewarding but not as difficult. You and your map mates will have to track down a variety of event mice using both standard cheese and Pecan Pecorino cheese. These are great when you're first getting started to bolster your stash of Pecan Pecorino.
Naughty Lists are more difficult but also more rewarding! To complete these maps you'll need to capture the Frost King himself meaning you'll need an ample supply of Hailstones at your disposal. The treasure chest at the end of these maps contains Festive Spirit!
New Year's Celebrations at the Winter Taiga
The appearance of the Frost King surely can't spoil a grand celebration to ring in the new year! As the new year approaches, the Party Head, New Year's, and Frightened Fireworks mice are sure to join the celebration! You'll encounter each mouse in a different location at the Great Winter Taiga where they'll be carrying Firework Sugar Cookies. These cookies can be exchanged in the shops for unique New Year's rewards, including the New Year's Party Scroll Cases!
The New Year's event will begin on Thursday, December 28, 2023!
Festive Supplies, Gift Baskets, Kits, and Skins!
The King has assembled a variety of supply kits and baskets to give you a jump start on the Great Winter Hunt!
The Great Winter Hunt will enter shutdown phase on
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
On Tuesday, January 9 2024, the Great Winter Hunt event will enter its shutdown phase. At this time, Pecan Pecorino and Golem Parts will no longer be found as loot drops. Forges will still work at the Golem Workshop and Cannons can still be fired at the Ice Fortress but Compressed Cinnamon will no longer drop in Cinnamon Hill.
The Great Winter Hunt will end completely on
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Hunters can continue to send out Snow Golems until the event ends completely.
After the event ends, the following items will melt away and be removed from your inventory:
- Golem Parts
- Animated Snow
- Reinforced Ice Shards
- Compressed Cinnamon
- Hailstones
- Firework Sugar Cookies
- Magical Holiday Scarf
- Golem Gift Box
Make sure to use up all of these resources before January 16!
