The Root Hollow · boss · floor 20 and every fifth floor after it
The Mournroot
4830 HP on floor 20: 269–403 basic swings before gear and skills. He draws every attack on the ground before it lands, root plunge (1 s) and spore bloom (0.9 s).
Read the guide to The Mournroot for how to dodge each attack.
The fight
A boss floor has no clock: the waves keep coming until he falls. He steps out 1.5 s into the floor and draws his first attack 1.67 s later. While he winds up he stands still; between attacks he walks at you at 1.26 tiles a second (the Warrior walks 4.2) and his touch bites for 26. After each attack lands he rests 1.6 s before drawing the next; below half HP only 1 s. Knockback does not move him. No boss attack may land sooner than 0.6 s after it is drawn.
- Base HP
- 1050
- Base touch
- 9
- Speed
- 0.95 tiles/s
- Body radius
- 0.9 tiles
- XP
- 150
- Attacks
- 2
| Floor | HP | Basic swings | Touch | Root plunge | Spore bloom | Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 4830 | 269–403 | 26 | 74 | 51 | 10 × 82 |
| 25* | 11046 | 614–921 | 41 | 120 | 83 | 10 × 164 |
| 30* | 25284 | 1405–2107 | 67 | 193 | 134 | 10 × 330 |
* Floors past 20 are not written out in the game’s tables: their numbers are the engine’s own extrapolation from floor 20 (HP and bite keep growing every floor).
His attacks
- Root plunge: 3 lines of root spikes, each 9 tiles long and 0.9 wide, 24° apart, from him toward you, and to either side; wind-up 1 s (0.75 s below half HP); 26 base damage.
- Spore bloom: 3 rings round his own spot, 0.9–2.1, 3.5–4.7 and 6.1–7.3 tiles from his centre, with 1.4-tile gaps between them; wind-up 0.9 s; 18 base damage; only below half HP.
The full guide to The Mournroot has when he picks each one and how long a dodge takes.
What he drops
Always two rare items and three magic items, each rolled with magic and rare odds ×2.1 so any of them can come out better, and a spill of 10 coins. From floor 3 down a boss kill also has a 50% chance of a unique item (one you do not own yet, picked evenly among the 10) and from floor 4 down a 13% chance of a set piece. Every item lands on a ring around his body.
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