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Mechanics

Magikrab's Gauntlet is divided into trains, with each train consisting of 50 carriages. Each train has its own difficulty level, which starts at the selected difficulty (Normal = 0, Impossible = 6) and increases by 1 for every cleared train.

${\text{Train Difficulty}}={\text{Train Number}}+{\text{Difficulty}}-1$

For example, the third train on Brutal difficulty (level 4) has a train difficulty level of $3+4-1=6$.

Starting with the fourth train, every other train will be a so-called chaos train.

Carriages

Every carriage can be one of the following types: chest, café, battle, miniboss, or boss.

Chest carriage

This carriage contains a ranger cache with guaranteed Rewind items, along with resources and stickers. The game attempts to generate three caches per train; The final number may be lower or higher, depending on RNG during train generation.

Café carriage

Café carriages act as a sort of save and recovery point. Upon entering a café carriage, all health is recovered, and your progress is recorded. Being defeated will send you back to the last café carriage you visited.

In a café carriage, you can talk to the Magikrab behind the counter to buy items ("I need to stock up."), claim rewards ("I want to claim rewards."), or access tape storage ("I want to access my tape storage."). The dialogue has two more options: one which explains how you can leave Magikrab's Gauntlet, and one that closes the menu.

When stocking up in the Gauntlet, all items cost Fused Material, but will be paid for with unclaimed reward points (if any).

The interval between café carriages is calculated using the formula below. Additionally, carriage #49 of each train is always a café carriage.

${\text{Café Interval}}={\text{min}}\left(5+2*{\text{Train Difficulty}},25\right)$

After exiting Magikrab's Gauntlet, your progress can be resumed from any visited café carriage unless you re-seed the train or change the difficulty.

Battle carriage

Immediately upon entering the carriage, you enter a fight. This can generally be any fight you would also encounter in New Wirral—including Ranger Captains and Archangels. On top of that, you may encounter Partners and other named NPCs that you would normally not be able to fight.

Each fight is annotated with a challenge level. The challenge level depends on the encounter (see table below). In non-chaos trains, all generated encounters are shuffled and then re-ordered by challenge level. This means that the encounter difficulty generally increases with the carriage number, and resets once a new train is entered. In chaos trains, re-ordering step is skipped, leading to a completely random progression in challenge level.

List of possible encounters

Challenge	Encounter	Is Partial?
0	Two monsters	No
	Unique monster with one monster	No
	Generic NPC	Yes
1	Ranger Captain with ranger	No
	Rogue Fusion with monster	No
	Unstable Fusion with monster	No
	Partner	Yes
	Ranger Captain	Yes
	Portrait NPC	Yes
2	Archangel	No
3	Archangel	Yes

Partial Encounters

Partial encounters are accompanied by a second partial encounter with the same difficulty. Especially in the later carriages, there is a lower chance of meeting partial encounters.

Minibosses

Every 8^th non-café carriage is a miniboss fight. These fights have a challenge level that is generally 1 higher than preceding fights, though there are exceptions.

Bosses

Carriage #50 of every train is a boss carriage, where you fight against one of three bosses.

The bosses you can encounter in Magikrab's Gauntlet are, in order of appearance: Magikrab, Rogue Traffikrab, and Bytten Studio.

Levels

The enemy level starts at Lv50, independent of difficulty. For every visited carriage before the current one, the enemy level increases by 1. Since the first carriage is always a café carriage, the earliest possible encounter will start at Lv51 in carriage #2. Every miniboss or boss carriage has its level raised by 10, though this increase only applies to that carriage.

${\text{Enemy Level}}={\begin{cases}49+{\text{Carriage Number}}+10&{\text{if Miniboss Carriage or Boss Carriage}}\\49+{\text{Carriage Number}}&{\text{otherwise}}\end{cases}}$

Rewards

Winning a battle carriage increases your win streak by 1. This streak is important for calculating the rewards you can obtain by talking to the Magikrab in one of the café carriages. For each battle carriage you clear, you obtain reward points based on the following formula.

