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Getting the Ambush Trap and the Onyx Stone is one the the tedious task for hunter at this stage of the game because
it will take you several tasks before obtaining the Master Seal.

The Master Seal has 2 main purposes

1.) It is used to craft the Ambush Trap and

2.) It is used to craft Rumble cheeses use to bait for the
Master of the Dojo who will drop the Onyx
needed to craft the most powerful trap at the next level
which is the Arcane Capturing Rod Of Never Yielding Mystery

Here's my preferred setup when doing this tasks

1.) Setup your trap using ZLM and Wooden Base with Target (or if you have
Birthday Cake base).

2.) Hunt at the Dojo for Students of the Claw, Fang and Cheese Belt mice. Each will drop tokens from each respective Student mice. Collect as many tokens as possible in order to craft Combat, Glutter, and Susheese.

3.) After crafting enough Combat, Glutter, and Susheese cheese (about 15 to 20 each), hunt at the Meditation room. Collect one of each shard in order to craft the Master's Seal for the Ambush Trap and the rest to craft Rumble Cheese.

4.) After crafting the Ambush Trap (I would advise crafting this when you are at the Legendary to avoid failure) arm it and use the Rumble cheese to hunt for the Master of the Dojo which will drop the Onyx Stone.

5.) With the new updates being introduced, I would recommend getting a lot of Onyx Stones. Set aside at least twelve for the Onyx Mallet trap. the rest for crafting the Onyx Gorgonzola cheese. You'll be using that for the Dojo Sensei.

Catching the the Master of all Masters in the Furoma region should be easy if you have the Magma base or the Giant Speaker or the 2010 Blastoff traps yet not all hunters where able to purchase this wonderful wares (specially those just started the game or those who are unfortunate to miss on these ware because of lack of gold).

Trap Setup
Horrific Venus Mouse Trap (Recommended)
Thorned Venus Mouse Trap (alternative)
Ambush (alternative)

Analysis: The Dojo Sensei is the top tactical mouse available and the best trap for this critter is the Horrific Venus Mouse Trap.

Base:
Aqua Base (if you go for luck)
Tribal Base (if you go for more raw power)
Explosive Base (balance between Luck and Power)

Going down to the depth of the Catacombs, to the stone gates of the Forbidden Grove and into the mysterious world of the Acolyte Realm.

Here are some tips for hunters on this region

For Catacombs

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  Purchasing the Obelisk of Slumber can help significantly in catching Forgotten type mice and also increase your chances on catching Shadow type mice. As you progress gradually obtain the parts for the Arcane Capturing Rod Of Never Yielding Mystery. (ACRONYM) trap
.


• Although Radioactive Blue cheese is considered to be the staple cheese of the Catacombs, hunters who bait their traps with Ancient cheeseattract more mice so all your stale cheese won't be useless for long.



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  Collect about twelve scrap metals from Scavenger Mice as they are part of your preparation for crafting the ACRONYM trap. These are not an easy loot to obtain so better use a base with some luck attributes like the Polar or Dehydration base (I would go with Polar to increase the power also).
  

The easiest and the most affordable way to get Ancient cheese is to craft 3 Stale Cheese with 6 Ionized Salts. If in case you ran out of Stale Cheese, Then here's what you would do:

Hunt at the Pinnacle Chamber using the ACRONYM or Obelisk of Incineration and Explosive Basesetup with Cheddar cheese as bait.

Since mice at the Pinnacle Chamber are tactical mice (we are using Arcane traps which are weak against tactical mice) and Cheddar cheese have the poorest attraction to mice (and very affordable) couple with uber stale effect of the trap setup, it will surely produce a stale cheese on every horn and trap check.

At this point of the game, having enough experience and gold preferably (16 million points and up) and about 5 million in gold will be needed when you are to embark your journey into the Tribal Isles.

Frequent hunting at Catacombs and/or Forbidden Grove will rack up your points and gold with the ocassional visit at the Laboratory to replenish your Radioactive Blue potions.

Almost all mice on these areas worth over 2000+ in gold and at least 1000+ in experience points.

SS Huntington II

This fine vessel has been granted permission by the King to sail the open ocean east of Gnawnia. Who knows what exotic hunting grounds are out there just waiting to be discovered..?

Warning: Before you engage this area, I am advising all hunter to have at least 1.5 to 2Million worth of gold because the materials use to craft THE SHIP (seewiki) would really cost you a lot and it doesn't include the cost of the the new traps and base.


Buy the Aqua Base First


Since both NetCannon and Harpoon Gun cost 600k+ It would be OK to buy the Aqua Base first (it only cost 124,900 ) and according to the wikisite: "A strong and lucky Physical trap"(e.g. Partybot or Chromebot) would be a good alternative trap setup on the SS Huntington,

Brie or Swiss is considered as a preferred bait in the location. There are some who said that Squeaken and Shelder Mouse would prefer Gnarled cheese and personally it's worth exploring that possibility if you have enough Gnarled potions.

