Lichen are a type of enemy encountered in the Clockworks.
Traits
Unlike their cubic cousins, Lichens can be a little more tricky in a fight; if they can't merge together to create a larger singular being which eventually evolves into more dangerous forms, then they're able to cause statuses. Unlike most monsters which have identical attack patterns across different themed variations, Lichen attacks can vary depending on their Status, even being able to benefit from being afflicted with one. The Soul Jelly is the sole exception to this rule, as it cannot merge or inflict a Status.
Lichens can inflict normal and piercing damage.
Types
Lichen
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All Tiers
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Merge with small Lichens, Lichen Colonies or Giant Lichen Colonies
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 1 and below:
Depth 4 and below:
Depth 8 and below:
Depth 13 and below:
Depth 18 and below:
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| Description
As a basic member of the slime family, a Lichen is not a particularly threatening monster. Lichens often appear in packs, which is when they can become more difficult to deal with. These slimes have the ability to meld together, healing themselves and eventually becoming so large that they develop into a Lichen Colony.
- Tier 1: Basic lichens are encountered.
- Tier 2: Lichens are encountered as two lichens merged together. They form colonies faster.
- Tier 3: Lichens are encountered as three lichens merged together. They form colonies incredibly fast.
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Lichen Colony
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All Tiers
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Spin Attack
- Merge with small Lichens
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 1 and below:
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Depth 8 and below:
Depth 13 and below:
Depth 18 and below:
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Aside from their larger size, Lichen Colonies also become barbed. This gives them a long-ranged spin attack which shoots spines in random directions. A Lichen Colony can fuse with even more Lichens to become a Giant Lichen Colony, though they seem unable to fuse with other Lichen Colonies.
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Giant Lichen Colony
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All Tiers
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Spin Attack
- Thorn Roots
- Dash
- Merge with small Lichens
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 1 and below:
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Depth 13 and below:
Depth 18 and below:
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For newly adventuring Knights, it is advisable to avoid allowing a Giant Lichen Colony to form. Along with a "thorn roots" attack, Giant Lichen Colonies can dash around to chase fleeing knights. Fortunately, although Giant Lichen Colonies can absorb other Lichens and grow slightly bigger, it can no longer evolve. This is among the most threatening of all Lichens.
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Oiler
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Tier 1
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Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Oil Slick
- Set alight by Fire
- Increased elemental resistance while burned
- Stops flaming when frozen
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
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These slick Lichens have a tendency to leave a mess of oil on the ground. Not only do the Oilers camouflage well against the spilled oil, the oil slicks on the ground can also be set aflame by monsters or players, making the Oilers much more dangerous.
When on fire, Oilers gain a resistance to Elemental attacks.
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Toxoil
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Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Abilities
- Tackle
 
- Spin Attack
- Set alight by Fire
- Moves quickly when burned
- Poisonous Oil Slick
- Increased elemental resistance while burned
- Dash
- Stops flaming when frozen
- Does hunt players cloaked by Maskeraith
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 9 and below:
Depth 14 and below:
Depth 19 and below:
 : This monster is only encountered in one or more specific locations. The above depth data has been adjusted to reflect this. Data implies that established general material drop patterns would still apply, if this monster were to be encountered in relevant areas.
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This monster is a cross between a Toxigel and an Oiler. On fire it gains resistance to elemental damage and a small movement speed increase, it dashes like a Giant Lichen Colony and it leaves trails like an Oiler that Poison the players and when set on fire will burn like an Oiler's trails, causing the player to burn.
- Tier 1: Can not be encountered.
- Tier 2: Has short spikes around its body, causing it to resemble a Lichen Colony.
- Tier 3: Has still more spikes around its body, causing it to resemble a Giant Lichen Colony. Can dash around.
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Giant Toxoil
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Tiers 2 & 3
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Spin Attack
- Set alight by Fire
- Poisonous Oil Slick
- Increased elemental resistance while burned
- Stops flaming when frozen
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 10 and below:
Depth 15 and below:
Depth 20 and below:
: This monster is only encountered in one or more specific locations. The above depth data has been adjusted to reflect this. Data implies that established general material drop patterns would still apply, if this monster were to be encountered in relevant areas.
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Big Toxoils founded in the the last arena of the second depth of Compound 42, they have a lot of health but move very slowly and can't dash around. They look like Toxilargos.
- Tier 1: Can not be encountered.
- Tier 2 & 3: Acquires several spikes around its body, and can use a Spin Attack to release them and deal damage at long range. Spikes have a chance to inflict poison.
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Toxigel
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Tier 1
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Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Abilities
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 1 and below:
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Depth 8 and below:
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Depth 18 and below:
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A Lichen that can inflict poison.
- Gains a Spin Attack in T3.
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Toxilargo
Quicksilver
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Tier 1
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Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Self-electrify
 
- Electrifies when shocked
- Can damage other monsters while shocked
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
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Quicksilvers appear to be just normal, silver Lichens. However, they become much more dangerous when shocked: they become temporarily invulnerable, heal themselves a small amount and move erratically damaging anything that it touches, monsters and players alike. It's also not very shocking that they can electrify themselves without the need for an external power source, so watch out!
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Sloom
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Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Abilities
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 8 and below:
Depth 13 and below:
Depth 18 and below:
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This oozing Lichen can put players to sleep if they let their guard down.
- Tier 1: Cannot be encountered.
- Tier 2: An aqua-blue lichen with the letter Z marked near its core.
- Tier 3: Acquires several spikes around its body and can use a Spin Attack to release them and deal damage at long range. Spikes have a chance to inflict sleep.
