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* BreatherLevel: The UndergroundJungle is noted for being substantially easier than both the preceding Hiisi Base and the following Vault, as well as often being substantially more profitable, as it is chock-full of wands and health upgrades. The most dangerous things in it are the spiders, not because they can do all that much to ''you'', but because they can [[ShopliftAndDie vandalize the Holy Mountain and anger the gods]].

** Sacrificing a chest at the mountaintop altar summons a rain of chests at the player's location which lasts for five seconds. Players discovered that reloading the game or using polymorphine before the timer ran out would reset its duration, allowing potentially an infinite amount of chests to be created. The same glitch can be used to gain extra rewards from other sacrifices, such as getting extra copies of an exclusive wand.

** Sacrificing a chest at the mountaintop altar summons a rain of chests at the player's location which lasts for five seconds. Players discovered that reloading the game or using polymorphine before the timer ran out would reset its duration, allowing potentially an infinite amount of chests to be created.

** Homing death clouds. Mist-type spells typically don't deal damage directly; instead each frame that processes they tick to soak anything inside with liquid. Players discovered that adding a damage increase to the cloud would cause it to tick a small damage with ''each frame''. This could be further improved with additions such as damage fields and a homing modifier. The result is a cloud that will fly across the screen until it reaches an enemy and proceed to deal 60+ ticks of damage per second. This eventually received a {{nerf}} to reduce the damage to more reasonable levels, but is still a bit of a GameBreaker due to the fast, reliable way the clouds will seek out and kill enemies.

** Pacifist chests are rewarded in Holy Mountains for completing a biome without killing any enemies. However, the tracker for this only starts when the previous Holy Mountain collapses. Exiting the Holy Mountain without triggering a collapse allows the player to explore and kill to their heart content, then return and trigger the collapse to claim a the pacifist reward as well.
** Tablet surfing is a technique which can grant essentially endless levitation. Tablets are physical items that can be stood on in-game, even when in motion. Players performing this glitch throw the tablet while levitating in a manner that allows their model to briefly register as "standing" on the object. Even though the player is mid-air, the game briefly allows their levitation to regenerate as though they were standing on the ground. The player can that pick up the table and resume levitating, chaining this glitch to fly as long as desired.

* ViewerNameConfusion: The game interface occasionally refers to the PlayerCharacter as "Minä". Many players assume this is their name, but it's actually just the Finnish word for "me".

*** Eat Your Vegetables and Iron Stomach. Eat Your Vegetables grants a damage bonus at high satiation, but inflicts damage at low satiation. Since you explode from eating too much, viable food sources can be hard to come in some areas, and a full stomach lasts roughly eight minutes, the perk by itself is of limited usefulness. Iron Stomach removes the negative penalties of eating, allowing you to build up ridiculous amounts of satiation that will take hours to run dry and turn that into equally absurd damage. It also makes gaining satiation easier because you aren't poisoned by corpses and the like. Combined with critical boosters to create rivers of blood from the enemies you kill, you'll have that number in the thousands in no time flat.

*** Edit Wands Everywhere. It allows you to move spells from wands outside of the Holy Mountains, which is incredibly useful as it means you no longer have to choose to carry a wand and replace one of yours to obtain their spells.

*** Eat Your Vegetables and Iron Stomach. Eat Your Vegetables grants a damage bonus at high satiation, but inflicts damage at low satiation. Since you explode from eating too much, the perk by itself is of limited usefulness. Iron Stomach removes the negative penalties of eating, allowing you to build up ridiculous amounts of satiation that will take hours to run dry and turn that into equally absurd damage. It also makes gaining satiation easier because you aren't poisoned by corpses and the like. Combined with critical boosters to create rivers of blood from the enemies you kill, you'll have that number in the thousands in no time flat.

** Damned Alchemists (Kadotettu alkemisti) aren't a threat by themselves, but they emit an invincibility field that protects other monsters, and if a second one with the field is close by, they'll buff each other and be completely unkillable. Your only choice at that point is to dig around them and hope they aren't sitting somewhere important, or possibly dig under them and drop one out of range.

