Carnivorous Gatekeeper

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The **Carnivorous Gatekeeper** is the main boss of The Pit, residing within the level of the same name. It may be either the third or fourth boss encounter in the game, depending on whether or not the player instead fights the Phantom Gatekeeper first.

## Carnivorous Gatekeeper

### Discs

Osteocyte, Osteoblast, Teeth, Carnivorous Gatekeeper, Carnivorous Remains

## Appearance

As with most discs the Carnivorous Gatekeeper will begin in the center of the room. Notably, unlike other discs but like other Gatekeepers, the disc is visible from the level select screen and instead of "spawning" will simply start moving when the player begins.

Before activating, the Carnivorous Gatekeeper is a huge, golden gear with a gigantic brain in its center. Once activated, it extends a series of colossal maroon spikes in every direction. The Carnivorous Remains spins slower with cracks running through its spikes, and its brain becomes discolored with dark green patches.

## Behaviour

The Carnivorous Gatekeeper will, once activated, begin bouncing around the room in a similar manner to the Armored Gatekeeper. It will periodically slow down and release an Osteocyte every few seconds. The Osteocytes only appear on this level, and travel slowly whilst firing Osteoblasts directly at the player, dissipating upon hitting a wall. Every time the Gatekeeper is damaged, its trajectory will be diverted by a small amount. It moves fairly fast and is by far the largest Gatekeeper in the game.

The strategy to defeat the Carnivorous Gatekeeper is to collect golden orbs, but there are significantly more of them than any other Gatekeeper battle. The player must collect 60 of them to win. There are always up to 10 orbs in the level at any one time - every time one is collected, another one appears - until the player has a score of 50 (this way the final orb on the field will always be the sixtieth). The first time the player collects the final orb, the Carnivorous Gatekeeper will explode and release another orb which plays the next comic. On subsequent attempts, the Carnivorous Gatekeeper will immediately become the Carnivorous Remains, drop an additional 10 orbs, then continue the fight.

The Carnivorous Remains is fairly similar to its previous phase, except it spawns more Osteocytes which seem to fire faster as well.

## Hard Mode

The Carnivorous Gatekeeper fight is very different in Hardmode. As with many Hardmode Gatekeepers, two Carnivorous Gatekeepers will spawn, except only two orbs will spawn as opposed to 10 (this is probably to prevent the player from easily reaching the 10 second 100% completion threshold too easily). It is assumed that the gatekeepers will become Remains once a score of 60 is reached, although this takes lots of time due to the scarcity of orbs in this level.

## Gallery

The Carnivorous GatekeeperThe Carnivorous RemainsThe Carnivorous Gatekeeper in HardmodeThe Carnivorous Gatekeeper's Discs entryThe Carnivorous Remains' Discs entry
## Trivia

* After collecting the vision orb after winning against the Carnivorous Gatekeeper for the first time, the nearest door does not open like in other Gatekeeper fights. Instead, the Teeth disc will attempt to eat the player. It is still possible to leave the room through the level select after victory.