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Donut is a tortoiseshell Persian show cat owned by Carl's ex-girlfriend Beatrice, worth more than Carl makes in a year.

Carl is a 27-year-old former US Coast Guard member who works as a marine tech fixing electrical systems on boats in Seattle.

He is a bearded rat-like creature, slightly taller than the goblins, who runs the Tutorial Guild.

Borant Corporation

It is the company running this season of the dungeon, trying a different approach than last season.

She was level 10, partly because she had been forced to kill many people.

He told Carl the encampment had put up dozens of signs and warned him about the troglodytes and their special attacks.

A girl around 13, likely from South America, featured on the premiere wearing an oversized yellow soccer jersey with a blue stripe worn as a tabard over silver armor.

Agatha is a homeless woman around 70, a level 2 human crawler with an unassigned class who pushes a shopping cart full of blankets and odds and ends including an arrow-pierced pink flamingo.

A kua-tin coming to speak with Carl who holds significant power over his fate, prompting Mordecai to warn Carl not to upset her.

Yolanda Martinez

She is short and carried the angled braces for the fortress in her inventory.

He can cast an ethereal magic spear spell that lasts five minutes.

Odette is the host of the program 'Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette' and wants to interview Carl and Donut.

Frank Q and Maggie My

Frank Q is the crawler who killed Rebecca W., as shown in her corpse's info box.

A Rage Elemental from the 13th floor is the penalty for any human-born crawler who intentionally relieves themselves outside a designated bathroom, killing the offender and their entire party.

The Maestro is the host of Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, referred to by Mexx-55 with audible distaste.

They are the dominant species of the Borant System and principal owners of the Borant Corporation.

Beatrice is Carl's ex-girlfriend who owns the show cat Donut and went to the Bahamas for New Year's, bringing her ex-boyfriend.

The leader of the Rev-Up moonshine empire, to whom consultants and downline report and under whom still engineers work directly.

The Syndicate is the galactic governing authority whose rules and codes govern planetary resource reclamation and mineral rights.

Danger Dingoes are level 5 mastiff-sized dingoes with metal corpse-paint facial fur and long prehistoric fangs, described with an Australian accent and a taste for black metal.

Scatterer Brood Guardian

Large cockroach-like bugs the size and shape of a loaf of bread that drop a Scatterer Carapace crafting item and crunch like potato chips when stepped on.

Rory is a level seven female goblin shaman with about fifty facial piercings and a forked tongue, named by Donut after being charmed.

The first borough boss defeated required a group of ten well-armed crawlers, who each earned Silver Boss Boxes and Platinum Weapons Boxes containing magic tomes and enchanted ranged weapons.

Brindle Grubs are level 2 legless, cat-sized worm monsters that serve as janitors, eating monster corpses to grow larger.

When the floor collapses (about three days away), only crawlers die; goblins and similar mobs simply sleep until the next dungeon opens and may eventually wake up deeper.

Jack is an elderly resident who uses a walker, wears a Cincinnati Bengals hat, and has been urinating in the hallways, prompting Yolanda to put an adult pad on him.

A place accessible only by holding a Desperado Pass, though the chapter gives no further explanation of it.

Protective Shell

An item-based spell that creates a static sphere shielding everyone inside from a mob's physical presence or attacks, but not magic or non-corporeal entities.

Scroll of Confusing Fog

Confusing Fog is a scroll that fills the room with a thick blinding fog, halving visibility for the caster while fully blinding enemies, lasting only about fifteen to twenty seconds.

Mongo is a pet-class Mongoliensis, a roughly seven-inch-tall pink-feathered chicken-dinosaur with tiny forearms, a serpentine tail, and sharp teeth, that Donut chooses from the pet reward room.

Tally is a Bopca Protector at Level 63, the non-combatant caretaker NPC of the First Level Safe Room, wearing a blue apron, paper hat, and nametag.

Dungeon Crawler World: Earth

Dungeon Crawler World: Earth is the show/broadcast whose premiere counts down on the Safe Room screens, premiering in 23 hours and 42 minutes at the time of viewing.

Green-glowing rest areas scattered through the dungeon where crawlers can set up a temporary base and rest, which Carl and Donut reach at the chapter's end.

A waist-high pile of grubs spills into the safe room when Carl opens the dungeon door at the chapter's end.

The Brindled Vespa hatches from a brindle grub pupa as a giant hornet-bodied monster with the top half of a bug face and a pair of clawed grasping arms.

Lexis is an associate producer for the program 'Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette' who greets Carl and Donut after they reach the second floor.

Achievements reward boxes of varying rarities (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Legendary) for categories like Pet, Adventurer, Apparel, and Weapon.

She is a Level 3 crawler whose corpse lies on the edge of the neighborhood square near the main corridor, killed less than 200 meters from the safe room.

The Hoarder is a Level 7 Neighborhood Boss: a roughly 35-year-old human woman warped into a 15-foot-tall garbage troll, covered in sores and half her face burned.

Laminak Rev-Up Consultant Elite

Winged fairies resembling miniature 40-something women who run a moonshine operation and speak Syndicate Standard.

Lorelai is the second level seven goblin shamanka, wears a bone necklace, and was charmed and named by Donut.

Mrs. McGibbons rides the last car of the float and reminisces about visiting carnival tunnels of love with her late husband Barry.

Mukta is an Administrator serving as Zev's substitute while Zev is in a 'time out', stating she will return tomorrow.

A spell that teleports the caster and up to three others to a location within line of sight, costing 20 mana with a ten-second delay and five-hour cooldown.

A spell Donut taught herself from a tome; tomes teach a spell permanently while scrolls cast it only once.

Mind Horrors are level 4 floating brain-like monsters with tentacles, resembling jellyfish, that use a slow psionic attack.

Second Chance is a necromancy spell costing 10 mana that raises a lower-level monster from the dead to fight for the caster for a number of minutes equal to the spell's level.

Squim Conglomerate

The Squim Conglomerate runs a battle-royale-style game where an entire world fights down to one champion, good for ratings but low on profit.

