Online Math Learning Interactive Area

Chapter 7: Dojo

You'll find much of the same mice here that you did in the Training Grounds. Except you won't find any White Mice or Dwarf Mice here. Instead, there are three notable new mice, each of which drop a special crafting item:

Student of the Cheese Claw — drops the Token of the Cheese Claw.
Student of the Cheese Fang — drops the Token of the Cheese Fang.
Student of the Cheese Belt — drops the... argh, you can figure this one out. :p

Most students will drop their corresponding token when caught, however there is a small minority (about 1%) that won't. It is not a bug, although it is often mistaken for one.
Each of these tokens are used to craft a specific type of cheese, used to catch a specific mouse in the Meditation Room. Here are the cheeses and their recipes:

All recipes above make 3 pieces of cheese. Note you can't double these recipes to make double the cheese; the quantities have to be entered exactly. The good news is you only have to enter each recipe once; once you do, it can be recalled from the "Previously Crafted" drop-down box, as long as you have the ingredients.
Once you have crafted some of these special cheeses, you can try your luck using them in the Meditation Room. Note that the cost of traveling is only 25 each way, so you can choose how often you want to go.
Your goal is to catch one of each type of Master. Once you have caught one of a certain type, do not continue hunting with that cheese. Either switch to a different crafted cheese, or return to the Dojo ground floor.

Combine all three shards (just throw one of each into the recipe) to create the Master's Seal.
Now return to the Dojo ground floor, and be on the lookout for the Ambush Trap Blueprints. These may be dropped by either the Assassin Mouse or the Worker Mouse.
Once you have it (you may have already got it while hunting the students), you may attempt to craft the Ambush.

Keep in mind, however, that as a Grandmaster, you will need to use a red box, and thus may fail, losing all your ingredients.
The chance of failure seems to be about 50%. There is no way to affect this probability; it is not affected by your percentage progress across your Grandmaster rank, or the order in which you put the ingredients in. The only "safe" way of crafting the Ambush is to wait until Legendary.
That said, here's the recipe:

So, to craft it or not? Personally, I'd say no. Partly because I am risk-averse (read: chicken :p), and partly because you are going to have to wait for Legendary anyway.
However, you may have a different opinion. Having the Ambush will improve performance in the Dojo. Just note that the closer you are to Legendary, the less you have to gain from crafting the Ambush early, and the greater your possibility of not being able to reacquire your ingredients before hitting Legendary, thus delaying your progress. If your progress bar is 70% or more, you should definitely wait for Legendary.
In any case, continue hunting until you reach Legendary, collecting as many tokens as you can.

If you're having trouble collecting tokens, and you have the SUPER|Brie+ to spare, you could try crafting Maki cheese, which greatly increases the attraction rate of Students. The recipe is as follows (makes 3 pieces):

If you were waiting to craft the Ambush, or had failed the first time and reacquired the ingredients, you may craft it safely now. :)
If you still do not have the Ambush Trap Blueprints, go to the Meditation Room and just use Brie. Or, you may use any Swiss you may have received from King's Rewards, to minimize gold loss. You will catch a lot of Hapless Mice; you may have noticed this mouse in the Dojo, and cursed its low point and gold return. However, the Hapless Mice in the Meditation Room have a chance of dropping the Ambush Trap Blueprints; as the Hapless is very easy to catch, you should be getting the Blueprints soon enough.

Custom Search