Bristle Woods Rift Guide

Minimum rank: Grand Duke / Grand Duchess

Recommended setup:

- Trap: Your best Rift

trap

- Cheese: Brie String Cheese

for normal hunt, and Runic String Cheese

to catch the boss

- Trap / Base with unique attribute here: None

Boss mouse: Absolute Acolyte Mouse

Main Goal:
- Craft Timesplit Dissonance Trap

and Clockwork Base

using Timesplit Rune

as the material obtained from Mysterious Rift Box

dropped by Absolute Acolyte Mouse

- Purchase Riftstalker Codex

from Bristle Woods Rift - General Store

Walkthrough Guide:

1. Accessing Bristle Woods Rift

First things first, in order to access Bristle Woods Rift, hunters need to have Rift Detector from the Living Garden - Cartographer or Twisted Garden.

2. Entering the Tower

You will start outside the Tower. You can hunt here, but there is no point hunting outside. Lets enter the tower.

There are 13 chambers you can choose to enter later. Each chamber requires you to do specific thing to exit. You can always return to any chamber later as you get stronger in this place. For the details of each chamber, click here.

As for the first time entering the tower, you will always be placed in Gearworks chamber. In this place, the mice drop Tiny Sprocket which works as the currency in this area.

Equip Brie String Cheese to hunt here to get 25 loots to exit this chamber.

Only Rift

type item is counted as the loot here, for example: Enerchi

from Enerchi Charm

is not counted, but Calcified Rift Mist

does. To quickly clear chamber, you can equip and activating Quantum Quartz

later if you have enough of it of course.

Refer to Bonus Loot Setup section below for the setup to maximise your loots.

As you exit this place, you will have 3 chamber portals to choose. If this is your first time hunting here, get in the Ancient Laboratory portal if it is available to continue the progress.

You might also getIngress chamber portal, but you can skip it for now as it gives optional buff.. or curse.

Any Lucky Tower or Hidden Treasury portal is also nice to enter if you want, although it is optional.

Again for the details of each chamber, click here.

3. Brew Ancient String Cheese using Ancient String Cheese Potion

Adventure: Brew Ancient String Cheese

Collect Ancient String Potions in Ancient Labs

Brew Ancient String Cheese

In this place, your target is to get as many Ancient String Cheese Potion as you can as you need to brew Ancient String Cheese to hunt mice with better loots.

There is no special strategy here, just hunt normally with Brie String Cheese as the previous chamber to drain the loot to exit this place.

Brew the Ancient String Cheese using Ancient String Cheese Potion

You need to have at least 15 Ancient String Cheese

to unlock Runic Labotarory chamber - to be confimed

4. Brew Runic String Cheese using Runic String Cheese Potion

Adventure: Brew Runic String Cheese

Collect Runic String Potions in Runic Laboratories

Brew Runic String Cheese

Similar to Ancient Laboratory chamber, you need to get as many Runic String Cheese Potion. To do so, equip your Ancient String Cheese to hunt the mice here.

If you are running out of Ancient String Cheese, you can use Brie String Cheese as bait to get the required loots exit this chamber and return here later with enough Ancient String Cheese.

Brew the Runic String Cheese using Runic String Cheese Potion

You need to have at least 20 Runic String Cheese

to unlock Timewarp chamber - to be confimed

5. Get Ancient Hourglass by catching Chronomaster Mouse

Adventure: Unlock the Secrets of Time

Catch a Chronomaster Mouse in a Timewarp Chamber

Get Ancient Hourglass

Equip your Runic String Cheese

to attract and catch Chronomaster Mouse

in Timewarp chamber.

Having the hourglass unlocks the necessary Time Sand

collecting task.

6. Collect Time Sand

Adventure: Unlock the Secrets of Time

Collect Time Sand anywhere in the Bristle Woods Rift

You can collect Time Sand

now from any mice in Bristle Woods Rift using Runic String Cheese

The best chamber to farm the sand is at the Timewarp chamber.

Remember that if you are running out of Runic String Cheese, you can re-enter Runic Laboratory to farm the Runic String Cheese Potion to brew more cheese.

You need around 40-60 Time Sand to unlock the final chamber where the boss mouse resides: Acolyte chamber - to be confimed

But before that, we need to do things.

You might also want to farm Quantum Quartz, and continue farming Tiny Sprocket.

Details will be covered next.

7. Collect Quantum Quartz

Before entering the boss chamber, you can strengthen your stats by getting the optional Buffs. To do so, Quantum Quartz is going to be a great help.

The best place to farm Quantum Quartz is the Lucky Tower chamber as mice here drops it.

Alternatively, you can buy it in the Marketplace.

As you continue your journey in this Rift area, you might eventually get Guard Barracks or Frozen Alcove chamber which has helpful Buffs for you. Details of each is in the Chamber table details.

You can also use Portal Scrambler

to reset the remove and generate new portals.

