Sengoku Rance:Dungeons

In checklist order
Unlisted:
 * Orochi's Cave 大蛇の穴
 * Tomb of Sekimei セキメイの墓

General Info
Every dungeon consists of a number of levels. The moment you enter and complete at least one level, then one level of the dungeon will be permanently cleared. For example, if you enter a six-level dungeon, clear two levels, and exit, you will enter the dungeon at level 2; if you cleared five levels, you will still enter the dungeon at level 2. However, note that if you fail to properly exit the dungeon (i.e. clear the first five but fail on the sixth against the boss), you will not get a check point at level 2. Instead, you will have to start at level 1 again (or your last floor checkpoint). Since you get a random item (usually Ogre Bones for the item shop) every time you clear a level, the most efficient method to farm a dungeon is to clear all levels except the last in one action, exit, and do it again next turn, repeating the procedure until you're able to start at the last level. You will also get one random affection boosting item/healing item/motivation paper every time you successfully exit a dungeon (on top of the medicine sake/seirogan that you get for the first few incomplete runs through that dungeon). The last level of the dungeon includes at least one boss and is unaffected by the "Dungeon Scout" skill. Clearing the last level gives you a one-time level up for all commanders in your general roster and a treasure, which is usually pre-determined (unless you chose it as a second-game bonus). If you already have it, the game will randomly give you another treasure; if you have all possible dungeon-clear items already, you will get a random stat 2 Textbook (which has no restrictions) or Good Medicine (also a consolation prize for failing a dungeon). The random treasure is set from the moment the game is started (so reloading saves will not work) and will differ from game to game.

The very best (but potentially the most tedious) method of farming ogre bones requires you to intentionally fail the last floor of a dungeon by dying/running out of action points. When you leave a dungeon this way, you will not clear any floor levels permanently (ie. if you clear the first 4 floors but die on the 5th, you will not get to start on the 2nd floor next time as you did not manually choose the exit the dungeon). This method ensures that you will never exhaust the dungeons down to the boss floor like the previously suggested method of farming ogre bones. However, be advised that there are 4 dangers of doing it this way:

1) No bonus item when you retreat from the dungeon involuntarily

Suggestion: If you're farming SenriQ Cups or Kanou Scrolls you would actually be better off doing one floor of a dungeon, exiting manually, and then restarting if you don't get it. There's nothing more agonizing then going down 10+ floors of a tough dungeon (because you wanted to farm the maximum number of ogre bones as well in the same action) only to find out you got a JAWS screen/Expert's drum/Seirogan for the 10th time in a row.

2) Taking forever to lose on the bottom floor

Suggestion: During most commander-only battles the game will allow you to cycle in your entire commander roster until everyone is either dead or out of action points (those who have less than full action points or 0HP from a previous dungeon crawl will not be switched in). Try to make sure you exhaust a lot of actions points/characters on the way down or you'll have to "stand by" for awhile on the last floor.

3) Limited runs per turn

Suggestion: You'll most likely run out of action points and/or HP for a second run on the same turn. Wait until the next turn and perform other actions in the meantime.

4) Not enough commanders to defend invasions afterwards

Suggestion: Any commander that dies while dungeon crawling is disabled from taking further action for the rest of the turn (name will be marked off). Do your best to exhaust your action points rather than your HP on the bottom floor.

Longest dungeons: Tokugawa Buried Treasure (13 floors), Yomotsu Hirasaka aka Road to Hades (18 floors) or Orochi's Dungeon (20 + 1 floors).

Dungeon Formulae
Damage Formula (Commander Battle) Effective Level Difference for Damage Formula (Commander Battle) Class Attack for Damage Formula (Commander Battle) Attack Modifier for Damage Formula (Commander Battle)
 * Damage (Without Item Modifier and Buffs) = Class Attack * Effective Level Difference * Attack Modifier
 * Effective Level Difference = Attacker's Level - (Defender's Level/2)
 * 5 is the minimum cap for Effective Level Difference.
 * When Effective Level Difference exceeds 30, the Effective Level Difference becomes: Effective Level Difference/2 + 15
 * Cannoneer 11
 * Demon/Musketeer 10
 * Diviner/Magician 7
 * Warrior/Calvary/Footsoldier/Monster 6
 * Ninja/Tactician/Animal 5
 * Monk/Archer 4
 * Miko 3
 * Punch 50%
 * Strong Punch 75%
 * Normal Attack 100%
 * Strong Attack/Blowgun 150%
 * Rance Attack/Kentarou-kun Slash/Tokugawa Ieyasu Special Attack 200%

Monster data

 * Usually monsters' health equals 9* level + 50. There may be exceptions with special boss monsters.

