Dungeons

Your pets can be sent into dungeons once you have unlocked six pets.

Dungeon Guides
Beginners may wish to start with Introduction to Dungeons, and then return here to fill in the details.

For those interested in a complete guide that is constantly being worked on and kept up to date, check out Malfat's Guide.

For lategame dungeons, check out Infinity Tower for a few guides/team example and the Depth 4 Dungeons Guide page for info on the newest content.

Dungeon Rewards
Pets can gather resources and craft them into weapons, armor and accessories, which they can equip. Pet equipment improves Pet dungeon stats, and also improves your God's stats (player attack, player HP, player Mystic, build speed and creation speed). Walking sticks and their upgrades grant a bonus to all campaigns.

Pets who are exploring a dungeon can also encounter various events which give permanent rewards, depending on the dungeon. Some of these rewards include God Power, Lucky Draws, pet stones, pet growth increases, and extra crafting resources. Dungeon runs must be a minimum of 6 rooms in order for events to trigger. If runs are greater than or equal to 6 rooms, then events can occur at any point, rooms 1-48 (60 after NRDC). Less then 6, no events will occur. See the Dungeon Drops and the Items/Materials list for details. Note: Traps may still occur even on shorter runs.

Pets can be evolved to a variety of classes that benefit dungeons and campaigns. See the Pet Evolution and Class section for details.

Dungeon Exploration
''Note: Times listed here are assuming no NRDC completions. NRDC is a challenge that lowers the amount of time required per dungeon room.''

Pets must be organized into teams (also called parties) which explore a Dungeon as a group. By default, you may only have one team at a time. Up to 5 additional team slots may be purchased (as of August 2021), one each of the following:
 * 300k pet stones
 * 10k of each infinity point (obtained via Infinity Towers)
 * 2000 of each gem (obtained via Challenge Dungeons)
 * 1000 challenge points
 * 1500 challenge points

Pets who are in a team may not go on campaigns, even if that team is currently idle.

Teams consist of up to 6 of your Pets, organized in two rows of up to 3 Pets each. Pets in the front row get attacked more often; Pets in the back row (except Mages) deal less damage.

Each team can be sent into one Dungeon at a time. You may select which Dungeon, how deep to go, and how long to explore (at 15 minutes per room, from 15 minutes for 1 room, up to 12 hours for 48 rooms, or 12 hours for 60 rooms if all NRDCs are completed). You may also select extra difficulty (monsters have higher stats and give more experience, with a higher chance of drops).

The following Dungeons are available:
 * Newbie Ground
 * Scrapyard
 * Forest
 * Volcano
 * Mountain
 * Water Temple

When you're just starting out it's best to start at the Newbie Ground until your Pets gain some Dungeon Experience Levels. Other Dungeons can be attempted when your party is around level 10.

Each Dungeon other than the Newbie Ground has 4 Depth levels, each with 10 difficulty settings. These are often abbreviated as D2-7, meaning Depth 2, Difficulty 7. Depth 2 is substantially more challenging than Depth 1, and Depth 3 is much more difficult than Depth 2. Depth 4 has a much higher difficulty jump from Depth 3, since there is other dungeon-related content to explore before making that leap (Mimics and the Infinity Tower). Explorers are advised to stick to Depth 1 until they feel confident against Depth 1 with the Difficulty setting at maximum.

As a rule of thumb, you want to be able to clear difficulty 8 or 9 of the previous depth before moving on to the next depth. So before going into Depth 2, make sure you can safely do D1-8 or D1-9. This is not the case for moving into Depth 4, as that jump is much harder.

Every 15 minutes of exploration lets your Pets explore 1 room of a Dungeon. If your exploration is 6 rooms (90 minutes) or longer, the 6th room will be a Depth 1 Boss fight.

If you choose to explore Depth 2 or higher, be aware that your Pets must travel through the Depth 1 boss room to get to Depth 2, and through the Depth 2 boss room to reach Depth 3, and so on. So, the shortest possible Dungeon trip that will reach Depth 2 is 7 rooms (an hour and 45 minutes), which will consist of 5 regular Depth 1 rooms, a Depth 1 Boss fight, and a single Depth 2 room.

If your exploration reaches Depth 2 or beyond, the Depth 2 boss will be encountered in the 16th room overall (4 hours). If your exploration reaches Depth 3, the Depth 3 boss will be encountered in the 30th room overall (7 hours and 30 minutes). Finally, if your exploration reaches Depth 4, the Depth 4 boss will be encountered in the 60th room overall (12 hours), meaning you must have finished NRDC if you want to fight the D4 boss.

