Chapter 1 walkthrough

Block Tales Chapter 1 - Storming the Castle Walkthrough

Chapter 1 (Storming the Castle) is the four-boss Demo 1 arc that runs the Meadows -> Caves -> Snowy Thicket -> Roadtown -> Blackrock Castle. The chapter opens with Supreme Ant gating the Caves exit into Roadtown, then Banished Knight and Spiky Killbot as forced Snowy Thicket encounters on the way to Blackrock Castle (both are technically optional if you have the Bombs item or Dynamite skip), then Sentient Statue in the Blackrock Castle hallway as a skippable mid-encounter, then Cruel King as the chapter final boss with the Scepter Strike + Refreshing Heal loop and the icy mist AOE, with Blackrock King returning as a voluntary Demo 5 rematch for the Call: Blackrock King card. Demo 5 stacks Banished Knight on Pit Floor 16 and Spiky Killbot on Pit Floor 18 as back-to-back Chapter 1 rematches for the Bloxxer Hard Mode badge route.

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Where it sits

Chapter 1 (Storming the Castle) is the four-boss Demo 1 arc that follows the Prologue

Per Miraheze's chapter index, Chapter 1 (Storming the Castle) is the first numbered chapter, gated behind the Prologue (Hello World) and the Red & Blue Noob minibosses at Roblox HQ. The chapter starts after the player exits Roblox HQ into the Meadows and ends with the Cruel King fight in the Blackrock Castle throne room. It is the chapter that introduces the Bombs item (picked up from Jim the Accountant next to Tutorial Terry), the Snowy Thicket forced-encounter pattern (Banished Knight, Spiky Killbot), the Blackrock Castle skip via Dynamite, and the Cruel King Scepter Strike + Refreshing Heal loop that defines the chapter's mid-boss pacing. Blackrock King returns as a voluntary Demo 5 rematch once the chapter wraps, and is a separate encounter from Cruel King DX even though the body is reused. Plan the build to cover the four-boss arc in one go - the chapter does not let the player respec between the Caves exit and the Cruel King throne room.

Boss chain

Supreme Ant -> Banished Knight -> Spiky Killbot -> Sentient Statue -> Cruel King -> Blackrock King (Demo 5 rematch)

The verified Chapter 1 boss order is Supreme Ant (Caves exit with HP 10 and the Ant Army Call for Help summon, the canonical 'first real boss' wall that defines Chapter 1 pacing), Banished Knight (Snowy Thicket forced encounter with the Launcher-replaces-Ball AOE and Free Poison stacks), Spiky Killbot (Snowy Thicket bomb-required boss with the spike armor contact-reflection and the charge ram, gated behind the Bombs item from the Prologue), Sentient Statue (Blackrock Castle hallway boss with the Statue Smash multi-hit and the back-zoom animation, optional via Dynamite skip on the dungeon entrance), Cruel King (chapter final boss in the Blackrock Castle throne room with the Scepter Strike opener + Refreshing Heal DEF Up loop and the icy mist AOE), and Blackrock King as the voluntary Demo 5 rematch at the Chapter 1 ending area for the Call: Blackrock King card. All bosses have dedicated prep pages linked from this site, and the Caves + Snowy Thicket builds feed directly into the Blackrock Castle throne room.

Snowy Thicket path

Banished Knight + Spiky Killbot as the forced-encounter duo with Bombs as the universal unlock

The Snowy Thicket is the second Chapter 1 zone and gates access to Roadtown via two forced encounters: Banished Knight (the Launcher-replaces-Ball AOE that applies DEF Down for 3 turns while dealing Attack-1 damage to adjacent adds, plus Free Poison LV1 stacks for 3 turns) and Spiky Killbot (the spike armor contact-reflection boss that requires Bombs, Mr Batty, or Storm Tea to break his armor without triggering the reflection damage). The canonical Chapter 1 unlock is Bombs from Jim the Accountant next to Tutorial Terry in the Prologue - without Bombs, Spiky Killbot's spike armor cannot be broken in time and the encounter becomes a guaranteed loss. Plan the Snowy Thicket build so the Bombs item is in the inventory before entering, and bring one poison-cleanse card for Banished Knight's Free Poison stacks. The Pit Floor 16 Banished Knight and Floor 18 Spiky Killbot rematches tighten the encounter windows, which is what makes the Bombs item the single most-cited Chapter 1 unlock in Reddit threads.

Blackrock Castle arc

Sentient Statue as skippable hallway boss + Cruel King as the Scepter Strike chapter final

Blackrock Castle is the third Chapter 1 zone and gates the chapter final boss as Cruel King in the throne room. The Sentient Statue sits in the entrance hallway and is the only Chapter 1 boss that can be completely skipped via Dynamite from Jim the Accountant (the same Bombs item, used on the dungeon entrance, opens the door without engaging the statue in the hallway). The Cruel King fight is the Scepter Strike + Refreshing Heal loop: he opens every cycle with Scepter Strike (a scepter swing that hits the leftmost target and applies Frozen), then after a Call for Help (skipped on solo) he always casts Refreshing Heal which heals his team and applies DEF Up for three turns. The only way to break the loop is to burst the heal turn with shield-break or burst-damage before DEF Up stacks up. In Demo 5 his Defense stat was fully removed, so raw damage cards are usable against him - this is a meaningful change from the original Demo 1 version where def-pierce was mandatory. Plan the throne room build around burst-damage timing for the Refreshing Heal turn, not raw SP-on-sword damage.

