Now it really gets complicated. From here on out, you must use Gouda Cheese when hunting in the Isles. Brie might work here and there, but it's a losing proposition. You've been warned.
The important thing to know is how this place is laid out. Here is a run down:
Cape Clawed: mixture of hydro, physical, and tactical mice. There is very little gold to be found here, as well as points. You’ll spend a little time here, but not the majority of your time. This location is primarily used as your staging area, housing the cheese shop, a trapsmith and a general store.Nerg Plains: All tactical mice. Your Ambush trap will work nicely here at the beginning. You'll want an upgrade quickly though.
Derr Dunes: All physical mice. Tons of gold to be found here, but these mice are not weak at all. They suck, in fact. Don't even think about going here unless you have the Digby Drillbot. Even then, this place is horrible.
Elub Shore: All Hydro mice. Hydro weapon is a must to hunt here.
Jungle of Dread: Must be a Hero to go here, and you need a stronger shadow weapon than the Sinister Portal. Don't worry about it now though.
Dracono: Yeah, really, don't worry about this yet. It is where the dragon is. You need a draconic weapon. Suffice to say, if you haven't even been to the Isles yet, you may not get to here for months (depending on how much you play).
There is much debate on what you should do first. It really boils down to what traps you have and how many points you have currently. If you're like most hunters at this point, you're probably getting close to 8 million points. You need 8 million points to craft a better tactical trap, 12 million to craft a better hydro trap (than what you buy on the boat), and 16 million to craft a better physical trap.
Seems pretty cut and dry to me: head to Nerg Plains first since the point requirement for the next trap is the closest. Buy 60 units of coconut milk, as much Gouda cheese as you can afford (but keep 500,000 gold on hand!), equip your Ambush and Aqua, and let's go.
Nerg Plains
All the mice in Nerg Plains are tactical. Your Ambush trap
is not the best trap to catch them, and you’re going to get misses here, but
you’re just going to have to deal with it until you can get a better trap. So what is your goal? To catch mice of course, and
many of them drop savory vegetables. When you accumulate 30 veggies, it’s time
to craft your next special cheese (and you thought you were done with that
after Furoma! Silly monkey!)
| Formula: Gumbo Cheese (15 pieces) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Salt | 1 | 6 |
| Coconut Milk | 15 | 800 / Loot |
| Savoury Vegetables | 30 | Loot |
| Curds and Whey | 90 | 12 |
| Total | 1,086 – 13,086 | |
You should have tons of curds and whey and salt. If you
don’t, you’ll need to get some. Fortunately, all this is sold at Cape Clawed
Once you have the necessary supplies to craft Gumbo cheese,
go ahead and make it, equip it, and STAY IN CAPE CLAWED. Use the same trap
setup you’ve been using: Ambush and Aqua. You’re trying to catch the Grandfather mouse, who
drops the thorned vine. With 15 pieces of Gumbo, you should catch him. Everyone
I know who has done this had got him in that first batch. If you don’t, repeat
the Nerg steps, get 30 more veggies, and try again.
At any rate, once you catch him, you’re going to make the
Horrific Venus Mouse Trap. But before we can do that, we have to make the
Thorned Venus Mouse Trap.
Sound familiar? You should have the Mutated Venus Mouse Trap
already, but it was no match for the Ambush. You need to buy one thing: the
thorned mouse trap blueprints from the general store in Cape Clawed
| Formula: Thorned Venus Mouse Trap | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Thorned Mouse Trap Plans | 1 | 550,000 |
| Thorned Vine | 1 | Loot |
| Venus Mouse Trap Husk | 1 | 299,650/Crafting |
| Total | 849,650 | |
You know how to get the third part: smash your MVMT! Craft
that with the other two items and viola, you have the TVMT. But, what is this
horrific thing I’m talking about?
| Formula: Horrific Venus Mouse Trap | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Thorned Venus Mouse Trap Husk | 1 | 849,650+/Crafting |
| Radioactive Sludge | 20 | Loot |
| Total | 849,650+ | |
Ah ha! No sooner than you craft the TVMT, SMASH IT! Well, if
you have 20 radioactive sludges that is. If you didn’t listen to me and don’t
have these, you’ll need to get them. You know how to do this, so get to it
already.
