“ | Unlike the Common Wubbox, the Rare can be bought for a song - as long as you're singing the right tune. In this inactive state, it's hard to tell what physically differentiates the two Monsters, but the most striking contrast is the Rare Wubbox's modest bed count - it's only one! We're hoping to learn more once this cryptic creature is powered up with Monsters and awakens to share its song.
Get going with the boxing! Your Common Natural Monsters just won't do - this picky customer only accepts Rares. |
” |
— Inactive Bio on the Natural Islands |
“ | The story goes that this Monster yearned to learn more about the human world, and embarked on a journey through the multiverse. It's now obvious that the Wubbox hurtled not only through space, but also time, towards its destination. Upon its return, it extolled the virtues of revolutionary music tech like turntables, keytars and vocoders. Thanks to its talent for self-customization, the Wubbox integrated pieces of its discoveries into its very being, forever altering its shape, song, and completing its transformation into the sensational Rare Wubbox. | ” |
— Active Bio on the Natural Islands |
“ | Well, well, well… looks like it's time to officialize the previously speculative Monster class of 'Superethereal' - now it has two members! Just like its Supernatural cousins, this Electric Elemental isn't just a Monster World traveler, but a dimension traveler as well, having made stops in the human world before finally settling in the pocket dimension. Despite the Rare Wubbox's distinct appearance, all Wubbox exteriors have the same versatile chemical composition that allows for Monsters of various Elements to be 'boxed' inside. It's believed that this unique material shared many properties with Bubblerite, a mineral native to the Monster World with creative potential housed inside every molecule.
Get going with the boxing! Your Common Ethereal Monsters just won't do - this picky customer only accepts Rarethereals. |
” |
— Inactive Bio on Ethereal Island |
“ | It was a long time coming but Rare Wubbox has finally joined the chorus of Ethereal Island, complete with its unique musical offerings synthesized from computer error messages it overheard during its travels in the human world! The increased presence of the Wubbox and its variant subspecies strengthens the theory postulated by some that the pocket dimension served as a sort of experimental sandbox for ancient beings endowed with the spirit of creation, before formalizing their handiwork in the main dimension. Obviously, we are not finished learning about the mysterious early days of the Monster World. Rare Wubbox seems to gravitate towards a particular meadow on Ethereal Island, where the fabric of reality has frayed and allowed pieces of different dimensions of the multiverse to cross over. | ” |
— Active Bio on Ethereal Island |
“ | Howsoever the Common form of the Wubbox came to be found in the site of the former living core, specimens of the Rare variety seem to have followed it there as well, raising questions as to how the Monster's life cycle actually operates in the first place. If, as it's been confirmed was the case for other Rare Wubbox, it journeyed to the human world to derive inspiration for its robotic lyrics, how does it revert to egg form upon re-entering the Monster World? Is it a byproduct of being able to shift its consciousness through materials powered by Electricity? Or perhaps a feature built into its design by its creator?
In any event, get going with the boxing! Your Common Natural and Fire Monsters wont do - this picky customer only accepts Rares. |
” |
— Inactive Bio on Fire Haven |
“ | The parallels of Natural and Fire Monsters reuniting on Fire Haven, compared with its own return to the Monster World to reacquaint itself with its Common cousin, are not lost on the Rare Wubbox. Despite styling itself as more of an adventurer than an inventor, the well-traveled Electric Elemental still relishes any opportunity to hobnob (Wubnob?) with the Wubbox, with whom it gets along famously. Regaling its cousin with tales of its experiences in the human world, it even took the time recently to confide secrets related to their very own nature, revealed during the Electric journey between dimensions. It seems that the path towards self-actualization, as the Rare Wubbox puts it, is aided by entering a state of hibernation or dormancy, something that all Electric Elementals have the potential to achieve. And with the ability to tap into a network of inter-connected minds and spirits, who knows for which Wubbox in the Monster World this information may have prove pertinent? | ” |
— Active Bio on Fire Haven |
“ | The completed line-up of Rare Wublins can only mean one thing: the proverbial red carpet has been rolled out for Rare Wubbox to be powered up on the Electrical Element's home turf! It won't be an easy task to awaken this Supernatural being, but think how touching the Rare reunion will be when all are reunited on Wublin Island. You can even thank Common Wubbox for a small mercy: only 10 unique Rare Wublins are required to power Rare Wubbox up, not the full family of 19!
