Talos is a bronze construct that hunts bosses for you, online or offline. You load it with boss keys and Ancient Energy, and it runs fights on its own, one key per run. It is slower and less reliable than killing the boss yourself, and its loot ignores luck.
Unlocking Talos
Talos costs $1,000,000, paid once. Open /talos or the Talos button in /boss to buy it (/talos unlock also works). It is bound to your account. There is no construct to place anywhere.
Talos can only hunt a boss you have already farmed yourself. Each boss unlocks for Talos once you have personally killed enough of it this season:
| Boss | Your kills needed |
|---|---|
| Lamia | 50 |
| Echidna | 50 |
| Thanatos | 100 |
| Hephaestus | 200 |
The Boss Access button in /talos shows your progress. Talos can't hunt Uber bosses.
Fuel
Every run spends one boss key and a set amount of Ancient Energy:
| Boss | Energy per run |
|---|---|
| Lamia | 250,000 |
| Echidna | 750,000 |
| Thanatos | 1,500,000 |
| Hephaestus | 3,000,000 |
Click a boss key in your inventory while /talos is open to load it (shift-click loads every key of that boss you carry). Load energy from your balance or from energy items in your inventory. Talos holds up to 1,280 keys per boss and 1,000,000,000 energy. Unload Fuel gives every loaded key and all loaded energy back and cancels the current run.
Talos always hunts the hardest boss it can run: unlocked, with a key and enough energy loaded.
Upgrading
Talos has one upgrade level, from 0 to 85, bought with money in /talos. Each level makes runs shorter and raises the success chance. Each boss stops improving at its own level:
| Boss | Max level | Run time at level 0 | Run time at max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamia | 25 | 60 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Echidna | 45 | 80 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Thanatos | 65 | 110 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Hephaestus | 85 | 120 minutes | 25 minutes |
Success chance starts at 40% at level 0 and climbs to 70% at a boss's max level. A failed run still uses its key and energy.
The first level costs $250,000, and each level after costs 13% more than the one before. Maxing Lamia costs about $39M in total, Echidna about $469M, Thanatos about $5.4B and Hephaestus about $62.5B.
The paid season pass adds up to +20% success chance (capped at 80% in total) and up to 20% shorter runs, so a maxed boss run takes 20 minutes with a fully claimed pass.
Loot
A successful run rolls that boss's loot table once, the same as a kill, except that luck doesn't apply and the RNG Meter doesn't charge. Loot is stored inside Talos. Open Claim Loot in /talos to take items one at a time or all at once.
Version history
v4.0.0 (Map 4)
- Talos has one upgrade level from 0 to 85, bought with money instead of Hunter Points. The separate speed and completion upgrades are gone.
- Each boss stops improving at its own level: Lamia 25, Echidna 45, Thanatos 65, Hephaestus 85. At a boss's max level a run takes 25 minutes with a 70% success chance.
- Energy per run is 250,000 for Lamia, 750,000 for Echidna, 1,500,000 for Thanatos and 3,000,000 for Hephaestus.
- Talos costs $1,000,000 to unlock. Open
/talosor its button in/boss. The Boss Shop is gone. - Thanatos now needs 100 of your own kills before Talos can hunt him, and Hephaestus 200.
- The paid season pass now also shortens Talos runs.