When you get them, smash your TVMT, take the husk, and craft
it with the sludge. Viola, you have the Horrific Venus Mouse Trap. Now, you MIGHT not be able to use it. You need 8 million points to be able to use the HVMT. If you have it, GREAT! If not, you can either farm for points in Nerg, Catacombs or the Forbidden Grove.
Now that you're at 8 million points, check yourGouda
Now that you're at 8 million points, check your
Now you’re catching mice left and right. Keep hunting until you have 30 veggies to make more Gumbo.
Craft it, equip it, and switch your base to the one with the highest power AND
luck, which probably means your explosive base (remember to factor in the power
bonus). You’re still several million points away from being able to use the
Tribal base.
You’re now hunting for “the big 3” of the Nerg tribe:
Defender, Slayer, and Nerg Chieftain. They drop Yellow Pepper Seeds. You WANT
these. They are used in making peppers, which in turn are used to create the Havarti
cheeses for hunting in the Jungle of Dread. One of the Big 3, the Chieftain,
will drop 1 of the 4 pieces of the Ancient Box Trap blueprints. That is
ultimately your goal in hunting the Big 3.
When your 15 pieces of Gumbo (or however many you have) are
out, switch back to Gouda
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Elub Shore
Ah, smell the fresh scent of salt water in the air. The mice
here are not easy to catch, but they are worth a lot of points. Gold is scarce
here, so just deal with it. As previously mentioned, my advice is to wait to
hunt here until 12 million points. If you’re here before that, that’s fine;
just know you’ll be here longer with inferior weapons than you need to be.
To start off, you finally NEED a Hydro weapon. They are not
cheap. If you don’t have a limited edition hydro trap already, you need to buy
one on the ship. Refer back to the Trap Analysis on Hydro Weapons.
Personally, I say buy the Net Cannon. The Gun has the power
bonus, but the Cannon has attraction and luck. And besides, if you don’t like
the Net Cannon, it can be disassembled and crafted into the Harpoon Gun. You
CANNOT go from the Gun to the Cannon though. This is why I say use the Cannon
first and if you don’t like it, you can switch for free.
Same as in Nerg, you use Gouda
Same song and dance as in Nerg: catch the mice, this time
collecting Seashells. Of course, they make a special cheese, Shell Cheese. Here
is the formula:
| Formula: Shell (15 pieces) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Coconut Milk | 10 | 800 / Loot |
| Seashell | 30 | Loot |
| Salt | 40 | 6 |
| Curds and Whey | 60 | 12 |
| Total | 960 – 8,960 | |
Once you make this, head back to Cape Clawed
If you get him, you now need to buy the Ancient Spear
Blueprints from the general store in Cape
Clawed
| Formula: Ancient Spear Gun | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost |
| Ancient Spear | 1 | Loot |
| Ancient Spear Launcher Blueprints | 1 | 160,000 |
| Launcher Parts | 1 | 664,000 |
| Total | 824,000+ | |
“Matt!! How do I get Launcher Parts?” Silly monkey, think about it. You SMASH your Net Cannon/Harpoon Gun! Take the three parts, craft them together, equip it, and head back to
If you have any Shell cheese left, hunt with it to catch the
Elub Big 3: Protector, Champion, and Chieftain. If not, just use Gouda, and
hunt for more seashells, and do exactly the same thing as you did in Nerg:
hunt, collect shells, make shell cheese, hunt for Big 3, collect seeds, etc.
Again, their Chieftain has a piece
of the blueprint to the Ancient Box Trap.
Same goal with these guys: they drop seeds (blue). You make
peppers out of these eventually. Same numbers: you want around 45 blue seeds.
Derr Dunes
The gold production
in Derr is the best in the game: you will make a killing here, but the red
boxes and stolen cheese/gold/points might drive you to insanity first. This
place will test your patience.
First things first: You have to use a physical trap here. No
questions about it. Depending on the path you took, the strongest physical trap
you have might very well be the Swiss Army Mouse Trap, or maybe the Force
Field. “Matt!!! Those traps won’t work well in Derr! Whatever should I do?!??”
Two options:
- Go to the Town of Digby and buy the Digby Drillbot, which, at 16 million points, can be smashed and crafted into the RhinoBot, and at 17 million points, can be further upgraded to the Enraged RhinoBot.
- Craft the Onyx Mallet Trap, a viable (but ultimately dead end) option for those not wanting to spend the gold on the DDB, the blueprints for the Rhino, the platinum bars and the 72 pieces of stale SuperBrie+.
