DQ9 Encyclopedia

Bud brother

Folidaire · no. 65 in the monster list
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise

They like to bring buddies into battle to beef up the bloodshed, or, if they're feeling inferior, they'll beckon forth a badja.

They rustle round the forest, kicking up clumps of fallen foliage and attacking adventurers who interrupt them.

The essentials

  • Earliest in the story: Slurry Coast, in the forest — 71% (71% of battles)
  • Gives: 100 EXP, 62 G, Superior medicine (1/32), Softwort (1/64)
  • Weak to: fire, ice, light ×1.25
  • Has no effect on it: fizzle

Family: plant — weapons dealing ×1.1: axes

Stats

HPMPAtt.Def.Agi.EXPGoldEvas.
6566855901006225 %

HP from the game's record: in battle, each monster gets a roll between 80 and 100% of it (rounded); MP is full.

Resistances and actions

  • Elements (damage taken): fire, ice, light ×1.25
  • Effects (success rate): 75%: sleep, Whack, stun, poison, paralysis, Decelerate; 50%: Dazzle, confusion, Charm; immune: Fizzle
  • Actions: Attack 67%, “calls for backup.” 23%, “calls for backup.” 11%. Only once per turn for its whole group: “calls for backup.”

Items

Habitat (in-game monster list)

Slurry Coast

In the game, a defeated monster's entry names one of these places as soon as you have visited it, even if you never defeated that monster there; otherwise “?????????” (checked in game). The first two are named, “Etc.” for the third.

In the field

Behaviour: spots the party all around it up to 7 units, then chases it, but runs away if the leader's attack + defence exceed 3 times its own.

In each cell: share of the visible monsters in that zone, then (in brackets) share of that zone's battles it takes part in, alone or with others. “Joins”: never visible, it only comes along with the monster you touched. “In the forest”, “on the coast”…: which monsters appear depends on the ground under the hero's feet (grass, forest, coast, rocky ground, swamp…); with no detail, they appear anywhere on the map. “Starflight Express stop”, “islet”, “part”: a separate corner of the region, reached as shown. Exact figures from the game code.

PlaceDayNight
Slurry Coast, in the forest71% (71% of battles)71% (71% of battles)
Under the hood

Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 79.

Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Superior medicine : 3 ; Softwort : 4.

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