Mummy

Mummy

Type	Monster
Location	Skull Cavern
Floors	Mummy levels
HP	260
Damage	30
Speed	2
XP	20

The Mummy is the Skull Cavern's trick question. Swinging at one until its health runs out does not kill it: the body collapses into a heap of bandages, lies there for ten seconds, trembles, and stands back up at full health. Nothing a sword does matters in that window, and only an explosion ends it for good, which is why bombs are as much a part of a desert run as a weapon. Mummies keep to rooms dressed as Egyptian tombs, they hit hard, and they come in groups, so a floor full of them is the most expensive floor in the cavern. The payoff is a drop list nobody else carries: Solar Essence off almost every kill, Cloth, Miner's Treat, a Curiosity Lure and the Red Cabbage Seeds that are otherwise locked away until a second year.

Behaviour

A Mummy walks. It is slower than the farmer, it has no ranged attack, and the honest first answer is to go around it, because nothing about the fight is cheap.

Taking one on means doing it in two stages. Hits bring the Mummy down into a pile of bandages, and in that state it cannot be walked through and cannot be hurt by any weapon, but it also deals no contact damage. Ten seconds later it trembles and rises whole. An explosion placed on the pile during those ten seconds does enormous fixed damage and finishes it permanently, and a Cherry Bomb is cheap enough to use on a single one. Explosive Ammo fired from a slingshot does the same job.

Groups change the arithmetic. Herding several Mummies into one spot, ideally somewhere thick with rock, and dropping one Mega Bomb across the pile is far better value than bombing each in turn. The rocks go too, which is usually welcome.

There are two ways around bombs altogether. A weapon forged with the Crusader enchantment kills a Mummy outright, and the Holy Blade comes with Crusader already on it, so either removes the whole gimmick from the fight. An Ice Rod is the other answer: a frozen Mummy stays a pile of bandages for as long as the freeze lasts, which stretches the window as wide as needed.

A Napalm Ring is not the shortcut it looks like. Knocking a Mummy down with one equipped does not kill it, and the small explosions from nearby Serpents and Carbon Ghosts dying are too weak to be relied on, so the bomb still has to be placed by hand.

Location

Mummies live in the Skull Cavern beyond the Calico Desert, in rooms laid out like an Egyptian tomb. Those rooms appear at random rather than at set depths, so a dive can pass twenty floors without one and then open a door onto a crowd. Carbon Ghosts share the same tomb rooms, which is how a Mummy fight ends up with something fast circling the farmer while the bombs are being placed.

Every trip into the cavern starts at the first floor. That makes Mummies a problem of the middle of a run rather than the start: by the time the tomb floors appear the day is half gone, and a farmer short on bombs has to choose between the kills and the descent.

Marlon posts a Monster Hunt during the Desert Festival asking for ten Mummies, and the festival opens the cavern to anyone, Skull Key or not. The reward is paid in Calico Eggs, the festival's own currency.

Drops

Solar Essence comes off almost every Mummy, and more than one on a good roll, which makes a tomb floor the fastest essence stop in the game. The Iridium Band wants fifty of them and the Mega Bomb recipe wants one apiece, so Mummies help pay for the very bombs used to kill them.

Cloth is the drop farmers notice. The usual route to Cloth runs through sheep: Wool goes into a Loom and comes out as a bolt. A Mummy hands one over directly, which puts Cloth in reach of a farm with no sheep on it at all. One bolt is an option for the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry, and getting hold of the first one is what opens Emily's Sewing Machine for tailoring and dyeing.

Red Cabbage Seeds are the rarest useful thing on the list. Pierre's General Store stocks them from a second year onward, so a lucky Mummy drop in a first summer is one of the few ways to grow Red Cabbage early. That matters, because Red Cabbage is the only item that fills its Dye Bundle slot on the Bulletin Board.

The rest fills in the corners. A Curiosity Lure improves the odds of hooking rare fish, and the handful of places it comes from are all underground, so a tomb floor is as good a source as any. A Miner's Treat restores a large amount of energy, sells for a tidy sum, and goes into the Sewing Machine to make a Propeller Hat. A Prismatic Shard appears far more often here than from most monsters, and a Dwarf Scroll IV turns up occasionally for the Museum.

