Boiler Badlands Biome

Terrain

In the boiler badlands, there is no water. Instead, the map's is filled with lava, and the players must fill in the lava to travel safely across the map.

There are two ways to fill in pools of lava. The player can either use the bucket against a lava tile, which will turn one lava into a traversable tile. Or, the player can use the Water Shrines.

Water Shrine

The Water shrine is a unique structure to the Boiler Badlands Biome. Unlike other biomes where Players can fill up the bucket by standing next to water (or on bridges), in the Boiler Badlands water can only be obtained by holding the bucket while standing next to a water shrine.

Water shrines can be moved around by the player if they dash into the shrine. Players are able to both push and pull the shrines. By standing next to a shrine and dashing in the direction they want the shrine to move, players can move the shrine. By dashing into the shrine, players can move the shrine in the direction that they push the shrine. Additionally, by dashing away from the shrine while standing next to it, players are able to 'pull' the shrine out of corners or tight spaces to move the shrine where they need it to go. This is a useful mechanic during the boss fight, as players can 'pull' the shrines out from the bottom or top of the map using this technique.

Water shrines can be pushed into a pool of lava. Doing so will turn the entire lava pool into traversable tiles. When the level has extremely large lava lakes, it is usually a good idea to push a shrine into the lava to make a large walkable area. Once a shrine is pushed into lava, the shrine is destroyed. It is possible to deplete all water shrines on the map in this way, so before pushing shrines into lava, it is recommended to ensure that at least one other water shrine is still accessible.

Animals

Threats

Waste Slime

The waste slime is a slime that lives in lava pits. If the train paths too close to one of the Waste Slime's lava pits, it will seek out the train and set the closest wagon on fire, causing the players to come back to the train and deal with the problem.

Waste Slimes are milkable, their milk gives 5 Bucket Cartridges for 20 seconds. See Milk for more details.

Junk Golem

The Junk Golem fires torpedos at players after a brief delay. The Junk Golem's attacks are highly telegraphed, and once the golem takes out it's torpedo, it holds it for 1 second and will not change direction before it fires. This allows the player to quickly dodge out of the way to avoid the torpedo if they are close to the golem. Fired torpedo can pierce through players, meaning multiple players can die to a single Junk Golem torpedo. The Junk Golem has a lot of health and, while the can be killed, they required a lot of hits to be killed.

With careful planning, players can use the Junk Golem's torpedos to mine resources, and, even kill other Junk Golems (see Achievements).

Boss Fight

The Boiler Badlands boss fight is the Torpeboss. In the boss fight, stone is only available at the top of the map while wood is only available at the bottom, both are in limited quantities. The Torpeboss constantly fires a barrage of missiles at the players, which the player must avoid. At certain points of the level, Torpeboss will also launch lava pits in front of your tracks. Most of the time, these lava pits will block the entire map and you cannot just place tracks to get around the lava pit. At this point, it is recommended that the players push one of the water shrines into the lava pit which will entirely remove the lava and turn the lava into walkable stone, allowing the players to continue to progress through the map. Once the players reach a certain point the boss will also fire purple homing missiles that will slowly target the player.