DQ9 Encyclopedia

Tyrantula

Tyrantule · no. 264 in the monster list
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise

An enormous arachnid who dwelt deep in the Bad Cave, soaking up poison and perniciousness until she morphed into a man-eater.

It is said that she made meals of travellers lost in her cave to feed her clutch of countless eggs.

The essentials

  • Earliest in the story: The Bad Cave, Bloomingdale: Tyrantula (once)
  • Gives: 5,231 EXP, 1,500 G, Tangleweb (100%)
  • Weak to: lightning / blast, darkness, light ×1.25
  • Has no effect on it: dazzle, sleep, whack, confusion, fizzle, stun, poison, paralysis

Family: bug — weapons dealing ×1.1: knives

Stats

HPMPAtt.Def.Agi.EXPGoldEvas.
1,09836100154965,2311,5002 %

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): lightning / blast, darkness, light ×1.25; fire, ice, wind ×0.75
  • Effects (success rate): 75%: Sap, Divine Intervention; 50%: Decelerate; 25%: Blunt; 5%: Charm; immune: Dazzle, sleep, Whack, confusion, Fizzle, stun, poison, paralysis
  • Actions: 2 actions per turn — Attack 34%, Venomissile 17%, Wind Sickles 17%, Eerie Light 16%, “weaves a wicked web!” 16%. Conditions (otherwise it picks another slot): Attack: not while Dazzled, and only on a character whose defence is below twice its attack; Eerie Light: if a character isn't under Eerie Light yet; “weaves a wicked web!”: on a character not already losing a turn. Only once per turn for its whole group: Eerie Light, Venomissile, “weaves a wicked web!”, Wind Sickles

Items

Tangleweb 100%

Story and quests

  • The Bad Cave, Bloomingdale: Tyrantula (once)

Habitat (in-game monster list)

The Bad Cave

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.

Under the hood

Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 307.

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

Open in the full encyclopediasearch, filters, my collection, grotto tools