My advice (and you’re reading this because you want/need it)?
Well, let’s look at your inventory. To craft the RhinoBot, you likely don’t
have any of the materials needed except maybe a few pieces of Stale SuperBrie.
Check your cheese stocks. Do you have SuperBrie? Do you have enough Stale SB +
regular SB to equal 72? If you can answer yes, pick option 1. If no, you can
still do option one, but we have to make a side quest first (proceed to option
1).
If you’re hell-bent on using the Onyx Mallet Trap, pick option 2. Option
1 is the MUCH BETTER choice, but I’ll lay out both ways.
Option 1 - Digby Drillbot/RhinoBot/Enraged RhinoBot
Simply head to the Town of Digby, buy the Digby Drillbot (405k…if you don’t already have it), and skip ahead to the section on how to hunt in Derr Dunes.
Option 2 - Onyx Mallet Trap
Remember the Dojo Sensei in the Pinnacle Chamber? You need to catch this guy now. Go back to the Furoma section to read about how to do this, and you'll eventually get the OMT Blueprints.
| Formula: Onyx Mallet Trap | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Onyx Mallet Blueprints | 1 | Loot |
| Tiny Platinum Bar | 10 | 60,000 |
| Onyx Stone | 12 | Loot |
| Total | 600,000 | |
12 Onyx Stones? Well, you know how to get those. Get to it!
Hunting in Derr Dunes
Much like Elub and Nerg before it, the process is the same:
catch regular mice, collect their loot drops (in this case, delicious stones),
craft a special cheese, catch the “Big 3,” and repeat over and over.
Derr Dunes is a hard place to hunt. The mice here are
ruthless. Even with the Rhino/OMT, expect your catch rate to be around 50%. You
just have to accept the fact that this place sucks, but the gold is worth it.
If you chose option #2, you’re just going to hunt, collect
stones, and craft Crunchy Cheese to catch the Big 3 of this tribe, including
the Chieftain who, you guessed it, has a piece of the ABT blueprint.
| Formula: Crunchy Cheese (15 pieces) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Curds and Whey | 10 | 12 |
| Coconut Milk | 20 | 800 / Loot |
| Delicious Stone | 30 | Loot |
| Salt | 30 | 6 |
| Total | 300 – 16,300 | |
If you chose option #1, your task is a little more involved.
You start out with the Digby Drillbot, using either gouda or SB+ as your bait. The mice here are tough, especially
with the DDB, but eventually, you’ll have 30 stones to make your Crunchy
Cheese. When you get it, equip the crunchy cheese and head back to Cape Clawed.
Like the Elder and Grandfather mouse before it, your goal is to catch the Aged
mouse. He drops the Rhino horn. If you don’t get him with the 15 pieces of
cheese you have, you have to repeat the steps again. Sound familiar?
Once you have the Rhino Horn, it’s time to craft the
RhinoBot. Ugh, 950,000 for the blueprints (purchased at Cape Clawed)! You may
not have this yet. But if you went down this path, you’re pretty much stuck
with doing it. If you don’t have the gold, either go hunt in Nerg (with HVMT)
for a while or go back to the Catacombs. Here is the recipe:
| Formula: RhinoBot | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Digby DrillBot Parts | 1 | 404,340 / Loot |
| Rhino Horn | 1 | Loot |
| RhinoBot Blueprints | 1 | 940,000 |
| Stale SUPER|brie+ | 24 | Loot / Gifting |
| Total | 940,000 – 1,344,340 | |
24 stale Super Brie!! Holy cow!! How do you stale Super Brie? It has almost 100% attraction! Well, there are three places that will work, one of them being the best. The Acolyte Realm. When using your ACRONYM/Explosive Base, you’ll stale SB+ 100% of the time. The trick is getting there, since you have to be in the Forbidden Grove when it closes. The FG also can stale SB+ in the same manner, as can the Catacombs, but not at 100% because of Bat Mice.
Unlike staling radioactive blue (Pinnacle Chamber), that
won’t work for Super Brie, as you’ll catch countless numbers of Hapless mice.
Yuck.
Once you have stale SB+, smash the DDB and craft all the
items together. Now you have a better chance against the Derr mice.
So where does the Enraged RhinoBot come into play?
