Ranks beyond MHBasics in a Shellnut V2.0

Ranks beyond MHBasics in a Shellnut

Refer to this guide if you're lost and not sure what to do at your rank. If you spot anything missing from earlier ranks, clear those first if appropriate. For earlier ranks, please refer to MHBasics - <https://mousehuntbasics.wordpress.com>. If you need details or help with any specifics in any area, you can always refer to the Reddit guides or ask in the discord.

Companion guide - Traps & Bases Analysis: <https://pastebin.com/BDTXTGMC>
Check if your Limited Edition (LE) trap allows you to skip any standard traps.

V1.1 13/5/2021 - Valour Rift Guide added.
V1.2 16/5/2021 - FI section added.
V1.3 21/9/2021 - Recommended cheese to hunt with added
V1.4 3/4/2022 - Added Sky Palace and recommended order to buy BiS traps
V1.5 29/5/2022 - Updated trap list at Archduke
V1.6 21/11/2022 - Added FoFo section
V1.6.1 15/2/2023 - Updated Count to reflect that Kalor adventure needs to be cleared before QFT can be bought. Thanks to Kiyoi Lyyneheym#8134 for pointing this out
V1.7 22/2/23 - Integrated FoFo into FI section

V2.0 13/8/23 - Added Bountiful Beanstalk.

Baron  (now available at MHBasics)
- Once Baron, head to Fort Rox (Frox). ACRONYM throughout, unless Clockapult at twilight only (Chrome or better charm) [Use only Crescent/Moon Cheese at night]
- Do Frox until you have Droid Archmagus Trap
- Go to Fiery Warpath, catch Warmonger. Build Sphynx Wrath
- After FW, go to Muridae Market (MM), rebuild General Store -> Charm Shoppe -> Cartographer (alternatively buy Artisan with KC to rebuild Cartographer directly)
- Go back to Frox, upgrade until you have Interdimensional Crossbow Trap
- Go to Living Garden, farm Dewthief Cheese & A essence
- Head to Sand Dunes, trigger a stampede with Bonzana Charm, buy Chow charms from shop, farm 15 C essence with IDCT
- Buy a Rift Detector to compete the adventure.

If you're still not Count yet at this point,
- Do Frox until you get Meteor Prison Core Trap (optional)
- Rebuild whatever's left at MM
- Farm more Living Garden essence for Living Base later

Collect these before moving on:
Queso Dowsing Rod, DAT, IDCT, Rift Detector

Items to prep for next rank: as much SB as you can


Count
- (optional) Snipe in Queso River to get some SB (use either MPCT or Judge Droid Trap)
- Leech Queso Canyon Grand Tour maps (get Bland Queso, Hot/Flamin'... etc)
- Catch lots of Nachous (preferably with Tonic) for Nachore
- Buy Overgrown Ember Stone Base (skip if you think your current LE base does well enough, see CRE) & Blazing Ember Spear Trap
- Upgrade Pump to level 6, clear Inferna adventure
- Buy Queso Geyser map piece
- Do small/medium/large erupts, trigger Epic eruption
- Do 1 hunt for Kalor adventure, buy Queso Fount Trap
- Go to Gnawnia Rift, use QFT/OESB to get Riftiago potions -> Riftiago cheese (alternatively buy potions with KC)
- Use Riftiago Cheese to farm Resonator cheese
- Catch Goliath Field Mouse, buy Crystal Tower
- Snipe & leech until rank up, or do Sunken City adventure.

Collect these before moving on:
OESB, BEST, QFT, CT, Fungal Cavern Map Piece

Items to prep for next rank: Cherry/Gnarled/Stagnant Charms, Super Rift Vacuum Charms, Glowing Gruyere Cheese, Forgotten Charms, King's Credits, Essence of Destruction, Enigmatic Core


