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The Barrow King

An Engineer boss solution for Mossgate room 10.

For Engineer in Mossgate, room 10, using only the two starting spells, Bolt turret and Rivet gun. The Barrow King never leaves his throne, but on every second turn he sweeps all eight tiles around him. This route fights him from three tiles away, where Rivet gun reaches and the sweep does not.

Minor spoiler: Mossgate room 10: the full solution.

The Barrow King — Engineer room walkthrough

Before you begin

Reach room 10 by clearing the first nine rooms and taking their normal rewards. The script needs nothing beyond the Engineer's starting kit. Its win was checked with that kit and with 50 sampled reward histories. Rewards that change Bolt turret or Rivet gun can still change your turns and HP.

The script

repeat 2:
    step up
face up
cast bolt turret
repeat 5:
    face up
    cast rivet gun
step right
step left
face up
cast bolt turret
  1. Open The Barrow King, choose Write my script, and enter the eleven lines above. Keep the indentation.
  2. Press Play. The hero walks two tiles up, crossing the spikes for one hit of 4, and builds the turret on the tile ahead. It stands between you and the king.
  3. Rivet gun passes the turret and hits the king three tiles away. Both hit him every turn; no single hit can take more than a sixth of his HP.
  4. Every sixth turn he raises a barrow rat beside his throne. Once he falls, the turret keeps firing up the column and finishes the rat.

The result

The recorded run finished in 9 turns, 24 executed instructions and 11 rows, with 28 HP and one fumble: a Rivet gun cast after the king fell, with nothing left in reach. With only the starting kit, the same script took 11 turns and also kept 28 HP. This is a safe winning route, not an optimal score for every measure.

Room cleared: nine turns, twenty-four instructions, eleven rows, twenty-eight HP and one fumble
The result of the recorded attempt.

If it goes wrong

  • Stay on the third tile below the king. One tile closer and his sweep reaches you.
  • Cast Bolt turret while facing up, so it is built ahead of you and fires at the king.
  • Keep Face up inside Repeat. Rivet gun only hits the first creature straight ahead.
  • The last four lines spend two turns, then rebuild the turret if a rat still stands. The recorded run cleared the room during them.

The walkthrough was played by an automated input driver using ordinary controls on game version 0.1.1. Its earlier rooms took normal draft rewards; none of them are used by this script.