Misty Thicket

Misty Thicket is the major newbie zone for Rivervale (with a smaller one existing in Kithicor). It is also an area that the halflings have staked out to protect their city from the dangers of the Runnyeye goblins to their west. The ancient walls of the halflings stretch across this zone, cutting it into two distinct halves.

Filbus Furyfoot, the Lord of the Misty Thicket, Warlord, and Guardian of Rivervale, is a fairly common sight, as he devotes a great portion of his efforts to ensuring the safety of his lands and outfitting young hobbit adventurers.

Level of Monsters: 1-12 Types of Monsters: Large Rats, Bats, Snakes, Fire Beetles, Klaknaks, Black Wolves, Bixies, Bixie Drones, Large Thicket Rat, Large Wood Spider, Goblin Whelps, Goblins, Black Bears, Orc Pawns, Orc Centurions, Orc Apprentices, Orc Oracles, Orc Legionnaires, Giant Wasps, Giant Spiders, Giant Scarabs, Young Kodiaks, Dread Corpses, Lesser Mummies, Goblin Alchemist, Goblin Wizard Notable NPCs: Mooto, Slaythe, Gunrich, A bixie queen, Queen Klaknak Unique Items: Clay Totem Clay Totem MAGIC ITEM Slot: PRIMARY SECONDARY HP: +5 WT: 0.8 Size: SMALL Class: CLR DRU BRD SHM Race: ALL Related Quests: Bug Collection Adjacent Zones: Rivervale, Runnyeye (depricated Runnyeye Citadel) Name in /who: misty Zone Spawn Timer: 6:40 Succor/Evacuate: 0,0 (Just outside the wall) ZEM Value: 75 100 (133%)

Map

Orc Camp Goblin Camps Haunted Obelisk Gate through the wall Merchant with Baking Supplies Empty Huts Empty Hut; Unoffically Blixkin Entopop's "House" Merchant with Small Leather Armor and Patterns Merchant with Sewing Supplies, including How To's, Large Kit, and Needle and Thimble Molds Merchant with Pottery Supplies Abandoned Tower Merchant with Small Armor Molds Druid Stone Ring Lil Honeybugger's Hut

Dangers

This has to be one of the safest zones that exists in the game. There is one simple reason for this, the wall. It divides the zone into two distinct areas, the newbie area to the east and the higher level area to the west. Because of this division, the newbie area has no random high level monsters wandering around to attack an adventurer. The area to the west is also relatively safe because the guards are very close by.

About the only other large dangers in this zone are a goblin shaman named Mooto, who is significantly more powerful than others of his kind and aggressive, and the higher level undead mobs which occasionally roam around beyond the wall.

Benefits

The biggest benefit is explained above, this zone is very safe. Many people call it the best newbie zone in the game (myself included). There is good hunting here, a fair number of quests for the halflings to engage in. Many halflings stay within this zone for their entire time as a newbie and up until around 10th level, when they start to spread out, although I think this is excessive, it is possible.

The other perk is that you can buy and sell goods without having to zone, which is a plus.

On p99, Misty is also quite a popular place for (evil) adventurers around level 30 to solo on the halfling guards along the wall.

Traveling To and From

To the east lies the halfling city of Rivervale. The path leads the way through to the break in the wall, which is heavily guarded by the halflings. Past this, the camps of the Runnyeye goblins litter the countryside. On the western edge lies the entrance to the home of the Runnyeye band of goblins.

What's in this zone?