${\text{Reward Points}}=\left({\text{Streak}}+\left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Carriage Number}}{10}}\right\rfloor \right)*\left({\text{Train Difficulty}}+1\right)$

For example, winning a fight in carriage #148 on difficulty Hard with a win streak of 40 gives…

$\left(40+\left\lfloor {\frac {148}{10}}\right\rfloor \right)*\left(4+1\right)=\left(40+\left\lfloor 14.8\right\rfloor \right)*5=\left(40+14\right)*5=270$

…reward points.

When defeated in a battle carriage or claiming rewards, the win streak is reset to 0.

For each reward point obtained, you receive one Fused Material and one Metal when claiming rewards.

Encounters

Unique Monster

Unique monster encounters

Species		#	Type	Conditions
	Khepri	#116	Fire	Defeated at least one Khepri in the overworld.
	Averevoir	#117	Air	Defeated at least one Averevoir in the overworld.
	Glaistain	#118	Glass	Defeated at least one Glaistain in the overworld.
	Miss Mimic	#119	Metal	Defeated at least one Miss Mimic in the overworld.
	Anathema	#120	Beast	Defeated at least one Anathema in the overworld.
	Picksie	#128	Earth	Defeated at least one Picksie in the overworld.
	Umbrahella	#???	Poison	Requires DLC. Defeated at least one Umbrahella in the overworld.

Generic NPC

Generic NPC encounters

NPC	Tape 1	Tape 2	Tape 3	Tape 4	Tape 5
	Tape Conditions
Aristotle	Pyromeleon Fire	Coaldron Earth	Djinn Entonic Astral	Flapwoods Air	Gumbaal Metal
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Cultist	See below
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Darwin	Manispear Metal	Pyromeleon Fire	Plasmantler Lightning	Sharktanker Water	Smogmagog Fire
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Decartes	Galagor Astral	Djinn Entonic Astral	Ramtasm Astral	Adeptile Astral	Khufo Astral
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Diogenes	Pyromeleon Fire	Cat-5 Lightning	Fungogh Plant	Mardiusa Poison	Beanstalker Plant
	—			Difficulty 2	Difficulty 4
Epicurus	Kingrave Earth	Queenyx Earth	Apocrowlypse Poison	Smogmagog Fire	Ratcousel Plastic
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Karl	Blossomaw Plant	Robindam Plastic	Grampus Ice	Faerious Ice	Auriclaw Metal
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Landkeeper	See below
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Plato	Southpaw Metal	Adeptile Astral	Zeustrike Lightning	Fortiwinx Earth	Miasmodeus Poison
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Ranger	Same as monsters
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Socrates	Galagor Astral	Kirikuri Plant	Aeroboros Air	Hedgeherne Plant	Wyrmaw Earth
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5
Zhuangzi	Mothmanic Lightning	Tokusect Air	Mothmanic Fire	Tokusect Metal	Mothmanic Beast
	—		Difficulty 1	Difficulty 3	Difficulty 5

Cultist Spawn Profile

Possible Cultist tapes

Species		#	Type	Chance
	Jormungold	#008	Poison	5.3%
	Mardiusa	#009	Poison	10.5%
	Aeroboros	#010	Air	5.3%
	Miasmodeus	#016	Poison	5.3%
	Gumbaal	#018	Metal	5.3%
	Ramtasm	#021	Astral	5.3%
	Capricorpse	#023	Earth	5.3%
	Folklord	#029	Beast	5.3%
	Artillerex	#043	Fire	5.3%
	Apocrowlypse	#048	Poison	5.3%
	Thwackalope	#051	Air	5.3%
	Khufo	#053	Astral	5.3%
	Triphinx	#054	Metal	5.3%
	Pyromeleon	#060	Fire	5.3%
	Galagor	#079	Astral	5.3%
	Khepri	#116	Fire	5.3%
	Adeptile	#123	Astral	5.3%
	Wyrmaw	#125	Earth	5.3%

