Glyphid Crassus Detonator

Glyphid Crassus Detonator
Creature Details
Species	Glyphid
Biome	All
Category	Extremely Rare Boss Enemy
Combat
Attack(s)	Hellfire Golden Final Blow Cluster Bombs Dig
Base Health	6000
Resistance(s)	Explosive: 50%
Weakness(es)	None
Weakpoint	Bulbs: ×3
Armor	Medium
Immunity	Stun
Temperature
Burn T°C	60°
Burn T°C	60°
Freeze T°C	-490°
Freeze T°C	-490°
Douse Fire T°C	30°
Douse Fire T°C	30°
Unfreeze T°C	-200°
Unfreeze T°C	-200°
Cooling Rate	10°/s
Cooling Rate	10°/s
Warming Rate	300°/s
Warming Rate	300°/s

“

A close cousin of the Glyphid Detonator, but displaying an exceptionally thrilling mutation. It is every bit as lethal as its cousin, releasing the same devastating shockwaves and blowing up with a blast in the kiloton range, but - instead of glassing the surrounding environment on account of the tremendous heat released, a most peculiar chemical reaction occurs. Everything caught in the blast radius of an exploding Crassus Detonator turns to gold. Incredible.

— Miner's Manual

The Glyphid Crassus Detonator is a hostile Creature. It can spawn in any region of the planet, but its spawn is tied to level generation. It has a 3%* chance to spawn at the beginning of the mission and roams around the caves towards the Dwarves. Take note that only one will spawn. The Glyphid Crassus Detonator is commonly referred to as a Crassus or a Crassus Detonator.
*Crassus Detonators will not appear on missions until the Conquer Hoxxes IV Assignment has been completed.

Described by the Miner's Manual as a mutation of the original Bulk Detonator, the Crassus is very similar in appearance and behavior. The biggest and most obvious difference is its whole body being covered in a layer of Gold - this gold serves as a type of armor which reduces Direct Damage by 60% and cannot be broken.

The Crassus will also explode violently in the same manner as the Bulk Detonator does, but with a key difference. The 13 meter crater it leaves behind will be coated in a layer of solid Gold, which can be mined and deposited. The amount of Gold created depends on how much terrain is caught at the edge of its blast radius - catching the Bulk within a narrow tunnel will result in a larger amount of Gold. Killing the Crassus while it is near the back wall of a driller or pickaxe tunnel will yield a near-maximal amount of gold: about 1230 (without Pots O' Gold). If the Crassus Detonator dies while it is frozen or burning, its death explosion will not produce a crater of gold.

Aside from these differences, the Crassus Detonator behaves in the exact same way as a regular Bulk Detonator does, so any strategies that work for the Bulk can also tame a Crassus quite effectively.

Combat

Health and Armor

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		2700	3900	4800	6000	7200		4800	5100		6600	7200	7800
		3300	4500	5400	6000	7200		5400	5700		6600	7200	7800
		4200	5400	6000	7200	8400		6000	6600		7800	8400	9000
		5100	6000	6600	7800	9000		6600	7200		8400	9000	9600

Breakable Weakpoints

The Glyphid Crassus Detonator possess 3 Bulbs, unlike regular weakpoints, they are breakable.
The Bulbs have a base health of 300 that scale with Hazard Level.

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count	to	210	300	330	360	360		330	330		360	360	360

When it comes to dealing damage to break the weakpoint itself the weakpoint damage multipliers do not apply.
For example a weakpoint with 200 effective HP and a multiplier of 3x being shot for by a gun that deals 15 direct damage with a 30% weakpoint bonus will only take 15 damage.
Any Area Damage can damage and potentially break them, which can be detrimental since they don’t benefit from weakpoint damage.
The CRSPR Flamethrower and the Cryo Cannon can’t damage breakable weakpoints.

Attacks

• Massive ~15 meter explosion upon death that releases several additional flying explosive globs
• Explosive damage to terrain can leave behind layers of Gold when killed
• Explodes with a non-damaging shock-wave, when killed while frozen
• Stomps on nearby Dwarves, creating a very large blast that deals 100 fire damage
• Digs through the dirt towards Dwarves using explosive slams

Hellfire

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		40	56	96	160	224		96	120		184	224	240
		40	64	104	172	240		104	128		196	240	256
		40	72	112	184	256		112	136		208	256	272
		40	80	120	200	272		120	144		224	272	288
Details
Damage Type		Explosive			Radius: 8 m Maximum Damage Radius: 2.5 m Minimum Area Damage: 10 %
Status Effect		Set the dwarves on Fire unless they were frozen solid.

Golden Final Blow

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		10000	14000	24000	40000	56000		24000	30000		46000	56000	60000
		10000	16000	26000	43000	60000		26000	32000		49000	60000	64000
		10000	18000	28000	46000	64000		28000	34000		52000	64000	68000
		10000	20000	30000	50000	68000		30000	36000		56000	68000	72000
Details
Damage Type		Explosive			Radius: 8 m Maximum Damage Radius: 4 m Minimum Area Damage: 0.1 %
Carve Radius		6.5 m

Cluster Bombs

Projectile
Damage Amount		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		2.5	3.5	6	10	14		6	7.5		11.5	14	15
		2.5	4	6.5	10.75	15		6.5	8		12.25	15	16
		2.5	4.5	7	11.5	16		7	8.5		13	16	17
		2.5	5	7.5	12.5	17		7.5	9		14	17	18
Details
Damage Type
AoE Projectile
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		50	70	120	200	280		120	150		230	280	300
		50	80	130	215	300		130	160		245	300	320
		50	90	140	230	320		140	170		260	320	340
		50	100	150	250	340		150	180		280	340	360
Details
Damage Type		Explosive			Radius: 5 m Maximum Damage Radius: 3 m Minimum Area Damage: 20 %

Dig

Carving Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		12.5	17.5	30	50	70		30	37.5		57.5	70	75
		12.5	20	32.5	53.75	75		32.5	40		61.25	75	80
		12.5	22.5	35	57.5	80		35	42.5		65	80	85
		12.5	25	37.5	62.5	85		37.5	45		70	85	90
Details
Damage Type		Melee			Attack Radius: 5 m
Max. Angle		180°
Carve Radius		3 m

Elite Variant

Elite Glyphid Crassus Detonator
Creature Details
Species	Glyphid
Biome	All
Category	Disruptive Enemy
Combat
Attack(s)	Hellfire Final Blow Cluster Bombs Dig
Base Health	4000
Resistance(s)	Stun: 100% Explosive: 50%
Weakness(es)	None
Weakpoint	Bulbs: ×3
Immunity	Courage: 1.0 Stun Duration: ×0 Stun Immunity Window: Stun Pause Logic: Frozen Pause Logic:
Temperature
Burn T°C	60°
Burn T°C	60°
Freeze T°C	-490°
Freeze T°C	-490°
Douse Fire T°C	30°
Douse Fire T°C	30°
Unfreeze T°C	-200°
Unfreeze T°C	-200°
Cooling Rate	10°/s
Cooling Rate	10°/s
Warming Rate	300°/s
Warming Rate	300°/s

The Glyphid Crassus Detonator is the elite version of the regular Bulk Detonator. Like all Elite enemies, the Elite Glyphid Bulk Crassus Detonator looks almost identical to its regular counterparts; being only distinguished by its aura of distinct vertical red lines with the words 'elite' above their healthbar when scanned and looked at.

Attacks

In addition to all the benefits that all Elite enemies receive (I.e. substantially increased health, attack damage and resistances), Elite Glyphid Crassus Detonators have one additional enhancements:

• The "Golden Final Blow" crater is decreased from 12m to 8m on the inside and the crater on the outside is extremely significantly increased from 8.5 to 30m.

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		60000	90000	90000	110000	130000		90000	95000		115000	130000	135000
		75000	110000	110000	110000	130000		110000	115000		115000	130000	135000
		85000	110000	130000	130000	150000		130000	135000		135000	150000	155000
		110000	130000	130000	150000	165000		130000	135000		155000	165000	170000

Hellfire

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		190	266	456	760	1064		456	570		874	1064	1140
		190	304	494	817	1140		494	608		931	1140	1216
		190	342	532	874	1216		532	646		988	1216	1292
		190	380	570	950	1292		570	684		1064	1292	1368
Details
Damage Type		Explosive			Radius: 24 m Maximum Damage Radius: 5.5 m Minimum Area Damage: 5 %
Status Effect		Set the dwarves on Fire unless they were frozen solid.

Golden Final Blow

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		4500000000	6300000000	10800000000	18000000000	25200000000		10800000000	13500000000		20700000000	25200000000	27000000000
		4500000000	7200000000	11700000000	19350000000	27000000000		11700000000	14400000000		22050000000	27000000000	28800000000
		4500000000	8100000000	12600000000	20700000000	28800000000		12600000000	15300000000		23400000000	28800000000	30600000000
		4500000000	9000000000	13500000000	22500000000	30600000000		13500000000	16200000000		25200000000	30600000000	32400000000
Details
Damage Type		Explosive			Radius: 30 m Maximum Damage Radius: 8.5 m Minimum Area Damage: 0.01 %
Carve Radius		30 m

Cluster Bombs

Projectile
Damage Amount		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		25	35	60	100	140		60	75		115	140	150
		25	40	65	107.5	150		65	80		122.5	150	160
		25	45	70	115	160		70	85		130	160	170
		25	50	75	125	170		75	90		140	170	180
Details
Damage Type
AoE Projectile
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		339.5	475.3	814.8	1358	1901.2		814.8	1018.5		1561.7	1901.2	2037
		339.5	543.2	882.7	1459.85	2037		882.7	1086.4		1663.55	2037	2172.8
		339.5	611.1	950.6	1561.7	2172.8		950.6	1154.3		1765.4	2172.8	2308.6
		339.5	679	1018.5	1697.5	2308.6		1018.5	1222.2		1901.2	2308.6	2444.4
Details
Damage Type		Explosive			Radius: 9.9 m Maximum Damage Radius: 5 m Minimum Area Damage: 7.5 %

Dig

Carving Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission						DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		50	70	120	200	280		120	150		230	280	300
		50	80	130	215	300		130	160		245	300	320
		50	90	140	230	320		140	170		260	320	340
		50	100	150	250	340		150	180		280	340	360
Details
Damage Type		Melee			Attack Radius: 5.2 m
Max. Angle		180°
Carve Radius		2.5 m

The cluster bombs hitting any parts of the terrain turns into gold as well. Freaking awesome!

Gallery

• 

  The Crassus Detonator

• 

  The explosion left by the Crassus Detonator

Trivia

• The Glyphid Crassus Detonator is a reference to Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, who was known as one of the wealthiest men of his time. According to legend, when his body was recovered by his enemies after a battle resulting in his death, they poured liquid gold into his mouth to taunt his wealth and greed.
• The Crassus Detonator has the highest amount of base health of any creature in the game, at 6000 HP. This can scale all the way up to 9000 HP on a Hazard 5 mission with four players.
• When a Crassus Detonator explodes, all terrain and platforms in a 6.5-meter radius are destroyed. All terrain and platforms between 6.5 meters and 6.75 meters away are turned to gold, leaving some portion of a 0.25-meter-thick spherical shell of gold.
• Ignoring the effects of Pots O' Gold, the theoretical maximum gold yield of a Crassus Detonator explosion is 1271 gold, but this has yet to be experimentally confirmed. This is only achievable if the region intersecting the spherical shell described above is completely filled with terrain or engineer platforms. This is extremely difficult to achieve, as completely enclosing the Crassus will cause it to teleport.
• The cluster bombs released by a Crassus Detonator as it explodes will break any terrain they hit, as well as chunks of the gold crater. This gold is not destroyed and can be picked up by players, but it will not benefit from Pots O' Gold.
• In earlier builds of Deep Rock Galactic, there was a cut attribute to the Golden Final Blow. All properties were the same as the current iteration, with the only difference being that instead of the explosion being made of standard gold, a special version of the gold would be created instead, known as "Melted Gold". It would grant the same amounts of gold as its counterpart, except that it would take only a single pickaxe hit to mine and harvest. This special cut version of gold can be assumed to take only a single hit due to how large and oddly structured the golden explosion can be, making the mining process much easier and more streamlined. However, due to Melted Gold being its own unique resource, it was not affected by Pots O' Gold.
  • The Glyphid Crassus detonator is an extremely rare Glyphid Spawn. Opposite of the Glyphid Grunt and has a 1 in 26 (3.84%) chance to spawn in a mission when the mission is generated. Tied with the Error Cube which may be connected and related to the Error Helix as they both have similar properties. (Err://23¤Y%/) and err://019#T%/)
• If BET-C is on the team, your luck of luring the Crassus Detonator into the perfect spot to blow it up in reduces especially when you are playing on a lower difficulty level, because BET-C’s weapons are very powerful and strong, and they attack anything, even if it has unbreakable armor on, so be really careful if you hear that pulsating sound as well as the Crassus Detonator roaring noises. Good luck!