Runic Island

Runic Island
Connecting Locations
↑ Runic Island Gateway
↑ Runic Island Gateway

Runic Island is an ancient island maze that acts as a roguelike adventure with many different rooms to go through. These rooms may have tamer battles, items to loot (such as Runestones), and Extinct Doodles. A run on the Island starts in the Runic Island Gateway, which can only be accessed after completing the Runic Island request at DoodleCo Academy's Help Center. An Island Voucher may be used before a run to boost the rarity of items/Doodles that can be found.

Rooms

When entering a Runic Island room, its appearance and contents are randomly selected. The player cannot exit the way they came and must either defeat the Stone Guardian, the Doodle or take an item to proceed.

• If a player disconnects, completes the run, or has their entire party knocked out, they will be returned to the main area, keeping everything they found while traversing the rooms. If they disconnect, when they connect again they will be presented with a choice to continue the run or end it.
• Players will enter a total of 20 rooms during the run, and the last room is designated as a special room that must include 3 items and 1 guardian.
• Final rooms seem to usually have ink bottles and a higher chance of getting runestones.

Stone Guardian

Stone Guardians are entities that serve a similar functionality to NPC Doodle Tamers. Upon defeating them in a battle, they disappear, and the player is allowed to select one of two or three (or four in one room) other items found in the room. Then, after taking an item, the player may proceed. Stone Guardians' teams range from having 3 to 4 doodles, except for in the final room, where the Stone Guardian will always have 6. Their levels vary based on the number of doodles the Stone Guardian has, with its first doodle being the lowest level, to the last doodle being the highest level: which is equal that of the player's highest-leveled Doodle, minus three.

Doctor Stone Guardian

A variant of the Stone Guardians which are cyan instead of gray. They appear in the center of an island without any item pedestals around them. Acting like an NPC Doodle Doctor, they will offer the player the chance to heal all of their doodles before disappearing. They always appear in the 10th room.

Item Pedestals

Item pedestals come in different rarities. Below is a chart that lists every Item pedestal tier and what items belong to them.

Doodles

Doodles can be found standing in the center of a room, some exclusive to Runic Island called Extinct Doodles. The player will only be allowed to proceed to another room once the encounter with the Doodle is finished. Whether this be by defeating it or catching it, it will not affect any chains the player may have. Rooms with extinct Doodles do not contain item pedestals. The Doodle that spawns has a chance to be misprint or Unique, have a skin and/or a tint. You are unable to chain these Doodles.

Below is a chart that lists every Doodle that can be obtained.

Encounters

Icon	Name	Type	Rarity	Equipment
	Squed	Earth	Very Rare	Swag Juice
	Weecub	Fire	Rare	None
	Reliconis	Spirit/Beast	Extremely Rare	None
	Cranigunk	Poison	Common	Toxic Vial
	Meiolicant	Poison	Rare	Toxic Vial
	Dodotor	Beast/Air	Uncommon	Fluffy Feather
	Velodo	Beast/Air	Very Rare	Fluffy Feather
	Griblo	Insect/Beast	Common	Amber Trapped Fly
	Arthopex	Insect/Beast	Rare	Amber Trapped Fly
	Skitis	Insect/Dark	Common	Decorated Hairclip
	Exoskelis	Insect/Dark	Rare	Decorated Hairclip
	Tasjoney	Beast	Uncommon	Chewed Up Bone
	Tasmarauder	Beast/Melee	Very Rare	Chewed Up Bone
	Rheode	Earth/Crystal	Very Rare	Geode Pendant
	Prarnaw	Water/Beast	Uncommon	None
	Maximutt	Basic/Dark	Common	None
	Cthuwu	Water/Dark	Uncommon	None
	Alptusk	Ice	Very Rare	None
	Grom	Dark	Common	Dark Brooch
	Scorm	Crystal	Rare	None
	Lizzerts	Food	Uncommon	None
	Foresatl	Plant/Beast	Very Rare	None
	Cinderling	Fire/Air	Rare	None
	Trilosect	Insect	Very Rare	None
	Trilagid	Ice/Insect	Very Rare	None
	Squinana	Plant/Food	Uncommon	None
	Banautilus	Plant/Food	Very Rare	None
	Jestwirl (Easter Event Only)	Basic/Mind	Extremely Rare	None
	Koriyu (Easter Event Only)	Ice/Dark	Extremely Rare	None
Fishing (Lv. ??-??)
	Finwick	Water	Very Common (100%)	None

