Free fights
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There are three basic ways to end a combat without it costing a turn. These are
- free runaways (omitted from this list on purpose, see Run Away for more information),
- fights against certain monsters (hereafter free fights), and
- certain methods to insta-kill monsters (hereafter free kills; insta-kill types that cost turns are omitted on purpose).
Free fights and free kills are limited in various ways. One of the most important ways to bypass free fight limits is copying and/or turning a free fight monster into a wanderer. Having access to a fax machine (or a Rain Man) or a genie bottle (or pocket wishes) also obviates the need for a lot of free fights' original sources.
Free fights
| Free fights (specific mobs) | limit? | source |
|---|---|---|
| lynyrd | 3/day | using a lynyrd snare |
| Infernal Seals | 5 or 10/day | variety of items; must be Seal Clubber for 5, must also have Claw of the Infernal Seal in inventory for 10. |
| BRICKO monsters | 10/day | BRICKO bricks; can copy additional oozes or bats |
| drunk pygmy | 11/day | with Bowl of Scorpions in inventory, fight ends instantly If you equip a miniature crystal ball on the 11th drunk pygmy, you can then fight a 12th pygmy before encountering tumbleweeds. |
| dense liana | 15/ascension | with machete equipped as weapon, fight ends instantly |
| Hipster monsters | 7/day | must have Mini-Hipster active, shares counter with Artistic Goth Kid; can copy for more |
| Black Crayon monsters | 7/day | must have Artistic Goth Kid active, shares counter with Mini-Hipster; can copy for more |
| DMT fights | 5/day | must have Machine Elf active, can only be in the DMT (DMT monsters by default, but can be any wanderer) |
| X-32-F Combat Training Snowman | 10/day | must have a Snojo |
| Witchess pieces | 5/day | must have a Witchess Set; can copy for more |
| Protonic accelerator pack ghosts | delay of 50 adventures in-between | must have either protonic accelerator pack equipped or used almost-dead walkie-talkie to receive location and start counter |
| Eldritch Tentacle | variable | casting Evoke Eldritch Horror (1/day) Fighting a tentacle for science in A Science Tent after the Sssschmuck finale (1/day) Eldritch Attunement effect will summon 1 tentacle after almost every non-tentacle fight as long as you have at least 1 turn of Attument remaining by the end of the fight |
| Time-spinner prank | 6/day | getting pranked by another player with a Time-Spinner; not available in Ronin/HC |
| Giant rubber spider | delay of 10-20 adventures in-between | having a rubber spider used against you by another player; not available in Ronin/HC |
| L.O.V. Enemies | 3/day | must have the Tunnel of L.O.V.E. or use a LOV Entrance Pass |
| God Lobster | 3/day | must have a God Lobster active, or use a Dish of Clarified Butter |
| Partygoers from The Neverending Party | 10/day | must have used a Neverending Party invitation envelope. The partygoers do not have to be fought in the party zone itself to count as free fights. The scheduled noncombat will also take up 1 charge After the daily limit, the partygoers cease to be free fights. The fights are not free if access is acquired with a Neverending Party guest pass. |
| Vote Monsters | 3/day | Must have an "I Voted!" sticker equipped on the scheduled encounters. The scheduled encounters take place each adventure after your total lifetime turncount modulo 11 equals 1 (similar to the Lights Out encounters). After the first 3 encounters, the monsters become un-free. |
| Sausage goblin | Theoretically unlimited | Must have a Kramco Sausage-o-Matic™ equipped. Encounter chance decreases for each goblin encountered, the number of goblins that can be encountered per day is theoretically unlimited but will typically not be more than 23. |
| Trick or Treat! | 5/Halloween or 1/day with a map to a candy-rich block | The dark houses provide free fights, and the 1st block is free. Subsequent blocks cost 5 advs, but the fights are still free. |
| %monster% | 1/day | Use URL manipulation to "eat" a [glitch season reward name] (not consumed). |
| piranha plant | 1/day or 5/day | Must have Your Mushroom Garden as your garden. 5/day only in Path of the Plumber. <br\> If combined with Portscan and Macrometeorite, an additional 3 piranha plants can be fought each day. |
| Cargo Cultist Shorts monsters | 1/day | Fight a variety of monsters by picking the right pocket (1/day, must own Cargo Cultist Shorts, only 28 available in one ascension), or use either of the five elemental desk bells from the Cargo Cultist Shorts. |
