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 menace, however with the best preparation and some successful methods you can overcome them and use their gems to energy up the Core.
The primary three bosses you may 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 robust natural partitions. There’s additionally a fourth boss, Azeos the Sky Titan, which may solely be discovered and crushed as soon as you’ve got defeated the primary three and activated the Core.
Beneath you may discover our Core Keeper boss information, together with 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
- A couple of crude bombs
- A shovel
- Meals that reinforces velocity or injury
Glurch is situated fairly near your place to begin. As you discover farther from the Core you may often 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 if you get inside a couple of blocks of him he’ll pop up into the air and attempt to land on you. He is able to smashing by way of stable rock, so do not assume ducking right into a tunnel will prevent. That mentioned, in the event you flee far sufficient away he’ll retreat again to his beginning spot.
Do not get inside Three 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’ll be able to utilizing your shovel, as a result of stepping in slime will gradual 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 below him whereas he is within the air. It is essential you do not let him retreat all the way in which again to the rune circle he sits on, as a result of he’ll begin therapeutic the injury you’ve got executed. Every time he lands, rush up and hit him together with your tin sword a pair occasions, then fall again earlier than he leaps once more. Crude bombs can even 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 tough. Simply begin tunneling in any route from the core and you will finally run into Ghorm’s vast, slime-filled tunnel. That is as a result of Ghorm is a cellular boss: It is always shifting in an enormous circle that surrounds the Core. Beneath you’ll be able to see Ghorm’s huge round tunnel working 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 is going to have utterly healed. Following Ghorm is tough, too, as a result of it leaves a slime path behind it, and strolling by way of slime slows you down.
The best approach 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 virtually immediately however the traps will probably be destroyed.
Head to Ghorm’s tunnel and anticipate it to move by. Then rapidly run into the tunnel and set your traps down in the course of the tunnel. Kill any close by slimes so they do not activate the traps earlier than Ghorm completes its circle and returns.
Should 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.
Gameing two swift rings and consuming meals like a hearty pepper wrap will improve your motion velocity sufficient that you would be able to hold forward of him. As soon as Ghorm’s well being meter drops under 50 p.c, it is going to cease working its tunnel circuit and are available instantly after you. Sidestep when it costs and makes use of a weapon to strike it because it runs previous. It’s going to hold turning and coming at you, so you’ll be able to 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
The easiest way to search out The Hive Mom is by utilizing the Glurch statue on the core. There you’ll be able to craft a Hive Mom beacon that’ll add an icon in your map displaying her location, supplied you’ve got already defeated Glurch.
As soon as you recognize the place she is, you may want an iron pickaxe, ideally two, to tunnel your approach 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 robust acid spit that targets you from above. Whenever you see a goal marker seem in your character, it’s worthwhile to transfer. Even when the acid misses you it will stay on the block it lands on, and strolling by way of it is going to harm you. It may be eliminated with a shovel, however that is onerous to do in the course of 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 may kill any creatures that enter the tunnel in the course of the struggle. Should you stand within the tunnel so you’ll be able to nonetheless see the Hive Mom’s physique, however not her mouth, she will not spit acid. With the flintlock musket, you’ll be able to shoot her from the tunnel.
It’s going to take a couple of minutes, however it’s a straightforward method to put on down her well being whereas staying out of spitting vary, and the slim tunnel will be sure that minions all strategy from the identical route.
An alternative 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:
Should you wall these areas in, the minions will not be capable of assault you and you’ll 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
- Protect
- Bombs
Discovering Azeos is a reasonably advanced endeavor. First it’s worthwhile to 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 this planet.
As soon as you’ve got tunneled out and touched the Nice Wall, return and converse to the Core once more. It provides you with a route 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 may must craft two gadgets: a scanner displaying 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 under from GamingWithDaOpa will present you its assaults. Azeos makes use of energy beams that cross the map in numerous instructions or shut in a circle round you. You possibly can attempt dodging them however in the event you have a protect geared up you can too maintain down the house bar to negate many of the injury.
Azeos additionally summons huge 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.
