The Alien Ship is a boss in Castle Crashers. Two of these ships are found at the end of the Desert level. It takes the appearance of a metallic, spherical alien ship with a translucent dome and an orange stripe down the front.
Battle Overview[]
The alien ship appears after the 8 wave in the Desert level (2 Scarabs and 2 Royal Guards). It will drop Alien Hominids, or try to drop slabs of rock on players. When the ship drops an Alien Hominid, the alien will move independently and attempt to attack the player, except the first one, which dies upon impact. This can get out of hand if too many appear, but they can be easily killed in one hit. The slab that it may drop has a large area, and can plant the player in the ground, but can easily be dodged.
Strategy[]
Players should jump up and melee the ship. Heavy attacks are suggested as they will do more damage as well as help keeping the player airborne to keep hitting the ship. Upon defeating the first Alien Ship, a second one will show up, doing the exact same attacks as the first one.
This boss is much easier with air-juggling: pressing 
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rapidly and then pressing 
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to keep airborne.
The Alien Ship is not resistant to knockback, so it's possible to keep it against one side of the screen by consistently attacking it.
Defeat[]
When the ship is defeated, it will explode in a pile of rubble. After the second one's defeat, a large space ship will suck the player up with a tractor beam, leading to the Alien Ship level.
Trivia[]
- The Alien Ship boss may be a reference to the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (another one being the Industrial Castle level). At the end of the sewers section of the second level of that game, the player must battle Baxter Stockman, who attacks on a flying pod in a very similar fashion to the Alien Ship, and will also drop "mousers" (a type of robot in the TMNT universe with a vague physical resemblance to the Alien Hominid) in a very similar way to how the Alien Ship fills the screen with Alien Hominids.
- The alien ship seems like it would be a good place to grind XP since that there are unlimited aliens, but due to the fact that they die in only one hit on both Normal and Insane modes, the player can only earn only 1 XP per alien.