Moonlighter 2 Kalina Dungeon: Floors, Bosses and Route

Overview

Kalina is one of Moonlighter 2's three dimensions, a desert region with two floors — an easier first floor and a harder second floor. Its relic curse is Burn and Armor: burning relics are destroyed unless an Armored relic sits next to them.

Floors, bosses and how they unlock

• Day Realm (Tier 1) — boss The Herald; minibosses Dafest and Garr'x. Insects and beetles, with bear-trap floors. Unlocks: Open from the start — the tutorial drops you here.
• Night Realm (Tier 1) — boss Thalaam; minibosses Hajji and Punkest. Faster night variants of the Day Realm enemies with more health. Unlocks: Quest 'Old Times, New Technology', which starts after your first Herald kill.

Route and how a run works

• Tomo's Radar shows each floor as a branching map of nodes — chests, events, potions, blacksmith, recipe, elite, miniboss, boss, and Ice or Thunder perk rooms — and you pick one branch at every step.
• Combat pedestals hand out run perks; stacking one path (all Thunder, all Ignite) beats mixing, and one perk on the gun plus one on the weapon is the usual split.
• Chests appear after chest nodes, minibosses and bosses: a few Common relics plus a choice between two higher-rarity ones, with node colour on the radar setting relic quality.
• Rupture: an enemy at half health turns purple and can be launched with the backpack into walls, other enemies or off the edge. Elites and minibosses never rupture.

Extraction and death

• The pendant teleports you home at any time with everything in the bag. There is no penalty beyond the loot you skipped, and 'Back to Tresna' relic effects trigger on the way out.
• Death penalty by difficulty: on Easy, Normal and Hard every relic in your backpack loses half its quality; on Expert you lose the relics outright; on Hardcore (added in 1.0) you lose your progress and start over.
• Because floors unlock through Tresna story quests rather than levels, extract and bank progress freely — you are never grinding XP, only relics and materials.

Drops and materials

Each Kalina boss drops a rare crafting material and two chests, and each floor's two minibosses drop the material for Kalina's early weapon upgrades. Nou and Anacard, at the Silent Exchange, will swap surplus miniboss materials for boss materials.

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