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Crystal Guardian

Heavyset miner of the Crystal Peak overcome by crystal growth. Can discharge blazing beams of light from its crystallised limbs.

Hunter’s notes

How does the world look to this creature, gazing out from within its crystal prison? Does it see only light? Is that what drives it into a frenzy?

The notes unlock after 2 kills.

Nail hits to kill

Its 280 HP over the nail's damage per hit at each upgrade, plain and with Fragile or Unbreakable Strength (×1.5, rounded the game's way). Some places give it different HP; the encounter cards below keep them separate.

NailDamageHitsWith Strength
Old Nail55635 (8 a hit)
Sharpened Nail93220 (14 a hit)
Channelled Nail132214 (20 a hit)
Coiled Nail171711 (26 a hit)
Pure Nail21149 (32 a hit)
  1. Crystal Guardian280
  2. Crystallised Husk35
  3. Glimback35
  4. Crystal Hunter25
  5. Husk Miner25
  6. Crystal Crawler15
  7. Shardmite15
HP of the enemies found mostly in Crystal Peak, highest first.

In Godhome

HP as the arena's own HealthManagers set it (the Attuned fight), and the nail hits that takes at each upgrade, plain and with Strength (×1.5). Track Godhome.

Crystal Guardian · Shining god of greed

In the Hall of Gods and in Pantheon of the Artist, Pantheon of Hallownest.

NailMega Zombie Beam Miner · 650 HP
Old Nail (5 a hit)130 · 82 with Strength
Sharpened Nail (9 a hit)73 · 47 with Strength
Channelled Nail (13 a hit)50 · 33 with Strength
Coiled Nail (17 a hit)39 · 25 with Strength
Pure Nail (21 a hit)31 · 21 with Strength
  1. Soul Warrior750 #21
  2. Winged Nosk750 #22
  3. Broken Vessel700 #23
  4. Nosk680 #24
  5. Crystal Guardian650 #25
  6. Enraged Guardian650 #26
  7. Galien650 #27
  8. Gorb650 #28
  9. Gruz Mother650 #29
The Hall of Gods fights closest in HP to Crystal Guardian (#25 of 46 by HP), each by its strongest enemy.

Appears in 2 areas

PlacePlacedHP
Elsewhere1 scene1280
Crystal Peak1 scene1450

HP and Geo stay with their own scene and form. Geo with Fragile Greed gives each coin size 20% more coins, rounded up.

Elsewhere

1 placed · 1 scene · HP 280

Placements, stats and map links

Mines 18 boss · Mega Zombie Beam Miner

1 placed

HP
280
Geo
385
With Greed
462

Crystal Peak

1 placed · 1 scene · HP 450

Placements, stats and map links

Mines 32 · Zombie Beam Miner Rematch

1 placed

HP
450
Geo
550
With Greed
660

Overview

HP
280
Geo per kill
385
Geo with Fragile Greed
462
Kills for the Hunter’s notes
2
Placed copies
2
Kind
Enemy

Also mostly in Crystal Peak 6