Rimeback

Rimeback

Where

Frostmere, by the frozen Kestrel

Warp

/warp Rimeback

Unlock

Tidecaller's Trials step 26

Map

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The Company whaler Kestrel went north under Captain Aldous Vane and never came back. The pack ice swallowed her, and something lives in that ice now: Rimeback, a leviathan made of floe, with the Kestrel’s Hearthstove still burning in its chest.

Getting there

1. /warp Rimeback takes you to Frostmere camp, beside the frozen Kestrel.
2. Climb down into the Kestrel’s hold. The ice gives way to Rimeback’s floe once you have reached Tidecaller’s Trials step 26.
3. To get back, step into the return gate on the floe.

You can also use /bosszone after step 26.

Tip

You keep your inventory on the floe and no grave is made. Rewards go to fighters who are still in the arena when Rimeback sinks, so stay on the ice to the end.

Before you go

• Armor matters. Bites and sweeps are normal damage, so Protection works. Bring your best plate and enchanted golden apples.
• HearthbrewHearthbrewThe Kestrel cook's brew. Keeps the cold out on the floe.Warm all the way down. ⭑⭑⭑. Hessa’s Stores at Frostmere (ask Bram Tallow) sell Hearthbrew: $3,000 each or 3 for $8,000. While it lasts, the cold eats your warmth far more slowly.
• The Hearthstove LanternHearthstove LanternA coal from the Kestrel's Hearthstove,still burning behind storm glass.Hold it in your off hand.On Rimeback's floe the cold creeps slower."Keep it lit, and keep it close." Kestrel Kit (from the Kestrel Kit, below) held in your off hand also slows the cold.
• Melee or close bow. Hits from more than 10 blocks away do half damage, and hits from more than 24 blocks do nothing.

The fight

Health	7,500, plus 3,000 for each extra fighter (up to 18,000)
Arena	A frozen sea. Rimeback dives under the ice and breaches through it.
Enrage	After 8 minutes the whole floe starts freezing. Finish it.

Phase 1: the floe

Rimeback dives and surfaces through the ice. Watch for its bite, tail sweep, frost breath (bolts burst where they land) and ice shards. In a whiteout, listen for the ice cracking.

Phase 2: the floe cracks (66% health)

• Holes open everywhere. Falling in is bad: the black water hurts more every second you stay in it (1, then 2, then 3 hearts a second, through armor). Climb out.
• Warmth. A Warmth meter appears on your action bar. It drains while you are away from a lit brazier and refills fast within about 6 blocks of one. At zero, the cold starts hurting you.
• Braziers get snuffed. Standing beside one relights it in a couple of seconds, and a snuffed brazier relights on its own after 30 seconds.
• The Kestrel’s frozen crew (Rimebound Sailors) climb out onto the ice. More join at each breach later on.

Phase 3: the Hearth (33% health)

The Hearthstove burns through Rimeback’s chest. After each breach, while the stove glows, strike the glow to stagger it. A staggered Rimeback takes a beating: hit it with everything.

Rewards

You need at least 120 damage on Rimeback to be paid.

Full hoard (once every 20 hours per player):

• $60,000 to $90,000 and 3,000 XP
• 16 to 32 emeralds, 2 to 4 enchanted golden apples
• One Kestrel Kit piece (below)
• Chances at diamonds (80%), ancient debris (60%), netherite scrap (50%), a diamond cog (20%) and a totem (12%)
• A Rimeback trophy
• 3 RimeglassRimeglassClear ice that never melts, chippedfrom the floe around the Hearth.Spend it at the Rimeglass Forge in Frostmere.Floe currency and 1 Tidesteel IngotTidesteel IngotSteel the sea itself tempered,cold and blue to the core.
• The next page of Vane’s Soundings (/soundings, 12 pages in four chapters). Each finished chapter is claimed on Hessa’s board.

Echo loot (full hoard on cooldown): $7,500, 4 to 8 emeralds and 2 Rimeglass.

Also: an 8% chance at the Frost SignetFrost SignetEpic · Ring +3 Max Health+10% Boss Damage (Frost)✦ 10% on hit: chills the target (Slowness II, 3s) Cold enough to fog your breath.Pried from the ice around Rimeback's Hearth. trinket (guaranteed by your 10th miss), and a Legendary enchant from EnchantForge on your first kill.

The Kestrel Kit

Each full hoard gives exactly one piece.

Piece	Base	Stats	Drop weight
Vane’s HarpoonVane's HarpoonCaptain Aldous Vane's own iron, barbedfor whales that never surfaced twice.The rope still smells of the Kestrel's hold."Strike the Hearth. Then hold on." Kestrel Kit	Trident	11 damage, Impaling III, Loyalty III, Unbreaking III. Thrown like a trident.	25%
Flensing CleaverFlensing CleaverA Company whaler's blubber blade,rime grown into the rivets.The hook on the back has pulled men from the water."Cut where the ice is thinnest." Kestrel Kit	Netherite axe	11 damage, Sharpness IV, Efficiency IV, Unbreaking III	30%
Rimeglass PickRimeglass PickRimeglass set into Company iron.The Miners' guild cut these to chipthe Kestrel loose. They never finished."Ice remembers every blow." Kestrel Kit	Netherite pickaxe	Efficiency V, Fortune III, Unbreaking III	30%
Hearthstove Lantern	Off-hand	+1 heart, and slows the cold on Rimeback’s floe	15%

Vane’s Harpoon is also the reward for Tidecaller’s Trials step 27.

Rimeglass Forge

Open it with /rimeforge. Hold a Kestrel Kit piece (Harpoon, Cleaver or Pick) in your main hand.

Upgrade	Cost	Effect
Rimebound	10 Rimeglass	Unbreaking +1 and the main enchant +1 (Impaling, Sharpness or Efficiency)
Kestrel	25 Rimeglass	The same again, on a Rimebound piece

Boss trials

Each pays a title and 5 Rimeglass. Claim them on the Rimeback board (/q c frozentempest) and track them in /bosstrials.

Trial	How
Kept Warm	Sink Rimeback in a fight where nobody’s warmth hit zero.
Lone Floe	Sink Rimeback as the only fighter.
Unbroken Ice	Sink Rimeback in a fight where no player died.
Harpooner	Land hits in 3 exposed-Hearth windows.