Shiren 1 DS:Ravine of the Dead

Ravine of the Dead 死者の谷底
Information
Entrance Location	Janus Valley
Final Goal Floor	26
Total Floor Count	50/∞
Backtracking	No
Bring Items In	Yes
Bring Gitan In	Yes
Bring Adventure Allies In	4
Rescues	3
Number of Rescue Attempts	5
Characters
Pre-ID'd Items	Scrolls, Herbs, Riceballs
Visibility
Shops	None
Monster Houses	All floors: One room, Great Hall, Special
Gitan Vaults	No
Monster Spawn Rate	1 monster per 50 turns
The Winds of Kron	2,000 turns
Boss	None

The Ravine of the Dead (Japanese: 死者の谷底) is a challenging Post-credits dungeon that can be unlocked when you've finished the My Brother Pekeji (quest) and Bungee Jumping Quests. It's a challenging, 50 floor dungeon that requires you to save a sickly green Pekeji on your first trip through, He starts appearing on floor 26. Rescuing Pekeji will award you a Top Menu Icon. After you've cleared the dungeon for the first time, starting from floor 27 there will be a Transport Pattern on the floor as well as the stairs. This dungeon has only 50 numbered floors, though using the stairs on floor 50 will bring you to another floor 50, leading to potentially infinite floors. Monster spawns will appear in an alternating pattern.

Dungeon Strategies

This is not a dungeon you can simply run through when bored. If you're unlucky with Monster Houses, a 99+ Weapon and Shield is not enough to get you through unscathed. Monsters start at level 2, and go up to level 4. At the start of every new floor, equip and unequip a Trap Armband so that all fake staircases will disappear.

Dangerous Ability Monsters

• Rice Changer Family - Inflicts the 'Riceball' status on Shiren.
• Flying Fowl Family - Destroys inventory items
• Leech Worm Family - Depletes maximum Strength
• Cell Armor Family - Knocks equipped items away
• Field Bandit Family - Changes floor and inventory items into Weeds
• Gaze Family - Hypnotized Shiren, forcing random actions for the turn.
• Curse Girl Family - Curses inventory items.
• Ghost Radish Family - Causes various negative Status Abnormalities and decreases current Strength
• Green Slime Family - Removes Runes and rusts your Weapon and Shield
• Thiefwalrus Family - Steals items and warps away or disappears.

Monster Houses

• Monster Houses are extremely frequent. It's not uncommon for Great Hall Monster Houses to appear on multiple consecutive floors. Special Monster Houses are about 1 in 10 chance compared to normal and are full of specialized Monsters. An Antidrain Armband can be of use in Drain Houses.
• There are Air Devil Family monsters in the ravine which can make fighting monster houses 100% safer if you become Invisible using their meat.
• If you don't have an Armband of Sight to look out for small Monster Houses, the maximum number of monsters that can be on a floor is 19, so triggering a Summons Trap that fails to spawn any monsters or less than 3, may indicate the presence of a Monster House.

Monsters

• Bring a weapon with a Razor Wind seal. You don't want to be surrounded, let alone by multiple Cell Armor Family who will knock your equipment into oblivion before you can act.
• Have a way to neutralize the abilities of powerful enemies from a distance:
  • A Staff of Paralysis.
  • A Staff of Postpone is effective but you'll have to fight them again at the stairs. But that shouldn't be a problem if you're prepared for this dungeon.
  • A Doppelganger Staff can also work temporarily, but will definitely produce level 3 and 4 monsters.
• Sky Dragons, Ark Dragons, Oldster Tanks and Cranky Tanks, will destroy you from a distance if you don't have appropriate seals on your shield, and even so, much HP is required to endure a Cranky Tank's Double Speed and double attack, so grind up on early floors while the monsters are still docile.
• As an Inferno Family Monster Shiren is immune to fire damage, which can be effective against Ark and Sky Dragons. Cranky Tank cannons however, will cause the monster that Shiren is currently, to multiply, which will attack the player.
• While inside walls as a Pacorepkin Family or as a Death Angel or Death Master will prevent Sky Dragons and Ark Dragons from breathing homing fire at Shiren. Remember when exiting the wall, that Shiren is a monster and any seal will be inactive. If Monster-Shiren is hit by dragon fire they will take full fixed damage instead of half.
• Bring a vast collection of Chiropractic Jars, just don't let them get Cursed like everything else.
• Sleepless Armband are very common, and for good reason. But don't rely on finding one, be prepared and bring one along. With Sleep Radishes and Green Slime Family it's easy to get surrounded and stuck in a loop ever-decreasing equipment strength, and after a slow, 1 damage per turn death, there won't be any point to being Rescued because your equipment is now cursed and of -99 power with not seals left.
• Don't let a Roguewalrus take your items! They don't warp away to somewhere on the floor, they warp out of existence.

