Safe Adventuring

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This page lists the minimum Moxie required to adventure in an area without being hit by the normal attacks of the monsters you will find there. This is determined by multiplying the maximum amount of experience you could get from the monster by four to find the monster's maximum level. Monster Level is the attack power of the monster. To evade every non-critical attack, you must have 10 more Moxie than the monster has attack power. These formulas were derived by the fine folks over at KoL Spading.

The table below shows the required Moxie for safe adventuring. By default, it is sorted by the standard Wiki location order, but you can select the box in any column header to sort by locations alphabetically, or by the Moxie required for safe adventuring. Thus, knowing your current Moxie, you can figure out at a glance the areas in which you're reasonably capable of adventuring.

Remember: All these values are the very maximums of the area's strongest monsters' hitting abilities. If your Moxie is only a few points lower than the value stated, you shouldn't have too much of a problem. Monsters might hit you, but infrequently.

Note: Since the implementation of critical hits for monsters, all monsters have equally small chances to hit or miss you regardless of your Moxie. Adventure safely with this in mind.

Note: There is also some slight variability in monster attack strengths. It is entirely possible for monsters to hit you if your Moxie is only slightly higher than the values listed below.

Area	Location	Moxie Required
Seaside Town	The Sleazy Back Alley	11
	The Haunted Pantry	12
	Outskirts of Camp Logging Camp	13
	Camp Logging Camp	50
Spookyraven Manor	The Haunted Pantry	12
	The Haunted Kitchen	15
	The Haunted Conservatory	19
	The Haunted Billiards Room	30
	The Haunted Library	68
	The Haunted Gallery	125
	The Haunted Bathroom	110
	The Haunted Ballroom	120
	The Haunted Bedroom	174
	The Haunted Wine Cellar	178
The Nearby Plains	Degrassi Knoll	24
	Cola Wars Battlefield	40
	The "Fun" House (except for The Clownlord Beelzebozo at 38)	30
	The Misspelled Cemetary (Pre-Cyrpt)	33
	The Misspelled Cemetary (Post-Cyrpt)	69
	The Palindome (except for Dr. Awkward, at 176-183)	165
	The Spectral Pickle Factory	206
	The Ruins of Fernswarthy's Tower	28
Cobb's Knob	Outskirts of Cobb's Knob	12
	Kitchens	32
	Cobb's Knob Barracks	40
	Treasury	40
	Harem	40
	King's Chamber	65
Cobb's Knob Laboratories	The Knob Shaft	41
	Laboratory	55
	Menagerie Level 1	66
	Menagerie Level 2	76
	Menagerie Level 3	86
The Bat Hole	Entryway	24
	Guano Junction	28
	Beanbat Chamber	31
	Batrat and Ratbat Burrow	35
	The Boss Bat's Lair	47
The Cyrpt	The Defiled Nook (except for giant skeelton, at 87)	67
	The Defiled Cranny (except for huge ghuol, at 89)	65
	The Defiled Niche (except for gargantulihc, at 87)	69
	The Defiled Alcove (except for conjoined zmombie, at 89)	68
	The Haert of the Cyrpt	101
The Beanstalk	The Penultimate Fantasy Airship	130
	The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky	155
	The Hole in the Sky	178
The Distant Woods	The Spooky Forest	15
	The Typical Tavern Rats (except for Baron von Ratsworth, who scales)	20
	A Barroom Brawl	20
	The Bugbear Pens	30
	8-Bit Realm	35
	Whitey's Grove	48
	The Road to the White Citadel	49
	The Spooky Gravy Barrow	75
	The Black Forest	143
	The Hidden City	168
Copse of the Deep Fat Friars	The Dark Neck of the Woods	62
	The Dark Heart of the Woods	60
	The Dark Elbow of the Woods	58
Pandamonium	Pandamonium Slums	62
	Infernal Rackets Backstage	70
	The Laugh Floor	76
Desert Beach	South of The Border	35
	Thugnderdome	55
	An Oasis	147
	The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert	152
The Ancient Buried Pyramid	The Upper Chamber	180
	The Middle Chamber	185
	The Lower Chambers	190
The Mysterious Island of Mystery	The Hippy Camp	51
	Orcish Frat House	51
	The Obligatory Pirate's Cove	79
	The Junkyard	999999∞
	The Hippy Camp (Verge of War)	185
	Orcish Frat House (Verge of War)	185
	McMillicancuddy's Farm (Post-War)	190
	The Battlefield (War Hippy Fatigues)	220
	The Battlefield (Frat Warrior Fatigues)	220
	The Hippy Camp (Bombed Back to the Stone Age)	261
	Orcish Frat House (Bombed Back to the Stone Age)	265
The Obligatory Pirate's Cove (in disguise)	Barrrney's Barrr	93
	The F'c'le	110
	The Poop Deck	130
	Belowdecks	150
The Organic Orchard	The Hatching Chamber	175
	The Feeding Chamber	177
	The Guards' Chamber	179
	The Queen's Chamber	183
McMillicancuddy's Farm	The Barn	176
	The Other Back 40	183
	The Bog	184
	The Family Plot	185
	The Granary	185
	The Back 40	188
	The Pond	189
	The Shady Thicket	190
Our Lady of Perpetual Indecision	The Themthar Hills	179
The Lighthouse	Sonofa Beach	181
The Big Mountains	The Dark and Dank and Sinister Cave	34
	The Barrel full of Barrels	45
	The Valley Beyond The Orc Chasm	97
The Dungeoneers' Association	The Haiku Dungeon	14
	The Daily Dungeon	30
	The Dungeons of Doom	71
Mt. McLargeHuge	Itznotyerzitz Mine	67
	The Goatlet	78
	The eXtreme Slope	85
	Lair of the Ninja Snowmen	100
	The Icy Peak	117
The Sea	The Briny Deeps	340
	The Brinier Deepers	410
	The Briniest Deepests	435
The Sea Floor	An Octopus's Garden	460
	The Wreck of the Edgar Fitzsimmons (except for mine crab and unholy diver, at 710)	460
	Anemone Mine	510
	Madness Reef	510
	Marinara Trench	556
	The Dive Bar	610
	The Mer-Kin Outpost	760
Lair of The Naughty Sorceress	The Naughty Sorceress	215
	The Hedge Maze	245
An Incredibly Strange Place	Bad Trip	30
	Mediocre Trip	63
	Great Trip	155
Memories, in the Corners of your Mind	The Primordial Soup	35
	The Jungles of Ancient Loathing (except for High Priest, at 120)	75
	Seaside Megalopolis	180
The Campground	A Shimmering Portal (except for a hulking construct, at ∞)	410
Hobopolis	Hobopolis Town Square (except for Hodgman, The Hoboverlord, at 760)	310
	A Maze of Sewer Tunnels (except for C. H. U. M. chieftain, at 340)	270
	Burnbarrel Blvd. (except for Ol' Scratch, at 510)	350
	Exposure Esplanade (except for Frosty, at 510)	360
	The Heap (except for Oscus, at 510)	360
	The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground (except for Zombo, at 510)	360
	The Purple Light District (except for Chester, at 510)	360
The Slime Tube	The Slime Tube (except for Mother Slime, at 3000-8700+)	110

