Shadow Shaman

Shadow Shaman

Type	Monster
Location	The Mines
Floors	81-119
HP	80
Damage	17
Defence	2
Speed	3
XP	15

The Shadow Shaman is the only healer in the Mines, and that single fact changes how the lava floors are fought. It walks at the farmer like its Shadow Brute cousins and hurts on contact, but its real work is done at a distance: it mends itself and every monster standing near it, and it throws a green fireball that leaves the farmer Jinxed with their defence stripped away. A room with a Shaman in it has to be cleared in the right order or it cannot be cleared at all. Shamans count towards the same hundred and fifty void spirits the Brutes do, and the Savage Ring at the end of that bounty hands out a burst of speed on every kill.

Behaviour

Watch for the lights. A ring of lime green lights appears around a Shadow Shaman just before it casts, and that is the only warning either of its spells gives.

The heal is the problem. It restores the Shaman and every enemy in the immediate area, which means a fight against a Brute that was nearly over goes back to the start the moment a Shaman decides to help. There is no way to interrupt it once the lights appear. The only answer is order of operations: kill the Shaman first, then everything else, and accept taking a few hits from the Brutes while doing it.

The fireball is the other half. It bounces around the floor rather than flying straight, so sidestepping is less reliable than against a straight-line spell, and a hit leaves the farmer Jinxed. Jinxed removes a large chunk of defence for several seconds, which means the next contact hit from anything on the floor lands far harder than it should. Footwear that raises immunity gives a better chance of shrugging the spell off, and a Basilisk Paw keeps it off entirely. A farmer who is hit should retreat and wait rather than carry on fighting, since the debuff makes everything else on the floor more dangerous than usual.

A Shaman at very low health stops behaving like a Shaman. It will no longer attack and no longer heal its friends, and it tries to put as much distance as possible between itself and the farmer. Chasing one down is worth doing, since a fleeing Shaman that escapes will come back healed.

Location

Shadow Shamans hold the lava floors of the Mines, the stretch from floor eighty down towards the bottom. Shadow Brutes stand beside them, and Metal Heads, Lava Bats, Lava Crabs and Squid Kids fill in the rest, which is why a Shaman is almost never alone and almost never the biggest threat in isolation.

Those floors are the richest in the mine, with gold, iron and Magma Geodes in the rock, so farmers spend a great deal of time there. A Shaman is the reason a mining trip turns into a proper fight: the ore cannot be collected while something is healing the monsters standing on it.

Riding the elevator to a floor in the eighties, clearing it and travelling back to the entrance resets the layout, so the same depth can be farmed repeatedly for essence, bars and stone.

Drops

Void Essence comes off three kills in four, sometimes twice over, and it is the single most demanded monster drop in the game. The Iridium Band asks for fifty of it alongside fifty Solar Essence, every Mega Bomb takes one, and the Desert Trader will part with the Void Ghost Pendant for two hundred once Krobus counts the farmer a close friend. One essence fills an option of the Adventurer's Bundle in the Boiler Room, and the Wizard loves being given a piece.

Finished bars drop as well: Copper, Iron, Gold and occasionally Iridium, each scarcer than the one before. A bar out of a Shaman has skipped the ore, the coal and the Furnace, which is a quiet saving on floors where the farmer's bag is already heavy with rock. Small stacks of Coal appear too.

The Rare Disc is the artefact on the list. Gunther wants it for the Museum, and it is one of the pieces the Burnt Offering reward is built on. Dwarf Scrolls III and IV turn up rarely and also belong in the Museum.

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

Item	Image	Chance
Copper Bar		4%
Dwarf Scroll III		0.5%
Dwarf Scroll IV		0.1%
Gold Bar		1%
Iridium Bar		0.2%
Iron Bar		2%
Prismatic Shard		0.05%
Rare Disc		0.3%
Void Essence		75%
Void Essence		20%
Diamond		0.05%
Prismatic Shard		0.05%

Notes

The Savage Ring is the reward for a hundred and fifty void spirits, and it suits exactly the floors Shamans live on: a short speed boost on every kill keeps a farmer moving through a crowded lava room. It stacks with other speed buffs, and a second copy of the ring adds nothing, so one is enough.

Shadow Brutes and, in the dangerous mine, Shadow Snipers count towards the same total, so nothing is wasted whichever void spirit is killed.

Monster Musk doubles the monsters waiting on a floor, and with Shamans that is riskier than usual, because two healers in one room can keep a group alive longer than one weapon can bring it down.

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