History VideoGame / Transformice

** Gravestone items. It immediately kills you to produce a gravestone slightly smaller than a box. It's intent is to pull a HeroicSacrifice so other players can use it to get past other obstacles. Most players, however, will use it to intentionally block paths[[note]]Thankfully, they despawn after a short while, but may the Sham have mercy on you if they pull this near the end of the round[[/note]] or mess up a shamans build.[[note]]Which, if the sham can't quickly recover from it, can mess up the round for everyone.[[/note]] Thankfully, it's only available to purchase with the seasonal themed currancy around Halloween time. However, most players will still stock up on as many of them as possible while it's going on, and they can be held onto ''long'' after the Holiday event is over...

* CosmeticAward: Fulfilling certain criteria unlocks various titles, such as "Pirate Mouse", "Mouse On Strike", "Accomplished Shaman" or "Nice Mouse". Players can use any title they've already unlocked. You can also buy various accessories such as hats with cheese in the shop.

*** Several maps feature Pokémon, among them Vanillite, Cherubi, Charmander, Magnemite, Unown, Weedle, Beedrill, and Chimchar. Another map depicts Ash Ketchum and a series of lightning bolts.

** Certain maps have ice in it that you can corner jump off of and reach impressive speeds if you do it correctly
* GameBreakingBug: The game's physics engine can, on occasion, sabotage a Shaman's bridge-building efforts simply because of the odd ways in which the various pieces interact with each other. Fortunately, because it only affects one stage at a time, it can be [[SoBadItsGood very entertaining to watch.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Clean Mouse skill, which spawns a bubble that functions like a balloon when a mouse dies. Useful in theory, but when a bubble actually appears, it's almost always swarmed by several mice at once, which causes it to pop (and take the mice with it, if it was floating over a bottomless pit). For this reason, having Clean Mouse is usually discouraged, though it can still be useful in some situations.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Clean Mouse skill, which spawns a bubble that functions like a balloon when a mouse dies. Useful in theory, but when a bubble actually appears, the first thing most mice do is jump on it all at once, which causes it to pop (and take the mice with it, if it was floating over a bottomless pit). For this reason, having the Clean Mouse skill is usually discouraged, though it can still be useful in some situations.

* BlatantItemPlacement: Sometimes a map is nothing more than an empty room with a piece of cheese in it. [[DeathTrap Results]] [[CartoonBomb may]] [[SchmuckBait vary]].

** The Spiritual Guide skill tree provides some of the most basic shaman skills, which are also the most essential ones for getting the mice to the hole. It includes Unburstable[[note]]revives the shaman once on a 1-shaman map[[/note]], Easy Victory[[note]]takes a mouse with cheese directly to the hole[[/note]], Ambulance[[note]]revives a dead mouse[[/note]], Chief's Food[[note]]gives cheese to a chosen mouse[[/note]], Teleporter[[note]]teleports a mouse next to you[[/note]], and Spring[[note]]creates a spring to bounce on[[/note]]. The other skill trees benefit the shaman themselves more or have more flashy effects, but are either [[DifficultButAwesome difficult to use]] or aren't much help in getting saves.

** The Spiritual Guide skill tree provides some of the most basic shaman skills (that benefit the other mice more than the shaman), which are also the most essential ones. It includes Unburstable[[note]]revives the shaman once on a 1-shaman map[[/note]], Easy Victory[[note]]takes a mouse directly to the hole[[/note]], Ambulance[[note]]revives a dead mouse[[/note]], Chief's Food[[note]]gives cheese to a chosen mouse[[/note]], Teleporter [[note]]teleports a mouse next to you[[/note]], and Spring[[note]]creates a spring to bounce on[[/note]]. The other skill trees benefit the shaman themselves more or have more flashy effects, but are either [[DifficultButAwesome difficult to use]] or aren't much help in getting the mice to the hole.

* BoringButPractical: When a Shaman unlocks Hard Mode, their "B" bullet command is disabled in exchange for getting more EXP when saving mice.[[note]]The "B" bullet is the most useful command to a sham since it locks the object in place, even in the air, although it'll rotate if touched.[[/note]] To make up for this, Hard Mode Shams get to create their own totem they can summon, which is a custom creation that can have one "B" bullet on it. While most shams will take advantage of this by having totems bridges that can extend all the way across the map or create "airship"s to carry mice with, it's not uncommon to see most Hard Mode shams using a single small transparent plank as their totem, thanks to it being incredibly versatile to build off of for any map or situation.

