Moblin Maze Mongers

Moblin Maze Mongers (MMM for short) is a system of battle content, stealth content, synthesis content, and fishing content in Final Fantasy XI. Using a system of Maze Runes, players order a customized underground maze be constructed for them by moblins. Depending on which Maze Voucher they attach to their Maze Tabula with the runes on it, their objective, and the effect of the maze runes, changes.

The player starts out with only a single tabula and voucher and a small number of runes. All others must be purchased with Maze Marbles--the currency of MMM--or found in the mazes. Different tabula have varying shapes and some have elementally aligned squares that can boost the effects of certain runes placed on them. Runes can affect numerous factors, but using runes, players can choose the number, type, and level of their foes, the abilities of the notorious monster, how much time they have to complete the maze, and much more.

Players may only order a maze once per day, but players may be invited to another player's maze as often as they wish. To alleviate the congestion imposed on the server's layer system when the event was introduced, another type of event currency known as Cave Conservation points was added. Cave Conservation points are accumulated by waiting longer between ordering mazes, and they are spent increasing the rewards of the ordered maze.