Wander events

Random encounters show up as you travel between different regions, or when you use the "wander" button to explore locally. Encounters are generally divided based on the target region.

When not wandering, (ie when travelling), you have a baseline 95% chance of a random encounter. This is reduced by 10% every 5 encounters, up to (and including) 30 encounters, giving you an eventual 35% encounter rate. Wearing the Ring of Gettin' Places Faster can reduce the rate by a further 25%, resulting in a minimum of a 10% chance of encounters. The actual encounter will be a location discovery every 5 encounters, and otherwise an event (if travelling) or a 50/50 chance of a location discovery or random event (if wandering).

In the case of a random event (rather than location discovery), a pool of possible random events is created, and an encounter is selected based on a uniform choice, rejecting the first choice if it matches the previous random encounter (so you do not get the same encounter twice in a row). The odds of specific encounters can vary, however, as special qualifiers can control whether a specific event is added to the pool, and how many times if so. See below for different frequency modifiers.

This page lists encounters that are not region specific (or cover multiple regions). For region-specific encounters, look at the appropriate sub-page.

Frequency Modifiers
Various things affect the frequency of a specific encounter by modifying the number of times an encounter is added to the encounter pool.
 * The meateor encounter has only a 1 in 10 chance of being present in the pool.
 * The El Vibrato transponder, if turned on, adds 2 El Vibrato combat encounters, and 1 El Vibrato non-combat encounters
 * The El Vibrato ring increases the number of El Vibrato combat encounters by 2, and El Vibrato non-combat encounters by 3
 * The floral ring adds 2 foragin' encounters
 * The cow-catcher ring adds 3 additional cow encounters
 * The bone-chip ring adds additional skeleton or (non-Pale Horse) undead encounters
 * The serpentine ring adds 2 snake encounters
 * The Ring of Inconspicuousness adds additional non-combat encounters, duplicating the Wanderin' Sally encounter, as well as each of the various loot encounters (with some exceptions)
 * Cow Punchers have 1 additional cow encounter added in regions A - C, and 2 additional cow encounters added in regions D - H
 * Snake Oilers have 1 additional snake encounter added

A * next to the encounter icon in the "type" column indicates one of the above special modifiers is relevant. Mouse-over the icon for details.