* Midnight secret
Ghost Mice, Glowing Mice, Old Mouse Coins and the Sewer Rat
Give a ghost or glowing mouse Cheese, follow it to the buried spot and dig with your Hoe. The recovered Old Mouse Coin feeds a cumulative well route that ends at the Sewer Rat reward.
The important distinction is simple: around 30 candidate mouse locations are not 30 one-time collectibles. The well asks for 30 coins across Midnight encounters, while the repeat behavior of any individual location remains unresolved.
Last verified: September 17, 2026. Spawn counts, weights, location repeatability and final English names remain cautious where the release evidence is incomplete.
System at a glance
Availability
Midnight only
Per encounter
1 Cheese
Recovery tool
Hoe
Well target
30 coins
Candidate points
About 30
Final reward
Sewer Rat
* Quick answer
The complete Ghost Mouse loop
The event is a short feed, follow and dig sequence. Prepare the item and tool before you start searching.
- 1Go out during Midnight exploration with Cheese and a Hoe.
- 2Find a ghost mouse at one of the active nighttime locations.
- 3Give the mouse one Cheese so the encounter begins.
- 4Follow it until it disappears into a buried spot.
- 5Use the Hoe on that spot to recover one Old Mouse Coin.
- 6Offer the coins at the old well until the counter reaches 30/30.
Do not confuse these
Spawn points: about 30 candidate locations, with the active set and weights unresolved.
Old Mouse Coins: repeatable encounter rewards counted toward one cumulative 30-coin well goal.
Sewer Rat: the reward after the well route reaches 30/30.
* Prepare
Make Cheese before the chase
Cheese is the real gate for most first attempts. Use the shared livestock and processing chain.
Unlock Goat access through livestock progression, collect Goat Milk, then put it in the Milk Processor.
The canonical recipe takes 1 day and lists a ¥189 sell price for Cheese. You do not need the Oil Press for this route.
Carry at least one piece per encounter. Quality is not used as a requirement in the current guide evidence.
* Search
Why the map is not a 30-item checklist
Only a random subset of candidate locations is expected to be active on a given Midnight.
Reports point to roughly 30 possible locations, but the exact active count and spawn weights are not confirmed. Treat the number as a candidate pool, not a guaranteed nightly count.
Search again on later nights. The route can be revisited, but whether an individual candidate point repeats is not confirmed.
Some points may sit beyond locked hunting or late-game access. Open relevant areas before trying to farm the whole route, without assuming every hunting license is required.
* Well progression
Turn in coins on the route toward the Waterfall Fishing Spot
The old well is the destination for the coins, not the place where you find the mice.
Take the side path on the route toward the Waterfall Fishing Spot and interact with the old well. Its counter is cumulative: keep returning with coins until it reaches 30/30. You can turn them in one at a time or across multiple visits.
At 30/30
The route gives the Sewer Rat reward and satisfies the hidden Kindness Repaid achievement condition. If an English name differs in your build, use the reward description and progression state as the stronger identifier.
* Time boundary
Finish the chase before the Midnight return
The mouse encounter has an earlier cutoff than the overall Midnight session.
Mouse / ghost cutoff
05:00 — player-tested disappearance
Midnight session
06:00 — global forced return
A mouse that disappears at 05:00 should not be confused with the global return home at 06:00. Leave enough time to follow and dig before the earlier cutoff.
* FAQ
Old Mouse Coin questions
Short answers for the points most likely to cause a wasted night.
No. The location reports describe candidate spawn points, while the 30 is the cumulative well requirement. The exact repeat behavior of an individual point is not confirmed.
During Midnight exploration. It is not a daytime farm or ordinary hunting interaction.
One Cheese per successful encounter. Carry Cheese before leaving so the mouse does not turn into a wasted sighting.
The Hoe. Feeding the mouse alone does not award the coin; follow it and dig where it disappears.
Use the side path on the route toward the Waterfall Fishing Spot. The well keeps cumulative progress, so you do not need 30 coins in your inventory at one time.
The Sewer Rat reward becomes available, and this progression satisfies the hidden Kindness Repaid achievement condition.
The current evidence does not establish a permanent missable state. If an encounter fails or a location is inactive, return on a later Midnight, but do not treat any individual point as proven repeatable.
* Related guides
Unlock the route in the right order
These pages cover the prerequisite systems without duplicating their canonical data.
Old Mouse Coins remain a separate cumulative collectible subsystem; the relationship is indexed in Cursed Objects & Midnight Items.
Written by: Village in the Shade Guide Editorial Team
Last updated: August 27, 2026
Sources: Official publisher and storefront pages, released-game research and linked source notes.