Copying

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Copying is a mechanic that was initially added to the game with the Spooky Putty sheet in January 2009. The mechanic allows you to copy a monster while fighting it, allowing you to later refight it, the only exceptions to this being the fax machine, which will let you copy a monster someone else has fought, and Rain Man, which will let you fight a monster that you have previously encountered. Copying can be used to easily farm items, or to bypass daily caps on fighting certain monsters.

Just about all non-boss monsters in the game can be copied, but even some non-bosses are exempt.

Methods of Copying

Source	Monster Item	Daily Limit	Notes
Spooky Putty sheet	Spooky Putty monster	5-6	Shared limit: five with one item, six with both
Rain-Doh black box	Rain-Doh box full of monster
print screen button	screencapped monster	None	Obtained by using the SPEND link on BACON dropped by the Intergnat. Costs 111 BACON to obtain with a limit of 1 obtainable per day.
portable photocopier or Clan fax machine	photocopied monster	1	The photocopier can create a single new copy. Any photocopied monster can be put into a fax machine. The fax machine can produce unlimited copies.
4-d camera	shaking 4-d camera	1	Can be used in Bad Moon
crappy camera	shaking crappy camera	1	Has a 50% chance of failing
unfinished ice sculpture	ice sculpture	1	Obtained by using 3 snow berries and 3 ice harvest from the Winter Garden.
alpine watercolor set	N/A	1	Obtained from the Chateau Mantegna Gift Shop. Copied monster carries over even through ascension.
pulled green taffy	envyfish egg	1	Works underwater only
Rain Man	N/A	None	Costs 50 drops of rain to cast, and will, then, begin combat with a monster of your choice. This monster must have been encountered in any Heavy Rains run and/or have been examined at least casually.
sticky clay homunculus	crude monster sculpture	None	KOLHS challenge path only The sticky clay homunculus is a Quest item that vanishes when you leave the path (eg, break the prism).
crayon shavings	wax bugbear	None	Only works against Bugbear Invasion challenge path bugbears
lit leaf lasso	tied-up flaming leaflet	1	Only works against the monsters available from Burning Leaves. Only 1 of each type of "tied-up" monster can be fought per day, but there is no restriction on number you can use per day. Ends combat (as a free loss). Can be funkslung to obtain 2 tied-up monsters for the price of 1 fight. There are some effects that can occur on the same combat round as this that result in also winning the fight in addition to obtaining the tied-up monster(s), but these are not fully detailed/known 3 per day can be created via Burning Leaves
	tied-up flaming monstera	1
	tied-up leaviathan	1
Time-Spinner	N/A	(3)	Costs 3 Time-Spinner minutes (10 minutes available per day). The monster must have been fought recently enough to still be in the combat adventure queue.
genie bottle	N/A	3	Using either the Genie bottle or Pocket wish allows you to wish to fight any copy-able monster (limited to wishing for 3 fights per day).
pocket wish
Pocket Professor	N/A	Variable	Performed via a lecture on relativity; number of uses is dependent on the familiar's weight. The copied monster will be fought immediately after the current encounter, effectively creating a chained combat in the same zone.
backup camera	N/A	11	Through Back-Up to your Last Enemy, which replaces your current monster with the last copiable monster you fought. Can be used repeatedly for a chain of the same monster, and allows for gear changing in between. Requires camera to be worn to use skill. Can be used 16 times instead of 11 during You, Robot
Extrovermectin™	N/A	None (Spleen Item, Costs 2 Toxicity)	Through Be Gregarious, which adds the copied monster as a native encounter to any zone until it has been encountered this way 3 times. Each charge is 2 spleen. The charges of Be Gregarious persist across rollover, and Gregarious monsters will also persist across rollover.
cloning kit	cloned monster	5	Obtained from the Gift Fabrication Lab at Site Alpha Research Facility, North Pole during Crimbo 2021 for 10 of each type of gooified matter.
combat lover's locket	N/A	3	Stores copies of any monster you fight while it is equipped, and three stored monsters per day can be fought by using the locket. The list of stored monsters persists through rollover and across ascensions, but only one of a given monster can be fought per day.
book of facts	N/A	15	Through Recall Facts: Monster Habitats, which adds the copied monster as a native encounter to any zone until it has been encountered this way 5 times. 3 Uses per day, expires on rollover.
miniature crystal ball	N/A	Variable	Requires having either the Book of facts or making use of Extrovermectin™. In either case, it can add +1 copy to each cast of "Recall Facts: Monster Habitats" or "Be Gregarious". This copy is acquired by using the ball to predict the monster you want to copy and then unequipping it until the habitat/gregarious charges are used up (provided you never adventure in another zone). Then you re-equip the crystal ball and fight the extra predicted monster.
