The Salt Galleries · monster · floor 21 down
Saltreel
239 HP and a bite of 15 on floor 21; 291 HP and 16 bite on floor 25. 14–20 basic swings fell one on floor 21 before gear.
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How it fights
The saltreel drags you to it. When you are between 1.6 and 6 tiles away it hauls its hook back behind its head and holds still for 0.67 s, and a red lane 7 tiles long and 0.9 wide is drawn on the ground from it through where you stood, filling from its end as the throw nears. Then it throws: if any part of you is still in the lane, the hook catches for 5 base damage (15 on floor 21) and reels you 3 tiles toward it in 0.2 s, usually into the pack around it, and you cannot swing or cast while you are dragged. The lane is longer than its reach to start, so walking away along it does not save you; stepping sideways out of it does, 0.19 s at the Warrior’s full speed from the middle of the lane. A hero in the air (Anvil Drop) lets the hook pass under, and one already mid-dash is hurt but not dragged. After a throw it walks for 4 s before it can throw again. At most 4 are alive at once.
- Base HP
- 50
- Base bite
- 5
- Bites at most every
- 1.08 s
- Base speed
- 1.15 tiles/s
- Body radius
- 0.34 tiles
- XP
- 7 (elite 35)
- Coin chance
- 55%
- Item drop chance
- 11% × the floor’s loot
Floor by floor
The same saltreel gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite saltreel 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 saltreel.
| Floor | HP | Elite HP | Bite | Hook | Speed | Share of waves | Item drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 239 | 717 | 15 | 15 | 1.54 | 7.6% | 37.4% |
| 22 | 251 | 753 | 15 | 15 | 1.55 | 10.3% | 38.5% |
| 23 waypoint | 264 | 792 | 16 | 16 | 1.56 | 12.9% | 39.6% |
| 24 | 277 | 831 | 16 | 16 | 1.58 | 15.6% | 40.7% |
| 25 boss | 291 | 873 | 16 | 16 | 1.59 | 17.5% | 41.8% |
| 30 boss* | 665 | 1995 | 27 | 27 | 1.61 | 17.5% | 53.4% |
| 35 boss* | 1521 | 4563 | 43 | 43 | 1.61 | 17.5% | 68.1% |
* Floors past 25 are not written out in the game’s tables: their numbers are the engine’s own extrapolation from floor 25 (HP and bite keep growing every floor).
In the same band
- Saltcrier — 163 HP on floor 21
- Needlecrust — 315 HP on floor 21
- The Brinemother, the band’s boss on floor 25 and every fifth floor after it — how to beat her
- Every monster