Grave Digger

Grave Digger

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Grave Digger
Mode Appearance	Casual PVP Test Challenges Boss Rush
Wave Debut	30
Statistics
Base Health	60,000 Challenges 10,000 (Boss Rush)
Speed	Very Slow (1)
Cash Given	$20,000 every 10% health
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Stun Immune Boss Immunities: Freeze Immunity Stun Immunity Toxic Gunner Slowdown Jester Confusion Nuke Fallout Damage DJ Booth Slowdown Defense Dropping
Abilities
Ability 1	Triumphing Sheol - The Grave Digger raises its shovel and smites itself with lightning, being electrocuted within the process. Spawns multiple random enemies from the ground for 6 seconds, all with different chances of spawning and delays between next spawn.
Ability 2	Stomp - The Grave Digger roars and stomps on the ground, creating a shockwave that stuns nearby towers for 5 seconds and deals 900 damage to units.
Ability 3	Grave Digging - The Grave Digger digs out pieces of dirt from the ground, which it flings into the air. These stun towers for 3 seconds and deal 700 damage to units upon landing.
Music
Tower Defense Simulator OST - Grave Buster

• Current
• Version 2
• Version 1

"Wait a second... something seems off...
Is that... Grave Digger!?
It's time to turn this Grave Digger into a Grave Sleeper!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 30 (Casual)

"Defeating all those enemies attracted the Grave Digger!
It's time to turn this Grave Digger into a Grave Sleeper!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 25 (Formerly, Easy)

"The grave digger has arrived to dig our graves!
This is a fight for life or death! Give it your best!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 25 (Formerly, Easy)

Description

The Grave Digger is the final boss for Casual mode. It also appeared in The Classic Event. The Grave Digger has Stun Immunity, reducing the effectiveness of the stun from stunning towers like the Electroshocker and Warden, while also preventing it from being knocked back. As it is a Boss enemy, it is also immune to being frozen by freezing towers, slowed down by the Toxic Gunner, confused by the Jester, damaged from the Nuke's fallout and slowed down by the DJ Booth.

It has very high health compared to anything that spawns before, but to compensate, it moves very slowly. In addition, it can stun towers and damage units by performing its Stomp or Grave Digging abilities, both having different stun duration and damage values. It can also perform its Triumphing Sheol ability which spawns multiple enemies. These enemies all have different odds of spawning and start a delay before another enemy be spawned.

The Grave Digger was replaced by the Toilet Boss in Headache Headquarters.

Appearance

• Current
• Version 1

The Grave Digger is a hulking humanoid with a waist, lower arms and lower legs in its rig. It has a desaturated light green skin color and has grey legs. It wears a ragged grey cloak with a hood, sleeves and coattails, which has white accents and patches of cloth sewn on. It has tan bandages wrapped on its legs and lower arms, which have green fluid stains on them. It wears black boots with brown laces, white pauldrons with grey edges, and two brown belts with white buckles, with one on the torso and one on the waist. It has a light grey tombstone with a crown shape at the top chained to its back. It has an angry face with glowing red eyes, sharp teeth and stitches at the sides of its mouth. It wields a shovel with a dark brown wooden handle and a light grey metal spade and end.

For its Triumphing Sheol ability, it will point its shovel skyward, where lightning will then continuously strike on it until the ability ends. For its Stomp ability, it stomps its right foot, creating a white shockwave and a small crater in the ground. For its Grave Digging ability, it digs its shovel into the ground, and brings it back up, which flings cubes of brown dirt at towers.

It has a death animation where it will place its shovel on the ground to act like a cane, before trembling, dropping the shovel and falling to its knees and hands. It then outstretches its right hand before falling face first onto the ground. Due to a bug, the Grave Digger's corpse despawns before the death animation finishes, and can only fully be viewed with Time Scale set to a higher setting.

The first version of the Grave Digger was a very large humanoid with a desaturated green skin color. It wore a ragged black cloak with a cape, hood and sleeves and had granite dark green legs. It had a glowing red eyes, had white bandages wrapped around its arms and legs and wore grey diamond plate boots. It had a light grey tombstone chained to its back and had brown belts with grey buckles on its torso. It wielded a large shovel with a brown wooden handle and a grey metal spade and cap.

