Special Stage

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Special stages are non-minesweeper stages in a quest.

Interactions

Special stages appear in quests on the select a stage screen. They are optional, when unlocked they also unlock the next normal stage.

Some effects that mention "stage" can work on special stages, but only if they function on non-minsweeper stage properties. For instance you can unlock, uncomplete, or "exit without completing" a special stage. But you can't add monsters, increase the stage power or add Stage Mods. Similarly, effects that trigger when you complete or begin a stage do not count special stages.

Special Stages

Item Shop

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Allows the player to exchange gold for items. Item costs in the shop are randomly adjusted up or down by about 50%(?) from the base costs in the codex. Hard mode quests add an additional +25% to all costs. The items that appear are limited to those with base costs from 1 coin up to to slightly more than the amount of coins you have. This means it is normal to spawn items you can't quite afford, especially on hard.

Omens do not usually appear in the shop, as well as other items that cost 0 coins. Because it costs 1 coin, Dead Rodent.png Dead Rodent is an exception. Or many omens may appear if the player has the The Plague.png The Plague.

With a Merchant Ring.png Merchant Ring, the player can also sell items. The shop will not buy anything that costs 0 coins such as most Omens, Bones.png Bones and Minion.png Minions.

Bazaar

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Similar to an item shop but the player will be offered 3 selections. These selections will consist of one of the following choices:

  • Buy a player's item
  • Sell an item to the player
  • Exchange an item for an item the player owns

On making a selection, the selection may refresh with another choice. Unlike item shops, bazaars may buy or exchange omens.

Chaos Font

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The player is offered a price and 6 options. These options will be 4 random non-Omen items of various costs, 1 omen and an exit. If the player pays the indicated cost, they receive an option at random, which is replaced by another exit. If they draw an exit, the font will dry up and the player will be ejected.

Altar

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The player will be offered 3 omens, each with a reward beneath it. 2 will offer the player souls, and the third may offer either souls or a revive. The player can accept an omen for the indicated reward. Be aware that if the player has an omen which prevents the gain of lives, the altar will not care that the player cannot gain the reward but will still give them them omen.

Rite of Passage

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The player can pay a gold cost to increase their max life, increase their defence or gain a flat amount of mana. The player will get one offer for each category, buying any one will exit the stage.

There are 7 "tiers" of exponentially more expensive upgrades (from +1 to +7 hp/defence or increasing amounts of mana). Each offer will be a random price the player can afford from either the highest tier the player can afford or the next tier below. The chances are in some way proportional to the coins on hand. The closer the player's coins on hand are to the top of a range, the more often they receive prices for that range instead of the one below. For example +3 offers are technically possible when the player has exactly 21 coins, but are very unlikely.

Coin cost range Max Lives / Defense Mana
5 +1 +200
6-20 +2 +300
21-72 +3 +400
84-360 +4 +500
420-2160 +5 +600
2520-15120 +6 +700
17640-27720 +7

Library

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The player can choose from a random selection of words like "flare", "omen" and "explode". The player will then be given an item which features that word in its description. This item can't be an omen but is otherwise a random item of any value. For the rest of the quest, all items you find by any method will be much more likely to be items with that term in their description. Your score box will say "You have become a specialist in <BLANK> items."

Terms

  • Armor
  • Coin
  • Defense
  • Discover
  • Explode
  • Familiar
  • Flare
  • Kill
  • Life
  • Loot
  • Magic
  • Minion
  • Mod
  • Omen
  • Orb
  • Power
  • Reveal
  • Soul
  • Stage
  • Stranger
  • Target
  • Turn

Waygate

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Presents three other stages in the current quest. All stages and special stages are potentially included, whether locked/unlocked or completed/uncompleted. The player may choose one of them to immediately enter it, or leave the waygate to decline. In either case the waygate becomes completed.

The stage you are transported to will complete as it normally would. You will usually want to visit other available special stages before using the waygate, to have a chance access them twice.

Starpond

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Purchase metaprogression items such as emblems and artifacts for Tokens and coins. Found in the second half of every quest on Hard mode and above. Does not replace an existing Item Shop.

