Enemies & Unit Data in NieR: Automata compiles all hostile encounters, and common creatures found throughout the world of NieR Automata. The different types of Enemeis in NieR Automata will be a type of Machine since they are the main enemies of the story along with some Main Character Bosses. In NieR Automata these machines have taken over Earth and it is your job as the android to clear the planet of these abominations. Common Machines and encounters are sorted into enemies while unique or significant encounters will be considers Bosses. Defeating Bosses will usually progress through the Main Quests or storyline of the game while Enemies act more like obstacles and may be encountered multiple times in multiple locations.
Unit Data in NieR Automata
Unit Data: View information about encountered units and foes.
Unit Data are Intel excepts accessed through Intel from the menu. Each unit data will contain an image followed by a description and possible encounter description with the unit. You can also interact with the data to view the unit's animations These Data pieces are usually obtained after a successful encounter with the enemy type. This includes some non-hostile units. To acquire all Unit Data, you must find all enemies, NPCs and Bosses. Some Enemies only spawn on certain places or chapters, and you must collect all possible variations of each enemy to get 100% completion. Variations are seen in the "Model Viewer" portion of your game, by pressing Triangle to change the models. For a secret unit, see this page.
Full List Of Machines for Unit Data trophy
Standard Units
- Small Stubby
- Small Stubby: Gun Equipped
- Small Stubby: Shield Equipped
- Small Stubby: Electromagnetic-shield-equipped
- Multi-tier Type
- Multi-tier Type: Gun Equipped
- Small Biped
- Small Biped: Torch Equipped
- Medium Biped
- Medium Biped: Shield Equipped
- Medium Biped: Electromagnetic Shield Equipped
- Medium Quadruped
- Multi-leg Medium model: Long-range
- Multi-leg Medium model: Close-range
- Goliath Biped
- Goliath Biped: Enhanced Legpower Model
- Reverse-jointed Goliath
- Small Flyer
- Medium Flyer
- Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit
- Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2
- Small Exploder
- Medium Exploder
- Small Sphere: Axe-quipped
- Small Sphere: Drill-equipped
- Small Sphere: Gun-equipped (On your third playthrough, take the elevator back down to the copied city and it will be on your right)
- Linked-sphere Type: Drill-equipped
- Linked-sphere Type: Thorn-equipped
- Linked-sphere Type: Gun-equipped
- Linked-sphere Type: Saw-equipped
- Rampaging Small Stubby
- Rampaging Small Biped
- Rampaging Medium Biped
Desert Machines
- Small Stubby
- Small Stubby: Saw-equipped
- Small Biped: Sword-equipped
- Medium Biped: Sword-equipped
- Medium Biped: Shield-equipped (Found along with the electromagnetic shield equipped variant in the underground caverns under the desert area near the desert camp access point, guarding the Cruel Blood Oath large sword. 9S is required to reach the weapon and these machines. confirmed Chapter 07-02)
- Medium Biped: Electromagnetic Shield-equipped (Found along with the standard shield equipped variant in the underground caverns under the desert area near the desert camp access point, guarding the Cruel Blood Oath large sword. 9S is required to reach the weapon and these machines. confirmed Chapter 07-02)
- Goliath Biped
- Small Flyer
- Medium Flyer (Gunner Unit: On Route C playthrough, go to the Desert: Oil Field access point, and hug the wall to the left as you exit the oil field's enclosure. Proceed until you see them. Chapter 14-05.)
- Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit (Chapter 10-03 Route B or 15-01 Route C. Transport to Desert: Oil Field and hug the right side when leaving the Oil Field, keep going past the cave which leads to the ruined city area until you find a cliff with enemies. Just climb up and check if any spawned. Almost always spawns on charpter 10-03)
- Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2 (Chapter 13-02 or 14-01. Turn off minimap rotation and head East from the central desert access point.)(May also be found slightly to the West of Kamikaze Unit in Chapter 10-03)
Amusement Park Machines
- Small Stubby
- Small Biped
- Medium Biped: Gun-equipped (Chapter 04 in entrance square going around shooting Balloons)
- Small Flyer
- Medium Flyer
- Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit
- Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2
- Rampaging Small Biped
- Rampaging Medium biped (Under archway past entrance square, other bipeds will not update unit data. Confirmed in Chapter 12-01 and 14-01)
Forest Kingdom Machines
- Small Stubby
- Small Biped: Spear-equipped
- Medium Biped: Spear-equipped
- Medium Biped: Shield-equipped
- Medium Biped: Electromagnetic Shield-equipped (Available Route B onwards, Found by dropping down and gliding to a plaform under Masamune)
- Medium Quadruped
- Goliath Biped: Enhanced Legpower Model
- Small Flyer
Factory Machines
- Small Stubby
- Small Stubby: Kamikaze Unit
- Small Biped: Torch-equipped
- Small Biped: Axe-equipped
- Medium Biped: Axe-equipped
- Medium Quadruped (Chapter 09-02_2. Play as 2B. After the first conveyor belt, just before the first set "stamps" there is a gap in the stairs. Drop down and enter the room at the bottom to kill this unique enemy)
- Small Flyer
Village Machines
- Small Stubby
- Multi-tier Type
- Small Biped
- Medium Biped
- Goliath Biped (Talk to it down on playground)
- Small Flyer
- Small Sphere
- Sartre (Jean-Paul)
- Pascal
- Father Machine
- Mother Machine
- Child Machine
- Big Sister Machine
- Little Sister Machine
- Scientist Machine
- Weird Machine
Note: When unlocking in Chapter Select, go to chapter 05-01, talk to Pascal first to tell you to look around the Village, then talk with your missing Units.
Enhanced Machines
- Small Stubby
- Multi-tier Type (All variations: Desert Zone: Camp area, in a corner to the far left of entrance, only on Route C chapters) Normal Variation confirmed to sometimes spawn on 12-01, 12-02 and 17-03, both variations can spawn on 17-01, sometimes both at once. Immediately head away from the desert proper, and head to the bottom left area, near the hidden section with the lunar tear.
- Multi-tier Type: Gun-equipped (Gun Variation confirmed to spawn on 12-01, 14-01, and 16-02 in Desert Housing Complex in a large group of enemies on the path to where you first fight Adam.)
- Small Biped
- Medium Biped
- Medium Quadruped
- Multi-leg Medium Model: Long-range
- Multi-leg Medium Model: Close-range
- Goliath Biped
- Goliath Biped: Enhanced Legpower Model (Abandoned factory Hangar: head further back to room past first press conveyor,rare spawn in that room with the two multi-leg models (room before the alternate route to noctis engine blade), if it doesn't spawn ignore the multi-leg models and run back to the start of the conveyor belt to trigger a new spawn)
- Reverse-jointed Goliath (Flooded City: It should spawn in Route C. Chapter 17-01, 17-03, and 14-01 are confirmed, may work in other chapters, go straight ahead and it should spawn where the two Medium Bipeds usually spawn (in front of the Soul Box) . This is a very rare spawn, roughly 1%, and may need dozens of reloads to see. Quicksaving at the flooded city save point, and then repeatedly loading the systems tab from the pause menu is the recommended method for quickly refreshing enemy spawns.
- Small Flyer
- Medium Flyer
- Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit (Desert Zone: As you leave the Oil Field, hug the right wall until you reach the cliffs with a large amount of masked bipedal machine lifeforms. They'll occasionally spawn amongst this group, on the cliff wall between the Desert Zone and Desert Housing Complex entrances. If you follow the left wall as you exit the oil field, it can also spawn where the 2 normal kamikaze medium flyers are on later route C chapters - confirmed at 12-02, 14-01, 16-02, 17-01, 17-03.
- Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2 (Desert Zone: As you leave the Oil Field, hug the right wall until you reach the cliffs with a large amount of masked bipedal machine lifeforms. They'll occasionally spawn amongst this group, on the cliff wall between the Desert Zone and Desert Housing Complex entrances. If you follow the left wall as you exit the oil field, it can also spawn where the 2 normal kamikaze medium flyers are on later route C chapters - confirmed at 12-02, 14-01, 17-01, 17-03)
- Small Sphere: Axe-equipped (Factory, past the first save location in route C, where there are some disabled hydraulic presses. Confirmed 17-01)
- Small Sphere: Drill-equipped (City Ruins: Cave, Route C chapters: Enhanced spheres here have a very low spawn rate, usually they are normal spheres. It is advised to repeatedly reload from the transporter in front of the cave. Confirmed at chapter 16-02)
- Small Sphere: Gun-equipped (City Ruins: Cave, Route C chapters / Flooded City: Coast, Route C chapters )
- Linked-sphere Type: Thorn-equipped (All Variations: Flooded City, during Route C. This unit has an extremely low spawn rate. To maximize efficiency, it is advisable to abuse the unit's spawn distance by using the Moose mount by the Flooded City transporter, to continuously sprint back and forth past the yellow school bus along the broken road.)
