Enemies

Five kinds of enemy and one boss. The numbers below are for Normal; see the bottom of the page for what the other two difficulties change.

Who lives down there

Skeleton

Walks up and swings. The most common thing in the dungeon and the one you will judge the fighting by: it hits hardest of the ordinary enemies and takes the most killing.

Crawler

Low, quick and bad-tempered. Faster than you at any speed you set, so backing away does not work — but it is small, soft, and its swing is over almost before it starts.

Stinger

Hovers at chest height and dives head-first. The fastest thing in the dungeon and the frailest; it will reach you first and it will die first.

Archer

Keeps its distance and shoots. Deliberately the slowest enemy in the game: it is there to punish standing still, not to run you down. It notices you from further away than anything else.

Spitter

Hovers and spits from across the room. Slower than you would like and faster than it looks — it closes the distance while it shoots.

In a fight

Every enemy telegraphs before it strikes, and every one of them is helpless for a moment afterwards. That moment is your opening; the last two columns are the whole of the timing you need.

Enemy	Fights	Health	Damage	Attack distance	Telegraph	Open after	Weak point
Skeleton	Close	120	12	1.8 m	0.6 s	0.7 s	×2.5
Crawler	Close	70	8	1.4 m	0.4 s	0.5 s	none
Stinger	Close	55	9	1.6 m	0.65 s	0.6 s	×2.5
Archer	Ranged	80	10	12 m	1 s	1.2 s	×3
Spitter	Ranged	85	8	9 m	0.85 s	1.1 s	×3

Ranged enemies throw something you can see coming: it travels at 18 m/s and dies at 16 m, so stepping out of the line still works. The crawler has no weak point on purpose — it is short enough that the spot would have covered half of it, and every hit would have counted as a good one.

Noticing you

An enemy sees you inside its field of view if nothing is in the way, and hears you whether or not it can see you. Nothing down there hears you from less than 10 m, so walking round the back of an archer is not the free move it looks like. The crawler is the only one that hears further than it sees — you can get past it unseen, but not unheard.

Speed is given as a share of your walking speed, which you set yourself between 1.6 and 3.2 m/s — anything above 1.00 catches you at any setting.

Enemy	Speed	At the default 2.4 m/s	Sees you at	Field of view	Hears you at
Skeleton	×0.92	2.2 m/s	12 m	120°	10 m
Crawler	×1.30	3.1 m/s	10 m	160°	12 m
Stinger	×1.40	3.4 m/s	13 m	140°	10 m
Archer	×0.67	1.6 m/s	16 m	90°	10 m
Spitter	×1.15	2.8 m/s	15 m	110°	10 m

The stinger and the spitter hover 0.8 m off the floor, which puts them at your chest. They still walk the corridors you walk: hovering is height, not a way over the walls or the lava.

What they leave

Enemy	Coins	Chance of an artifact
Skeleton	9	15%
Crawler	7	10%
Stinger	6	18%
Archer	12	25%
Spitter	9	22%

The ones that are hardest to reach pay best. Artifacts are the only way a buff reaches you during a run — nothing is laid out in the dungeon for you to find.

The Warden of the Deep

The boss holds the arena at the end of the dungeon and does not leave it. It ignores you completely until you are within 16 m — but damage starts the fight at any distance, so a bow across the room wakes it up rather than whittling it down. It will not follow you out of its room.

It has 900 health and three phases, at full, two thirds and one third of it. Each phase moves faster and waits less between attacks, and in the last one it calls for help.

Attack	Damage	Telegraph	Reach
Swing	18	0.7 s	4.5 m
Volley	12 per shot, 3 shots	0.9 s	14 m
Firework	25, over an area	1.4 s	around it

It waits 2 s between attacks, and ×0.85 then ×0.7 of that as its health falls.
Movement speed ×0.75 of yours, rising to ×1.15 and ×1.3 of that across the phases.
The firework comes up on one attack in five, and not more often than every 12 s.
Its weak point is worth ×2.5. Nothing staggers it — it is the end of the run's fight, not another skeleton, and it does not flinch.
It drops 60 coins, and killing it opens the gate and the portal home.

Difficulty

The difficulty setting scales the numbers above. The boss is scaled more gently than everything else on purpose: there is only one of it, the fight is long, and a threefold spread would have turned the setting into a choice about whether to finish the game at all.

Difficulty	Enemy health	Enemy damage	How many	Boss health and damage	Coins
Easy	×0.80	×0.75	×0.80	×0.90	×0.75
Normal	×1	×1	×1	×1	×1
Hard	×1.35	×1.40	×1.25	×1.10	×1.60

Speed is deliberately not on that list: it changes which trick works against an enemy rather than how hard the enemy is, and that would have made the three settings three different games.

What to hit them with is on the weapons page.