Portal Rekindling Key

is also available to unfreeze a portal if you have the Frozen Portal Curse.

8. Catch Absolute Acolyte Mouse

Adventure: Enter the Acolyte Chamber and defeat the Absolute Acolyte Mouse!

Enter the Acolyte Chamber

DO NOT ENTER THIS CHAMBER WITH ACTIVE UNLUCKY ALARM CURSE.

For details on how to remove this curse, clear the Security chamber. As usual, you can always refer to the Chamber table details.

Equip your Runic String Cheese

here.

To capture the boss mouse, hunters need to do certain tasks in order:

Adventure: Enter the Acolyte Chamber and defeat the Absolute Acolyte Mouse!

Fully charge the Timesplit Obelisk

i. Charge the Timesplit Obelisk

Charge the obelisk by hunting normally to get at least 100 Rift loots.

This is the part where the Quantum Quartz

matter. Make sure you activate it during this phase.

Adventure: Enter the Acolyte Chamber and defeat the Absolute Acolyte Mouse!

Drain the Acolyte's Sand

ii. Drain the boss' Sand

This works similarly as above

Drain the boss' sand by hunting normally until it reaches zero and you can start catching it.

If the Hunter's Time Sand

reaches zero they will be transported to a Gearworks chamber. Hunters must then gather more Time Sand

before they will be able to find and enter this chamber again. You can continue where you left off, as the game saves the state when you left, including the Obelisk charge or the boss' sand amount.

You can also retreat from this chamber anytime you want and return later and there is no penalty for doing so.

Adventure: Enter the Acolyte Chamber and defeat the Absolute Acolyte Mouse!

Catch an Absolute Acolyte Mouse

Get Mysterious Rift Box

iii. Catch the Absolute Acolyte Mouse

As you catch the boss mouse, you will get a reward box: Mysterious Rift Box which contains Tiny Sprocket and Clockwork Cog. If you are super lucky, you can get Timesplit Rune in it. Hold on to it as I will explain about it later.

Now the very first recommended top priority extremely-important item to get is the Riftstalker Codex as it improves your power by A LOT!! And the best part is, you can purchase it now. Just head on to Bristle Woods Rift - General Store to purchase it with your Clockwork Cog from the boss mouse. Null Gauntlet is also a pre-requisite to buy this item.

That is it, folks! But wait, there is more!!

You can strengthen your stats in this location more by collecting Tiny Sprocket.

You remember that I mention it as the currency here, right?

Bonus Loot Setup

In order to get as many loots as you can, you can use the following setup:

Trap:

- Biomolecular Re-atomizer Trap

- generating random Rift Circuitry

- Christmas Crystalabra Trap

- generating random Calcified Rift Mist

- or your best Rift

trap

Base:

Your best Rift

base

Charm:

Rift Vacuum Charm

- generating random Calcified Rift Mist

Others:

Quantum Quartz

is ON

Thanks to Norm@Discord and Dregen@Discord for the Bonus Loot Setup reminder and info

Thanks to qarkusiva@Discord for the Crystalabra info

Optional

The Bristle Woods Rift - Trapsmith has interesting items to offer:

- Timesplit Dissonance Trap

- Currently the strongest Rift

trap

- Clockwork Base

Each requires a number of Timesplit Rune

and Clockwork Cog

You can buy them using your Tiny Sprocket

in Bristle Woods Rift - General Store

Bristle Woods Rift Treasure Map

is also available if you want to get extra Potions or Sprocket:

Bristle Woods Rift Treasure Chest

Rare Bristle Woods Rift Treasure Chest

Click here for the list of each mice with details on the necessary bait and location: Bristle Woods Rift mice.

Alternatively to farm both, you can keep catching the boss mouse

As the number of times you catch Absolute Acolyte Mouse

grows, you get better reward:

- Mysterious Rift Box

- Only obtainable on the 1st-9th Absolute Acolyte Mouse

5% chance to contain 1 Timesplit Rune

- Mysterious Bronze Rift Box

- Only obtainable on the 10th-99th Absolute Acolyte Mouse

15% chance to contain 1 Timesplit Rune

- Mysterious Silver Rift Box

- Only obtainable on the 100th-499th Absolute Acolyte Mouse

100% chance to contain 1 Timesplit Rune

- Mysterious Gold Rift Box

- Only obtainable on the 500th Absolute Acolyte Mouse

onwards

100% chance to contain 2 Timesplit Rune

- to be confimed

Just click on the box for details of the content rewards

Boss Speed Run Farming Tips

"About the 3 mini games (chambers), only 1 is useful, (which is) Guard Barrack to keep the Portal Paladin Mouse away, the recommended setup is Magical String Cheese and Rift Vacuum Charm. After getting the Paladin's Bane Buff, 49 Luck can 100% catch all mice except Absolute Acolyte Mouse. Speed run is possible."