Is Monster Compendium book that rare

[MoneyLovesProfits]

I spent 2 months mostly killing monsters in the dangerous caves and it still didn't drop once. I already got all the other books

[Deffy]

It's pretty damn rare. The droprate would need to be datamined through. I got it twice over the course of one year and a half. I always use the burglar ring and used monster musk a lot.

Sorry, I edited my post

[MoneyLovesProfits]

Originally posted by Deffy:

It's pretty damn rare. The droprate would need to be datamined through.

I got 3 galaxy souls and 35 Qi coin thingys from monsters before this book, it's crazy grindy

[electricphoenix]

i dunno, it's the first book i got on my new playthrough so it's random (shrugs)

[NBOX21]

That was the first book I got as soon as I started 1.6, inside the volcano gathering Cinder Shards on my way to the top.

[TwistedChaos4428]

I was just killing those caterpillar slugs in the sewer swamp and it dropped. Didn't even know about books at the time, it was my first one. From the looks of the replies it's your first or last book I guess.

[nanami]

try slaughtering dust sprites they spawn a lot more now

[MoneyLovesProfits]

Originally posted by nanami:

try slaughtering dust sprites they spawn a lot more now

i kill jelly guys on 45-50 levels that are dust sprites Qi mines alternative i tihnk

[Shrub]

That was my first book, day 2 or 3 in mines

[MoneyLovesProfits]

3 months of monster killing, still no book. My hands hurt from spamming sword, i'm gonna wait until they fix this book or something

[Útost Alronbem]

I believe I got my Monster Compendium from either trees or Qi lootboxes I've got from trees.
It's early Autumn, year 1, on my fresh save.
I was cleaning up the farm and drying peppers mostly. Only did rare occasional runs in Mine just to grab enough ore for next upgrade. I didn't even got all scrolls yet.

[Clive]

I must have gotten 4-5 of those books already, didn't know it's that rare.

[ExecutiveOdin]

It was the first book I found when starting a new game on 1.6 pretty much as soon as I started clearing trees.
Then I started over for whatever reason and it was the first book I found again, also early about a dozen-ish floors into the mine?

[Crater]

It is very likely similar to jewel of the sea in that it won't drop at level 2-4. Not sure what the precise level is, maybe around 7. For Jewel of the Sea I've consistently gotten it before level 10 fishing 3 times, but never at low level fishing.

People should try to control for other variables rather than just say "oh yeah it's rare". Well if your combat is at level 4, and then eventually you hit level 7, the book will *seem* rare.

[MoneyLovesProfits]

I'm at master 5 and opened more than 50 golden mystery boxes

[Crater]

Originally posted by Pickle Jr.:

I'm at master 5 and opened more than 50 golden mystery boxes

I'm talking about the monster compendium as a drop from monsters. The test to what I said doesn't have to do with boxes, it would be to get the drop at low combat level.

I got mine at combat 5-6, the day I achieved that level. And again with fishing I noticed it 3 times on 3 new runs. They appear in chests after you pass a certain level (I presume 5 or 6)