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Poison needle

Aiguille empoisonnée
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise
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A prickly pin that can fell a foe with a single stab if correctly aimed.

The essentials

  • Simplest: buy it, 1,900 G (Dourbridge, Bloomingdale).
  • To gather: 2 ingredients, 1 Krak Pot use (crafting tree in the details).
  • Sells for 950 G.
  • Attack +1: 20th of 21 knives; top: Dynamo dagger (+155).
  • Used to make: Assassin's dagger, Contra band.

“Simplest”, in this order: buy it (cheapest), pick it up, from a monster (best rate), make it, then the other sources.

Attack +1

Vocations that can equip it: Warrior, Mage, Thief

Effects: ×1.1 against bug; blows cannot be blocked; always deals 1 damage, cannot be dodged or blocked; kills outright 11% of the time (even metal monsters)

Style: Casual 36 · Naive 30 · Allure 25 · Aloof 16 · Chic 12 · Vanity 7

Shops Read in the code

  • 1,900 G: Dourbridge, Bloomingdale

Alchemy Read in the code

  • Recipe in the book “Ooh! Nice knife!” (Coffinwell – Mayor's House Lv 2)

To gather for 1 Poison needle

2 ingredients · 1 Krak Pot use

Crafting tree

made in the Krak Pot · to find. Tap an ingredient to switch: the list follows.

  • Poison needle
    • Magic beast horn
    • Manky mud×3

Tree idea: Antoine. Thank you!

Monsters and bosses Read in the code

Used to make

Assassin's daggerContra band

Best attack in the category, by vocation

Under the hood

Internal item number: 19057; record no. 882 of prm/itemdt (file order); selling price in its record (u16 at +0x1A): 950; stars: +0x09 bits 1-3.

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