Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast

Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast was a limited-time event in Kemono Friends Kingdom which ran from August 8, 2023 at 5:00 server time to August 31, 2023 at 5:00 server time, though the event could not be accessed after 23:00 server time on the 31st to allow an estimated four hours of maintenance in preparation for the next update. The Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast event revolved around the duo of Mountain Hare and Arctic Hare, who had recently been added to the game.

In-Game Event Description
1. During Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast, clearing an event stage rewards Mountain Hare Mochi, which can be redeemed in the Store for items you want. 2. An event stage cleared also unlocks a new story. Clear all the stages to enjoy the journey with Friends! 3. In side story Mountain Hare's Memories, you can enjoy it with Mountain Hare's help. After clearing the stage, a new story is unlocked. 4. After consuming 100 Focus in event stages, 1 shift is added in the Canteen. You can use a break after the hard work!

Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast
After a mishap in the snowfields, the player falls down a hole- hidden in the snow piled up beneath a tree- and is separated from Least Weasel and Chevrotain. Finding themselves in a dark tunnel, the player walks for a time before falling unconscious, waking up in a hay bed to the sound of two unfamiliar voices. Upon investigation, the player meets- and startles- Mountain Hare and Arctic Hare, who do not notice the player's approach amidst their own cooking and chatting. They explain that they found the player at their doorstep bruised and unconscious. Although grateful, the player tries to immediately leave to find their Friends, only to have it explained that they had been out for several days, and that a nasty blizzard had struck outside.

Mountain Hare's Memories
Mountain Hare's Memories was a four-part story about how Mountain Hare and Arctic Hare first met after the latter had only recently become a Friend. It details their very first meeting, Mountain Hare teaching Arctic Hare about life as a Friend, and how the two would quickly come to be close friends and roommates.

Event Details
In the event's main story, players could work through four chapters- The Rabbit Hole, Snow Tracking, Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast, and Approaching Dangers, respectively- to defeat Ceruleans and collect Mountain Hare Mochi. There were a total of 70 stages: 32 Normal mode stages, 32 Hard mode stages, and six bonus stages. Hard Mode stages mirrored the Normal mode stages, but possessed an increased difficulty and, likewise, boosted rewards. The six bonus stages, which contained very large amounts of Mountain Hare Mochi, were all found in the Normal mode chapters and bore no Hard mode counterparts. Unlike previous similar events in Kingdom, all stages required only 10 Focus to play, regardless of chapter or difficulty.

Many stages contained ice blocks and wooden crates, both of which could be destroyed by launched Friends to grant Leaves to a Friend who was actively Powering Up. This encouraged players to use Power-Up Friends, such as the event-focal Mountain Hare, when clearing event stages; further encouraging this was that all Ceruleans on Hard mode stages possessed the Brilliant Radiance, which was weak to the Wonder Radiance common to all Power-Up Friends of the time.

Normal mode stages were registered as SA1-1 through SA4-8; Hard mode stages were registered as KSA1-1 through KSA4-8. Bonus stages were registered as FUN-1 through FUN-6. Hard mode chapters bore the same titles as their Normal counterparts, but with an EX prefix (eg. EX The Rabbit Hole).

The side story Mountain Hare's Memories contained four stages which cost no Focus to play, forced the player to use a specific roster of Friends, and granted a one-time 30 Stargem reward upon their completion; this was highly comparable to the Investigations and Friend Trial families of stages. Completion of each stage unlocked part of the aforementioned story about when Mountain Hare first met Arctic Hare.

Mountain Hare Mochi
Mountain Hare Mochi were an event currency which could be collected as pickups within a stage, or through completion of event quests, redemption of limited-time daily log-in bonuses, and/or a daily box in the Shop which granted a small number of them, as well as some Fluorites. The Mountain Hare Mochi acquired could be redeemed in the Mountain Hare Bazaar event shop, which offered rewards including Encounter Tickets, Fluorites, Kingdom Buns, Manuscripts, and various materials for upgrading Mountain Hare and Arctic Hare. Additional Rabbit Mochi, as well as Stargems, could be acquired by completing quests from two lists- the Cooking List, which could be found in the event's main menu and completed through general gameplay, and the Shift Reward list, which could be accessed and completed only through the Deli Kitchen mini-game.

