Stone Golem (dangerous)

Stone Golem (dangerous)

Type	Monster
Location	Dangerous Mines
Floors	31-39
HP	283
Damage	13
Defence	28
Speed	2
XP	5

The dangerous Stone Golem looks and behaves exactly like the ordinary one, and fights nothing like it. It keeps the same grey floors in the thirties and the same aimless shuffle, but it carries twenty eight points of defence, and that single number is the whole character of the monster. Every point of defence takes a point off each hit the farmer lands, so a quick blade that minces everything else in the mine scratches this golem almost pointlessly, while the golem hits back for thirteen a touch. Nothing on its drop list has changed, which settles the question of whether to fight one: it is something to get past on the way to Radioactive Ore, not something to hunt.

Behaviour

The approach is unchanged. A dangerous golem rises out of the floor, wanders with no particular aim, and deals its damage by walking into the farmer. There is no projectile, no charge and no second phase, and its speed is low enough that leaving it behind is always possible.

The defence is what has to be planned for. Because the reduction applies to every single strike, a weapon that wins by swinging often loses badly here, and a weapon that lands one big hit keeps most of its damage. A club or hammer is therefore the sensible choice despite its slow swing, and a fully forged Galaxy or Infinity blade has enough raw damage that the subtraction stops mattering. Fast daggers are the worst possible pick.

Explosives sidestep the problem entirely. Bomb damage is fixed and ignores defence, so a Cherry Bomb does the same work on this golem as it would on anything else, and a Mega Bomb takes the rock around it at the same time. Explosive Ammo fired from a slingshot behaves the same way. For a farmer who already carries bombs for Radioactive Nodes, that is the cheapest answer available.

Defence food is the other half of the preparation. Thirteen damage a contact adds up over a floor, and every point of the farmer's own defence removes a point from each of those hits, so a dish like Pumpkin Soup or Autumn's Bounty changes the arithmetic in the farmer's favour before the first golem appears.

Location

These golems hold the Mines between floors thirty one and thirty nine while the cave is in its dangerous state. That state arrives in one of two ways. Mr. Qi's Danger In The Deep order, taken from the board in his Walnut Room on Ginger Island, switches the whole mine over and turns the elevator off until the bottom has been reached. Finishing the order unlocks the Shrine of Challenge on floor one hundred and twenty, and from then on the shrine flips the mine between its states overnight.

Farmers leave the shrine on because Radioactive Nodes only appear while it is. The golem floors sit directly on that route, early enough in the descent that a farmer is still fresh and still carrying a full stack of bombs, which is the best possible time to meet something with this much defence. Carbon Ghosts share the same depth under the dangerous setting, which is where Ectoplasm comes from, so the stretch is worth working rather than rushing.

Drops

The list has not changed from the ordinary golem's, so there is no profit in the extra health. Stone falls from almost every kill, Iron Ore and Quartz from one in ten each, and Coal in small stacks, which at least keeps a bomb-heavy run supplied with the Stone for Staircases on the way down.

Dwarf Scroll I appears on rare kills and belongs in the Museum with its three siblings, and Dwarf Scroll IV turns up occasionally for the same set. The universal Diamond and Prismatic Shard rolls apply to a farmer who has already reached the bottom of the Mines.

What is genuinely different is where the loot can go. While the Mines are dangerous under the Shrine of Challenge, Monster Loot can be traded in for Qi Gems, so a pile of golem rubble that would normally be worth a handful of gold becomes progress towards something on Mr. Qi's counter.

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

Item	Image	Chance
Coal		10%
Dwarf Scroll I		0.5%
Dwarf Scroll IV		0.1%
Iron Ore		10%
Quartz		10%
Stone		90%
Diamond		0.05%
Prismatic Shard		0.05%

Notes

Anyone farming Stone, Quartz or Iron Ore should switch the shrine off first. The same floors in their ordinary state give up identical materials from golems that die in a few swings.

The Dwarvish Safety Manual, bought from the Dwarf for a few thousand gold, cuts the damage the farmer takes from their own bombs by a quarter. On a stretch where bombing golems is the sensible tactic, that purchase pays for itself quickly.

A stack of Staircases is the honest alternative to the whole fight. Stone is plentiful on these floors, and dropping a staircase costs far less than grinding down twenty eight points of defence on a monster whose pockets hold nothing new.

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