A debuff that prevents healing by any method while inflicted, lasting via a five-minute timer.

Team Meadow Lark

Carl's plan against the rage elemental required abandoning all of team Meadow Lark, not just the elderly members.

Ferdinand is named by Donut during her fake death speech as someone she claims to have loved since first seeing him.

Mistress Tiatha

Mistress Tiatha is the eldercare group's tutorial guide who explained that all borough and city bosses have stairwells for the first four or five levels plus other random stairs.

Troglodyte Basher

The level 3 troglodyte variant, twice as big as the pygmies and almost human-sized, with more regular legs and no special abilities.

Dungeon Crawler World

A new Dungeon Crawler World debuts across the Syndicate net roughly every two and a quarter Earth years, run by different corporations each season.

Goblin Copper Chopper

It is a human-sized contraption resembling a junkyard bicycle welded from copper bits, with a detachable sidecar and an alligator-skull seat lined with white fur.

Blood Sultanate

A royal house located on the ninth floor of the world dungeon, ruled by a Sultan.

Brandon An is a crawler credited with killing a Chilly Goat, with an assist from Chris Andrews 2.

Rev-Up Immunity Smoothie

A game-setup recipe requiring only two ingredients that grants immunity to the Taint and Vigorous Measles, needed to fight the boss.

Small, round, black ravioli-like monsters that run on walls and ceilings and suicide-bomb themselves against crawlers, exploding with sledgehammer force.

The Juicer is a Level 9 Neighborhood Boss, a former human merged with a Troglodyte Basher and inflated into a grotesquely over-muscled, steroid-enhanced bodybuilder with a lizard head and tail.

Valtay Corporation

It is a manufacturer of tech-based equipment found in Agatha's cart, including the Trans Tunnel 7C Orator Relay, the Perso-Shield Platinum Edition, and the Mag 3040 Pulse Pistol.

Carl's Jug O' Boom

An incendiary tossable Carl created by partly emptying a moonshine jug, adding goblin oil, and corking it with a torch.

Toxic worker monsters, about 40 of them, who labor in the moonshine filling room under the laminak fairies.

Goblin Murder Dozer

It is a goblin-built, steam-powered, tank-tread contraption with a front spinning spike-wheel designed to mow down crawlers.

Reaching the halfway point of the level lets game guides explain the third floor and the race/class selection process.

Multiple tutorial guilds are seeded throughout dungeon levels 1 through 3, and new crawlers are strongly advised to find and use one immediately.

Bopca Protector

Bopca Protectors are magical, gnome-like creatures that exist solely to watch over Safe Rooms, doing everything from scrubbing toilets to preparing food.

Chris Andrews 2

Chris is Brandon An's brother, a level 6 crawler who is taller and less stocky and wears a metal skullcap without any weapons.

Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette

It is a broadcast program, hosted by Odette and staffed by producer Lexis, that interviews crawlers about their progress.

Goblin Bomb Bards

Goblin Bomb Bards are level five explosives experts with ranged attacks; the number of fingers remaining indicates how dangerous and experienced one is.

Goblin Dynamite

An extremely volatile red explosive that sweats a sticky residue and can detonate from loud noises, squeezing, or even without lighting the wick.

Found in the Silver Goblin Box, it brands a goblin-skull symbol onto Carl's left inner forearm and jacket rather than entering inventory.

Goblin Workshop

A large goblin workshop holds about 25 engineers, a massive steam engine, six parked murder dozers, barrels of 'funpowder', and a coal pile beside the next neighborhood boss's door.

Mexx-55 is a floating black metallic frisbee-like AI with a soothing female robotic voice operating a rental trailer owned by Senegal Production Systems, Unlimited.

A 'snick' is a fan-fiction video that lets viewers experience a scene from any character's point of view.

Randall is an elderly man who uses a walker and edges into the boss chamber after hearing the gate disappear.

The Skull Empire is one of the largest and oldest Syndicate governments, ruled by orcs, and is distinct from the Orcish Supremacy.

The chopper is a coal-fueled powered bicycle with an alligator-skull seat and sidecar that is pedaled to speed then locked in via a throttle, and its built-in engine grows dangerously hot.

Explosive jugs Carl activates and throws; he used two to kill about 40 clurichauns at once.

Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem

Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem is the round-table-style program that leased the trailer for Carl and Donut's interview, hosted by 'The Maestro'.

Determine Value

A skill granted to Carl via a Skill Potion whose first level lets him sort inventory items by value without showing exact worth.

It conceals the specifics of unvisited areas on the minimap until a crawler has been there.

Goblin Engineers

A level-3 goblin variant that drives contraptions; described as preferentially attacking any females in a party.

Le Mouvement is a party of men from Africa that dropped from 150 to about 80 members after internal strife, with several gaining skull markers by their avatars and down to under 500 rounds of ammunition.

Regular biscuits feed pet-based classes for a full day and pets find them irresistibly delicious.

A workbench purchasable from a Safe Room store that is required to access the Demolitions Workshop menu.

Skyfowls are golden eagle-like creatures with angel-like wings, Mordecai's true race, and reportedly survive the dungeon longer than humans by rolling with their circumstances.

A spell Donut learned from her Bronze Boss Box that makes a curl of light follow the caster and grows more powerful with use.

A Tummy Acher is a meatball with two legs and a mohawk, one of the pitiful pet options in the menagerie.

Vigorous Measles

A disease/debuff that the Rev-Up Immunity Smoothie grants protection against, alongside the Taint.

It is a Level 15 Borough Boss formed from at least 30 Tuskling knights and courtesans fused into an unstoppable rolling sphere of flesh.

The World Dungeon

The World Dungeon is a subterranean 18-level dungeon built from Earth's repurposed matter, into which surviving humans may enter to reclaim their lost matter.

There are six main types of bosses—Neighborhood, Borough, City, Province, Country, and Floor—plus rarer ones called elites.