Blackrock King rematch

Demo 5 voluntary rematch for the Call: Blackrock King card reward

Blackrock King is the ruler of the Blackrock Kingdom and the original Chapter 1 story boss. In Demo 5, the same NPC returns at the Chapter 1 ending area as a voluntary rematch - talk to him after the story wraps to trigger the fight. He is a separate encounter from Cruel King DX even though the body is reused. His signature move is the scepter combo: a close-range Combat 20 head-smack followed by longer-range projectile volleys that ignore standard parry windows. Unlike the older patch where defeating Blackrock King granted a Nirvana-tier item, the Demo 5 rematch rewards the Call: Blackrock King card instead, which is the post-fight reward shape that pulls the steady 'blackrock king block tales' search traffic. Plan the deck so the Call: Blackrock King card lands on a low-HP phase transition, not a deck that ends the fight in two turns - the card is the reward, not a clean kill.

Pit rematch

Demo 5's expanded Pit stacks Banished Knight on Floor 16 and Spiky Killbot on Floor 18

In Demo 5's expanded Pit of 100 Trials, the Chapter 1 rematch lineup is Banished Knight on Floor 16 and Spiky Killbot on Floor 18 as a back-to-back Chapter 1 stack. The Floor 16 Banished Knight uses the same Launcher-replaces-Ball AOE + Free Poison stack as the Snowy Thicket fight but with tighter DEF Down windows, and the Floor 18 Spiky Killbot tightens the parry window further to roughly 0.1-0.2s on Hard Mode+. This is the single best farming route for the Chapter 1 Nirvana badge variants, and the Floor 16-18 stack is what 3/4 Hellmode Itemless + Thorns challenge runs reference when they call Spiky Killbot 'the wall between the early-game build and the late-game run'. The Pit Floor 18 also doubles as the Supreme Ant Pit rematch floor (per Fandom's Pit of 100 Trials page), so the early-game badge run routes all three Chapter 1 bosses through the Floor 16-18 stretch.

Badge route

Bloxxer (Chapter 1), Blackrock King Call card, and the Bombs unlock all live here

Chapter 1 carries three badge families that anchor search traffic. The Bloxxer Hard Mode badge is tied to beating every Chapter 1 boss on Hard Mode in a single run - the badge run needs Bombs from Jim the Accountant before Spiky Killbot, Dynamite in the inventory for the Sentient Statue skip (optional), and the burst-damage timing for the Cruel King Refreshing Heal turn. The Blackrock King Call card is tied to the Demo 5 voluntary rematch at the Chapter 1 ending area - the card unlocks on chapter-clear, not chapter-start, so the badge run cannot start until the Cruel King fight resolves. The Bombs unlock is tied to Jim the Accountant's side-room in the Prologue - missing Bombs invalidates both the Spiky Killbot encounter and the Sentient Statue skip, which is why the Bombs item is the most-cited Chapter 1 unlock in 'first day' Reddit threads. The full Chapter 1 badge list (4 bosses + Bloxxer Hard Mode + Blackrock King Call card + Bombs item unlock + the Snowy Thicket double clear) is what pulls the steady 'chapter 1 block tales' search traffic every Demo 5 patch.

Build shell

One deck that survives all four bosses without re-speccing

The reliable Chapter 1 shell is one multi-target burst card (to sweep the Supreme Ant Ant Army add and chip the Banished Knight poison stacks in the same turn), two healing cards (Cruel King's icy mist AOE and Spiky Killbot's charge ram each have at least one phase that punishes under-healed parties), one dispel or shield card (to clear the Cruel King Frozen stacks and to absorb the Spiky Killbot closing ram), and one item-damage card or bomb (Bombs deal 3 damage without triggering Spiky Killbot's spike armor contact reflection, which is the canonical Chapter 1 unlock pattern). Solo players should swap one heal for a self-revive - the Cruel King Refreshing Heal turn rewards burst-damage timing over raw HP, and a single shield on the heal cast animation is the difference between a clean Chapter 1 clear and a re-run. Use the build maker to confirm BP, SP, heal, dispel, and Bombs coverage before exiting the Caves or attempting Pit Floor 16-18.

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Supreme Ant

Chapter 1 Caves exit first boss with HP 10 and the Ant Army Call for Help summon that defines Chapter 1 pacing.

Banished Knight

Chapter 1 Snowy Thicket forced encounter with the Launcher-replaces-Ball AOE and Free Poison stacks.

Spiky Killbot

Chapter 1 Snowy Thicket bomb-required boss with spike armor contact reflection, charge ram, and Pit Floor 18 rematch.

Sentient Statue

Chapter 1 Blackrock Castle hallway boss with Statue Smash multi-hit, optional via Dynamite skip on the dungeon entrance.

