Breeder

* Walk
* Punch
* Burn

A **breeder** is a giant monster that takes part in late campaign and challenge islands's Greed waves.

## Attacks

### Punch

The breeder's primary attack is a punch that can knock down swathes of men with a single blow. This leaves townsfolk disarmed, knocked prone, and vulnerable to greedling attacks.

When the Monarch gets punched by a breeder they lose a huge amount of their gold.

### Throwing boulder

Breeders can also plow through walls by returning discarded catapult boulders. They pick up the boulders that were previously fired with a catapult and throw them against the walls or at the Kingdom's subjects.

A thrown boulder can be as devastating to defensive forces as it is when used against the Greed; it has an area of effect, and it disarms and knocks down up to five defenders at a time. It can even knock archers out of a roofed tower. Luckily, thrown boulders can be blocked by knights standing between the boulder and other soldiers, as long as they are holding enough coins.

**Exploit:**
Quitting and reloading the current game will make all boulders on the ground disappear.

### Summoning greedlings

With a sort of vomiting action, breeders regularly spawn greedlings without masks.

 *Kingdom: Classic* &  *New Lands* –
Summoned greedlings will flee back to portals when the sun rises, but those summoned after sunrise, if they live long enough, will not flee until the next sunrise.

 *Kingdom Two Crowns* –
All greedlings always retreat at sunrise.

### Mount fearing

If the Monarch attempts to ride their mount past a breeder, their mount will rear up in fear for a moment, preventing movement (the same reaction the animal has when it's exhausted). Riding past a breeder, though sometimes necessary to get to safety, is thus very likely to put the Monarch on the receiving end of a hefty punch!

 *Kingdom: Classic* &  *New Lands* –
For a few seconds after a breeder has been defeated, the mount will panic if the Monarch tries pass by the location of the monster's remains.

### Crown stealer

 *Kingdom Two Crowns* – There's a small chance that crown stealers may hitch a ride on breeders.

## Defeating breeders

 *Kingdom: Classic* &  *New Lands* –
Breeders do not flee when the sun rises. They melt into goo after taking sufficient damage and are thus defeated.

 *Kingdom Two Crowns* – Just like all other monsters on nightly waves, breeders retreat at the dawn.
Fire can be powerful against a breeder, because, once the flames catch up with it, they do not extinguish, but remain inflicting damage until monster's final combustion, which can take quite a long time.
Any defensive mount that's able to slow down the Greed (like griffin, golem, and water horse) can be used against breeders, and even make a combo with the fire, to make the giants burn for a bit longer before they can punch the walls.
Sleipnir and the gamigin can also do that, by pushing breeders back with their charge attack; Sleipnir being even more effective as it pushes back and set fire at the same time.

## Armored breeder

*This section is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*

In very late Blood Moons in the campaign, on Skull Island, and on Plague Island after a certain day, breeders wearing a big mask start taking part in the attacks against the Kingdom. Armored breeders spawn greedlings with masks, take a significantly larger amount of hits to be killed, and deal much more damage to the walls.

## History

Back in the original *Kingdom* for browsers, the first appearance of what's now called "breeder" would simply be a larger version of what is now known as the "greedling". They were all called trolls: the little and the giant troll.

As of the release of *Kingdom* on *Steam* in 2015, the big monster would receive a new skin, more like a chunky ogre, and the ability to throw back boulders.

In 2016, a few months before the release of *Kingdom: New Lands*, the giant would receive its current skin and the ability to summon greedlings. From there, people started calling it the "breeder".

In 2018 *Kingdom Two Crowns* was released with the same breeder version. And in 2019, with the Challenge Islands update, the armored breeders were introduced.

Below is the changelog related to the breeder on the *Steam* versions.

## *Bloodstained*

Links in this section lead to the *Bloodstained Wiki*.
In the game *Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night*, a breeder is the boss of a short hidden level called Dead Lands.

The secret room-area becomes available after the main character Miriam defeats a boss called Bathin.
At Dominique's shop, Miriam has to acquire for one gold, the Crown of Creation, an item that, when equipped into the head slot, provides a Kingdom-esque defence, reducing incoming damage at the cost of gold.
While Miriam's wearing the Crown, she can access the Dead Lands area from the right exit of the train in Bridge of Evil.

There she'll face a couple of gamigins (demon horses) and the breeder.
The breeder, just like in *Kingdom*, is a slow and tough monster that vomits greedlings and has a strong punch.
Defeating it will grant Miriam the archer familiar shard.
This shard allows Miriam to call forth a floating pixelated archer to aid her in upcoming fights.

This content was introduced in 2021 as part of a major update called Kingdom Crossover.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 This is an approximate value, calculated by counting hits in game. It is close to the correct number, but not exact.
2. ↑ Also known as **boss**, **ogre**, or **giant**. Developers have also called it **big greed** in a patch note.
3. ↑ This video shows nightly wave breeders being defeated after dawn (or at lease after the number of the day) in *Kingdom: New Lands*. Timestamp: 20m 38s. *Youtube*. 19 June 2018.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 As seen in this video. Timestamp: 18m 04s. *Youtube*. 3 September 2022.
5. ↑ *A breeder every day during the morning* and
*Troops thought they were save outside*.

Although some users could refer to this behavior as a simple bad (or even intended) game design, it has little to no chance to be the case, as issues like this have been fixed at least once in *Classic* (1) and twice in *New Lands* (1 and 2).
6. ↑ Kingdom Crossover update. *Steam*. 14 January 2021