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 fight a monster and copy it, allowing you to later refight it.

Just about all non-boss monsters in the game can be copied. Currently, you can only use a Spooky Putty sheet, 4-d camera, Rain-Doh black box, unfinished ice sculpture, or portable photocopier to copy any non-boss monster. A sticky clay homunculus can be used to copy monsters while in the KOLHS challenge path. A pulled green taffy can be used to copy monsters underwater only. crayon shavings can be used to copy Bugbear Invasion challenge path bugbears. Copying can be used to easily farm items, or to bypass daily caps on fighting certain monsters.

If you have a Clan VIP Lounge key, you can access A Fax Machine to print out the last photocopied monster placed in it.

Non-Copyable Monsters

Please see Category:Uncopyable for a full list of monsters who can't be copied.

Limits

Different types of copies have different, independent, limits.

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
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
pulled green taffy	envyfish egg	1	Works underwater only
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
unfinished ice sculpture	ice sculpture	???	Obtained by using 3 snow berries and 3 ice harvest from the Winter Garden.

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 two 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.
• The dirty thieving brigand can be copied, but his meat is still collected by the nuns even after the quest is completed. This does, however, allow you to complete the nun's quest and gain access to their services even after the war is over.
• 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.)
• Crayon shavings can only be used to copy bugbears from the Bugbear Invasion.

See Also

• The romantic arrows of the Obtuse Angel provide a different way to re-fight a monster.
• And the Reanimated Reanimator has a similar skill, that shares the same counter.