Cruel King

Chapter 1 Blackrock Castle final boss with Scepter Strike + Refreshing Heal loop and icy mist Frozen AOE.

Blackrock King

Demo 5 voluntary Chapter 1 rematch for the Call: Blackrock King card reward, separate from Cruel King DX.

Cruel King DX

Hard Mode Chapter 1 Cruel King rematch with the canonical 'Blackrock Kingdom' rematch fight.

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Quick answers

Block Tales Chapter 1 - Storming the Castle Walkthrough FAQ

Short answers for players who need the next practical action.

How many bosses are in Block Tales Chapter 1?

Chapter 1 has four core bosses in the canonical order: Supreme Ant (Caves exit with HP 10 and the Ant Army Call for Help summon), Banished Knight (Snowy Thicket forced encounter with the Launcher-replaces-Ball AOE and Free Poison stacks), Spiky Killbot (Snowy Thicket bomb-required boss with spike armor contact reflection, gated behind the Bombs item from Jim the Accountant in the Prologue), and Cruel King (Blackrock Castle chapter final boss with the Scepter Strike + Refreshing Heal loop and icy mist Frozen AOE). Sentient Statue in the Blackrock Castle hallway is optional via Dynamite skip, and Blackrock King returns as a voluntary Demo 5 rematch at the Chapter 1 ending area for the Call: Blackrock King card.

Where do you start Chapter 1 in Block Tales?

Chapter 1 starts after the player exits Roblox HQ into the Meadows following the Prologue (Hello World). The first Chapter 1 boss is Supreme Ant at the Caves exit into Roadtown, then Banished Knight and Spiky Killbot as forced Snowy Thicket encounters on the way to Blackrock Castle (both gated behind the Bombs item from Jim the Accountant next to Tutorial Terry), then Sentient Statue as the optional Blackrock Castle hallway boss (skippable via Dynamite), then Cruel King as the chapter final boss in the Blackrock Castle throne room, with Blackrock King returning as a voluntary Demo 5 rematch at the Chapter 1 ending area.

Why do I need Bombs for Chapter 1 in Block Tales?

Bombs from Jim the Accountant next to Tutorial Terry in the Prologue is the canonical Chapter 1 unlock. Without Bombs (or Mr Batty or Storm Tea), Spiky Killbot's spike armor contact reflection cannot be broken in time and the Snowy Thicket encounter becomes a guaranteed loss. Bombs also unlock the Sentient Statue skip - Dynamite on the Blackrock Castle dungeon entrance opens the door without engaging the statue in the hallway. Most 'first day' Reddit 'block tales chapter 1' threads cluster around players who missed the Bombs pickup and hit Spiky Killbot with no items.

Can you skip Sentient Statue in Chapter 1?

Yes - Sentient Statue is the only Chapter 1 boss that can be completely skipped via Dynamite from Jim the Accountant. The same Bombs item, used on the Blackrock Castle dungeon entrance, opens the door without engaging the statue in the hallway. The skip is real and YouTube Chapter 1 walkthroughs always flag it, which is why the Sentient Statue question pulls steady 'sentient statue block tales skip' search traffic even though he is not a story-blocking boss. Plan around the skip if you are running a low-SP build - the Statue Smash multi-hit punishes parties that face-tank without a shield card.

What is the Cruel King loop in Block Tales Chapter 1?

The Cruel King Scepter Strike + Refreshing Heal loop is the chapter's mid-boss pacing. He opens every cycle with Scepter Strike (a scepter swing that hits the leftmost target and applies Frozen), then after a Call for Help (skipped on solo) he always casts Refreshing Heal which heals his team and applies DEF Up for three turns. The only way to break the loop is to burst the heal turn with shield-break or burst-damage before DEF Up stacks up. In Demo 5 his Defense stat was fully removed, so raw damage cards are usable against him - bring a burst finisher instead and save the def-pierce slot for Cruel King DX.

Where is Chapter 1's boss chain on the Pit floor list?

In Demo 5's expanded Pit of 100 Trials, the Chapter 1 rematch lineup is Banished Knight on Floor 16 and Spiky Killbot on Floor 18 as a back-to-back Chapter 1 stack. Supreme Ant also rematches on Floor 18 per the Fandom Pit of 100 Trials page, so the early-game badge run routes the Caves + Snowy Thicket + Supreme Ant bosses through the Floor 16-18 stretch. Sentient Statue, Cruel King, and Blackrock King rematch on separate floors later in the Pit progression.

Is Blackrock King required to clear Chapter 1?

No - Blackrock King is the Demo 5 voluntary Chapter 1 rematch at the Chapter 1 ending area and is not required for the chapter clear. He is a separate encounter from Cruel King DX even though the body is reused. Talk to him after the Cruel King story wraps to trigger the fight, and the reward is the Call: Blackrock King card rather than a Nirvana-tier item. Most players clear Chapter 1 without ever fighting Blackrock King, but the Call card reward is the build payoff that pulls search traffic from players chasing the full Chapter 1 reward list.