Boo'qwurm

Boo'qwurm
Element(s)
Class	Aux. Seasonal (MindBoggle)
Egg(s)
Portrait(s)
Release
Date	2022-08-17
Version	3.6.0
Statistics
Island(s)	Psychic Seasonal Mirror Psychic
Available at Level 9
2 Beds Required
2x2 Size Required
Breeding Combinations
Psychic Island (when available): + Periscorp + Bonkers Seasonal Shanty + Schmoochle + Hoola
Breeding/Incubation Time
Default:	1 day,  6 minutes,  24 seconds
Enhanced:	18 hours,  4 minutes,  48 seconds
Skin Boost:	21 hours,  41 minutes,  45 seconds
Enhanced and Boosted:	15 hours,  40 minutes,  9 seconds
Likes
Monsters Who Like It
Buying Price
Psychic: 225
Seasonal: 500
Buying Price (Discounted)
50% Off (Seasonal): 250
Selling Price
168,750
Placement XP
220,000
Variants
Rare	Rare Boo'qwurm
Epic	Epic Boo'qwurm

“	Do you have a love of reading and brain teasers, but you're nervous about trying to crack open any of those fearsomely-toothed Bib'leos lyin' around? No sweat for the clever Boo'qwurm, who has a special way with the rambunctious creatures. Exceptionally well-read and stuffed to the brim with wit and wordplay, this Seasonal simply recites a favorite passage from memory or solves a particularly challenging word puzzle, and the Bib'leos immediately become docile. So docile, in fact, that a Boo'qwurm is able to use special pads in its hands to drum upon their covers and absorb all of the knowledge contained therein. It's supposedly much faster that way - makes studying for tests a breeze.	”
	— Monster Bio

Description

Boo'qwurm is a Seasonal Monster that celebrates the MindBoggle season and is found on Psychic Island and Seasonal Shanty. It was added on August 17th, 2022 during Version 3.6.0. As a Seasonal Monster, it is only available at certain times. It is best obtained by breeding Periscorp and Bonkers. By default, its breeding time is 1 day, 6 minutes and 24 seconds long. Boo'qwurm has a low Coin production compared to other Monsters on Psychic Island.

Boo'qwurm can either be teleported to Seasonal Shanty once fed to level 15, or bred with Schmoochle and Hoola. Boo'qwurm has a low Coin production when compared to other Monsters. The Goal for placing a Boo'qwurm on Seasonal Shanty rewards the player with 5 .

Song

Audio Sample:

Instrument: Bombo drum

Boo'qwurm's contribution to the song is a sound similar to a Chilean Bombo drum, played by hitting its stack of Bib'leos.

VSTs

Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.

VST: PLAY
Sound library: EastWest Stormdrum 2
SoundFont: Chilean Bombo

Breeding

Boo'qwurm can only be bred for a limited time during the MindBoggle season on Psychic Island, or anytime on Seasonal Shanty.

• Psychic Island: + Periscorp and Bonkers
• Seasonal Shanty: + Schmoochle and Hoola

Note that breeding Seasonal Monsters is not 100% guaranteed to get you the Monster. You might have to try multiple times.

• + Boo'qwurm and Rare Boo'qwurm

(Best choice, 100% chance of a Boo'qwurm if Rare Boo'qwurm is unavailable)

Availability

For a list of when this Monster has been available, see: Breeding Availability

Boo'qwurm, like all Seasonals are only available during their own season, a weekend Out-of-Season event (6 months apart) and the Anniversary Month Celebration. It is also available to breed at any time on Seasonal Shanty.

NOTE: Boo'qwurm can only be bred or purchased on Psychic Island during the available dates. Any Boo'qwurms on Psychic Island that are obtained during that time will stay unless they are sold. However, as stated before, Boo'qwurm can be bought or bred on Seasonal Shanty at any time, though it is discounted when it is available on other islands. Boo'qwurm is also obtainable via weekly Scratch Tickets on Psychic Island.