- Linked-sphere Type: Saw-equipped (C route - confirmed at Ch 17 - 3; Appears near the route through the ruin city's Speed Star for the second time. Route C Appears in the room across the bridge if you go right at Access Point: Royal Chambers.)
- Linked-sphere Type: Drill-equipped (Desert Zone: Spawns on a rock on the right side before the entrance to the Housing Complex, replacing one of three bipedal desert machines)
- Linked-sphere Type: Gun-equipped
EMP Attack Machines
- Small Stubby
- Small Biped (spawns near Engel's arm in the city ruins starting at Chapter 12 route C. You might need to hit them and let them attack you for a bit to trigger the EMP effect and then kill them to get the unit data)
- Medium Biped
- Goliath Biped (spawns in the city ruins right before the entrance to Desert Zone: Camp area starting at chapter 12 route C. You might need to hit it and let it attack you for a bit to trigger the EMP effect and then kill them to get the unit data)
Special Unit Machines
Androids
- YoRHa (Standard Armament)
- YoRHa (Heavy Armament)
- YoRHa (Flight Unit)
- YoRHa (Operator)
- 8B
- 22B
- 64B
- 210
- 2B Copy
- 9S
- A2: Long Hair (When you meet for the first time)
- A2: Short Hair (After choosing 9S on route D)
Peculiar Machines
- Courageous Brother (All Gold Machines: Route C as 9S. Defeat each grounp starting at Desert Housing > Flooded City > City Ruins)
- Hateful Sister
- Vengeful Child
- Gold Tank
- Gold Goliath Biped
- Goliath Tank (Desert) (Encountered during the "Gathering Keepsakes" sidequest. Its unit data will only register once you complete the quest.)
- Gunman Biped (Gunman Machines: Heritage of the Past end)
- Gunman Flyer (Gunman Machines: Heritage of the Past end)
- Gunman Stubby (Gunman Machines: Heritage of the Past end)
- Blood-drenched Machine
- Amusement Park Rabbit (Hack the Statue at Amusement Park with a Remote Controlled enemy or damage it until it starts moving.)
- Zombie Clown (Quest: Stamp Collecting - Underground area by lift.)
- Animal Machine (Quest: Turf War)
- Gravekeeper (Quest: Treasure Hunt at the Castle)
- Monster Type (Quest: The Twins' Request)
- Dying Goliath Biped (Quest: Lord of the Valley)
Amicable Machines
- Machine with a Dream (Quest: Sartre's Melancholy)
- Machine in Love (Quest: Sartre's Melancholy)
- Machine with Makeup (Quest: Sartre's Melancholy)
- Romeo (Quest: Stamp Collecting)
- Juliet (Quest: Stamp Collecting)
- Father Servo: White Belt (Quest: Robo Dojo--White Belt)
- Father Servo: Brown Belt (Quest: Robo Dojo--Brown Belt)
- Father Servo: Black Belt (Quest: Robo Dojo--Black Belt)
- Father Servo: Red and White Belt (Quest: Robo Dojo--Red and White Belt)
- Father Servo: Red Belt (Quest: Robo Dojo--Red Belt)
- Animal-loving Machine (Quest: Animal Care)
- High-speed Machine (Quest: Speed Star)
- Masamune
Unit Data Gallery
Standard Machines are Enemies in NieR: Automata. They are the most common hostile Machine unit enemy encounters in the game. These Machine Lifeforms are the units commonly found and encountered in different Locations throughout the game and are not bound to one Location. They will each have different types of offensive equipment and unique abilities depending on the Machine type. Players can gain access to their individual Unit Data information after a successful encounter. This data logs down their unique characteristics and features and can be accessed from the intel menu.
