Special Stage
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
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 is an exception. Or many omens may appear if the player has the The Plague.
With a Merchant Ring, the player can also sell items. The shop will not buy anything that costs 0 coins such as most Omens, Bones and Minions.
Bazaar
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
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
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
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 |
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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
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
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
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
Purchase strangers and spawn them in bubbles. You may buy the same stranger multiple times. Each Guild has a random selection of strangers.
Lighthouse
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
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
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
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 |
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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 | 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 | |
Genie Lamp | After each stage, you will visit a random special stage. | 30 coins | |
Genie Lamp | After each stage, you will visit a random special stage. | 30 coins | |
Pipe Bomb | Explode target cell. Increase the radius of this item by the number of special stages you have completed. | 18 coins | |
Pipe Bomb | Explode target cell. Increase the radius of this item by the number of special stages you have completed. | 18 coins | |
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 | [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 | |||
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Character | Stats | Lives • Defense • Coins | |
Revive • Status Effect | |||
Stage | Stages • Special Stages • Stage Power | ||
Objects | Stranger • Landmark • Familiar • Monster • Boss | ||
Loot | ( Heart • Soul • Coin • Diamond • Chest • etc. ) | ||
Modifiers | Aura • Stage Mods | ||
Orbs | Canker • Sawblade • Bubble | ||
Projectiles | Flare • Blessing • Bubble | ||
Item | Inventory • Armor • Bones • Minion • Seal | ||
Magic | Mana • Manalock • Duplicast | ||
Keyword | Turn • Mistake • Damage • Chain • Chord • Powerchord • Explode • Glean • Guess • Pathfinding • Morality | ||
Profile | Level | Score • Prestige | |
Tokens • Special Chests • Heirloom • Sigil | |||
Mastery | |||
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