Obtaining the Enraged RhinoBot
The Enraged RhinoBot is a welcome upgrade to the RhinoBot; I
used to tell people that the OMT was a better path due to the gold cost. Not
anymore. The ERB makes this path much better.
Formula: Enraged RhinoBot
|
||
Description
|
Qty
|
Cost (Each)
|
RhinoBot Parts
|
1
|
940,000+ / Crafting
|
Rhino
Horn
|
3
|
Loot
|
Stale SUPER|brie+
|
48
|
Crafted / Loot / Gifting
|
Tiny Platinum Bar
|
6
|
60,000
|
Total
|
1,300,000 – 1,704,340
|
|
As you can see from the formula, you already have 940,000
invested from the Rhino. Now you need more parts. 3 more Rhino Horns? Well, you
know how to get those. If you don’t have 3 (after you used 1 to make the
Rhino), go back to Derr, keep collecting stones, make more crunchy cheese, and
hunt for the aged mouse in Cape Clawed until you get enough. The Aged mouse
will also drop stale Super Brie, which will make the amount you need to stale
less.
It already hurt staling 24 pieces, now you need 48?!? Yech.
Well, you know how to get SB+ (donate or buy on the marketplace) and stale it.
Get to it. The ERB is more than worth it.
The ultimate goal is the same as the other two tribes: craft
the crunchy cheese and catch the “Big 3.” As with the others, the Derr
Chieftain drops another piece of the ABT blueprints.
Jungle of Dread
By now, I would hope you’re a Knight. There is a chance
you’re really lucky and you’re still a Hero. If you are, go hunt in Elub until
you level up. For the rest of you poor saps, it’s time to spend more gold.
You’ve been hunting in the isles for a long time now. You know the ins and outs
of the game. You’ve probably heard of the Jungle of Dread and the shadow mice
therein. This is about as hard of an area as you’ve encountered yet.
I’m going to spell things out, point by point. PAY ATTENTION. Remember all
those seeds you collected from the Big 3? Now it’s time to use them. The table
below shows the mice in this area.
Each of these mice are attracted (as you can see) to a different type of Havarti cheese. Havarti cheese is crafted from peppers. Eh, you say? Well, those seeds you collected…you craft them with plant pots (purchased in Cape Clawed) to make pepper plants, and then you pick the plants. Let’s look at Yellow Peppers & Sweet Havarti first.
Mouse
 | Points
| Gold
| Mouse Group
| Preferred Cheese | Loot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chitinous | 44,405 | 5,845 | The Dreaded Horde | Pungent Havarti | Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece Timeless Mystic Gem Fire Salt Runic Potion |
| Fetid Swamp | 20,830 | 5,155 | The Dreaded Horde | Crunchy Havarti | Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece Hinge of Eternity Fire Salt Runic Potion |
| Jurassic | 39,470 | 6,490 | The Dreaded Horde | Creamy Havarti | Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece Ancient Relic Staff Fire Salt Runic Potion |
| Magma Carrier | 49,335 | 7,180 | The Dreaded Horde | Spicy Havarti | Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece Encrusted Metal of Time Fire Salt Runic Potion |
| Primal | 16,450 | 5,800 | The Dreaded Horde | Sweet Havarti | Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece Ethereal Rope Fire Salt Runic Potion |
| Pygmy Wrangler | 6,500 | 1,250 | The Dreaded Horde | SUPER|brie+ Gouda | Vanilla Beans |
| Stonework Warrior | 24,670 | 4,510 | The Dreaded Horde | Magical Havarti | Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece Engraved Solid Stone Slab Fire Salt Runestone Runic Potion |
| Swarm of Pygmy Mice | 5,800 | 840 | The Dreaded Horde | SUPER|brie+ Gouda Vanilla Stilton | Vanilla Bean |
| Sylvan | 275 | 425 | Forest Guild |
Each of these mice are attracted (as you can see) to a different type of Havarti cheese. Havarti cheese is crafted from peppers. Eh, you say? Well, those seeds you collected…you craft them with plant pots (purchased in Cape Clawed) to make pepper plants, and then you pick the plants. Let’s look at Yellow Peppers & Sweet Havarti first.
| Formula: Sweet Yellow Pepper Plant | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Plant Pot | 1 | 900 |
| Yellow Pepper Seed | 2 | Loot |
| Total | 900 | |
You should have AT LEAST 45 Yellow Seeds. You know how to get them.
| Formula: Sweet Havarti (6 pieces) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Qty | Cost (Each) |
| Coconut Milk | 6 | 800 / Loot |
| Salt | 6 | 6 |
| Sweet Yellow Pepper | 6 | Crafting |
| Curds and Whey | 18 | 12 |
| Total | 252 – 5,052 | |
So you have both formulas. As you can see, 2 seeds
essentially makes ONE PLANT (NOT one pepper…yes Jason, I’m looking at YOU!).