Get going with the boxing! And remember, your Common Wublins just won't do - this picky customer only accepts Rares. |
” |
— Inactive bio on Wublin Island. |
“ | Always on the lookout for a new chance to Wubnob with its Common cousin, Rare Wubbox tapped into the World Wide Wub network to seek it out. Even the static of the storm surrounding Wublin Island was not enough to block the Monster's Electrical signal, though it did make for a shocking journey for this seasoned Monster World traveler! Now happily powered up after mooching a little energy from its Rare Wublin relatives, Rare Wubbox is ready to party. But much like your fun uncle who shows up uninvited, don't expect Rare Wubbox to bring a dish to the Electric family potluck. | ” |
— Active bio on Wublin Island. |
Description[]
Rare Wubbox is a Supernatural Monster available on all Natural Islands, Gold Island, Ethereal Island, Fire Haven and Wublin Island. It was added on December 10th, 2015 during Version 1.3.7, although it has been added to each island on separate dates. Rare Wubbox is obtained in a way unlike other Monsters. It is purchased in the StarShop for 1 , and then needs to incubate for 2 days and 12 hours, or 16 hours on Ethereal Island. Notice that this Monster only becomes available once the player has reached level 20. When hatched, it is placed as its Box form, which is activated by boxing all required Monsters. Unlike the Wubbox, Rare Wubbox requires Rare Monsters.
Rare Wubbox has the best Coin and Shard production out of any Monster (except for Epic Monculus on Ethereal Island), with its only downside being the large physical space it takes up.
Song[]
Lyrics[]
Unlike other Rares, who have songs identical to their Common variants, Rare Wubbox's sound is a medley of synthesized garbling and vocalized words, with a voice similar to that of someone speaking through a talkbox on keyboard or a vocoder. Its voice is so distorted that it is difficult to make out what it's saying.
It uses technical words such as "error", "loading", "volume", and "overflow", like when a computer receives an error or when the loading bar is low, medium or high. The Monster-Handlers initially kept the lyrics of Rare Wubbox up to interpretation, but they were confirmed in the Anniversary Celebration 2021 trailer. Before this, some members of the community had interpreted the lyrics as malicious in nature or being lyrics sung in fear by the boxed Rare Monsters.
Plant Island[]
- On Plant Island, it says “Wubbabunga! Wubba- Wubba-Wubba- Wub- Wub- Wubba-Wubba-Path not found, pa-pa-pa-pa-path not found!” (Dave Kerr & Matthew Stewart)
Cold Island[]
- On Cold Island, it says “Buffer overflow! ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow. Buff- Buffer over-over-Buffer overflow! ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow- er-er-Buff- Buff- er-er- Buff- er-er” (Sarah Parsons?)
Air Island[]
- On Air Island, it says “Wub- Wub- Wubadubadup dup- du-dup du-dup du-dup du-dup, failing! Error! E-E-E- Error! B-B-Buffer overflow!” (Dave Kerr & Sarah Parsons)
Water Island[]
- On Water Island, it says "... Wubtastic! ... Ta-ta-ta-ta-tastic! ... Wubtastic. ... Error.” (Matthew Stewart)
Earth Island[]
- On Earth Island, it says “Wub up the volume, wub up the volume, wub- wub- wub-wub-wub-wub-wub up the volume! Bad request. Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba- Bad request. Error! E-E-Error! E-E-E-E-E- E-E-Error! Bad request. Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba- Bad request." (Dave Kerr & other unknown voices)
Fire Haven[]
- On Fire Haven, it says “Error! E-E-E-Error! B-B-Buffer overflow! B-B-B-B- Error! E-E-E-Error! B-B-Buffer overflow.” (Unknown voice, which could likely have been sampled from Air Island's part. Probably Sarah Parsons)
Ethereal Island[]
- On Ethereal Island, it says “File.. Not.. Found… Fi-Fi-Fi-Fi-Fi-Fi-File no-no-no-not.. Found.. Fo-Fo-Fo-Fo-... Found." (Sarah Parsons)
Gold Island[]
- On Gold Island, it says “Error! Error! E- E- E-E-File not found! Wub-Wub-Wubbox failed to launch! L- L- Loading, loading!” (Sarah Parsons & unknown voice)
Wublin Island[]
*These Lyrics have been confirmed by the majority of the community. If you want to change it please use the talk page first by adding a new topic before changing it.
- On Wublin Island, it has five tracks:
- "S-System is corrupt-t-t, e-e-error, e-e-e-error, system f-failing!"
- "S-System is corrupt, e-e-e-(*Holds Still)-s-system f-failing!"
- "S-System is corrupt-co-ru-ru-error-e-e-e-e-e-error, system f-failing!"
- "Rebooting! R-R-R Re—booting R-R-Rebooting! Re—All systems go!"