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Sloombargo
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Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Abilities
- Tackle
- Spin Attack
- Thorn Roots
- Sleep Mist
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Location
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 8 and below:
Depth 13 and below:
Depth 18 and below:
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What makes this Sloom different to its smaller cousin is the mist surrounding the Sloombargo. The mist inflicts sleep on knights and remains for a short period after the Sloombargo's defeat.
- Tier 1: Cannot be encountered.
- Tier 2: A large aqua-blue lichen with the letter Z marked near its core.
- Tier 3: Acquires several spikes around its body and can use a Spin Attack to release them and deal damage at long range, or shoot up thorn roots around it like a Giant Lichen Colony. Spikes from either attack have a chance to inflict sleep.
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Void Gel
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Tier 3
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Abilities
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This dark monster is Swarm-Infested, so it offers absolutely no Crowns, Heat, Materials, or Vials, and seemingly never stops spawning. Its defenses are enhanced on a Swarm Seed. This lichen is weak to elemental. Piercing attacks seem to be a viable option against them as well - while the damage numbers indicate resistance with grey coloration, the damage this enemy takes is still significant.
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Strategy
- Defeating non-elemental Lichens is very simple, but you must keep in mind that when they merge:
- The resulting Lichen has full health and is cured of status effects.
- Ten normal Lichens make a Lichen Colony, and sixteen make a Giant Colony. It is important to notice that any combination of the sort can get you one. For example: merging two quintuple Lichens (Lichens made by merging five normal Lichens) also results in a colony. Merging a sextuple Lichen (a Lichen made by merging six normal Lichens) with a Colony gets you a Giant Colony.
- Differently-sized Lichens look slightly different in size and have several visible cores. It is important to note which is which. The same applies to Colonies and Giant Colonies, so you can know the number of total Lichens in each.
- Giant Colonies have unlimited Lichen absorption, but may only do so when damaged, to regain full health.
- The more cores a Lichen has, the more health it has and damage it deals. This is capped at 21 cores maximum. Lichens that join a colony afterwards will not increase its power nor the amount of loot dropped after its death any further.
- Some Colonies that were already in Colony form when they spawned will have only one core. This means they will be weaker compared to Colonies formed from ten smaller Lichens. When a single-core Colony merges with another small Lichen, its core amount gets bumped back to proper value.
- For more skilled players, it may be beneficial to let them form into Giant Colonies before attacking so you will get increased heat.
- Don't let Red Rovers take notice of you when there are Oilers or Toxoils around, and don't use weapons that inflict fire or they will be set aflame.
- Oilers slide around for a bit after they stop moving, meaning they can charge up an attack and still hit you as you run away.
- A frozen Oiler or Toxoil will lose its "aflame" status, and elemental damage will do normal damage to it instead of reduced damage. They can be relit quite easily however from fire traps, shadow fire, Red Rovers and other lit Oilers.
- If a Quicksilver has been shocked, it can damage or kill other enemies (including other Quicksilvers, which can be useful when there are a large number of Quicksilvers in the vicinity) but will heal itself.
- Stepping into a Sloombargo's sleep mist can be used to restore a few pips of health, especially right after you kill one. Never do this with enemies around unless you know what are you doing or have teammates to wake you up.
Notable Lichens
Soul Jelly
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All Tiers
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Abilities
- Tackle
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Location
This monster has the chance to appear in place of a Lichen.
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Drops
Depth and Material Drops:
Depth 1 and below:
Depth 4 and below:
Depth 8 and below:
Depth 13 and below:
Depth 18 and below:
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An incredibly rare member of the slime family, Soul Jellies are not often seen by Knights within the Clockworks. They are more durable than the others within the Lichen family, taking only about 3/4ths of the damage that any other Lichen would within the same stratum. Soul Jellies are also unique in that they cannot be shield-bumped by Knights that are fortunate enough to encounter one, cannot be healed by Silkwings, and are also unable to merge into a Lichen Colony of any kind. The core resembles the Phantom's head, and after being defeated, its core head does a backflip and remains for a few seconds before disappearing.
"When the wicked are banished to the Underwhirled, they are given the form of a soul jelly. It is a simple, no bake process that takes about an hour."
- ~Whirled
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Oiler Baron
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Abilities
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Location
- Unknown (No longer ingame)
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Drops
This monster's drop table is pending.
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Trivia
- Toxoil and Giant Toxoil were introduced with release 2012-07-25 along with
Dangerous Mission: Compound 42.
- Sloom and Sloombargo were reintroduced with release 2017-05-11 along with the Starlight Cradle region.
- Baby Mimic was introduced with release 2019-06-27 along with the new Treasure Vault's levels.
- According to the Rank Mission: Alien Ooze, Lichens are an alien species of the slime family thought to have come to the Clockworks via a meteor that crashed on to the surface of Cradle. A specific Scenario Room shows a meteor crashed into the Clockworks with some Lichens nearby.
- The Prestige Mission: A Pinch of Salt states that Lichens hate Rock Salt; this material makes them dissolve. Additionally, Lichens are unable to cross the salt barriers made by the Geo Knights before players enter the elevator to Haven.
- Toxoils and Giant Toxoils were created by Herex but apparently formed an intelligence well beyond the scope of a standard bio-toxin. Herex ordered the facility destroyed seeing that those experiments could endanger the Order.
- The Starlight Cradle levels were accidentally added on the second Depth of the Iron Bishop Gate on 10/26/13. Video (Youtube). This included the Slooms and Sloombargos. This bug was fixed on 10/28/2013.1
- The Starlight Cradle levels, along with Slooms and Sloombargos were readded with the release 2017-05-11 update. The update came with new equipment, and sleep can now be caused by enemies again.
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