Scavenger room

Learn how to build and utilize the Scavenger Room in Core Keeper. Discover its costs, creature attraction benefits, and how to maximize its scavenging potential.

Alright, let's talk about the Scavenger Room. This is one of the most expensive rooms you'll build, so make sure you've got a good chunk of gold saved up before you start laying down tiles!

Cost & Stats:

• Cost per tile: 750 Gold
• Research value: 27500 Gold
• Shortcut key: S
• Creatures attracted: Hell hound, and many indirectly via scavenging.

The Scavenger Room is super important because it helps you attract more creatures to your dungeon, even if you've already hit the limit for Portals. It's a bit of a gold sink initially, as scavenging itself costs gold, but the payoff can be huge.

How Scavenging Works:

You can place any creature into the Scavenger Room, and they'll start looking for other creatures of their own type on the map to 'scavenge'. The more creatures of a certain type you have scavenging, the better your chances are that another one will join your dungeon. It starts by attracting the weaker versions of a creature, then moves on to the stronger ones. This works on any creature, even neutral ones!

Pro-Tip: If you have a Vampire in the Scavenger Room, they automatically scavenge. This speeds up monster recruitment by a massive 50%, giving you a serious advantage.

Important Notes:

• If a creature can also be attracted via a Portal, you might get even more copies joining your dungeon, even if you've already recruited all available creatures of that type from the map.
• Once you've attracted all creatures that can be drawn by a Portal, it stops costing gold to attract them via the Scavenger Room.
• Warning: The Knight and the Avatar cannot scavenge companions. Don't waste your gold putting them in the Scavenger Room!