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no more like pokemans

you mean like... the equivalent of terrariums, but for monsters?

I think he means like a pet, but with mobs.

I may or may not be working on a summoner suggestion and I wanted opinions on using weak to moderately powerful monsters as summons.

There's going to be A LOT of balancing to be done of you decide to go through with it.

With one exception, all minion summoner weapons are based on fairly well-known monsters.

What comes to mind? Derpling... Clown... Harpy... Crab, maybe.

Sounds interesting. Go ahead.

The idea was a monster which you could send out and would have hitpoints like normal. It would attack monsters losing hitpoints on touch and eventually dying. The other possibility is that you could heal them at the nurse.

Ooh! Sound s even more interesting now. I wanna see it.

Well, that does clear a few things up.

There would definitely be a bias toward flying AI in that case.

Aw man, that would mean Catch 'Em All. I just Gotta.

@Baconfry Only generally flying npcs have less health so it would last a far shorter time.

I would facepalm my face so much, it breaks through my face and facepalms someone else behind me

I think I saw a mod with something like this before.

I think it would be cool if you could house them like NPC's after catching, and qlso use them for fighting purposes.

I would totally dig that. Just slap on a few restrictions regarding what can and can't be caught and you're all set on balance. Having a full-sized combat-ready Corruptor pet would be awesome. Gimme now!

Anyways, there needs to be different tiers of Cages for one thing, so players can advance in captured enemy power as they progress, but then there also needs to be some specialized cages specifically for flying monsters, which lag in tier behind the rest, because as Baconfry said, there will be a definite leniency towards flying enemies with something like this.

That was my idea, tiered cages from small (early monsters) medium (pre-hm monsters) and large (early to mid hardmode) I may implement an uber tier for late stuff like HM dungeon and and moon events but I haven't decided yet.