Cheese is the ultimate objective on most maps, with some modules being an exception.
Item
The objective of most maps is to fetch the cheese and bring it back to the hole.
For each cheese you bring back to the hole, you obtain one cheese currency. Bringing cheese back to the hole also increases the score you have for the room, based on how you placed (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc...), or if you died.
When a player brings the cheese to the hole, "Cheeeeeese *-* (XX.XXs)" appears in the chat to the player, the "X"s being the timestamp of when you entered the hole with the cheese.
When you die, it says "No cheese for you! ^_^".
| Rank | Points | Particle effect |
|---|---|---|
| First | 16 | 
|
| Second | 14 | 
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| Third | 12 | 
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| Fourth or below | 10 | 
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| Death[1] | 1 | 
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| Did not finish[2] | 0 | ∅ |
| AFK death | −1 | ∅ |
Currency
By bringing cheese to the hole, you obtain cheese as a currency in the shop, as well as increasing the "Gathered cheese" stat on your profile. Cheese currency is used to create a tribe, create maps in the Map Editor, and purchase apparel items and Shaman items in the shop, while the "Gathered cheese" stat unlocks titles.
Note that when you buy items with shop cheese, it does not subtract from the number of cheese gathered on your profile.
Since 2020, shop cheese only increases for the first 60 gathered cheese in a 30 minutes interval, starting from when you gather the first cheese. After that, gathered cheese only increases the stat on your profile, but not the cheese count in the shop, until the 30 minutes is up. For example, if you completed 58 normal maps and 2 dodue (multiple cheese) maps where you collected 3 cheese each, your shop cheese count will increase by 58 + (2 * 3) = 64 and will not increase further until 30 minutes has passed since the first completed map. This limit was implemented to discourage cheese farming.
Coin
Main article: Coin § Cheese coin
Currency can also be traded by using cheese coins (cc). Cheese coins are a consumable that adds cheese currency to your shop when consumed. They are tradable before they are used, and can be obtained in events, by completing daily quests, or purchased from village rooms using shaman, racing, bootcamp, survivor, or adventure ticket coins.
Dodue
Dodue cheese
Main article: DodueDodue lets mice collect up to 3 cheese on the same map. For every cheese picked up, the mouse's mass increase and the ability to jump delays.
Trivia
- The cloud particle effect
appears when the cheese is obtained. - It is possible to obtain cheese via promotions (such as the "/facebook" chat command or confirming your e-mail in game), but this is only for shop cheese — it does not increase the "gathered cheese" stat on your profile.
- "No cheese for you! ^_^" is a reference to "No soup for you!" in Seinfeld.
- The cheese's size can be increased by allocating skill points into the appropriately named Big Cheese skill.
- It is possible to lose cheese in the shop following a ban for hack.
Shaman skill Big Cheese can increase the size of the cheese.
Shaman skill Chief's Food can transfer cheese from the shaman to a mouse.- The cheese was changed to a pumpkin
for 1 week for Halloween 2022, on 27 October 2022 (V1.726). - From 21 November 2013 (V1.125) to 18 March 2021 (V1.630), players could get 1 shop cheese for every 10 cheese gathered by players they had referred.
Gallery
Variants
See also
- Astrological cheese
- Cheese farm
- Currency on the Atelier 801 Wiki
- Double cheese and XP
- Fraise