Community:Shiren 5 2020 Dungeon Tips

This guide will focus on the Shiren 5 dungeons that don't let you take items or Gitan in, such as Primordial Chasm and Master's Footprint, although some of these tips apply to all dungeons in general.

Dungeon Tips - Basic

Go slow

Think through every option as monsters don't take an action until you do, check inventory, look around function

Diagonal movement

efficient, often the correct choice strategically, minimize # of tiles stepped on

Using corridors

Retreat into corridor instead of fighting them in an open room, esp with mosnter house

Dealing with being surrounded

Escape items (Warp Grass, Invincible Grass, Confusion / Fear / Slumber scroll, Pinning Staff, Clone Staff, Talismans)

Dealing with monster house

Slow down and look around, assess risk (Fearabbits), escape / retreat to corridor, Check for traps inside monster house, esp small ones, upgrade seed, grand hall monster houses

Using projectiles

Projectiles, Set function

Food management

Peaches, Preservation Pot, Grilled Onigiri

Night strategy

Torches, Peaches, Stairlight and Pot Party (how to obtain)

Dungeon Tips - Advanced

Synthesis and Mixing

Main article: Improving items) short summary here. what to do on Mixer floors

Price check and identification

main article: identifying items) short summary here. mass identification, when it is safe to use unidentified grasses and scrolls, price of Synthesis Pot, Revival Grass, Undo Grass and Identify Scroll, identifying Preservation Pot and Synthesis Pot, what to put in an Identify Pot (bracelets -> grasses / scrolls), bracelets to look for

Using Traps

Strip Trap, Arrow Trap, using Karakuroids

Stealing from shops

Zalokleft Pot, Black Hole Pot, items that help with theft

Delving

accumulating / improving your build vs delving, items that help with delving (mostly escape items)

Tips regarding specific items or monsters

Blank Scroll

Dodger Pot

Blessing Pot / Blessing Scroll

Quick hitting rune

Metalhead, Pop Tank, Hopodile

Mudkin, Swordsmen