For its Triumphing Sheol ability, it will dig its shovel into the ground repeatedly. For its Stomp ability, it would stomp its right foot into the ground, creating a white shockwave. On death, it slowly fell on its back whilst dropping its shovel and emitting a low groaning sound.

Enemies Spawned

• Hazmat
  • 20% chance of being spawned.
  • 0.15 second delay before another enemy can be spawned.
• Normal Boss
  • 50% chance of being spawned.
  • 0.25 second delay before another enemy can be spawned.
• Enraged
  • 30% chance of being spawned.
  • 0.1 second delay before another enemy can be spawned.

Strategy

• Multiple starter towers such as the Sniper and Scout should be enough to defeat the Grave Digger.
  • High DPS towers, like the Minigunner, Ranger or Accelerator can also be used, though they can be quite expensive for Casual mode.
    • The Commander and DJ Booth should be used to support these towers.
    • Be aware that the Grave Digger can spawn multiple enemies at once. This means that if the Accelerator locks onto the Grave Digger, you may need to place other towers like the Minigunner or Turret to deal with the summoned enemies.
• Rocketeers, Demomen and Mortars can be helpful against this boss as they are able to kill the enemies summoned from the Triumphing Sheol ability fairly well.
• Towers near the path are vulnerable to the Stomp and Grave Digging abilities. Placing towers away from the path can help avoid some of them getting stunned.
  • Cliff towers, air-based towers and the Medic are immune to its Stomp attack. The Gladiator and Warden can also block the attack once every few seconds.
    • The Medic's ability can be used to cleanse towers that are stunned.
  • In Casual mode, this should not matter too much, as the stun effect wears off quickly.
  • Despite being an enemy in the Casual mode, which implies it should be the easiest, it actually has one of the highest damage values for an enemy.
• If you want to kill the Grave Digger quickly, instant damage methods such as airdropping Riot Guards or multiple Bear Traps from Trapper can be effective.
• The Toxic Gunner cannot slowdown the Grave Digger, the DJ Booth cannot slow it down, it cannot be knocked back and the Jester cannot confuse it. All other stalling towers are usable, though they some will be much less effective because of its immunities and large size.
• Using the Nuke consumable can greatly wound the Grave Digger by reducing it to 10,000 health, though this is not recommended as the Grave Digger is fairly weak and the consumable could be used for bigger threats.

Gallery

Previous Variants

First version (24 February 2024 – 25 September 2024)

Animations

Current version, current walk animation (25 September 2024 – Present)

Current version, current Triumphing Sheol animation (25 September 2024 – Present)

Current version, current Stomp animation (25 September 2024 – Present)

Current version, current Grave Digging animation (25 September 2024 – Present)

Current version, current death animation (25 September 2024 – Present)

First version, walk animation (24 February 2024 – 25 September 2024)

First version, Triumphing Sheol animation (24 February 2024 – 25 September 2024)

First version, Stomp animation (24 February 2024 – 25 September 2024)

First version, death animation (24 February 2024 – 25 September 2024)

Thumbnails

Grave Digger on a game thumbnail.

Grave Digger on a game thumbnail.

Icons

Grave Digger on a game icon.

Promotional Images

Grave Digger on a promotional image.

Renders

Grave Digger on a render.

Grave Digger on the matchmaking icon.

Grave Digger on Easy mode icon.

Grave Digger on a render.

Badges

Grave Digger on the "Defeat Grave Digger" badge.

Grave Digger on the "Defeat Grave Digger" badge.

Miscellaneous

Grave Digger's face.

Grave Digger on its Index icon.

Trivia

• There is a Roblox bundle based on the Grave Digger, namely the Grave Digger bundle.
  • Weirdly, the bundle used to call the Grave Digger a goblin in its name, despite it not being a goblin in-game.
  • The individual items of the bundle, such as the Grave Digger Goblin - Torso, still call it a goblin.
• The Grave Digger's final wave music is a remixed version of Cursed Abbey.
  • Coincidentally, the Raider Boss also used the same song, just not remixed.
• According to 1x1x1x1 in Classic Forest Camp, the Grave Digger is its camping buddy.
• The animation played when summoning is a reference to the Eureka Effect's teleport ability from Team Fortress 2.

