Enemy progression — how CM scales enemies

How Claw Master increases enemy stats over the campaign, with an interactive calculator. The formulas are decompiled from the arm64 binary (libil2cpp.so); the multipliers are live runtime values read off the running game. Both curves climb hard: HP is linear and explodes; damage is a steep, super-linear power curve.

Correction (16/06/2026): the DMG exponent was 0.10, now 1.18. The old 0.10 came from the 31-May static APK dump and made enemy damage look near-flat (it predicted a biome-3 Rat at ~24). The live build runs 1.18 (captured via frida-il2cpp-bridge off the running EnemyMultipliersConfig singleton), which reproduces the team's observed ~150 for that Rat. HP (0.14) was unchanged and was already correct.

Mechanism + verified formulas FACT

CM stores one base config per enemy (42 total) and scales at spawn via LevelSpawnEnemiesAbility.Spawn(EnemyConfig, int level) → CalculateHealth/DamageParameterValue(base, multiplier, level), multiplier = one global EnemyMultipliersConfig (HP 0.14, DMG 1.18 live). The integer level runs 1 → ~4500 across the campaign. Decompiled bodies (RVA 0x2EC5754 / 0x2EC57F8):

HP(level)  = round( baseHP  × (1 + 0.14 × (level − 1)) )

DMG(level) = round( baseDMG × (1 + (level − 1) / 20) 1.18 )

Note: level is 1-based — at level 1 both equal the base stat. HP is linear: the 0.14 is a per-level coefficient. DMG is a power curve with exponent 1.18 > 1, so it's super-linear — damage climbs faster than linearly with level, not the near-flat curve the stale 0.10 implied. Results are rounded to the nearest integer (half-to-even, via modf + frintp/frintm in the asm).

What this means for balance FACT

Across the full campaign (level 1 → ~4500), a Common enemy scales HP ≈ ×631 (240 → ~151k) and DMG ≈ ×600 (20 → ~12,000) — the two curves climb at comparable rates. CM enemies become both enormous HP walls and lethal hitters: by the mid/late biomes a single basic mob deals hundreds-to-thousands of damage, so avoiding hits matters as much as clear-speed. (An earlier version of this page, built on the stale 0.10 exponent, wrongly said damage stayed near-flat — that was incorrect.) Bosses follow the same two curves from their higher base, consistent with the dungeon's authored multi-thousand boss damage.

🧮 Enemy progression calculator

Pick a CM enemy (auto-fills base stats) or type your own, set a level, read the effective stats. The HP coefficient, DMG exponent and DMG divisor are editable so you can model CF's own curve. Decompiled formulas: HP = round(base × (1 + c_HP×(level−1))), DMG = round(base × (1 + (level−1)/div)^exp).

Enemy
Base HP
Base DMG
Level
HP coeff
DMG exp
DMG div

Effective HP

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Effective DMG

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×HP / ×DMG vs base

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This enemy across the campaign (effective stats at each biome's level range):

#	Biome	Level	Eff. HP	Eff. DMG

Campaign curve — basic mob & boss per biome (true play order)

Basic columns = floor Common enemy (base 240 HP / 20 DMG, e.g. Rat). Boss column = biome boss base → scaled at the biome's top level. Sorted by biomeOrder (the data's biome key order is NOT play order).