Duke
-  (optional) Do Whisker Woods Rift, get Fracture Base [use at least Brie String Cheese for all Rift areas]
- Do Burroughs Rift, get Null Gauntlet
- Clear Fungal Cavern adventure and get Labyrinth map piece.
- Enter Labyrinth, do a 49 clue or less (do not reach 50) Treasury run, buy Labyrinth Base (Compass Magnet Base is NOT a replacement for this!). [Glowing Gruyere Cheese is basically mandatory for all hunts in Labyrinth/Zokor, use King's Credits to buy Shuffler's Cubes as needed for runs]
- Do 3 Labyrinth/Zokor runs (1x Scholar, 1x Fealty, 1x Tech at 80 clues or more), build Endless Labyrinth Trap.
- (Optional) Do 1 more Tech run, upgrade ELT to Infinite Labyrinth Trap.
- Do 1x Scholar run, build Event Horizon Trap
- (Optional) Do 1x Fealty run, build Temporal Turbine. [not recommended due to cost]
- (Optional) Farm in Burroughs Rift, get 50 Rift Circuits to buy Multi-Crystal Laser

Collect these before moving on:
Fracture Base, Null Gauntlet, EHT, Moussu Picchu Climbing Route

Items to prep for next rank: 3x Ful'Mina Tooth, Chrome Stormwrought Ballista Upgrade Kit, Quantum Quartz, Portal Scramblers, Portal Rekindling Keys, Enerchi Charms, Ancient String Cheese, Fire Bowl Fuel


Grand Duke
- (Optional) Unlock Ancient String Cheese in King's Calibrator with extra KC
- Go to Moussu Picchu, farm potions.
- Raise Wind (arcane) intensity to max, farm Arcanevines (100/0)
- Raise Rain (shadow) intensity to max, farm Shadowvines (0/100)
- Raise Wind again until 50/50.
- Dragonvine Cheese to max both together
- Complete Ful'Mina adventure, buy Chrome Storm Wrought Ballista Trap
- (optional) Buy Dragon Slayer Cannon outright here if you can afford it
- Complete earlier Epic eruption
- Go to Bristle Woods Rift, get Riftstalker Codex
- Go to Furoma Rift, repair Battery 4, get Attuned Enerchi Induction Base
- Repair Batt 7/8, get MYNORCA (if no Laser)

In any order:
- Head back to Bristle Woods Rift, grind 50 Clockwork Cogs to get Timesplit Dissonance Trap (maximum should be 10 AAs)
- Buy a Living Base from Gnawnia Rift
- Complete Twisted Carmine Adventure in the Living Garden complex using Living Base
- Farm/buy Gauntlet potions, complete King's Gauntlet adventure
- Finishing repairing rest of batteries (filler until you hit AD)


Collect these before moving on:
CSWBT, Riftstalker Codex, AEIB, MYNORCA

Items to prep for next rank: Champion's Fire, Gauntlet String Cheese, Cyclone Stones, Bottled Wind


Archduke
- Finish farming for TDT if not complete
- Do Valour Rift adventure and cry/grind/bulwark until you get at least TE10 Prestige Base and Chrome Celestial Dissonance Trap (Guide here: https://pastebin.com/UCAqCgGg)
- Grab remaining Best in Slot Traps in this order: (also see linked traps guide)
- Ember Prison Core Trap (Queso Canyon, basically free)
- Chrome School of Sharks (Sunken City, godly amount of luck makes Hydro Islands good)
- Either of the Physical traps [Smoldering Stone Sentinel Trap (Queso Geyser) or Chrome MonstroBot (Fiery Warpath)]
- Either of the Tactical traps [Gouging Geyserite Trap (Queso Geyser) <recommended> or Chrome Sphynx Wrath (Fiery Warpath), may be skipped in favour of a direct Sleeping Stone from FI]
- Dragon Slayer Cannon (Queso Geyser, makes Draconic islands decent)
- Chrome Temporal Turbine is *not* recommended
- Try to grab at least 1 BiS for each type before heading to Floating Islands
- Minimum for FI: SSST/CMB, SW, QFT, EHT, IDCT, SERT(?), CSWBT, EPCT
- Recommended for FI: SSST/CMB, CSW/GGT, CSoS, EHT, CTT(?), ILT, DSC, EPCT

