Humbug

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Humbug
Element(s)
Class	Ethereal
Egg(s)
Portrait(s)
Release
Date	2014-02-19
Version	1.2.5
Statistics
Island(s)	Earth Colossingum Ethereal Mirror Earth Upcoming Poison Islet
Available at Level 9
5 Beds Required
2 x 2 Size Required
Breeding Combinations
+ Quarrister and Clamble + Quarrister and Thumpies + Quarrister and PomPom + Quarrister and Reedling
Breeding/Incubation Time
Default:	Earth: 1 day,  12 hours Ethereal: 10 hours
Enhanced:	Earth: 1 day,  3 hours Ethereal: 7 hours,  30 minutes
Skin Boost:	Earth: 1 day,  8 hours,  24 minutes Ethereal: 9 hours
Enhanced and Boosted:	Earth: 23 hours,  24 minutes Ethereal: 6 hours,  30 minutes
Monsters Who Like It
Buying Price
Earth: 1,000
Ethereal: 1,500
	Colossingum: 1,050
Buying Price (Discounted)
50% Off (Earth): 500
50% Off (Ethereal): 750
50% Off (Colossingum): 525
Selling Price
Earth/ Colossingum: 750,000
Ethereal: 20
Costumes
Placement XP
Earth: 375,000
Ethereal: 10,125
Variants
Rare	Rare Humbug
Epic	Epic Humbug
In other Games
Composer	Humbug

“	The Humbug is the incarnation of the misunderstood Ethereal element of Poison. When it buzzes its wings fast enough, it can open up and glide on supersonic dimensional highways from universe to universe. Humbugs naturally enjoy warm weather, and are drawn to humid places where the hum produced by their wings has the finest tone.	”
	— Monster Bio

Description

Humbug is a Single-Element Ethereal Monster with the Poison Element. It is found on Earth Island and can be teleported to either Ethereal Island or The Colossingum once fed to level 15. In a future update, Humbug will also be discovered on Poison Islet. Humbug was added alongside Kazilleon on February 19th, 2014, during version 1.2.5. It is best obtained by breeding Quarrister and a Triple-Element Monster. By default, its breeding time is 1 day and 12 hours long. Humbug has a great Coin production on Earth Island and has rates comparable to Quarrister to Epic Quarrister depending on your coin collection schedule. Although it is recommended to get other Monsters with even higher Coin production. The Goal for placing your first Humbug rewards the player with 5 Diamonds ().

Once teleported to Ethereal Island, Humbug takes 10 hours to incubate. You can then breed it with any other Monster to get more. Like all Single-Element Ethereals, Humbug has excellent Shard production, bested only by other Single-Element Rare and Epic Monsters.

Song

Audio sample:

Instrument: An electric guitar with added flanger

Performer: Dave Kerr

Humbug's song is a legato electric guitar sound with a flanger effect added, providing smooth chords to an island's song.

Breeding

Humbug can be bred using a Quarrister and one Triple-Element Monster. Possible combination(s):

• + Quarrister and Reedling
• + Quarrister and Thumpies
• + Quarrister and PomPom
• + Quarrister and Clamble

There is roughly a 1% chance of breeding this successfully, but out of all of the combinations shown above, Quarrister + Reedling is the best combination out of them all, as Reedling eggs can be zapped to a Gheegur, which is the cheapest Wublin that requires eggs from Earth Island Triples. PomPom eggs can also be zapped to a Gheegur, but Gheegur requires more Reedling eggs than PomPom eggs. According to statistics, doing 70 attempts gives you a 50% chance of successfully breeding at least one Humbug; and doing 690 attempts gives you a 99.9% chance of successfully breeding at least one Humbug. Note that a Rare Monster can substitute any parent. The only exceptions are Ethereal Breeding Bonanzas. There is no 'optimal' breeding method, as all Natural Monsters used to breed humbug result in a 12 hour wait if failure.

• Ethereal Island: + Humbug and Rare Humbug

(Best choice, 100% chance of a Humbug if Rare Humbug is unavailable)

Likes

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 or a Primordial Monster on the Island, items don't need to be near the Monster. Below are the things liked by Humbug:

Thumpies
(requires level 9)
()

Kazilleon
(level 9)
()

Floofy Nest
(level 24)

Flappy Flag
(level 9)

Piney Tree
(level 13)
()

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

Monsters Who Like It

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

Kazilleon
()

Rare Humbug

Costumes

Main article: Costumes

Costume	Colossingum Availability	Cost
MailMon Mike	Always available	85,500 (discounted) 43 (discounted) 131,250 (full price) 64 (full price)
Big Fungus	Always available	25 (discounted) 37 (full price)
Straw Hat Disguise SummerSong	N/A	40

Used in Breeding

Humbug is used in the following breeding combinations:

