Pasta Guardians

This content has been retired and is no longer available in game.

This article is about the defunct Pastamancer summoning system that existed from April 14, 2008 to November 14, 2013. It is archived here for historical purposes.

See Pasta Thralls for the current game mechanic.

Pastamancers can learn to summon several pasta guardians in combat. Once summoned, the guardian acts like a second familiar with unique abilities.

To call upon a summon, the pastamancer first needs to establish a connection with a pasta guardian by using a specific item outside of combat. For example, using shimmering tendrils allows the pastamancer to summon an angel hair wisp. It is only possible to have a connection with one summon at a time; when you establish a connection with a new summon, the old connection is overwritten, and the previous summon disappears permanently. There is an exception to this rule; the crystal orb of spirit wrangling allows the pastamancer to keep two guardians and switch between them.

A player can only summon a pasta guardian ten times a day (plus 5 more with Bandolier of the Spaghetti Elemental equipped). Switching summons doesn't allow more uses per day.

Level

Pasta guardians gain experience from won combats and can level up. In the same way familiars gain weight, these summons gain levels as a square root of experience. So a summon will become stronger after their 4th, 9th, 16th, 25th, etc. combat. Summons gain one experience point per combat, and do not benefit from effects that increase familiar experience gain, but gain one additional experience point per fight if you are wearing the Legendary Regalia of the Pasta Master

Summon level is capped at 10. Each summon gains a new ability at level 5 and level 10.

When the pastamancer switches to a different type of guardian and back, each guardian contacted is randomly generated with a new name. It does not retain the experience level of any previously-contacted summon. The only way to switch guardians while keeping the existing one is to store it in a crystal orb of spirit wrangling.

Messages

• After summoning for the penultimate and antepenultimate time each day:

Your brain feels tired.

• After summoning for the last time each day:

You are mentally exhausted by the effort of summoning <name>.

• When the summon levels up:

<name> looks stronger...

List of pasta guardians

Summon	Summoning item	Level 1 ability	Level 5 ability	Level 10 ability
Angel hair wisp	shimmering tendrils	Gives extra substats after combat	Converts enemy criticals to misses	Blocks enemy attacks ~17% of the time
Boba Fettucini	twitching trigger finger	Damages opponent during combat	Damages opponent with a more powerful attack during combat	Summons a giant sandworm to replace the opponent
Bow Tie Bat	smoking talon	Increases spell and weapon damage	Bites enemy when summoned, causing passive damage in subsequent rounds	Picks opponent's pocket.
Lasagmbie	paranormal ricotta	Increases meat drops	Does spooky damage during combat	Stuns enemy for two rounds when summoned
Penne Dreadful	wine-soaked bone chips	Increases booze drops	Increases food drops	Increases item drops
Spaghetti Elemental	decoded cult documents	Damages and delevels opponent on summon	Damages and delevels opponent during fight	Entangles opponent during fight
Spice Ghost	scintillating powder	Delevels enemy every round Drops spices after day's first combat Occasionally drops spices after other combats	Delevels enemy by 5 in opening round of combat	Drops spices after day's second combat
Undead elbow macaroni	quasi-ethereal macaroni fragments	Does spooky damage during combat	Adds to the player's spooky damage	?
Vampieroghi	vampire glitter	Drains HP from enemy, like a mosquito	Restores MP in addition to HP	Sometimes does a stronger attack, restoring greater amounts of HP and MP
Vermincelli	crumbling rat skull	Damages and poisons enemy, causing passive damage in subsequent rounds	Removes negative status effects when summoned	Restores HP and MP at end of combat

Availability

Pasta guardians become available in the following order as you progress through the game.

If you are at least...	and you have...	you can summon...	by using ...	which you can get at...
Level 1		Undead elbow macaroni	quasi-ethereal macaroni fragments	The Haunted Pantry
	found Spookyraven Manor	Spice Ghost	scintillating powder	The Haunted Kitchen
Level 4	been sent to The Bat Hole	Bow Tie Bat	smoking talon	Guano Junction
Level 7	been sent to The Cyrpt	Angel hair wisp	shimmering tendrils	The Defiled Niche
	completed the Undefile the Cyrpt Quest			The Misspelled Cemetary (Post-Cyrpt)
	been sent to The Cyrpt	Lasagmbie	paranormal ricotta	The Defiled Alcove
	completed the Undefile the Cyrpt Quest			The Misspelled Cemetary (Post-Cyrpt)
Level 10, mainstat 90	access to the volcano during the Nemesis quest	Spaghetti Elemental	decoded cult documents	The Temple Portico
Level 11	read Your father's MacGuffin diary	Boba Fettucini	twitching trigger finger	The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert while not Ultrahydrated
	found Spookyraven Manor Wine Cellar	Penne Dreadful	wine-soaked bone chips	The Haunted Wine Cellar (obsolete), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Northwest), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Northeast), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Southwest), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Southeast)
	uncovered The Ancient Buried Pyramid	Vermincelli	crumbling rat skull	The Middle Chamber
Level 12	tried to catch the ducks in a bear trap	Vampieroghi	vampire glitter	The Family Plot
	ended the war			McMillicancuddy's Farm (Post-War)

History

• Originally Pastamancers could only summon a guardian during the first round of combat after getting the jump on the opponent, but this was changed in an update on July 11th, 2010, and now they can be summoned on any round of combat.