Route purpose
A defensive achievement route for 100 Coats and long fights: armor, shell value, recovery windows, and patient boss pacing.
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Moulting Defense Player result records
Moulting Defense public records: 10. Starting genetic coverage is 1/10, and numeric result coverage is 5/10. The most repeated related routes are Body Slam, Hump, More Mass.
Key findings
- Starting genetic coverage: 1/10. Comparable numeric result coverage: 5/10.
- Repeated route signals: Body Slam, Hump, More Mass.
- Pressure 20 coverage: 1/10. Untagged records do not prove the same difficulty.
Player result records
- Extinction 7 Projectile Tongue, Jaws, and Moulting Run
- The Crabtain Unlocked with Carcinisation 10 and Moulting
- Wounded Clear: Plating Evolutions Made the Route Easier
- Boss Rush Clear with Full Prey, Ruminant, and Burrow
- Wounded Clear: Small Evade Armor Shell with Gold Trunk
- Pressure 2 999 HP 200 Damage Beast Screenshot
- Extinction 10 Ability and Impervious Report
- Steam Review Body Slam Tank Win
- Pressure 11 Extinction 5 Body Slam Poison Absurd Run
- Pressure 10 HP and Size Turbo-Slug Build
Evidence and verification
The links below support specific dated claims, mechanics, or player-route observations on this page; after a patch, use the current in-game text for exact values.
Extinction 7 Projectile Tongue, Jaws, and Moulting Run
A level 279 Extinction 7 screenshot shows 336.5 Physical, 446.4 Ability, 999 Max HP, 436.7 Social, 75% Dodge, 476 Plating, and several capped utility stats. The player reports roughly 12,000–14,000 damage per hit with Projectile Tongue and Jaws in the route.
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The Crabtain Unlocked with Carcinisation 10 and Moulting
An August 2 Steam screenshot records The Crabtain achievement unlocking at Carcinisation 10, level 109, with 284 Max HP and a visible Moulting card; difficulty, starting Genetic, and the rest of the named route remain unknown.
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Wounded Clear: Plating Evolutions Made the Route Easier
A fresh Steam community Wounded clear says the challenge became much easier once the player started taking plating evolutions whenever they appeared.
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Boss Rush Clear with Full Prey, Ruminant, and Burrow
A June 3 Boss Rush help thread turned into a confirmed clear after the player switched to a full Prey shell, then leaned on Ruminant, Burrow, dodge, and boss-on-boss overlap instead of forcing normal damage builds.
Read guideWounded Clear: Small Evade Armor Shell with Gold Trunk
A late-June Wounded clear says a small evade shell finally worked once the run found armor, a gold Trunk hit around 120, and a few Tail-style ally buffs, even though regeneration only appeared later from Chaos Fruit.
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Pressure 2 999 HP 200 Damage Beast Screenshot
A Pressure 2 screenshot report records a chonky beast reaching 999 HP and dealing 200+ damage, making it a useful checkpoint for HP-cap, size-scaling, and Body Slam questions.
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Extinction 10 Ability and Impervious Report
A high-extinction discussion record that is useful for tracking Ability scaling, Stubborn, POI/mushroom loops, desert heat adaptation, and delayed-damage caveats around Impervious.
Read guideSteam Review Body Slam Tank Win
A concise Steam review records a winning route built from More Mass, Muscular Tissue, Chonky, Subcutaneous Fat, Reach, and Body Slam. It is a compact but useful Body Slam / Max HP case for route search.
Read guidePressure 11 Extinction 5 Body Slam Poison Absurd Run
A screenshot-backed endless run reached Extinction 5 at level 311 with Body Slam over 7k, poison ticks over 700, 3.8 million damage dealt, 2300+ kills, and 136 POIs.
Read guidePressure 10 HP and Size Turbo-Slug Build
A screenshot-backed Pressure 10 build report says the bosses did not stand a chance after the run leaned heavily into HP and size scaling.
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