The Broodmother

A World Boss, fought on a stage in The Nest — five floors deep, with 1,000 health for every raider who comes through the gate and 30 minutes to bring it down.

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New to World Bosses? Read World Bosses first — how one is called, getting through the gate, how the stage works, why dying costs nothing, and how the rewards are shared. This page is about this boss's fight.

The Broodmother enraged on the Heart of the Web, a raider cocooned in silk at the end of the crowd, the damage board in the corner — **The Heart of the Web.** The last floor: she has enraged, a raider is cocooned at the end of the line, and the crowd has been sent to cut them out.

The five floors

Phases

The platform sinks a floor deeper each time its health crosses a line. What happens on each floor:

Floor	From	What happens there	What it says
I. The Webbed Hall	100%	The Bite, The Web	Sssso many... and all of you so warm.
II. The Egg Chambers	80%	The Bite, The Web, The Clutch	Wake, my children. Supper has come down to us.
III. The Cocoon Larder	60%	The Bite, Cocoons	Hold still. I will keep you for later.
IV. The Venom Pools	40%	The Bite, The Web	Taste it? That is the deep in you now.
V. The Heart of the Web	20%	The Bite, The Last of the Brood, Cocoons — and it enrages	The web is MINE. Every thread of it.

On floor V it enrages: everything it does hits 50% harder and comes 50% faster, until it dies.

What it does

The numbers are before the enrage. You never have to move or pick a target for any of it — on Auto the fight sends raiders where they are needed — but you can click any of its creatures to go after it yourself.

Habit	Floors	What it does
The Bite Hits everyone	I, II, III, IV and V	Every 8 seconds the Broodmother winds up for 1.5 seconds, then hits every raider standing for 12. Nothing reduces it — bring bandages and food. On floors IV and V it also leaves venom: 2 more hits of 8, 2.5 seconds apart.
The Web Holds one raider	I, II and IV	Every 10 seconds one raider is caught and cannot swing or cast for 5 seconds.
The Clutch Adds	II	Spiderlings: about one for every 3 raiders (at least 2, never more than 12 at once), each with 170 health plus 12 for every raider in the fight and biting for 8 every 2.5 seconds. 3 raiders are sent at each one. More come every 25 seconds while the floor lasts.
The Last of the Brood Adds	V	Spiderlings: about one for every 4 raiders (at least 2, never more than 12 at once), each with 170 health plus 12 for every raider in the fight and biting for 8 every 2.5 seconds. 3 raiders are sent at each one. More come every 18 seconds while the floor lasts.
Cocoons Traps raiders	III and V	Every 15 seconds about one raider in 6 is sealed in a Silk Cocoon with 80 health, and the 2 raiders nearest are sent to break them out. Anyone still inside after 12 seconds takes 60 as it closes.

Its treasure

Hoard

Found nowhere else. Every fighter gets one roll at this table per kill, on top of the shared hoard, the painting and the rest — see the rewards. None of it is power: it is decoration, a reagent, and a picture of the thing you killed. The rarity column is relative to the others on this table, not a chance. The furniture goes down in your house or your yard like any other placeable, and the portrait hangs on a wall.

Item	What it is	Rarity
Spider's Silk ×20–60		Common
The Brood Egg Sac	A clutch of her eggs in a sac of old silk. Something in it shifts when nobody is looking.	Uncommon
The Larder Cocoon	Strung up on a frame of bones. Whoever was in it is not, any more. Probably.	Uncommon
The Broodmother's Head	Mounted. Eight eyes, every one of them dark, and a good deal of the fang left.	Uncommon
A Span of Her Web	Cut from the Heart of the Web and stretched on a hoop. It still twitches when it is touched.	Uncommon
The Broodmother	Painted from directly underneath, which the painter did not choose. A framed painting — hang it on a wall of your house. Only a World Boss's hoard gives one up.	Rare