** The September 2017 event revolves around collecting resources to build a wizard school called [[Literature/HarryPotter Hograts.]]

*** The dragon pet resembles Dragonair.

* NeverMyFault: Most of the mice players will often blame the Shaman if something ends up going horribly wrong... Even if it was them being a mob of LeeroyJenkins that ended up ''causing'' the problems in the first place.

* SurroundedByIdiots: The most frustrating thing about being a shaman is trying to build a stable structure for a room full of [[LeeroyJenkins impatient mice.]]

*** Several maps feature Pokémon, among them Vanillite, Cherubi, Charmander, Magnemite, Unown, Weedle, and Beedrill. Another map depicts Ash Ketchum and a series of lightning bolts.

* TimedMission: You get 2 minutes per level, and if the shaman(s) die or there are only two mice left in the game, the clock is reset to 20 seconds.

** Several maps feature {{Pokemon}}, among them Vanillite, Cherubi, Charmander, Magnemite, Unown, Weedle, and Beedrill. Another map depicts Ash Ketchum and a series of lightning bolts. The shamans' fur markings are based on Sentret's and Furret's. The shop also has Ash's hat, a Pokémon egg shell hat, and a reskin that changes a shaman's beach balls into Poké Balls.

** Some vanilla maps allow shamans to spawn trampolines

** Cannonballs are supposed to be used for destroying or knocking down obstacles, but are frequently used by Shamans to blast troublemaking mice off the map.

** Gravestone items. It immediately kills you to produce a gravestone slightly smaller than a box. It's intent is to pull a HeroicSacrifice so other players can use it to get past other obstacles. Most players, however, will use it to intentionally block paths[[note]]Thankfully, they despawn after a short while, but may the Sham have mercy on you if they pull this near the end of the round[[/note]] or mess up a shamans build.[[note]]Which , if the sham can't quickly recover from it, can mess up the round for everyone.[[/note]] Thankfully, it's only available to purchase with the seasonal themed currancy around Halloween time. However, most players will still stock up on as many of them as possible while it's going on, and they can be held onto ''long'' after the Holiday event is over...

* NotTheIntendedUse: The ability to create one's own room is intended so that friends can play and chat together without having to deal with a crowd of onlookers. However, some players will use it as a way to power grind for Shaman abilities since you get to be the sham more frequently in small groups, which makes up for the reduced amount of EXP you get from saving a small group of mice as opposed to a large one, there are less LeeroyJenkins to mess over the map, and it's easier to get first in them, which in turn gives more EXP.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: If you die, you'll reappear in the next round, good as new.

*** One of the shaman skills allows shamans to make the spirit even more powerful, and another skill allows them to use the Anti-Spirit by spawning an invisible spirit, which pushes mice towards it instead of away from it

* OhCrap: Guaranteed to happen at least once a round. When a mouse falls off a ledge, [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou when the shaman falls off a ledge,]] when a structure is about to collapse and take several mice with it, when the timer is about to run out, when a rain of bombs start falling, when a mouse gets stuck...the possibilities are endless. Pressing the 0 key makes the "shocked/horrified" emoticon appear, invoking this trope.

** Several maps feature {{Pokemon}}, among them Vanillite, Cherubi, Charmander, Magnemite, Unown, Weedle, and Beedrill. Another map depicts Ash Ketchum and a series of lightning bolts. The shop also has Ash's hat, a Pokémon egg shell hat, and a reskin that changes a shaman's beach balls into Poké Balls.

** Several maps feature {{Pokemon}}, among them Vanillite, Cherubi, Charmander, and Beedrill. Another map depicts Ash Ketchum and a series of lightning bolts. The shop also has Ash's hat, a Pokémon egg shell hat, and a reskin that changes a player's shaman balls into Poké Balls.

** Several maps feature {{Pokemon}}, among them Vanillite, Cherubi, Charmander, and Beedrill. Another map depicts Ash Ketchum and a series of lightning bolts.

* AlwaysFemale: Shamans can be players of either gender, but the game always refers to a newly-announced shaman as female, using the message "[Shaman's name] is your new shaman, follow her!"