Crusades are the action component of Cult of the Lamb, where you hack and slash your way through dungeons to obtain resources, advance the story, and generally kill everything in your way.
If all the health is lost, the crusade will result in being martyed back to the Cult of the Lamb HQ. In Co-op, this occurs only after both lost all their health.
Maps[]
Each crusade has a randomly generated map for that run, which can lead you through several kinds of areas, including:
 Combat Area
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Chests drop Food ingredients not Coins |
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Chests drop double the Coins |
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Chests drop double the Coins + enemies drop poison pools |
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Enemies have half health + You receive double damage |
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Loses 1 max Heart, gain 1-3 Diseased Hearts |
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Loses 1 max Heart, gain 1 Tarot card. |
There are several types of room in a Combat area, indicated by their icons in the minimap:
Combat Area (Room with No icon)[]
This room has enemies you have to defeat to get out.
Combat Area (
Entrance)[]
The room you start the area with. In the very first Entrance room of the run it will spawn a Weapon and a Curse.
In other entrance rooms, a Bishop statue will spawn. Breaking it gains some Devotion, completely fills fervor, and 2 
Stone. After the Bishop has been defeated, breaking the statue will reveal a portal allowing the player to fight the Bishop again.
Combat Area ( Tarot Cards shop)[]
The shop of Clauneck, where you can choose 1 of 2 Tarot Cards for free.
You can also buy another Tarot Card here for 
Coin. The cooldown for buying a card is 0.75 days.
On occasion, the icon is also used for special rooms that only contain a single Tarot Card to pick up.
Adjacent Tarot Card shop rooms are indicated by hanging stars and moons over the entrance.
Combat Area ( Gear shop)[]
The shop of Kudaai, where you can choose 1 out of 3 items for free. The items can be Weapons or Curses.
Adjacent Gear shop rooms are indicated by hanging swords over the entrance.
Combat Area ( Teleport room)[]
Appears at the end of the area to advance to the next area, or to end the run.
Combat Area ( Bonus rooms)[]
There can be some special bonuses in this room:
2 Heart pickups:They can be either 2 
Red Hearts or 2 
Blue Heart pickups.
Offering rooms: Pay the Statue of the Beast some Coins to get more Coins or some resources in return.
The statue can be offered with Coins 3 times:
List of possible resources (sorted by most common to rarest):
- 5-50 Coins
- 7-12 Lumber and 7-12 Stone
- 15 random items. The items can be Berry, Minnow, Meat or Pumpkin
- 1 general Follower form
- 2.5 - 7 Blue Hearts
Be aware that the bags in the room are breakable and drop Coin and 
Gold Nugget, but if you destroy >60% of them before offering to the statue, the statue will be angry and take your coins without returning anything.
Cursed Trees: Chopping down this tree gives you some 
Lumber and 1 
to 3 Diseased Hearts.
Health altars: Pray to it to sacrifice 1 Red Heart, and gain a buff in return. The buff can be:
- Increase all damage by x1.25
- Gain 1 to 3 Blue Hearts / Diseased Hearts
- Gain 1 random Tarot Card
Combat Area (Hidden ? Ancient Tablet Room)[]
A question mark on it and a hidden room in a room with no icon. You need to use a curse on small totems in the room to make the ancient tablet room appear. Do not get curse "Call of the Crown" since it cannot activate the totems. You exchange red hearts for tablets and lore. It is not recommended to use the Fleece of Fragile Fortitude, Fleece of the Berserker, or Fleece of a Cursed Crusade if you want these tablets since the altar needs 1 red heart. The red bonus hearts you get from the Empowered Shrine of Disciples and tarot cards do not count. Note that having the Telescope tarot card makes it significantly easier to find a hidden room, If you want to know if a dungeon has a secret room, pay attention to the room count, since usually a normal gauntlet has 11 rooms. Ancient Tablets can be found in any of the four biomes, but will be received in order. If you're doing the shadow check, the statues seem to only appear in the top exit of the room (usually the unused exits can be seen as slight recesses in the shadowy borders of the floor.
Areas with Loot[]
Bones[]
A room that has lots of 
Bone.
Vegetables[]
A room that has lots of vegetables. Depending on the biome, the ingredients spawning are different:
- Darkwood: Berry
- Anura: Pumpkin
- Anchordeep: Cauliflower
- Silk Cradle: Beetroot
- Any locations but with a specific icon : Grapes, Hops, Cotton
Lumber[]
A room that has lots of Lumber.
