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. Monster leftovers have many varying uses. Some are used for quests, exchange quests where large numbers can be turned in to an NPC for experience, or for forging materials, such as Firewood that is used to make Processed Wood. In versions with the Maker skill, 100 monster leftovers can be combined to form a "Monster Crystal", an alchemical reagent used to create items.

Monster Book

In KoreaMS, JapanMS, TaiwanMS, and ChinaMS, there is a system called the "Monster Book." Monster Book is, as the name suggests, a book which every player is given that catalogs monsters. When the Monster Book is added to the game, monsters will begin dropping "cards" that contain detailed information on them. Each individual monster's card can be collected up to five times. Upon picking up a monster's first card, the monster's slot in the book lights up and it's standing sprite becomes viewable. The second time a card is picked up, the monster's HP and MP values will be displayed, as well as some new animations of the monster, such as walking or knockback. The third time, the monster's history and level will be added. For the fourth card, a near complete drop list is revealed, with certain items (such as Skill books) omitted. The fifth card will reveal the monster's exact locations across the world, and grant a temporary 15% experience boost. This boost lasts for one hour, starting from the moment the card is picked up. All remaining animations for that monster will also be unlocked. Though cards will continue to drop after the final card is found, picking up more than five will have no effect. In addition to their permanent change to a player's monster book, each card looted will cast a "buff" on the player, granting them a helpful boost such as increased drop rates or speed/jump boosts when hunting in the region where that monster appears.

Cards in the book are sorted by relative level range. There are tabs on the side of the book which allow one to skip from level range to level range. The tabs on the book's side are color coded, and the colors match those in the background of the cards which appear in that section. A Chief Gray, for example, has a green background on its' card, and the tab under which it appears is also green. The only exception is cards from Boss monsters, as these appear in a different section, called "Special Cards". Certain event monsters also appear as special cards.

Only monsters found on Maple Island, Victoria Island, and Ossyria currently drop cards. In JapanMS and ChinaMS, cards drop from Zipangu monsters, and monsters from Shanghai Wai-Tan and Shaolin Temple drop Monster Book cards as well. All other World Tour areas, such as Floating Market, Singapore, and Ximending, do not have cards in any version. It is expected that when the version which created a town gets the Monster Book, the monsters in that version's World Tour area will begin dropping cards. Monsters in Party Quests do not drop cards, with the exception of bosses: King Slime, Alishar, Poison Golem, Lord Pirate, Papa Pixie, and Frankenroid. For players who are above the level range of the Party Quests, opportunities to "buy" these cards appear from time to time as part of events.

Newest Monsters

MapleSEA

Monsters Release Date: December 17, 2008
MapleSEA Version 0.65

MapleSEA has released Happyville as part of Christmas event And new boss at Malasyia

Happyville and Christmas/New Year's Events

NooNoo Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Easy)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Easy)	Christmas Stirge (Easy)	Christmas Flyeye (Easy)	Cross (Easy) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Normal)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Normal)	Christmas Stirge (Normal)	Christmas Flyeye (Normal)	Cross (Normal) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Hard)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Hard)	Christmas Stirge (Hard)	Christmas Flyeye (Hard)	Cross (Hard) Boss

BrazilMS

Monsters Release Date: December 17, 2008
BrazilMS Version 0.10

BrazilMS has released the Third Job Advancement, Aqua Dungeon and Happyville as part of Christmas event.

Third Job
File:MS Dances With Balrog.png	File:MS Grendel.png	File:MS Athena Pierce2.png	File:MS Dark Lord.png
Dances with Balrog's Clone Boss - Warrior only	Grendel The Really Old's Clone Boss - Magician only	Athena Pierce's Clone Boss - Archer only	Dark Lord's Clone Boss - Thief only

Aqua Dungeon
	File:MS Monster Exploding Goby House.png		File:MS Monster Black Squid.png	File:MS Monster Lethal Squid.png
Goby	Exploding Goby House Summons Goby	Bone Fish	Black Squid	Lethal squid


Shark	Cold Shark


Pianus (Left Side) Boss	Pianus (Right Side) Boss

Happyville and Christmas Events
File:MS Monster Stray Rudolph.png	File:MS Monster Snowman.png
Stray Rudolph	Kid Snowman


Little Snowman Boss	Angry Snowman Boss	Giant Snowman Boss

File:MS Monster Christmas Sock.png	File:MS Monster New Year's Lucky Sack.png
Christmas Sock Boss	New Year's Lucky Sack Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Easy)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Easy)	Christmas Stirge (Easy)	Christmas Flyeye (Easy)	Cross (Easy) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Normal)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Normal)	Christmas Stirge (Normal)	Christmas Flyeye (Normal)	Cross (Normal) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Hard)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Hard)	Christmas Stirge (Hard)	Christmas Flyeye (Hard)	Cross (Hard) Boss

Pet

Toucan

TaiwanMS

Monsters Release Date: 17 December, 2008
TaiwanMS Version 0.85

TaiwanMS has released the revised Happyville and Christmas events.

