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Enemies and Bosses
July 22, 2026 at 07:17 AM
Named the Talos Prototype as the second Volcano boss and its Temple of Vulcan gate
Enemies in Romestead range from the roaming walking dead to powerful bosses that gate progression. The reanimated citizens of fallen Rome are the core threat: the dead walk at night and hunt players. Bosses are found at the end of biome progression and inside the world's named locations.
After Rome fell, its citizens were reanimated into walking husks. They hunt players, with night being the most dangerous time. Defending a settlement against hordes is a recurring challenge, which is why building defenses and lighting torches matters. See Settlements and Buildings for defensive structures.
Fallen: standard reanimated citizens; basic melee.
Burning Fallen: fiery variant; appears in raids and around volcanic spawners.
Fallen Crawler: low-profile variant.
The Early Access build contains five bosses. Defeating a biome's boss unlocks the next crafting tier, making bosses the gate between stages of progression.
Boss | Biome | Approx HP | Notable drops |
|---|---|---|---|
225 | Feathered armor set, Guardian's Eye, Talon, Feather, Coal, Copper Bar, Poisoned Arrow. | ||
500 | Cape of Pyzifax Banner, Sapphire, Tin Bar, plus a random pool (Assassin's Scroll, Fools' Gold, Gardener's Gloves, Locusta Legatus, Physician's Cloak, Scroll of Vulcan). | ||
Desert (The Eye dungeon) | 10,000 | Granite Tooth, Nail of the Cyclops, Cyclops Shard, Bonesplint, Linen, Bronze Bar, one of the Tectonic Helmet / Armor / Boots, Signet of Demo Completion. | |
Great Phoenix of Arabia | TBD | Volcanic boss drops; fiery two-phase fight. Its encounter resets immediately if the party wipes. | |
Talos Prototype | Volcano (Temple of Vulcan) | TBD | Volcanic boss drops. A multi-phase fight against a machine with four armoured weak points, only one of which is open to attack at a time. |
The Talos Prototype is the second Volcano boss and sits behind the Temple of Vulcan. The temple gates only open once a Craftsman's Offering is completed: the player brings four iron rods to marked plates outside the temple, which frees Vulcan from the pot he was trapped in, and he names the building whose materials must then be laid on the offering ground. Patch notes have repeatedly touched this area, easing access to the Vulcan levers and adding Vulcan Temple and Phoenix markers to the world map.
Boss dungeons reset at the start of each day, so a cleared boss arena is ready again the next morning. Boss locations are no longer all revealed at once: each must still be discovered. The Guardian of Minerva and the Great Phoenix of Arabia fights reset immediately if your party is wiped.
Threat | Detail |
|---|---|
Walking dead | Reanimated citizens that hunt players, especially at night. |
Biome bosses | Five total in Early Access; each gates the next crafting tier. |
Volcano bosses | Two legendary bosses within the Volcanic biome. |
Satyrs | Forest and Desert factions. Variants include Forest Satyr, Tiny Satyr (catapult units), Satyr Brute, Desert Satyr. Can be declared war on via dedicated items. |
Magus | Spellcaster enemy; can drop the Magus Ceres Scroll (the source of the day-one crash hotfix). |
Wraiths | High-spawn-rate Swamp ghosts. |
Lava Construct, Lava Lizard | Volcano biome native enemies; balanced repeatedly during playtest. |
Phoenix (Giant + Small) | Magical birds; small Phoenix has its own death behavior; the Giant Phoenix has a flame breath attack. |
Wildlife | Bears, boars, wolves, deer (including a unique white deer), goats, snakes, scorpions, vultures (day-only aggro), pigs, mice, squirrels. |
The Eye dungeon boss; mid-game ten-thousand-HP fight. | |
Owl of Minerva | Plains boss; status-effect susceptible since patch 0.20.2_5. |
Magus Ceres | Scroll-wielding caster variant. |
Gorgon | Rare desert spawn added in a launch-week hotfix. A dangerous serpent-haired foe, separate from the Medusa enemy tied to the Blacksmith quest. |
Raids are part of the game and were included in the Early Access balance pass alongside combat, bosses, and other systems. Factions can declare war on the player via dedicated items (Desert Satyrs, Gray Satyrs, Potmen, Rats, Pyzifax). Raid objectives now only count raids started by players, not ambient horde spawns. The Burning Fallen Horde is a launch-window raid that was hotfixed to stop appearing after the first boss.
See Raids for the full raid system, Combat for combat styles useful against these threats, and Crafting and Progression for how defeating bosses advances the player.
Skeletons also appear as a tougher Ashen Skeleton variant. The two no longer fight each other, so a mixed group attacks the player as one rather than thinning itself out.
