Cosmic Guardian

Cosmic Guardian

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Max Life	50000 / 100000 / 112500
KB Resist	100%
Immune to	All debuffs except:

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

The Cosmic Guardian is a post-Moon Lord boss servant that is spawned during the fight with The Devourer of Gods. In Revengeance Mode, it spawns when the Devourer of Gods is at 90% health, and an additional 2 will appear at 75% health. Another 3 will spawn in the Devourer of Gods' final phase at 20% health in all difficulties. It will fly up high and despawn after the Devourer of Gods has been defeated in its first phase.

Cosmic Guardians will rarely attempt to directly attack the player, instead flying alongside the Devourer of Gods' head segment as additional hazards. They will also turn invisible and become unable to deal damage when the Devourer of Gods is firing its laser walls.

Segments

Cosmic Guardian Head

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	240 / 360 / 396 / 432 / 648
Max Life	50000 / 100000 / 112500
Defense	40
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	God Slayer Inferno 100% chance
Debuff duration	2 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is burning off

Cosmic Guardian Body

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	175 / 260 / 290 / 320 / 474
Max Life	50000 / 100000 / 112500
Defense	60
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	God Slayer Inferno 100% chance
Debuff duration	1.33 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is burning off

Cosmic Guardian Tail

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	135 / 200 / 230 / 260 / 366
Max Life	50000 / 100000 / 112500
Defense	70
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	God Slayer Inferno 100% chance
Debuff duration	1 second
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is burning off

Resistances

• All segments take reduced damage from most non-minion piercing projectiles. Each hit decreases the damage of the next hit by 12%, until the eighth hit onwards which deal 20% of original damage.

Notes

• The Cosmic Guardian cannot damage or be damaged by the player for 3 seconds after spawning.
• Due to lacking a special resistance to piercing weapons like most worm bosses, the Cosmic Guardian is highly vulnerable to weapons such as Valediction or Blissful Bombardier.
• If all 3 Cosmic Guardians spawn at once while the Devourer of Gods is alive, some Cosmic Guardians may spawn without a few segments or lacking their entire body besides the head. This is the result of the many worms' segments reaching the NPC cap, preventing additional segments from spawning.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Cosmic Guardian: "Though of the same species as the nameless serpent, their minds and functions are far more basic. They possess very little will of their own and blindly follow the orders of their gluttonous master."

• The Cosmic Guardian used to be called "Another worm boss" as a reference to the prevalence of worm bosses in the mod. After that, it was known as "Devourer of Thots", in reference to the memetic slang term "thot" to refer to a promiscuous woman.
• Before the Cosmic Guardian was introduced, a second Devourer of Gods would spawn in its place.
  • The player would have to defeat the newly spawned Devourer of Gods first because if the new Devourer was at 25% health after the old Devourer had been defeated, a third Devourer of Gods would spawn, and the process would begin anew.
  • Only 2 Devourers of Gods could exist at once, so by defeating the newly spawned Devourer of Gods first, the original Devourer of Gods (which would already be below 25% health) could be defeated without worry of another spawning.
• Prior to an update, the Cosmic Guardians were unable to take any damage that would deal 50% of their health or more.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.4.005: Fixed multiplayer desyncs which caused it to appear as only a head.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Buffed head damage from 180 / 360 / 396 / 420 / 510 to 240 / 360 / 396 / 432 / 720 , body damage from 130 / 260 / 290 / 320 / 420 to 175 / 260 / 290 / 320 / 525 , and tail damage from 100 / 200 / 230 / 260 / 330 to 135 / 200 / 230 / 260 / 405 .
  • Now has 25% less health and 10% less damage in Master Mode.
  • No longer uses a global scaling contact damage formula based on boss velocity. Instead, it now uses a different formula for scaling contact damage based on velocity, which scales from half damage to full damage on the head, and 0 to full damage on the body and tail.
  • No longer immune to lifesteal.

• 2.0.3.005: Decreased God Slayer Inferno duration from the head from 3 seconds to 2, from the body from 2 seconds to 1.33, and from the tail from 1.5 seconds to 1.

• 2.0.3.002: Now affected by the Boss Health Boost Percentage configuration option.

• 2.0.2.002: Now properly displays vanilla debuff colors and Hunter Potion effects.

• 2.0.1.003: No longer blacklisted from spawning during Boss Rush.

• 2.0.1.002: No longer has a global grenade resistance.

