Fernswarthy's Basement

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Not to be confused with The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Basement) (level 10 quest).

Fernswarthy's Basement

Fernswarthy's Basement, located in The Ruins of Fernswarthy's Tower, is just that. A basement. Except that it's a basement without any apparent bottom. The obstacles you must overcome to continue downwards become progressively harder as you go. Some rooms contain a monster to fight, and some contain tests of your Muscle, Mysticality, Moxie or endurance. Every fifth room, however, gives you the chance to boost one of your stats. Additionally, every hundredth room, you will receive rare and powerful consumable items (or other useful items, if you descend far enough). Fernswarthy's Basement becomes available once you find the trap-door during The Wizard of Ego quest.

Level Progression

In most cases, the stat requirements to pass a floor are directly stated. For example, if you are required to dispel 468 mops, you will succeed with 468 mysticality and higher. Some monsters will display their strength as well. "The Beast with 468 eyes" will attack and defend as a level 468 monster. Some obstacles do not show their requirements, but simply increment each time you encounter them. These adventures will still scale according to the floor normally.

The stat requirements on any given floor are roughly equal to (floor)^1.4, and the levels of the monsters can scale up to 2*(floor)^1.4. The following table lists the approximate buffed stat required to reach each stat-boost floor. According to the Dressing For Success model, any player can achieve at least a 500% buff for each stat, the third column gives an approximate minimum unbuffed stat. A player with a main stat of 126 can use commonly-available equalizing potions, clothes, and stat-boosting potions to reach the 100th floor of the basement; advanced players and those with nice toys can obviously get by at a comparatively lower main stat.

Floor of Basement	Stat Level	Main Stat (at 500% Buff)		Floor of Basement	Stat Level	Main Stat (at 500% Buff)		Floor of Basement	Stat Level	Main Stat (at 500% Buff)
5	10	2		55	273	55		105	676	135
10	25	5		60	309	62		110	721	144
15	44	9		65	345	69		115	767	153
20	66	13		70	383	77		120	814	163
25	91	18		75	422	84		125	862	172
30	117	23		80	462	92		130	911	182
35	145	29		85	503	101		135	960	192
40	175	35		90	544	109		140	1011	202
45	206	41		95	587	117		145	1061	212
50	239	48		100	631	126		150	1113	223

Floor of Basement	Stat Level	Main Stat (at 500% Buff)		Floor of Basement	Stat Level	Main Stat (at 500% Buff)		Floor of Basement	Stat Level	Main Stat (at 500% Buff)
200	1665	333		1100	18111	3622		1900	38927	7786
300	2937	587		1200	20458	4092		2000	41826	8365
400	4395	879		1300	22884	4577		2100	44783	8957
500	6006	1201		1400	25385	5077		2200	47796	9559
600	7752	1551		1500	27960	5592		2300	50865	10173
700	9620	1924		1600	30603	6121		2400	53988	10798
800	11597	2320		1700	33314	6663		2500	57163	11433
900	13676	2735		1800	30690	7218		3000	73785	14757
1000	15849	3170

Monsters

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Beast with X Ears -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: None Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(1.7*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: 70 Elemental Alignment: None

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Beast with X Eyes -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: None Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(1.7*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: ∞ Elemental Alignment: None Note: Very high combat initiative.

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Ghost of Fernswarthy's Grandfather -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: Ancient hot dog wrapper, Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(.425*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: 70 Elemental Alignment: None Damage Resistance: 100%

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X Bottles of Beer on a Golem -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: None Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(1.7*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: 70 Elemental Alignment: None Note: Blocks most spells.

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X Stone Golem -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: Stone Golem pebblesm Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(.85*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: 70 Elemental Alignment: None Damage Resistance: 50%

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X-Dimensional Horror -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: None Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(1.7*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: 0 Elemental Alignment: None Note: Blocks most physical attacks.

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X-Headed Hydra -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: None Meat Drop: None Monster Level: (Scales as 2*ceiling(basementlevel1.4)) • Substat Gain: (Scales as attack/4) • Moxie for No Hit*: (Scales with floor) Monster Defense: (Scales as attack) Hit Points: (Scales as ceiling(1.7*ceiling(basementlevel1.4))) Initiative: 70 Elemental Alignment: None

Skill Tests

All the stat tests are believed to have a variance of +/-10%. That is, to pass a stat test at a given depth L, your appropriate buffed stat will have to exceed a randomly chosen value between 0.9 L^1.4 and 1.1 L^1.4.

Muscle Tests

See Maximizing Your Muscle for a guide to obtain the highest muscle, or refer to Muscle Modifiers for a comprehensive list of all muscle modifiers in the game.

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Lift 'em!

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Push it Real Good

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Ring that Bell

Mysticality Tests

See Maximizing Your Mysticality for a guide to obtain the highest mysticality, or refer to Mysticality Modifiers for a comprehensive list of all mysticality modifiers in the game.

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Gathering: The Magic

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Mop the Floor with the Mops

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Do away with the 'doo

Moxie Tests

See Maximizing Your Moxie for a guide to obtain the highest moxie, or refer to Moxie Modifiers for a comprehensive list of all moxie modifiers in the game.

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Don't Wake the Baby

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Grab a cue

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Put on the Smooth Moves
	Note: Male characters only.

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Put on the Smooth Moves
	Note: Female characters only.

Elemental Damage Tests

The basement's elemental damage tests each inflict two types of elemental damage. The amount of damage you'll take from each element is roughly 4.5*(floor)^1.4, so without being in an elemental form, you should expect roughly 9*(floor)^1.4 total damage, before elemental resistance. A single damage value is calculated (including random variance), and each of the two elemental attacks has this same power level. Resistance is applied separately to each attack.

