Pandemonium

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*"Travel to a chaotically windy dimension. Map enemies at or below World level will obliterate 75% of your Metal, Wood and Food after each enemy killed. For each map level above world level, 5% (additively) fewer resources will be destroyed, with +10 map enemies destroying only 25%. You start the Challenge with 100 stacks of Order. Each Zone, 10% of your current Order stacks will be converted into Pandemonium stacks on the Enemy. Each Pandemonium stack increases Enemy's attack and health by 100% per stack, and has 10x effect on the final boss of each Zone. The final boss is a Windy enemy who will blow away 1% of your Food, Wood and Metal per stack of Pandemonium per attack. Completing a map grants you 1 Order stack for each level above your World Zone (Max 100), and reduces enemy Pandemonium by the same amount. Completing Z150 with this Challenge active will grant your Trimps a permanent, stacking, additive **10%** bonus to Helium or Radon, Trimp Attack, Trimp Health, and Resources Gathered in Universe 1 and 2. Each time Pandemonium is completed, the reward for next time increases by an additional 10%, Enemies gain 5x damage and health, and Equipment is 5x more expensive for all future runs of Pandemonium. Starting on your fourth run, the Wind will be too strong for Trimps to hold a Shield. Another piece of equipment will be disabled every 2 completions after Shield is lost."*

**Pandemonium** is a repeatable non-Radon challenge in the Radon Universe. Completing it grants stacking bonuses to Radon or Helium, Attack and Health, and makes enemies stronger in future **Pandemonium** runs.

## Reward

The reward for a **Pandemonium** run is a bonus whose value depends non-linearly on the number of Pandemonium runs completed. The bonus's value is a triangular number: 10% for the first Pandemonium, (10 + 20)% for the second, (10 + 20 + 30)% for the third, and so on.

The total bonus for *n* runs can be calculated as *(10 \* n \* (n+1) / 2)%*.

There is a cap of 25 on the number of runs that may be completed for a reward resulting in a bonus of 3250%.

## Rules

The most important part of the run is the conversion between Order stacks and Pandemonium stacks. You will always have a total of 100 of these stacks, split between the two types. Finishing a zone converts 10% Order stacks into Pandemonium stacks. Running +zone maps converts 1 or more Pandemonium stacks back into Order stacks.

## Strategy

### Early Pandemoniums

Charge straight through without mapping until you reach a point where progress may start to slow down. Run a higher +zone map to convert all of your 100 Pandemonium stacks into Order, and finish the current zone.

At the start of each subsequent zone, run a lower +zone map to convert your 10 Pandemonium stacks into Order, also picking up equipment prestiges and map attack-bonus stacks.

Sample Map At Zone settings:

* Zone 69, cell 1: (Preset for +5 zone map), Repeat On, Repeat 20 times, Exit to World, Just this zone
* Zone 70, cell 1: (Preset for +1 zone map), Repeat On, Repeat to 10, Exit to World, Every zone

Adjust as needed.

### Later Pandemoniums

The prior strategy still applies, but the final zones will be painfully slow. In order to minimize the pain:

* Did you remember Sharp Trimps and Golden Maps?
* Take manual control somewhere in the early 140s. Get through the destacking (which is the slowest part of each zone), and then get to cell 81 (or higher) in your current zone. Go to the map chamber.
* If you've got 27 smithies, go ahead and run Melting Point. You'll end up with 29 smithies (assuming SA bonus), which is as high as you're going to get, due to the resource shredding.
* You can *try* running a standard metal-farming map, but the resource shredding is going to make it nearly impossible to acquire the final prestiges. What you *can* do instead: run a fairly high +zone metal-cache Farmlands map with repeat **off**. The final cell will be the metal cache, and you won't lose any of it because your Trimps end up in the map chamber instead of fighting another monster. Spend your metal on equipment levels. Repeat.

After you've picked up some equipment levels, return to the world and plow through the rest of the run.

## Trivia

**Pandemonium** was introduced in patch 5.5.