Likes

• Poppette

  Go to Poppette
• Ffidyll

  Go to Ffidyll
• Zuffle Tree

  Go to Zuffle Tree
• Fossil-osaurus

  Go to Fossil-osaurus
• Toob

  Go to Toob

1/5

Every Monster has different things that they like. For every unique object that they like that's placed near the Monster, the Monster's happiness will increase by 25%. Placing more than one of the same liked item near a Monster won't increase its happiness by an additional amount. If there's a Unity Tree on the Island, items don't need to be near the Monster. Below are the things liked by Boo'qwurm:

• Poppette (requires level 9) ()
• Ffidyll (level 9) ()
• Zuffle Tree (level 20)
• Fossil-osaurus (level 17)
• Toob (level 10) ()

See the Likes page to view a complete list of all Monsters' likes.

Monsters Who Like It

• Viveine

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• Rare Boo'qwurm

  Go to Rare Boo'qwurm

1/2

The following Monster(s) will increase their happiness by 25% when being placed near Boo'qwurm or when Boo'qwurm and a Unity Tree are on the Island. These may or may not also be Boo'qwurm's likes as well:

• Viveine ()
• Rare Boo'qwurm

Used in Breeding

Boo'qwurm is used in the following breeding combinations:

Bred with Result Breeding Time (enhanced) dd:hh:mm:ss Seasonal Shanty Gobbleygourd Epic Jam Boree 01:16:23:00 (01:06:17:15) Spurrit Epic Whiz-bang 01:06:30:00 (22:52:30) Any other Monster Boo'qwurm 01:00:06:24 (18:04:48) Any other Monster Rare Boo'qwurm 01:07:45:00 (23:48:45) Any other Monster The other Monster varies Any other Monster Rare variant of the other Monster varies

Statistics

Earning Rate and Maximum Income

Earning rate is in Coins per minute and depends on Happiness % (Likes increase Happiness) and Monster Level. Each Monster also has a maximum amount of income it can hold at a time. Increasing the Monster's Level also increases this limit.

Level	Per Minute					Maximum
	0% Happiness	25% Happiness	50% Happiness	75% Happiness	100% Happiness
1	7	8	10	12	14	2,883
2	11	13	16	19	22	4,530
3	17	21	25	29	34	7,001
4	22	27	33	38	44	9,266
5	27	33	40	47	54	11,531
6	32	40	48	56	64	13,796
7	37	46	55	64	74	16,061
8	43	53	64	75	86	18,532
9	48	60	72	84	96	20,797
10	53	66	79	92	106	23,062
11	58	72	87	101	116	25,327
12	63	78	94	110	126	27,592
13	69	86	103	120	138	30,063
14	74	92	111	129	148	32,328
15	79	98	118	138	158	34,623
16	83	103	124	145	166	36,354
17	86	107	129	150	172	37,794
18	88	110	132	154	176	38,875
19	90	112	135	157	180	39,668
20	91	113	136	159	182	40,104

Feeding Monsters

Each Monster needs to be fed four times before it reaches the next level. Increasing the Monster's level increases the Coins earned per minute, as well as the maximum Coins earned.

The Treats per level table:

Level Food Per Feeding x4 Food to Level Up Total food to reach this Level 1 10 40 - 2 20 80 40 3 40 160 120 4 80 320 280 5 160 640 600 6 320 1,280 1,240 7 640 2,560 2,520 8 1,280 5,120 5,080 9 2,560 10,240 10,200 10 5,120 20,480 20,440 11 10,240 40,960 40,920 12 20,480 81,920 81,880 13 40,960 163,840 163,800 14 81,920 327,680 327,640 15 122,880 491,520 655,320 16 184,320 737,280 1,146,840 17 276,480 1,105,920 1,884,120 18 414,720 1,658,880 2,990,040 19 622,080 2,488,320 4,648,920 20 - - 7,137,240

More info can be found in the Feeding article.