- "Re—booting R-R-R Re—booting All! Systems! Go! (Go, Go, Go...)
In the first soundtrack version of Earth Island, Rare Wubbox has a different sound, which says "Loading, L-Loading F-F-F-F-File not- Loading, F-File not F-F-F-File not F-F-Found Loading, L-L-Loading... F-F-F-F-File not F-F-Fou-F-Found, Loading, L-L-Loading... File not F-F-F-Found."
See also the Wikipedia articles on Mondegreen, apophenia, and pareidolia.
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: TAL Vocoder
Breeding[]
Like its Common variant, Rare Wubbox cannot be bred; it can only be purchased in the StarShop for 1 Starpower. Unlike other Rare Monsters, the Rare Wubbox is always available to purchase.
Once reaching level 15 or higher, it can then be placed on Gold Island. Rare Wubbox on Ethereal Island or Fire Haven cannot be placed on Gold Island, however.
Activation[]
- Main article: Wubbox#Activation
Rare Wubbox is activated just as the Common Wubbox is. The only difference is that it only accepts Rare Monsters. On the Natural Islands, it requires all 15 Natural Rares and all 30 Natural Rares on Gold Island. On Ethereal Island, all 15 Rarethereals are required. On Fire Haven, All 7 Natural Rares and All 8 Fire Rares are required. Also like Wubbox, Rare Wubbox will need to be activated again if removed from Gold Island. On Wublin Island, only 10 unique Rare Wublins need to be boxed into Rare Wubbox to power it up due to the increased difficulty of waking up Rare Wublins.
Using Diamonds[]
Just like Wubbox, Rare Wubbox can use Diamonds instead of boxing Monsters. Diamonds can be used while having no Monsters boxed, or while already having some. Each Monster boxed reduces the price. Each Monster equals the same amount of diamonds, despite some being harder to obtain. For example, the full price to box 15 Monster on Plant Island is 570 , and the price to box only 7 Monsters is 266 . Due to Rare Wubbox's high Diamond cost, it's recommended to use this method sparingly.
Island | Total Cost | Cost per Monster |
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Natural Islands + Fire Haven | 570 | 38 each |
Ethereal Island | 18,000 | 1,200 each |
Gold Island | 11,250 | 375 each |
Wublin Island | 20,000 | 2,000 each |
Strategy[]
Rares can also be obtained with Starpower () through the StarShop or be sped up after breeding. Sometimes during Seasonal Events, multiple Monsters will be available in the StarShop, making powering up a Rare Wubbox significantly faster.
Natural Islands[]
Gold Island[]
Speedups cost is calculated assuming an Enhanced Nursery. Upgrading the Nursery (25 ) is usually worth it if speeding up many Monster eggs in Nursery.
Wublin Island[]
Because only 10 unique Rare Wublins need to be boxed into Rare Wubbox on Wublin Island instead of all 19, it pays to choose which ones to box carefully. After all, some Rare Wublins are inherently easier or harder than others. There's no point in zapping a really hard Rare Wublin, such as Rare Dwumrohl, where a much easier one, such as Rare Brump, will do. The following set of 10 Rare Wublins is recommended due to requiring the fewest possible Eggs to be zapped and Keys to be spent, needing only 95 Rare Eggs and 45 Keys:
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 on the Island, items don't need to be near the Monster. Below are the things liked by Rare Wubbox:
- Thumpies Totem, Too (requires level 10)
- Mount Knottshurr (level 16)
- Freed Thing (level 14)
- Boss Monument (level 18) ()
See the Likes page to view a complete list of all Monsters' likes.
Note: On Wublin Island, Rare Wubbox does not have any likes. Placing these Decorations near Rare Wubbox will not affect the Currency it generates.
Monsters Who Like It[]
The following Monster(s) will increase their happiness by 25% when being placed near Rare Wubbox or when Rare Wubbox and a Unity Tree are on the Island. These may or may not also be Rare Wubbox's likes as well:
- Epic Noggin (, , , )
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.
Coins[]
Shards[]
Wublin Island[]
- Main article: Wublins#Income
Rare Wubbox can produce between 92,500 and 172,500 Coins, 18,800 and 34,750 Treats, and 394 and 691 Shards. As a Rare Monster that takes up a 4x4 grid space, Rare Wubbox produces 10 Diamonds. It generates a random type of currency every 6 to 12 hours. Unlike the Wublins, Rare Wubbox is not affected by Polarity.
Currency generation is calculated separately per Monster, so multiple Rare Wubbox will receive more currency, and have a higher chance overall to obtain valuable Diamonds. For maximizing income across your Wublin Island, see Wublin Island Grid Planning.
