MapleStory/Monsters

There are many monsters in the world of MapleStory. The most dangerous monsters live deep in dungeons. Harmless monsters tend to stay by towns. Maple Island is one of the places that has very few monsters and are mostly very weak. Higher level monsters live in Victoria Island, but more dangerous monsters live closer to the center (Dungeon) of the island. Ossyria mainly has high level monsters as well as four major bosses.

There is also a complete list of monsters, Event Monsters, and bosses.

Items, leftovers, and Mesos
After killing a monster, Mesos or monster leftovers (ETC. items) may be dropped sometimes. However, the monster may also drop something rare (infrequently of course), such as an equipment, which can be worth a lot. The mesos dropped by a monster is varied, and the range varies with the monster (and is usually, but not always, somewhat proportional to the level of the monster, so you will find that in SOME circumstances monsters of same level drops the same range of mesos), the maximum value usually being 1.5x the minimum value.

GlobalMS
GlobalMS released Showa Town and Anniversary events, as well as the return of all previous fake bosses, with some new additions.
 * Monsters Release Date: May 6, 2008
 * GlobalMS Version 0.54

JapanMS
JapanMS released a heavily nerfed version of the Shaolin Temple area, which is made up of the two towns, Mount Song Town and Grand Hall of the Great Sage.
 * Monsters Release Date: April 28, 2008 (GMT+9)
 * JapanMS Version 1.42

HongKongMS
HongKongMS has released all Mu Lung and Herb Town related maps and monsters.
 * Monsters Release Date: April 25, 2008 (GMT +8)
 * HongKongMS Version 0.08

EuropeMS
EuropeMS released Papulatus and Dutch Queen Event.
 * Monster Release Date: April 24, 2008 (GMT +1)
 * EuropeMS Version: 0.38

KoreaMS
KoreaMS has released several mini-dungeons as well as the area in the Ellinia's past, Elin Forest.
 * Monsters Release Date: April 16, 2008 (GMT +9)
 * KoreaMS Test Server Version 1.2.144

MapleSEA
MapleSEA has released Singapore extension Ulu City, bot catching monsters, and the Herb Town (Pirate) Party Quest.
 * Monsters Release Date: April 8, 2008 (GMT +8)
 * MapleSEA Version 0.53

ChinaMS
ChinaMS released Zipangu, with both Mushroom Shrine and Showa Town, as well as Ariant Colosseum and all remaining Bot-catching Monsters. Showa Hideout was not released.
 * Monsters Release Date: April 9, 2008 (GMT +8)
 * ChinaMS Version: 0.61

TaiwanMS
TaiwanMS released the English Village Quiz Party Quest and bot-catching monsters.
 * Monsters Release Date: April 2, 2008 (GMT +8)
 * TaiwanMS Version 0.70

ThailandMS
ThailandMS has released Herb Town (Pirate) Party Quest and Henesys Party Quest.
 * Monsters Release Date: March 2008 (GMT +7)
 * ThailandMS Version 0.49