Enchanted Crown of the Sepsis Whore

A cat-sized jeweled tiara with a swirling purple stone that Donut received from her Legendary Quadruped box.

Li Jun is a level-seven crawler with one bronze star and an enhanced strength of eight, plucked into Death Watch with his companion.

The Bloom, now simply called the Party, is an ultra-nationalist political party that has taken control of the entire kua-tin system government.

Tuskling Courtesan

They are the ruling aristocratic class of the Orcish Supremacy, which they conquered hundreds of years ago.

Crawler Assisted Outreach Program

A Borant program that assigns popular crawlers a PR Agent to manage their growing interview and panel requests.

Death Watch Extreme

Death Watch is a segment of the Maestro's show that snatches crawlers from imminent death and freezes the scene until the episode ends.

Dimensional Inventory

It offers effectively unlimited storage; any object a crawler can lift off the ground alone for about four seconds can be stored regardless of size.

Enhanced Pet Biscuit

It has over 100 possible effects, half good and the rest neutral or bad, and is worth a couple thousand gold to sell.

Reached via an ornate iron staircase, it is a warm dungeon level of branching tunnels lit by torches and glowing lichen.

The second floor is laid out in quadrants with white floors, orange-tinted lichen, and cinderblock walls that crack but are magically protected from fully breaking.

Magical Trigger

The magical trigger looks like a stick of underarm deodorant whose tip is broken off and inserted into explosive.

Neighborhood Map

It is a scrap of paper dropped by the Hoarder that, when looted, automatically populates roughly a square mile of the crawler's minimap.

They deal compounding damage that increases exponentially with each hit on the same target.

Ralph is a Level 11 Neighborhood Boss, a Frenzied Gerbil and champion pit fighter of the kobold training grounds who lives in perpetual rage and wants to triple the Black Death's human death toll.

Ratings track Views, Followers, Favorites, and Patrons and are described as the single most important menu, with one's life depending on the numbers.

Rev-Up Toilet-Grade Moonshine

A 180-proof flammable accelerant distilled on the second floor using Brindle Grub slime trails and a secret ingredient.

They are the only places where loot boxes may be opened, and all guildhalls are safe areas though not all safe areas are guildhalls.

Talisman of the Slate Butterfly

The Talisman of the Slate Butterfly is a small silver butterfly collar charm Donut received from a gold magic item box for being among the first 100 crawlers to reach level three in Magic Missile.

It is a portable, modular four-foot-high fortress built from goblin tables, weight equipment, and braces, resembling a lopsided tortoise shell.

Tutorial Guild Hall

It is a classroom-sized Safe Zone with a fireplace, bed, shelves, and chairs, though level timers remain active inside it.

Unvaccinated Clurichaun Rev-Up Consultant

Level 3 troll-like fairy-class mobs that are distant hillbilly relatives of leprechauns, hoarding only questionable business schemes rather than gold.

Zhang is a bald, level-seven crawler with one bronze star, enhanced strength of eight, and a constitution of 15.

Crawlers earn named achievements (e.g., Crazy Cat Lady, Trailblazing, Early Adopter, Loner) that grant box rewards or none.

A level 3 lava-spitting creature as large as a horse with giant yellow buck teeth that may trade goods for good items.

Battle for the Planet Aryl

Last season's Squim-run game, held in a Roman-Coliseum-like arena the size of a city with multiple floors, mazes, and a water level.

Bea always wanted to be on television and tried out for countless reality shows.

Borough Boss Battle

Carl's three groups confronted the Ball of Swine in a rave-themed arena with blacklights, lasers, and EDM music inside a shifting maze of rising and lowering walls.

Borough Field Guide

The Borough Field Guide is the persistent item dropped by the boss that adds monster types to the area map, revealing mob levels and types per quadrant.

Boss Assassination by Cart Bomb

Carl and Donut shove an explosive-laden cart into the boss room, run through three turns to clear the blast line, and detonate it on the goblin chieftain.

Boss-killers receive a Boss Box graded by tier—Bronze for Neighborhood, Silver for Borough, and so forth.

Solitary depraved monstrosities resembling a neckless bear with owlish eyes that lurk on lower dungeon floors waiting to ambush crawlers.

A level-six laminak fairy wearing a leaf pantsuit and an inverted bob haircut who was charmed by Donut.

The Crawler Menu grants a health bar, minimap, timer, and notification folders viewable only by the crawler.

Carl earns a Creator's Fee royalty of 1 gold coin per kill from Carl's Jug O'Boom, accessible via a new ACCOUNTS interface tab.

A tattoo-style pass that grants access to the Desperado Club but negates the ability to obtain a Vanquisher pass.

Dungeon Gold Rush

Donut's scratch-off ticket with six spots; scratching a spot gives the next attack a varying effect based on the symbol, with a one-hour cooldown between scratches.

Enchanted Nightgaunt Cloak of Stoutness

This near-weightless cloak made from a demon creature's wing grants +4 Constitution, resistance to poison and ice attacks, and adds Anti-Piercing resistance to all worn armor.

Enchanted Pedicure Kit of the Sylph

The Enchanted Pedicure Kit of the Sylph holds 12 foot-care items whose nightly-care buffs require the user to remain barefoot and can only be imbued in a Safe or Personal Space.

Enchanted Spiked Kneepads of the Shade Gnoll Riot Forces

Leg armor from the Gold Crowd Control Box that adds 10% damage reflect to all equipped armor and cancels all momentum-based attacks.

Enchanted Trollskin Shirt of Pummeling

It grants +7 to the Regeneration skill (level-seven, restoring full health in as little as two minutes) and negates melee debuffs like Stun, Knockback, Disarm, and Out-of-Breath.

Enchanted War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull

A right-handed wrist bracer of orcish steel that transforms into a spiked war gauntlet, granting +3 strength in fist mode, +1 dexterity, +2 Iron Punch levels, +1 Powerful Strike level, and a 2% stun chance.

