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Dragonscale Boots

Dragonscale Boots
Dragonscale Boots
Type Boots
Stats Defense (+7)
Location Volcano Dungeon treasure chests
Sell Price 350g

Dragonscale Boots are the best boots in the game. Dragonscale Boots carry seven points of Defense, more than any other footwear in the game, and that single number is the whole reason to want them. Seven points removes seven damage from every hit that lands, which drops most of the Mines to the minimum of one damage a strike and makes even Skull Cavern Serpents survivable without food. They come out of the rare treasure chests in the Volcano Dungeon, so they sit behind Ginger Island, a watering can and a long climb through the lava. Every point they have goes into armour, which leaves Immunity to be covered by a ring or by a different pair kept in reserve. For a farmer who fights rather than dodges, this is the end of the boot progression.


Location

The rare chests of the Volcano Dungeon are the only home. They hold nine possible items, these boots among them, so a rare chest is a reasonable chance at a pair. Rare chests appear at random on any floor, but the odds of a chest being rare climb steeply on the ninth floor and improve with a good daily luck, which means the sensible hunt is a full climb rather than a quick raid.

Reaching the volcano at all takes the bridge that the first parrot on Ginger Island will build. The dungeon itself needs a watering can, since lava has to be cooled into a path before anything can be crossed.

Effect

Defense works by subtraction rather than percentage. Each point takes one damage off every hit received, down to a floor of one damage per strike, so the value of armour rises sharply against enemies that hit often and softly. A Green Slime that normally deals four to six damage deals one against these boots. A Bat, a Bug or a Dust Sprite is reduced to the same minimum. The monsters that still hurt are the heavy hitters of the deep Skull Cavern, and even they lose a meaningful slice.

The boots also stack with everything else that gives armour. A Crabshell Ring adds five more, a Lava Katana adds three, a plate of Eggplant Parmesan adds three for a few minutes, and the Desert Festival chef sells buffs on top of that. A farmer in Dragonscale Boots with two Crabshell Rings is taking minimum damage from almost anything underground.

What the boots leave to other gear is the debuff side of the ledger. Immunity decides whether a Slimed, Jinxed or Burnt effect lands at all, and an Immunity Band on one finger covers four points of it, while Mermaid Boots cover eight and are the natural alternative when debuffs rather than damage are the problem.

Notes

Boots can be custom tailored at the Sewing Machine in Emily and Haley's house, which transfers the stats of one pair onto another. The pair on the spool is used up and the pair in the feed keeps its own look while gaining the other's numbers, coming out named as a custom tailored version of itself. That is how a farmer who prefers the colour of their Tundra Boots can still walk around with Dragonscale armour.

Every pair of boots in the game can be sold to Marlon at the Adventurer's Guild, which is the only buyer for them. Given how hard these are to come by, most players keep a spare instead and tailor it onto something else.

The usual pairing for a deep run is these boots with a ring that covers immunity, since the two columns never overlap. A farmer carrying both Dragonscale Boots and Mermaid Boots and swapping between them has the strongest answer in the game to whatever a given floor is doing.

All Boots

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Stats
Cinderclown Shoes Cinderclown Shoes Defense (+6); Immunity (+5)
Combat Boots Combat Boots Defense (+3)
Cowboy Boots Cowboy Boots Defense (+2); Immunity (+2)
Crystal Shoes Crystal Shoes Defense (+3); Immunity (+5)
Dark Boots Dark Boots Defense (+4); Immunity (+2)
Dragonscale Boots Dragonscale Boots Defense (+7)
Emily's Magic Boots Emily's Magic Boots Defense (+4); Immunity (+4)
Firewalker Boots Firewalker Boots Defense (+3); Immunity (+3)
Genie Shoes Genie Shoes Defense (+1); Immunity (+6)
Leather Boots Leather Boots Defense (+1); Immunity (+1)
Leprechaun Shoes Leprechaun Shoes Defense (+2); Immunity (+1)
Mermaid Boots Mermaid Boots Defense (+5); Immunity (+8)
Rubber Boots Rubber Boots Immunity (+1)
Sneakers Sneakers Defense (+1)
Space Boots Space Boots Defense (+4); Immunity (+4)
Thermal Boots Thermal Boots Defense (+1); Immunity (+2)
Tundra Boots Tundra Boots Defense (+2); Immunity (+1)
Work Boots Work Boots Defense (+2)