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Cursed Book

Cursed Book is a TFS 1.6 creature profile with 20,000 health, 13,345 experience, 4 configured attacks, and 17 loot entries. This reference traces behavior, elements, immunities, summons, and configured drops alongside current official library facts.

Reference profileTFS 1.6 data with current official comparison
Reviewed
Evidence7 primary references

At a glance

Quick facts

Health
20,000
Experience
13,345
Speed
440
Race
ink
Attacks
4
Loot entries
17
Bestiary class
Magical
Reference profile
TFS 1.6
Official profile observed
2026-08-02

Reading the Cursed Book encounter

Cursed Book tells its story in pressure and reward: 20,000 health to overcome, 13,345 base experience to earn, and 4 configured attack entries and a largest raw XML bound of 880 to read before the first pull.

Cursed Book's elemental profile rewards deliberate spell and weapon choices. The clearest weakness lead is Energy, while Earth carries positive resistance in this source. Pull size, line of sight, neighboring creatures, and simultaneous attack timing still decide whether that theoretical edge survives contact with the spawn.

platinum coin has the strongest configured loot roll on Cursed Book's TFS table at 75.50%, with up to 15 per successful entry. Profit, however, is a long conversation between kill speed, supply cost, route density, market demand, and the server's loot multiplier.

Cursed Book statistics and identity

Cursed Book is defined with 20,000 maximum health, 13,345 base experience, and speed 440 in TFS 1.6. The displayed experience is the creature definition's base value before stages, stamina, party sharing, boosts, prey, server rates, or event multipliers. The current official library separately reports 20,000 hitpoints and 13,345, so differences remain visible instead of being silently merged.

Cursed Book core statistics
StatisticValueInterpretation
Maximum health20,000Configured health pool
Base experience13,345Award before external multipliers
Speed440Engine movement-speed input
RaceinkCorpse and effect classification
Race ID1655Bestiary or protocol reference when present
Maximum configured attack bound880Largest absolute XML min/max value; not a guaranteed final hit
Official-library hitpoints20,000Current official profile
Official-library experience13,345Current official profile

Behavior, targeting, and movement

Its target-distance setting favors adjacent engagement, although configured beams, waves, or ranged attacks can still reach farther. Negative element modifiers identify increased incoming damage from Energy in this profile. Positive element modifiers reduce incoming Earth damage before final health loss. Target-change chance, static-attack preference, push permissions, pathfinding, field walking, summons, and scripted abilities collectively determine behavior. The flags below are direct configuration values; they should be read together instead of treating one flag as a complete artificial-intelligence description.

Cursed Book behavior flags
FlagConfigured value
PushableNo
CanpushitemsYes
CanpushcreaturesYes
Staticattack90
TargetdistanceYes
CanwalkonenergyNo
CanwalkonfireYes
CanwalkonpoisonYes

Attack cycle and combat pressure

Cursed Book has 4 attack entries in its XML definition. Chance is evaluated within the listed interval by the engine; min and max values are source-level damage inputs and can be changed by scripts, armor rules, resistance, PvP modifiers, conditions, or custom combat callbacks. Range, radius, beam length, spread, target flags, and visual effects reveal the intended shape but do not replace a live positioning test.

Cursed Book configured attacks
AttackChance and intervalRaw damage rangeRange or areaEffects
MeleeEvery 2 seconds0-200Adjacent or script-definedNo extra XML effect attribute
Physical15% per 1 seconds400-6807Shoot Effect: eartharrow
Lifedrain10% per 1 seconds400-5755Area Effect: poison
Physical12% per 1 seconds230-8807Area Effect: groundshaker

Defense, elements, and immunities

The defense profile separates base defense and armor from elemental percentages and explicit immunities. In TFS 1.6, a positive monster element percentage reduces incoming damage of that element, while a negative percentage increases it. Current official strength and weakness labels are shown as categories without inventing a percentage. Custom servers can change those values, bypass them in scripts, or add encounter phases.

Cursed Book defensive profile
Defense layerValueMeaning
Armor82Base defense profile
Energy-10%Vulnerability
Earth100%Resistance
ParalyzeImmuneCondition or damage immunity
InvisibleImmuneCondition or damage immunity
DrunkImmuneCondition or damage immunity
EnergyWeakCurrent official library category; no percentage published
EarthImmuneCurrent official library category

Complete configured loot table

Cursed Book contains 17 flattened loot entries. Base chance is shown against the TFS 100,000-point scale, where 100,000 means 100% before external loot multipliers. Count maximum is the upper stack bound when a successful roll creates a stackable item. Nested container contents are preserved as individual rows in the source data.

Cursed Book loot
ItemItem IDBase chanceMaximum count
platinum coin215275.50%15
book page3122564.75%4
small diamond214548.56%6
silken bookmark3122237.37%1
small topaz997026.89%5
small stone129419.11%10
protection amulet22009.29%1
diamond sceptre73876.06%1
terra boots78865.44%1
terra hood79034.20%1
terra amulet78873.98%1
stone skin amulet21971.81%1
sacred tree amulet102191.77%1
terra legs78851.19%1
springsprout rod89120.663%1
terra mantle78840.663%1
swamplair armor88800.221%1
Cursed Book current official named loot
ItemOfficial evidenceProbability
book pagesNamed lootNo exact chance published
platinum coinsNamed lootNo exact chance published
silken bookmarksNamed lootNo exact chance published
small diamondsNamed lootNo exact chance published
small stonesNamed lootNo exact chance published
small topazesNamed lootNo exact chance published

Hunting plan and server verification

A safe hunting recommendation for Cursed Book must combine the available profile with spawn density, neighboring creatures, terrain, access, vocation, skills, equipment, supplies, latency, death penalty, and the target server's rates. No universal level bracket can be authenticated from a creature-library or monster XML record alone. Use the largest configured attack bounds as stress-test inputs, account for simultaneous attacks and summons, then verify the actual spawn. Present a level recommendation only with that profile and evidence attached.

  • Confirm health, experience, attack intervals, and elemental modifiers against the deployed monster file.
  • Inspect the map spawn file for count, radius, placement, and respawn interval; those values are not stored in this monster definition.
  • Test line of sight, diagonal movement, field walking, target switching, fleeing, summons, and push behavior.
  • Record corpse loot over a statistically meaningful sample before evaluating a customized loot rate.
  • Publish the server profile and review date with any route, level range, profit estimate, or supply recommendation.

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