Guild

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Purchase strangers and spawn them in bubbles. You may buy the same stranger multiple times. Each Guild has a random selection of strangers.

Lighthouse

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Reduce the difficulty of the following stage by choosing 1 of 3 options at no cost:

  • remove monsters
  • remove a random or add a positive stage mod
  • reduce the stage power

It can only affect the closest non-special stage, which encourages you to use the Lighthouse as soon as it is unlocked.

Smithy

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Purchase random head, body, or leg armor. You must complete another stage before your armor is ready. Return to the Smithy later to collect your item.

Academy

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Replace your mastery with one of 3 random masteries. Your new mastery will be tier 3 even if you don't have it unlocked. It starts fully charged.

Workshop

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Pay Mastery charges to buy from a choice of 3 Mastery Dolls. The one corresponding to your own Mastery is always one of the choices.

Special Stage Related Items

Image _pageName Description Cost
Anvil.png
Anvil Gain a random armor item whenever you enter a special stage. Whenever you gain defense, fortify all of your armor by the same amount. 18 coins
Anvil.png
Anvil Gain a random armor item whenever you enter a special stage. Whenever you gain defense, fortify all of your armor by the same amount. 18 coins
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Genie Lamp After each stage, you will visit a random special stage. 30 coins
Genie_Lamp.png
Genie Lamp After each stage, you will visit a random special stage. 30 coins
Pipe_Bomb.png
Pipe Bomb Explode target cell. Increase the radius of this item by the number of special stages you have completed. 18 coins
Pipe_Bomb.png
Pipe Bomb Explode target cell. Increase the radius of this item by the number of special stages you have completed. 18 coins
Shinobi_Veil.png
Shinobi Veil [1 Head Armor] When this breaks, gain souls and defense equal to the number of special stages you have completed. 18 coins
Shinobi_Veil.png
Shinobi Veil [1 Head Armor] When this breaks, gain souls and defense equal to the number of special stages you have completed. 18 coins

Changelog

  • v1.63b Workshop buff: the center Doll now costs 2 charges instead of 3
  • v1.63 added Workshop
  • v1.50
    • Reduced the coin cost of Starpond items by one third
    • The Library can no longer give omens
  • v1.41 added: Guild, Academy, Lighthouse, Smithy, Starpond


Mechanics
Lives.png LivesDefense.png DefenseCoin Currency.png Coins
Revive.png ReviveStatus Effect.png Status Effect
StagesSpecial StagesStage Power
Nomad.png StrangerSign.png LandmarkFamiliar.png FamiliarSpider.png MonsterHUSKBANE.png Boss
Loot ( Heart.png HeartSoul.png SoulCoin.png CoinDiamond.png DiamondChest.png Chestetc. )
AuraStage Mods
Canker.png CankerSawblade.png SawbladeBubble.png Bubble
FlareBlessingBubble
InventoryArmor.png ArmorBones.png BonesMinion.png MinionSeal
ManaManalockDuplicast
TurnMistakeDamageChainChordPowerchordExplodeGlean GuessPathfindingMorality
ScorePrestige
Token.png TokensSpecial ChestsHeirloomSigil
Auramancer Mastery.pngBanker Mastery.pngBarbarian Mastery.pngBookworm Mastery.pngBubbler Mastery.pngCommander Mastery.pngDemolitionist Mastery.pngDetective Mastery.pngExorcist Mastery.pngFirefly Mastery.pngGhost Mastery.pngGuardian Mastery.pngHuman Mastery.pngHunter Mastery.pngHypnotist Mastery.pngImmortal Mastery.pngKnight Mastery.pngLumberjack Mastery.pngMarksman Mastery.pngMutant Mastery.pngNinja Mastery.pngNovice Mastery.pngPoisoner Mastery.pngProphet Mastery.pngProtagonist Mastery.pngScholar Mastery.pngScout Mastery.pngSnowflake Mastery.pngSpark Mastery.pngSpy Mastery.pngSurvivor Mastery.pngUndertaker Mastery.pngWarlock Mastery.pngWitch Mastery.pngWizard Mastery.png
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