Seed result
Seed 029: Crater, Gladius
Six or fewer distinct field bosses are recorded here, which is thin next to most seeds. That says something about how much there is to detour for, not about how hard the run will be. Each one that is present is named below, with what the fight involves.
Gladius, Beast of Night
This run ends against Gladius, the Tricephalos expedition. The damage types below are what the map view shows on the status card, written out here so you can plan a loadout before opening the map.
- Weak to
- Holy, Pierce
- Resists
- Fire
- Immune to
- Madness
These are read from the game itself and listed in order of importance rather than converted from negation percentages. Those percentages use a sign convention that gets inverted often enough in published tables to produce pages claiming a Nightlord resists the exact thing it is weak to.
This is the expedition the game makes you clear first, so most players meet it before they understand any of the systems around it. Holy is the play, and the whole fight is built around splitting focus fire across the three heads.
This one has an Everdark Sovereign form: the same fight with an extra phase, a much larger health pool, and the opening moved to what was the second phase. Beat the standard version first and you get access to it.
Record details
- Special event
- Meteor Strike — Day 1An extra boss lands with a purple Dormant Power, or better.
- Churches
- 4
- Stonesword Keys
- 4 to open every EvergaolThis map holds 4 Evergaols, and opening one is the only thing a Stonesword Key does in the game. What is sealed behind each one stays hidden until the key goes in, which is the part the seed settles ahead of time. There is no Township in this seed, so every key has to be found on the map.
- Scale-Bearing Merchant
- Present in this seedHe deals in offers rather than goods, and every one of them takes something back. What he puts up is drawn at random. Killing him is also an option: he drops a talisman, rolled the same way the castle chest rolls one, but he does not go down easily.
Meteor Strike — Day 1
The day is fixed by the seed and it is written above. The minute is not: the same seed can fire the same event at different times, so treat this as something to be ready for rather than something to set a clock against.
A meteor lands and a Fallingstar Beast waits at the crater. A notification announces the impact and a red marker appears on the map, so there is no hunting involved.
Only one event can happen per expedition, and which ones are possible depends on the Nightlord. So this is the event for this run, with nothing else queued behind it.
Bosses in this seed
The castle, the night bosses and the bosses placed around the map are fixed for seed 029: open it again and the same bosses are waiting in the same places. A field boss marker points at the ground it holds rather than the exact step it stands on, so expect to find it moving around nearby. Knowing which ones you are walking into decides what damage type to build and which detours are worth the time.
Castle, held by Trolls
This is the Limveld Castle, the fixed structure near the centre of the map, and the pattern behind it never changes: a guard faction, one chest, one boss in the basement and one boss on the rooftop. What the seed decides is which of the three factions is holding it and which bosses are inside. Noklateo is the one Shifting Earth that removes it. The Great Hollow has castles of its own, but they are built to a different plan and hold a different spread of enemies, so nothing described here applies to them.
Trolls are the version that ruins runs. They carry by far the largest health pools of the three and, oddly, hand back the fewest runes. The bigger problem is their size and their reach: they throw giant pots at range, so even a route that only passes near the castle on the way to something else can get someone sniped.
The chest holds a talisman, and the path to it does not open until the basement boss is dead. That there is a talisman in it is fixed. Which talisman is not: it is rolled when the chest opens, so the same seed can hand you any talisman in the game, which is why nothing on this page names it. It pays out as a Dormant Power, so in a trio all three players get one.
Neither castle boss is unique to the castle. Both are stronger versions of bosses that also appear as field bosses, with more health, more damage and bigger rewards. Killing the basement one opens the path to the chest, and with it a shortcut that lets you cross the castle from the inside. The rooftop one is the reason to make the climb: every boss carries a small chance of dropping a legendary, and this one carries a higher chance than normal. It is a chance and not a guarantee. The only guaranteed legendary comes from the Crater event, which converts an item you are already carrying rather than leaving it to a drop.
Grafted Scion
BasementFast swordwork from one or two blades at once, coming from angles that change each time, with sudden area attacks mixed in. The pause at the end of a combo is your window.
Erdtree Avatar
RooftopIt deals Holy damage and resists Holy, so a holy loadout is the wrong answer twice over; fire does roughly double. A headless stump with a huge staff, slow and easy to read, but the leaping body slam sends out a shockwave when it lands.
Night bosses
Bell Bearing Hunter
Night 1Pierce roughly doubles on it and lightning lands well, while standard, slash and strike are all resisted. It is aggressive at close and mid range but the attacks are slow, and it can be parried, though a stance break costs two parries rather than one.
Morgott
Night 2Long combos with delayed wind-ups, which is what breaks people's dodge and parry timing, and parrying is expensive at three per stance break. He throws spectral daggers, rains spectral swords across a wide area, and erupts into flame at close range. Slash is the answer.
Field bosses (5)
Black Knife Assassin
Field bossThe feint is what gets people: she leaps in with a counterclockwise slash that is not real, then follows with the clockwise one that is. Most physical damage lands, pierce least of all. Let her come to you rather than chasing.
Ulcerated Tree Spirit
Field bossThe whole fight is learning which of its movements actually have a hitbox. It flops and twists constantly and most of that is harmless, which makes the real attacks easy to miss.
Royal Revenant
Field bossCast a healing incantation near it and the cast itself damages and stuns it. Part human, part spider, which is what makes its movements hard to read, but the flurries leave clear gaps, slash cuts through it, and holy does not.
Red Wolf
Field bossA giant wolf that casts. It alternates between closing for bites and throwing sorcery from across the arena, and the one to watch is the glintblade: it sidesteps, leaves a floating orb behind, and the orb fires at you a moment later, homing.
Draconic Tree Sentinel
Field bossA golden-armored knight on horseback with lightning and fireballs at every range. The raised shield means a single-target bolt; the hammer planted behind him means a wide wave. Poison and Scarlet Rot work unusually well.
This result is based on the dataset for game version 1.03.2. If a game update changes a layout, use the Bug Report button in the footer and include the seed ID. See the methodology page for provenance, update practices, and known limitations.
