Material family

Material Family (Japanese Kanji: 物質 Hiragana: ぶっしつ Romanji: Bushitsu) refers to monsters in Dragon Quest series that are formed from materials such as stone, iron, or cloth. Some frequently-seen forms are: statues, bags/sacks, golems, boulders, hollow suits of armour, dolls, and moai carvings. In some games, this family also includes members of the Elemental family and the Machine family.

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The Rockbomb, the most frequently appearing member of the Material family.

Dragon Quest

• Gold golem
• Golem
• Stone golem

Dragon Quest II

• Bloody hand
• Magic marionette
• Mud mannequin
• Muddy hand

Dragon Quest III

• Bag o' laughs
• Bloody hand
• Cannibox
• Goodybag
• Infernal armour
• Lethal armour
• Living statue
• Magmalice
• Mimic
• Muddy hand
• Restless armour
• Rockbomb
• Stone guardian

Dragon Quest IV

• Bloody blade
• Cannibox
• Cheeky tiki
• Dirty dogu
• Erazor blade
• Infernal armour
• Lethal armour
• Mimic
• Pandora's box
• Paralyslicer
• Pocus poppet
• Restless armour
• Rockbomb
• Sir Roseguardin
• Teaky mask
• Terracotta warrior

Dragon Quest V

• Bag o' laughs
• Bloody hand
• Bomboulder
• Burr baby
• Cannibox
• Frighturn
• Golem
• Goodybag
• Hades helm
• Hex hellmet
• Magic marionette
• Mimic
• Mud mannequin
• Muddy hand
• Pocus poppet
• Restless armour
• Rockbomb
• Stone golem
• Terracotta warrior
• Ticking timeburrm
• Time burrm
• Urnexpected
• Wax murderer
• Wickerman

Dragon Quest VI

• Animated armour
• Annihilantern
• Bad karmour (vulnerable to metal slash)
• Bloody hand
• Bomboulder
• Cannibox
• Devil glass
• Dragooner (vulnerable to metal slash)
• Dreadstaff (vulnerable to undead undoer)
• Frighturn
• Goodybag
• Harmour
• Haunted mirror
• Infernal pane
• Living statue
• Magic marionette
• Malevolamp
• Malevolantern
• Mimic
• Mud mannequin
• Muddy hand
• Rockbomb
• Stone guardian
• Urnexpected
• Wayward armour
• Wraithwand (vulnerable to undead undoer)

Dragon Quest VIII

• Bag o' laughs
• Bomboulder
• Cannibox
• Dead ringer
• Dingaling
• Gold golem
• Golem
• Goodybag
• Hell hopper
• Lethal armour
• Living statue
• Magic dumbbell
• Magic marionette
• Mimic
• Mimic king
• Mud mannequin
• Night sneaker
• Pandora's box
• Restless armour
• Rockbomb
• Ruin (technically classified as a boss)
• Skipper
• Statue of Angelo (technically classified as a boss)
• Statue of Hero (technically classified as a boss)
• Statue of Jessica (technically classified as a boss)
• Statue of Yangus (technically classified as a boss)
• Stone golem
• Stone guardian

Dragon Quest IX

• Alarmour
• Bad karmour
• Bag o' laughs
• Bagma
• Barriearthenwarrior
• Bomboulder
• Brrearthenwarrior
• Cannibox
• Charmour
• Cheeky tiki
• Earthenwarrior
• Freaky tiki
• Garth Goyle
• Gold golem
• Golem
• Goodybag
• Grim reaper
• Grinade
• Harmour
• Infernal armour
• Lethal armour
• Living statue
• Mad moai
• Mega moai
• Mimic
• Moai minstrel
• Pandora's box
• Ragged reaper
• Raving reaper
• Restless armour
• Rockbomb
• Sacksquatch
• Sculpture vulture
• Stone golem
• Stone guardian
• Teaky mask

Strengths and Weakness

Weakness

In Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, Material Whirl does significant damage to material monsters.

Gallery of Material monsters

• Golem
  Golem
• Stone golem
  Stone golem
• Gold golem
  Gold golem
• Mud mannequin
  Mud mannequin
• Muddy hand
  Muddy hand
• Bloody hand
  Bloody hand
• Goodybag
  Goodybag
• Bag o' laughs
  Bag o' laughs
• Stone guardian
  Stone guardian
• Living statue
  Living statue
• Cannibox
  Cannibox
• Mimic
  Mimic
• Pandora's box
  Pandora's box
• Grinade
  Grinade
• Rockbomb
  Rockbomb
• Bomboulder
  Bomboulder
• Restless armour
  Restless armour
• 
  Infernal armour
• Lethal armour
  Lethal armour
• Roseguardin
  Roseguardin
• 
  Cheeky tiki
• Teaky mask
  Teaky mask
• 
  Sculpture vulture
• Mad moai
  Mad moai
• 
  Moai minstrel
• 
  Trap box
• 
  Mimic king
• Ragged reaper
  Ragged reaper
• Earthenwarrior
  Earthenwarrior
• Sacksquatch
  Sacksquatch

Trivia

• The Muddy hands and their brethren were considered to be material monsters up until DQVIII, in which they were classified as members of the Undead family. As of DQX, this seems to be their new monster type in the main line games.
• DQIX has the most material monsters present in one game, totaling at 36.