** Hiisi Snipers(Snipuhiisi). They have an accurate, fast attack which they can fire while still far off-screen which will knock the player out of the air. The only way to dodge is moving up and down immediately after the shot fires at long range; otherwise, the shot will probably hit you. It also goes through soft materials like snow, which also happen to block the red line-of-sight marker, making it even harder to dodge. Thus, getting targeted by a Sniper while dealing with other enemies makes the fight even more treacherous.
** Limanuljaskas (toxic slimes) aren't too dangerous, but their projectiles drip toxic sludge, and they also bleed the stuff when hurt or killed, which is a hassle to clean up, especially in the early game if you don't have a flask of water.
** Vaihdosmestari (Master of Exchange) is not especially dangerous on its own, with its sole attack being to swap positions with a target. However, this swap also triggers automatically when it takes damage. This will often result in the player taking damage from their own spell, something which can easily become lethal in late-game builds.
** Hohtava hyypiö (Glowing Creep) is incapable of attacking, just following the player around. What makes it deadly is that it generates a penetrating, explosive attack for every tick of damage it takes. Players who are not aware of this mechanic and using either ticking damage or rapid-fire wands will often inadvertently kill themselves the first time they meet this enemy.

** Polymorphine. This liquid is extremely dangerous, not because of what it can transform enemies into but because of what it can turn the ''player'' into. The vast majority of transformations will leave the player without their perks or wands and usually a ''lot'' less health. Additionally, unlike most other serious threats, there is almost no way to become immune to it. Having a character capable of easily defeating the boss killed by a random Hiisi due to a puddle of liquid is not a fun experience.
** The Holy Mountain has a NoFairCheating mechanic which spawns [[spoiler:a Stevari]] if the outer walls of the temple are damaged. It's a sensible precaution to prevent the player from exploiting digging tools to keep the temple active, except the failsafe isn't coded specifically to the player. Creatures like the Jättimato can easily damage a Holy Mountain before you even reach it, setting off the spawn. Having to fight off a mini-boss at the very start of a level is bad enough, but the fact that this can happen as early as the ''first'' Holy Mountain visit often makes this a death sentence. And then the devs added [[spoiler:Skoude]], making it even ''worse''.

** The jungle represents another spike primarily due to the increased health of enemies. Previously encountered Hiisi all have their health doubled while Lukki have health equivalent to the strongest enemies of the last zone. Wands which previously carried a playthrough will often struggle to kill one enemy before the player takes damage. The Hiisi also use different tactics than before, spraying poison and firing off landmines.

* DifficultySpike: While the first two levels aren't easy, the game's difficulty increases ''sharply'' at the Snowy Depths, the third level, introducing flying Hiisi enemies that pursue you relentlessly, Snipuhiisi with accurate and damaging long-ranged attacks, powerful [[MookMaker Hiidenkivi]] super-enemies, and so on. Additionally, many enemies from here on out are heavily-armored, so if you haven't upgraded your offensive capabilities you may not be able to meaningfully damage them at all. The devs have smoothed this spike a bit over time, but it's still very noticeable.

** Kummitus is a special mob that can have more health than some of the mini-bosses. What makes it especially dangerous is that it spawns with a wand from one of your previous runs. Maybe that means it has a basic beginner wand, or maybe it has a wand capable of killing you in one hit from off-screen. Its one weakness is that it can be disarmed by a kick, but that still requires getting close in the first place.

** Sauvojen Tuntija, or the Wand collector is often nicknamed [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Squidward]] due to its appearance, and the fact that it stops people from collecting an easy orb.

*** Special mention goes to the Kummitus, a special mob that can have more health than some of the mini-bosses. What makes it especially dangerous is that it spawns with a wand from one of your previous runs. Maybe that means it has a basic beginner wand, or maybe it has a wand capable of killing you in one hit from off-screen.

** Vaihdosmestari (Master of Exchange) is not especially dangerous on its own, with its sole attack being to swap positions witha target. However, this swap also triggers automatically when it takes damage. This will often result in the player taking damage from their own spell, something which can easily become lethal in late-game builds.

** The Greek letter spells unlocked after [[spoiler:defeating the High Alchemist]], unlimited-use spells that ''copy'' (not cast!) other spells in your possession. Giving you unlimited use of Black Holes, Circles of Vigour, Summon Taikasauva (Wands), and other enormously potent spells that are normally heavily restricted by a use limit even with the Unlimited Spells perk.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: One of the simplest and most desirable wand combos in the early game is Laser Sabre with a Ping-Pong modifier. It serves both as a medium range weapon capable of quickly killing most early to mid-game enemies quickly and as a digging tool that can handle almost every material with ease.

** The [[SandWorm Mato]] family, from the small Pikkumato to the massive Helvetinmato. They have a ton of HP, hurt a lot, can appear on any floor, and worst of all tunnel through materials with great ease including the Holy Mountains' bricks. This can anger the gods even if you didn't mean it.

*** Glass Cannon. It caps your health at 50 HP, but it is so worth it, as your spells now deal 5x damage and your explosions are 5x as big. As if that wasn't enough, it ''stacks with Berserkium's effects''. Combine that with the aforementioned Explosion Immunity and have fun destroying half the biome you're in with even just a mere Bomb spell.