All dungeons, except for Newbie Grounds, can be simulated using the SIM button. This will run a what-if scenario, giving you results immediately for a hypothetical dungeon run. Due to the chance-based nature of enemy spawns, event/traps, etc., simulated dungeons will not be the exact same as a "real" dungeon run, but they can be used to see if your team is strong enough to make it to the next Depth/Difficulty without losing resources or wasting real-world time on a dead run.

Dungeon Progression
Newbie Grounds: You will begin your long dungeon journey in the Newbie Grounds, training here until your pets are around Dungeon Level 10 to be able to handle the other dungeons. Starting at Depth 1, begin delving into the other dungeons while gradually increasing the difficulty as you can to earn more loot and XP. See Introduction to Dungeons for more guided info on this part.

Depth 1 and 2: After you can clear Depth 1 at Diff 7 or 8, you can look into making the jump to Depth 2. Continue this same trend, jumping to Depth 3 when you can clear Depth 2 at Diff 8.

Depth 3 and Mimics: After Depth 3, you might be thinking you're ready for Depth 4, but you are far from. Once you have been climbing up the difficulties in Depth 3 until around Difficulty 5/6 you can look into killing Mimics. These are explained more at Dungeons, but getting to this point requires some re-gearing of your pets but with the benefit of much higher XP gains.

Infinity Towers: Once you can kill Mimics on Difficulty 3, and have been farming them for some time, you should begin exploring the Infinity Tower and earning points to unlock your sixth dungeon team. Infinity Towers have a decrease in XP gains compared to D3-10 Mimics (until you can clear Floor 100+), but offer you another source of T4 mats and event-specific materials for Depth 4. You should start feeding some XP into Dojo at this time to prep for Depth 4.

Depth 4: Once your teams are around DL 220-240 and have several pieces of T4 gear, start forming teams for Depth 4. These are much more difficult compared to Depth 3 and require unique team builds to work around the new traps. Dojo buffs are very helpful in climbing higher Difficulties. See the Depth 4 Dungeons Guide for more info and strats.

Dungeon Stats and Combat
Your pets, and the enemies found in the dungeon, have an element, 4 basic combat stats, and 4 elemental levels. The basic combat stats are Health (also known as HP), Attack, Defense and Speed.

The combat stats and elemental levels of the enemies are determined by the enemy type, and the difficulty level that you selected when you entered the dungeon.

The combat stats and elemental levels of your pets are determined by the pet's element, its Dungeon Level (DL), its class, its total growth, and the equipment it's wearing. The exact formulas for combat stats are as follows:


 * Health = (10 + 24*DL) *(1 + Growth/200000) *(Class modifier) *(Equipment modifier)
 * Attack/Defense/Speed = (1 + 2.4*DL) *(1 + Growth/200000) *(Class modifier) * (Equipment modifier)

The class modifiers are shown in the next section.

For example: A dungeon level 34 Assassin with 59337 growth, wearing armor with +27% Defense, has (1 + 2.4*34) *(1 + 59337/200000) *0.7 *1.27 = 95 Defense. The final values may be off by a few points due to inexact displayed equipment bonuses.

Element levels are calculated as follows:
 * If the pet is Neutral, each element level is 0.75 * DL.
 * If the pet is not Neutral, its primary element level is 50 + 3 * DL, its weak element level is -50, and the other two element levels are 0.
 * Elemental bonuses or penalties from equipment are added (or subtracted), never multiplied.

The weak element is the one above your pet's primary element on the dungeon list. Water is above fire, so fire is weak to water, and a fire pet will have -50 water element. Likewise, wind is weak to fire, earth is weak to wind, and water is weak to earth (wrapping around vertically).

Combat consists of one or more rounds (also called turns), in which your pets and the enemies attack each other. Your speed determines how many times you get to act in each round. At speed 0, you act once per round. For speeds up to 500, you get a (speed/5)% chance of a second action per round. Between 500 and 1500, you get a ((speed-500)/10)% chance of a third action per round, for a final cap of 3 actions per round at 1500 speed. Speed also determines the order of everyone's actions, with faster pets/enemies being more likely to act first.

Each time your pet acts, it will either use a special ability if it has one (e.g. Ghost's frightful scream or Hourglass's slowing power), or heal an injured pet (if it's a Supporter, and if any pets are sufficiently injured), or attack a random enemy (or several random enemies if it's a Mage).

