Swampland challenges

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Challenges are conditions that unlock new items for all runs once completed. Challenges are displayed in the Compendium, where they are arranged in a 13x5 grid. Their conditions and bonuses are hidden until completed but can be revealed by completing two adjacent challenges. Both maps have 65 challenges each. The following challenges exist for Swampland:

Challenge	Goal	Reward item
Eye Of The Storm	Win against Stormcloud Druid for the first time	Stormcloud Spear
Rock Solid	Win against Granite Griffin for the first time	Petrifying Flask
Sticky Situation	Win against Carnivorous Slime for the first time	Corroded Bone
Shark Tanked	Win against Silverscale Shark for the first time	Whirlpool Edge
Spore Loser	Win against Fungal Giant for the first time	Nerve Poison
Hard Shell, Soft Center	Win against Rockshell Tortoise for the first time	Forge Hammer
Spring Cleaning	Win against Clearspring Spirit for the first time	Clearspring Feather
Toxic Relationship	Win against Stonescale Basilisk for the first time	Basilisk Fang
Croaked	Win against Toxic Miretoad for the first time	Bubblegloop Staff
Tone Deaf	Win against Swampsong Siren for the first time	Sunlight Crest
Root Out The Weeds	Win against Liferoot Experiment for the first time	Muscle Growth
Snail Mail	Win against Ironshell Snail for the first time	Weaver Shield
Head Hunter	Defeat the Swampland Hydra for the first time	Riverflow Rapier
One Of A Kind	Have 4 different unique items in your inventory	Twisted Root
Don't Judge A Book By Its Rarity	Have a diamond tome	Arcane Lens
I'm Gonna Live Forever!	Have 5 or more regeneration in a battle	Sanguine Morphosis
Encore	Trigger Symphony 3 times in a battle	Liferoot Lute
Fungal Fiend	Have 10 or more poison in battle	Noxious Gas
Too Easy	Defeat the first boss with 1 or more empty item slots	Liferoot Gauntlet
Oiled Up	Collect 3 blade oils on a single weapon	Stormcloud Edge
Perfectly Balanced	Start a battle where your base attack, base armor and base speed are equal	Spiritual Balance
A Tree Falls In The Forest	Combine 2 items with the Woodcutter	Explosive Arrow
What Doesn't Kill You	Equip a Crone item	Purelake Potion
Extra Provisions	Have 2 cooked Cauldron items in your inventory	Grilling Skewer
Rust In Peace	Lose 20 armor to acid in a battle	Slime Potion
Grave Robber	Visit Boneyard Bog 3 times in a single run	Bloodlord's Axe
One Man's Trash	Travel to Misplaced Mire through a sinkhole	Rusty Sword
Tis But A Scratch	Take a total of 100 or more damage in a battle and win it	Chainmail Sword
Warm & Cozy	Heal over 20 health using a bonfire	Crimson Fang
One-Man Band	Have 4 different instruments equipped	Sheet Music
Sink Or Swim	Make an enemy have 5 or more riptide	Silver Anchor
Stunlock	Stun an enemy 5 or more times in a battle	Thunder Cloud
AFK	Have 3 or more stun	Spiral Shell
Debuff Buffet	Give the enemy 3 or more different status effects in a battle	Toxic Algae
Peaceful Ways	Win a battle with 0 base attack	Holy Shield
20 Minute Adventure	Enter 5 or more sinkholes in a single run	Silverscale Armor
Pure And Simple	Remove 10 or more of your own purity in a single battle	Cleansing Edge
Can't Catch Me	Gain 4 or more additional strikes in a battle	Stillwater Pearl
Isle Be Back	Return to the same island 3 or more times during a single run	Liferoot Hammer
Welcome Back	Equip the same weapon you discarded earlier in the same run	Stormcloud Armor
Homebody	Defeat the first boss without leaving the starting island	Arcane Gauntlet
Buzzkill	Defeat a Honey Bee	Clearspring Rose
Swimming Lesson	Defeat a boss with riptide damage	Silverscale Trident
Lord Of Blood	Restore 40 or more health in a single battle	Bloodstone Ring
Silver-Tongue	Manage to haggle twice in a row without failing	Liferoot Staff
Breaking Rank	Defeat a Palace Guard	Slime Booster
Diamond In The Rough	Combine 2 golden items using a golem	Leather Waterskin
Walking Library	Equip 4 or more tomes	Arcane Shield
Down With The Sickness	Have 5 unique status effects at the same time	Riverflow Talisman
Float Like A Butterfly	Discover a honey weapon	Life Zap
Game Set Match	Have 2 itemsets active at the same time	Plated Shield
Mama Hen	Hatch all 4 eggs at least once	Petrified Edge
Swamp Mastery	Unlock all other challenges in swamp	Hero's Crossguard
Get Ahead	Defeat the swampland hydra after cutting off the Riptide Head at the start of battle	Weaver Armor
Headstart	Defeat the swampland hydra after cutting off the Acid Head at the start of battle	Acid Mutation
Sunny Side Up	Hatch 2 eggs in a single run	Serpent Mask
Undiscovered Lands	Travel to an island with a boss encounter	Serpent Dagger
Exterminator	Defeat every enemy on an island	Wave Breaker
Bare Essentials	Defeat the Swampland Hydra without any oils or edges	Moonlight Cleaver Strategy Defeating the Hydra without buffing your weapon is likely to take a number of attempts. Note that you can pass over the oil/edge tiles without accepting the buff. You'll likely want to remove the Swampland Hydra Stun Head. If you can get through the Hydra's first head without losing your armor and without accumulating stacks of acid you're on the right track. The build below accomplishes this by stunning it. Weapon Thunderbound Sabre Attack 6 is sufficient. Higher attack is inefficient because the Hydra does not heal between heads, and excess damage is wasted once a head is destroyed. The two stacks of stun is passed to the enemy via a gold Clearspring Feather. Equipment Gold Clearspring Feather to redirect 2 stacks of stun (see above). Petrified Statue combined with two additional stone items gives 3 stun (5 total). Marble Mirror (stone) combined with ... Plated Shield provides Armor 60. Don't remove the Acid Head; the second and third head do not have armor. Gold Arcane Bell to accelerate tomes (Symphony unused here) Gold Granite Tome primarily to provide the additional stack of stun above. The stone tag is more essential than the additional armor Purelake Tome provides adequate healing by generating and redeeming Purity Liferoot Beast was present, but not needed. Stoneborn Turtle or any other stone item would be better. Donts Acid debuffs are a poor choice against Hydra. The four heads are ordered to maximize the effectiveness of their respective debuffs. They are applied "on hit" and thus build up quickly. A debuff removing build is a sensible approach, but I found it too difficult to implement well. Fungal Cloak was not helpful. YMMV. The third head's position as last (or second) of the three results in Fungal Cloak's performance being either underwhelming or unnecessary. Muscle Potion and/or Muscle Elixir, even when Gold or in multiple slots, is no guarantee of success. I failed repeatedly with double digit Attack stats. Unlocks Moonlight Cleaver is your reward for completing the Bare Essentials challenge.
Bubbling Brew	Give a potion to the potion maker	King's Blade
Chain Of Command	Have Champion’s Armor, Knight’s Armor, and Squire’s Armor equipped at the same time	Purelake Staff
Armored Up	Gain 40 armor in a single instance	Soap Stone
Head's Up	Defeat the swampland hydra after cutting off the Poison Head at the start of battle	Petrified Statue
Head In The Clouds	Defeat the swampland hydra after cutting off the Stun Head at the start of battle	Mist Armor
Taking Out The Trash	Get defeated by a Raccoon	Rusted Plate