When you craft the plant, you then pick the plant and you are given a random
number of peppers based on the game’s random number generator. You’ll get
anywhere from 1 to 5 peppers.
Sweet Havarti (and all Havarti for that matter) takes 6
peppers of the corresponding color (Sweet = Yellow, Spicy = Red, Magical =
Blue, Pungent = Purple, Creamy = Orange, Crunchy = Green). It’s best that you
memorize the correlation between the color of peppers and the Havarti. All
recipes also call for 18 curds and 6 salt. The only variation is the amount of
Coconut Milk. In the case of Sweet Havarti, you need 6. Roughly, each piece of
cheese will cost you 835 gold.
Now, you probably have enough materials to make several
batches. Don’t do this. Only
make 1 batch at a time.
These mice are shadow mice, so if you followed my path, you
don’t even HAVE a shadow trap at this point. Maybe you do though. However, you
need to decide what you want to do with your time. If your goal is strictly to
get the loot drops from the Jungle mice (for the ABT), you can get by with
purchasing the Gorgon Trap (don’t do this with a portal or the Bottomless Grave). That being said, the
reward for hunting here is staggering. You may want to invest some time in
obtaining gold to buy the Clockapult of Time…
...at a mere cost of 2,700,000 gold.
I know, I know...you’ve spent a bajillion gold already. Well, you
do have another option thanks to a shadow trap you can get later in the game,
the Reaper’s Perch. Here’s the deal: you’re not ready to get the Reaper’s
Perch (covered in the Crystal Library section), but the relative cost (it’s a
crafted trap) is almost identical to the Clockapult of Time, and it’s a much
better trap. So, you’re asking, what’s the option?
Buy the Gorgon (saving the extra gold), hunt the ABT pieces
with it (it’ll do the job; heck, I did it originally with the Bottomless
Grave!), and do the bare minimum going forward (dragon hunting) to ultimately
gain access to the Seasonal Garden (and thus the Crystal Library eventually).
Here’s the kicker however. One of the seasonal garden
seasons is Fall, and you need a shadow trap to hunt during that season, and the
Gorgon is not a very good option (hell, neither is the clock). So you’re
rolling the dice so to speak. You WILL eventually catch the mice you need in
the SG with the Gorgon, but it just may take longer.
Ultimately, the choice is yours, and you need to make that
choice NOW. Okay? Good, let’s go and buy it. Travel to cape clawed if you’re
not already there. This will be the staging area for the Jungle run. First, go
to the trapsmith and purchase the shadow trap you decided on.
We went over Sweet Havarti. You don’t need paragraphs to
explain the other 5. Suffice to say, to get pepper plants for the primary
colors (red, yellow, blue), it takes two seeds of the corresponding color and
one pot. For the secondary colors, you have to combine 1 seed of each color
that makes that color, plus a pot. Basically, you’re always using 2 seeds and 1
pot.
Here are the condensed cheat sheets. (P.S. Don’t worry about
Inferno right now.)
| Plant | Pepper Seed | Plant Pot | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | Red | Yellow | ||
| Magical Blue Pepper Plant | 2 | — | — | 1 |
| Spicy Red Pepper Plant | — | 2 | — | 1 |
| Sweet Yellow Pepper Plant | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| Pungent Purple Pepper Plant | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Crunchy Green Pepper Plant | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Creamy Orange Pepper Plant | — | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Inferno Pepper Plant | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Product
|
Item
|
Coconut
Milk |
Curds &
Whey |
Salt
|
Fire
Salt
|
Yield
(pieces) |
|
Name
|
#
|
||||||
Creamy Havarti
|
Creamy Orange Pepper
|
6
|
10
|
18
|
6
|
-
|
6
|
Crunchy Havarti
|
Crunchy Green Pepper
|
6
|
4
|
18
|
6
|
-
|
6
|
Inferno Havarti
|
Inferno Pepper
|
6
|
16
|
18
|
-
|
6
|
6
|
Magical Havarti
|
Magical Blue Pepper
|
6
|
2
|
18
|
6
|
-
|
6
|
Pungent Havarti
|
Pungent Purple Pepper
|
6
|
8
|
18
|
6
|
-
|
6
|
Spicy Havarti
|
Spicy Red Pepper
|
6
|
12
|
18
|
6
|
-
|
6
|
Sweet Havarti
|
Sweet Yellow Pepper
|
6
|
6
|
18
|
6
|
-
|
6
|
Remember, create 1 pepper plant at a time, and then pick it.
