Cavern Brute

In game

Velmarch's deep miners, fused by their embers to the stone they cut.

Life: 60 at depth 1
Damage: 8 Physical per hit
Attack: Slam
Speed: 2.9 tiles/s
Armour: 15
Resistances: None
Size: 1.2 tiles across
Packs: 1 to 3
First appears: Depth 1
Experience: 22 at depth 1

A Cavern Brute, a hulk of black rock split by glowing seams, a miner's helmet on its head and a pick on its back

Art in progress

Lore Concept

The pick is still in its hand; the hand is stone to the elbow.

The Brutes are Cinderborn: things the Ember made or remade. The Hearthfolk say they were Velmarch's deep miners, the ones who came back from the shafts with embers lodged in their chests. They went down again, and again, and the embers fused them to the stone they cut.

Their skin is rock now, and the rock is armour. They still swing as miners swing: overhead, both arms, at the ground. Coalwrights say a Brute's slam leaves the same mark as a Velmarch pick, only wider.

They belong to the Underhalls, Velmarch's mine-halls and the Cinderworks foundries beneath them, but they wander up wherever a shaft breaks the surface.

Where it is met

Act 3, the Underhalls: the pillared mine-halls and the Cinderworks.
Anywhere a shaft breaks the surface: a Brute can climb out in any act.
In the build: from depth 1. The build has no acts yet; every depth is the same endless cave.

Model

The Cavern Brute as the game draws it, at each level of detail, under a warm light like the party's ember. Every model, with its numbers: Models, or with each level's numbers in the asset explorer.

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Model	File	Vertices	Triangles	Budget	Drawn at	Size (tiles)
Near	`brute_near.glb` 175 KB	3,981 (24 ember)	5,665	4,000 vertices	under 30 tiles	1.54 × 2.24 × 1.73
Mid	`brute_mid.glb` 48 KB	997 (10 ember)	1,970	1,500 vertices	30 to 38 tiles	1.50 × 2.20 × 1.71
Far	`brute_far.glb` 15 KB	284 (10 ember)	546	400 vertices	beyond 38 tiles	1.44 × 2.11 × 1.62

Attack

Once you are within 1.2 tiles, it marks a circle of radius 2.25 on the ground where you stand. The circle fills for 1 seconds, then hits every player still inside. It slams every 3 seconds. Hasted monsters wind up faster and chilled ones slower. Each hit rolls 80% to 120% of its damage.

By depth

Values for a normal Cavern Brute, with magic and rare life for comparison. Modifiers come on top.

Depth	Life	Magic life	Rare life	Damage	Experience	Armour
1	60	96	180	8	22	15
2	67	108	202	8.7	24	17
3	75	120	226	9.4	27	18
4	84	135	253	10.2	29	20
5	94	151	283	11.1	32	21
10	166	266	499	16.7	52	29
15	293	469	880	25.1	84	36
20	517	827	1,550	37.7	135	44
30	1,605	2,568	4,815	85.2	349	59

Rarity at depth 1

Before modifiers. Drops are per player within 30 tiles of the kill; see Drops.

Rarity	Life	Damage	Experience	Items dropped	Currency dropped
Normal	60	8	22	0.12	0.06
Magic	96	8	55	0.3	0.15
Rare	180	9.2	132	1.18	0.36
Guardian	270	9.2	264	2.39	0.9

How often it appears

The chance that a new pack is Cavern Brutes, by depth. Spawn weight 45.

Depth	Share of packs
1	21%
2	14%
3+	12%

Other monsters: Hollow Ghoul, Bone Archer, Cinder Imp, Gloom Spider, Rime Wraith