Bestiary/Kraken

« Back to the Bestiary

Kraken

General
Type	Sea monster
Category	Sea creatures
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−11,000
Fame	11,000
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	756–780
Dexterity	226–245
Intelligence	26–40
Hit points	454–468
Stamina	226–245
Mana	0
Damage	19–33
Armor	50
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Kraken is a giant squid that grabs at sailors with its tentacles. It has no spells and no breath, but it hits hard, and it always carries a special fishing net that can raise more sea monsters.

Overview

• In-game name: a kraken
• Corpse: a krakens corpse
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• Water only: it swims and can't leave the water.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	756–780
Dexterity	226–245
Intelligence	26–40
Hit points	454–468
Stamina	226–245 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	0
Melee damage	19–33
Armor rating	50
Fame / Karma	11,000 / −11,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Tactics	45.1–60.0
Wrestling	45.1–60.0
Magic Resistance	15.1–20.0

Special behaviors

• It has no mana, so it's a pure melee fighter.
• Its pack always holds a special fishing net, a rope, and a 5% chance of a message in a bottle. If it was raised by a net there's another 20% chance of a bottle.

Special fishing nets

Special fishing nets come from deep-water fishing (80 Fishing or more), from krakens' packs and from sunken SOS treasure chests (an ancient SOS gives a fabled net instead).

• Double-click the net in your backpack and target water within 6 tiles that you can see.
• A normal net needs deep water with open sea around it: the target tile and the tiles out to 25 steps away along both diagonals must all be open water.
• The net sinks over about 17 seconds, then the monsters surface within 2 tiles of it and attack you.
• Special net: 1–3 monsters (2–5 for the rare coloured nets). Fabled net: 4 more than that, plus a leviathan.
• Each monster is one of: sea serpent, deep sea serpent, water elemental or kraken (equal odds). A kraken raised this way has an extra 20% chance to carry a message in a bottle.

Loot

Every kraken carries:

• Gold: about 260–350 in total (from its "Rich" loot)
• a special fishing net
• a rope

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 3 chances, from about 20% down to 1% each)
• A musical instrument (about 1% or less)
• a message in a bottle (5%; another 20% if a net raised it)
• A level 4 treasure map (1% chance)

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Location

• Special fishing nets: casting a special fishing net in deep water raises 1–3 sea monsters (2–5 if the net is one of the rare 1-in-100 coloured ones). Each is picked at random with equal odds: sea serpent, deep sea serpent, water elemental or kraken. A fabled fishing net raises 4 more than that, plus a leviathan. Every monster raised by a net goes straight for the person who cast it.

Tips

• Every kraken you kill gives you another special fishing net, so a strong fisher can chain nets: each net can raise more krakens, and each kraken carries another net.
• It only fights in melee and can't leave the water, so archers and mages on a boat can fight it from a distance.
• It drops a level 4 treasure map.