You don’t want to create more plants than you need, thus creating more peppers
than you need. This is tedious, but it’ll save you in the long run. Make ONE
batch of EACH Havarti. Don’t make more, but please DO HAVE materials on hand to
A) Make more plants and B) Make more Havarti.
When you’re armed with your 6 different Havarti, equip your
Shadow trap, your Tribal Base, the Havarti of your choice, and head for the
Jungle.
The chart a few pages up showed the 6 mice. Each Havarti
attracts only 1 mouse (well, 2 really, the Sylvan is here). When you catch one
of the mice, they’ll drop Runic Potions, Fire Salt, and hopefully, a piece of
the ABT. Usually, you’ll get the ABT loot drop on the first type of mouse you
catch. Sometimes it will be #2. I’ve never seen it go past the third.
And that is critical here: even with the Clock/Tribal, your
catch rate will only be around 25-30%. You simply have to suck it up and ride
it out.
Once you catch all 6 mice and have all 6 pieces of the ABT
they dropped respectively, you’re ready to craft the Ancient Box Trap. Head
back to Cape Clawed and purchase the last remaining Blueprint piece for the
ABT. You should now have 4 pieces.
Ancient Box Trap Blueprints
|
||
Description
|
Qty
|
Cost
|
Ancient Frayed Blueprint Piece
|
1
|
Loot
|
Ancient Mangled Blueprint Piece
|
1
|
Loot
|
Ancient Ripped Blueprint Piece
|
1
|
Loot
|
Ancient Torn Blueprint Piece
|
1
|
158,175
|
Total
|
158,175
|
|
Go ahead and craft these 4 items. You’ll receive the
completed blueprints. Next, craft the ABT.
Formula: Ancient Box Trap
|
||
Description
|
Qty
|
Cost
|
Ancient Box Trap Blueprints
|
1
|
158,175/Crafting
|
Engraved Solid Stone Slab
|
1
|
Loot
|
Ethereal Rope
|
1
|
Loot
|
Ancient Relic Staff
|
1
|
Loot
|
Timeless Mystic Gem
|
1
|
Loot
|
Encrusted Metal of Time
|
1
|
Loot
|
Hinge of Eternity
|
1
|
Loot
|
Total
|
158,175+
|
|
Dracano
All right, you should have your Acolyte now, so now you’re
ready to go after the Dragon. First thing: check your inventory and look at the
following recipe.
Formula: Ice Maiden
|
||
Description
|
Qty
|
Cost
|
Frozen Scroll
|
1
|
Loot
|
High Tension Spring Parts
|
1
|
600 / Crafting
|
Rune
|
60
|
Loot
|
Total
|
600
|
|
Do you have 60 runes? You might not. You’ve
probably spent enough time in the Forbidden Groove to have some runes, or
maybe you got lucky and your Acolyte had runes. At any rate, you need 60 runes
to craft the Ice Maiden, and as of this writing, there is no trading or buying
runes…so get to the Forbidden Groove, equip your ancient cheese, and catch up
with me in the next paragraph when you’re ready to move on.
All right, remember all that nonsense I told you about not
wasting excess seeds and plants and peppers and all that jazz? Well, this is
the part of the FAQ where you get to see if you were really listening or not!
To catch the Dragon, you need two things. You’ve already
crafted the Ice Maiden. Now, you need Inferno Havarti.
The MH Devs like to teach you lessons with this game. What
is the absence of color? That’s right, black. What is the inclusion of all
primary colors? That’s right, white. What is the hottest part of the fire?
That’s right, the part you can’t see, the “white” fire. Hence, Inferno. Huh,
you say?