Completing a stage with Mountain Hare and/or Arctic Hare would grant a bonus to the total Mountain Hare Mochi yield the player received from the level, with each Friend granting a 5% boost to the total number; a player using both would gain +10% Mountain Hare Mochi. These Friends did not need to be deployed in the level for this bonus to apply; they only needed to be on the team.

Deli Kitchen Mini-Game
After a player had expended 100 Focus in event stages- through either manual game play or automatic blitzing- they would receive one [Master Chef Ticket] which could be redeemed for one play of the Deli Kitchen mini-game, a timing-based mini-game in which the player was required to select on-screen ingredients corresponding to a shown recipe before locking in their choices by stopping a moving dial at the right time; locking in your answer when the dial was in the center orange part of its bar would grant the most points, and more points would be granted the faster this process was completed. The player would receive an additional [Master Chef Ticket] for every further 100 Focus exhausted.



The points acquired- called Revenue- could be boosted by five Friend Assists, which were unlocked by completing certain numbers of Canteen shifts; each Friend Assist would add their own percentage-based modifier to the player's final score, granting a maximum 700% bonus with all five Friend Assists active. The Friends who granted a Friend Assist bonus were all acquirable as playable units, but did not need to be owned by the player to grant a bonus; the only condition which needed to be met was the total number of Canteen rounds played. Likewise, unlocking a Friend Assist did not grant the player access to that Friend as a playable unit; their involvement was purely cosmetic.

A live leaderboard kept track of the daily and overall top-scoring players in one's own server.

In-Game "How to Play" Guide
1. Tap Start Shift and pay 1 [Master Chef Ticket] to start cooking. 2. Select the right ingredients needed by a certain dish while cooking, and tap Dish Up at the right time to complete cooking. 3. After a dish is completed, the Revenue is calculated based on ingredients selected, dish-up timing, and time used. 4. After completing a certain number of Shifts, you may invite Friends to help, which will increase the Revenue.5. After reaching a certain Revenue target, you can claim the Shift Reward.

Trivia

 * This event marked the first appearance of Woolly Mammoth and Saber-Toothed Tiger within Kemono Friends Kingdom, although only as NPC characters.
 * This was the second time in two back-to-back stories introduced to Kemono Friends Kingdom wherein the player character ended up down a hole, and/or in which someone was injured by falling into a hole; the first was during the events of story chapter 5, in which the player rappelled down into an abandoned subway station to save a fallen Blue Whale and Red-Eared Slider. Story Chapter 5 was implemented in the update immediately prior to the one which introduced the Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast event.

Bugs and Issues

 * [Master Chef Tickets] were awarded not when the player's Focus usage reached 100/100- at which point the expected behaviour of the game would be to reset the counter to 0/100 and award a [Master Chef Ticket]- but rather one additional play after that, when the counter reached 10/100. The total Focus usage required was indeed 100, but this confusing visual bug led many players to believe they were not receiving their earned [Master Chef Tickets] or that their delivery was delayed, even though they would receive them after another 10 Focus was expended. This bug was not fixed before the event's conclusion.
 * The Normal mode stage SA4-7- the penultimate Normal mode stage- contained two Ceruleans: a low-level Leaf Shooter and a Scaredy. The latter Cerulean could deal massive damage to Friends on the field if it was not stunned, so this level required tact to clear without a Friend being knocked out. However, its Hard mode counterpart KSA4-7- the penultimate Hard mode stage- was missing this Scaredy, instead replacing it with a second low-level Leaf Shooter. Because of this error, the Hard mode KSA4-7 was significantly easier to clear than its Normal mode counterpart, when the opposite would be expected to be true.
 * The two levels were not simply mixed up, as it is known from the pre-stage info screen that both stages were meant to contain a Scaredy Cerulean.
 * On the screen where players could claim daily log-in rewards leading up to and during the beginning of the event, the word "Exquisite" in the event's title was spelled as "Exquiste" due to a probable typo. This was fixed on menus for the event proper.