See Elemental Resistance for a comprehensive list of all elemental resistance increasers in the game. Being in the appropriate elemental form will reduce one of the damage types to 1, but make sure that you do not use the form that doubles the other elemental damage type. For example, using sleazeform against Singled Out will reduce sleaze damage to 1 but double cold damage.

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Singled Out
	Drink the Drunk's Drink!: Tests Cold Resistance and Sleaze Resistance. Coldform reduces cold to 1.

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Peace, Bra!
	Hold your nose and watch your back: Tests Sleaze Resistance and Stench Resistance. Sleazeform reduces sleaze to 1

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Still Better Than Pistachio
	Pwn the Cone: Tests Stench Resistance and Hot Resistance. Stenchform reduces stench to 1

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Unholy Writes
	What's a Typewriter, Again?: Tests Hot Resistance and Spooky Resistance. Hotform reduces hot to 1

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The Unthawed
	Evade the Vampsicle: Tests Spooky Resistance and Cold Resistance. Spookyform reduces spooky to 1

MP Drainage Test

See Maximizing Your MP for a guide to obtain the highest MP, or refer to MP Modifiers for a comprehensive list of all MP modifiers in the game.

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A Festering Powder
	Grab the Handles: Drains about 1.67 * lvl1.4 MP, with a variation which is less than 5%.

HP Drainage Test

See Maximizing Your HP for a guide to obtain the highest HP, or refer to HP Modifiers for a comprehensive list of all HP modifiers in the game. Additionally, Damage Absorption affects the amount of damage taken. See Maximizing Your Damage Absorption for a guide on obtaining the highest damage absorption.

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Throwin' Down the Gauntlet
	Run the Gauntlet Gauntlet: Deals approximately (lvl1.4)*10 damage.

Reward Rooms

One of the stat gain rewards will appear on every floor that is a multiple of five. The only exceptions are the one-time reward rooms which occur on the first five multiples of 100.

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Got Silk?/Leather is Betther
	Got Silk?: Gain Cheek (Gains roughly equal to your mainstat.) Leather is Betther: Gain Fortitude (Gains roughly equal to your mainstat.)

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Save the Dolls/Save the Cardboard
	Save the Dolls: Gain Magicalness (Gains roughly equal to your mainstat.) Save the Cardboard: Gain Cheek (Gains roughly equal to your mainstat.)

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Take the Red Pill/Take the Blue Pill
	Take the Red Pill: Gain Fortitude (Gains roughly equal to your mainstat.) Take the Blue Pill: Gain Magicalness (Gains roughly equal to your mainstat.)

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De Los Dioses
	Item Drops: sandwich of the gods Note: 100th floor only.

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The Dusk Zone
	Item Drops: Pan-Dimensional Gargle Blaster Note: 200th floor only.

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Giggity Bobbity Boo!
	Item Drops: enchanted leopard-print barbell Note: 300th floor only.

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No Good Deed
	Item Drops: sandwich of the gods, Pan-Dimensional Gargle Blaster, enchanted leopard-print barbell Note: 400th floor only.

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Fernswarthy's Basement, Level 500
	Item Drops: Discount Telescope Warehouse gift certificate Note: 500th floor only.

Basement-diving Miniguide

• Stat tests at floor N require about N^1.4 buffed stat.
• To get to floor 400 at level 30 (845 mainstat), all that's really needed is a 420% boost to all stats, easily attainable from reagent potions alone, and an equalizer potion.
• To get to Floor 500 at level 30 requires about a 610% boost to all stats and an equalizer reagent potion.
• Clever use of Elemental Phials will greatly help with the elemental tests. Mysticality classes will generally have a much easier time with these tests (especially when otherwise capped at 89%, they'll take roughly half the damage of other classes at that point), and also with the MP drain test. Saucerors in particular are a popular choice because they get more turns from each reagent potion (and they can cheaply produce any reagent potions they might need).
• Muscle classes will have an easier time at the Gauntlet and Elemental tests because of their natural HP bonus. Seal Clubbers in particular can power-level to basementing levels very easily with Mother hellseals.
• Moxie classes will have the hardest time in the basement because they lack both the HP and MP bonuses the other two classes have.
• Stat tests are not necessarily the limiting factor for everyone. Players without Torso Awaregness or Tao of the Terrapin may find themselves stopped at the Gauntlet; without Wisdom of the Elder Tortoises, at the Festering Powder test; without an uncapped Myst damage spell, at high-HP monsters.
• If you lack an uncapped Myst spell, Divine Party Favors or Love Songs can be substituted, and you might want to anyway against Beer golems.
• A not-so-mini Basement Diving Guide is available.

Notes

• Once you ascend, you will need to find the basement again and begin at floor 1.
• You cannot CLEESH the monsters in the basement.
• When beaten up you get the message "You're too beaten up to accomplish anything in the basement. Unless bleeding counts as an accomplishment."
• When falling down drunk, the following message appears: "I know you've got fond memories of stumbling around your parents' basement in a drunken stupor, but this isn't that kind of basement."
• When out of adventures you get the message "You don't have time to screw around in Fernswarthy's Basement."
• There isn't any special adventure on 600th floor.
• Records of encounter rates suggest that there are 30 possible basement encounters - 1 each of MP, HP, and each resistance test; 3 each of Moxie, Myst, and Muscle stat tests; and 2 copies of each monster in the basement.

History

• Prior to January 23rd, 2007 the Basement was located in The Dungeon Full Of Dungeons: