How to get and manage your Homunculus

Homunculus Basics

A Homunculus is the Alchemist's companion: it fights, tanks or heals at your side and grows with you. You create it from an Embryo, raise it by feeding it, then evolve it.

• 150 max level for all Homunculi
• 4 Homunculi to choose from
• Lv 3: every Homunculus can learn the other Homunculi's skills up to this level

1. Craft an Embryo with the alchemist's skill "Pharmacy". You can buy the materials at the Alchemist Guild, in the south-west corner of Aldebaran. The Homunculus you get is random, so you may need several Embryos.
2. Use "Call Homunculus" with Embryos in your Inventory. One Embryo is consumed and your new Homunculus appears near you.
3. Check it: Alt + R opens the Homunculus Info window. The command "@hominfo" shows its detailed stats and Intimacy points.
4. Not the one you want? Click "del" in the Homunculus Info window to delete it permanently, and try your luck again.
5. Set up its AI: type /hoai in the chat box, then @refresh, so it follows your orders correctly. If it does not work as expected, see the Azzy AI Tutorial below.

Once you are happy with it, use "Call Homunculus" to summon it again, "Rest" to make it rest, and "Resurrect Homunculus" if it died.

Each Homunculus has an evolved form. It looks different, gets an extra ultimate skill, and has higher stats.

How do I raise my Homunculus?

Feed it to raise its Intimacy. Feed it between 11 and 81 hunger:

• Do not let it starve (hunger 10 or less).
• Do not overfeed it (feeding at 81 hunger or more), or it loses Intimacy.

You can buy Homunculus food from the Trader NPC in the Geffen Tool Shop, or from any Pet Groomer NPC.

Turn on autofeed with Alt+R: it feeds your Homunculus whenever its hunger drops low enough. You can leave it on all the time, with no drawback, as long as you carry the right food.

Evolution

Once your Homunculus is Loyal, evolve it with a "Stone of Sage". Monsters drop it. The evolved form has higher Max HP, SP and stats.

Which Homunculus is the best?

It depends on what you want it to do, and on your play style.

On DARO, every Homunculus can use the skills of the other Homunculi, but only up to level 3.

Amistr: Tank, Brute. High HP, Defense and decent Attack, but low INT, SP and SP regen. Its loyal skill "Blood Lust" boosts its physical attack damage for a while, and its Castling gets you out of danger. A good all-round base for general use.

Filir: ASPD Dealer, Brute. Decent Attack and Attack Speed, moderate HP and low SP. Its melee skill "Moonlight" is instacast. Its loyal skill (S.B.R. 44) deals damage based on its Intimacy, and lowers Intimacy after use.

Lif: Support, Demi-Human. Decent Magic Attack and SP, but low Attack, Defense, Attack Speed and HP. Its healing and movement speed skills "Healing Hands" and "Emergency Avoid" help you survive hard fights.

Vanilmirth: Mage & Brewers, Formless. A must for brewers: its "Instruction Change" raises Pharmacy success rates. Well-rounded stats and growth, also a good base for general use. Its magic skill "Caprice" can now be cast at lvl 5. Its loyal skill (Self Destruction) deals damage based on its MaxHP, and lowers Intimacy after use.

Azzy AI Tutorial

Azzy AI controls how your Homunculus behaves. It comes with DARO's Full Installer. If it is missing from your DARO folder, download an AI with default settings here and extract it into your DARO installation folder, overwriting all.

1. Open the "AI" folder, then the "USER_AI" folder.
2. Run "AzzyAIConfig.exe". It lets you change the AI settings.
3. Change what you need in the tabs described below.

Your Homunculus ignores your settings? Check these points:

• If you are already logged in, log out of your character and come back in game.
• In game, make sure the AI is set to "Customized": type /hoai, then @refresh.
• Make sure your Homunculus is not in passive mode. Alt+T switches between "Passive" and "Aggressive".

Homunculus Tab

The detailed setup: how and when your Homunculus uses its skills, how it moves around you and around enemies, and more.

Basic options

When it should aggro, whether it uses skills, how many monsters it tanks before doing something else (such as an AoE skill), and so on.

• Old Homun Type: set it to the Homunculus you are using now, to avoid odd behavior and make sure it uses its skills.
• Use Attack Skill: usually better on True, even if your Homunculus has not learned its attack skill.
• Use Dance Attack: True if it attacks too slowly. Otherwise False, so it stays in one spot while attacking and regenerates SP more easily.

Autobuff options

When and how your Homunculus uses its buff, defensive and recovery skills:

• Amistr's "Defense", "Castling", and "Blood Lust"
• Filir's "Over Speed" and "Fleet Move"
• Lif's "Mental Change", "Emergency Avoid" and "Healing Hands"
• Vanilmirth's "Chaotic Benedictions"

Autoskill options

How and when your Homunculus uses its attack skills.

Standby Options and Walk/Follow Options

How your Homunculus moves around you and around enemies. You can also choose whether it sits when you sit, or patrols around you instead.

Homunculus Tactics Tab

The Homunculus Tactics tab: what your Homunculus does when it meets monsters.

• Basic Behavior: Attack (Medium) or Attack (High) is usually best, so it aggroes every monster in sight.
• Use Attack Skills and Skill Class: use these dropdown lists to set how it uses its attack skills.

Some skills such as Caprice and Moonlight may have a long cooldown/reuse delay when the Homunculus autocasts them.