65 NPCs that spawn in Misty Thicket:

Name	Level	Class	Race	Coordinates	HP
a bixie	1 - 5	Ranger	Bixie	See Discussion	11
a bixie drone	2	Ranger	Bixie	See Discussion	24
a black bear	4-5	Warrior	Bear	Various	75
a black wolf	1	Warrior	Wolf	Various	?
a fire beetle	2	Warrior	Beetle	Various	24 - 40
a giant rat	2 - 4 Except in SF level 9	Warrior	Giant Rat	Various	56
a giant scarab	7 ~ 11	Warrior	Beetle	Various	144
a giant spider	7 - 9	Warrior	Giant Spider	Various	119
a goblin shaman	9 - 10	Shaman	Goblin	(-1080, 471)	231
a goblin warrior	4(Misty) 9-10(Butcherblock)	Warrior	Goblin	See Discussion	56 (Misty) 160-ish(Butcherblock)
a goblin worker	1	Warrior	Goblin	Various	11
a Klaknak drone	2	Warrior	Beetle	Various	20
A Large Rat	1	Warrior	''Animal''	Various	11 - 19
a lesser mummy	11-12	Warrior	Mummy	Various	264
a moss snake	1	Warrior	Giant Snake	Various	11
a spiderling	1-4	Warrior	Giant Spider	Various	56
a young kodiak	10	Warrior	Bear	Various	200
a zombie	6 (Red Con at Nek spire at lvl 7 has also spawned)	Warrior	Zombie	Various	96 (a lvl 6 in Nek Forest had 160 hp)
a bat	1	''Monster''	Animal	Various	18
a bixie queen	4 - 5	Shaman	Bixie	(610, -85)	56
a diseased rat	3-5	Warrior	Giant Rat	(937, -2216)	39
a dread corpse	8 - 10	Warrior	Skeleton	(4702, -906)	144 - 200
a giant whiskered bat	5-7	Warrior	Giant Bat	Various	119
a giant fruit bat	9	Warrior	Giant Bat	Various	171
a giant thicket rat	9	Warrior	Giant Rat	(809, 725)	171
a giant wasp	8 - 10	Warrior	Wasp	Various	?
a goblin alchemist	16 - 21	Shaman	Goblin	?% @ (-885, 1115	416
a Klaknak warrior	2	Warrior	Beetle	Various	24
A Large Bat[https://web.archive.org/web/20010422232859/http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com:80/search.shtml?id=2102]	3	Warrior	''Animal''	Various	| HP_regen = 0
a large thicket rat	3	Warrior	Giant Rat	(728, -593)	39
a large wood spider	3-5	Warrior	Giant Spider	Various	39
a shadow wolf	3 - 5	Warrior	Animal	Various	39
a skeleton	4 - 18	Warrior	Undead	Various	75
Bim Buskin	30	Shopkeeper	Rivervale Citizen	(905, -2345)	1200
Blixkin Entopop	27	Rogue	Halfling	(100, -2300)	999
Bronin Higginsbot	10	Rogue	Halfling	(-756, -471)	200
Deputy Asler	30	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-94, -41)	2074
Deputy Budo	39	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-236, -146)	3302
Deputy Drebo	29	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-242, -137)	1020
Deputy Eigon	30	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-127, -24)	2074
Deputy Felp	25	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(359, -62)	815
Deputy Keld	25	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-109, -41)	815
Deputy Looh	27	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-790, -462)	905
Deputy Poolt	20	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(-127, -24)	1037
Deputy Tagil	50	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(480, -2483)	15120
Deputy Vastin	50	Warrior	Rivervale Citizen	(500, -2484)	15120
Ella Foodcrafter	50	Druid	Halfling	(-886, -1912)	8750
Ember	1	Warrior	Fire Beetle	(100, -2300)	~10
Faano Windmaker	15 - 19	Druid	Halfling	(-563, -1816)	375 - 490
Fajio Knejo	55	Warrior	Wood Elf	(-130, -54)	13750
Gunrich	5	Warrior	Goblin	(322, 445)	75
Hanga Wiskin	30	Shopkeeper	Halfling	(332, -2271)	1200
Joogl Honeybugger	11	Druid	Halfling	(-852, -2264)	231
Lil Honeybugger	1	Druid	Halfling	(-853, -2272)	11
Mooto	10-11	Shaman	Goblin	(-885, 1115)	200
orc centurion	3-10	Warrior	Orc	Various	200
an orc legionnaire	15	Warrior	Orc	Various	375
orc pawn	1 - 2	Warrior	Orc	Various	11
Prince Klaknak	2	Warrior	Beetle	Various	40
Princess Klaknak	2	Warrior	Beetle	Various	24
Relia Wastein	15 - 19	Druid	Halfling	(-570, -1833)	375 - 490
Slaythe	20	Shaman	Old Froglok	+1020, +80	600
Sonsa Fromp	25	Shopkeeper	Rivervale Citizen	(672, -2211)	875
Tipa Lighten	30	Shopkeeper	Rivervale Citizen	(581, -2202)	1200
Topper Drodo	30	Shopkeeper	Rivervale Citizen	(585, -2357)	1200