Bred with Result Breeding Time (enhanced) Ethereal Island Ghazt Jellbilly 1 day,  18 hours (1 day,  7 hours,  30 minutes) Ghazt Rare Jellbilly 2 days,  4 hours,  30 minutes (1 day,  15 hours,  22 minutes,  30 seconds) Grumpyre Kazilleon 1 day,  18 hours (1 day,  7 hours,  30 minutes) Grumpyre Rare Kazilleon 2 days,  4 hours,  30 minutes (1 day,  15 hours,  22 minutes,  30 seconds) Reebro Dragong 1 day,  18 hours (1 day,  7 hours,  30 minutes) Reebro Rare Dragong 2 days,  5 hours (1 day,  15 hours,  45 minutes) Jeeode Fung Pray 1 day,  18 hours (1 day,  7 hours,  30 minutes) Jeeode Rare Fung Pray 2 days,  5 hours (1 day,  15 hours,  45 minutes) Whisp Epic Monculus 2 days,  9 hours,  31 minutes (1 day,  19 hours,  8 minutes,  15 seconds) Any other Monster Humbug 10 hours (7 hours,  30 minutes) Any other Monster Rare Humbug 12 hours,  38 minutes,  20 seconds (9 hours,  28 minutes,  45 seconds) 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 or Shards per hour 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.

Earth Island

Level	Per Minute					Maximum
	0% Happiness	25% Happiness	50% Happiness	75% Happiness	100% Happiness
1	14	17	21	24	28	25,000
2	22	27	33	38	44	40,000
3	34	42	51	59	68	60,000
4	45	56	67	78	90	80,000
5	56	70	84	98	112	100,000
6	67	83	100	117	134	120,000
7	78	97	117	136	156	140,000
8	90	112	135	157	180	160,000
9	101	126	151	176	202	180,000
10	112	140	168	196	224	200,000
11	123	153	184	215	246	220,000
12	134	167	201	234	268	240,000
13	146	182	219	255	292	260,000
14	157	196	235	274	314	280,000
15	168	210	252	294	336	300,000
16	176	220	264	308	352	315,000
17	183	228	274	320	366	327,600
18	188	235	282	329	376	337,428
19	192	240	288	336	384	344,176
20	194	242	291	339	388	347,618

Ethereal Island

Level	Per Hour					Maximum
	0% Happiness	25% Happiness	50% Happiness	75% Happiness	100% Happiness
1	2	2	3	3	4	25
2	3	3	4	5	6	40
3	5	6	7	8	10	60
4	6	7	9	10	12	80
5	8	10	12	14	16	100
6	10	12	15	17	20	120
7	11	13	16	19	22	140
8	13	16	19	22	26	160
9	14	17	21	24	28	180
10	16	20	24	28	32	200
11	18	22	27	31	36	220
12	19	23	28	33	38	240
13	21	26	31	36	42	260
14	22	27	33	38	44	280
15	24	30	36	42	48	300
16	25	31	37	43	50	315
17	26	32	39	45	52	327
18	26	32	39	45	52	337
19	27	33	40	47	54	344
20	27	33	40	47	54	347

Feeding Monsters

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

The Treats per level table:

Level Food Per Feeding x4 Food to Level Up Total food to reach this Level 1 20 80 - 2 40 160 80 3 80 320 240 4 160 640 560 5 320 1,280 1,200 6 640 2,560 2,480 7 1,280 5,120 5,040 8 2,560 10,240 10,160 9 5,120 20,480 20,400 10 10,240 40,960 40,880 11 20,480 81,920 81,840 12 40,960 163,840 163,760 13 81,920 327,680 327,600 14 163,840 655,360 655,280 15 245,760 983,040 1,310,640 16 368,640 1,474,560 2,293,680 17 552,960 2,211,840 3,768,240 18 829,440 3,317,760 5,980,080 19 1,244,160 4,976,640 9,297,840 20 - - 14,274,480

More info can be found in the Feeding article.

Note: As of version 1.2.0, Single-Element Ethereals can be fed to level 15 on the Natural Islands, at which time they can be teleported to Ethereal Island instead of being placed on Gold Island.

Possible Monster Names

To see all possible names for Humbug, see Monster Names.

Gallery

In-Game

Idle animation

Muted Humbug

Discovery Screen

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Parodies

Humbug in a Rango parody.

An A Bug's Life parody: A Monster's Life.

Other

Meet the Monsters

Promotional image from the now-discontinued Big Fish Games version's website

Humbug presenting the Monsterple Choice pop quiz

All pre-Workshop Ethereals together

Teaser for the Poison element

Promotional image

Notes

• Humbug's name is a portmanteau of "Hum" and "Bug", referring to its hum-like buzzing sound and that it is a bug. It is also a play on the English word of the same name.
• It is true that some insects are attracted to warm places, as Humbug is to Earth Island.
• Humbug was the first Ethereal Monster to have a purchasable Costume.
• The Monstrous symbol for the number '5' appears on Humbug's head. Humbug was the 5th Single-Element Ethereal to be released in the game.

Breeding	Breeding Combos	Eggs	Feeding	Likes	Goals	Zapping	Translations