DQ9 Encyclopedia
Golem
Though weak against wind, these stony souls will weather a storm of blows before unleashing a cataclysmic critical attack.
If you ask them which monster has the most mates, they won't hesitate to suggest their own big-headed, bricky selves.
The essentials
- Earliest in the story: Lonely Coast, on grass — 100% (100% of battles)
- Gives: 1,700 EXP, 174 G, Flintstone (1/16), Mythril ore (1/128)
- Weak to: wind, light ×1.5
- Has no effect on it: whack, drain magic, fizzle, poison, paralysis
Family: material — weapons dealing ×1.1: hammers
Stats
| HP | MP | Att. | Def. | Agi. | EXP | Gold | Evas. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | 0 | 175 | 210 | 99 | 1,700 | 174 | 0 % |
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): wind, light ×1.5; fire ×0.75; ice ×0.5
- Effects (success rate): 75%: Blunt, Sap, Decelerate; 50%: Dazzle, sleep; 25%: confusion, stun; 15%: Charm; immune: Whack, Drain Magic, Fizzle, poison, paralysis
- Actions: Attack 34%, Psyche Up 33%, Forbearance 27%, critical hit 6.6%. Conditions (otherwise it picks another slot): Forbearance: if it has half its HP and a third of its allies are below half HP; Psyche Up: if it isn't at 100 tension yet. Only once per turn for its whole group: Forbearance, critical hit
Items
Flintstone 
Mythril ore Habitat (in-game monster list)
Lonely Coast · Wyrmwing · Wyrmsmaw · The Magmaroo · Wyrmneck
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 in front of it (45°) up to 3.5 units, then chases it, but ignores it 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.
| Place | Day | Night |
|---|---|---|
| Lonely Coast, on grass | 100% (100% of battles) | 100% (100% of battles) |
| Lonely Coast, in the forest | 29% (43% of battles) | 29% (43% of battles) |
| Wyrmwing, everywhere except on rocky ground and on the coast | joins 4.5% of battles | |
| Wyrmwing, on rocky ground | joins 3.9% of battles | joins 3.9% of battles |
| Wyrmsmaw | 30% (40% of battles) | 30% (36% of battles) |
| The Magmaroo – Interior - Lv 2 | joins 3% of battles | joins 3% of battles |
| The Magmaroo – Interior - Lv 3 | joins 3% of battles | joins 3% of battles |
| The Magmaroo – Interior - Lv 4-1 | joins 3.7% of battles | joins 3.7% of battles |
| Wyrmneck, everywhere except on the coast | 38% (43% of battles) | 38% (45% of battles) |
| Wyrmneck, on the coast | joins 6% of battles | joins 6% of battles |
Grottoes (treasure maps)
- Ruins, rank 2: joins 5.4% of battles (quality 2-55: floors 1-4; 56-75: floors 1-4)
- Ruins, rank 6: 20% of visible monsters, 26% of battles (quality 76-100: floors 5-10; 101-120: floors 1-12; 121-140: floors 1-12; 141-180: floors 1-8; 181-200: floors 1-4)
Under the hood
Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 188.
Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Flintstone : 2 ; Mythril ore : 5.
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