• 2.0.0.001: Reworked, they no longer have their own independent movement, and instead follow Devourer of Gods' head, flying around it.

• 1.5.1.001: No longer increases in fall speed while over 200 and 350 tiles away from the player.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed health from 100,000 / 200,000 to 50,000 / 100,000 .
  • Fixed an issue that caused its audio cue to be extremely loud.

• 1.4.5.004: Now accelerates much faster and has a higher top speed if the player is far away.

• 1.4.5.003:
  • Buffed head damage from 180 / 360 / 396 / 417 to 180 / 360 / 396 / 420 .
  • Buffed body damage from 130 / 260 to 130 / 260 / 290 / 320 .
  • Buffed tail damage from 100 / 200 to 100 / 200 / 230 / 260 .

• 1.4.5.001:
  • Significantly increased top speed, and decreased acceleration.
  • Now has piercing resistance.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Nerfed head damage from 180 / 360 / 450 / 517 to 180 / 360 / 396 / 417 .
  • Nerfed body damage from 130 / 260 / 299 to 130 / 260 .
  • Nerfed tail damage from 100 / 200 / 230 to 100 / 200 .

• 1.4.2.106: Buffed head defense from 0 to 40, body defense from 0 to 60, and tail defense from 0 to 70.

• 1.4.2.105:
  • Now has glowmasks.
  • Resprited it and gores. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.2.102: Now despawns quicker, and will travel upwards instead of downwards.

• 1.4.2.101:
  • Body now takes 50% damage from all sources instead of 66%.
  • Head now has an immunity frames cooldown slot of 1.
  • No longer has immunity to any damage that would take over 50% of its health.
  • Fixed head and tail doing much more damage than intended.

• 1.4.2.001:
  • Renamed from "The Devourer of Thots" to "Cosmic Guardian".
  • Can no longer be lifestealed off of.

• 1.4.1.003: No longer drops money.

• 1.4.1.001:
  • Decreased the speed at which it burrows when despawning.
  • No longer takes 50% damage from ranged projectiles while Vortex armor's stealth ability is active.
  • Now inflicts Frostburn and Darkness in all difficulty modes instead of just Expert Mode and higher.
  • Now has its own gores instead of reusing phase 1 Devourer of Gods'.
  • Now burrows away after defeating Devourer of Gods' first phase.
  • Increased God Slayer Inferno duration from head from 2.5 seconds to 3.
  • Increased God Slayer Inferno duration from body from 1 seconds to 2.
  • Increased God Slayer Inferno duration from tail from 1.33 seconds to 1.5.
  • No longer inflicts Horror in Revengeance Mode.

• 1.3.2.001:
  • Nerfed head damage from 250 / 500 to 180 / 360 .
  • Nerfed body damage from 150 / 300 to 130 / 260 .

• 1.3.0.001:
  • Nerfed head damage from 300 / 600 to 250 / 500 .
  • Lowered speed.

• 1.2.4.201:
  • Now invincible and harmless for 3 seconds after spawning.
  • Changed health from 120,000 / 192,000 to 100,000 / 200,000 .
  • Nerfed head damage from 400 / 640 to 300 / 600 .
  • Buffed body damage from 150 / 240 to 150 / 300 .
  • Buffed tail damage from 100 / 160 to 100 / 200 .

• 1.2.4.002:
  • Renamed from "Another worm boss" to "Devourer of Thots".
  • Buffed head damage from 250 / 400 to 400 / 640 .
  • Increased speed.

• 1.2.3.001:
  • Lowered speed.
  • Now classified as a boss.

• 1.2.2.007: Nerfed health from 150,000 / 240,000 to 120,000 / 192,000 .

• 1.2.2.005:
  • Renamed from "The Devourer of Thots" to "Another worm boss".
  • Nerfed body damage from 200 / 320 / 400 to 150 / 240 / 300 .
  • Nerfed tail damage from 150 / 240 / 300 to 100 / 160 / 200 .
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.2.001:
  • Nerfed health from 600,000 / 960,000 / 1,040,000 to 150,000 / 240,000 .
  • No longer spawns Stasis Probes.
  • No longer broadcasts messages to the chat.
  • Now has a unique sprite instead of using Armored Digger's. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.1.006: Nerfed health from 700,000 / 1,120,000 / 1,200,000 to 600,000 / 960,000 / 1,040,000 .

• 1.2.1.004: Introduced.