Moon sign

Once you ascend, you have to choose a moon sign. There are signs for each of the three stat classes and they all cause individual, minor changes to gameplay. Your choice is not limited to the class you choose to play as (for example, you can be a Seal Clubber while having a Mysticality sign). In total, there are nine signs to choose from (plus a tenth that can be unlocked):

Moon Signs

ID	Sign	Zone Unlocked	+10% Gains to:	Bonus
1	The Mongoose	Degrassi Knoll (friendly)	Muscle	+20% Physical Damage
2	The Wallaby		Mysticality	+20% Spell Damage
3	The Vole		Moxie	+20% Combat Initiative +20 Maximum HP/MP
4	The Platypus	Little Canadia	Muscle	Familiar Weight +5 lbs.
5	The Opossum		Mysticality	+5 Adventures per day from Food
6	The Marmot		Moxie	Slight Resistance to All Elements (+1)
7	The Wombat	The Gnomish Gnomad Camp	Muscle	+20% Meat from Monsters
8	The Blender		Mysticality	+5 Adventures per day from Booze
9	The Packrat		Moxie	+10% Items from Monsters
10	Bad Moon	Hey Deze	—	See notes

Notes

• The usefulness of certain sign benefits may vary for characters following certain paths; for example the Blender is less useful if you are a Teetotaler or Oxygenarian.
• The ability to access a sign-specific area only lasts for the current Ascension. Choosing a sign that unlocks a different area will close off the previously available area.
  • Changing one's Moon Sign within an ascension by using the hewn moon-rune spoon from a Knoll sign to non-Knoll sign, after purchasing the detuned radio, will leave the radio in your inventory, but it will merely be an alternate control mechanism for the new moon sign's mind-control device.
• Fractional stat gains resulting from the 10% bonus to stat gains are rounded randomly.
• Apparently, the cause of all the astrological signs being transformations of each other is that all the signs are the same -- the character is just facing different directions when ascending.
• Bad Moon is only available in Hardcore, unlocked by completing a Hardcore run without using any ten-leaf clovers. In Bad Moon, you cannot access any items or familiars from prior ascensions until the king is freed. Enables adventures exclusive to this sign in various areas.

History

• Prior to Jan 1, 2022, the Marmot gave 1 free Ten-Leaf Clover per day.
• Prior to May 17, 2011, the moon signs all had different effects and only the zone unlocks remained unchanged. In many places on this Wiki, you will still hear about Muscle, Moxie and Mysticality signs. More fitting names would be Knollish, Gnomish and Canadian signs, respectively. Here is a list of the old effects:

Moon Signs
	Sign	Bonus	Sign	Bonus	Sign	Bonus	Additional zone
	Mongoose	Muscle stats after combat	Wallaby	Familiar weight boosts	Vole	Critical hit chance	Inside Degrassi Knoll
	Platypus	Mysticality stats after combat	Opossum	+5 Adv. from first food/day	Marmot	Clovers after non-combat.	Little Canadia
	Wombat	Moxie stats after combat	Blender	+5 Adv. from first booze/day	Packrat	Meat and items drops	The Gnomish Gnomad Camp

References

• There are Astrological signs, also known as Zodiac signs in real life too, apparently.

See Also

• Advancement

Moon Signs
Additional zone		Effect		Effect		Effect
friendly Degrassi Knoll	Mongoose	+20% Physical Damage	Wallaby	+20% Spell Damage	Vole	+20% Combat Initiative, +20 Maximum HP/MP
Little Canadia	Platypus	Familiar Weight +5 lbs.	Opossum	+5 Adv. from first food/day	Marmot	Slight Resistance to All Elements (+1)
Gnomish Gnomad Camp	Wombat	+20% Meat from Monsters	Blender	+5 Adv. from first booze/day	Packrat	+10% Items from Monsters
Hey Deze	Bad Moon	Many crazy adventures