Night Guide
Village in the Shade Glowing Mice Guide
When you find a Glowing Mouse during nighttime exploration in Village in the Shade, give it Cheese and follow it. The mouse will eventually hide in a hole, and that is when you use your Hoe to uncover a Mouse Ancient Coin.
The coin is part of a repeatable well-offering side activity, not a random collectible. Current released-game guides report that offering 30 Mouse Ancient Coins at the mysterious well on the eastern mountain road gives the special Sewer Rat reward and ties into a trophy condition.
There is also a hard time limit: Glowing Mice disappear at 5:00 AM, so this is one of those mechanics where starting too late can look like failure even when you understood the event correctly.
Last verified: August 10, 2026. Reward and trophy names are shown with cautious working translations until official English localization confirms the final in-game wording.
Glowing Mouse status
Glowing Mice
Verified in released game
Appearance
Nighttime
Required Item
Cheese
Required Tool
Hoe
Reward
Mouse Ancient Coin
Main Well Goal
30 coins
5:00 AM Despawn
Verified
Activity Type
Nighttime side activity
Quick Answer
What Do You Do With the Glowing Mice?
This mechanic is short once you know the sequence, which is why the page works best as an exact-answer guide rather than a broad system overview.
The full sequence
- Find a Glowing Mouse at night.
- Give it Cheese.
- Follow the mouse closely.
- Wait for it to disappear into a hole.
- Use your Hoe on the ground there.
- Collect a Mouse Ancient Coin.
- Take the coin to the mysterious well east of the village.
- Offer 30 coins to receive the main reward.
Glowing Mice at a glance
When do they appear?
At night
What do they want?
Cheese
Do you attack them?
No
Should you follow them?
Yes
What tool do you need afterward?
Hoe
What do you receive?
Mouse Ancient Coin
What are the coins for?
Offerings at the mysterious well
How many coins for the main reward?
30
Do they disappear?
Yes, at 5:00 AM
Night Search
Where and When to Look for Glowing Mice
Treat them as a nighttime secret, not as a daytime farming or hunting target.
- Prepare Cheese before going out at night.
- Carry a Hoe so you can dig as soon as the mouse hides.
- Explore Kagatsu after dark and watch for a clearly glowing mouse.
- Do not start too close to 5:00 AM because the mouse despawns then.
A complete fixed spawn map is not documented well enough yet to promise exact every-time tiles. The safest advice is still to search during nighttime exploration, notice where successful encounters happen and avoid claiming a full permanent spawn chart before it is properly mapped.
Cheese
How to Prepare Cheese Before the Chase
The mouse event often fails for players because their real missing requirement is livestock progression, not the mouse itself.
- Unlock Goat access through livestock progression.
- Buy a Goat from Chinana after it becomes available.
- Collect Goat Milk.
- Process Goat Milk in the Milk Processor.
- Wait until the next day and collect Cheese.
Current released-game testing says Cheese quality does not matter for the interaction, so there is no need to spend your best piece. Save higher-value Cheese for other uses if you want.
Follow and Dig
What Happens After You Feed the Mouse
This is the step many players miss: feeding the mouse starts the event, but it does not finish it.
What to do next
After receiving Cheese, the mouse runs away on purpose. Follow it until it disappears into a hole, note the exact ground spot, then use your Hoe there to dig up the Mouse Ancient Coin.
Do not waste arrows or hunting traps trying to catch it. The event is feed, follow, dig and collect coin, not attack and capture.
Best timing rules
- Start the night with Cheese already in your inventory.
- Do not detour after feeding the mouse.
- Stay close enough that you do not lose it in the dark.
- Dig immediately once it disappears into the ground.
- If morning is very close, come back the next night instead.
Well Reward
What Is the Mouse Ancient Coin For?
The coin is used at the mysterious well on the mountain road east of Kagatsu Village.
This turns the mechanic from a one-off curiosity into a repeatable collection route. Current guides report that the well accepts up to 30 Mouse Ancient Coins and gives the special Sewer Rat reward after the full offering count is reached.
“Sewer Rat” is still best presented as a working English translation rather than a fully confirmed final localization term.
Well progression at a glance
Coin use
Offer at the mysterious well
Well area
Mountain road east of Kagatsu Village
Coins for main reward
30 Mouse Ancient Coins
Reward name
Sewer Rat (working translation)
Related trophy
Repayment / Returning the Favor (working translation)
Troubleshooting
Why the Glowing Mouse Event Seems Not to Work
Most failures come from missing one mechanical step rather than from a broken event.
I fed the mouse and got nothing
The event is not finished yet. You must follow the mouse, watch where it hides, then dig with a Hoe.
I tried traps or arrows
That is the wrong interaction. Glowing Mice are not handled like normal hunting targets.
The mouse vanished before I finished
Current released-game testing says Glowing Mice disappear at 5:00 AM, so you likely started too late.
I cannot do the event because I have no Cheese
Your missing requirement is probably goat and milk-processing progression, not the mouse itself.
I found coins but do not know what they do
Take Mouse Ancient Coins to the mysterious well on the mountain road east of the village.
I want the completion reward
The documented requirement is 30 Mouse Ancient Coins offered at the well, not one single mouse encounter.
FAQ
Glowing Mouse Questions
These are the short answers players usually need after their first incomplete encounter.
Give the mouse Cheese, follow it, wait for it to hide in a hole, then dig that spot with a Hoe to get a Mouse Ancient Coin.
Current released-game guides place them in nighttime exploration rather than daytime village life, but a complete fixed spawn map is still not documented well enough to claim exact every-time tiles.
Yes. They are treated as a nighttime event or nighttime secret rather than a daytime farm activity.
Cheese.
No. Current testing says Cheese quality does not matter for starting the Glowing Mouse event, so lower-quality Cheese is fine.
A Hoe, because you dig the spot where the mouse disappears.
It is offered at the mysterious well on the eastern mountain road, turning the mouse event into a repeatable collection activity.
Current guides report 30 coins for the main reward at the well.
Current Japanese guides report the reward as Sewer Rat, but that should still be treated as a working English translation until official localization confirms the exact item name.
5:00 AM.
Verification
What Is Solid and What Still Needs Caution?
The core interaction is already clear enough to publish confidently.
The stable pieces are: nighttime appearance, Cheese as the required item, following the mouse, digging with a Hoe, receiving Mouse Ancient Coins, the eastern well destination, the 30-coin reward threshold and the 5:00 AM despawn.
The parts that still deserve conservative wording are full spawn mapping, final official English item names and exact route descriptions for the well before a verified English map is fully documented.
Sources checked
- Released-game Japanese Glowing Mouse guides
- Gamecap nighttime exploration guide material
- Kakinblog trophy and reward notes
- Cross-checked released-game mouse coin and well reports
Next Steps
Carry Cheese Before You Start Night Exploration
That one small preparation step turns the Glowing Mouse event from a surprise miss into a repeatable coin route you can actually complete.
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.