Cheese Trap Guide in Last Asylum: Plague—Best Strats & Rewards 🧀

Hey everyone! The Cheese Trap event is easily one of the best ways to score massive rewards in Last Asylum: Plague, but if your alliance drops the ball on coordination, it can quickly turn into a total hospital-filling disaster—or worse, you might miss the deadline entirely.

In this ultimate tactical guide, we’re breaking down the official mechanics, the dual-trap lock restrictions, and the advanced meta strategies to maximize your damage milestones. Let's rock and roll!

What is the Cheese Trap Event?

At its core, this event is a 30-minute alliance raid where your goal is to trap and exterminate waves of Cheese Thieves. You cannot actually "kill" these enemies to stop the event; your only goal is to cycle fast rallies and farm as much cumulative damage as possible before the 30-minute timer runs out.

Crucial Rules & Time Constraints

• The 22:00 Server Deadline: Your R4/R5 leadership MUST select the event difficulty and schedule the activation time before 22:00 server time on the final day. Miss this window, and your alliance is completely locked out of the event.
• The 20-Member Threshold: Your alliance must have at least 20 members to even place a Cheese Trap. Lone-wolf or dead alliances need not apply.
• Donate for the +25% Buff: Grind Daily Quests to grab Mouse Lures (up to 2 per day). Group-fund the trap all the way to Level 5 before activation to grant the entire alliance a massive +25% Hero Damage Dealt buffduring the fight. Once the donation cap is reached, further donations only grant Alliance Contribution Points, not extra buffs.

 

Pre-Event Checklist & Micro-Management

Before the R5 drops the trap, every member must execute these prep steps to avoid ruining their account's military power and maximize march cycles:

1. Empty Your Hospitals: Make sure you have 0 troops in your personal hospital. The Cheese Thieves hit back hard; if they overflow your beds, your troops will suffer permanent death.
2. The Assembly Marker Trick: Keep the Cheese Trap slightly away from your main alliance assembly point during the preparation phase. Then, about 5 minutes before kickoff, move the alliance assembly marker right next to the trap, and have all rally leaders and members teleport to cluster tightly around it. This cuts march times down to mere seconds.
3. Turn On "Offline Joining": This is a lifesaver. Make sure every member enables Offline Join in their settings. If someone goes offline, the game will automatically send their highest-might hero formation into active alliance rallies, ensuring 100% alliance DPS capacity.

 

Pro Battle Strats: Dual-Trap Split & The 1-Hero Trick

1. The Trap I & Trap II Split Restriction

Here is the biggest trap for uncoordinated alliances: If a player participates in Cheese Trap I, they are strictly locked out of Cheese Trap II. This restriction applies to everyone, including your R5 and R4 rally leaders.

• The Strat: Coordinate on Discord in advance. Split your alliance into two distinct task forces. Let lower-power players handle Trap I (which scales easier), while your absolute top-tier whales save their participation to carry and unlock Trap II. Both traps can be placed, but they cannot run simultaneously.

2. Continuous Rally Cycling

R5/R4 members should begin 1-minute rallies immediately once the Cheese Thieves are caught. For optimal rotation:

• Start the first rally immediately.
• While the first lineup is marching, prepare and launch the second lineup.
• As soon as the second lineup begins marching, immediately use a Recall Speed-up item on the first lineup and queue it right back up. This minimizes downtime and keeps alliance DPS running continuously.

3. The R4/R5 "1-Hero" Leech Trick (Personal Reward Farming)

Rallies hosted by leadership carry heavy built-in damage multipliers (+5% boost for R5/Officials, +2.5% boost for R4s) during the Extermination Phase. Always prioritize filling their queues first.

• The Pro Move: Once the main Alliance damage milestones are maxed out, low-power players will still want to chase personal rewards. To help them without burning your own troops, R4/R5 leaders should initiate rallies using only ONE hero—preferably the one with the lowest CMD (command capacity). This allows members to still leech the leader's built-in damage bonus while saving the whale from massive troop/healing costs.

 

Meta Lineups & Hero Counters

The Cheese Thieves require sustained PvE damage-per-second, meaning PvP utility heroes (like those with stuns or silences) are useless here. You need raw stat-shredders and single-target nukers.

Hero Role	Recommended Heroes	Why They Rule the Trap
Primary (The Nuker)	Claire (or top-tier PvE equivalent)	Built-in talent tree that heavily boosts "Damage to Mutants/Monsters."Her active skill inflicts massive burst damage.
Secondary (The Debuffer)	Heroes with Armor Shred / Defense Down	A secondary hero that reduces the enemy's armor benefits the entire rally, scaling up everyone's damage exponentially.

Countering Enemy Attributes: Always check the specific boss modifier before hitting. If the Cheese Thieves are weak to a certain unit type on that day, the entire alliance should coordinate to send pure mono-type marches (e.g., All-Riders or All-Infantry) to trigger the 15% hidden damage multiplier.

 

Official Reward Caps & Milestone Tables

Rewards hit your mail room right after the 30-minute timer ends. Note that Cheese Trap Level 1 has hard reward caps. Once you hit these numbers, you can stop attacking without losing additional rewards.

1. Personal Damage Rewards

• Max Reward Threshold: 12M Damage

Personal Damage	Gearstones	Refined Iron	Diamonds & Speedups
1M - 2.4M	x240	x15	50 Diamonds, 5min Speedup x7
2.4M - 4.8M	x400	x23	60 Diamonds, 5min Speedup x11
4.8M - 7.2M	x560	x32	70 Diamonds, 5min Speedup x16
7.2M - 12M	x650	x37	80 Diamonds, 5min Speedup x19
> 12M (Cap)	x740	x41	90 Diamonds, 5min Speedup x21

2. Alliance Cumulative Damage Rewards

• Max Reward Threshold: 375M Combined Damage (From both Cheese Traps combined)

Combined Alliance Damage	Gearstones	Antitoxin	Key Resources (Timber/Grain/Herb)
1M - 75M	x112	x64.3k	x87.1k each
75M - 150M	x124	x164k	x186k each
150M - 225M	x136	x316k	x390k each
225M - 375M	x148	x512k	x547k each
> 375M (Cap)	x160	x705k	x684k each (+ Speedup Supply x2)

Management Tip: Don't let people alliance-hop to abuse rewards. Most servers cap your weekly prize limit, and smart R4s will split low-power and high-power players into different trap tiers anyway to prevent lower-tier players from going bankrupt on healing resources.

👑 The MVP Multiplier: The highest damaging player in the alliance receives an additional alliance reward multiplier ranging from 1x to 10x based on personal damage dealt. For Level 1 traps, this effective damage contribution caps at 48M damage.

 

Conclusion

Enough talk, Commander. Grab your faction tags, coordinate your Trap I & II split teams on Discord, and make sure everyone has Offline Joining turned on. Let’s turn these Cheese Thieves into our alliance’s personal piggy bank. Pack your medkits, empty those hospitals, and I’ll see you out in the wasteland!

Oh, and if you want to push your tech stats even further and stock up on cheap resource packs before the event deadline hits, make sure to check out LDshop for the best deals on in-game top-ups. See you at the top of the MVP ranks!