Fort Rox - Heart of the Meteor Guide

Minimum rank: Baron / Baroness

- Trap: Law, Shadow, Arcane

- Cheese: Regular cheese, Moon Cheese, Crescent Cheese, and Sunrise Cheese to catch the boss

- Charm for unique attribute here: Nightlight Charm

Boss mouse: Monster Of The Meteor Mouse, Heart Of The Meteor Mouse

- Defeat Monster Of The Meteor Mouse to get materials to craft Droid Archmagus Trap and Interdimensional Crossbow Trap

- Defeat Heart Of The Meteor Mouse to get and Meteoric Core Fragments to craft Meteor Prison Core Trap

Twilight - 35 hunts. (130-96) - Use Shadow trap

Midnight - 25 hunts (95-70) - Use Shadow trap

Pitch Black - 10 hunts. (69-60) - Use Arcane trap

Utter Darkness - 25 hunts. (59-36) - Use Arcane trap

First Light - 35 hunts. (35-Dawn) - Use Arcane trap

Walkthrough Guide:

1. Accessing Fort Rox

Adventure: Gain Access to Fort Rox

Obtain the Fort Rox Battle Summons from the Claw Shot City Cartographer

First things first, in order to access Fort Rox, hunters need to purchase Fort Rox Battle Summons from the Claw Shot City - Cartographer for Fool's Gold x 25

2. Collect 50 Meteorite Piece to build your defenses

Adventure: Prepare Your Defenses

Collect 50 Meteorite Pieces

Build the Basic Wall

Build the Mage Tower

To start, collect the Meteorite Piece dropped from the mice here during the Day.

Use regular cheese, such as Gouda Cheese or Brie Cheese and equip your Law trap to hunt them

After you have at least 50 Meteorite Piece, you can start building the Basic Wall which costs:

50 Meteorite Piece and 30,000 gold

I also recommend you to build the Mage Tower as it only costs:

5,000 gold

To activate the Mage Tower, you need to have Tower Mana. It is dropped by Mining Materials Manager Mouse during the Day. If you do not have one, you can buy from Marketplace now, or later if you are already veteran in this place, then you can also get it from Fort Rox - General Store.

3. Enter the Night, get 1 Howlite

Adventure: Prepare Your Defenses

Get Moon Cheese

Get Crescent Cheese

Face the Night

Adventure: Discover the Source of Howlite

Collect Howlite

Now that we have the Basic Wall ready, we can start hunting at Night.

Click the Defend Fort button to enter the Night mode.

The first phase is Twilight, which lasts for 35 hunts. If this is your first time hunting in Fort Rox, you might not last to Midnight phase, which is normal. Do not get discouraged.

The goal here is to get at least one Howlite as it is an important material to build your next defense, which is the Ballista.

Change your trap to Shadow as the mice here has weakness to this element.

Also, Equip your Moon Cheese or Crescent Cheese to avoid meeting the Battering Ram Mouse which will reduce your wall HP by a lot. The moon one is better, but Crescent is ok if you want to save the Moon Cheese for future use.

If you do not have enough of these cheese, you can either purchase it from Fort Rox - Cheese Shoppe for several Meteorite Piece or buy it from Marketplace.

If you are lucky, you can get Tower Mana by capturing Night Shift Materials Manager Mouse during the Night.

Once you have the Howlite, I suggest you to use the 'Retreat' button to return to the Day.

4. Build your first Ballista

Adventure: Discover the Source of Howlite

Build the Basic Ballista

With your first Howlite, you can now build the Basic Ballista, which costs:

1 Howlite and 30,000 gold

Also repair your wall during the Day, before you enter the Night.

5. Build defenses more using Howlite from Night mice

Adventure: Discover the Source of Howlite

Dig the Small Moat

Build the Howlite Wall

What is next is to repeat the process to get more Howlite from the Night mice enough to build defenses that exclusively cost Howlite.