Enhanced Growth

A buff that, after an initial boost to four random stats, automatically grants +1 Strength and Intelligence and +2 Charisma per level with no manual stat points.

It is a recurring competition among nine factions; the Skull Clan has won six of the last ten.

Frank's skill that reveals any crawlers within five square kilometers.

Floor 2 Moonshine Boss

A boss with multiple fifteen-foot pink octopus-like tentacles covered in dozens of screaming human-lipped mouths.

Goblin Engineer Fight

Carl boarded the runaway goblin dozer, threw one goblin into the front blades, beat the knife-wielding engineer with a pot, and crushed him by leaping onto him from above.

Goblin Neighborhood Boss

The goblin neighborhood boss was killed by the explosion, earning Carl and Donut a bronze star each and a wall of achievements.

Goblin Smoke Bomb

The Goblin Smoke Bomb is a deflagration-type incendiary that emits opaque, multi-colored stinking smoke over a 10-meter radius for three minutes, usable to confuse enemies.

Goblin War Chieftain

The goblin war chieftain is a first-floor boss occupying a room identical in size and shape to the previous boss room.

A war god worshipped by equine-class creatures such as horses, centaurs, and tikbalangs, whose adherents wear blue makeup and obsess over wenches and glorious death in battle.

One of Lucia Mar's rottweilers who gained the ability to shoot lightning when it barks.

Hallway Bathroom

Personal spaces that cannot be shared; a bug that made a second entrant explode was patched.

The crossbow-firing Valkyrie crawler is named Hekla, hails from Iceland, and leads a growing group of female warriors.

Hobgoblin Pus is a C4-like explosive detonated with a trigger, present only in a small amount and likely the workshop's real prize.

A broadcast that airs after the main episode tunnels in which commentators discuss the state of the game, feature contestant profiles, and sometimes pull boss-fight winners out for 10-minute on-camera interviews.

Human-seeded world

Mordecai reveals Earth is the seventh or eighth human-seeded world, implying humans are a crop left to grow until the dungeon arrives.

Imani is a roughly twenty-year-old eldercare worker in scrubs and a magical cloak who carries a longsword and has terrified, hollowed-out eyes.

Inventory System

Patched so mobs can no longer be transported into inventory to kill them, and items no longer retain momentum when extracted at high speed.

Kobold Boss Chamber

The kobold boss chamber is set up as a giant dog kennel with three caged hallways and Portuguese signage indicating it was once a municipal dog pound.

Kobold Riders are Level 5 creatures whose DNA is nearly identical to a chihuahua's, appearing as armored upright chihuahuas in beer-can-tab chainmail and spiked caps.

Li Na is Li Jun's sister and a member of his crawler party, shown reaching for a dropped saw-toothed sword in the frozen scene.

Looted from a kobold, the Master Pen Key opens individual cages of fighters and bait animals in the kobold fighting pits and is magically attuned to kobolds.

The second laminak fairy who escaped to the ceiling and fired magic missiles, repeatedly calling for someone named Damien to help.

The MOAB is a bomb-launching device, not a bomb itself, built as a ski-jump-like ramp from chopper wheel wells that lets gravity send weighted 'baby' bombs rolling across the floor.

Mukta's show production

The Maestro's show is an independent production, not Borant or the Syndicate, running on a shoestring budget with a rented trailer and no studio of its own.

The ninth and twelfth floors run as a game within the game that proceeds with or without the crawlers, who are not the main focus until they arrive.

Patronage System

The reworked patronage system limits each crawler to three patrons, auctions all three spots starting at one credit upon the induction of the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors, and allows transfers starting on the seventh floor.

Plan Pied Piper

A contingency plan where Donut charms the fairies, lures the clurichauns into a chamber, and Carl firebombs them with boom jugs.

The five visible stats fluctuate automatically based on real-life attributes until a crawler reaches the third floor and picks a race and class.

Production Trailer

A production trailer is a special location on the planet's surface where crawlers are still technically in the game but cannot use their menus, and which has its own rules similar to safe rooms.

Quarantined Cockroach Room

A roughly 1,500-square-foot round room behind an unlabeled grimy door bearing a weathered Spanish notice reading 'No entrar, por orden del Centro de Salud.'

The float is a ten-car train built from salvaged wheelchair wheels, looted wood, and goblin tools, linked by Yog's Special Chain and pulled by Chris and Imani.

A pyramid-scheme-style company run by the clurichauns and laminaks on the dungeon's second floor, selling toilet-grade moonshine.

Reward rooms are scattered throughout the dungeon and offer crawlers items generally not available in loot boxes, usually allowing only one choice per party.

Safe Room (Storm Shelter)

This second-floor safe room is a large storm-shelter chamber with French restroom signs, wall-mounted televisions, about fifty dusty cots, bathrooms and showers, but no food, cookies, vending machines, or Bopca Protector.

Safe Room Rules

Safe rooms strictly forbid violence and stealing, enforced by a three-strike system: first offense freezes the offender for about 100 seconds with an automated lecture, second is an hour, and the third strips all gear and teleports the offender into a mob nest.

He is a level-21 Bopca Protector who runs the Taco Bell safe zone.

It is the Maestro's family faction, which has won six of the last ten Faction Wars and placed top three every time.

Stasis (premature descent)

New this season, crawlers who descend to the next floor early are held in stasis until the collapse, which can shed favorites for those building social numbers.

The interview studio is a holodeck-like virtual set (only the couch is real) filmed from a distant location, with a nebula-themed background and an audience seated in a stadium pattern, some in water-filled viewing pods.

The Borough Boss Maze

The borough boss lair is a spiral maze with a large drawbridge gate big enough for two goblin dozers, leading to a round courtyard with three exits.

The spiral is a massive round maze of concentric rings guarded by a borough boss, with a half-raised portcullis leading inward and the Stairwell to Floor Two at its center.

The Syndicate Observer AI

A Syndicate neutral observer AI speaks directly into survivors' minds in a non-English language they nonetheless understand, with text appearing floating before them.