Update History

• 24 February 2024
  • Grave Digger added.
• 1 March 2024
  • Health decreased from 20,000 to 15,000.
  • Stomp stun time decreased significantly in Easy mode.
• 3 May 2024
  • Grave Digger can no longer be confused by the Jester.
• 10 May 2024
  • Grave Digger is now immune to the fallout damage from the Nuke.
• 18 May 2024
  • Grave Digger is now immune to knockback.
  • Now appears in PVP Test
• 23 May 2024
  • Grave Digger now appears in Classic Candy Cane Lane, Classic Forest Camp and Classic Castle.
    • Has 8,000 health in Classic Candy Cane Lane and 28,000 health in Classic Forest Camp and Classic Castle.
• 28 May 2024
  • No longer appears in Classic Candy Cane Lane, Classic Forest Camp and Classic Castle, as they have been removed.
• 29 May 2024
  • Now appears on wave 30 instead of wave 25 in PVP Test.
• 19 July 2024
  • Triumphing Sheol ability no longer summons Slow Bosses, Necromancers, Strongs and Mystery Bosses/Breaker4s.
  • Triumphing Sheol ability now summons the Breaker2 instead of Mystery in maps without Enemies Beta.
• 28 August 2024
  • Bug: Can be slowed down by the DJ Booth.
• 31 August 2024
  • Bugfix: No longer can be slowed down by the DJ Booth.
• 25 September 2024
  • Health increased from 15,000 to 20,000.
  • Cash given changed from $5,000 every 20% health lost to $2,500 every 10% health lost.
  • Triumphing Sheol ability can now summon Armoreds.
  • Triumphing Sheol ability can no longer summon Normals, Speedies, Slows and Hiddens.
  • Triumphing Sheol ability functionality changed.
    • Now lasts between 5 and 8 seconds.
    • Enemies are not all summoned at once, one enemy will spawn which will apply a delay before another enemy can spawn. Delay and chance of an enemy spawning depends on the enemy.
  • Stomp damage increased from 100 to 900.
  • Grave Digging ability added.
  • Updated appearance and animations.
  • Bug: The piece of dirt created by the Grave Digging ability can collide with the player.
  • Bug: The Grave Digger's corpse despawns before it finishes its death animation.
• 2 October 2024
  • Health decreased from 20,000 to 17,500.
• 6 November 2024
  • Grave Digger can no longer have its defense dropped.
• 26 February 2025
  • No longer appears in Easy mode.
  • Now appears in Casual mode.
  • Health increased from 17,500 to 60,000.
  • Cash given increased from $2,500 to $20,000 every 10% health.
  • Stomp ability changed.
    • Stun time increased from 3 to 5 seconds.
    • Cooldown increased.
  • Grave Digging ability changed.
    • Stun time decreased from 6 to 3 seconds.
    • Cooldown increased.
  • Triumphing Sheol ability changed.
    • Summon time is now always 6 seconds instead of varying between 5 and 8 seconds.
    • Now can spawn the Hazmat with a 20% chance and a 0.15 second delay.
    • Now can spawn the Enraged with a 30% chance and a 0.1 second delay.
    • Normal Boss chance increased from 6.67% to 50%, and its delay has been decreased from 0.5 to 0.25 seconds.
    • No longer summons the Armored, used to have a 13.33% chance and a 0.5 second delay.
    • No longer summons the Breaker2, used to have a 53.33% chance and a 0.1 second delay.
    • No longer summons the Bolt, used to have a 26.67% chance and a 0.25 second delay.
  • Bug: The Grave Digger's Triumphing Sheol ability does not terminate, causing it to stop moving and not summoning enemies.
• 26 February 2025
  • Bugfix: The Grave Digger's Triumphing Sheol ability now works correctly.

Casual
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Breaker4 Wave 25	Grave Digger Wave 30	End N/A

Classic Candy Cane Lane (The Classic Event, Mission 1) (23 May 2024 – 28 May 2024)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Breaker4 Wave 12	Grave Digger Wave 12	End N/A

Classic Forest Camp (The Classic Event, Mission 3) (23 May 2024 – 28 May 2024)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Slow Boss Wave 9	Grave Digger Wave 12	End N/A

Classic Castle (The Classic Event, Mission 5) (23 May 2024 – 28 May 2024)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Korblox Deathwalker Wave 12	Grave Digger Wave 13	Fallen King Wave 14