| “ | Ahoy, here be a whale of a tale… or is it the tail of a whale? Actually, the tail is the least interesting part. As a calf, the Bowhead has yet to achieve mastery over landborne levitation, but is totally satisfied with roly-poly wibbly-wobbling in place. The momentum generated by said wobbling actually makes it easier to glide its flippers across its baleen, and make music as supple and sublime as any waterfall. | ” |
| — Young Bio |
| “ | Humble beginnings rise and crest like a wave crashing on the surf in the full grown baronial Bowhead. Indubitably, it is the largest of the marine Monsters, and as it glides through the water, it can even be mistaken for a titanic Glubblet. Now adept at floating both in the air and the water, the adult Bowhead also boasts an impressive range of expertise across animal, vegetable and mineral information. Generally speaking, it is the very model of a modern Monstro-cetacean. | ” |
| — Adult Bio |
| “ | This Bowhead returned from the Prism Gate forever changed! Are strange plants your hobby? Then you'll love this botanic Prismatic. It's said that as this gap-toothed cetacean-turned-vegetation emerged for the first time, the Monster World experienced a total eclipse of the sun, followed by a strange humming sound. And whoopsy-doo, there it was - extraordinary! | ” |
| — Prismatic Bio |
Description[]
Bowhead is a Quint-Elemental Monster that is first available at Level 9. It is best obtained by breeding Boskus and Spunge. Its breeding and incubation time is 48 hours long. It can be teleported to Space Island once fed to level 10. It was added in Version 3.0.5 along with young Blabbit on the Continent.
Song[]
Audio sample:
Instrument: Cello
On the Continent, Bowhead plays at the end of the song. On Space Island, it plays during Bowgart's third verse and where Noggin and Drumpler stop playing during PomPom's first verse.
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/Opus
Sound library: EastWest Hollywood Solo Cello Diamond
- Continent/Space Island (Sustained articulation)
Path: 04 Legato
SoundFont: Solo Cello Leg Slur
- Space Island (Staccato articulation)
Path: 03 Short
SoundFont: Solo Cello Marc Shrt RRx4
The VST for Bowhead's other articulation on Space Island has not yet been found.
Breeding[]
Bowhead can be bred with the elements Air, Plant, Water, Cold, and Fire. The following are the combinations for breeding Bowhead:
+ Incisaur and Tweedle - + Sneyser and Potbelly
- + Yelmut and Toe Jammer
- + Bisonorus and Mammott
- + Deedge and Kayna
- + Wynq and Dandidoo
- + Sooza and Quibble
- + Rootitoot and Pango
- + Bowgart and Glowl
- + Woolabee and Oaktopus
- + Whaddle and Furcorn
- + Congle and Flowah
- + Barrb and Maw
- + Thumpies and Phangler
- + Spunge and Boskus
Of these, Spunge+Boskus is the best combination, as failing and breeding a Boskus lets you retry the combo fairly quickly.
Bowhead can also be bred through breeding failure. Any combination that includes Bowhead and another Monster has a 50% chance to result in either Bowhead or the other Monster. The best combinations include:
- + Bowhead and Noggin
(Best choice, has the lowest waiting time in case of not resulting in a Bowhead. 50% chance of a Noggin)
- + Bowhead and Kayna
(Second best choice, 50% chance of a Kayna)
Used in Breeding[]
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Feeding Monsters[]
Bowhead will request food and/or non-food items that are the products of Structures. If you cannot give the Monster the food or items it requires, you can click the New Order button. After a 15 minute wait, it will ask for a new combination of foods or other items.
Rewards[]
When given the wanted foods or items, like any Monster, it will reward you coins.
Teleporting[]
Bowhead can be teleported to Space Island. It costs 5,000 
to teleport, and after teleportation it rewards 7 
. Teleportation for the Bowhead takes 80 hours.
Prismatic Variants[]
During limited time events when Prism Gate is open and Bowhead is available for transformation on Outer Islands, an adult Bowhead can be transformed into one of six different colored variants.
| Color | Base Chance |
Prisment Bonus |
Time (hh:ss) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Red | 2% | +1% per  |
24:00 |
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Orange | 30% | +1% per  |
18:00 |
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Yellow | 25% | +1% per  |
19:00 |
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Green | 20% | +1% per  |
20:00 |
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Blue | 15% | +1% per  |
22:00 |
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Purple | 8% | +1% per  |
23:00 |
Possible Monster Names[]
To see all possible names for Bowhead, see Monster Names.
Gallery[]
Young[]
Adult[]
Prismatic[]
In-Game[]
Miscellaneous[]
Notes[]
- Bowhead represents the Water Element.
- Bowhead is the first Quint, and Monster in general (without counting Blabbit), to be introduced during the Eggs-Travaganza Junior event.
- Bowhead is the first Monster to be added to Space Island in over 5 years, since the addition of Cybop in 2019.
- Like the situation with Tuskski and Gnarls, Bowhead's design is drastically different from the original game. This is noticeable with the addition of extra barnacles and spikes and the difference in its size.
- Out of any Quint-Element Monster in Dawn of Fire, Bowhead has the longest breeding failure time. This is because Bowhead lacks the Earth Element.
- When Bowhead released on Space Island, there was a bug where you can barely hear it when it plays, this was eventually fixed later.
- It also bugged Spunge when it arrived. Spunge’s animation and sound wasn’t playing, and this was also fixed later.
- Bowhead was the first Quint to be released in 2024.
- Adult Bowhead's bio includes multiple references to the Major-General's Song from the comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.
- Bowhead possessing "animal, vegetable and mineral information" references the line "I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral".
- "Generally speaking" is a reference to the song itself, being sung by the Major-General.
- The bio saying "it is the very model of a modern Monstro-cetacean" references the opening line "I am the very model of a modern Major-General".
- Bowhead is the only Fire Expansion Monster that can exclusively teleport to Space Island.
- Bowhead is currently the last Monster to be on Space Island.
- Bowhead going to Space Island in Dawn of Fire was hinted at in the Fire Expansion update, when Bowhead went to Psychic Island (Space Island's Magical counterpart).
- Bowhead is the last Monster to receive its Prismatic forms to:
- Be on Space Island
- Be on Psychic Island
- Not have the Earth Element
- There appears to be a pattern with the Prismatic Quints, which all the Elements of the Quints would be pushed back by two, arranged by the elements order (Air, Plant, Earth, Water, Cold, Fire). For Bowhead, even though it represents the Water Element, its Prismatic forms represent the Plant Element.
- In the Version 3.1.0 Update, Bowhead's song on the Continent was bugged, where its first and second tracks played in the wrong order and its animation would freeze after playing its first track. This bug has been fixed in version 3.2.0.
- Bowhead has the second shortest distance between its release in DoF and its Prismatic release, at just 168 days.
- The lines "Are strange plants your hobby?" and "The Monster World experienced a total eclipse of the sun, followed by a strange humming sound. And whoopsy-doo, there it was" in the Prismatic's bio are references to the song Da-Doo from the film Little Shop of Horrors.
- The shine in Bowhead's eye is locked in place on Space Island; however, on the Continent, it moves as if it were a pupil.
- Bowhead and Gnarls both released in the same year, making 2024 the first year since 2019 in which more than one Fire Monster was released in Dawn of Fire.
- It is to be expected that Bowhead will receive a costume for the Festival of Yay Junior Seasonal Event in 2024.
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