Korlok Tyrant-Weed

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The Korlok Tyrant-Weed is a hideous agglomeration of near-sentient plants, working together as one. At the center, the armored, clam-like heart of the whole structure, a biological factory pulsing with ill intent. Surrounding it, watchful, aggressive sprouts, ready to fire globules of stinging ichor at any adversary. The Heart-Clam will continually attempt to spawn new sprouts, so be sure to take the damn thing out when it opens up to give birth.

— Miner's Manual Description

The Korlok Tyrant-Weed is a mini-boss found in any biome and on any mission type except Point Extraction. There is a 5% chance per mission for the Tyrant-Weed to spawn, and only 1 will spawn per mission. The Tyrant-Weed is found surrounded by Korlok Sprouts, which have a spit attack similar to the Spitball Infector's attack. Killing enough of these will expose its heart. The Tyrant-Weed also will periodically spawn Healing Pods, which slowly regenerate its health.

The Tyrant-Weed only becomes active and begins attacking the Dwarves whenever it is attacked or a Dwarf comes close (roughly 10m) to the Tyrant-Weed itself. Walking up to the Korlok Sprouts will not cause the boss to become aggressive. If an aggressive Tyrant-Weed is ignored and all dwarves are distant from its location, it will eventually become inactive again until it is disturbed once more but will be much easier to provoke than the initial confrontation.

Combat

The Tyrant-Weed originally starts out in a dormant state where the Tyrant-Weed and all Korlok Sprouts around it are inactive. Whenever a Sprout is attacked or a Dwarf comes within roughly 10m of the Tyrant-Weed itself (not the Sprouts) the Tyrant-Weed will become aggressive, causing all of the sprouts around it to begin attacking the Dwarves, and also causing the Tyrant-Weed's boss health bar to appear.

The Korlok Tyrant-Weed itself does not attack the Dwarves directly, only being able to attack through the use of the Sprouts surrounding it. Its healthbar is partitioned into three equal segments, which are depleted in sequence as the boss takes damage. The Tyrant-Weed can only be damaged during periodic vulnerable periods triggered by killing a specific number of Sprouts. During these periods, the boss opens and reveals its "heart" for a short time, and the boss healthbar changes color from gray to red. Attacking the Tyrant-Weed's open heart is the only way to deal damage to the boss, as it is otherwise completely invulnerable. While open, it spawns more Korlok Sprouts and (if the first health segment has been fully depleted) Korlok Healing Pods nearby, as indicated by green and purple arcs leaving the heart. Spawn locations of new Sprouts and Healing Pods do not require line of sight to the heart.

The Korlok Sprouts attack with a green spit projectile that flies along a straight path. The projectile can be destroyed mid-flight by shooting at it. The attack animation of a Korlok Sprout is reset when it takes damage, meaning that a source of sufficiently frequent damage (such as being On Fire) will completely prevent it from shooting.

Healing Pods do not attack, but will regenerate the heart's health. They cannot heal the Tyrant-Weed beyond the current segment of the boss health bar. Only one Healing Pod can be active at a time, indicated by a purple arc connecting it to the heart. Healing Pods do not require line of sight in order to heal the core, but they must be within a certain range. It is possible for them to spawn too far away to perform the healing.

Upon death, all currently alive Korlok Sprouts and Healing Pods will instantly die and The Tyrant-Weed will drop three Tyrant Shards, which give a total of 1050 and 1500 (multiplied by the Hazard Bonus) at the end of a mission when deposited.

Unlike some other bosses such as Dreadnoughts, an active Korlok Tyrant-Weed does not stop the occurrence of ambient waves or Swarms.

Health and Armor

Korlok Tyrant-Weed

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	TE 1	TE 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		600	900	1500	2100	2100	3150	3675		1500	1800		2100	2100	2100
		1200	1200	1500	2100	2100	3150	3675		1500	1800		2100	2100	2100
		1800	2100	2700	3000	3000	4500	5250		2700	3000		3300	3000	3300
		2400	3000	3300	3900	3900	5850	6825		3300	3600		3900	3900	3900

Immune to damage while within shell

Korlok Healing Pod

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	TE 1	TE 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		112.5	162.5	200	250	300	450	525		200	212.5		275	300	325
		137.5	187.5	225	250	300	450	525		225	237.5		275	300	325
		175	225	250	300	350	525	612.5		250	275		325	350	375
		212.5	250	275	325	375	562.5	656.25		275	300		350	375	400

Korlok Sprout

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	TE 1	TE 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		247.5	357.5	440	550	660	990	1155		440	467.5		605	660	715
		302.5	412.5	495	550	660	990	1155		495	522.5		605	660	715
		385	495	550	660	770	1155	1347.5		550	605		715	770	825
		467.5	550	605	715	825	1237.5	1443.75		605	660		770	825	880

Attacks

The Korlok Sprouts spit balls similar to Spitball Infectors' attacks. The heart and Healing Pods have no attacks.

Korlok Spit

Projectile
Damage Amount		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		5	7	12	20	28	42	56		12	15		23	28	30
		5	8	13	21.5	30	45	60		13	16		24.5	30	32
		5	9	14	23	32	48	64		14	17		26	32	34
		5	10	15	25	34	51	68		15	18		28	34	36
Details
Damage Type		Kinetic
AoE Projectile
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		2.5	3.5	6	10	14	21	28		6	7.5		11.5	14	15
		2.5	4	6.5	10.75	15	22.5	30		6.5	8		12.25	15	16
		2.5	4.5	7	11.5	16	24	32		7	8.5		13	16	17
		2.5	5	7.5	12.5	17	25.5	34		7.5	9		14	17	18
Details
Damage Type		Poison					Radius: 0.4 m Maximum Damage Radius: 0.2 m Minimum Area Damage: 50 %

Gallery

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  Korlok Spit
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  Healing
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  Tyrant Shard

Trivia

• Despite the Korlok's opened bud appearing as a weakpoint, it is not, and will thus not benefit from any weakpoint damage mods or other benefits.
• When a Korlok Sprout is on fire, it is unable to attack.
• Doretta is able to destroy a Tyrant-Weed if she runs it over, even if it is closed.