Portrait NPC

Portrait NPC encounters

NPC	Tape 1	Tape 2	Tape 3	Conditions
	Tape Conditions
Clémence	Beanstalker Plant	Djinn Entonic Astral	Coaldron Earth	—
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Dorian	Aeroboros Air	Wyrmaw Earth	Mourningstar	Encountered Mourningstar.
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Frankie	Shining Kuneko Astral	Spooki-onna Ice	Lobstacle Glitter	Completed Recruit Training: Frankie.
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Hoylake	Flapwoods Air	Triphinx Metal	Folklord Beast	Met Hoylake
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Jacqueline	Fountess Water	Jellyton Fire	Miss Mimic Metal	Encountered Mourningstar.
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Kirby	Same as monsters, with randomized types			Met Kirby.
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Kuneko	Kuneko Air			Encountered Kuneko.
	—
Travelling Merchant	Ratcousel Plastic	Grampus Ice	Picksie Earth	—
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Doctor Pensby	Blossomaw Plant	Adeptile Astral	Ramtasm Astral	—
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Sunny	Scampire Beast	Queenyx Earth	Mascotorn Plastic	Completed How Does It Feel.
	—	—	Difficulty 1
Vin	Jormungold Poison	Khufo Astral	Aeroboros Air	Completed Recruit Training: Vin.
	—	—	Difficulty 1

Ranger Captain

Full

Full Ranger Captain encounters

Encounter	NPC	Tape 1	Tape 2	Tape 3	Tape 4
		Tape Conditions
Captain Buffy	Buffy	Faerious Ice	Liligator Water	Galagor Astral	Anathema Beast
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Blossomaw Plant	Smogmagog Fire
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Clee-0	Clee-O	Khufo Astral	Triphinx Metal	Arkidd Lightning	Queenyx Earth
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Jormungold Poison	Jormungold Poison
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Codey	Codey	Arkidd Glitter	Artillerex Air	Aeroboros Glass	Fungogh Air
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Apocrowlypse Glass	Glaistain Glitter
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Cybil	Cybil	Sharktanker Astral	Zeustrike Lightning	Decibelle Glass	Smogmagog Glass
		Difficulty 2	—	—	Difficulty 1
	Ranger	Rockertrice Metal	Auriclaw Glass
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Penny Dreadful	Dreadful	Queenyx Earth	Ramtasm Astral	Djinn Entonic Astral	Spitzfyre Astral
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Southpaw Metal	Fortiwinx Astral
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Gladiola	Gladiola	Palangolin Metal	Cryoshear Ice	Glaistain Glass	Miss Mimic Metal
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Southpaw Metal	Ramtasm Ice
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Heather	Heather	Hedgeherne Plant	Aeroboros Air	Zeustrike Lightning	Khepri Air
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Spooki-onna Ice	Diveberg Ice
		—	Difficulty 1
Leader Ianthe	Ianthe	Gearyu Metal	Robindam Plastic	Folklord Beast	Anathema Beast
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Wilma	Djinn Entonic Astral	Decibelle Air
		—	—
Captain Judas	Judas	Manispear Metal	Jellyton Poison	Hedgeherne Plant	Robindam Plastic
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Blossomaw Plant	Galagor Astral
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Lodestein	Lodestein	Mothmanic Lightning	Plasmantler Lightning	Smogmagog Metal	Pinbolt Lightning
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Manispear Metal	Gearyu Metal
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Skip	Skip	Binterloper Plastic	Binterloper Water	Binterloper Plant	Binterloper Glitter
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Binterloper Plastic	Binterloper Astral
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Wallace	Wallace	Weevilite Plastic	Lobstacle Plastic	Fungogh Plant	Lobstacle Plant
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Fortiwinx Earth	Fortiwinx Earth
		—	Difficulty 1
Captain Zedd	Zedd	Djinn Entonic Astral	Galagor Astral	Fortiwinx Earth	Galagor Astral
		—	—	Difficulty 1	Difficulty 2
	Ranger	Artillerex Fire	Pyromeleon Fire
		—	Difficulty 1