Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast
Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast is an event in Kemono Friends Kingdom which first 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 revolves around the duo of Mountain Hare and Arctic Hare, who had recently been added to the game as of the event's first run.
The event was rerun from November 23 to December 13, 2023. A second rerun was slated to run from March 7, 2024 to around March 21, 2024. but an internal issue caused it to be unplayable; all players were gifted the entirety of the event shop's rewards pool as compensation.
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!
Story
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 work through four chapters—The Rabbit Hole, Snow Tracking, Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast, and Approaching Dangers, respectively—to defeat Celliens and collect 
Mountain Hare Mochi. There are a total of 70 stages: 32 Normal mode stages, 32 Hard mode stages, and six bonus stages. Hard Mode stages mirror the Normal mode stages, but possess an increased difficulty with likewise boosted rewards. The six bonus stages, which contain very large amounts of Mountain Hare Mochi, are all found in the Normal mode chapters and bear no Hard mode counterparts. Unlike previous similar events in Kingdom, all stages require only 10 Focus to play, regardless of chapter or difficulty.
Many stages contain ice blocks and wooden crates, both of which can be destroyed by launched Friends to grant Leaves to a Friend who is actively Powering Up. This encourages players to use Power-Up Friends, such as the event-focal Mountain Hare, when clearing event stages; further encouraging this, all Celliens on Hard mode stages possess the 
Brilliance Radiance, which was weak to the 
Wonder Radiance common to all Power-Up Friends at the time of the event's debut.
Normal mode stages are identified as SA1-1 through SA4-8; Hard mode stages are registered as KSA1-1 through KSA4-8. Bonus stages are named FUN-1 through FUN-6. Hard mode chapters have the same titles as their Normal counterparts, but with an EX prefix (eg. EX The Rabbit Hole).
The side story Mountain Hare's Memories contains four stages which cost no Focus to play, force the player to use a specific roster of Friends, and grant a one-time 30 
Stargem reward upon their completion; this is highly comparable to the Investigations and Friend Trial families of stages. Completion of each stage unlocks part of the aforementioned story about when Mountain Hare first met Arctic Hare.
Mountain Hare Mochi
Mountain Hare Mochi are an event currency which can 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 grants a small number of them, as well as some 
Fluorites. The Mountain Hare Mochi acquired can be redeemed in the Mountain Hare Bazaar event shop, which offers rewards including 
Encounter Tickets, Fluorites, 
Kingdom Buns, 
Manuscripts, and various materials for upgrading Mountain Hare and Arctic Hare. Additional Mochi, as well as Stargems, can be acquired by completing quests from two lists: the Cooking List, which is found in the event's main menu and completed through general game play, and the Shift Reward list, which can be accessed and completed only through the Deli Kitchen mini-game.
Completing a stage with Mountain Hare and/or Arctic Hare grants a bonus to the total Mountain Hare Mochi yield the player receives from the level, with each Friend granting a 5% boost to the total number for a total +10% Mountain Hare Mochi if using both. These Friends do 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
For every 100 
Focus a player expends in event stages, through either manual game play or automatic blitzing, they receive one Master Chef Ticket which can be redeemed for a Canteen Shift, which in turn refers to one play of the Deli Kitchen mini-game. This is a timing-based and reaction-speed mini-game in which the player is given a recipe, a set of ingredients, and a gauge with a moving dial; their goal is to enter all of the correct ingredients and submit the recipe in time to stop the dial as close to the orange stripe in the center of the gauge as possible. The more swiftly and precisely a player completes this process, the more Revenue points they earn per dish, and by stopping the dial in the orange-colored center of the gauge the player creates Perfect dishes worth the most Revenue points. Serving several Perfect dishes in a row will cause the dial to move along the gauge more quickly. A live leaderboard keeps track of the daily and overall top-scoring Deli Kitchen players in one's own server.
In each game play session, the player will create six dishes with increasingly more complex recipes:
- The first dish always has only one ingredient.
- The second dish typically demands two ingredients.
- The third requires two to three ingredients.
- The fourth requires three to four ingredients.
- The fifth requires four ingredients.
- The sixth, final dish requires four to a maximum of five ingredients to be correctly entered.