Lower moxie limits

A monster's chance to hit decreases roughly linearly from 100% at (moxie-monsterlevel) <= -9 to 0% at (moxie-monsterlevel) >= 10. If your moxie is more than 19 points below what is given in the table above, the toughest monster at any given location will be hitting you 100% of the time.

If we simplify the damage incurred formula to

 (Monster Level - Player Moxie) + (Monster Level * 1/4) = Total Damage

then (disregarding Elemental Resistance, Damage Absorption and other complications) the number of turns you can stay alive is

                Hit pts                  Total HP
 Turns alive = --------- = -------------------------------------
                Damage      1.25 * Monster Level - Player Moxie

Attacking with Player Moxie more than 19 points below the safe level above leaves fewer than 0-3 turns in which to win the fight. For example, without other modifications, a 75 HP, 82-moxie adventurer fighting in the Haert of the Cyrpt would be hit 100% of the time, for 36 to 41 HP each time, and only two to three turns.

Special Zones

There are a few zones where adventuring is never truly "safe".

• The Junkyard contains gremlins who have the special quality of never missing with their normal attacks, no matter how high your Moxie is.
• The Battlefield contains a few enemies which have special attacks which will hit no matter how high your Moxie is. These are Panty Raider Frat Boy (Strangulated), War Frat Grill Sergeant/War Frat Senior Grill Sergeant (You're on fire!), War Frat Elite Wartender (Easily Embarrassed) on the Frat side and Green Ops Soldier (Toad in the Hole / Light-Headed), War Hippy Fire Spinner/War Hippy Elite Fire Spinner (You're on fire!), War Hippy Elder Shaman (Flared Nostrils) on the Hippy side.
• Hobopolis Hobos all have special attacks which will always hit for heavy damage no matter how high your Moxie gets in addition to their normal attacks which can be negated by Moxie. Additionally, Cold hobos will deal heavy reactive damage if you hit them too hard.

See Also

• Cisco's (#427002) Moxie Look-Up
• The Monster Survival Guide! from Kittiwake (#515189)
• Combat Mechanics Spading