Guardian bosses - summon items, order and levels

Temple guardians are summoned at a pyramid altar. Each has three tiers, Fierce, Berserk and Doom, and every summon needs Worship Containers (1, 2 and 3) plus tier-specific food or alchemy items; Doom also needs one elemental Worship Container. Your Awareness level must reach the tier’s summon level. Start with the Saber-toothed Predator, whose Fierce tier needs only level 5. All tiers and materials are in the boss reference; gear, weapons and attack counters for each fight are in how to beat every guardian.

Where Worship Containers come from

Tribal priests and leaders, plunderer leaders and ruin guardians can drop Worship Containers, and the Central Core loot table includes them too. The two level-20 rainforest priests, Retroreflector (Western Rainforest, Flint Tribe) and Rock Breaker (Northern Rainforest, Claw Tribe), are the earliest source. Doom tiers need an extra elemental container: Earth, Water, Wind, Fire or Heaven.

Cloud Mist Forest guardians in order

Guardian	Pyramid	Fierce tier summon level	Fierce tier offering	Steam unlock (Fierce)
Saber-toothed Predator	Rainforest	5	5 Premium Fresh Meat, 5 Beast Bone, 5 Beast Blood	37.1%
Fogfrog	Hill	30	5 Aloe Essence, 5 Acidic Fluid, 2 Blood Activating Cream	21.3%
Vajra Ape	Plateau	35	5 Premium Steak, 5 Fruit Wine, 5 Fruit Kebab	18.2%
Tempest Griffin	Desert (Northern Wasteland)	45	5 Seafood Quinoa Rice, 2 Excitant, 5 Premium Fresh Meat	11.7%
Mammoth	Snow Mountain	50	5 Fried Taco, 5 Roasted Mushroom, 5 Roasted Pumpkin	8.2%

Each Fierce offering also takes 1 Worship Container. Prepare the food and alchemy items before the trip: Fogfrog’s offering comes from the alchemy chain, Vajra Ape’s from cooking and brewing.

What guardian kills unlock

The first Saber-toothed Predator kill opens its pyramid for a large mask data update, which unlocks the Mysterious Stone Table and the remodelling devices that can rebuild dead tribesmen. Later pyramids hold further data updates; in Early Access the Fogfrog pyramid update was the one that unlocked Mimicry. Guardians also drop the materials for their equipment sets (Saber-toothed Predator, Frog Leather, Giant Ape Leather, Tempest Griffin and Mammoth Leather sets).

Central Core (Cloud Mist Forest)

The hidden final guardian waits in the Frost Canyon Holy Ruins at level 70. It is summoned with the five Mysterious Devices taken from the five guardian pyramids, and needs summon level 55. Only 4.4% of Steam players have beaten it. It unlocks Ancient Enhance Table technology.

Shifting Sands guardians

Guardian	Where	Fierce summon level	Reward
Sobek Crocodile	Coastal Dune ground ruins	35	Abyss Overlord mask; first anti-gravity engine in Survival
Anubis Hound	Sunken City ground ruins	35	Key to the chamber with Doomsday Judgment
Onyx Scarab	Desert Temple ground ruins	35	Glorious Hymn

In the game data, Sobek and Anubis Hound use the same meat, bone and blood offering as the Saber-toothed Predator; the Onyx Scarab takes Feces, Wheat Porridge and Wine. Berserk tiers need level 45 and Doom tiers 55 for all three.

Central Core (Shifting Sands)

Added on 31 August. Collect 14 Divine Crystal Fragments across the map, combine them into the Core Module at a mysterious stone platform, then activate it in the lowest chamber of the Floating Island. Gravity and space are disrupted during the fight and holographic enemies join it. 0.2% of Steam players have the achievement.

Fight settings worth knowing

• Since patch 5 (17 April), dynamic boss scaling is off by default on lower difficulties, and since 21 April boss and elite HP no longer scale with your number of followers or teammates on default settings.
• Boss scaling counts tribesmen at half weight compared with players.
• Patch 13 (11 June) rebalanced every boss and slowed creatures’ HP regeneration after they disengage, so a retreat no longer resets the fight as fast.
• The Death Sandstorm in Shifting Sands is a ship fight; see ships.