The newest region wherein mousehunters will be treated with another long journey similar to the Furoma is the Tribal Isles

This six area region is composed of mainly 3 tribes the Elub (hydro types), the Nerg (tactical types) and the Derr tribes(physical types). As of this writing only the Cape Claw, Elub Shore, Nerg plains and Derr dunes are open to mouse hunters with the next major update will coming soon.

For more details about the region you can visit the Mousehunt Wiki.

If your building up experience points to enter the Jungle of Dead then you can focus your hunts on either the Elub Shore or the Nerg Plains.

Elub Shore:
The Elub Tribe mice have the highest experience points turnout on the Tribal Isle using the best
Hydro-based setup. Gouda cheese would be enough as long as you use the best setup available

Conventional
Ancient Spear Trap
Tribal Base or Magma Base (limited edition)

Alternate setup:
Kraken Chaos (limited edition)
Candy Cane Base or Magma Base (limited edition)

Nerg Plains:.
If your unlucky hunting on the Elub shore, you can try your luck on the Nerg Plains.
the Nerg mice can also give you high experience points (also not as high as the Elub mice)
but high enough for an experience boost. Another plus when hunting on the Nerg plains is
you can also get rack up your gold also.

Conventional
Horrific Venus Mouse Trap
Tribal Base or Magma Base

Alternate setup:
2010 Blastoff Trap (limited edition)
Magma Base ((limited edition)

Every time the developers of Mousehunt announces that Ronza's Travelling Shoppe will be coming soon, most of the
1.) DeathBot (Chrome Edition) or Chromebot
Cost:512,800 gold
Points Required:136,500
Power:2,800
Power Type: Physical
Power Bonus:20%
Attraction Bonus:15%
Luck:30
Cheese Effect: Very Stale
Practically the best trap every released because of the highest luck rating and power bonus and the second highest attraction.

With this in your collection, your chances of catching an Acolyte mouse early in the game would have greatly increased specially if being paired with the Magma base.


2.) Magma Base
Cost:374,700 gold
Points Required:238,200
Power:300
Power Bonus: 8%
Attraction Bonus: 5%
Luck:10
Cheese Effect: Insanely Stale

The Magma Base is currently the best base which Ronza has sold since it has the highest luck so far. Its power is tied with the Explosive Base for highest, while the Magma Base has a higher power bonus with 8% compare to 5% on the .the Explosive Base. The insanely stale cheese effect is just a small drawback which doesn't really affect the base's upside traits


3.) PartyBot
Points Required: 91,000
Power: 2,850
Power Type: Physical
Power Bonus: 15%
Attraction Bonus: 15%
Luck: 25
Cheese Effect: Stale

With ChromeBot no longer available the next best trap set that can atleast do what the ChromeBot can do is the PartyBot.The PartyBot is currently tied for the third highest luck out of all the weapons, alongside the HitGrab Rockin' Horsey and the HitGrab Rainbow Rockin' Horse. It can be crafted with the DeathBot Parts and a Party Hat. The DeathBot Parts can be obtained by smashing a Mouse DeathBot. The Party Hat was obtainable from Birthday Gifts and the General Store in Ronza's Traveling Shoppe during her MouseHunt's Birthday Giveaway visit.


4.) Polar Base
Points Required: 90,000
Power: 200
Power Bonus:10%
Attraction Bonus: 0%
Luck: 4
Cheese Effect: Insanely Fresh

The Polar Base is a base that has seen several appearances during events. Its stats are a mixture of the Dehydration Base and the Stone Base. It completely outclasses the Stone Base, but it does not have the attraction bonus that the Dehydration Base has. Also, when used with any weapon stronger than, or equal to, the Obelisk of Slumber, it has equal or greater power compared to a trap setup that uses the Explosive Base


5.) Birthday Cake Base
Points Required: 0
Power: 175
Power Bonus: 11%
Attraction Bonus: 5%
Luck: 0
Cheese Effect: No Effect

The Birthday Cake Base has the second-highest power bonus of all the bases, behind the Tribal Base. Its stats are a combination of the Stone Base and the Explosive Base: a slightly higher power bonus than the Stone Base combined with the attraction bonus of the Explosive Base and a cheese freshness in between the two.



Kraken Chaos

The Kraken Chaos weapon is Ronza's only Hydro weapon to date, it's also the weapon with the least luck that she's ever brought us.

The major advantage of this weapon is that you can get it before you catch the Hydra mouse with the ship blueprints, and being a Hydro trap it's significantly better than anything else available to you to get that most elusive loot.

Giant Speaker

The Giant Speaker can be best summed up as the Partybot of tactical traps.
(Assume you're using the magma base)

First, it is very clear that the speaker is better than both the Mutated Venus Mouse Trap and Zugzwang's Last Move. With its low point requirement (only 91,000 points), it is an ideal trap for masters who need a strong tactical trap for the Great Gnarled Tree. Of course, the gold cost is rather prohibitive, which means that it is of most benefit to those who donate and sell the SB+ that they receive when they donate.

