Jungle of Dread

Named by the tribes, this dangerous jungle is home to some of the most terrifying mice ever discovered. Long ago the leaders of the tribes discovered a spicy cheese made with peppers capable of distracting the mighty beasts of the jungle. This peppered bait may be the key to luring these mice to a trap…

 

This article is currently out of date with the release of Longtail, we are adding the latest information as we find it.

 

 

1. Overview
   Requirements
   Hunting Tips by Larry
   New Mice
2. Cheese and Mice
   The Mice of the Jungle of Dread
   Mice Populations
3. Setup Options
   Normal Setup Options
   Limited Edition Setup Options
4. Goals
   Collect the Loot for the Ancient Box Trap
   Collect Fire Salt
   Collect Runic Cheese Curd Potions
   Points and Gold in the Jungle
   Collect Vanilla Beans
5. Related Articles

 

Overview

The Jungle of Dread is home to six very powerful Shadow mice, all of whom are only attracted to one specific Havarti cheese.
These mice each drop a different item of loot that is used to craft a special trap that is used to hunt for the Acolyte Mouse.
The Jungle is also home to one weaker Shadow mouse, that drops the Vanilla Bean used to craft Vanilla Stilton cheese.

Requirements

To hunt in the Jungle of Dread a Hunter must have:
    A Hunter’s Title of at least .
    Have crafted the Ocean Navigation Kit.
And it is recommended that a Hunter should have:
    A good Shadow Weapon.
    At least Gouda, or Havarti cheese.

Hunting Tips by Larry

My knowledge of this area is woefully inadequate, due to my total knee-knocking fear of entering here. Maybe when you learn some things about this area, you can give me some tips. How does that sound?

New Mice

There are 7 new mice to be found in the Jungle of Dread. All of which can only be caught with Shadow traps.
The Chitinous, Fetid Swamp, Jurassic, Magma Carrier, Primal and Stonework Warrior are all powerful Shadow mice, and offer good rewards in terms of points, gold and loot.
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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 Jungle of Dread

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

	Mouse	Power Type	Loot
	Chitinous	Shadow	Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece (Max 1) Up to 1 Fire Salt Up to 2 Runic Cheese Curd Potions Timeless Mystic Gem (Max 1)
	Fetid Swamp	Shadow	Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece (Max 1) Up to 1 Fire Salt Hinge of Eternity (Max 1) Up to 1Runic Cheese Curd Potion
	Jurassic	Shadow	Ancient Relic Staff (Max 1) Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece (Max 1) Up to 1 Fire Salt Up to 2 Runic Cheese Curd Potions
	Magma Carrier	Shadow	Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece (Max 1) Encrusted metal of Time (Max 1) Up to 1 Fire Salt Up to 3 Runic Cheese Curd Potions
	Pigmy Swarm	Shadow	Up to 1 Vanilla Bean
	Primal	Shadow	Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece (Max 1) Etheral Rope (Max 1) Up to 1 Fire Salt Up to 1 Runic Cheese Curd Potion
	Stonework Warrior	Shadow	Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece (Max 1) Engraved Solid Stone Slab (Max 1) Up to 1 Fire Salt Up to 1 Runic Cheese Curd Potion
	Sylvan	Physical	None

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:

	Mouse	Creamy Havarti	Crunchy Havarti	Gouda	Magical Havarti	Pungent Havarti	Spicy Havarti	Sweet Havarti	Vanilla Stilton
	Chitinous					97.61% (77.63)
	Fetid Swamp		98.20% (78.69)
	Jurassic	97.50% (77.93)
	Magma Carrier						97.51% (79.31)
	Pigmy Swarm			90.07% (60.27)					98.25% (81.81)
	Primal							97.69% (79.27)
	Stonework Warrior				98.07% (78.19)
	Sylvan	2.50% (2.00)	1.80% (1.44)	9.93% (6.64)	1.93% (1.54)	2.39% (1.90)	2.49% (2.03)	2.31% (1.88)	1.75% (1.46)
Hunts Submitted		3,689	1,185	18,231	3,672	2,156	6,613	6,438	1,747
Base Attraction Rate		79.93%	80.13%	66.91%	79.73%	79.53%	81.34%	81.15%	83.27%

As you can see above, each mouse has their own preference of cheese.
The only choice of cheese you have is when hunting for the Pigmy Swarm Mouse. Gouda is the cheaper option, but Vanilla Stilton has both a higher attraction rate and encounters less Sylvans.