| void guy, slab, spider | 5/day | Encountered with a cursed magnifying glass equipped (see mechanics there); can be copied/wished but the 6th and subsequent fights are non-free |
| An Unusually Quiet Barroom Brawl | 3/day | Must have used a Deed to Oliver's Place, the first 3 speakeasy fights become free, but can be any wanderer |
| Shadow Affinity | 11/day or more | Combats in a Shadow Rift zone cost 1 duration of this effect instead of an adventure, the effect is extendable |
| Shadow Rift bosses | unlimited? | shadow cauldron, shadow matrix, shadow orrery, shadow scythe, shadow spire, shadow tongue are inherently free fights, but require 11 visits to a Shadow Rift to encounter |
| Cats from the august scepter skill | 1/day | casting Aug. 8th: Cat Day! leads to a free fight with a random cat |
| Tooth Golem from the august scepter skill | 1/day | casting Aug. 22nd: Tooth Fairy Day! leads to a free fight with a Tooth Golem, but its copies are not free |
Free kills
| Free kills (specific methods) | limit? | type | remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chest X-Ray | 3/day | combat skill | must have a Lil' Doctor™ bag equipped |
| Shattering Punch | 3/day | combat skill | Snojo skill, tradable |
| Replica bat-oomerang | 3/day | combat item | Batfellow content, costs at least one Batfellow comic, untradable |
| Fire the Jokester's Gun | 1/day | combat skill | must have The Jokester's gun equipped (Batfellow content, tradable) |
| Power pill | 20/day | combat item | must have Puck Man and/or Ms. Puck Man |
| Nuclear stockpile | 10/day | combat item | only usable during Crimbo 2015 |
| Glark cable | 5/day | combat item | against any non-instakillable mobs in The Red Zeppelin |
| Lightning Strike | 20 Lightning per cast | combat skill | only available in Heavy Rains, costs path-specific Lightning resource |
| Gingerbread Mob Hit | 1/day | combat skill | Gingerbread City leaderboard reward skill, tradable skillbook |
| Superduperheated metal | unlimited | combat item | can only be obtained through the mall or 1/day in The Bubblin' Caldera |
| Daily Affirmation: Think Win-Lose | unlimited | combat item | can only be obtained through the mall or from the New-You Club Membership Form |
| Asdon Martin: Missile Launcher | 1/day | combat skill | must have Asdon Martin installed in your workshed; instantly forces all items to drop like a Yellow Ray; costs 100 "fuel" |
| Use the Force, %playername! | 5/day | combat skill | must have a Fourth of May Cosplay Saber equipped and select "You will drop your things and walk away." in the subsequent Using the Force choice adventure. Note that this does not end the combat with a win but rather in the manner of a rollover runaway. |
| Powdered madness | 5/day | combat item | can only be obtained through the mall or from the Red-Nosed Snapper |
| Shocking Lick | unlimited? | combat skill | gain 1 charge per use of battery (9-Volt), battery (lantern), or battery (car); instantly forces all items to drop |
| Breathitin™ | 5/charge | spleen item | takes 2 spleen space, makes next 5 outdoor fights free, can only be obtained through the mall or from the Cold Medicine Cabinet |
| carnivorous potted plant | unlimited | equipment | has a 4% chance to trigger a free kill when equipped |
| Spit jurassic acid | unlimited, but blocked by Everything Looks Yellow | combat skill | must have a Jurassic Parka equipped and set to the dilophosaur mode; is a Yellow Ray |
| groveling gravel | unlimited? | combat item | forfeits item drops, but not stats or meat. |
| shadow brick | 13/day | combat item | does disappointing damage against monsters that are immune |
Path-specific shenanigans
| Path-specific shenanigans | path |
|---|---|
| Optimal monsters in OCRS | One Crazy Random Summer while in Hardcore/Ronin |
| Source Agent explosions | The Source; the exploded monsters do not take a turn but the agent fights do; but agents can be exploded as well via auto-attacking with portscan |
| Short-Range Jetpack | License to Adventure; 5% chance of activating after combat, can activate after an already free fight (accomplishing nothing) |
Notes
- On January 1st, 2018, the meat drop from free fights and kills was capped at 1000.
There's a lot of Meat here, but you're in too big of a hurry to grab more than 1,000 of it.
- Some time after the release of the Protonic accelerator pack (?), free fights were changed to cost a turn if they were lost; currently the only free fights that continue to not cost a turn when they are lost are to Sssshhsssblllrrggghsssssggggrrgglsssshhssslblgl (whom you always lose to), and the L.O.V. Enemies.
