Cindersower

How it fights

The cindersower is the Cinder Works’ mine-layer. It never closes in: it circles you about 4.5 tiles out and, with you within 9 tiles, drops a cinder at its own feet every 2.83 s plus up to 1 s. A cinder lies on the ground as a dim red ring of 0.8 tiles radius for up to 9 s and does nothing until a hero walks within 1.5 tiles of it. Then it sparks: the ring fills bright over 0.75 s, and it bursts for 6 base damage (17 on floor 11) on any hero still inside. Clearing the ring from its middle takes 0.27 s at the Warrior’s full speed, so a spark you see is a burst you can step out of; a cinder no one sparks burns out the same way at the end of its life. The trouble is where they pile up: it lays them along the circle it walks round you, so a long fight near one turns the ground into a field you have to read. 117 HP on floor 11, 7–10 basic swings, a bite of 9. It joins the waves and packs on floor 11, about 15% of the monsters there, up to floor 14, never in the Smeltreeve’s room. At most 3 are alive at once, and a pack holds 3 at most.

Base HP

34

Base bite

3

Bites at most every

1 s

Base speed

1.3 tiles/s

Body radius

0.3 tiles

XP

5 (elite 25)

Coin chance

45%

Item drop chance

7% × the floor’s loot

Floor by floor

The same cindersower gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite cindersower has 3× the HP, gives 5× the XP and always drops at least a magic item plus 5 coins. “Share of waves” is the part of the floor’s wave monsters that roll as a cindersower.

In the same band

• Slagdragger — 137 HP on floor 11
• Fusebelly — 103 HP on floor 11
• Stoker — 178 HP on floor 11
• The Smeltreeve, the band’s boss on floor 15 — how to beat him
• Every monster