In the case of a single enemy attack, damage is calculated as follows:
 * Start with the attacker's Attack value.
 * Subtract half of the defender's Defense value.
 * Determine which element is being used. For a non-Neutral attacker, this is the attacker's element.  For a Neutral attacker, the game looks at each element and uses whichever one has the largest difference between the attacker's and the defender's levels.
 * Multiply by the elemental factor: (1 + A/100) / (1 + D/100) where A is the attacker's element level and D is the defender's element level in the element that's being used. If D is negative, add abs(D) to A and set D to 0.
 * Multiply by the defense factor: 1 - (D / (D + 200)) where D is the defender's Defense value.
 * Apply class-specific factors.
 * Add speed damage: if the attacker's speed is higher than the defender's speed, subtract them, and then divide by 2. If the attacker's speed isn't higher, then there is no speed damage.
 * If the attacker is a pet in the back row, and isn't a Mage, then there's a 20% damage penalty.

Pet Evolution and Class
Each Pet has a separate dungeon level (and experience points) and class level (and experience points). These levels are independent of its normal stats and level. For example, a Pet may have normal level 1020, dungeon level 10, and class level 13.

Dungeon level experience points (abbreviated Exp or XP) are gained primarily by defeating monsters in dungeons. The tougher the monster, typically, the more Exp it gives. At the end of each room, Exp is divided among all surviving pets in the party, unless Ego Swords are involved. If a pet is evolved, it usually receives an equal amount of class level Exp as well (see class restrictions below). For example, if the combat log says Rabbit gained 1000 experience, and Rabbit is evolved as a Mage, this means Rabbit gained both 1000 dungeon level Exp and 1000 class level Exp.

The exp gained in dungeons contributes to both dungeon level and class level, except for a few cases. Adventurers and Alchemists gain dungeon level Exp like normal, but only earn class level Exp by campaigns/crafting respectively. Blacksmiths are unique, and gain class levels by crafting or doing dungeons, since they have a use in both. The formula for crafting/campaign exp gain is 250 * (1 + growth/20000) * (hours crafting[in campaigns]) * (1 + crafter speed / 100)

The pet stone and ChP purchases that increase Adventurer XP are calculated afterward.

As you gather materials and fulfill special conditions you can also evolve your Pets, making them more useful in dungeons (or elsewhere). Evolution gives your Pets a new look, and lets you select a class.

Suggestions
Some Pets get an additional bonus if you evolve them into a particular class. For example, the Rabbit gets a damage bonus if it's a Mage. In most cases, it's best to match the Pet's class to its special bonus; in some cases, it isn't.

A Pet that has utility in campaigns (ie the Elementals) should be evolved as an Adventurer class, though you may choose to change them to their specialized class (moving Undine to a Rogue) once you no longer need it in campaigns or their other benefits outweigh them staying an adventurer. Any Pet with a large bonus to item or growth campaigns may require a tough decision. Always remember that you can change a pet's class, so there is some room for mistakes, or for intentional changes in direction.

You will want at least one Blacksmith and one Alchemist as soon as you can reasonably get them, in order to begin crafting equipment, consumables and higher tier resources. Usually Bee will be your first Alchemist, and your first Blacksmith will be a "wildcard" Pet -- one with no outstanding class specialization or campaign bonuses. Bug, Mouse, Mole, Cupid, Camel and some others are considered wildcards, and using one of these as your first Blacksmith is a common choice.

Exp Management
Pets gain Exp (class level or dungeon level experience points) primarily by going into dungeons, or by campaigning (Adventurer class level Exp only), or by crafting (Blacksmith and Alchemist class level Exp only). However, there are a few other ways that Exp can be acquired, shared, or shifted around.

Dojo can be used to increase the Exp gained from all sources

After each dungeon trip, an additional 1/60 (or possibly more, if there's a Patron bonus) of the total Exp acquired by your pets goes into a Free Exp pool. Free Exp remains in the pool until spent. It may be given to any pet as either dungeon level Exp or class level Exp. Common uses of the Free Exp pool include boosting the levels of newly acquired pets to increase their survivability or their offensive power; boosting the class level of a Supporter or Mage in order to handle a deeper or more difficult dungeon; or boosting the class level of your best forging Blacksmith to improve the odds of higher quality equipment.

