Sidestreet Sluice Guide: Enemies, Bosses & Delve Variants

Sidestreet Sluice is a delve located in Undermine.

To learn more about Delves, we recommend you to give our dedicated guide a read.

The entrance to the delve is found at /way #2346 35.19 53.85 in Undermine.

Here is a breakdown of some of the enemies you will encounters inside the delve and their abilities. Please keep in mind the list may be incomplete, but we will keep updating it with new mobs as we discover them.

• Drill Sergeant: Move out of Drill Quake (can be interrupted with stuns). The mob will buff himself with Overtime!, increasing Attack Speed by 50%.
• Masked Freelancer: Interrupt Black Blood Bolt and Bathe in Blood.
• Treasure Crab (Rare): Interrupt Hardened Shell. Do not stand in its frontal cone attack.
• Aerial Support Bot: Avoid standing in the red circles.
• Punchy Thug: Casts Flurry of Punches.

Sidestreet Sluice comes with the Sidestreet Sluice Stories achievement which reveals the following variants:

• All That Glitters;
• Teleportation Tantrums;
• Mr. DELVER.

Inside the delve, you will see 5 Enchanted Gold Piles on the ground that you must destroy.

Once you complete that, you need to slay 7 Golden Shamans. Then, find the Treasure Room and defeat the Gold Elemental.

Abilities to be added.

This variant has two objectives. You must disrupt Darkfuse operations by filling the blue bar to 100% and recover a Remote Teleporter. Once completed you will receive access to the Remote Teleporter ability that you can activate to teleport back to the original location where it was found. In this variant, you will face off against Geargrave.

Geargrave casts the following abilities during combat:

• Carnage Cannon: Geargrave unleashes his Carnage Cannon, fires a missile of "refined" Black Blood into the air, inflicting Shadow damage and absorbing 30 healing to players within 6 yards of the impact, and leaving behind a pool of Black Blood.
• Juice It Up!: Geargrave fully activates his mech, causing him to gain a shield absorbing damage, and inflicting 30% more damage to players.

In this variant, you must control a robot called Mr. DELVER by clicking on a control console. This grants you access to special abilities for a limited-time.

1. Classic Delving Phrase: Mr. DELVER says one of several pre-programmed lines to encourage anyone nearby. This has absolutely no use in the MR. DELVER alpha build.
2. Electro-Magnetic Pulse: Short-circuits nearby machines, causing them to malfunction.
3. Flashbang: Mr. DELBER blinds a target, lowering their damage resistance and stunning them for 10 seconds.
4. Manual Shutdown: Destroys Mr. DELVER. useful for any unknown bugs that may occur due to its early build. Please send feedback to ERROR GOBLIN COMPANY NOT FOUND.

All you have to do is come close to an Electricity Generator and press (2) to disable it while controlling Mr. DELVER. As you progress through the delve, you will see multiple consoles that give you access to Mr. DELVER. This portion revolves around switching off hazards to rescue 7 Kidnapped mechanics. Completing this will make Vindle Snapcrank spawn.

This encounter is all about managing adds. Prioritize them before they overwhelm you. When no adds are up, hit Vindle.

The boss casts the following abilities:

• Clanker Bomb: Vindle arms and places a Clanker Bomb to pursue his aggressors. Remote Ticktocks explode when within 5 yards, inflicting Fire damage to players within 5 yards.
• Remote Ticktocks: Cast Seek and Destroy: Clanker pursues their target. When within 5 yards of their target, the Clanker explodes inflicting Fire damage to players within 5 yards.
• Shock Maintenance: Vindle "refurbishes" his broken clankers, bringing them back to pursue their enemies once more.
• Sprocket Smash: Knocks an enemy back. Inflicts Physical damage to an enemy.