Castle Crashers

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Characters

Character	How to unlock
Alien	Complete Alien Ship on Normal difficulty.
Barbarian	Complete King's Arena.
Bear	Complete the game with Skeleton.
Beekeeper	Complete the game with Barbarian.
Brute	Complete the game with Iceskimo.
Civilian	Complete the game with Peasant.
Conehead	Complete Volcano Arena.
Cultist	Complete Ice Castle on Insane difficulty.
Fencer	Complete the game with Industrialist.
Fire Demon	Complete the game with Orange Knight.
Gray Knight	Complete Barbarian Boss on Normal difficulty.
Iceskimo	Complete Icy Arena.
Industrialist	Complete the game with Blue Knight.
King	Complete Pipistrello's Cave on Insane difficulty.
Necromancer	Complete Industrial Castle on Insane difficulty.
Ninja	Complete the game with Fire Demon.
Open-Faced Gray Knight	Complete Catfish on Insane difficulty.
Peasant	Complete Peasant's Arena.
Royal Guard	Complete the game with Green Knight.
Saracen	Complete the game with Royal Guard.
Skeleton	Complete the game with Red Knight.
Snakey	Complete the game with Thief.
Stove Face	Complete the game with Gray Knight.
Thief	Complete Thieves' Arena.

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Various Steam Achievements

Achievement	How to unlock
Animal Handler	Collect all the animal orbs.
Arena Master	Win 40 Arena Online Matches.
Conscientious Objector	Complete the Home Castle through Barbarian Boss areas without attacking any foes.
Deer Trainer	Navigate the Abandoned Mill without hitting any obstacles.
Glork	Win 20 All You Can Quaff Online Matches.
Kay Eye Ess Ess	Collect all 4 princesses' kisses in a multiplayer game.
Maximum Firepower	Using a catapult, fling a knight with maximum power.
Medic!	In a 4 player game, resuscitate each of your fallen comrades at least once.
Melee Is Best	Defeat any end boss without using any magic.
The Traitor	Defeat any boss by playing one of his own minions.
Traditional	Complete the game using any character.
Treasure Hunter	Find and dig up ten buried items.

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Animal Orbs

Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding Animal Orb.

Beholder: Go to Fullmoon with the Cardinal equipped. Go on the hill section and it will get a key from the second hut. Use it as a weapon to hit the door in the animal ark to get the Beholder. This orb increases Magic.
Bipolar Bear: Go to the end of Snow World. Blow the horn near the entrance of the Ice Castle. This orb mauls enemies and friends that are very low on health.
Bitey Bat: Kill Pipistrello in his cave. This orb chomps enemy heads.
Burly Bear: Go to Tall Grass Field and get to where you climb up the cliff. Use a sandwich to lift a boulder and reveal a cave. Bomb the cracked wall inside the cave and enter the opening to get Burly Bear. This orb gives +2 Strength.
Cardinal: Go to Industrial Castle. After the elevator ride fight the large knight whom has Cardinal. This orb helps you find secret items.
Chicken: Go to Medusa's Lair. At first dig spot you find should be the Chicken. This orb increases Strength, Defense and Agility.
Frogglet: Go to the Marsh. Dig it up by the first graves. This orb picks up items with its tongue.
Giraffey: Go to the Desert. Dig it in the desert before you reach the alien ship. This orb gives +10% experience points.
Hawkster: Note: You will need the horn. Go to Tall Grass Field. At the first white bear camp you encounter will have sign that shows the horn. Blow the horn and out comes Hawkster. This orb picks up fruit from trees and attacks fallen enemies.
Install Orb: Go to the Alien Ship. While escaping look for a gap on the back wall. Walk through it to get the Install Orb. This orb attacks enemies with photon beams.
Meowburt: Go to Cyclops Cave. Exit to the left back to Parade to find Meowburt. This orb gives Agility +2.
Monkeyface: Purchase at the Church store for 750 gold. This orb increases your luck for finding items.
Mr. Buddy: Go to Home Castle when you have the shovel. Go to the party room, then go all the way to the back of the room until you see a dig spot. Dig there to get Mr. Buddy. This orb helps you dig faster.
Owlet: Go to Forest Entrance. Follow the path until you reach a place where you will see black musical notes. Go to the notes and you will find Owlet. This orb retrieves hidden fruit from trees.
Pazzo: Purchase at the Snow World store for 750 gold. This orb helps you find buried treasure.
Piggy: Purchase at the Peasant store for 585 gold. This orb allows food to give back more health.
Rammy: Go to Tall Grass Field and defeat the mini-Boss bear. This orb knocks down enemies.
Scratchpaw: Go to the Sand Castle interior and bomb the wall. This orb increases strength and agility.
Seahorse: Go to the Thieves' Forest by the river. This orb lets you move through water fast.
Sherbert: Go to the very far left part of the Animal Ark. Use Magic Jump to get it above the locked door. This orb allows you to jump higher.
Snailburt: Found in the Marsh. This orb gives -5 Agility and +5 Defense.
Snoot: Bomb a cracked wall found early in the Cyclops Fortress. This orb gives Strength +2.
Spiney: Purchase at the Volcano store for 680 gold. This orb gives Defense +2.
Troll: Go to the Thieves' Forest and bomb the wall. This orb regenerates your health slowly.
Yeti: Go to the end of Snow World. It is hidden behind a house at the bottom of the hill. This orb keeps you from getting frozen.
Zebra: During the Desert Chase, catch and kill the Saracen on a camel that has it. This orb helps you find food in grass.

