Talk:Maneater/@comment-84.52.155.16-20170210165504

" Whether or not a given chest contains a Maneater is decided when an area is entered - leave and re-enter to reset this. "

this is wrong as it changes on godsbane as well and this reset will happen even if maneater was already found

there is easy trick to mass farm maneaters either for crystals or beastiary knowledge. this farming is more or less variation of farming/respawning death in garden and it is easiest done if you only have your own pawn. method is like this

go to chest with possible maneater and save (always save before every chest if you farm crystals). now let pawn open it and if there is maneater kill it or grab and throw pawn before he picks up item in chest (it is crucial that item is not picked up to make farming faster). if there was maneater and you

- were not satisfied with drops... godsbane

- if drops were ok... pick up, save and godsbane which will now reset new maneater to one of the remaining chests

this makes duskmoon ideal farming place as it has 5 possible maneaters and they are all on lower floor (map on wiki misses that chests 9 and 10 also contain maneaters). in case if this is bestiary knowledge, doing it this way you rack up 5 maneaters in 5 circles if you struck the worst possible order.

the reason why throwing pawn is crucial is that it makes runs most optimal even if you farm for crystals. you simply circle around until you find maneater and with each found (with good drops) chances increase for remaining chests until you reach the last one which is 100% maneater and abusing this is probably faster for crystal farming. you simply open chests and in this case pick up item by saving in front of every chest. if you find maneater that drops crystals before last chest... even better as you will have 2 then when you include the last chest which will be 100% maneater