Egg Consumption

Main article: Zapping

While trying to breed other Monsters (particularly Monsters with a very low chance of breeding), the following Celestials can be used to "dispose of" Boo'qwurm eggs immediately, instead of putting them into a Nursery and having that Nursery not be available. Note that doing this for Rare Wublins will cause the Wublin to stop producing currency and the eggs will not expire.

Boo'qwurm

Adult Scaratar 1 egg

Note that Monster eggs can only be "disposed of" before awakening Celestials; afterwards those Monsters will not accept any eggs. Also note that Monsters to which you have already disposed the number of Boo'qwurm eggs that it accepts, will no longer be available as a "recycle bin" for such eggs. Also note that Seasonal Monsters, like Boo'qwurm, cannot be zapped from Seasonal Shanty.

Possible Monster Names

To see all possible names for Boo'qwurm, see Monster Names.

Gallery

In-Game

Idle animation

Muted Boo'qwurm

Discovery Screen

Promotional image on Seasonal Shanty

Promotional image on Psychic Island

Other

Teaser

2 pages of the book in the MindBoggle element sigil

Boo'qwurm reading a red book while playing on a grey book, which is only shown in the "A Real Page-Turner" trailer

Rylek Du’Brom, a notable Boo'qwurm literary figure

Boo'qwurm presenting the Monsterple Choice pop quiz

Boo'qwurm presenting another Monsterple Choice pop quiz

National Book Lover’s Day

Notes

• Both of the Monsters used to breed Boo'qwurm on Seasonal Shanty can be bred on Air Island. Despite this, Boo'qwurm itself is unavailable on Air Island.
• Boo'qwurm's name is a malaprop of the word bookworm, a term for a person who is devoted to reading.
• Boo'qwurm is the last Aux. Seasonal Monster to be released on Seasonal Shanty.
• Boo'qwurm appears to have a hair bun that looks very similar to Maw on its head.
  • However, in the second episode of Quick Questions with Monster-Handler Tyson, Tyson confirmed that it is actually a second mouth for Boo'qwurm to consume food without staining its Bib'leos.
    • The idea that Boo'qwurm uses this "second" mouth for eating without staining its Bib'leos is a possible reference to the Japanese yokai, Futakuchi-onna, in which said yokai feasts on food by using a hidden second mouth located in its hair, without having the actual mouth located on the face needing to chew.
  • In the sixth episode of Quick Questions with Monster-Handler Tyson, Tyson also confirmed that there is no known evolutionary link between Maw and Boo'qwurm.
• The way Boo'qwurm can absorb knowledge from Bib'leos by piling and "scanning" them is similar to some library scanning machines in real life that can scan piled books' barcodes.
  • It achieves this by projecting quick, low-grade x-rays down into the book, which is paired with its eidetic (photographic) memory, allowing it to recall and preserve that information cleanly.
• Boo'qwurm is one of only two Seasonal Monsters to occupy two beds, the other being Schmoochle. This may be due to the Monster's Bib'leos.
  • It is one of three Seasonal Monsters overall to occupy more than one bed, with Jam Boree taking up three beds.
• "Bib'leos" may derive from "Bibliothèque", which means library in French.
  • Their name also seems to be related to the prefix "biblio-", which refers to books as a whole.
  • Their name in the German version of the game is "Bibliöwen", the "Löwen" part of which means "lions". It is therefore likely that the "leo" part of their name refers to the Latin word "leo", which means lion.
  • This could also just be based on the word "bibliography".
• Boo'qwurm's sound could first be heard in this teaser on Twitter, four months before its official release.
• The bib'leo that Boo'qwurm is reading is likely based on the Necronomicon ex Mortis from Evil Dead.
• Boo'qwurm is the first Seasonal Monster that is part of an inventory of a Monster.
  • This was formerly the case for Gobbleygourd, who mistakenly used to be part of the inventory for Barrb's Vessel, before it was replaced by Gob.
• The "book worm" pronunciation is the casual, vernacular way of saying its name while the official, correct pronunciation is "book rr-urm," the double-r representing a rolled r.
  • This is similar to the pronunciation of Cruv'laapht, the Titan host of Psychic Island.

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