Happyville and Christmas Events
File:MS Monster Stray Rudolph.png	File:MS Monster Snowman.png
Stray Rudolph	Kid Snowman


Little Snowman Boss	Angry Snowman Boss	Giant Snowman Boss

File:MS Monster Christmas Sock.png	File:MS Monster New Year's Lucky Sack.png
Christmas Sock Boss	New Year's Lucky Sack Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Easy)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Easy)	Christmas Stirge (Easy)	Christmas Flyeye (Easy)	Cross (Easy) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Normal)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Normal)	Christmas Stirge (Normal)	Christmas Flyeye (Normal)	Cross (Normal) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Hard)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Hard)	Christmas Stirge (Hard)	Christmas Flyeye (Hard)	Cross (Hard) Boss

Christmas Pet

Crystal Rudolph

GlobalMS

Monsters Release Date: December 16, 2008
GlobalMS Version 0.63

GlobalMS will release Magatia, Happyville and Christmas events.

Magatia
File:MS Monster Sand Mole-Rat.png			File:MS Monster Dark Sand Mage.png	File:MS Monster Bottle Seed.png	File:MS Monster Bottle Rack.png	File:MS Monster Iron.png	File:MS Monster Strong Iron.png
Sand Rat	Scorpion	Cube Slime	Dark Sand Dwarf	Rumo	Triple Rumo	Iron Mutae	Reinforced Iron Mutae

File:MS Monster Mithril.png	File:MS Monster Strong Mithril.png		File:MS Monster NeoHuroid.png		File:MS Monster Saiti.png		File:MS Monster Droid.png
Mithril Mutae	Reinforced Mithril Mutae	Roid	NeoHuroid	Homun	Site	Homunculus	D.Roy	Homunscullo

File:MS Monster Christmas Sock.png	File:MS Monster New Year's Lucky Sack.png
Christmas Sock Boss	New Year's Lucky Sack Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Easy)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Easy)	Christmas Stirge (Easy)	Christmas Flyeye (Easy)	Cross (Easy) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Normal)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Normal)	Christmas Stirge (Normal)	Christmas Flyeye (Normal)	Cross (Normal) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Hard)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Hard)	Christmas Stirge (Hard)	Christmas Flyeye (Hard)	Cross (Hard) Boss

Christmas Pet

Crystal Rudolph

EuropeMS

Monsters Release Date: December 16th, 2008 (GMT+1).
EuropeMS Version 0.48

EuropeMS has released Korean Folk Town and Happyville as Christmas event

Korean Folk Town
File:MS Monster Stomp Rabbit.png		File:MS Monster Samiho.png		File:MS Monster Morphed Blin.png
Moon Bunny	Hodori	Samiho	Blin	Morphed Blin	Hogul


Yellow King Goblin Boss	Blue King Goblin Boss	Green King Goblin Boss

Happyville and Christmas/New Year's Events

File:MS Monster Christmas Sock.png	File:MS Monster New Year's Lucky Sack.png
Christmas Sock Boss	New Year's Lucky Sack Boss

ChinaMS

Monsters Release Date: December 5, 2008 (GMT +8)
ChinaMS Test Server Version: 0.26

ChinaMS test server has released a modified Happyville, as well as some minigames and new pets.

