How Many Buddies Does the Royal Rat Vanguard Have?

[Dawnminatrix]

So I was attempting to farm corpse rats for warmth and I figured the best place to do that was the RRV. After the first attempt Iearned that he doesn't have infinite friends, so how many does he have? I did some testing and here are the results (I never got warmth btw, or anything for that matter).

> Btw the formula I used to get these numbers is: (Final souls - Initial souls) / 70*
*Number of souls each rat gives

Trial 1:
Total Rats = 108

Trial 2:
T.R. = 106

Trial 3:
T.R = 108

Trial 4:
T.R. = 114.5 (Idk what happened here)

Trial 5:
T.R. = 109

Note: These tests were done in NG

So what do these numbers tell us? Nothing really. Did we learn any useful information? Not really. The only thing we really learned from this is that there seems to always be more than 100 rats, and that there isn't infinite of them. I don't know what causes the numbers to differ (especially in the case of the 114.5). I made sure to check all the spawn points (except the holes in the ceiling, can't look that high) because some rats got stuck in them sometimes, as seen in the screenshot below. I also waited for awhile after it appeared the rats had stopped spawning, just to make sure no more showed up.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/608349439288932934/6DECB81F3E0CADBAE214DEA897C11FF19E6816B9/

[Dawnminatrix]

Btw I went and farmed the rats outside the boss room after this, they dropped items and warmth (yay). I guess the rats in the boss room don't have drops.

[TrueArchery]

1) I don't think the boss room rats can drop warmth. I got plenty stacks outside tho.
2) this analysis is pretty pointless, noone is interested in the results. Why should you keep killing a hundred rats (who apparently don't drop anything) if only a couple of them is enough to spawn the boss?
3) there is no screenshot linked.

[Dawnminatrix]

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

1) I don't think the boss room rats can drop warmth. I got plenty stacks outside tho.
2) this analysis is pretty pointless, noone is interested in the results. Why should you keep killing a hundred rats (who apparently don't drop anything) if only a couple of them is enough to spawn the boss?
3) there is no screenshot linked.

1.) Learned that a few minutes ago.
2.) I know, and I was curious myself and shared it because why not?
3.) Thanks, forgot to link it.

[EagleWiz]

My guess would be that they keep spawning rats until you kill 100 - at which point theres usually 6-9 rats left.

[Dawnminatrix]

Maybe, that 114.5 though

[CloudSeeker]

Its inifinite as far as I know. You need to kill 30 before he spawn I think. Btw. Soul Appease makes that boss into a joke. All rats counts as hollows.

[Dawnminatrix]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Its inifinite as far as I know. You need to kill 30 before he spawn I think. Btw. Soul Appease makes that boss into a joke. All rats counts as hollows.

It's not though, thats the whole point of this experiment...
And it's ten for the boss to spawn

[Fabshin]

Originally posted by Shrub Lord:

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

1) I don't think the boss room rats can drop warmth. I got plenty stacks outside tho.
2) this analysis is pretty pointless, noone is interested in the results. Why should you keep killing a hundred rats (who apparently don't drop anything) if only a couple of them is enough to spawn the boss?
3) there is no screenshot linked.

1.) Learned that a few minutes ago.
2.) I know, and I was curious myself and shared it because why not?
3.) Thanks, forgot to link it.

1.) Good to know, thx op
2.) FOR SCIENCE

[Dawnminatrix]

Exactly