Bestiary/Lava Lizard

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Lava Lizard

General
Type	Animal (reptile)
Category	Reptiles & serpents
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−3,000
Fame	3,000
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	126–150
Dexterity	56–75
Intelligence	11–20
Hit points	76–90
Stamina	56–75
Mana	0
Damage	6–24
Armor	40
Taming
Tameable	Yes
Min. skill	80.7
Control slots	1
Bondable	Yes
Rideable	No
Favorite food	Metal or gold
Resources
Carving	12 spined hides

The Lava Lizard is a fire-breathing lizard that attacks on sight. It needs 80.7 Animal Taming, eats metal or gold, and taming them has its own New Bradford achievement.

Overview

• In-game name: a lava lizard
• Corpse: a lava lizard corpse
• Looks: every lava lizard spawns in one of six fiery colors.
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	126–150
Dexterity	56–75
Intelligence	11–20
Hit points	76–90
Stamina	56–75 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	0
Melee damage	6–24
Armor rating	40
Fame / Karma	3,000 / −3,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Tactics	60.1–80.0
Wrestling	60.1–80.0
Magic Resistance	55.1–70.0

Abilities

Fire breath

The lava lizard breathes fire at its target.

• Chance: 50% each time it gets a chance to act in combat, then it waits 30–45 seconds before it can breathe again.
• Damage: 5% of the lava lizard's current hit points (a full-health lava lizard deals about 3–4). A wounded lava lizard's breath does less damage.
• Range: it needs line of sight to you, and it can reach as far as it can see.
• It stands still for about a second while it breathes.
• A peacemade (pacified) lava lizard can't breathe fire.
• A tamed lava lizard keeps its fire breath and uses it for you.

Taming

Requirement	Value
Minimum Animal Taming	80.7 (below this you have no chance)
Control slots	1
Maximum owners	5 (each previous owner makes it harder to tame)
Bonding	Yes
Rideable	No
Favorite food	Metal or gold

• Success chance. For a first-time tame, your chance of success at the end of an attempt is about 39% at 100.0 skill, and it improves as your skill rises. Every previous owner adds 6 points to the difficulty.
• Don't hurt it. If it takes any damage during your attempt, taming fails with "The animal is too angry to continue taming."
• Stay close. You must stay within 6 tiles of it and keep a clear path to it.
• Obedience. Once tamed, how often it obeys depends on your Animal Taming and Animal Lore (taming counts four times as much as lore). With both at 80.7 it obeys about 70% of the time, and at about 85.6 it reaches the 99% maximum. Below 80.7 the chance drops quickly, to as low as 22%.
• Re-taming. If you've owned this one before, taming it again always succeeds ("That wasn't even challenging.").
• After its first tame, its skills drop to 90% of their wild values, or 86% if it was paralyzed while you tamed it. Its stats don't drop.

Bonding

Only the owner can bond with a lava lizard, and they need at least 80.7 Animal Taming (base skill). Feed it to start bonding, then feed it again after 7 days to finish. When you see "Your pet has bonded with you!", it's done.

New Bradford achievement

Every lava lizard you tame counts toward the Tame 100 Lava Lizards goal in your Achievements. Only your first tame of each lava lizard counts. Re-taming one you've owned before doesn't.

Loot

Every lava lizard carries:

• 4–13 Sulfurous Ash
• Gold: about 30–75 in total (from its "Meager" loot)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor, shield or jewelry (up to 2 chances, from about 1% down to 0.2% each)
• A musical instrument (well under 1%: about 0.1%)

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 12 spined hides

Location

• The Deceit brazier: double-clicking it from within 2 tiles summons one creature picked at random from a list of about 90, and this is one of them. The brazier warns players who step next to it ("Heed this warning well, and use this brazier at your own peril"). It works once every 15 minutes and places the creature within 5 tiles. The summoned creature is set to attack the closest target, even if it would normally leave you alone, and it stays within 5 tiles of the brazier.

Tips

• It attacks on sight, so be ready to fight while you tame.
• At 100.0 skill each attempt has about a 39% chance.
• Its favorite foods are metal and gold, not meat.
• Its damage range is wide (6–24) and its armor is high (40).
• Taming 100 of them earns the Tame 100 Lava Lizards achievement.
• Its corpse carries sulfurous ash, a reagent.