Spumecaster

How it fights

The spumecaster is the Salt Galleries’ forecaster: the only monster in the game that aims where you are going instead of where you are. It keeps back: nearer than 4.5 tiles it backs off, further than 7 it comes in. With you within 9 tiles it raises one ring of foam on the ground where your walk would take you in 1 s, never more than 3 tiles ahead; if you are standing still, it lands on you. The red ring of 0.8 tiles radius is drawn at once and fills; 1 s later it bursts for 5 base damage (21 on floor 21) on any hero inside. Walking on in a straight line takes you into it; turning, stopping short or doubling back keeps you out. 258 HP on floor 21, 15–22 basic swings, a bite of 12. It casts again 3.33 s plus up to 1 s later. It joins the waves and packs on floor 21, about 15% of the monsters there, up to floor 24, never in the Brinemother’s room. At most 3 are alive at once, and a pack holds 3 at most.

Base HP

40

Base bite

3

Bites at most every

1.17 s

Base speed

1.2 tiles/s

Body radius

0.3 tiles

XP

7 (elite 35)

Coin chance

55%

Item drop chance

11% × the floor’s loot

Floor by floor

The same spumecaster gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite spumecaster 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 spumecaster.

In the same band

• Saltcrier — 219 HP on floor 21
• Saltreel — 322 HP on floor 21
• Needlecrust — 425 HP on floor 21
• The Brinemother, the band’s boss on floor 25 — how to beat her
• Every monster