Currency Distribution[]
- Main article: Wublins#Currency Type Distribution
The currency for Rare Wubbox is randomly selected from the 4 currencies it can produce. The chances to get each currency are detailed below. Datapoints are the number of recorded collections; the higher number of datapoints, the more accurate the data is.
Coins | Treats | Shards | Diamonds | Datapoints |
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TBD% | TBD% | TBD% | TBD% | TBD |
Please do not edit this table. The data is taken from the Wublins page, which is derived from a joint spreadsheet. You can share your data on its talk page. Note that only large sample sizes of data are valuable.
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.
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More info can be found in the Feeding article.
Selling[]
An empty Rare Wubbox is worth 0 Coins . This makes it not at all a useful strategy to gain Coins by spending 1 Starpower. The selling price will always only be worth approximately the total selling cost of each of the Monsters within if they had been sold separately. Rare Wubbox was the only Rare Monster to have a different selling price from its Common variant prior to version 3.3.0 that released at the start of Anniversary Month 2021, which changed the sell prices of basically every Monster in the game.
The selling price of a full and activated Rare Wubbox thus depends on the Island it is on:
Island | Selling price | Contained Monsters' worth |
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Inactive (Any Island) | 0 / | 0 / |
Plant Island |
750,000 | 750,000 |
Cold Island |
750,000 | 750,000 |
Air Island |
750,000 | 750,000 |
Water Island |
750,000 | 750,000 |
Earth Island |
750,000 | 750,000 |
Fire Haven |
2,670,000 | 2,670,000 |
Ethereal Island |
2,900 | 2,900 |
Gold Island |
Cannot be sold | 1,818,750 |
Wublin Island |
36,818,612 | Varies |
On all Islands, Rare Wubbox sells for the total of the Monsters within; since Rare Fire Monsters have a higher selling price than Rare Naturals, Fire Haven Rare Wubbox sells for more than the Natural Island Rare Wubbox.
Version History[]
Rare Wubbox was originally exclusive to Plant Island and Gold Island, but it has since been made available on 8 islands.
Date | Islands Released to | Version |
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December 15th, 2015 | Plant Island Gold Island |
1.3.7 |
July 22nd, 2016 | Cold Island | 1.4.3 |
September 23rd, 2016 | Air Island | 2.0.0 |
January 4th, 2017 | Water Island Earth Island |
2.0.3 |
September 1st, 2021 | Ethereal Island | 3.3.0 |
May 17th, 2023 | Fire Haven | 3.9.2 |
September 4th, 2024 | Wublin Island | 4.4.0 |
Gallery[]
In-Game[]
On Wublin Island[]
Other In-game[]
Parodies[]
Other[]
Possible Monster Names[]
To see all possible names for Rare Wubbox, see Monster Names.
- Rare Wubbox's name pool is shared with the Common Wubbox.
Notes[]
- Using Diamonds to fill the rest of Rare Wubbox's inventory can sometimes be a better, less time-consuming option, as all Rare Monsters are only available through certain special events that may take tons of weeks/months to successfully collect/breed. Buying them all at once allows you to gain these Rare Monsters when they're not currently in event.
- In the Collection of Monsters, if you attempt to look at a Rare Monster that you haven't found yet when it's not currently in event, that Monster would be unavailable until you fill up a Rare Wubbox at once.
- Rare Wubbox is, ironically, the only monster to not play with the Common Wubbox in Plant Island.
- The island's Colossal also does not play with Wubbox, but the Colossals are not monsters.
- Rare Wubbox is bought for StarPower because, when it was first added, all Rare Monsters were available in the StarShop at all times. On September 1, 2016, Rares were removed from the StarShop, but Rare Wubbox was kept there because the StarShop is the only way to acquire one.
- Rare Wubbox is the only Rare Monster to not like its common equivalent.
- In version 3.9.3, Rare Wubbox's animations on all islands where it's found on were updated so that its eyes had more movement.
- On Ethereal Island Rare Wubbox produces less shards per hour than the common Wubbox, however it has a larger maximum shard capacity than the common Wubbox.
- In the Book of Monsters, the Discovery Screen, and the Memory Game, Rare Wubbox yells "Error!" in a distorted way. This is a snippet of its Gold Island part.
- In the main game, the Rare Wubbox is also the only Rare to have a different song than its Common variant. In My Singing Monsters: Composer, all Rare Monsters have different sounds.
- Before the addition of the Epic Monsters, Rare Wubbox was the only Monster to like decorations from the StarShop.