These two are a must to progress your adventure book:

The Small Moat costs:

10 Howlite and 30,000 gold

The Howlite Wall costs:

15 Howlite and 45,000 gold

The following is optional, but still nice to have:

The Silver Ballista costs:

25 Howlite and 45,000 gold

6. Build Cannon using 5 Bloodstone from Night mice

Adventure: Discover the Source of Bloodstone

Collect Bloodstone

Build the Small Cannon

Now that you have stronger defenses, you can last more during the Night, probably even reaching Midnight or Pitch phase.

If you reach Pitch phase, switch your trap to Arcane as the mice during this phase is weak to the element.

The target is to get 5 Bloodstone. Since going to the night requires you to start from the Twilight phase, probably it is best to hunt during the Night until your wall breaks.

If your wall crumbles before you get enough Bloodstone, you can keep the stone until you have 5 to build the necessary Small Cannon, or you can build any other optional defenses to last more during the Night.

The Small Cannon costs:

5 Bloodstone, 20 Howlite and 3,000 gold

7. Defeat Monster Of The Meteor Mouse

Adventure: Survive the Night and Defeat the Monster

Make it through the night and reach Dawn

Catch Monster of the Meteor

The more you build your defenses during the Day, the more you can last more during the Night.

The more you can last more during the Night, the better the materials you can gather to build defenses during the Day.

Repeat this process until your wall can survive the Night til the Dawn phase.

During the Dawn phase, keep using the Moon Cheese or Crescent Cheese to avoid the Battering Ram Mouse, and so you will only have to hunt the Dawn Guardian Mouse, and the boss itself, Monster Of The Meteor Mouse.

The way the mouse damage your wall stays the same at first, however with miss of the Monster, the damage of every mouse in the area is multiplied by additional number, for example, as you miss one Monster, the damage of Dawn Guardian Mouse increases from 3 to 6. Second miss, will make it to be 9, 12 and so on.

These two mice drop the Dawn Dust, which are the materials to craft new Traps:

Droid Archmagus Trap

Interdimensional Crossbow Trap

Other materials required to craft each of the trap above are dropped by Monster Of The Meteor Mouse at low rate:

Animatronic Bird

Silver Bolt

8. Get Fort Rox Portal Core and Fort Rox Portal Console from Fort Rox Treasure Map

Now that you are strong enough to farm Dawn Dust, the next mission is to defeat the Heart Of The Meteor Mouse.

In order to reach it, first you need to purchase Fort Rox Portal Projector from Fort Rox - General Store which costs:

1 Fort Rox Portal Core

1 Fort Rox Portal Console

100 Dawn Dust

The Core and Console is a rare drop from Fort Rox Treasure Map even if it is dusted. Based on Horntracker, the drop rate is 12% for normal map, and 25% for dusted map. Each chest can only contain one of the Portal items.

9. Use Fort Rox Portal Projector to enter the Meteor Heart to defeat Heart Of The Meteor Mouse

With the Fort Rox Portal Projector in hand, you can activate the Portal via the HUD during the Dawn phase.

- Sunrise Cheese x 10

You can buy the cheese from the Fort Rox - Cheese Shoppe for 25 Dawn Dust. It is also available at the Marketplace.

- Your best Arcane Trap

There are many options here, but any High Luck Charm or Regal Charm might be useful.

Although if you want to 100% catch it at the first try, you can always use Ultimate Charm, even though not recommended.

After you catch it, you will be sent back to Dawn at exactly the same time you enter the Portal, and your Sunrise Cheese will automatically disarm. You will also get Meteoric Core Fragments which is the main ingredients to craft Meteor Prison Core Trap.

The following is the cost:

1,200,000 gold

1 Meteoric Core Fragments

10 Bloodstone

60 Howlite

And in this place, you can upgrade your new Meteor Prison Core Trap to be Ember Prison Core Trap.

Preparation for next

If this is your first time clearing Fort Rox, then the next area to visit is Queso River. I will do a guide for this area next week or so. Stay tune! =)

Tower Mana

Moon Cheese

Crescent Cheese

Sunrise Cheese

Animatronic Bird - was millions back then, but now it is cheap

Silver Bolt - was millions back then, but now it is cheap

Fort Rox Portal Core

Fort Rox Portal Console

Thanks to Neobilly@Discord for the info that Sunrise cheese can be bought at the Marketplace