Traps

• 99% of stairs are traps so bring a Trap Armband or a Staff of Postpone that will last 50+ uses. Using Monster Meat to transform and examine the stairs underfoot gets very tedious when you're in a Monster House on the verge of death.
• There's only 9 types of Traps in Ravine of the Dead, and they are everywhere. All your best Items will be cursed in seconds, and without a Staff of Stability all your Jars will yield to Stumble Traps. Not to mention your Strength to Poison Dart Traps. Best solution is to bring a Trap Armband and not be affected by traps, rather than endure their effects.

Highly recommended Runes

Weapon	Icon	Usage	Shield	Icon	Usage
Crescent Arm		Dangerous Exploding-type monsters.	Blast Shield		Oldster Tank and Cranky Tank explosions.
Dragonkiller		Defeating Dragon-type Monsters efficiently.	Dragonward		Sky Dragon, Ark Dragon and Hell Dragon fire.
Sickle Slayer		Many Ghost-type monsters	Walrus Shield		Roguewalrus thefts are permanent.
Razor Wind		Many monsters have abilities, do not become surrounded.	Hide Shield		Riceballs are uncommon and if Monster Meat cannot be created.
Air Slayer		Many Floating-type monsters.
Bufu's Cleaver		Useful monster abilities and avoiding Traps.

Monsters

Sprites	Monster		Floors	Experience
	English	Japanese
	Air Devil	エーテルデビル	1 - 2	30
	Master Hen	マスターチキン	1 - 2	400
	Hen	チキン	1 - 2	1
	Purple Slime	ゲドロ	1 - 3	40
	Chainhead	チェインヘッド	1 - 3	200
	Pacorepkina	パコレプキーナ	1 - 3	250
	Mistonos	ミストノス	1 - 4	300
	N'Bama	ンバマ	1 - 25	250
	Evil General	将軍	1 - 25	60
	Dead General	将軍ゾンビ	1 - 25	25
	Dragon Head	ドラゴンヘッド	2 - 4	650
	Dragon	ドラゴン	2 - 4	1,300
	Running Egg	逃げピータン	3 - 5	15
	Super Gaze	スーパーゲイズ	3 - 6	150
	Minotaur	ミノタウロス	3 - 6	400
	Killer Gather	キラーギャザー	3 - 6	600
	Item Bandit	物荒らし	4 - 6	300
	Blazepuff	カエンポフ	4 - 7	220
	Dadster Tank	ガンコ戦車	4 - 7	300
	Tiger Uhoho	タイガーウホホ	4 - 7	550
	Rice Boss	妖怪にぎり親方	5 - 8	200
	Madremlas	マッドレムラス	5 - 8	800
	Flying Egg	飛びぴーたん	6 - 10	50
	Shadow Eye	カゲウッチー	7 - 10	300
	Sleep Radish	ねむり大根	7 - 10	500
	Curse Mom	ノロージョの母	7 - 10	600
	Tengu Chief	天狗師匠	7 - 13	150
	Wraith Devil	ファントムデビル	8 - 11	150
	Death Angel	死神	8 - 11	700
	Spike Blast	ばくれつウニ	9 - 12	100
	Skull Wraith	ガイコツまおう	9 - 12	350
	Piggo	デブーチョ	9 - 12	500
	Steel Armor	チタンアーマー	9 - 12	2,000
	Sky Dragon	スカイドラゴン	10 - 13	2,600
	Ironwalrus	アイアントド	11 - 14	150
	Hover Fowl	バババペンペン	11 - 14	250
	Grey Slime	オドロ	11 - 20	200
	Cave Mamel	洞窟マムル	12 - 15	800
	Great Hen	グレートチキン	12 - 15	1,500
	Hen	チキン	12 - 15	1
	Electroid	エレキロイド	12 - 15	1,700
	Leech Fly	吸引成虫	13 - 17	700
	Verginos	ヴェルギノス	15 - 19	650
	Gigahead	ギガヘッド	15 - 19	1,200
	Megataur	メガタウロス	15 - 19	1,750
	Pacorepking	パコレプキング	15 - 20	750
	Oldster Tank	イッテツ戦車	15 - 20	1,800
	Mirage Devil	ミラージュデビル	16 - 20	400
	Mist Hermit	かすみ仙人	16 - 20	1,000
	Hell Gather	ヘルギャザー	16 - 20	1,500
	Hardremlas	ハードレムラス	16 - 21	1,600
	Infernopuff	ゴオオポフ	20 - 24	900
	Hyper Gaze	ハイパーゲイズ	20 - 25	800
	Dirt Dragon	スルードラゴン	20 - 25	1,200
	Ark Dragon	アークドラゴン	20 - 31	4,000
	Spike Fire	ふんかウニ	21 - 25	450
	Trove Bandit	大物荒らし	21 - 30	600
	Tiger Uhon	タイガーウホーン	22 - 27	1,300
	Piggora	デブートン	23 - 30	2,100
	Tengu Elder	天狗開祖	24 - 30	400
	Fear Eye	ミダレウッチー	26 - 35	800
	Death Master	冥王	26 - 35	3,000
	Bioroid	バイオロイド	26 - 50	2,800
	N'Balun	ンバルーン	26 - 50	600
	Evil Shogun	大将軍	26 - 50	400
	Dead Shogun	大将軍ゾンビ	26 - 50	300
	Hiding Egg	隠れぴーたん	27 - 35	300
	Curse Gran	ノロージョの婆	27 - 35	1,500
	Alloy Armor	メタルアーマー	28 - 37	3,600
	Fear Radish	みだれ大根	29 - 33	1,300
	Pacorepgod	パコレプゴッド	30 - 36	2,300
	Red Slime	チドロ	30 - 38	600
	Fallen Gather	フォールギャザー	30 - 50	4,000
	Skull Demon	ガイコツまてん	31 - 38	2,000
	Miracle Hen	ミラクルチキン	31 - 40	3,200
	Hen	チキン	31 - 40	1
	Rice Master	妖怪にぎり元締	31 - 50	1,500
	Cranky Tank	ヘンクツ戦車	33 - 50	3,500
	Spike Erupt	だいふんかウニ	34 - 38	1,100
	Leech Queen	吸引老虫	34 - 41	950
	Heavyremlas	ヘビーレムラス	35 - 44	4,200
	Showpin	ショーパン	35 - 50	400
	Jet Fowl	ゴゴゴペンペン	36 - 40	1,100
	Deathhead	デスヘッド	36 - 43	3,000
	Roguewalrus	ローグトド	36 - 50	400
	Cloud Hermit	もや仙人	38 - 50	2,200
	Gigataur	ギガタウロス	38 - 50	4,200
	Hell Dragon	アビスドラゴン	39 - 50	7,000
	Ultra Gaze	ウルトラゲイズ	40 - 50	2,000
	Piggaron	デブーゴン	41 - 47	3,500
	Tiger Uboho	タイガーウボッホ	44 - 50	2,400
	Earth Dragon	ふくりゅう	44 - 50	3,800
	Red Slime	チドロ	45 - 50	600
	Astral Devil	アストラルデビル	45 - 50	700
	Gitan Mamel	ギタンマムル	45 - 50	2,000
	Swordgator	ソードゲータ	46 - 50	2,800