A pet's dungeon or class Exp may be drained to 0. This costs 25 God Power, and also permanently loses 50% of the Exp. The remaining 50% goes into the Free Exp pool. Some players use this strategy to siphon class levels from crafters or Adventurers and invest the Exp into their best Blacksmith, Mage or other high-value pet.

Pets that are assigned to RTI or the Pet Village gain class Exp over time. Some Tavern quests give dungeon level Exp as well.

Finally, pets may be equipped with XP training swords, or their upgraded equivalents (leeching sword, ego sword, soul sword). These weapons have different effects depending on where the pet is assigned. Pets who are not in a dungeon party will gain dungeon level Exp when a dungeon trip completes. This is bonus Exp, similar to the Free Exp pool, except that it goes directly to the pet(s) with the training weapon(s) equipped. If the pet is assigned to RTI or the Pet Village, it will gain class Exp instead of dungeon Exp. The higher the tier, quality and plus levels on the weapon, the more bonus Exp is gained.

If a pet with an XP Sword (ie, Ego Sword) is assigned to a dungeon team, that pet gets a greater share of the Exp from each dungeon trip, leaving smaller shares for the other team members. A single pet with an SSS +20 ego sword will gain 100% of the Exp, leaving none for the other members of the team. This may be useful if you wish to focus level gains on a single pet, either because it's new and needs to catch up, or because it's a high-value team member (Mage or Supporter) who needs to excel.

For more in-depth information on EXP swords, and some of the more hidden features, see Ego Sword.

Dungeon Drops
All Depth 1 dungeons drop Tier 1 Materials of their Element which can be used by Alchemists and Blacksmiths to create other things. The boss for each dungeon (except Newbie Ground) also has a chance to drop matching Tier 2 Materials. You can also find Ants in all dungeons, which are used to buff Anteater.

Depth 1
(*) Boss drop only.

Depth 2
(*) Boss drop only.

Depth 3
(*) Boss drop only.

Depth 4
(*) Boss drop only.

Monsters
Each Dungeon and Depth has a pool of possible enemies:

Mimics
Mimics are an elite mob that can be encountered at Depth 3 in any of the dungeons if your party items include the Nothing item. Each mimic encountered causes you to lose 1 Nothing you were carrying regardless of victory or loss. Mimics are tough fights that might require you to reduce the dungeon difficulty level, but compensate for it by providing you with massive amounts of XP when killed. If you can reliably kill them it is a good way to accelerate the dungeon level and class level of your pets, currently being the best available source of XP. They are also used to farm Mimic Points, which are used by the Treasure/Mimic pet. You will receive 1 Mimic Point per difficulty level you fight the mimic. For example, fighting a mimic at Difficulty 5 will give 5 mimic points per mimic defeated. Therefore, it is not recommended to fight mimics on Difficulty 0, since they do not give points (they will still be good XP, however).

Being a neutral enemy, it is recommended to have +20 enchanted gear with a neutral gem or two depending on gear. A maxed alchemist cape could be good for fighting mimics, since it boosts all elements as well as all stats. Having all pet elements > 0 is almost necessary for survival due to the way neutral element enemies deal damage. Because mimics have much higher stats than normal dungeon enemies, it is recommended to drop down a couple difficulty levels when first starting. It depends on your gear and pet levels, but typically if you are able to run D3-10 without mimics, you should be able to do D3-6 or D3-7 with mimics and then gradually work up to D3-10 mimics.

Special Bosses
There are a variety of special fights you can trigger in the dungeons which provide a variety of unlocks and bonuses. Typically related to pets.

Chameleon
Fight this boss to unlock Chameleon.

Super Rogue Shadow Clone (SRSC)
Super Rogue Shadow Clone is part of the Undine quest line.

Nothing
Nothing is a special boss that will replace the D2 boss for Scrapyard if you fulfill the required conditions. Defeating it will unlock the Nothing pet.

Evolved Balrog
Fight the evolved Balrog in the Volcano.

Gram Fights
Defeat these bosses for Gram, a powerful weapon.

Delirious Essence of the Forgotten
Fight this boss as part of the Aether quest line.

April's Fool
Aprils Fool is a special boss that is available in the Newbie Ground under special conditions. Defeating its weakest version will unlock the Fool pet.

loof slirpa
Loof slirpa is aprils fool spelled backwards. It is a special boss that replaces the Newbie Ground boss if your party items include at least 1 A.F. coin. It has scaling difficulty based on the number of coins you bring in with you. It does not drop any reward so fighting it is pointless beyond the joke factor.