- Prior to Version 3.3.1, it would not move its eyes or mouth in its idle animation, only resulted in a smile throughout its idle animation. It now moves its mouth like the Common Wubbox, and the Water, Earth, and Gold Epic Wubbox.
- the Rare Wubbox also had gray eyes instead of green eyes prior to Version 3.31.
- Rare Wubbox costs the the least amount of Starpower of anything in the StarShop, requiring only 1 .
- In the Original Soundtrack, Rare Wubbox could be heard on Water and Earth Islands before its official release there. This is also the case for several Monsters, such as Common Wubbox in the Wublin Island soundtrack. Curiously, on Earth Island, Rare Wubbox had different lyrics from the ones used in-game.
- On The Soundtrack version of Earth Island, it says "Loading... Lo-Loading... F-F-File not loading! Loading... L-L-Loading Lo- Lo- Loading... F-F-File n-not f-f-found! Loading... Lo-Lo-Loading F-F-File not lo-lo-loading! F-File n-not f-f-found!"
- It is possible to have an inactive Common Wubbox and Rare Wubbox at the same time. This does not conflict each other as they do not require the same Monsters - the Common Wubbox requires Common Natural Monsters while Rare Wubbox requires Natural Rare Monsters.
- The same goes for the Rare Wubbox and Epic Wubbox.
- Rare Wubbox has the same powering up sound as its Common variant.
- For a period in December starting Friday the 23rd, Rare Wubbox was on sale on all Islands in the Market for free. It was also in the Markets of Water and Earth Islands, despite the fact that it hadn’t been released on these islands yet. The Water and Earth ones were missing animations and used the song of the Common Wubbox on the islands. From this, it can be inferred that Rare Wubbox's addition to the Market during the sale was accidental.
- On January 3rd, 2017, Rare Wubbox was added to the StarShop on Water Island and Earth Island. Rare Wubbox was also fixed for people who had Rare Wubbox before it was officially added to the StarShop, which was unofficially released on December 23rd, 2016.
- Before Version 3.9.3, on Water Island and Earth Island, the disc on Rare Wubbox's chest didn't move when it sang its song. On Ethereal Island, the disc moves periodically.
- Rare Wubbox's record, when examined closely, reads "skinny puppy", which was a Canadian industrial music group.
- Originally, players could only have a single Rare Wubbox on an island. Because of this, there was a bug that allowed players to have more than one Rare Wubbox per island while this restriction was in place. This is no longer possible due to the restriction being removed some time after Rare Wubbox released.
- Rare Wubbox is the only Rare Monster to have a different number of beds compared to its Common and Epic variants, taking up only a single bed instead of Common Wubbox's six beds and Epic Wubbox's ten beds.
- Unlike its Common variant, Rare Wubbox doesn't take up the same amount of beds on Ethereal Island as it does on the rest of its islands. This makes it the monster with the lowest bed count on Ethereal Island, outside of the Dipsters.
- If you Check in a Rare Wubbox into a Hotel, you keep the boxed Rare Monsters.
- Rare Wubbox is the second Monster on Fire Haven to not play with Potbelly. The first is Reedling.
- On Wublin Island, much like its common counterpart, its idle animation is slightly out of time with the Wublins idles. This is because Wublin Island does not play at 70 or 140 bpm.
- Rare Wubbox has a brief pause (with a blank eerie stare) on Wublin Island. It's implied that, due to not having a complete set of Rare Wublins powering it, Rare Wubbox is not at full power there. This is also evidenced by Rare Wubbox constantly acting like it's shutting down and the times it prods its DJ CD.
- Wublin Island is the only island so far where Rare Wubbox has more than 1 track, in this case, it has 5 of them.
Monsters | |||
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Magical Double Element Magical Triple Element Magical Quad Element Double Ethereal Element Triple Ethereal Element Quint Ethereal Element Rare Single Natural and Fire Element Rare Double Natural and Fire Element Rare Triple Natural and Fire Element Rare Quad Natural and Fire Element Rare Quint Fire Element Rare Single Magical Element Rare Double Magical Element Rare Triple Magical Element Rare Quad Magical Element Rare Supernatural Rarethereal Single Element Rarethereal Double Element Rare Core Seasonal Rare Aux. Seasonal and Jam Boree Epic Single Natural and Fire Element Epic Double Natural and Fire Element Epic Triple Natural and Fire Element Epic Quad Natural and Fire Element Epic Supernatural Epic Ethereal Single Element Epic Ethereal Double Element Epic Core Seasonal Epic Aux. Seasonal and Jam Boree Epic Mythical |
Breeding | Breeding Combos | Eggs | Feeding | Likes | Goals | Zapping | Translations |
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