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Core Daddy is a non-respawbnable boss encountered in Borderlands 3.

Background

Core Daddy is a unique variant of Powerhouse Heavy and is only encountered during the optional mission Rise and Grind.

Appearances

Borderlands 3

Strategy

Main article: Rise and Grind

Enemies encountered in Borderlands 3

Enemies

Creatures

Jabbers	Badass Jabber • Burning Jabber • Charged Jabber • Frail Jabber • Frosty Jabber • Gassy Jabber • Jabber • Rad Jabber • Squire Jabber • Stunted Jabber • Thieving Jabber

Nekrobugs	Aerox • Djira • Korax • Korax Drone • Manta • Mantakore • Vanda

Rakks	Badass Chromatic Rakk • Bloated Rakk • Corrosive Rakk • Irradiated Rakklesnake • Needler Rakk • Rakk • Scorpion Rakk • Shock Rakk Bloody Harvest: Rakk-O'-Lantern

Ratches	Badass Ratch • Ratch • Ratch Broodmother • Ratch Gnat • Ratchling • Ratch Nest • Ratch Spitter • Ratch Swarm Bloody Harvest: Bloody Badass Ratch • Bloody Ratch • Bloody Ratch Gatekeeper • Bloody Ratch Nest

Saurians	Baby Toxic Grog • Badass Toxic Grog • Badass Ramtaurus • Fire Grog • Grog • Pollygrog • Reaver • Ramtaurus • Ravager • Slinger • Shiny Grog • Tyrant • Uplifted Pollygrog • Uplifted Ravager Bounty of Blood: Abaddon Mount • Augmented Devil • Augmented Hellion • Baby Wyrm • Croaker Devil • Devil Mount • Frail Dactyl • Hellion Mount • Imp • Knockjaw Hellion • Lucivore • Pale Abaddon • Prime Abaddon • Scourge • Scum Devil • Shadow Devil • Snapper • Stinging Devil • Storm Scourge • Wild Hellion • Wyrm

Skags	Adult Skag • Alpha Skag • Badass Skag • Barfer Skag • Chubby Skag • Skag Pup • Spitter Skag • Succulent Skag • Succulent Alpha Skag • Vermiling

Spiderants	Chubby Spiderant • Royal Spiderling • Spiderant • Spiderant Bishop • Spiderant King • Spiderant Knight • Spiderant Rook • Spiderant Queen

Varkids	Badass Varkid • Sterile Varkid • Super Badass Varkid • Varkid Larva

Wolvens	Guns, Love, and Tentacles: Feeder Wolven • Hunter Wolven • Prime Wolven • Wolven • Wolven Howler

Krichs	Guns, Love, and Tentacles: Detonator Krich • Electrified Krich • Flaming Krich • Floating Krich • Plated Krich • Prime Detonator Krich • Prime Floating Krich • Prime Krich • Sickener Krich • Vulnerable Krich

Belliks	Bounty of Blood: Bellik • Bellik Matriarch • Juvenile Bellik • Lightbender Bellik • Prime Bellik • Tauran Bellik

Children of the Vault

Fanatics	Anointed Fanatic • Badass Fanatic • Devout Fanatic • Fanatic • Longshot Fanatic • Shredder Fanatic

Tinks	Apocalyte • Anointed Tink • Badass Tink • Hag Rider Tink • Loot Tink • Mutated Tink • Noviciate • Psycho Tink • Sapper Tink • Shotgun Tink • Tink • Tink Tank Fantastic Fustercluck: Boombringer • Welcoming Psycho Tink Director's Cut: Almost Dead Tink • Ready to Die Tink

Psychos	Anointed Psycho • Badass Psycho • Firebrand • Infected Psycho • Looter Psycho • Martyr • Psycho • Slugger

Goliaths	Anointed Goliath • Badass Goliath • Festering Goliath • Goliath • Li'l Goliath

Hags	Anointed Hag • Badass Hag • Gale Hag • Hag

Enforcers	Anointed Enforcer • Bruiser • Badass Enforcer • Enforcer • Mauler Designer's Cut: Bandit Revenant

Turrets	Badass Tink Sentry • Blockade Sentry • Family Jewel Security • The Big-D • Tink Sentry