The Transformation

At about 2:23 AM PST on January 3rd, every building and structure on Earth was instantly crushed, killing nearly everyone who was indoors or under any roof.

The goblin workshop was obliterated by the explosion, leaving blackened rubble, a fifteen-foot wall of fire, and ankle-deep water.

Troglodyte Boss Room

A long rectangular room with a smaller entry room, fronted by a glass automatic sliding door bearing a 24-hour gym sign reading 'Fitness, Weights, Gains.'

Troglodyte Pygmy Warrior

A level 2 monster, these three-foot-tall lizard creatures resemble upright Komodo dragons with kangaroo-like scaly legs, wielding loincloths and crude clubs.

A self-only magic protection spell costing 5 mana that negates 75% of incoming magic damage and grants temporary immunity to mind-control effects.

She was the teenage daughter who entered the dungeon with Frank and Maggie and never participated in their killings.

Authorities in whose presence crawlers cannot wield weapons, with any attempted violence resulting in immediate execution.

Carl received a silver Adventurer Box for finding his first safe room, which contained a silver ring granting +1 Constitution.

Alchemy Workshop Table

An indestructible table placeable in personal spaces; its invulnerability bug deflected the boss attack and Carl plans to secretly exploit it.

Anguish Magic is a dark magic school used by goblin shamankas, designed to focus and enhance the damage of other attacks.

Loot boxes (in Bronze, Gold, and silver tiers) awarded for the baby-killing achievements, containing the Desperado Pass tattoo and Weapon Oil potions.

Axebeaks are level 2-5 mobs found in a southeastern quadrant revealed by the Borough Field Guide.

Baby Uno is the heaviest, biggest bomb containing three boom jugs, a clay jug of goblin oil, a jar of gunpowder, and the last of Carl's hobgoblin pus, detonated by a magical trigger.

Doors appearing roughly every quarter mile, each taken from real-world buildings, that all open into the same single silver-toilet room shared across every door.

Belt That Attaches Monster Body Parts

A black legendary belt from a gold loot box that lets the wearer attach the body parts of other monsters to themselves; Odette uses it to wear a crab body as legs.

Bicycle-powered blender

Stationary bikes with a bladed platform that blend ingredients into smoothies via pedaling, found in the laminak filling room.

Big Shot Chicken

A dusty, run-down chicken restaurant serving as the safe room the crawlers fled into, staffed by a Bopca Protector behind the counter.

Carl and Donut receive the achievement 'Bitchmeat!' for being attacked by fellow crawlers in a safe zone, an award that grants no reward because 'bitches don't get rewards.'

Blender Fiends are mobs whose collective grows stronger each time they blend, and after killing 15,000 crawlers in one day Borant removed them to prevent a premature extinction event, planning to reintroduce them on a lower floor.

Borough boss (petrifying rhino)

A borough boss shown on the recap was an armored, elephant-sized six-legged rhinoceros-like monster with back tentacles that turn people to stone; it killed all 40 attacking men before dying, resulting in a Match Draw.

Boss Babe is an achievement granted for striking a damaging blow against a dungeon boss; the AI notes it is most often the last achievement a tutorial-surviving crawler ever receives.

Boss Battle Graphic

The dungeon's dramatic boss battle graphic only triggers when players are locked inside the boss room with the boss.

Bronze Adventurer Box

Awarded to Carl for the 'Oooh, Magic!' achievement, it contained a torch and a pair of healing potions.

Bronze Asshole's Box

The Bronze Asshole's Box, awarded for stealing from a lower-level crawler, contained five gold pieces and three Desperado Club Drink Tickets.

Brynhild's Daughters

The name of Hekla's ever-growing group of female warriors who were killing their way through the dungeon.

The Buzzed debuff grants +3 Charisma and -1 Dexterity and applies the Shaky Cam and Truth Serum debuffs, leaving the afflicted woozy and struggling to stay upright.

Carl's Jug O'Boom

A stackable explosive device Carl invented from a jug of moonshine, earning him a gold coin for every kill other crawlers make with it.

A Changeling is a shapeshifter whose form is changed into a mob of the current dungeon floor each time their guildhall is moved to a new world.

Cheat Code Potion

The Cheat Code Potion increases one recently-used combat or magic skill by three at random and permanently, but expires shortly after generation (a 17-minute timer).

Chilly Goats are white, horned, fanged goat creatures (encountered at level 4) found slain in numbers by a party of around 15 crawlers.

Chopper Pilot is a skill that rises as Carl drives the Chopper, and at level 5 its throttle unlocks the ability to increase speed.

One of Lucia Mar's two rottweilers, shown wearing a chainmail sweater.

A pair of crawlers encountered a city boss and were killed; Donut wants to find one to guarantee screen time, but Carl refuses.

Corpse Inventory Looting

The crawler who kills a mob has first looting rights for a couple minutes, but canceling out the loot box makes the corpse fair game, and items can be added into a corpse's grid inventory like a chest.

Cow-Tailed Brindle Grub

The Cow-Tailed Brindle Grub is the level 3 final grub form before pupation, twice the size of regular grubs with long pointed tails it whips, only marginally able to defend itself.

Crawler Killer is an achievement granted for killing a fellow crawler, one that Carl deliberately wants to avoid earning.

Crawler Killer Skulls

A skull marker appears by a crawler's name for each fellow crawler they have killed, with Frank bearing three and Maggie bearing five.

The map shows blue dots for other crawlers and red dots for enemies; NPCs always appear within a couple hundred meters, but Carl wonders if crawlers can hide from the map.

Crown Prince Stalwart

Crown Prince Stalwart is the Maestro's older brother and the owner of the Maestro's production, an orc prince of the Skull Empire.

Da Tutorial Guild

Marked by a neon sign off the main corridor, the Tutorial Guild alley smells of machines, oil, and pineapple and leads into the goblin engineers' workshop.

Carl's Damage Reflect ability returns damage to attackers, causing the green slime to kill itself when it injured his arm.