Unit Data in NieR Automata
Unit Data: View information about encountered units and foes.
Unit Data are Intel excepts accessed through Intel from the menu. Each unit data will contain an image followed by a description and possible encounter description with the unit. You can also interact with the data to view the unit's animations These Data pieces are usually obtained after a successful encounter with the enemy type. This includes some non-hostile units. To acquire all Unit Data, you must find all enemies, NPCs and Bosses. Some Enemies only spawn on certain places or chapters, and you must collect all possible variations of each enemy to get 100% completion. Variations are seen in the "Model Viewer" portion of your game, by pressing Triangle to change the models. For a secret unit, see this page.
Hostile Machines NieR: Automata
Hostile Machines are encountered throughout different Locations in NieR Automata and usually sorted by the Machine type. The Machine types that are sorted according to their Locations are the ones found in the Desert Zone, Abandoned Factory, and those in the Amusement Park. Other common hostile Machines are sorted according to their abilities. The most common types of Hostile Machines are known as Standard Machines. Hostile Machines are generally sorted into the following categories:
All Standard Machines NieR Automata
AnonymousI seem to have every entry, but my Pokedex is only 99% complete, how many variations of the enhanced multi-tier types are there? I have a medium height one, a tall one, and one with guns. Is there another one I'm missing? I've gone through his entire list and according to this list, I should be 100% complete, but I'm not and missing a variant of the multi-tier types is the only thing I can think of.
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Hey just let people know you can find both the kamikaze unit and 2x gunner kamikaze 2x really close to each. First for what I did is use the 10 chapter rules for kamikaze one and once you find it destroy it and then start going toward the middle. There should be a little dug in area that has it. P.S. it is not very far from the sandfall so don't try to hard on it it was pretty close for me.
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Pro-tip: When attempting to locate enhanced machines in the desert, if you don't find them the first time, don't kill any of them. Enhanced machines spawn randomly in place of the normal enemies there. Leave on top of animal-back, out of their render distance, and they will despawn. Re-enter their spawn location, and they may change to become your desired machine. Works on trying to find the medium kamikaze flyer, 2x gun, 2 x kamikaze medium flyer, as well as the drill linked sphere. Might also work on the multi-tiered machine that is near the Lunar Tear. This method is a little faster than reloading the area through access points. Done on 17-01, found all of the machines I previously mentioned.
- Anonymous
"Multi-tier Type (All variations: Desert Zone: Camp area, in a corner to the far left of entrance, only on Route C chapters)"
Just tested on ch 12, 14, and 17. This factoid is false. None spawned anywhere even remotely close to ANY desert location.
- Anonymous
"Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit (Chapter 10-03 Route B or 15-01 Route C. Transport to Desert: Oil Field and hug the right side when leaving the Oil Field, keep going past the cave which leads to the ruined city area until you find a cliff with enemies. Just climb up and check if any spawned. Almost always spawns on charpter (sic) 10-03)"
10 tries in a row, still nothing. This wrong. Either they don't spawn here, or they at least do not "almost always" spawn here. Not even close.
- Anonymous
17-01 is falsely listed as a confirmed method for enhanced small sphere: axe-equipped. Just followed the directions perfectly on the prescribed chapter to no avail.
- Anonymous
Confirmed, I found the Linked-sphere Type: Thorn-equipped in the Flooded City, during Route Chapter 12-1 with A2 using the method of mounting the moose, this consists of mounting the moose without killing the machine, you have to jump out to sea from the yellow bus again and again until it appears Linked-sphere Type: Thorn-equipped, the other variations of this machine can be found more easily in the waterfalls near the center of the forest , and in the factory specifically in the room Where there is a mountain of android bodies, (where you previously find the mid-middle quadruped) in the same 12-1 chapter either playing with 9s or A2. I hope you find this information useful.
- Anonymous
This guide helped me a lot, especially with the flight units, I confirm that they are where the guide indicates, the only machine I can not find is the enhanced linked sphere with thorn equipment, it is driving me crazy, hopefully someone can give me some clue where to find it. Once I can locate this machine, but opt for the E end, and you know...
- Anonymous
Please tell me how do I find the mediums Flyer Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit
Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2 in Amusement Park?
