The Root Hollow · monster · floor 16 down
Delver
168 HP and a bite of 15 on floor 16; 202 HP and 17 bite on floor 20. 10–14 basic swings fell one on floor 16 before gear.
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How it fights
The delver attacks from under you. When you are between 1.6 and 6 tiles away it sinks into the floor and is gone: no swing, skill or knockback reaches it while it is down, and it bites nobody. At the same instant a red ring of 0.9 tiles radius, cracked stone with violet spores in it, opens on the spot you were standing on. 1 s later the delver bursts up through the ring, for 12 base damage (31 on floor 16) if any part of you is inside it. The ring does not follow you: stepping clear of it means moving 1.24 tiles from its centre, 0.3 s at the Warrior’s full speed, so a hero who keeps walking is never hit and one who stands to trade blows always is. After it surfaces it walks for 3 s before it can burrow again, and that is the time to kill it. At most 4 are alive at once.
- Base HP
- 44
- Base bite
- 6
- Bites at most every
- 1.08 s
- Base speed
- 1.3 tiles/s
- Body radius
- 0.38 tiles
- XP
- 6 (elite 30)
- Coin chance
- 50%
- Item drop chance
- 11% × the floor’s loot
Floor by floor
The same delver gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite delver 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 delver.
| Floor | HP | Elite HP | Bite | Surfacing | Speed | Share of waves | Item drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 168 | 504 | 15 | 31 | 1.68 | 7.2% | 31.9% |
| 17 | 176 | 528 | 16 | 32 | 1.69 | 9.7% | 33.0% |
| 18 waypoint | 185 | 555 | 16 | 33 | 1.7 | 12.2% | 34.1% |
| 19 | 194 | 582 | 17 | 33 | 1.72 | 14.8% | 35.2% |
| 20 boss | 202 | 606 | 17 | 34 | 1.73 | 16.6% | 36.3% |
| 25 boss* | 463 | 1389 | 28 | 55 | 1.82 | 16.6% | 46.3% |
| 30 boss* | 1060 | 3180 | 45 | 89 | 1.82 | 16.6% | 59.2% |
* 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).
In the same band
- Cleavecap — 175 HP on floor 16
- Wardbark — 145 HP on floor 16
- The Mournroot, the band’s boss on floor 20 and every fifth floor after it — how to beat him
- Every monster