He is a location manager, one of three for this floor, who oversees a City area and is Mordecai's manager's manager whom crawlers are not supposed to know about.

Demolitions Workshop

An interface menu unlocked at Explosives Handling level 5, accessible only while standing in front of a Sapper's Table purchasable from a Safe Room store.

Determine Value Potion

Drinking it adds inventory sort options including a new History tab, though it still does not display individual item monetary values.

Dexterity Vending Machine

A rest area holds a vending machine dispensing wrapped candies that taste like piss but grant a +1 dexterity boost for ten minutes, usable only once per day per person.

Doctor Gracie was a Meadow Lark resident and former MMA fighter who was killed along with the others who went searching for alternate stairs.

Drink Tickets are redeemable at the Desperado Club for a free "drink" (with dubious quotation marks).

Dungeon Book of the Floor Club

The Dungeon Book of the Floor Club, joinable via a boss box, mails its members one spellbook per floor.

A record in which inventors of stackable devices are memorialized for eternity via the Dungeonpreneur achievement.

Dungeon Masters' Ventilation

The dungeon masters provide a hidden ventilation system that sucks smoke into the ceiling, which Carl regards as cheating.

An achievement for inventing a stackable weapon, device, or potion, memorializing the creator in the Dungeon Codex and granting gold per kill by others using it.

Elle McGibbons is an elderly wheelchair-using resident whom Carl rolls into the storm shelter, and she asks for Divorce Court because her late husband Barry used to watch it.

Enchanted Bigboi Boxers

Self-sizing enchanted boxers from Carl's boss box granting +2 constitution and the ability to cast level 15 Protective Shell once every 30 hours.

Enchanted Fae Scale Quadruped Crupper of the Fleet

Donut's silver scale armor made from Fae Steel, granting +2 Dexterity, draping over her hindquarters like a tailed skirt without covering her stomach.

Enchanted Fur Brush of the Ecclesiastic

Donut's boss-box reward that grants her +2 constitution for 30 hours if someone brushes her for ten minutes every night.

Enchanted Shuriken of Bloodlust

A set of 100 low-damage throwing stars whose damage against a given monster type rises 8% (compounded) per hit, but they are very fragile.

Enchanted Toe Ring of the Splatter Skunk

It imbues the wearer with +3 Strength and +3 to the Powerful Strike skill.

Feral Rabies is a debuff that Borant made curable with a health potion or spell, and it is no longer airborne after the patch.

A creature on the eleventh floor that severed off Odette's legs, which do not grow back once completely severed.

A spell that was patched to be safe to cast, per the post-episode announcement.

Fireball or Custard?

Carl's scratch-off ticket with five spots; each scratch has a 50/50 chance of casting a level-15 Fireball or a glob of healing Strawberry Custard at the nearest red-tagged mob, with a thirty-minute cooldown.

First Neighborhood Boss

The first neighborhood boss in the area was a giant demon man in a suit made of skin, killed by some of the other crawlers.

A skill Carl gained at level three that increases the damage he deals by kicking.

Frenzied Gerbil's Owner

A better-dressed level-five kobold rider in a dingo-fur coat and spiked boots served as Ralph's handler, carrying him in a reinforced cage before being killed by Carl's boom jug.

The system tracks a hidden skill for the 1981 Frogger arcade cabinet, at which Carl holds skill level 8, demonstrating the skills menu has an entry for essentially everything.

The goblins' term for gunpowder, stored in barrels among their abandoned engineering supplies.

They are small, green, level-2 monsters that wield clubs and are easily hurt by a crawler's blows.

Goblin Black Powder

The looted black powder is the coarse old-school type, not refined smokeless powder, better at throwing metal than producing a large blast.

Goblin Explosives

Carl earned the skill upgrades Explosive Handling, Dangerous Explosive Handling, and Goblin Explosives from a single dynamite throw.

Goblin Shamanka

Goblin Shamanka is the leader class of goblin clans, second only to the War Chieftain or Goblin Warlord, who must perform two of three acts on their parents to graduate and specialize in Anguish Magic.

Goblin/Llama Meth War

Donut deliberately provoked a war between the goblins and the llamas, causing the goblins to abandon their supplies and rush off to attack.

Gold Crowd Control Box

A Gold Crowd Control Box is awarded for killing more than 15 mobs with the same attack.

Goo-Inator 3000

The Goo-Inator 3000 is a shaping tool, resembling an oversized silver lollipop, usable only at a workbench to shape materials into something else.

Gorgon Marital Aid

The Gorgon Marital Aid, from the Silver Mechanic's Box, is a spatula-shaped hardening and de-hardening tool used at a workbench to fuse joints or alter material plasticity without affecting strength.

Slimes are a new mob type near the Hoarder neighborhood's northern edge; a level two green slime is pig-sized, immune to kicks, and dissolves flesh, gloves, and leather on contact.

Heal Critter is a healing scroll that failed to work on Donut, evaporating with a 'No Valid Target Available' error.

Healing scrolls with no countdown between uses that can be used on other party members; Carl and Donut accumulated 17 of them.

Hoarder's neighborhood

Rebecca W.'s corpse was found just off the main corridor at the very edge of the Hoarder's neighborhood.

A skill for building improvised bombs where each level increases IED damage yield by 10% and halves the chance of a catastrophic premature detonation.

Inert While in Safe Room

Dynamite in a safe room shows an 'Inert While in Safe Room' status that prevents detonation but still ticks down toward its real status while being handled.

Inventory and Looting Mechanics

Crawlers drop all items except unopened loot boxes when killed, and only party members can examine another crawler's gear.

Carl reached Iron Punch level 3, a skill where each level increases enhanced fist damage by an additional 10% and works with war gauntlets and lumpers without losing the bare-knuckle bonus.

Iron Skin Potion

Carl drank an Iron Skin potion and gave one to Donut before fleeing the safe room.

Juvenile Riven Wing

The Juvenile Riven Wing is a loud, red-tagged parrot-like creature with a long beak, offered as a pet option in the menagerie.