- Get Oculus 2, clear adventure
- (Optional) Head to Folklore Forest once map piece has been obtained. Use ME for all recipes in FoFo.
- Foreword Farm (with GGT/CSW): Alternate planting Magic Parable Papyrus (for coins/papyrus) and Magic Mythical Mulch. MPP must be planted in all 3 plots simultaneously to attract Locust. If you cannot plant 3 MPP, plant Magical Mulch instead. Condensed Creativity is usually *OFF* here.
- Prologue Pond: Arm Gouda -> Get Grubs -> Craft & arm Grubbeen -> Get Clams -> Craft Clamembert (do not hunt with this) -> Craft Stormy Clamembert. Toggle Chum off and on as needed for Coins and Ink. If you have Stormy Clamembert potions, use them. Condensed Creativity should always be *ON* when arming Stormy and *OFF* otherwise.
- Table of Contents: Hunt outside/leech FFGT for your initial batch of Draft Derby Curd. Craft and write with 2D cheese as your main source of Curd (CC optional). Gather Papyrus, Ink, and Curd to make FD cheese. Write with FD cheese for Gnawbels (CC compulsory).
- (optional) Buy Tome of the Mind's Eye Trap

- Grind and buy F1, F2, CF2
- LAI: Shrine in 1st or 2nd position, make sure at most 1 empty tile (cycle otherwise)
- HAI: [Oculus 1-3] Stack any 3 non-cheese resources [Oculus 4-7] Cache + 2 of a kind, or 3 of a kind
- Once Oculus 8, farm Corsair's Curd at High Altitude (x16 curds), seals at Low Altitude (2 pirate tiles) while getting Tier 1 Forgotten.
- Use seals to do pirate maps while slowly grinding for the rest of FI traps. (Refer to companion Traps guide for order)
- Oculus 9: Cycle for 2 Keys 1 Pirate or Cloud Curd for both LAI and HAI. You can also keep on doing 2 Pirates at LAI.

- Sky Palace: Get the boosters as soon as possible, SPs do not interfere with LAI and HAI sequence
- [Oculus 1-8] Cycle exclusively for 4 Loot Caches (4K) [Oculus 9] Cycle for 4 Seals (4S)/3 Key 1 Seal (3K1S) and 4 Pirates (4P) mixed for Sky Palace Maps. Otherwise stick with 4K.

- Head to FoFo if you haven't already (with CF2) and grind for all upgrades (excl. Farm 4, Farm 7), followed by Charming PrinceBot and Dark Magic Mirror
- Buy the rest of the FI traps (see Traps guide for order)
- Foreword Farm (with T2): Alternate planting Magical Parable Papyrus (for coins) and Magical Twisted Parable Papyrus (for Papyrus). The same type of plant must be planted in all 3 plots simultaneously to attract Locust and Midge respectively. If you cannot plant 3 of the same, plant Magical Mulch instead.

- Once Viceroy, buy Bountiful Beanstalk map piece
- Do not enter BB unless you have the Golden Quill (ToC 6) and Charming PrinceBot.
- (optional) Leech Bountiful Beanstalk maps
- Farm or buy Beanster Cheese.
- If farming, farm only at Ultimate Zones - you may do Extremes for your first few runs.
- Catch at least one Vinneus to obtain your first Fabled Fertilizer.

- Use the FF to plant a Short Vine and enter a Dungeon Floor.
- Farm Lavish Beanster at Ultimate Zones - you may do Extremes for your first few runs. (use Leaping Lavish when you have it to skip Standard and Super)
- CC is optional, use it if you can afford it
- Plant Short Vines until you have enough FF to plant Medium Vines (12)

- Use FF to plant Medium Vines and enter a Ballroom Floor.
- Farm Royal Beanster and Golden Harps at Extreme or Ultimate Zones. (use Leaping Lavish when you have it to skip Standard and Super)
- Again, CC is optional, use it if you can afford it
- Return to planting Short Vines if you run out of Lavish.
- Plant Medium Vines with Ruby Remover if you have too many Ruby Beans and not enough Harps
- Craft some Leaping Lavish with Harps to speed up your runs (Leap any room that isn't Extreme or Ultimate, if plenty of cheese outright leap anything that isn't Ultimate)
- When you have enough Harps (~30k) and Ruby Beans (~4k), you may use Harps to trigger the giant on the very first room to farm FF quicker.
- Plant Medium/Short Vines until you have enough FF to plant a Tall Vine + 12 FF to restart the cycle at Medium

- Buy a Giant's Golden Key and Golden Goose Feather if you do not have them - you need a Key and Feather for each Tall Vine you plant
- Leap until you find a Ultimate Egg room
- Turn on CC and arm the best trap setup you can (probably not UCs and Embers)
- Buy Legendary KingBot ASAP
- Restart the cycle at Medium Vine
- Buy IDMMT when you can



- You have now completed the game, time to shore.



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