Monsters

The first thing you learn when you login for the first time is that monsters are taking over Magoia. There are several kinds of monsters in the game.

 You need magical potions, herbs and powders to defeat them.

## Guardian Monsters

Initially, most locations in the game are locked by guardian Shadow Monsters. The game will provide you with the necessary brewery items you need to defeat the monsters so you can unlock critical areas, including the event site, brewery, shop, market, aqua garden, and dragon cave. You can unlock additional gardens (the rock garden, honey garden, and root garden) by defeating their guardian monsters, but you'll have to brew your own potions, herbs, and powders to get there.

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## Defeating Monsters

The tutorial shows you how to defeat lower level monsters in your aqua garden.

You can throw any brewery item at any monster (except friend monsters), but all monsters have resistances to different magical elements. These are noted in the center of monster pop up. The percentage shown indicates how much damage the particular element will do. A 40% water damage would do only 40% of the normal damage.  You can chose the appropriate magical item from the slide menu at the bottom of the pop up.  It will show you the number of the items you own and the predicted damage to the monster.  Some of the monsters in the gardens cannot be removed until you level up your Gardens.

Occasionally you will do unexpected bonus damage to monsters for no apparent reason. Additionally, you can use moon dust to increase the power of an attack. Bonuses from the Ancestor Grove or from Seasonal Events can also strengthen your attacks, and you can always use water lilies to weaken monsters by some or all of their HP. Once you've removed a guardian or starting monster, it cannot come back.

After an update in 2019, you can sort your brewery items by element and by type. Element buttons are on the bottom left and brewery type buttons are on the bottom right.

## Garden Monsters

Once you've gotten into the gardens, you'll find even more monsters blocking individual garden plots.

Typically you will find about 10 monsters you can defeat in each garden level from 1 to 3. These each take up one garden plot each. After that, you'll be able to defeat one or two large monsters in levels 4 to 6. Defeating these monsters will open up four garden plots.

    Once you've cleared your garden, the starting monsters will not come back. However, some monsters can still pop up there from time to time. Friend monsters should not appear at the top of the garden or in spaces easily hidden by the avatar's clothes: contact support if a monster appears in your garden and it is hard to see.

## Types of Monsters

### Aqua Garden era 1

There are other kinds of monsters, but they follow the same pattern. Typically, each time your garden is infested, you'll find four basic types of monsters, one that is weak to each element. Some will be little, taking up one garden plot each, and some will take up 4 garden plots. (if you want me to go into more detail on these monsters, let me know, but I think it's generally easier to just look at the monsters in game rather than referencing this guide, which is not meant to be exhaustive).

Monsters initially arrive in your tree garden as well, but these special monsters cannot be defeated with brewery items. Please refer to the tree garden guide for more on how to get these monsters off your island.

Monsters will not appear in the Volcano Garden or Cloud Garden.

## Eras

When you bring your garden into a new era (every 10 levels), new monsters will arrive to populate your garden. These monsters are tougher, reflecting how much stronger you've become. These vary by garden and era.