Formula: Inferno Pepper Plant
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Description
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Qty
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Cost
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Red Pepper Seed
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1
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Loot
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Blue Pepper Seed
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1
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Loot
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Yellow Pepper Seed
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1
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Loot
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Plant
Pot
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1
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900
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Total
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900
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Ah ha! You say! Red + Blue + Yellow (+ pot) = Inferno Pepper
Plants! Yah!! Yes, this is the part where you test your listening skills. How
many seeds do you have? Did you waste them all? You may not have wasted ANY,
but that still doesn’t mean you have any right now. You’re going to need a lot
here. Before you get too crazy and make 500 plants or something, check the next
recipe.
Formula: Inferno Havarti (6 pieces)
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Description
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Qty
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Cost
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Fire
Salt
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6
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Loot
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Inferno Pepper
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6
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Crafting
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Coconut Milk
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16
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800 / Loot
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Curds and Whey
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18
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12
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Total
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216 – 13,016
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Ok, so how much fire salt do you have from your time in the
jungle? 6? 12? 400? You need to recognize (that’s right!) that 6 fire salt and
6 inferno peppers will make you 6 Inferno Havarti. You could go nuts and make
enough plants to get you 100 peppers, but it’ll be for naught if you only have
10 fire salt. Then you’re up a creek without a paddle with a bunch of extra
Inferno Peppers and Plants, all the while you now need all those seeds to make
OTHER Havarti so you can get your freaking fire salt from the Jungle of Dread
mice.
LOL @ you.
So basically, do the same thing here that you do everywhere:
make only what you need. You’re not going to get 6 peppers from one plant, so
start with 2 plants and pick them. Get 6? No? Get 5? Make another. Just make
sure you have at least 6 but don’t go overboard. Check your fire salt
inventory. Remember, multiples of 6. If you can only make one batch, by all
means, only make enough INFERNO PEPPER PLANTS to get you 6 peppers or
relatively close therein. Have 42 fire salt? You’re in luck…you can make 42
inferno havarti provided you have enough to get that many peppers.
I think you get my point.
Now that you have your Inferno Havarti made, strap on the
Ice Maiden and Tribal base, equip the Inferno Havarti, and blow that horn!
There are three mice here: Dragon (what you’re after), the Whelping, and
Draconic Warden. The latter two mice offer nice gold and points, but
you’re not after them. You need a Dragon! So why do you need a Dragon? Well,
inside every Dragon Chest is a BUNCH OF STUFF. Good stuff, maybe even great
stuff. Your first one will always contain Zugzuwang’s Scarf, which is
essentially the map to get to the Seasonal Garden (must be a Lord to get there).
You may also get blueprints to the Heat Bath, an insanely awesome hydro trap.
You’ll get a magic feather, which is used to craft Zugzuwang’s First Move, an
outstanding tactical trap.
If the Devs hate you, you’ll not catch a dragon and have to start this entire process all over. And by all over, I’m talking about the entire process of collecting stones/shells/veggies and then seeds, etc etc etc. Yeah, it sucks. Get to work.
Balack's Cove
By now, if you’re still reading this, you’re a freaking expert at MH and can probably do this on your own. But I’ll still be here, guiding you until the bitter end.
Balack’s Cove is for Knights and above, and the area can be somewhat frustrating. First of all, to successfully hunt here, you need Vanilla Beans. Eh, you say? Vanilla Beans? That’s right. So where are they?
Well, my friends, they aren’t here. They are in the Jungle of Dread.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! AAAIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”
Fear not, for it’s not what you think. To get these beans, you need to catch a lot of Pygmy Swarm Mice (or Pygmy Wranglers with SB+) in the Jungle of Dread. It’s not hard at all. Equip your Clockapult of Time (or your Gorgon), equip Gouda cheese, and watch the fur fly. SB+ obviously works even better, but you can do this with Gouda.
The beans are used to make Vanilla Stilton. Recipe is as follows:
Balack’s Cove is for Knights and above, and the area can be somewhat frustrating. First of all, to successfully hunt here, you need Vanilla Beans. Eh, you say? Vanilla Beans? That’s right. So where are they?
Well, my friends, they aren’t here. They are in the Jungle of Dread.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! AAAIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”
Fear not, for it’s not what you think. To get these beans, you need to catch a lot of Pygmy Swarm Mice (or Pygmy Wranglers with SB+) in the Jungle of Dread. It’s not hard at all. Equip your Clockapult of Time (or your Gorgon), equip Gouda cheese, and watch the fur fly. SB+ obviously works even better, but you can do this with Gouda.