Troopers	Designer's Cut: Blinkrunner

Heavies	Designer's Cut: Scrapper Heavy

Mechs	Designer's Cut: Spikehound

Robots	Designer's Cut: Punkball

Vehicles	COV Drop Ship

Guardians

Badass Wraith • Elder Spectre • Elder Wraith • Fallen Guardian • Grave • Herald • Infernal Revenant • Possessed Sera • Possessed Spectre • Possessed Wraith • Revenant • Sera • Spectre • Ward • Wraith
Guardian BreachSchismatic Diadem

Maliwan

Fusions	Designer's Cut: Fusion Sapper

Jocks	Designer's Cut: Shock Jock

Muscles	Designer's Cut: Corporate Muscle

Troopers	Assault Trooper • Badass Trooper • Breach Trooper • Coffee Runner • Flash Trooper • Jet Trooper • Med Trooper • Riot Trooper Bloody Harvest: Dissection Trooper • Gatekeeper Trooper • Gravedigger Trooper • Gravewalker Trooper • Mortician Trooper Maliwan Blacksite: Cloak Trooper • Reflect Trooper

NOGs	Badass NOG • Ninja NOG • NOG • NOGromancer

Heavies	Badass Contaminator Heavy • Badass Icebreaker Heavy • Badass Powerhouse Heavy • Badass Pyrotech Heavy • Contaminator Heavy • Heavy Gunner • Icebreaker Heavy • Powerhouse Heavy • Pyrotech Heavy Bloody Harvest: Badass Pathologist Heavy • Badass Pyre Heavy • Gatekeeper Heavy • Pathologist Heavy • Pyre Heavy

Mechs	Arbalest • Badass Frontrunner • Frontrunner • GenION • Gunwolf • Hoplite • Nullhound • Reaper Maliwan Blacksite: Huskarl • Isaz Auga • Kraken • Thor Designer's Cut: Harker's Hound

Bots	AMBER LAMPS • Billyclub Bot • Bit Bot • Defender • Deputy Bot • EMS Bot • Fire Bot • Hacked Bot • Harbinger • Maliwan Bot • Medic Bot • Oversphere • Recycler Bot • Service Bot • Sheriff Bot • Stinger Maliwan Blacksite: Death Sphere

Vehicles	Maliwan Cyclone • Maliwan Drop Ship

Undead
(Bloody Harvest &
Bloody Harvest Returns)

Ghost • Loot Ghost • Badass Ghost

Looters
(Moxxi's Heist)

Looter	Greedy Looter • Longshot Looter • Looter • Spreadshot Looter • VIP Armored Looter • VIP Looter

Bookie	Bomber Bookie • Bookie • Crap Riding Bookie • Shotgun Bookie • VIP Armored Bookie • VIP Bookie • Wildcard Bookie

Wildcard	Clubber • Hotshot Wildcard • Infected Wildcard • Suicide Wildcard • VIP Wildcard

Thug	Thug • VIP Mobster

Tourists	Tourist • Li'l Tourist • VIP Tourist

Crapshooters	Crapshooter • VIP Crapshooter

Hyperion

Lieutenants (Fantastic Fustercluck)	Badass Lieutenant • Lieutenant • Marksman Lieutenant • Riot Lieutenant

Majors (Fantastic Fustercluck)	Badass Major • Berserk Major • Buckshot Major • Deranged Major • Major

Berserk Patients (Fantastic Fustercluck)	Badass Berserk Patient • Berserk Patient

Sergeants (Fantastic Fustercluck)	Badass Sergeant • Pummeler Sergeant • Sergeant • Soldier Sergeant

Loaders (Moxxi's Heist & Guns, Love, and Tentacles & Fantastic Fustercluck)	Badass Corrosive Loader • Badass HOT Loader • Badass ICE Loader • Badass Shock Loader • Badass Wee Loader • EXP Loader • GUN Loader • HOT Loader • ICE Loader • P-Loader • RIOT Loader • RPG Loader • SGT Loader • SVY Loader

Other (Moxxi's Heist)	Badass Turret • Bouncer Bot • Casino Bot • Cleaner Bot • Constructor • Mimic Machine • Surveyor

Frostbiters
(Guns, Love, and Tentacles)

Mumbler	Badass Mumbler • Fearful Mumbler • Mumbler • Onslaught Mumbler • Point Blank Mumbler

Gnasher	Flinger • Gnasher • Ripper

Wailer	Club Wailer • Firewalker Wailer • Voidcalled Wailer

Brutes	Bludgeoner • Brute

Turrets	Frostbiter Sentry

Bonded
(Guns, Love, and Tentacles)