King Rust of the Skull Empire recently arrived in Earth orbit and has stayed oddly quiet about the controversy involving his son.

Kobold Fighting Pit

The kobold fighting pit is a small round dirt arena stained red with blood, surrounded by hardwood chairs, with a ceiling-high pile of bones against one wall and cages of monsters at the back.

Dog-like monsters with painted faces who get along fine with the laminak fairies.

Krakaren Boss Fight

Carl and Donut battle a Krakaren clone whose tentacles repeatedly smash through the chamber walls while waves of clurichauns attack, ending as Carl detonates a boom jug expecting to die.

Legendary Skill Potion

A potion from the Skull Clan's stock that upgrades a skill to level 15, given to Frank and Maggie to enhance Find Crawler.

Light on Your Feet

Light on Your Feet is a skill that lets a creature pounce higher and farther, raising Donut from a 3 to a 7 with the Slate Butterfly charm and letting her leap twice as high.

Like a Moth to the Flame

An achievement for attacking and damaging a mob more than 75 levels above your own, rewarding a Platinum Lucky Bastard Box.

A neighboring group across the road who supply drugs and were targeted for attack by the goblins after Donut framed them for holding out.

Loot Boxes Are Not Random

Odette confirms loot is deliberately shaped by the AI for entertainment value, rewarding crawlers when their survival means profit and screwing them when their suffering makes a better show.

Mag 3040 Pulse Pistol

A tech-based weapon manufactured by Valtay Corp, found among the items absorbed from Agatha's cart.

Magical Pet Carrier

A magical pet carrier is the dungeon's expensive equivalent of a pokeball that lets crawlers store bonded pets in inventory without harming them.

Mana Toast is dispensed from a fixed toaster in a safe room, one per crawler, and simply refills the consumer's mana.

Meadow Lark Eldercare Facility

Meadow Lark is an eldercare facility in Wenatchee with about 250 residents that caught fire when Agatha started a barrel fire, forcing an evacuation right as the dungeon collapse occurred.

A tome teaching a 50-spell-point spell that turns hostile enemies into allies; one cannot learn a spell they lack the points to cast.

Mrs. Parsons is Carl's grumpy, complaint-filing first-floor neighbor who was killed when the building was crushed, leaving only her severed head.

Goblin transports that growl like dinosaurs; a previous one exploded after hitting a wall because the relief valve wasn't twisted.

Neighborhood Boss

A Neighborhood Boss fight seals the room with a reformed locked door and silvery metal bars, summons skull-headed torches, and is announced loudly over an actual loudspeaker by the AI in a Monster-Truck-rally style with versus screens and fighting-game graphics.

Nightgaunt Cloak

Carl's cloak immediately cancels the poison inflicted by the troglodyte virtuosos' tongue attacks.

Odette's show is a separate crawler program that crawlers cannot watch themselves, and Carl expects social numbers to skyrocket after it airs the group's appearance.

Oh shit babies are last-resort bombs made of two boom jars plus a full gunpowder satchel wrapped in dynamite, kept in Carl's inventory as too dangerous for Donut.

Orcish Supremacy

The Orcish Supremacy is the system ruled by the tusklings, described as comparatively tiny next to the Skull Empire.

Patron-Bidding Program

A new program announced in the system message that already had a lot of interest.

Peta Enthusiast

An achievement awarded to Carl for removing an aggravated non-sapient enemy's hostility so it fought other enemies to his benefit.

The Pig Harness is a leather item looted from the Tuskling Dominatrix's corpse.

Platinum Lucky Bastard Box

Awarded by the Like a Moth to the Flame achievement; both Carl and Donut received scratch-off lottery tickets from theirs.

Poison Lizard Creatures

Lizard creatures infest the neighborhood near the Taco Bell, jumping and biting to inflict a poison that nearly killed Brandon despite repeated health potions.

Potion of Iron Skin

A potion that raises the drinker's physical armor by 100% for five minutes.

Powerful Strike

Each level of this skill multiplies unarmed melee damage, so at level three a kick or punch does triple normal damage.

Proximity Trigger

The Proximity Trigger, ten of which came in the Gold Sapper's Box, is a highly-valuable dime-sized box with wire that attaches to non-static traps via a Sapper's Table to set activation conditions like countdowns and mob-type triggers.

It is the art of beating opponents with closed fists, and each level increases bare-knuckle damage by 25%.

The Bopca Protector's name is Qwist, and he groomed Donut with a brush and fetched her custard on command.

The Rat-Kin race includes Rat Hooligans (smartest and fastest), heavily muscled Rat Brutes, and spellcasting Rat Shamans.

Rebecca Wong was a level three human-trafficking operation boss whom Frank claimed to have killed, and whose corpse he looted clean including her clothes and an apple core.

Remaining Crawlers

The Safe Room screen showed remaining crawlers had dropped to 4,322,395, down from 10 million just a few hours earlier and steadily decreasing.

Rev-Up Pamphlet

A non-magical trifold brochure written in Syndicate Standard recruiting moonshine consultants and directing readers to Krakaren or her downline.

Reverse Gravity

A spell the rage elemental used; surviving it earned Carl and Donut the 'What goes up...' achievement.

Royal Court of Princess Donut

Carl and Donut's team is named The Royal Court of Princess Donut, declared the winner of the boss fight.

Safe Room Closure

A new rule announced that all safe rooms and safe areas close one hour before floor collapse, teleporting any crawler inside to just outside the area, with a new timer added below the level-collapse timer.

Satan's Lil' Hedgehogs

A mob removed from this floor and placed deeper because their armor-piercing quill attack was deemed too strong by the system AI.

Scat Thugs are bipedal, raccoon-headed monsters as tall as Carl's knee, armed with needle-like spears and about as strong as goblins, encountered at level three near a restroom.

Scatterer Hemolymph

A white-goo alchemy material looted from killed Scatterers.

