Northern Desert

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Northern Desert

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Northern Desert きたのさばく Northern Desert

Basic info Floors: 15 Rest stops: No Traps: Yes Monster Houses: No Main type: Ground Boss: None

Allowances Recruiting: Yes Items: 48 Money: Allowed Starting level: Current Team members: 4

Location Please upload a world map highlighting this dungeon's location.

Northern Desert (Japanese: きたのさばく Northern Desert) is the 14th dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky located in the Arid Area. It is unlocked after the player returns the Water Float to Azurill and Marill and goes back to the guild.

Before clearing Quicksand Cave or after the credits roll, when this dungeon is cleared again, the player can choose to continue exploring in Quicksand Cave.

Gameplay

The jobs in this dungeon are ranked E, B, A and S by default, depending on the floor.

The first four floors are small-sized, the others are medium-sized. The first four floors can have 2 to 6 rooms (although floor 3 and 4 are biased towards higher number), while rest of the floors have 4-9 rooms. There's 1-4 items lying on each floor, mostly Poké. There's 1-2 starting enemies on first two floors, 2-3 on floors 3 and 4, and 2-4 on remaining floors.

The IQ Booster activates on even floors past 2nd. The turn limit is 1000. The enemies in this dungeon have 26IQ, granting them the Status Checker IQ skill. There's natural sandstorm on floors 6, 10 and 11 (with all of the dungeon's inhabitants except for Carnivine being immune to it by either typing or Ability), although it can also appear by Larvitar using the move.

Pokémon encountered

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Baltoy	1-7	23-24	5.6%
	Cubone	1-8	20-21	8.2%
	Aron	1-8	22-23	6.4%
	Cacnea	1-8	22-23	6.4%
	Larvitar	1-9	22-23	8.2%
	Sandshrew	1-15	20-23	8.2%
	Trapinch	1-15	22-25	8.2%
	Carnivine	7-15	24-26	8.2%
	Rhyhorn	8-15	23-25	6.4%
	Lairon	9-15	23-25	0.5%
	Cacturne	9-15	23-25	0.5%

Items

Item		Floors
	2-120TD/125S Poké	1-15F
	4-5 Iron Thorn	1-15F
	D 4-5 Stick	1-15F
	2-4 Silver Spike	4-15D/1-15SF
	Grimy Food	1-15F
	TS Silver Gummi	1-15F
	DS All-Hit Orb	1-15F
	TS All-Mach Orb	1-15F
	TS Blowback Orb	1-15F
	DS Decoy Orb	1-15F
	Drought Orb	1-15F
	Escape Orb	1-15F
	DS Foe-Fear Orb	1-15F
	TS Foe-Hold Orb	1-15F
	DS Foe-Seal Orb	1-15F
	Hurl Orb	1-15F
	DS Luminous Orb	1-15F
	TS Petrify Orb	1-15F
	Rollcall Orb	1-15F
	DS Slumber Orb	1-15F
	TS Spurn Orb	1-15F
	TS Switcher Orb	1-15F
	DS Totter Orb	1-15F
	DS Transfer Orb	1-15F
	TS Warp Orb	1-15F

Traps encountered

The traps here are the same as in Amp Plains. The game will generate 2-5 of the following tiles per each floor.

Image	Trap	Appearance %
	Slumber Trap	10%D/7.69%S
	Summon Trap	16.67%T/15.38%S
	Trip Trap	8.33%T/10%D/7.69%S
	Warp Trap	8.33%T/7.70%S
	Wonder Tile	66.67%T/80%D/61.54%S

Layout

Game	Entrance	Alternate tileset	Exit to Quicksand Cave
Time
Darkness
Sky

In other languages

Language Title French Désert du Nord German Nordwüste Italian Deserto del Nord Korean 북쪽 사막 Bukjjok Samak Spanish Desierto Norte

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