 

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Setup Options

Here we present you with a selection of results from our survey to give you an idea of how well the various setups work, and what sort of results you may expect to see when using them. Please remember, if you do not see the setup you are interested in here, it is because we do not currently have enough hunts submitted with that setup. Please submit your hunts to our survey, and encourage others to do so too.

Here’s a quick overview of how the different power types perform overall:

Power Type		Performance (with Harvarti)	Performance (other cheese)	Comments
	Arcane	No Stars	No Stars	Normal against Sylvan, useless against all other mice
	Draconic			Useless against all mice
	Forgotten			Useless against all mice
	Hydro	No Stars	No Stars	Normal against Sylvan, useless against all other mice
	Parental	No Stars	No Stars	Normal against Sylvan, useless against all other mice
	Physical	No Stars	No Stars	Normal against Sylvan, useless against all other mice
	Shadow			Normal against Sylvan, Very Effective against all other mice
	Tactical	No Stars	No Stars	Normal against Sylvan, useless against all other mice

Normal Setup Options

We currently do not have enough results for normal setups.

Limited Edition Setup Options

Here is a selection of setups with weapons and bases that were only available in the game for a limited time.
Creamy Havarti

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Fire Salt per Hunt	Runic Cheese Curd Potions per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	81.87%	37.34%	10,388.90	1,461.66	0.25	0.42	2,466	2,813

Gouda

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Vanilla Beans per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Candy Cane Base	Yes	69.01%	95.02%	3,419.61	523.62	0.37	1,392	1,920
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	No	71.59%	85.87%	3,179.04	488.88	0.33	1,012	1,246
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	69.98%	98.99%	3,625.77	554.17	0.39	9,986	12,453

Magical Havarti

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Fire Salt per Hunt	Runic Cheese Curd Potions per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	81.88%	36.38%	6,828.47	1,145.55	0.25	0.26	2,284	2,605

Pungent Havarti

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Fire Salt per Hunt	Runic Cheese Curd Potions per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	80.71%	36.82%	11,550.11	1,281.20	0.24	0.41	1,224	1,410

Spicy Havarti

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Fire Salt per Hunt	Runic Cheese Curd Potions per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	82.73%	33.70%	11,732.92	1,432.18	0.23	0.54	4,781	5,437

Sweet Havarti

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Fire Salt per Hunt	Runic Cheese Curd Potions per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	83.24%	36.91%	4,671.10	1,502.60	0.26	0.28	4,040	4,576

Vanilla Stilton

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Vanilla Beans per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
Clockapult of Time	Magma Base	Yes	84.63%	99.41%	4,796.05	702.44	0.52	1,430	1,607

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Goals

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

Collect the Loot for the Ancient Box Trap

Each of the six Shadow mice in the Jungle drop one loot item required for crafting the Ancient Box Trap, therefore you will need to catch at least one of all the mice.

We have very limited information on the likelyhood of each mouse dropping, but it’s probably worth planning to catch four of them to give yourself a good chance of obtaining the loot.

Collect Fire Salt

Obviously the main reason to hunt in the Jungle of Dread is to collect Fire Salt for use in Inferno Havarti, but we don’t have a lot of information on whether hunting for one particular mouse is more efficient.

From the results above we can see that there’s not a lot of difference between the per hunt drop rates for the setups shown, so it’s quite likely that each mouse has been balanced to drop about the same amount of Fire Salt, but collecting Yellow Pepper Seeds is much quicker than any other type of seed, so hunting for the Primal may well be the best way to get Fire Salt quickly.

However, for an alternate source of Fire Salt, see below.

Collect Runic Cheese Curd Potions

Runic Cheese Curd Potions are dropped by the following mice: Chitinous (up to 2), Fetid Swamp (up to 1), Jurassic (up to 2), Magma Carrier (up to 3), Primal (up to 1) and Stonework Warrior (up to 1).

If you’re trying to collect these potions, the obvious choice is the hunt for the Magma Carrier, as they have the greatest potential drop, even though they are the hardest of the mice to catch.

