Monsters and drops
Compare monster stats and drops. Dataset labels alone do not establish Thai-era behavior.
Scope and reading notes
The local download has now been decoded beyond the original samples. See downloaded AEGIS material for Alpha maps, offline database exports, full workbook extraction and the remaining outside-evidence gaps. These are candidate inputs; their presence does not establish Thai effective dates.
This reference follows recovery, EXP, monsters, drops and consumables from the international Alpha/Beta preludes through Thailand’s last pre-Renewal era. It supports the developer and player notes attached to each patch. Thai beta’s natural HP/SP recovery formulas remain unresolved. Original Thai operator guides now supply passive-skill tables, but their publication and effective dates are unknown. Historical formulas below are candidates or observations of particular emulator revisions, with their scope stated beside them.
The timeline ledger owns patch dates and Episode labels. A guide’s publication date, an archive capture, a scheduled maintenance and a confirmed deployment are different events. Content can arrive before or after its associated balance change. Thai-language coverage of an English or Korean server does not establish a Thai release.
Monster stats and drops
RagnaDB exposes episode-labelled datasets, but the inspected bundle supplies no beta-specific monster dataset or authenticated Thai distribution. Its Episode-1 candidate is attributed to a December 2002 archive; later sets include reconstructed packs. Those labels are provenance leads. The extracted candidate records retain their attribution and raw fields.
| Monster | Episode-1 candidate HP / BaseEXP / JobEXP | Pinned modern pre-Renewal HP / BaseEXP / JobEXP |
|---|---|---|
| Poring | 50 / 2 / 1 | 50 / 2 / 1 |
| Fabre | 63 / 3 / 2 | 63 / 3 / 2 |
| Mummy | 4837 / 717 / 448 | 5176 / 800 / 602 |
| Doppelganger | 12000 / 10680 / 3872 | 249000 / 51480 / 10725 |
| Savage | 1901 / 357 / 226 | 2092 / 521 / 248 |
The selective differences rule out reproducing this candidate with one universal EXP or HP multiplier. They also require combat attributes, race/size/element, AI, skills, movement/attack timing and spawn records to be compared alongside rewards.
Several import traps remain:
- A field called
MaxAtkcan be smaller thanMinAtk: candidate Mummy has 328/55, while historical Athena stores endpoints 328/383. Base-plus-spread is a plausible interpretation, not yet an authenticated schema. - A sampled Episode-8.2 dataset gives Poring EXP 14/7 rather than 2/1. Its sevenfold difference has no established cause; normalization would conceal the uncertainty.
- Preserve repeated item drop slots and zero-rate placeholders in raw evidence. A map keyed only by item ID loses slot structure; whether slots roll independently still requires implementation evidence.
- Raw rates need their denominator, inclusive/exclusive random comparison, clamps, server multipliers, bonuses, steal rules, MVP ordering and loot-ownership timers. Equal stored numbers can produce different effective behavior.
The Thai announcement mirror reports a tenfold Poring-card increase in the early rebalance. It does not establish the absolute before/after rates or justify a global tenfold card increase. Veins coverage likewise warns that Thai boss HP may already have changed. Retain these as individual change claims until the affected tables are recovered.
Official Rachel quest and boss values
Two newly recovered operator guides add specific values to the Rachel chapter. Their pages have no publication dates; archive captures on June 28 and July 4, 2007 establish only when these copies existed. They do not settle the Thai 11.1 launch date or establish earlier beta values.
| Operator guide | Values printed | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Quest 373: Ice Necklace | Hammer[2] ×1, Rough Wind ×5, Empty Scroll ×1; four Freezing Snow Powder when helping Maheo, then 700,000 EXP on returning the necklace to Urstialla. Mohadian buys Glacial Heart for 375 zeny each. | EXP is not labelled Base/Job; no minimum level is stated in the readable guide. The website uses airplane.gat as an explicit placeholder because its map list lacks Rachel. |
| Quest 380: Ktullanux | Complete the preceding quest and use four powders. The four fires return two hours after the boss is killed. Ktullanux: 4,417,000 HP, Water level 4, Brute. | No complete combat/drop table. The two guides differ slightly in entrance coordinates; preserve each guide's values until checked. |
For later implementation, keep the quest reward, boss record and fire-reset timer separate. Do not convert the unspecified EXP into both Base and Job rewards, or treat the fire reset as an ordinary monster respawn interval.
Related Episodes and updates
- Alpha: English public test
- EP 1.0? · Thai closed beta
- EP 1.0? · Thai open beta
- EP 1.0 era · Lutie seasonal addition
- EP 1.5? · Clock Tower and Glast Heim
- EP 2.0? · Pets and early monster/drop rebalance
- EP 4.0? · Turtle Island and WoE
- EP 5.0? · Juno and alternate second jobs
- EP 6.0 era · Amatsu
- EP 6.0 era · Gonryun
- EP 7.0–8.0? · Umbala and Niflheim
- EP 7.0–8.0 era · Louyang
- EP 8.x? · Ayothaya
- EP 10.1 · Einbroch
- EP 10.2 · Lighthalzen and Homunculus
- EP 11.2 · Veins
- EP 11.3? · Nameless Island
- EP 12.1 · EP12.1: Destruction of Morroc and battlegrounds
- EP 12.1 · Moscovia regional addition
- EP 12.2 · EP12.2: The Memorial Dungeon
- EP 13.1 · Ash Vacuum / New World