The Last Caretaker Angels: The Flying Robots, Arch Angels and How to Kill Them

Angels are the flying robots of The Last Caretaker: round grey machines that hover on fans above places people built, and above the sea around them. If you saw a robot flying over the Lazarus Complex roof, that was an Angel.

An ordinary Angel leaves you alone. It only fights back once you shoot or hit it, so you can sail and walk past one in peace.

Angels also turn on you when a human seed is stored in a pod. The hotfix of November 10, 2025 made that the rule, so clear the Angels near your pods before you put a seed in.

Once one Angel is angry, every Angel nearby turns on you at the same time, and its front light changes from blue to red. An angry Angel does not always calm down again; reloading a save from before the fight is the sure way to reset it.

Arch Angels arrived in Update 3, Curiosity Wakes, on March 18, 2026, together with Ram Sharks and Laser Sharks.

Unlike ordinary Angels, an Arch Angel shoots as soon as it sees you, from a long way off. Arch Angels guard Central Warehouse Alpha, just south of the Lazarus Complex.

An Arch Angel fires two rapid-fire cannons in one long burst, then stops to reload. That pause is your moment: wait under cover until the firing stops, step out and empty your magazine, then duck back in and reload while it fires again.

From a safe distance a Sniper Rod kills an Arch Angel in about five shots, and at that range it often does not fire back. Up close, expect two to three fully charged Electric Rifle shots or three to four Bolt Rifle magazines. The Electric Rifle needs no ammunition: plug it into power on your boat between shots.

An ordinary Angel fires volleys of blue balls that burst with an electric blast on impact. The blast is smaller than it looks, it does not go through walls, and the balls often burst early in narrow gaps, so a doorway or the bridge of your boat makes good cover.

Angels are easier to hit than at launch: the same hotfix made their hitbox bigger.

Angels hurt each other. When several are after you, move so that one hangs between you and another, and their shots hit each other. No damage type does extra harm to them, so use whatever weapon you have most ammunition for.

A destroyed Angel falls as a wreck you can take apart with the Dismantle Tool. One Arch Angel gave 3 High-Tech Scraps, 6 Tech Scraps, 8 Metal Scraps, 5 Wire Scraps, 3 Aluminium Scraps, 2 Broken Glass and 4 Bio Flesh. Fight it over your deck or a dock, not open water, so the wreck lands where you can reach it.

The High-Tech Scraps are the reason to hunt them: a powered Recycler turns them into Carbon Fiber and Titanium, which few other things give.

Look above places people built. Angels circle over the Lazarus Complex roof (69, -2 on the map), and Angels and Arch Angels guard Central Warehouse Alpha just south of it (66, 22).