Fertilizer[]
A room that has lots of 
Fertilizer.
Stone[]
A room that has lots of Stone.
Coins[]
A room that has lots of 
Coin.
Meat[]
A room that has lots of 
Meat.
Shops[]
There are several types of shop, signified by the icon below the tab:
Follower Shop[]
Helob's shop, which sells 1 Follower (at a significant discount, sometimes free)
Cat (Gift Shop)[]
Forneus' shop, where you can pick a free item out of 3 items: 1 Decoration blueprint, 1 Follower form, and the other is 1 Small Gift/Big Gift/Commandment Stone Fragments.
The shop also sells the Ambrosia card that you can unlock with 50 Coin.
Food Shop[]
Rakshasa's shop that has 1 free item. The items can be food ingredients or food seeds.
Robes Shop[]
Berith's shop sells a random Robe blueprint for 5 
Gold Bars . He will not sell any more items once you have bought all of his blueprints.
Destroying the items around his shop may yield a Worm Follower form and blue hearts usually.
Hearts Shop[]
Has a pool that fully heals you, and some Hearts in breakable objects.
In this room there is the Hearts III Tarot card that you can unlock with 100 Coin.
If you have the demon Hathor, Ratoo will claim that Hathor is his heart, and ask you to return it to him. If you choose to give him Hathor, you will lose the demon, and permanently lose the Follower that turned into Hathor. In exchange, you will permanently gain half a heart.
Tarot Cards room Shop[]
A room that has 1-3 Tarot Cards, or Clauneck's shop.
Follower[]
1 Follower that either has to be saved, or can be recruited by dialogue choices.
Darkwood[]
A follower sits huddled in the middle of burned wreckage. Several skeletons surround them.
"They took my family and sacrificed them to Leshy. Now I'm all alone."
Anura[]
Anchordeep[]
Silk Cradle[]
Random Area[]
This room can be:
Challenge ( Random Area)[]
A challenge from Ratoo. The challenge can be:
- Completing 3 enemies rooms without getting hit
- Completing 3 enemies rooms without using Dodge
- Completing 3 enemies rooms without using Curses
After completing the challenge, Ratoo will reward you with some Coin, some Resources, a Follower form or a Decoration blueprint. Nothing will be rewarded if you fail the challenge. This location otherwise acts like a Combat area, with at least enough rooms to complete the challenge.
Treasures ( Random Area)[]
A treasure trove which gives you Coin
Cursed Altar ( Random Area)[]
You will be forced to take a debuff for the rest of the run. The debuff can be:[]
- Dodge distance reduced by half
- Curses cost x2 Fervour
- Convert all Red Hearts to Blue Hearts
- Loses all Blue Hearts, Diseased Hearts and Spirit Hearts (if you have any. Can die if you do not have any Red Hearts)
- Enemies' projectiles become faster by x1.5
- Double the chance of Elite enemies in combat area
- Enemies have x1.5 HP
- Remove all Demons (if you have any)
- Remove all collected items of the run
Bonus choice ( Random Area)[]
2 pickups that you can choose one of for free. The pickups can be Red Heart, Blue Heart, Diseased Heart or Tarot Card.
Monch ( Random Area)[]
An NPC that increase 1 Follower's Loyalty. They will increase the Loyalty of a chosen Follower by 60.
 Spoiler Alert! The Ripped Note can be found behind the bonfire.
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Mini boss Area[]
A boss fight. See bosses page for list.
Dissenter Area[]
An encounter with a Follower that has either dissented and deserted the cult, or was absolved too many times and was forcibly removed from the cult. Both acts as mini-bosses.
Graveyard Area[]
A room with multiple graves you can exhume. They contain Bone and Skeletons.
Red Crown Area[]
There is a Red Crown Shrine. Praying to it will allow you to not lose any of items upon dying in the current run.
Regardless of the biome it appears in, the statue will always be surrounded by Camellia flowers which can be harvested by attacking them.
Boss Area[]
At the end of this area there is a boss room. You have to fight a mini-boss, or the Bishops (if all 3 mini-bosses have been defeated), or a Witness (if the Bishop has been defeated). When the Witness has also been defeated, you'll fight any of the minibosses or the Witness again.