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11 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.
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33 The Walking Dead
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66 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.
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88 Fallen: standard reanimated citizens; basic melee.Burning Fallen: fiery variant; appears in raids and around volcanic spawners.Fallen Crawler: low-profile variant.
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1010 Bosses
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1212 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.
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1414 BossBiomeApprox HPNotable dropsGuardian of MinervaPlains225Feathered armor set, Guardian's Eye, Talon, Feather, Coal, Copper Bar, Poisoned Arrow.PyzifaxDesert500Cape 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).CyclopsDesert (The Eye dungeon)10,000Granite 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 ArabiaVolcanoTBDVolcanic boss drops; fiery two-phase fight. Its encounter resets immediately if the party wipes.Volcanic legendary (2)VolcanoTBDVolcanic boss drops; full details unfolding in launch updates.
1515 A boss known as Talos is referenced in patch notes and exists as a pre-dungeon setup, but is not made available in the live build at launch.
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1717 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.
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1919 Encounter Notes
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2121 ThreatDetailWalking deadReanimated citizens that hunt players, especially at night.Biome bossesFive total in Early Access; each gates the next crafting tier.Volcanic legendary foesTwo legendary bosses within the Volcanic biome.SatyrsForest and Desert factions. Variants include Forest Satyr, Tiny Satyr (catapult units), Satyr Brute, Desert Satyr. Can be declared war on via dedicated items.MagusSpellcaster enemy; can drop the Magus Ceres Scroll (the source of the day-one crash hotfix).WraithsHigh-spawn-rate Swamp ghosts.Lava Construct, Lava LizardVolcano 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.WildlifeBears, boars, wolves, deer (including a unique white deer), goats, snakes, scorpions, vultures (day-only aggro), pigs, mice, squirrels.CyclopsThe Eye dungeon boss; mid-game ten-thousand-HP fight.Owl of MinervaPlains boss; status-effect susceptible since patch 0.20.2_5.Magus CeresScroll-wielding caster variant.GorgonRare desert spawn added in a launch-week hotfix. A dangerous serpent-haired foe, separate from the Medusa enemy tied to the Blacksmith quest.
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2424 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.
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2626 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.
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28+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.