Malech	Ascendant Malech • Farseer Malech • Malech • Nightmare Malech • Revived Malech • Shade Malech • Shade of Voltborn • Specter Malech

Grawn	Ascendant Grawn • Bulwark Grawn • Grappler Grawn • Grawn • Revived Grawn • Slasher Grawn

Skrit	Ascendant Skrit • Lifeblood Skrit • Loot Skrit • Necromancer Skrit • Revived Skrit • Skrit

Khel Vod	Ascendant Khel Vod • Empowered Khel Vod • Empowered Ascendant Khel Vod • Enslaved Khel Vod • Khel Vod

Other	Onlooker • DAHL Defense Cannon

Eridium Cartel
(Revenge of the Cartels)

CryptoSec	Badass CryptoSec Trooper • Badass Crypto Wolf • Crypto Prowler • CryptoSec Bully Bot • CryptoSec Deathsphere • CryptoSec Flash Trooper • CryptoSec Oversphere • CryptoSec Riot Trooper • CryptoSec Shepherd • CryptoSec Stinger • CryptoSec Thor • CryptoSec Trooper • CryptoSec Watch Bot • Crypto Wolf

Purpatrators	Badass Mini Jabber • Badass Petite Fanatic • Elfin Enforcer • Li'l Goliath • Mini Jabber • Petite Fanatic • Pint-Sized Psycho

Burnt Ends	Badass Gourmand • Badass Slaughterer • Badass Sous Chef • Culinary Artist • Day Old Meat • Food Inspector • Meat Boiler • Meat Fillet • Meat Fryer • Meat Slicer • The Processor

Other	Cartel Thug

Devil Riders
(Bounty of Blood)

Outlaws	Badass Outlaw • Longbarrel Outlaw • Outlaw • Outlaw Rider • Rapidshot Outlaw • Scattershot Outlaw

Rustlers	Badass Rustler • Blast Vulture • Blunderbuss Rustler • Combustion Rustler • Demolition Vulture • Divebomb Vulture • Fiend Rustler • Rustler • Rustler Rider • Vulture

Fiends	Badass Fiend • Beater Fiend • Fiend • Flame Fiend • Suicide Fiend

Honchos	Badass Honcho • Firefight Honcho • Honcho • Honcho Rider • Pugilist Honcho • Telezapper Honcho

Bandits
(Fantastic Fustercluck)

Marauders	Badass Marauder • Elite Marauder • Killer Marauder • Marauder • Sharpshooter Marauder

Li'l Bandits	Li'l Badass • Li'l Bomber • Li'l Marauder • Li'l Psycho • Li'l Shotgunner

Psychos	Bullet Rider

Bruisers	Badass Bruiser • Bruiser • Heavy Bruiser • Jawbreaker

Nomads	Nomad • Nomad Torturer

Blackhearts
(Fantastic Fustercluck)

Blackheart Bishop • Blackheart Knight • Blackheart Pawn • Blackheart Rook

Bosses

Main Bosses

Borderlands 3	The Agonizer 9000 • Aurelia • Captain Traunt • General Traunt • GenIVIV • Gigamind • The Graveward • Katagawa Ball • Katagawa Jr. • Mouthpiece • The Rampager • Shiv • Troy Calypso • Tyreen the Destroyer • Warden

Moxxi's Heist	Fabricator • Freddie the Traitor • Jackpot • Scraptrap Prime

Guns, Love, and Tentacles	Eleanor • Empowered Grawn • Empowered Scholar • Wendigo

Bounty of Blood	Bellik Primis • Kormash • The Quartermaster • Butcher Rose • Ruiner

Fantastic Fustercluck	Evil Lilith • Locomöbius • Dr. Benedict • Psychoreaver

Designer's Cut	Heavyweight Harker

Director's Cut	The Seer

Mini-Bosses

Borderlands 3	Anointed Alpha • Anointed X-2 • Anointed X-3 • Anointed X-4 • Archimedes, The Anointed • Big Donny • Billy, the Anointed • Brayden, The Anointed • Carnivora (vehicle) • Long Arm the Smasher • Lt. Preston • Luke, The Anointed • Muldock, the Anointed • Nathan, The Anointed • Pain and Terror • Rachael, The Anointed • The Berserker • The Summoner • The Tink-Train

Moxxi's Heist	Dandelion • Handsome Jacket • Handsome Slacks • Petunia • Tony Bordel • Tricksy Nick