- Anonymous
Please tell me how do I find the Flyer medium in Amusement Park?
- Anonymous
The elite thorn linked bot has a pretty good spawn rate in the cluster overlooked by the cliff on the proscribed route for the elite medium kamikaze and kamikaze gunner, which is to say the stone slab with the enemies on it at the bottom of the cliff between the route to the desert housing and the entrance to the desert zone. A good idea to just have a peek into that crowd once in a while if you're trying to spawn the latter two, cuz that flooded city route is an equally tedious one.
- Anonymous
Got the 2gun 2kamikaze enhanced flyer instantly on 17-05 in the desert with A2 ...never appeared with 9s on 12 the plain kamikaze did though every time.
- Anonymous
I managed to come across the special monsters more frequently as I leveled up on a regular play through. There more likely to show up before your to powerful stay around lv 50. Use the DLC fruit and mask to stop leveling. Also The desert mid flyers enhanced are not in part c but routes a and b .. as for the reverse goliath I got it once when I was little enough for it to kill me and it did I never saw it again lol
- Anonymous
Don't think this is a complete list. I have everything here, as well as Emil, though not Emil Clones yet, and am only at 98%. Unless Emil Clones is worth 2%.
- Anonymous
Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2 can also appear on the field near the access point "city ruins: near factory".
- Anonymous
enhanced medium kamikaze flyer cannot be found? am i missing something?
- Anonymous
press 'Y' or keyboard/PS equivalent to cycle through enemy types (such asa gun/drill equipped) when in the Unit data menus Secret Boss 2 has 2 variations and takes up the last 2% of the enemy list if going for 100%
- Anonymous
have killed everything on the list including secret boss, still at 98%
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Are you sure this is a full list? Out of this list I'm literally missing 3, but I'm at 96%, it feels like I'm missing more than just three. I'll confirm once I gather the last three and see where I'm at
- Anonymous
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this before, but from what I've observed it seems that enemies that have multiple variants (weapon types) do not add to the unit data completion percentage till the player has discovered all of the respective unit's variants (i.e. all Enhanced Medium Flyer types).
- Anonymous
found an enhanced Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2
as an rare spawn on the grass field in front of the tall building by the "city near factory access point"
mfg
Olli
- Anonymous
Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2 in 10-03 route B, spawn together with Medium Flyer: Kamikaze Unit
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Where are there Enhanced Small Bipeds? Need help to find those machines. I just can't complete Unit Data otherwise. Chapter or possible spawn location would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.
- Anonymous
Can you split A2 in two different unit under Android?
Long Hair (when meeting her the first time at the Forest Chamber)
Short Hair (Route C/D when choosing to fight as 9S against A2 as final boss)
Got little confused when I followed this and got 99% and realized I haven't done ending D yet XD
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Whoever worded some of these locations are just terrible.
Specifically saying something like "the far right side of oil field" When the oil field is a small area that spawns no enemies, and if it's outside of the oil field, it'd be much easier to state the location from the point view of desert: center.
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for desert medium flyers. (particularly 11. Medium Flyer: Gunner x2, Kamikaze x2 )
I was on chapter 17.02 then coming out off desert: centre, there were two medium flyers near the wall between the two entrances. also two more on my way from the wall straight back to the desert:centre transporter.
- Anonymous
None of the Linked-sphere Type Enhanced locations are correct.
- Anonymous
There are four types of Linked-sphere in Enhanced Machines. It is missing Drill-equipped.
- Anonymous
Here I see three models of Multi-leg Medium Model in "standard units". Is it right? I have only long/close-ranged version and I don't know where to find standard (13-th in list of standard units). Can someone help me
- Anonymous
The thorn type enhanced multisphere enemies spawn more reliably in that room in the factory with the literal mountain of android corpses.
Has anyone encountered a T-rex bot a streamer im following has ran into one in the forest kingdom as A2
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Has anyone else encountered a T-rex bot? a streamer im following has encountered one in the forest kingdom as A2
- Anonymous
Is #13 even real? I don't remember even seeing it on the Japanesse website
May I recommend moving the location details to their dedicated pages? It kind of clutters the already wordy list on the table of contents.
for some reason didnt get the data on emil clones after getting the y ending any ideas?
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