Easter Event 2023

Main Article: Easter Event 2023

The 2023 Easter Event was entirely held in Runic Island. Gray, green and blue item pedestals had a chance to have an Easter Token stack, which would give you 10 Easter Tokens. Gold pedestals have a chance to have an Easter Token bag, which will give you 50 Easter Tokens. You could have used these tokens to buy skins at the Easter Bunny's shop back in the Runic Island Gateway or Lakewood Town. Using an Island Voucher doubled the amount of Tokens you get per Token Stack/Bag.

During the duration of the event, there was a new room that could give you Easter Tokens, a Jestwirl, an Easter-skin Koriyu or the Easter Egg Mount.

Battlepass Act 3

The 3rd Battlepass contained a Mount that relates to an upcoming substory involving Runic Island. Wish_z posted the following narrative writing giving some background lore to the islands in conjunction with this upcoming substory:

So much wanton loss of life.
We need to honor the fallen.
A snap shot, no, a recreation, if you will.
It shall be called the Runic Islands.

We can't bring the deceased back to life.
But we can preserve their memory.
They shall be made into stone guardians.
These stone guardians will forever guard this idealistic paradise.

But what about the items they possessed?
They shall be given out to anyone who can prove their mettle.
It is better they are used.
The runestones... created from the power of fallen Doodles.

The Doodles themselves... simulacrums.
My special magic.
They are recreations of Doodles that went extinct as a result of the war.
For all intents and purposes, they are living, breathing beings.

The one thing I don't understand.
Why do the islands shift around?
That wasn't my idea.
I'm afraid. Something is trying to steal my islands.

The update will also introduce new Runic Doodles, some of which have already been teased.

Trivia

The "missing texture room".

• There is a very low chance to enter a room called the "missing texture room", which has no item, no guardian and no Doodle.
  • The room is a reference to the "missing texture" texture seen in games using the Source Engine when the texture files for an object are missing.
• There is a room with a doctor stone guardian where you can heal your doodles. This room is always guaranteed in the 10th room
• Squed, Weecub, Finwick (when fishing), Jestwirl, and Koriyu are the only non-extinct Doodles who can be found here.
  • Koriyu is also the only Doodle that is guaranteed to have a skin when it's encountered here.
• Not counting fishing, Runic Island is the only location with Doodles that can't be chained.
  • Despite having Doodles, it doesn't have a sign to show how many Doodles the player has caught, nor a reward for catching all the Doodles.
  • When fishing in the water rooms, the only Doodle that can be encountered is Finwick.
• Runic Island has the most Doodles encounterable in one area, at 24/26 with 19/21 different species.
  • Jestwirl and Koriyu are not counted since they are limited.
• The player cannot trade with anybody once they have entered any Runic Island room.
• Players have a chance to find the Easter room during the Easter event, a room with 3 pedestals containing mostly Easter stacks, with a chance of it being replaced by an Easter token bag or the Easter mount.
• There is a small chance to enter the room that has an increased rate to get Runestones and Ink Bottles (even if you may not be using an Island Voucher). It is also based on Elegant Valley's Poke Center from Project Pokemon, the game which Doodle World recycles the engine of.
• There is a room with a half-buried moyai, where if there is a guardian there, will always have a team of Misprint Moyai with different skins.
  • This same room is also the only room to have a chance to spawn a Squed.
• If using a voucher, each pedestal in a final boss room has a 1/4 chance to have a runestone, and a 3/4 chance to have an ink bottle.
• When entering a water room, there is a chance for the water to be colored differently from it's usual blue color