Core Keeper bosses are the hardest problem within the new Early Entry co-op survival sandbox. For a tiny pixelated adventurer, bosses can pose a significant risk, however with the appropriate preparation and some profitable methods you’ll overcome them and use their gems to energy up the Core.
The primary three bosses you will face in Core Keeper are Glurch the Abominous Mass, a large orange slime that spawns near the beginning space, Ghorm the Devourer, a large insect that makes use of the underworld as its personal personal race observe, and The Hive Mom, a fleshy, acid-spitting nightmare surrounded by powerful natural partitions. There’s additionally a fourth boss, Azeos the Sky Titan, which may solely be discovered and overwhelmed as soon as you’ve got defeated the primary three and activated the Core.
Under you will discover our Core Keeper boss information, together with how one can discover them, and the perfect methods to beat them.
Boss 1: Glurch
Glurch the Abominous Mass
It’s best to have:
- Copper armor
- A tin sword
- Just a few crude bombs
- A shovel
- Meals that reinforces velocity or injury
Glurch is positioned fairly near your start line. As you discover farther from the Core you will sometimes hear a distant thudding. Meaning you are near Glurm. Search for areas with excessive concentrations of orange slimes, and he is certain to be close by in a big chamber.
Glurch is an enormous blob with a leaping assault, a bit like Spelunky’s Olmec, and once you get inside a number of blocks of him he’ll pop up into the air and attempt to land on you. He is able to smashing via strong rock, so do not assume ducking right into a tunnel will prevent. That stated, in the event you flee far sufficient away he’ll retreat again to his beginning spot.
Do not get inside 3 blocks of Glurch till you are able to struggle, or he’ll aggro. Put together by clearing Glurch’s chamber of as a lot slime as you may utilizing your shovel, as a result of stepping in slime will sluggish you down. If there are any hostile spiky slimes hanging round, kill them first too.
As soon as Glurch begins leaping, both transfer away or run instantly underneath him whereas he is within the air. It is essential you do not let him retreat all the best way again to the rune circle he sits on, as a result of he’ll begin therapeutic the injury you’ve got achieved. Every time he lands, rush up and hit him together with your tin sword a pair instances, then fall again earlier than he leaps once more. Crude bombs also can injury him, however solely barely.
So long as you progress rapidly and do not let him retreat again to his beginning spot, it is best to be capable of handle that battle with out too many issues.
Boss 2: Ghorm
Ghorm the Devourer
It’s best to have:
- 50 spike traps
- A copper shovel
- Torches
- Crude bombs
- Swift ring
Discovering Ghorm is not all that troublesome. Simply begin tunneling in any course from the core and you will finally run into Ghorm’s huge, slime-filled tunnel. That is as a result of Ghorm is a cellular boss: It is continually shifting in an enormous circle that surrounds the Core. Under you may see Ghorm’s large round tunnel operating round my map.
The actual downside is stopping Ghorm. Even in the event you do some injury because it rushes previous, it will not cease and by the point it circles across the map once more it would have fully healed. Following Ghorm is troublesome, too, as a result of it leaves a slime path behind it, and strolling via slime slows you down.
The best means I discovered was utilizing spike traps. Mine 50 models of tin ore within the Clay Caves, smelt it, and craft 50 spike traps at your crafting bench. Take note: these traps will kill Ghorm nearly immediately however the traps shall be destroyed.
Head to Ghorm’s tunnel and watch for it to go by. Then rapidly run into the tunnel and set your traps down in the midst of the tunnel. Kill any close by slimes so they do not activate the traps earlier than Ghorm completes its circle and returns.
In the event you do not wish to use so many traps, one other technique is to clear slime from a protracted part of the tunnel together with your shovel, then run forward of Ghorm because it approaches, dropping as many bombs (not crude bombs, the larger ones) in its path.
Sporting two swift rings and consuming meals like a hearty pepper wrap will enhance your motion velocity sufficient which you can hold forward of him. As soon as Ghorm’s well being meter drops beneath 50 p.c, it would cease operating its tunnel circuit and are available instantly after you. Sidestep when it expenses and makes use of a weapon to strike it because it runs previous. It should hold turning and coming at you, so you may drop extra bombs in its path and strike its facet whereas it passes.
Boss 3: Hive Mom
The Hive Mom
It’s best to have:
- Flintlock musket
- Therapeutic potions
- Iron or carapace armor
- Spike traps
- Copper shovel
One of the simplest ways to search out The Hive Mom is through the use of the Glurch statue on the core. There you may craft a Hive Mom beacon that’ll add an icon in your map exhibiting her location, offered you’ve got already defeated Glurch.
As soon as you realize the place she is, you will want an iron pickaxe, ideally two, to tunnel your means into her chamber, which is surrounded by sturdy larva partitions.
When you’re in her chamber, she will not assault until you assault her. Kill any larva or different enemies within the chamber and dig up any hive spike traps or acid blobs together with your shovel.
The Hive Mom’s assault is a strong acid spit that targets you from above. Whenever you see a goal marker seem in your character, it is advisable transfer. Even when the acid misses you it’s going to stay on the block it lands on, and strolling via it would harm you. It may be eliminated with a shovel, however that is exhausting to do throughout the struggle. The Hive Mom additionally summons minions from 5 spots round her, which can rush to assault you.
There’s a great way to cheese this struggle, which is to dig a protracted tunnel into one of many partitions of the chamber instantly throughout from the boss. Line it with spike traps that can kill any creatures that enter the tunnel throughout the struggle. In the event you stand within the tunnel so you may nonetheless see the Hive Mom’s physique, however not her mouth, she will not spit acid. With the flintlock musket, you may shoot her from the tunnel.
It should take a couple of minutes, but it surely’s a straightforward solution to put on down her well being whereas staying out of spitting vary, and the slim tunnel will ensure that minions all method from the identical course.
Another choice is to construct partitions across the spawn factors of Hive Mom’s summons earlier than the struggle begins. The spots seem as 5 round areas scattered round her:
In the event you wall these areas in, the minions will not be capable of assault you and you may focus melee or ranged assaults on the Hive Mom whereas shifting round to keep away from her acid assaults.
Boss 4: Azeos
Azeos the Sky Titan
It’s best to have:
- Scarlet Armor
- Scarlet Sword
- Therapeutic potions
- Scarlet Pickaxe and shovel
- Defend
- Bombs
Discovering Azeos is a fairly advanced endeavor. First it is advisable have defeated the primary three bosses and used their gems within the boss statues to energy the Core. Chatting with the Core will inform you to the touch the Nice Wall, the impenetrable barrier that lies additional out on the planet.
As soon as you’ve got tunneled out and touched the Nice Wall, return and converse to the Core once more. It will provide you with a course to tunnel in direction of (north, southwest, and many others) which can lead you to a brand new biome, Azeos Wilderness. However to search out Azeos the Sky Titan, you will have to craft two objects: a scanner exhibiting his location on the map and a “massive shiny glimmering object” (that is actually what it is known as) that summons him.
I have not confronted (and even discovered) Azeos myself but however the video beneath from GamingWithDaOpa will present you its assaults. Azeos makes use of energy beams that cross the map in several instructions or shut in a circle round you. You’ll be able to strive dodging them however in the event you have a protect geared up you may also maintain down the area bar to negate many of the injury.
Azeos additionally summons large blue crystals that heal him. These must be rapidly destroyed so neglect about hitting them with a weapon and place bombs subsequent to every crystal as they seem. A single bomb will destroy the crystal. Whereas blocking the beam assaults and destroying crystals, use melee assaults together with your scarlet sword to defeat Azeos.