Collecting Runic Cheese Curd Potions offers further potential returns when used against the Acolyte, sometimes the Mysterious Box dropped by Acolytes contains additional Fire Salt, and as such, despite the fact that most mice seem to drop the same amount of Fire Salt, hunting for the Magma Carrier with it’s greater number of Runic Cheese Curd Potions, may well prove beneficial to collect some extra Fire Salt.

Points and Gold in the Jungle

At first glance the points and gold rewards of the mice in the Jungle of Dread look quite nice, but lets take a look at the whole process of collecting the loot required to make the Havarti and what kind of points and gold returns can be expected.

For this we’ll use what appears to be the best setups available at the moment, these are the Chrome DrillBot in the Derr Dunes, the Kraken Chaos in the Elub Shore, the 2010 Blastoff Trap in the Nerg Plains and the Clockapult of Time in the Jungle of Dread. We’ll pair those with the Magma Base and a lucky golden shield.

We’ll compare the kind of points and gold per hunt you can expect to see when hunting in the Jungle, with what you’d be likely to see if you did the preparation work for the Jungle, but never actually crafted the cheese and went there.

Please note, some of these results include early figures for Crunchy Havarti and Pungent Havarti, so may not be accurate.

For collecting Gold, we’ll use the most profitable cheese, with Super Brie currently at 1,700 per piece these are Brie in Derr Dunes, and Gouda in Elub Shore and Nerg Plains, and the 15 piece recipes of Crunchy, Shell and Gumbo as that makes slightly more gold in all cases.

	With Jungle		Without Jungle
Cheese	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt
Creamy Havarti	2,979	1,240	1,994	1,382
Crunchy Havarti	4,300	881	4,176	911
Magical Havarti	4,777	651	4,545	625
Pungent Havarti	3,748	933	2,816	1,025
Spicy Havarti	2,449	1,204	1,375	1,358
Sweet Havarti	3,812	1,212	3,657	1,314

From these results it looks like if you’re after a profit, it’s much better to stay in whichever locations you were in and continue to hunt there.

For collecting Points, we’ll use the cheese with the best points regardless of cost, which is Super Brie in all three locations, and the 20 piece recipes of Crunchy, Shell and Gumbo.

	With Jungle		Without Jungle
Cheese	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt
Creamy Havarti	4,320	896	2,918	1,061
Crunchy Havarti	5,031	446	5,039	378
Magical Havarti	5,614	168	5,461	21
Pungent Havarti	4,836	561	3,608	625
Spicy Havarti	3,451	981	1,877	1,190
Sweet Havarti	4,477	838	4,456	872

From these results it looks as if you can get similar if not better points from using your Havarti.

Collect Vanilla Beans

Vanilla Beans are dropped quite regularly by the Pigmy Swarm Mouse.
A powerful Shadow trap will obviously help in catching this mouse, and high luck will encourage the Pigmy Swarm to drop slightly more often.
While it is possible to use Vanilla Stilton to get more Vanilla Beans, it is not recommended.
Due to a higher attraction rate and a lower encounter rate of Sylvans. you will get more Pigmy Swarm mice with Vanilla Stilton than you would with Gouda.
If your trap is strong enough to catch most of these mice, you will obviously get more Vanilla Beans dropping.
Using the above numbers as an example, we can see that Vanilla Stilton will collect about 52 Vanilla Beans for every 100 hunts, and use about 89 cheese in the process.
When using the 15-bean receipe for Vanilla Stilton, gaining 52 beans after using 89 would mean a loss in beans, so would obviously not be worth it.
When using the 5-bean receipe for Vanilla Stilton, we would gain those 52 beans after using only about 30 beans, but that would mean our net gain would be 22 beans.
We can see from the results with Gouda that this is signifcantly less than could be achieved using Gouda instead.

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Related Articles

Previous <<	Region	Next >>
Derr Dunes	Tribal Isles	Dracano
Elub Shore
Nerg Plains
Related Cheese
creamy Havarti	Crunchy Havarti	Gouda
Magical Havarti	Pungent Havarti	Spicy Havarti
Sweet Havarti	Vanilla Stilton

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

This article includes survey results from 10-Jan-10 to 31-May-10.