The beans are used to make Vanilla Stilton. Recipe is as follows:
Formula: Vanilla Stilton (15 pieces)
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Description
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Qty
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Cost
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Coconut Milk
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15
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800 / Loot
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Curds and Whey
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15
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12
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Salt
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15
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6
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Vanilla Bean
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15
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Loot
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Total
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270 – 12,270
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Formula: Vanilla Stilton – Magic Essence (15 pieces) *
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Description
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Qty
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Cost
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Vanilla Bean
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5
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Loot
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Coconut Milk
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15
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800 / Loot
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Curds and Whey
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15
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12
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Magic Essence
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15
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Crafting
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Salt
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15
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6
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Total
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270 – 12,270
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If you have the SB+ to make the Magic Essence, by all means, go this route, as you only need a third of the beans as in the original recipe. Please note that the beans are the only thing that changes; the output it still 15.
So now you have some Vanilla Stilton. “All right Matt, but I still can’t find Balack’s Cove on my map. How do I get there?” Well, you have to build Balack’s Lantern to get in. First off, go to Cape Clawed and buy the Antique Lantern in the general store for 94,000 gold. Next, check your inventory. Do you have any Dragon Embers from your time in Dracono? Yes? No? Well, you need 3. If you don’t have any, that sucks, you need to go make some more Inferno Havarti (you know how to do that and the entire process in the event you’re not even close) and hunt in Dracono. Whelping and Wardens drop them.
If you have 3 embers, this is easy. Craft the three embers together with the lantern and viola, you now have access to Balack’s Cove.
Inside the cove, you need to know a few things:
- You’re in the water, and every so often, the tides wash you out to sea and you end up back in the Jungle of Dread. The HUD monitors the tidal activity.
- All mice except for Balack are attracted to Vanilla Stilton.
- Balack is only attracted to Vengeful Vanilla Stilton.
- Both the Acronym and Ancient Box Trap are needed. I suggest using the ACRONYM when hunting with Vanilla Stilton and the Ancient Box Trap when hunting with the Vengeful flavor. As Larry says, Balack is weak to Forgotten weapons like the ABT.
The cove operates somewhat like the Forbidden Groove, but the danger is, when you get washed back to the jungle, if you’re not actively playing Mousehunt at that time, you’re going to start your hourly trap checks with whatever cheese you had equipped in the cove, which should be the vanilla stilton! THIS IS BAD!!!! You don’t want Pygmys eating the vanilla stilton, and you sure as hell don’t want it going stale! Please pay attention to this to mitigate vanilla stilton cheese loss!!!
In your hunts, you’ll invariably catch some of the Liches that drop Bottled-Up Rage, Pinch of Annoyance, and Raisins of Wrath (HA!). When you have these, you need to use even more Vanilla Beans (yeah!) to make VENGEFUL Vanilla Stilton.
Formula: Vengeful Vanilla Stilton (1 piece)
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Description
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Qty
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Cost
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Bottled-Up Rage
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1
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Loot
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Coconut Milk
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1
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800 / Loot
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Curds and Whey
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1
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12
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Ionized Salt
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1
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450
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Pinch of Annoyance
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1
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Loot
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Raisins of Wrath
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1
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Loot
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Vanilla Bean
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1
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Loot
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Total
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462 – 1,262
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Formula: Vengeful Vanilla Stilton (3 pieces)
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Description
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Qty
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Cost
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Bottled-Up Rage
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1
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Loot
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Coconut Milk
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1
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800 / Loot
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Curds and Whey
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1
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12
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Ionized Salt
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1
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450
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Pinch of Annoyance
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1
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Loot
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Raisins of Wrath
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1
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Loot
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Vanilla Bean
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1
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Loot
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Magic Essence
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3
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Crafting
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Total
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462 – 1,262
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Vengeful will attract all 9 mice in the Cove, including Balack. It will also attract a larger portion of the Lich mice that give you the items necessary to make the Vengeful cheese. This is a tough process. Think of it like going after the Silth. Only one type of cheese attracts it, but others can eat it too. Fun times! Catching Balack is NOT easy.
As you can see, the amount of Vanilla Beans you need is a lot. Better go get those Pygmy’s!
And THAT'S IT! Your time in the Tribal Isles is OVER, unless you just want to build up your silver crowns. It's time to move on to the Seasonal Garden in Rodentia!