Type F Monsters

 * Samera ~ Lee
 * Himmler
 * Super Hanny

Type E Monsters

 * Kurome
 * Vevetar
 * Jabara
 * Thumbpress Master
 * Pinky

Type D Monsters

 * Akame
 * Nyo~
 * Squidman Lord / King Squid Man
 * MagBall

Type C Monsters

 * Con Turtle
 * Uppi
 * Zombie
 * Yankee

Type B Monsters

 * Rommel
 * Bambara
 * Freedom
 * Hanny (also in Type A)

Type A Monsters

 * Hanny (also in Type B)
 * Mageman
 * Squidman

= Dungeon List =

Kachikachi Cave カチカチ洞窟

 * Location: Kyo
 * Floors: 4
 * Requires: Suzume to discover


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Heijoukyo 平城京

 * Location: Yamato
 * Floors: 6
 * Requires: Kouhime to discover


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Pearl Dungeon 真 迷宮

 * Location: Ise
 * Floors: 7
 * Requires: Kouhime to discover


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Tokugawa Buried Treasure 徳川埋蔵金

 * Location: Mikawa
 * Floors: 13
 * Requires: Ranmaru to discover
 * Bonus Loot ("golden ball", a seemingly unusable item): Requires Senhime.


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Bikini Watching ビキニ鑑賞

 * Location: Battleship Nagato 戦艦長門 / Senkan Nagato


 * Floors: 12
 * Requires: Ogawa Kentarou to discover
 * Bonus Loot:


 * Note: Kill the neouron hanny before his second turn... or all of your active commanders will be wiped out. You can also use ninjas to delay neouron's attack.

Tanba Mine Mountain 丹波鉱山

 * Location: Tanba 丹波
 * Floors: 9
 * Requires: Maria to discover
 * Bonus Loot: Item (Requires Maria)

Umeda Underground City 梅田地下街

 * Location: Naniwa
 * Floors: 8
 * Requires: Shibata Katsuie to discover

Satomi Empire 里見帝国

 * Location: Kazusa 2000 上総２０００
 * Floors: 8
 * Requires:
 * Bonus Loot: 2 Extra levelup for Rance
 * Monster setup: (for me - 0 star game/first game, with dungeon skill) Every level has a Freedom (Level 10, hp 140) and a Doggie (Level 12/22/32/42/52/62/72/82 respectivly). Confirmed same at 5star.

Oil Cave 石油穴

 * Location: Mamushi Oil Field まむし油田
 * Floors: 7
 * Requires: Nanjo Ran to discover (talk to her twice, Houjou house must be conquered)
 * Bonus Loot: : Three SenriQ cups.

== Tiger Cave虎の穴 ==
 * Location: Himeji 姫路
 * Floors: 5
 * Requires: Kanami to discover
 * Bonus Loot: Three Kanou scrolls.
 * Note: other name Tora no Ana. Many players of this game may recognize Tora no Ana as the name of a chain of stores that sell anime- and game-related merchandise. This is likely part of an AliceSoft tradition/running gag of naming locations in their games after real places in the company's headquarters of Osaka.

Hellish City 魔界都市

 * Location: Edo
 * Floors: 5
 * Requires: Nanjo Ran to discover


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Sado Gold Mountain 佐渡金山

 * Location: Sado
 * Floors: 10
 * Requires: Uesugi Kenshin & Naoe Ai recruited from Sado
 * Bonus Loot: 5000 Gold (Dungeon Clear) book (Rance and/or Kenshin)


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Shell Tomb 貝塚

 * Location: Shell / Kai
 * Floors: 5
 * Requires:
 * Sill to discover
 * Sill for the +5 Satisfication for floors B2, B3, and B4
 * Sill to check off the dungeon on completion.


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Studying Cave お勉強穴

 * Location: Texas
 * Floors: 8
 * Requires: Sill to unlock
 * Sill's Healing increases by 5 at end of dungeon


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Underground Mikan Farm 地下蜜柑農園

 * Location: Mikan
 * Floors: 10
 * Requires: Ogawa Kentarou, but only because he travels with... Miki (for whom Demon King transformation-reversing Hirami lemons must be found)


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SM Dungeon ＳＭ迷宮

 * Location: MAZO
 * Floors: 10
 * Requires: Okita Nozomi to unlock
 * Bonus Loot: 2 Extra Level-ups for Rance in addition to the regular dungeon level up bonus. It makes no difference whether Okita is in the final party.
 * Boss Info: The Boss is a Mazone, a female alien from the old (late 70's) anime series Space Pirate Captain Harlock. This one however is garbed in bondage gear and nailed into the ground by her hair, quite immobilized.
 * This boss has a self-heal that heals for just over 300 HP. This move also has a percentage chance of failing (around 75% in my experience).
 * Your main strategy should be: attack non-stop until she's dead. Simple? It should be. The only way you can lose is if you're tagging along pure weaklings and she just keeps getting them lucky heals.

