Calm Clearing

Tucked behind the dense trees of Whisker Woods is a quiet and peaceful clearing. In the center of the clearing is a glowing boulder with colourful fungi growing around it. The magic rock seems to draw mice near to it, as if empowering them.

 

1. Overview
   Requirements
   Hunting Tips by Larry
   New Mice
2. Cheese and Mice
   The Mice of the Calm Clearing
   Mice Populations
3. Setup Options
   Normal Setup Options
   Limited Edition Setup Options
4. Goals
   Catch a Cyclops Mouse with the Map
   Collect Splintered Wood
   Best Location for a Journeyman to Hunt
   Catch a Cherry Mouse
5. Related Articles

 

Overview

The Calm Clearing is the first location in the Whisker Woods region, and offers a host of new mice for the hunter to catch.
Most of the mice here are quite weak, but there are a few stronger mice here.
Treant mice in this location often drop a decent amount of Splintered Wood as loot, this is useful for crafting the Dehydration Base and is also required later on in the game.
The Cyclops mouse in this location is one of the toughest mice to be found here, but it drops the map to the Great Gnarled Tree.
Hunters can also collect Cherry Potions in this location in order to hunt for the Cherry Mouse.

 

Requirements

To hunt in the Calm Clearing a Hunter must have:
    A Hunter’s Title of at least Journeyman.
     The Whisker Woods Clearing Map Piece from a Granite Mouse in the Harbour.
And it is recommended that a Hunter should have:
    At least the Mouse Rocketine or Trebuchet and Wooden Base with Target, but preferably a stronger Weapon and/or Base.
    At least Marble Cheese.

 

Hunting Tips by Larry

Welcome to Whisker Woods!
The strange mice of this region seem to have taken on characteristics from the surrounding wildlife. One particular nasty Cyclops mouse may hold the key to traveling further into the woods…

 

New Mice

The Calm Clearing has 13 new mice that you won’t have encountered before. One of these mice – the Cherry Mouse – is only encountered in this location.

Bear	Chameleon	Cherry	Cyclops	Eagle Owl	Elven Princess
Foxy	Frog	Moosker	Shaman	Sylvan	Treant
Wiggler

 

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Cheese and Mice

Here we give an overview of the mice that can be encountered in this location, and how often you can expect to see them using various cheese.

The Mice of the Calm Clearing

Here is a breakdown of the various mice that can be found in the location, and what loot they might drop:

Mouse (Known Cheese Preferences)		Group (Weaknesses)	Potential Loot		Drop Rate
	Bear	Forest Guild		None
	Black Widow	Indigenous Mice		SUPER|brie+	Unknown
	Chameleon	Forest Guild		None
	Cherry	Forest Guild		1 Brie Potion	Unknown
				32 Cheddar Cheese	Unknown
				1 Cherry Potion	Unknown
				1 Greater Brie Potion	Unknown
				10 Marble Cheese	Unknown
				4-7 Swiss Cheese	Unknown
	Cyclops	Forest Guild		1 Cherry Potion	Unknown
				1 Gnarled Tree Map Piece (Max 1)	Unknown
				1 Simple Orb	Unknown
	Dwarf	Indigenous Mice		None
	Eagle Owl	Forest Guild		1 Cherry Potion	Unknown
	Elven Princess	Forest Guild		None
	Foxy	Forest Guild		Swiss Cheese	Unknown
	Frog	Forest Guild		None
	Moosker	Forest Guild		None
	Shaman	Forest Guild		None
	Sylvan	Forest Guild		None
	Treant	Forest Guild		1-6 Splintered Wood	~100%
	Wiggler	Forest Guild		None
Occassional Visitors (These mice are not always encountered in this location)
	Glitchpaw	Event Mice		Splintered Wood	Unknown

 

Mice Populations

Here is a breakdown of the populations of mice in the location based upon cheese used (these results come from our survey); the values given are a percentage of all attractions, and how many of these mice you are likely to attract in 100 hunts using base attraction:

(Please note, results with less than 1,000 hunts submitted have a low level of accuracy and should be used as guidelines only)

	Mouse	Cherry
	Bear	~28%
	Black Widow	~0%
	Chameleon	~20%
	Cherry	~10%
	Cyclops	~8%
	Dwarf	~0%
	Eagle Owl	~1%
	Elven Princess	~0%
	Foxy	~0%
	Frog	~0%
	Moosker	~0%
	Shaman	~14%
	Sylvan	~0%
	Treant	~20%
	Wiggler	~0%
Hunts Submitted		108
Base Attraction Rate		~93%

The difference in attraction rate between Brie and Swiss isn’t that much, so Swiss seems to be a more economical choice in the Calm Clearing.

Cherry cheese is required for hunting the Cherry Mouse, and also attracts more of the stronger mice in this location. As a result it can offer much better returns for experienced hunters in this location.

 

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Setup Options

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Goals

Here is a selection of Goals that a hunter may like to achieve:

Catch a Cyclops Mouse with the Map

The Cyclops mouse drops the map to the Great Gnarled Tree, but the mouse is uncommon and one of the most difficult mice in this location.
Getting more powerful trap components will definitely help you in this goal.

What you need most of all with the Cyclops is patience, expect to use several hundred pieces of cheese to catch one.

Cherry Cheese can be used to attract more Cyclops mice, however getting the potions requires that you either catch a Cyclops mouse or an Eagle Owl mouse. You may find that in the process of hunting for Cherry potions you also aquire the map.

 

Collect Splintered Wood

The Treant mouse drops splintered wood as loot, which has a variety of uses later in the game.
There’s no specific strategy to catching this mouse, but it is the best location at this stage of the game to collect this loot.

 

Best Location for a Journeyman to Hunt

Often it is debated whether a Journeyman should hunt in the Mountain or the Calm Clearing while they are trying to increase their rank.
Personally I believe the best path through Journeyman is to hunt in the Mountain until your goals are completed there, then move to the Calm Clearing.
The Calm Clearing has slightly more to offer in terms of Points, Gold and Loot, so is probably the best use of a Journeyman’s time.

 

Catch a Cherry Mouse

The Cherry Mouse is probably the most difficult mouse to catch in this location.

First you will need to acquire some Cherry Cheese, to do this you will need to collect Cherry Potions from either Cyclops or Eagle Owl mice, both of which are strong and quite rare.

Once you have the cheese you’ll find that that the Cherry Mouse isn’t too common, expect to have to use on average 10 pieces of Cherry Cheese for a Cherry Mouse attraction.

This goal is one that hunters might like to return to later on once they have acquired a stronger tactical trap.

 

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Related Articles

Previous <<	Region	Next >>
Harbour	Whisker Woods	Great Gnarled Tree
Related Cheese
Cherry

 

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Thank you to all who have contributed so far and will do so in the future.

 

This article contains information relevant to MouseHunt v3.1.23452.

This article includes survey results from 16-Jul-10 to 25-Jul-10.