Pocket Meteor Guide	N/A	(10)	Through Macrometeorite, which replaces the current monster with another (different) monster available in the current zone. When released could only guarantee a copy in 2-monster zones, which can now be artifically made with any monster via Be Gregarious or Recall Facts: Monster Habitats and any 1-monster zone (typically the The Dire Warren)
Powerful Glove	N/A	(10)	Through CHEAT CODE: Replace Enemy, which replaces the current monster with another (different) monster available in the current zone. When released could only guarantee a copy in 2-monster zones, which can now be artifically made with any monster via Be Gregarious or Recall Facts: Monster Habitats and any 1-monster zone (typically the The Dire Warren)
waffle	N/A	None	Use in combat to replace the current monster with another (different) monster available in the current zone. 3 per day can be obtained via Aug. 24th: Waffle Day!.
Chest Mimic	mimic egg	11	Obtained via casting lay an egg when in combat with the monster you want to copy (costs 50 familiar experience per cast). Can be cast multiple times in the same combat for multiple eggs if desired.
			Eggs obtained from the bank cost 100 familiar experience each. The DNA Bank only has eggs available for monsters of which 100 mimic eggs have previously been provided to the DNA Bank collectively across the whole Kingdom - as of writing this is an ongoing project and there are only 14 avaiable monsters the DNA Bank can create eggs for.
Roman Candelabra	N/A	None	Blow the Purple Candle!, a chained combat copy, 50 turns of Everything Looks Purple, increases Moxie enchantment by 5.
Burly Bodyguard	N/A	One every 50 adv (only available in Avant Guard)	After defeating a certain number of enemies a link will appear next to your familiar. Clicking it leads to Chatting with your Burly Bodyguard which will allow you to directly choose the next monster you encounter. A list of available monsters is documented here.
crepe paper parachute cape	N/A	One every 50 adv	The item has a [parachute] link, which takes you to Parachute into a Fight. There you are able to select any non-uncopyable monster which appears normally in the zone you last adventured in and fight it in. This fight will be zoneless.
phosphor traces	N/A	None (Spleen Item, Costs 3 Toxicity)	Grants one use of the combat skill Create an Afterimage that stacks with prior uses (may persist after rollover?). When used it will cause a combat with a copy of the foe you are fighting to occur immediately after the current one.
Obtuse Angel	N/A	One every 15-25 adv	Grants the combat skill Fire a badly romantic arrow. Using on a monster creates 2 wandering monster copies (3 if quake of arrows is equipped on the Angel) appearing 15-25 adventures apart. Copies are cleared by rollover. Shares usage counter with Wink at (Familiar Name).
Reanimated Reanimator	N/A	One every 15-25 adv	Grants the combat skill Wink at (Familiar Name). Using on a monster creates 3 wandering monster copies appearing 15-25 adventures apart. Copies are cleared by rollover. Shares usage counter with Fire a badly romantic arrow.
Digitize	N/A	One after 7 adv Then one every 20 adv	Creates a wandering monster copy that appears 7 turns after combat, then 20, 30, 40, 50, etc. turns after the previous wanderer. Unlimited number of copies. Re-casting skill resets duration between wanderer copies and can be done 1, 2, or 3 times per day based on upgrades. Copies are cleared by rollover.
LOV Enamorang	N/A	One every 14 adv	A single-use combat item that creates a wandering monster copy 14 turns after the fight in which the item is used. Effect persists past rollover.
Spooky VHS Tape	N/A	One every 7 adv	A single-use combat item that creates a wandering monster copy 7 turns after the fight in which the item is used. When copy is encountered, it is free-killed and all of its non-conditional drops are forced to drop. Monster must be instakillable to be eligible to be VHSed.

Notes

• Combat against a copy does not technically take place in the zone from which the monster originated. For instance, a copy of a monster from an underwater zone can be fought without suffering any penalties associated with fighting underwater, and does not require underwater breathing methods for you or your familiar.
• The copied monster can be summoned and fought even if you are falling-down drunk, as long as you aren't out of adventures. This is because it invokes combat.php directly instead of adventure.php.
• The daily limit works slightly differently for Spooky Putty/Rain-Doh than the other items. With Spooky Putty/Rain-Doh, you can make only five copies per day, whereas with the others you can fight only one copy per day. This distinction can be important if you keep the copy overnight, or use a fax machine.
• If you possess both the Spooky Putty and the Rain-Doh, the shared counter for copying increases to 6 if both are used on the same day.
• Fighting copied ducks from McMillicancuddy's Farm after the war will count against your daily limit. However, you can continue to fight copied ducks past this limit. (That is, if your limit is 10 ducks, and you fight 5 copied ducks first, you can then only fight 5 more ducks at the Farm. However, if you fight all 10 ducks at the farm first, you can then fight 5 more copied ducks as well.)

See Also

• Wandering monsters