! rowspan=3| B10/(ＳＭ迷宮) Boss Battle ! Right ! Mid Female Monster|| 1350 HP|| ! Left
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 * Bondage'd Teal-haired
 * Lv 65
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Road to Hades 黄泉平坂

 * Location: Izumo
 * Floors: 18 (18th level - 7777 HP Boss battle)
 * Unlike Sekimei and Orochi, the boss battle is part of the dungeon crawl. This means you do not get action fans restored before the battle.
 * The boss always uses the same attack, which hits the entire party.
 * Requires: Kouhime and Sill to discover.
 * Bonus Loot:
 * Mouri Motonari's curse is lifted (Kill Daidara after a purple event with Sakamoto Ryouma)
 * Emperor's Sword after the 8th floor. You must have seen the scene with Natori where she tells you about the emperor's sword. This is only available after Rance decides to kill Orochi, which requires you to choose to take Fuuka to places related to Miko. Not available in Kenshin route. Despite what Natori says, the sword has no special effect on Orochi.
 * CG #102 (Dungeon Clear)

! rowspan=3| B18 ! Right ! Mid 7777 HP|| 7777 HP|| 7777 HP|| 7777 HP|| ! Left
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 * Freedom ||
 * Gunagan ||
 * Lv 55
 * Lv 55
 * Lv 55
 * Lv 55
 * Freedom ||
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Orochi's Cave 大蛇の穴

 * Location: Yamatai
 * Floors: 20 + 1 (Boss battle with Orochi or with Xavier in Uesugi Kenshin route)
 * Requires:
 * Tamagushi Fuuka (Up until Step #7 of her Character Clear, but choose the 2nd option)
 * Natori to unlock
 * Alternatively, it is unlocked towards the end of the Uesugi Kenshin route


 * Boss Info: Orochi
 * Choosing not to fight Orochi will kill Tamagushi Fuuka and send you back to the map. Presumably this will permanently render Orochi unfightable.
 * Before the battle, all action fans are restored. Wounded characters are not healed, however.
 * Orochi's regular attacks pierce, hitting the unit behind his target.
 * Orochi also has a devastating attack that hits your entire team for absurdly massive damage. This will kill most characters. The theory is that it can only use it once per fight. Therefore it is advised to put out the weakest units first - they will be the human shields for your main characters. Orochi seems more likely to use this around a party of high level characters or Rance.
 * Orochi's Minions are extremely annoying on their own. They have a fire attack and a single target healing spell that they can cast on themselves, other minions or the Orochi itself.
 * None of Orochi's attacks are magic, but his minions' attacks apparently are. If they happen to focus on her, Rizna's immunity can prevent significant damage.
 * Demon Kentarou is not invincible as long as Orochi is still alive.

! rowspan=3| (Orochi) Boss Battle ! Right ! Mid 9999 HP || 9999 HP || 9999 HP || 9999 HP || ! Left
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 * Orochi Minion || Orochi Minion
 * Orochi || Orochi Minion
 * Lv 50
 * Lv 50
 * Lv 50
 * Lv 50
 * Orochi Minion || Orochi Minion
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Tomb of Sekimei セキメイの墓

 * Location: Saitama
 * Floors: 7+1 (Normal Difficulty) 12+1 (1 Star+) Boss battle with Sekimei)
 * Requires: Enter and proceed in Nanjo Ran's Route
 * Bonus Loot: Win the Boss Battle and you've beaten Nanjo Ran's Route! The Loot is the unlocking of the Nanjo Ran 2nd game bonus.
 * Boss Info: Sekimei is a huge adorning Golden spiked armor.
 * Before the battle, all action fans are restored. Wounded characters are not healed, however.
 * His size grants him extensive reach, making all his attacks long range
 * His single attack will remove one random buff from his target
 * While his HP is low (compared to the other Bosses) and his attack power is only average, all his other stats are way over the top. With his defense and intelligence, you'll find your units dealing half of what they normally do, and with his speed, he might have 2-3 turns before all but your fastest units get theirs.

! rowspan=3| セキメイ(Sekimei) Boss Battle ! Right ! Mid ! Left
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 * Red Ogre || Blue Ogre
 * Red Ogre || Sekimei
 * || Lv 80 2310 HP
 * || Lv 80 2310 HP
 * || Lv 80 2310 HP
 * || Lv 80 2310 HP
 * Red Ogre || Blue Ogre
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