Guardian

## Minotaur

The Minotaur is an ancient guardian that can appear after the player prompts a peep to explore an ancient ruin.
Building a Training Ground on that island will allow peeps to fend off the Minotaur. The training ground requires food and drink of increasing quality: starting with Potatoes & Water when built, then Vegetables and Tea for level II, then Bread and Milk, then Meals and Smoothies, and finally Good Meals and Good Smoothies.

To tame the Minotaur you must fully upgrade the Training Ground and wait for its next appearance. They will then carry resources for the player like a Peep would. They will ignore elevators and Highland cliffs and simply hover up to the top wherever there is an empty (non-building) tile.

## Gremlins

After scouting or sailing around an island you may find an odd structure like a flattened skull, indicating the presence of Gremlins on that island. The Gremlins will start raiding resources each night after colonizing an island. They won't do anything during the daytime and they don't affect research. It does not appear there is any way to actually retrieve the stolen resources, although Gremlins will provide resources if they become tamed.

To tame Gremlins simply let them steal resources for roughly 10 hours of playtime in-game. It is possible to protect resources from Gremlins with the Light Towers, however as of 2022 this will currently not tame them.

## Sphinx

The Sphinx appears as a metallic turret ontop of a Mountain feature. It will target a random building when it activates, issuing a "riddle" as some sort of challenge.

If there is a Museum on the island there is a chance that the riddle will be able to be "solved," defusing the situation and the Sphinx will deactivate. Otherwise it will initiate its attack and destroy the building, leaving ruins which no longer function, and can only be repaired or demolished. Over time the Sphinx's challenges will become harder to solve, but upgrading the Museum by investing research into it will allow the Peeps to keep solving them successfully, and eventually at its maximum level this will tame the Sphinx and allow it to produce up to 60 power per minute instead.

## Space Whale (Regular)

*Main article:* Space whale
Space Whales will start attacking your planets after repairing the Spaceship.
When a space elevator is built on a planet peeps will store food in it as an offering to prevent damage from regular Space Whales.

## Space Whale (Large)

It is unknown exactly when these come, although it is likely related to the Whale Charmer.
The only way to prevent damage from large Space Whales is building an Aegis shield and to supply it enough power during the attack, having one on each island will fully protect the planet.

## Kraken

Krakens can appear when exploring sea ruins with a Submarine. They will spawn tentacles that interrupt sea shipping, but this will not actually destroy the ships involved. Krakens cannot affect airships. Uncovering more of them will create more interruption until the Kraken is "unified", taming it.

Krakens were introduced in the first of the Content Update patches.

1. ↑ Tame a Gremlin Nest? - developer reply. Steam Discussion on 21 May 2021