Items this monster can drop when it is defeated, with the chance of each.

Item	Image	Chance
Cloth		20%
Cloth		5%
Curiosity Lure		1%
Dwarf Scroll IV		0.1%
Miner's Treat		4%
Prismatic Shard		0.1%
Red Cabbage Seeds		0.2%
Solar Essence		99%
Solar Essence		15%
Diamond		0.05%
Prismatic Shard		0.05%

Notes

One hundred Mummies complete the Adventurer's Guild bounty, and Gil pays it with the Arcane Hat, a wide-brimmed thing that looks like the Wizard's. Knocking a Mummy down does not count towards the total; only a kill does, which means every point of progress costs an explosive or an enchanted blade.

The dangerous Mummies that appear during the Skull Cavern Invasion order count towards the same hundred, so a farmer running that order banks bounty progress at the same time.

Monster Musk doubles the monsters on a floor, and on a tomb floor that doubles the bomb bill as well. Most farmers save the musk for cheaper monsters and take the tomb rooms as they come.

All Monsters

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Location	HP	Damage
Armored Bug	Skull Cavern	1	8
Armored Bug (dangerous)	Skull Cavern	250	20-27
Bats	The Mines & Skull Cavern	24, 36, 80, 300,; 268, 277	06, 07, 15, 30, 13, 14
Blue Squid	The Dangerous Mines	310	18
Bug	The Mines	1	8
Bug (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	250	15-16
Carbon Ghost	Skull Cavern; The Dangerous Mines	190	25
Cave Fly	The Mines	22	6
Cave Fly (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	266	13-15
Duggy	The Mines	40	6
Duggy (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	280	8
Dust Sprite	The Mines	40	6
Dust Sprite (dangerous)	The Mines	280	13-15
Dwarvish Sentry	Volcano Dungeon	300	18
False Magma Cap	Volcano Dungeon	290	15
Ghost	The Mines	96	10
Grub	The Mines	20	4
Grub (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	265	12-13
Haunted Skull	Quarry Mine; The Mines random dungeon floors	160	15
Haunted Skull (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	310	19-26
Hot Head	Volcano Dungeon	215	18
Iridium Crab	Skull Cavern	240	15
Iridium Golem	Wilderness Farm	430	15
Lava Crab	The Mines	120	15
Lava Crab (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	340	19-26
Lava Lurk	Volcano Dungeon	220	15
Magma Duggy	Volcano Dungeon	380	16
Magma Sparker	Volcano Dungeon	310	15
Magma Sprite	Volcano Dungeon	220	15
Metal Head	The Mines	40	15
Metal Head (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	280	19-26
Mummy	Skull Cavern	260	30
Mummy (dangerous)	Skull Cavern	445	38-55
Mutant Fly	Mutant Bug Lair, Skull Cavern	66	12
Mutant Grub	Mutant Bug Lair	100	12
Pepper Rex	Skull Cavern	300	15
Putrid Ghost	The Dangerous Mines	500	25
Rock Crab	The Mines	30	5
Rock Crab (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	272	13
Royal Serpent	Skull Cavern	150 + (50 × tail segments)	32-48
Serpent	Skull Cavern	150	23
Shadow Brute	The Mines	160	18
Shadow Brute (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	370	22-32
Shadow Shaman	The Mines	80	17
Shadow Shaman (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	310	21-30
Shadow Sniper	The Mines	300	18
Skeleton	The Mines	140	10
Skeleton (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines, Quarry Mine	655	16-18
Skeleton Mage	Dangerous Mines, Quarry Mine	355	20-25
Slimes	The Mines, Skull Cavern, Quarry Mine, Secret Woods, Tiger Slime Grove, and Volcano Dungeon	Varies	Varies
Spider	The Mines (Shrine ON)	200	15
Squid Kid	The Mines	1	18
Squid Kid (dangerous)	The Dangerous Mines; Skull Cavern	250	22-32
Stick Bug	The Dangerous Mines	700	20
Stone Golem	The Mines	45	5
Stone Golem (dangerous)	Dangerous Mines	283	13
Truffle Crab	The Farm	30	5
Wilderness Golem	The Farm	30	5