Bucket Brute

Its sand bucket helmet is really, really tough.

Threat 6

Health: 190
Helmet: +1,100
Speed: 0.21 tiles a second
Closet to bed: 46s unopposed
Bite: 100 damage a second
Reaching the bed costs: 1
First seen: Level 10

Bucket Brute. The bucket soaks up 1,100 damage before the darts reach the brute under it.

What it does.

Helmet: 1,100 armor on top of its health, which has to be broken first. A Toy Magnet pulls it off in one go.

How often it comes: weight 1.2 when a night picks its nightmares (a Shadow Crawler is 3). Threat 6 is what it costs of a night's threat budget.

Health by level.

The numbers above are its base values. Every night multiplies the health and the bites of its nightmares by the level's scale.

Night	Health scale	Health	Helmet	As a plain elite, in all	Bite / s
Level 10	×1.12	213	1,231	–	107
Level 30	×1.99	378	2,188	–	159
Level 50	×3.13	595	3,443	6,460	228
Level 70	×3.2	608	3,519	6,603	232
Level 90	×3.62	688	3,982	7,472	257
Level 110	×3.88	737	4,265	8,002	273
Level 150	×5.4	1,027	5,944	11,153	364
Level 190	×6.14	1,167	6,754	12,673	408
Level 230	×6.57	1,249	7,228	13,563	434
Level 250	×6.87	1,305	7,553	14,172	452
Level 310	×8.6	1,634	9,459	17,748	556
Level 410	×9.65	1,834	10,619	19,925	619
Level 510	×10.04	1,908	11,047	20,728	643
Level 590	×11.11	2,110	12,218	22,926	706
Level 1,010	×11.51	2,187	12,661	23,756	731
Level 2,010	×12.26	2,330	13,488	25,308	779
Level 4,910	×14.1	2,679	15,507	29,098	892

The PC game's story ends at level 240, so the table stops there.

Normal nights; boss nights and Hard Mode scale differently. From level 42 some nightmares are pink elites: a plain elite has ×1.6 health and ×1.25 bites; from level 101 an elite may have a trick instead of the extra health. The whole curve

Beating it.

The game's tip

Bucket Brutes have heavy helmets. Focus fire or use a Jack-in-the-Box!

Pull the helmet off

Toy Magnet

At home in

The Basement The Garage

Numbers from the game's own data, version 1.0.0 as of November 13, 2026. Toy and nightmare numbers are the base values: every night scales the nightmares to its level (how). You are reading for the phone game (iPhone, iPad, Android): the switch at the top shows the PC game's numbers.You are reading for the PC game, coming to Steam: the switch at the top goes back to the phone game's numbers.