The ingredients for each dish are always the same, and do not need to be submitted in any specific order. The order the ingredients appear on the player's screen, as well as the types of red-herring ingredients that appear to trip the player up, will be scrambled each round. The available ingredients and dishes are drawn from a pool of newly-added food item assets and existing food item assets from Kemono Friends Kingdom's various Friend enhancement systems. Sometimes, players will even be given one of the types of possible dishes they can make as a suggested ingredient, but these are always red-herring options and never contribute to the completion of a menu item.
| Menu Item | Required Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Bun | Wheat |
| Dried Persimmon | Jam |
| Bread | Wheat, Yeast |
| Candied Gourd Skewer | Jam, Sandstar Ice |
| Noodles | Sweet Herb, Wheat |
| Fried Dumpling | Honey, Sweet Herb, Wheat |
| Twisted Donut | Honey, Wheat, Yeast |
| Hotteok | Honey, Sandstar Ice, Sesame, Wheat |
| Kingdom's Joy Pie | Nut, Paddy, Sandstar Ice, Sesame |
| Osmanthus Cake | Honey, Osmanthus, Paddy, Sandstar Ice |
| Colorful Dumplings | Baked Potatoes, Corn, Paddy, Sandstar Ice, Sweet Herb |
Friend Assists
Revenue points can be boosted by five Friend Assists, unlocked by completing certain numbers of Canteen shifts; each Friend Assist adds its own percentage-based modifier to the player's final score, granting a maximum 700% bonus with all five Friend Assists active. While the Friends who grant a Friend Assist bonus are all acquirable as playable units, they do not need to be owned by the player to grant a bonus; the only condition which needs to be met is the total number of Canteen rounds played. Likewise, unlocking a Friend Assist does not grant the player access to that Friend as a playable unit; their involvement is purely thematic.
| Friend | Revenue Bonus |
|---|---|
 Mountain Hare |
+50% |
 Arctic Hare |
+80% |
 Serval |
+120% |
 Suri Alpaca |
+200% |
 Hippopotamus |
+250% |
Tips
- If the dial passes the center of the gauge before a recipe is submitted, one can allow it to keep going to the end of the gauge. When it reaches the end, it will loop back around to the start, and the player will have another chance to land the dial in the middle of the gauge; however, in doing so they will sacrifice time-based points, so it may be more optimal to stop the dial close to the middle on the first pass than to stop it precisely in the middle on a second pass.
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 rappels 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
Initial run (08-08-23 - 08-31-23)
- 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 Celliens: a low-level Leaf Shooter and a Scaredy. The latter 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 Cellien.
- 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.
03-07-24 - 03-21-24 Rerun
- Players were unable to play the event or redeem event shop rewards, leading to the cancellation of the event and the event shop's contents being given out as compensation to all players who logged in within the designated event period.
06-20-24 - 07-11-24 Rerun
- Some players were unable to play the Deli Kitchen event mini-game. Although the event was not cancelled, all users received the event shop's contents as compensation again after maintenance on 7-13-22. The compensation message also erroneously read "We apologize for the inconvenience you have caused."
Gallery
The main screen for accessing the Rabbit Hero & Exquisite Feast event.
Wallpaper image based on the same artwork as the main screen of the event.
Event stage KSA1-2. Note the Mountain Hare Mochi and the breakable ice blocks.
The daily server leaderboard.
Event stage SA4-7. Note the presence of the Scaredy on the right side.
Event stage KSA4-7. Note the absence of the Scaredy from SA4-7.
A successfully dish in the Deli Kitchen mini-game. Note that the dial is stopped in the gauge's center, granting a Perfect rating.
Pre-stage info screen for KSA1-2 inaccurately listing the
Splendor Radiance; this is a holdover from SA1-2, on which KSA1-2 is based. KSA1-2 features 
Brilliance Radiance enemies.
Daily log-in rewards screen before and during the beginning of the event. Note the word "Exquisite" misspelled as "Exquiste".
Additional Notes
The wiki would like to thank Kyrix for enduring over an hour and a half of the Deli Kitchen mini-game and uploading the footage to YouTube, as this allowed for easy cross-referencing and review of menu items, ingredients, game mechanics, and so on forth.