Special Monster Houses

Type:	Monster Level
	All
One-Eye House	1 - 50
Ghost House	1 - 50
Drain House	1 - 50
Sky House	1 - 50
Power House	1 - 50

Items

Weapons		Shields		Armbands		Projectiles		Riceballs
English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese
Homing Blade	必中の剣	Gaze Shield	ゲイズの盾	Armband of Calm	サビよけの腕輪			Rotten Riceball	くさったおにぎり
Minotaur's Axe	ミノタウロスの斧	Prism Shield	プリズムの盾	Rustless Armband	サビよけの腕輪			Big Riceball	大きなおにぎり
				Antidote Armband	毒よけの腕輪			Riceball	おにぎり
				Antidrain Armband	ドレインよけの腕輪			Giant Riceball※	巨大なおにぎり
				Sleepless Armband	眠りよけの腕輪
Herbs		Jars		Staves		Scrolls		Shop
English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese
Herb of Sight	めぐすり草	Jar of Hiding	やりすごしの壺	Pain Sharing Staff	痛み分けの杖	Scroll of Blessing	おはらいの巻物
Antidote Herb	毒消し草	Chiropractic Jar	背中の壺	Staff of Postpone	一時しのぎの杖	Earth Bless Scroll	地の恵みの巻物
Medicinal Herb	薬草	Storehouse Jar	倉庫の壺	Staff of Paralysis	かなしばりの杖	Air Bless Scroll	天の恵みの巻物
Big Belly Seed	胃拡張の種			Staff of Stability	ころばぬ先の杖
Herb of Life	命の草			Staff of Sloth	鈍足の杖
Restorative Herb	弟切草			Switching Staff	場所がえの杖
Herb of Strength	ちからの草			Doppelganger Staff	身がわりの杖
				Lightning Staff	雷光の杖

※ Monster drop

Traps

Sprite	Trap		Floor
	English	Japanese
	Stumble Trap	転び石のワナ	1 - 50
	Alarm Trap	警報スイッチのワナ	1 - 50
	Summons Trap	召喚スイッチのワナ	1 - 50
	Slowness Trap	鈍足スイッチ	1 - 50
	Poison Dart Trap	毒矢のワナ	1 - 50
	Landmine Trap	地雷のワナ	1 - 50
	Big Landmine Trap	大型地雷のワナ	1 - 50
	Riceball Trap	おにぎり	1 - 50
	Curse Trap	呪いのワナ	1 - 50
	Stairway Trap	階段のワナ	1 - 50

References

• Gabikun's FAQ on monsters in GameFAQs.
• Monster Spawn Table info.
• Monster spawn, trap and special monster house info.