The real question is, just how much does that 22 luck help the giant speaker for hunters who are grandmaster/legendary (and as such are likely to have the necessary gold)? As was true with the partybot, high luck makes a large difference in what the trap can do.

First, up against the Ambush in Furoma, the speaker edges out against the ambush. The catch rate is better against every tactical mouse in the dojo, meditation room and pinnacle chamber. It also has higher attraction, which only helps matters. That means that if you own the speakers, you don't need to construct the ambush- a great sign for hunters who are not legendary yet and therefore can't craft the ambush yet.

HitGrab Rockin' Horse and HitGrab Rainbow Rockin' Horse

These two weapons are very similar, the only difference in stats is the Cheese Effect, so for the purposes of this we'll treat them as the same weapon, but if you want more stale cheese use the HitGrab Rockin' Horse, if you want less, use the HitGrab Rainbow Rockin' Horse.

This is the weakest of the weapons available from Ronza this time around and is available to hunters from Novice level and above, if you've been playing even semi-regularly for a few days you'll have the points required to get this weapon.

Compared to the nearest weapon in terms of power, the Swiss Army Mouse Trap, the Rockin' Horse outperforms it in every way, It has slightly more power, and the same power bonus, a much better attraction bonus and a mighty 15 more luck, the cheese effect is also the same.

At first it would seem like an obvious choice over the Swiss Army Mouse Trap, especially as it can be purchased at 1/5th of the points requirement, but the only downside is the gold cost.

At 158,500 gold this trap is over twice as expensive as the Swiss Army Mouse Trap, and that's an awful lot of gold for a Novice to try and collect in two weeks. If you haven't got a Swiss Army Mouse Trap yet, do your best to raise the gold, hunt often, enter competitions, contact the NVMRC for one of their programs, but don't beg for it, because beggars are not popular.

However, an important question would be how long can you continue to use this trap for? The next most powerful physical traps are the Mouse DeathBot and the NVMRC Forcefield Trap, and they're quite a lot more powerful, almost twice as powerful in fact, so is it worth you saving what gold you have for one of those instead?

Well the Rockin' Horse will see you well through all of Gnawnia, it's a bit weaker against the stronger mice, anything from Pirate / Ninja level and above, but does very well against the much more common weaker mice.
In Whisker Woods again it performs well against something like the NVMRC with the weaker mice, and only a small reduction in performance against the stronger mice, it should also bring a comparable number of Gnarled potions in, what you lose against the Centaur you'll gain against the other potion dropping mice.

But the Laboratory is where this trap will really shine, with comparable catch rates to the NVMRC against the Steel, Granite and Bonic mice, and the added Radioactive Blue Potion dropping potential of the extra luck, this trap should get you the loot you need a little bit quicker.

So in essence, this trap won't bring in as much gold and as many points as either the Mouse DeathBot or NVMRC, but if you're looking to save gold in the long run, the Rockin' Horse will allow you to skip buying those traps entirely, and get the specialised Tactical or Shadow traps a bit sooner.



The Snow Barrage is a limited-edition weapon which became available before Christmas. Despite having the lowest power of all Tactical type weapons available, it is known to perform admirably compared to weapons with higher power mainly because of its high luck, which is currently the second highest out of all available weapons. It is also tied for the highest power bonus and second highest attraction bonus and cheese effect.

For those of you who just joined Mousehunt or missed out on the PartyBot last March 2009 then here's Santa's gift for all of you IF you were able to follow the 12 Days 'til Christmas event last December 2009. This weapon can only be obtained in exchange for the twelve items found during the 12 Days 'til Christmas see this link for info.

If you haven't exchange the 12 items you can exchange it for the Cracker Trap here.

A Great Trap with 3,000 power and 24 luck should stick out to you. Easily on par with the partybot and better than the Rhinobot. And the cost? Nothing.

I used this trap while I was hunting at Derr Dunes to gather up Delicious Stones (using Gouda as my bait) and I got a very nice output with almost 95% catch rate with 75-80% of delicious stone drops.

Ronza sneaked in over to Gnawnia just before the turn of Christmas, bringing a few goodies for the late shopper. A few other devices will be made available towards the New Year.

A list of her wares
Snowglobe Trap : 341,000 gold - Masters and Grandmaster where be happy to get this one as an alternative to the lowly Zugwang's Last Move>
2010 Blastoff : 512,800 - A great alternate tactical trap which is very effective on the Nerg Plains
Chrome Drillbot : 897,400 - Some players say this is the answer to those Derr Dunes hunting problems.
Candy Cane Base : 90,000 - A much powerful version of the Aqua Base
Firecracker Base : 90,000 - Missed out on the Magma Base? Here's a nice consolation. A much "luckier" version of the Explosive Base