Happyville and Christmas Events
File:MS Monster Stray Rudolph.png	File:MS Monster Snowman.png
Stray Rudolph	Kid Snowman


Little Snowman Boss	Angry Snowman Boss	Giant Snowman Boss

File:MS Monster Christmas Sock.png	File:MS Monster New Year's Lucky Sack.png
Christmas Sock Boss	New Year's Lucky Sack Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Easy)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Easy)	Christmas Stirge (Easy)	Christmas Flyeye (Easy)	Cross (Easy) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Normal)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Normal)	Christmas Stirge (Normal)	Christmas Flyeye (Normal)	Cross (Normal) Boss

Christmas Party Quest (Hard)

Christmas Jr. Wraith (Hard)	Christmas Stirge (Hard)	Christmas Flyeye (Hard)	Cross (Hard) Boss

Fish event
File:MS Monster Large goldfish.gif
Large Goldfish

KoreaMS

Monsters Release Date: December 4, 2008 (GMT +9)
KoreaMS Test Server Version 1.2.183

KoreaMS Tespia has released the island of Ereb, homeland of the Knights of Cygnus.

Ereb
	File:MS Monster Creative.png			File:MS Monster Tigureu.png
Tino	Creative	Timu	Tiru	Tigureu	Cynical Orange Mushroom

File:MS Monster The Doll Master.png	File:MS Monster Magic Transformation.png
The Doll Master Boss	Magic Transformation Boss	Black Witch Boss

JapanMS

Monsters Release Date: December 3, 2008 (GMT+9)
JapanMS Version 1.52

JapanMS has released Neo Tokyo

Neo Tokyo
File:MS Monster Warp Crystal.png	File:MS Monster Old Fire Fox Flagship AI.png	File:MS Monster Rhodes Prototype.png		File:MS Monster Overlord.png
Warp Crystal Boss	Old Fire Fox Flagship AI Boss	Prototype Lord	Afterlord	Overlord	Dida Ally

File:MS Monster Maverick Type Alpha.png	File:MS Monster Maverick Type Gamma.png	File:MS Monster Maverick Type Beta.png	File:MS Monster Maverick Type Nu.png
Maverick Type α	Maverick Type γ	Maverick Type β	Maverick Type ν


Iruvata	Dunas Boss

File:MS Monster Deceased Magic Beast.png	File:MS Monster Deceased Magic Beast.png
Master Deceased Magic Beast Boss	Deceased Magic Beast Boss - Summon

File:MS Monster Bergamot 1.png
Bergamot 1 Boss

File:MS Monster Bergamot 2.png
Bergamot 2 Boss

File:MS Monster Bergamot 3.png
Bergamot 3 Boss

File:MS Monster Nibelung 1.png
Nibelung 1 Boss

File:MS Monster Nibelung 2.png
Nibelung 2 Boss

File:MS Monster Nibelung 3.png
Nibelung 3 Boss

VietnamMS

Monsters Release Date:
VietnamMS Version 0.02

VietnamMS has released El Nath and Henesys party quest

El Nath Snowfields
		File:MS Monster White Pang.png
Jr. Yeti	Hector	White Fang	Pepe	Yeti	Yeti and Pepe

Henesys Party Quest
File:MS Monster Henesys Bunny.png
Henesys Bunny Ally	Goblin Fire

ThailandMS

Monsters Release Date: November 19, 2008 (GMT+7)
ThailandMS Version 0.59

ThailandMS has released Singapore

CBD
				File:MS Monster Freezer2.png
Biner	Stopnow	Batoo	Nospeed	Freezer2	Trucker

Boat Quay Town
File:MS Monster Tippored.png	File:MS Monster Tippoblue.png		File:MS Monster PacP.png	File:MS Monster Selk.png		File:MS Monster Anchor.png
Tippo Red	Tippo Blue	Octobunny	Pac Pinky	Selkie Jr.	Slimy	Mr. Anchor

File:MS Monster Capt.png
Capt. Latanica Boss

HongKongMS

Monsters Release Date: November 17th, 2008 (GMT +8)
HongKongMS Version 0.15

HongKongMS released Ariant and first anniversary events.

Ariant
File:MS Monster Sand Rabbit F.png	File:MS Monster Sand Rabbit M.png	File:MS Monster Gecko.gif	File:MS Monster Newt.gif	File:MS Monster Cactus baby.gif	File:MS Monster Cactus F.gif	File:MS Monster Cactus M.gif
Desert Rabbit (F)	Desert Rabbit (M)	Scarf Frilld	Earmuff Frilld	Jr. Cactus	Cactus	Royal Cactus

File:MS Monster Mage.gif	File:MS Monster Boa.gif	File:MS Monster Meerkat.gif	File:MS Monster Vulture.gif	File:MS Monster Sandman.gif	File:MS Monster Bandit.png
Desert Dwarf	Bellimoa	Meerkat	Kiyo	Desert Giant	Adin Quest monster