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Easy experience

Go to the Desert area (immediately after getting off the boat) and equip the Girrafey animal orb. It will help you level up faster. This area is swarming with an endless supply of scorpions. Keep killing those scorpions repeatedly to level up faster. Note: You will level up based on how much damage you deal to a target, and not how many enemies you kill. This will require some time and patience.

Go to the point in the Lava World area where you need a sandwich to continue, but do not have a sandwich with you. Because you do not have a sandwich, enemies here will drop sandwiches when they are defeated. Do not pick up a sandwich and they will keep respawning. Keep defeating them to gain as much experience as desired. Note: this trick works best with low level characters.

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Experience Farming

Using the Cardinal's boomerang, face the catfish boss. Find a spot where you aim at it while it rises and charge your boomerang. Release it as the boss rises so it becomes stuck on his back. Attack it continously to get a good amount of exp. Repeat as needed.

**There is a risk of a glitch that will happen while doing this trick. Return to the dashboard and launch the game again to fix**

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Familiar Stat Bonuses

Certain familiars give you stat bonuses. Here is a list of these:

Chicken - +1 Strength, +1 Agility, +1 Defense
Snoot - +2 Strength
Spiny - +2 Defense
Snailburt - +5 Defense, -5 Agility
Scratchpaw - +1 Strength, +2 Agility
MeowBurt - +3 Agility
Beholder - +2 Magic

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Getting Sherbert without Magic Jump

Go to the far left of the Ark where the door is locked (if you have not unlocked it already). Get directly next to the door, so that you can no longer go left. Jump, then immediately press Y, X, Y, X, Y, X (making sure you actually hit the door) until you reach Sherbert. This is a great way to save skill points to use on other attributes.

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Gold Farming

In Cyclops Cave, there are 7 Gold bags near the broken down trolley. After you cleared the cave, return again.There will be no monsters to fight so keep repeating to farm gold.

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Insane Mode

Beat the game once with any character. After the ending credits and final maiden duel, a new path should be open south of the Barbarian Boss map. Entering will begin Insane Mode, a much tougher version of the original game.

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Item Locations

Below are the names and locations of the nine items you must collect in the game in order to proceed.

Binoculars - Grab this item at the end of the Industrial Castle level, after slaying the boss.

Boomerang - Equip the Cardinal Animal Orb, and go to the Thief Forest. When you locate the owl pooping from a tree, the cardinal will find this item (so long as he’s with you).

Bow and Arrow - In the Thief Forest level, they are dropped randomly and regularly.

Compass - Find to the left of the blacksmith.

Horn - After killing the Corn boss, one of the Peasants will give it to you.

Key Weapon - Equip the Cardinal Animal Orb, and go the Full Moon level. When you reach the mountain path, go up until you reach the second hut. Go near the hut and Cardinal will locate the item for you.

Spade - Head to the first desert level after you’ve complete the ship level. Leave the ship and find this item right in front of you on the left side of the sand castle.

Steering Wheel - At the end of the lava-colored level after defeating the dragons.

Treasure Map - You’ll receive this after defeating an opposing team during a mission at the sand castle in a game of volleyball.

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Skip "Full Moon" Level

To skip the level "Full Moon, start the level and then then quit it so it goes back to the map or exit the game. When you start the game up again, it will act as if you have beaten the stage.

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Terminator 2 Reference

When you fight the cyclops and he runs and jumps into a pool of lava afterwards, notice that he gives a thumbs up sign once he is submerged. The gesture is a nod to a similar scene in the popular sci-fi movie, Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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The Painter's Brush

When fighting the Painter in the Wizard's Castle, take a look at his brush. Its color can help you anticipate what he will paint:

Light Pink - Unicorn
Orange - Carrot Clock
Teal - Angry Person
Red - Big Monster
Purple - Octopus
Magenta - Clown
Turquoise - Zombie
Light Orange - Cat
White - Elephant
Light Purple - Nose-Snail

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Trapped Developers

In the alien aircraft, go left at the beginning instead of right. You can see the developers floating in some sort of stasis field.