Guns, Love, and Tentacles	Diss M. Antler • Eista • Matriarch • Tom and Xam • Vincent

Bounty of Blood	Oaken Wolf

Fantastic Fustercluck	Evil Brick • Evil Mordecai

Director's Cut	Beef Plissken • Sumo • The Gravekeeper

Optional Bosses

Targets of Opportunity	Baron Noggin • Crushjaw • DJ DeadSk4g • Handsome Jackie • Heckle and Hyde • Hot Karl • Judge Hightower • Psychobillies • Sky Bullies • Sylestro and Atomic

Legendary Hunt	Antalope • Blinding Banshee • Brood Mother • Chonk Stomp • Chupacabratch • Jabbermogwai • Lavender Crawly • Manvark • Phoenix • Skrakk

Mission bosses	The Abomination • Anointed X-2 • Anointed X-3 • Anointed X-4 • Archer Rowe • Apollo • Artemis • Anointed Alpha • Azalea • Coffee Commander • Core Daddy • Dental Dan • Gary • God-King's Chosen • God-Queen's Chosen • Holder • The Holy Dumptruck • Interrogator • Jenny of Raden-3 • Killavolt • King Bobo • King Gnasher • King's Champion • Lagromar • Lena of Eden-6 • Max • Mincemeat • Omega Mantakore • Private Beans • Queen Ant Wanette • Queen iOsaur • Rak’nagob, Destroyer of Worlds • Ramsden • Rax • Rohner • Sheega • Trudy the Toeless • Trufflemunch and Buttmunch • Tumorhead • Turnkey Tim • Under Taker • Vermilingua

Rare Spawns	Borman Nates • Captain Thunk • Demoskaggon • Dinklebot • El Dragon Jr • I'm Rakkman • IndoTyrant • Maxitrillion • Mother of Grogans • Power Troopers • Princess Tarantella II • Road Dog • Red Jabber • Road Dog • Sloth • The Unstoppable • Urist McEnforcer • Warty • Wick

Proving Grounds	Arbalest of Discipline • Hag of Fervor • Sera of Supremacy • Skag of Survival • Tink of Cunning • Tyrant of Instinct

Circles of Slaughter	Blue Fire • Red Rain • Titan • Tremendous Rex

Takedowns	Maliwan Blacksite: Valkyrie Squad (Hildr, Rota and Sigrdrifa) • Wotan the Invincible ("Wotan's Better Half", Wotan's Brain) Guardian Breach: Anathema the Relentless • Scourge the Invincible Martyr

Moxxi's Heist	Bloody G. • Bomber Gary • The Debt Collector • DEGEN-3 • Double Down Domino • EVIL Saint Lawrence • Facemelt • Fat Jackass • FLAY Loader • Golden Bullion • Gorgeous Armada • Gorgeous Roger • Junpai Goat Eater • Loco Chantelle • Machine Gun Mikey • Rudy Varlope • The SHARK • SLAY Loader • Stanley • Steel Dragon of Eternal Pain • Third Rail • Yvan

Guns, Love, and Tentacles	Abrigga • Amach • Brother Biblio • Brother Codex • Brother Lexios • Captain Dyer • Crivan • Dessica • DJ Spinsmouth • Fungal Gorger • Gideon • Gmork • Jerick • Kratch • Kritchy • Kukuwajack • Peliya • Procurer • Shiverous the Unscathed • Voidspawn • Voltborn • What Was Once Harriet • Yeti

Bounty of Blood	Abbadoxis • Adelai Bronson • Caber Dowd • Cal Bronson • Degan Bronson • Dickon Goyle • Doc Stanley • Father of Eagles • Garriden Loch • Haddon Marr • Hydragoian • Ipswitch Dunne • Jerrick Logan • Kender Bronson • Lani Dixon • Lasodactyl • Lectrikor • Minosaur • Pterodomini • Slithermaw • Soapy Steve • Vorducken • Waylon Hurd • Wrendon Esk

Fantastic Fustercluck	Blackheart King • Eadric Edelhard • General Blisterpus • Mokdan Urgash • SpongeBoss BulletPants • The Caretaker

Director's Cut	Hemovorous the Invincible • Vermivorous the Invincible

Events

Bloody Harvest and Bloody Harvest Returns	Captain Haunt

Revenge of the Cartels	FISH SLAP! • Franco Firewall • Joey Ultraviolet • Josie Byte • Roaster • Security Chief Joe • The Tenderizer • Tyrone Smallums

Core Daddy

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