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Boss order

Build a Dino Defense Boss Order

The order is the wave printed on the card. Mini-bosses are the gold MINI BOSS headers. Bosses are the red BOSS headers.

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Boulderback card, red header, BOSS - WAVE 30, HP 8.2K, DMG 70, SPD 2.6, $1,200
Boulderback, the wave 30 boss.

How to read the order

Sort by the number after WAVE. That is the fight. Titanhorn is 10, so it is first. Chompers is 20. Boulderback is 30. The HUD bar saying Wave: 28 means you are two waves from Boulderback, not that a secret boss is already on the field. The thinner line under the bar, when we could read it, pointed at the next round number.

Gold header plus the words MINI BOSS means the smaller fight: Chompers, Bulbdog, Sailback, Snapshell. Red header plus BOSS means the rest. Sailback is the name on the wave 60 card. It is easy to misread. The portrait has a red sail.

The first four fights

Wave 10, Titanhorn, BOSS, HP 6K, DMG 90, SPD 3.5, $900. Wave 20, Chompers, MINI BOSS, HP 1.4K, DMG 80, SPD 6, $500. Wave 30, Boulderback, BOSS, HP 8.2K, DMG 70, SPD 2.6, $1,200. Wave 40, Bulbdog, MINI BOSS, HP 2.6K, DMG 95, SPD 5, $800.

Chompers is less HP than Titanhorn even though it comes later. Mini-boss does not mean harder. It means the gold header. Boulderback is the first boss whose SPD drops under 3, at 2.6. Bring the green and blue cards you were supposed to buy on the way: by wave 30 you can own everything through Megalosaurus's neighbors, including Pachycephalosaurus.

Titanhorn, BOSS - WAVE 10, HP 6K, SPD 3.5, $900
First boss card.

Waves 50 through 90

Gravemaw, wave 50, HP 13K, DMG 130, SPD 4.2, $1,600. The SPD pill is 4.2. Sailback, wave 60, HP 4.2K, DMG 110, SPD 4.6, $1,100. Wrecker, wave 70, HP 23K, DMG 105, SPD 3, $3,000. Snapshell, wave 80, HP 6.4K, DMG 125, SPD 3.4, $1,500. Skyreach, wave 90, HP 25K, DMG 85, SPD 2.8, $2,600.

This is the stretch where boss HP jumps from 13K to 23K to 25K, while your new dinos are the purple and early orange cards. Ankylosaurus at wave 37 is already available before Gravemaw. Dimorphodon at wave 80 lines up with Snapshell, not with Titanhorn. Use the fast card on the wave that actually has it.

Gravemaw, BOSS - WAVE 50, HP 13K, DMG 130, SPD 4.2, $1,600
Gravemaw, SPD 4.2, not 42.

After wave 90 the steps are 20

Skyreach is wave 90. The next red card is Thornwake at 110, then Riptide 130, Scytheclaw 150, Bullhorn 170, Boomcrest 190, Frostgore 210, Shardfang 230, Grovebreaker 250. There is no gold mini-boss in that stretch in the scroll we filmed. Snapshell at wave 80 was the last MINI BOSS card.

Frostgore's price is $3,600. HP 25K, DMG 110, SPD 3.6. Grovebreaker closes the list at HP 30K, DMG 120, SPD 2.8, $4,000. If your HUD is on Wave: 51, you are between Gravemaw and Sailback, not at Frostgore. The index wave and the HUD wave are the same numbering. You do not skip.

Trike Titan is the badge

Search results say Trike Titan because that is the badge name: Topple the Trike Titan. On 27 September 2026 it had been awarded 1,538,443 times, win rate 78.1%. Compy Tamer, Survive your first wave, had been awarded 2,368,970 times, win rate 100%. Those are Roblox badge stats, not index pills.

Walk the boss order for the badge by clearing the wave 10 fight. The card for that fight says Titanhorn. We are not going to pretend the badge description renames the card. If a patch adds a card called Trike Titan, the BOSSES tab will show it, and the 33/33 line is unrelated because bosses are outside that counter.

A pocket order

You do not need the full grid in your head. Remember the tens through 90, then remember that everything after Skyreach is a red boss every 20 waves until 250. When the HUD says Wave: 28, the next boss card is Boulderback at 30. When it says Wave: 51, Gravemaw just happened and Sailback is at 60.

Prices on the boss cards climb, but they are still index prices, from $500 to $4,000. They are not the Elite Trap prices. Dying on Wrecker does not mean you were supposed to own a $300000 crane. It means the wave 70 card has 23K HP and you should look at the dinos whose wave is 70 or lower.

  • 10 Titanhorn, 20 Chompers, 30 Boulderback, 40 Bulbdog.
  • 50 Gravemaw, 60 Sailback, 70 Wrecker, 80 Snapshell, 90 Skyreach.
  • 110, 130, 150, 170, 190, 210, 230, 250 are red bosses only.
  • 250 is Grovebreaker, HP 30K, SPD 2.8, $4,000.
Sailback, MINI BOSS - WAVE 60, HP 4.2K, DMG 110, SPD 4.6, $1,100
Sailback, wave 60 mini-boss.

FAQ

Build a Dino Defense Boss Order FAQ

What boss is wave 30?

Boulderback. The card says BOSS - WAVE 30, HP 8.2K, DMG 70, SPD 2.6, $1,200.

Is Chompers harder than Titanhorn?

It comes later, at wave 20, but the card has less HP: 1.4K versus Titanhorn's 6K. The header says MINI BOSS.