The second floor opened with 1,292,526 crawlers remaining after over 700,000 died during the descent, and its collapse timer was sped up to six days, the legal minimum.

Second Floor Interview Boat

Upon descending to the second floor, Carl and Donut are teleported into a plush blue velvet room aboard a roughly 100-foot boat, with a bar, fruit basket, and a bowl of cat food, where their status bars vanish.

Second Neighborhood Boss

The second neighborhood boss was a floating crystal thing that shattered when Brandon struck it with his hammer.

Senegal Production Systems, Unlimited

Senegal Production Systems, Unlimited owns and operates rental trailers used by multiple tunnel productions related to the crawl.

A powerful debuff similar to poison that works faster, cannot be stacked, and can be cured with a simple healing spell or potion.

Shambling Acid Impaler

The shambling acid impaler is a green, hairy four-legged creature common on the second floor that spits skin-melting darts.

Silver Goblin Box

A Silver Goblin Box is awarded for killing more than 10 mobs with a single explosive.

Sleeping Crawler Stealth

Crawlers outside one's party who sleep in safe rooms do not appear on the minimap and become translucent, with hands passing through their bodies, though Frank may have lied about this since it didn't apply to party-member Donut.

A skill gained by Carl at level three that increases the pressure he can apply with his bare foot by 10% per level, described by the system in a fetishistic tone.

It lends its name to the Enchanted Toe Ring of the Splatter Skunk found in the Gold Shoe Box.

Stairwell Disintegration Exploit

Effective immediately, non-sapient mobs reaching a stairwell will no longer be disintegrated, closing the rule Carl exploited on the recap.

Stairwell to Floor Three

A stairwell down to the third floor is located in the northeast of the second-floor map, in the fog.

Stairwell to Floor Two

The Stairwell to Floor Two sits at the center of the spiral loop, visible on the map only when fully zoomed out.

Standard Healing Potion

It increases health by at least 50% but does not cure poison or health-seeping conditions.

Stats Are Hidden but Real

Odette reveals that all stats, including hidden ones like wisdom, still exist even when not shown, and that visible top-tier stats like intelligence are actually mish-mashes of many underlying stats (e.g. intelligence really governs mana and memory).

The goblin engineers build Carl a coal-fueled, human-sized steam-powered chopper with a sidecar, traded for his dungeon-made meth.

Storm Commander

A skyfowl-specific class from Mordecai's planet that Mordecai nearly chose but his brother took instead.

Street Preacher

The Street Preacher was a neighborhood boss that Borant upgraded to a borough boss in the daily patch notes.

Syndicate Government

The Syndicate Government owns the main program and sets the rules that allow private production companies to operate.

Syndicate Standard

Syndicate Standard is a common language programmed directly into a crawler's brain, which Carl mistook for his own native tongue.

The Blood Sultanate Tiara

Donut's small jeweled tiara gives her the ability to imbue the Septic debuff and made her a royal member of the Blood Sultanate when she put it on.

The Gym Boss Room

The boss room is a high-ceilinged gym with a receptionist's turnstile, fitness equipment, mirrors, and motivational slogans, where the Juicer trains.

The Taco Bell Safe Room

A rest area further down is a Taco Bell from Peru with full facilities including coffee and good beer.

The Waffle House Safe Room

A safe room about a mile away is a Waffle House from Alabama with a capacity of 30, staffed by a singing, cooking gnome, where mobile residents have chosen to stay and party rather than leave.

An equine-class creature described by Mordecai as being like a horse but meaner, capable of worshipping Grull.

Time Freeze is a spell used on Death Watch contestants that pauses them in their death scene and runs out exactly when the episode ends.

Titan Conglomerate

The Titan Conglomerate produces Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette, the largest private program in existence.

A blunt 'big stick for bonking' melee weapon that Carl prefers over the flimsy poker among his loot.

Tome of Magic Missile

A book from Donut's silver adventurer box that permanently teaches the Magic Missile spell, which she learned immediately.

Toothed Fleshbutcher

It is cited as an example of a dangerous form a pet could transform into from a bad Enhanced Pet Biscuit result on a crawl.

Trans Tunnel 7c Orator Relay

A Valtay Corp inter-tunnel communications device flagged illegal by the System AI; it can be owned and sold but using it within the dungeon causes immediate disqualification.

Troglodyte Virtuoso

The level 4 troglodyte variant, same size as the pygmies but able to shoot a thin wet tongue almost fifteen feet that whips and inflicts poison.

Tuskling Dominatrix

The Tuskling Dominatrix is a level-eight tuskling, the last to fall in the boss fight, crushed by Brandon's hammer, and her corpse held the boss-dropped persistent item.

Two Chicks at the Same Time

An achievement Carl earned for killing two mobs at once using only their own bodies against each other, rewarding a Gold Brawler Box.

Valtay Perso-Shield Platinum Edition

A tech-based personal shield made by Valtay Corp, found among the items absorbed from Agatha's cart.

The vine creeper is a plant monster that emerges from a giant pod and can eat a person whole, and was the creature Frank claimed killed the fifth man.

A trio of poison-dealing Virtuosos attack with long tongue-lashes, and their poison is dangerous to anyone without anti-poison resistance.

Wait, Bosses Can Leave Their Rooms?

A new achievement awarded when the moonshine boss left its chamber, with a reward noting it plays great on the recap episode.

Waste Disposal System

Every dungeon floor has a waste-disposal system that spawns janitor mobs to consume corpses, designed to stop crawlers from camping in one area too long.

Weapon Oil: Weeping Wound

A potion applied to edged weapons to make the inflicted wound bleed longer; Donut received five of them.

What goes up...

An achievement for being struck by and surviving the Reverse Gravity spell, rewarding the claim of being more durable than a monkey named Albert.

Wisdom is a hidden stat no longer shown or adjustable because altering it greatly changed a person's personality.

Yog's Special Chain

Yog's Special Chain is a scroll from a Gold box that produces a featherlight chain of any length up to roughly 1,000 feet, lasting 30 hours.