Fetch! Guide

Submitted by ghoulmauler

So your Master has sent you off into the Haunted Woods to retrieve something for him and you need some help finding it? Well you’ve come to the right place! Here you’ll find all the information necessary to make you a successful servant and a Fetch! expert as well, earning you lots of nps and nice trophy for your look-up.

This is the Tentacompass. It is located to the right of your screen and is your means of movement while in the maze. To use it, all you need to do is to click on the arm that’s pointing in the direction that you want to go. If you want to take a step to the left you click on the left arm etc.

Part 2 - The Maps

There are 5 different maps to choose from although at the beginning you will only be able to access 3 of them. The other 2 will be unlocked as you attain higher scores.

This is the smallest map in the game at 10×10 (10 steps long for each side) and the one I recommend the most for practicing on until you get a comfortable feel for the game. You get 65 steps to complete the maze and your base reward is 101 nps.

The second smallest map at 15×15 (15 steps long for each side) allows you 100 steps to complete the maze and your base reward is 201 nps.

The middle size map is 20×20 (20 steps long for each side) allows you 175 steps to complete the maze and your base reward is 501 nps.

The first of the unlockable maps is 25×25 (25 steps long for each side) and is the one I recommend as the best for earning nps and getting really high scores. You get 225 steps to complete the maze and your base reward is 1501 nps. You need to post a score of 1000 to unlock this map.

The next unlockable map is the largest in the game at 30×30 (30 steps long for each side). You have a total of 250 steps to complete the maze and your base reward is 2501 nps. Although it has by far the largest prize in the game it isn’t recommended because the map size is 44% larger than Fiendish but you only get an 11% increase in steps to complete it.

Blood Mole Seeds

Ergy Paste

Faerie Dust

Froiler Essence

Ghostbeef Essence

Grackle Pus

Grackle Trap

Melow Seeds

Phear Spines

Rotten Peachpas

Sack Plant Seeds

Smellyshroom Essence

The Stuff

Whomp Berries

Part 4 - The Strategy

There are 3 basic points of interest to discuss and those are:

Where to find the item
How to start out
Where to find the exit

Where to find the item

The item will always be found within one square of the exact center of the maze. For example, in an Easy maze the item will be at the 5th or 6th square from the top and at the 5th or 6th square from the left. In a Medium maze the item will be at the 7th, 8th or 9th square from the top and at the 7th, 8th or 9th square from the left etc.

How to start out

When you start out you will always be at the edge of the maze. This is good because it gives you a point of reference, you now know how many steps toward the center you must move to find the item. For instance if you start on the left side of a Fiendish maze, you know you need to move 12 steps to the right to find the item. Now you simply have to count. Every time you take a step to the right you add 1 and every time you take a step to the left you subtract 1. If you get to 13 (the center) and you don’t see the item yet, you know that it’s either directly above or below you. Pick the easiest route and head that way. If you run into the top (or bottom) edge, you went the wrong way but now you know exactly where the item is. Now you have to keep track of both directions. I keep track by counting in my head in the following manner. If I know that I’m on the 5th square from the left and the 3rd square from the top and I move right, right, down, down, left, I’ll count “6-3, 7-3, 7-4, 7-5, 6-5 etc.

Where to find the exit

The exit will almost always be on the side opposite to the one from which you started (maybe one time in a hundred it’ll be on a different side but not often enough to worry about) so if you started at the top the exit will be found on the bottom edge. The only real difficulty occurs when you start in an exact corner because then there will be two possible sides that the exit could be on (for example if you start at the top left corner the exit could be on the right side or on the bottom). Here’s what the exit looks like:

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Part 5 - The Scoring

Your score from completing a maze depends on two things: the size of the maze you completed and how many steps you have left when you reach the exit. The amount of points you get for finding the exit is the same as the amount of nps you earn (101 for Easy, 201 for Medium etc.) plus you also get points (and nps) equal to 1/2 the steps you have left (rounded down). So if you finish a Hard maze with 23 steps left you earn 512 points and nps, 501 for completing the Hard maze and 11 for your remaining steps. You get high scores by finishing successive mazes. If you beat 5 mazes in a row the scores are all added together and the total will be your running score. Once you fail to complete a maze your score will be reset to zero.