#	Biome	Waves	Enemy level	Basic HP	Basic DMG	Boss	Boss HP (base→scaled)
1	Enchanted Forest	10	1–12	240–610	20–34	SpikeWorm	5.2k → 13.2k
2	Mystic Woods	15	11–100	576–3.6k	32–164	Golem	4.4k → 65.4k
3	Frozen Tundra	10	85–180	3.1k–6.3k	140–301	ArcticWorm	5.2k → 135.5k
4	Crystal Caves	15	144–370	5.0k–12.6k	238–664	LarvaQueen	4.4k → 231.7k
5	Molten Fields	10	278–430	9.5k–14.7k	483–786	MagmaWorm	5.2k → 317.5k
6	Clockwork Factory	15	301–500	10.3k–17.0k	527–933	CyberWorm	5.2k → 368.5k
7	Desert Oasis	10	425–575	14.5k–19.5k	776–1.1k	Golem	4.4k → 358.0k
8	Abandoned City	15	403–700	13.7k–23.7k	731–1.4k	Beholder	5.2k → 514.1k
9	Poisonous Marsh	10	595–850	20.2k–28.8k	1.1k–1.7k	LarvaQueen	4.4k → 527.4k
10	Glacial Peaks	15	595–1000	20.2k–33.8k	1.1k–2.1k	ArcticOgre	4.4k → 619.8k
11	Scrapyard	10	850–1150	28.8k–38.8k	1.7k–2.4k	MetalWorm	5.2k → 841.7k
12	Blazing Caves	15	805–1650	27.3k–55.6k	1.6k–3.7k	Devil	4.4k → 1.02M
13	Dark Catacombs	10	1403–2000	47.3k–67.4k	3.1k–4.6k	Wyvern	5.2k → 1.46M
14	Ancient Ruins	15	1400–2500	47.2k–84.2k	3.1k–6.0k	CyberWorm	5.2k → 1.82M
15	Neon District	10	2125–2750	71.6k–92.6k	5.0k–6.7k	SpikeWorm	5.2k → 2.01M
16	Ghostly Swamp	15	1925–4500	64.9k–151.4k	4.4k–12.0k	BugWorm	5.2k → 3.28M

EnemyWaves sheet — where `level` comes from

Every spawn's level is hand-authored in the donor's EnemyWaves config sheet (EnemySpawnData: Enemy / Line / Distance / Level) — not computed at runtime. Below is the full sheet (1,113 spawns across 16 biomes), filtered by biome, with each spawn's authored level and the resulting effective HP/DMG from the decompiled formulas. ⬇ download full CSV

Biome (play order)

Wave	Enemy	Line	Dist	Level	Eff. HP	Eff. DMG

Cross-check — Dungeon observed scaling FACT

The Dungeon (23 levels) authors boss HP/DMG explicitly (overrides, not the formula) and reuses base configs as lackeys via an integer lackeyLevel that feeds the same scaling. Boss HP 260k → 5.6M (~22×) — the magnitude anchor confirming the linear HP curve.

#	Boss	Boss HP	Boss DMG	Lackey	Lackey level
1	RatSquire	260.0k	1.3k	Rat	82
2	Wasp	303.0k	1.6k	Rat	90
3	Boar	347.0k	1.9k	Rat	98
4	Wolf	392.0k	2.2k	Rat	106
5	RatKing	654.0k	4.1k	Rat	154
6	HawkBat	745.0k	4.8k	Rat	170
7	Quillbeast	838.0k	5.4k	Rat	186
8	Tusk	931.0k	6.1k	Rat	202
9	CannonBoar	1.02M	6.7k	Rat	218
10	Warg	1.57M	10.5k	Rat	314
11	PolarRat	1.71M	11.5k	Rat	338
12	Parasite	1.85M	12.5k	Rat	362
13	BlackHoof	1.99M	13.5k	Rat	386
14	HawkBat	2.14M	14.5k	Rat	410
15	BlackBear	2.97M	20.3k	Rat	554
16	Larva	3.16M	21.6k	Rat	586
17	ShardLizard	3.35M	22.9k	Rat	618
18	MinerBoar	3.55M	24.2k	Rat	650
19	Ghost	3.74M	25.6k	Rat	682
20	Scarab	4.87M	33.3k	Rat	874
21	HawkBat	5.11M	35.0k	Rat	914
22	Quillbeast	5.36M	36.7k	Rat	954
23	Tusk	5.60M	38.3k	Rat	994

Provenance FACT

Formula structure decompiled from unpacked/lib/arm64-v8a/libil2cpp.so at the RVAs given by the Il2CppDumper output (CalculateHealthParameterValue 0x2EC5754, CalculateDamageParameterValue 0x2EC57F8); disassembled with radare2 (arm64). Multiplier values are LIVE runtime reads (16/06/2026) — frida-il2cpp-bridge on the running build read EnemyMultipliersConfig as Health = 0.14, Damage = 1.18. The 31-May static APK dump had Damage = 0.10 at offset 0x0090; that value was stale (the live build retuned it), which is why the archive previously under-reported enemy damage by several times. Level values + biome order from biome_waves_detailed.json + boss_data.json. Open: whether Super/Boss types receive a different multiplier than Common (the config exposes only one HP + one DMG value, so the same pair is applied to all); and the exact source of the 0.10→1.18 change (newer baked build vs runtime override — OnlineConfigs showed no sheet override, so most likely a retuned baked value in the current build).