Boss & Special Catch Strategies
How to handle the scripted fights and trick captures.
Bosses
- Giant Snapping Turtle (Lower Utara Lake) — reached through the bottom-left passage, guarded by the Giant Sturgeon. Fought during Beat the Snapping Turtle!. Beating it unlocks Sato as kitchen staff and makes the Fire Eel appear in the Sunang Ruins.
- Stethacanthus (Lakebed Sea) — mandatory main-quest fight in the bottom-left of the Sea Beneath the Lake.
- Xiphactinus (Lakebed Sea) — mandatory main-quest fight through the middle-right door.
Trick captures
Some creatures ignore normal weapons — these trip people up:
- Trilobite — immune to bullets and harpoon. Sleep only.
- Tullimonstrum — sleep only; killing or harpooning it makes it vanish and release poison.
- Ammonite / Orthoceras — shelled; only the exposed (non-shell) parts take damage. Orthoceras turns hostile once hit.
- Promissum — hack the pink coral with your knife until they emerge.
- Platyceramus / Red Sea Lily — interact (net swing / pry open) rather than shoot.
- Armored Catfish — dislodge with a net, or just capture the larger fish it’s riding.
Big-game (drone) targets
Large hostile creatures — Pirarucu, Goliath Tigerfish, Electric Eel, Giant Sturgeon, Platinum Alligator Gar, and the Lakebed prehistorics — should be killed or put to sleep with the Jungle Gun, then hauled up with the drone. Don’t waste harpoon ammo on them.
See the full fish reference for the exact method per creature.