Core Keeper Progression

Set up before pushing outward

1. Collect Wood and craft a Basic Workbench from 8 Wood in your inventory.
2. Mine Copper Ore and smelt it in a Furnace; a Furnace costs 20 Dirt Blocks at the Basic Workbench.
3. Build a Cooking Pot (2 Wood, 4 Copper Bars) and a Salvage and Repair Station (5 Wood, 5 Copper Bars).
4. Make a Copper Workbench (8 Wood, 6 Copper Bars). Keep ordinary repair materials and a cooked-food stack at the base.

Ready to leave when

Your weapon and pickaxe are repaired, you have light and bridges, and you can replace the food you take. The next workbench does not replace every processing station: keep your Furnace, Cooking Pot and repair station available.

Find and prepare the fight

Glurch is close to the Core, at a randomized direction rather than a fixed map coordinate. Screen shake helps identify the area. Remove Ground Slime from the space you want to fight in so it does not slow your escape. Repair your gear and take cooked food before approaching.

What moves progression forward

1. Dodge the jumps and leave yourself space when Glurch speeds up at low health.
2. Collect Glurch Eye from the boss chest.
3. Return to the Glurch statue beside the Core and insert the Eye. Defeating a boss without installing its item does not power that statue.

If the fight keeps resetting

Kiting too far from the spawn area lets Glurch return and heal. Clear a usable local fighting area rather than dragging the boss all the way to your workshop. There is no required single weapon class for this stage.

Locate the route

Ghorm circles the Core through the Clay Caves and Forgotten Ruins. Follow a route outward until you find the broad slime-covered track, then mark a safe approach on your map. Do not put a base or storage on that track: Ghorm destroys structures in its path.

Prepare for a different fight

A brief hit is not enough: Ghorm initially keeps circling and later turns to charge you. Bring a damage plan you can actually sustain, movement food and a repaired weapon. Spike traps are an available approach, but this route does not promise an exact trap count across equipment, difficulty and updates.

After the kill

Collect Ghorm's Horn and install it at the corresponding statue beside the Core. Keep the boss route marked for later visits instead of assuming every world has the same position.

Reach the throne room

Look in the Forgotten Ruins for Malugaz's throne-room arena. Cavelings there can drop Crystal Skull Shards. With three shards, use them from a hotbar slot to create the Skull of the Corrupted Shaman; place that skull on the arena's central sigil.

Before using the summon

1. Clear nearby enemies and obstacles so you are not fighting a dungeon pull at the same time.
2. Repair your equipment and bring healing plus food; fire and a tight arena make an unprepared attempt expensive.
3. Stay ready after the first health bar. Malugaz has a second form; the first defeat is not the end.
4. Collect Stolen Crystal Heart after the full fight and install it in the third Core statue.

Old-guide trap

For current progression, the three statue items come from Glurch, Ghorm and Malugaz. Do not follow an Early Access route that sends you to the Hive Mother as the required third Core boss.

Unlock checklist

1. Confirm Glurch Eye, Ghorm's Horn and Stolen Crystal Heart are installed in their statues.
2. Interact with the now-powered Core and finish its dialogue.
3. Travel to the Great Wall and interact with it to lower the barrier.
4. Return to the Core for guidance toward the next biome. Directions vary by world, so use your own dialogue rather than someone else's map.

Playing together

Each player should speak to the powered Core to unlock their own Souls tab. One teammate's conversation is not a substitute for your character completing that step.

Where this route ends

This page takes you through the opening gate. It is not a full titan-order walkthrough or a claim that your current armor is ready for every outer biome. Establish food, repairs and a reliable route home before extending your exploration.