Many bosses in this game require an item to summon them and that item is used up in the process to fight them. The player may save up about 5-20 of a boss summoner item to farm the boss out and be unable to continue farming once they run out of the item. At the point a player can defeat a boss 5 times in a row, it is safe to say they are just fighting the boss for fun or just to create extra materials to be used for tools/building or to be sold. Also because of this, it is rare that a player will hit the 20 stack limit for boss summoning items after they have beaten the boss for equipment/area progression purposes.
To allow players to continuously grind a boss which is considered easy to them at the point in the game they are at, and to reward them for grinding materials to get a 10 stack of a single boss summoner, I am proposing a group of new items called the Eternal Boss Summoners.
Basically they function exactly the same as the items that summon bosses with the difference being that they aren't consumed like the normal ones are. As you can imagine, this allows a player to continuously fight a boss or bosses for as long as they feel like. These won't be easy to get however (The recipes for this group of items are listed below) and are more intended as a reward for the player for collecting 10 of a single boss summoning item and give them the privilege of fighting them all the time when they want to. The bosses are still the same bosses you fought before and the EoC and Twins for example still have to be fought at night as an example.
Credits:
@Sigma90 Suggestions for more items/fleshing out of this suggestion.
@Grand Paladin Tyrux For better names for the Boss items.
@BBGoo For creating Sprites for this Suggestion. (All Sprites in this Suggestion were created by BBGoo)
Here are the items themselves:
All items can be crafted at Mythril/Orichalcum Anvil, the Eternal Slime Crown can also be crafted at a normal anvil.
Lunatic Cultist drops 3 Ancient Essence Items after it's defeat. A New Item that is used to craft Eternal Summoners for Hardmode Bosses.
Ancient Essence Sprite:
The Larva of the Queen only requires 5 of their base items because it is far more difficult to get the materials needed to craft the base items compared to the others. This is also to help worlds that might only have 1 Bee Hive spawn in the Jungle.
The sprites for these items would consist of their normal versions having a glow around them and have the item have a blue/purplish coloring, the Mechanical versions would have a more ethereal look to them from having the ectoplasm from their recipe.
Based on the recipes, this would not affect general game progression at all, and give players a fun objective to reach in hardmode all the way to after they've "beaten" the game.
Zero Point Module acts as the eternal item for the Lihzahrd Power Cell. It is used at the Altar but isn't consumed upon use.
The Vile Flower is a summoning item for Plantera that can only be obtained after reaching the Pumpkin Moon, so that players still beat Plantera the normal way of smashing its flower to summon it. Like the normal method of summoning it, Plantera can still only be summoned in the Jungle.
The Eternal Voodoo Doll works just like the Guide Voodoo doll in summoning the Wall of Flesh except that it doesn't get destroyed in lava and it will kill 1 random npc.
The Truffle Lure acts as bait, and it is not consumed by summoning Fishron, it can't be used for normal fishing
The Mimic Key summoners are used by right clicking on an empty chest similar to unlocking a chest. They aren't consumed like the other items. Also like the normal Key of Night, the Key of Absolute Darkness will only summon Corrupt Mimics in Corrupt Worlds and Crimson Mimics in Crimson Worlds.
To allow players to continuously grind a boss which is considered easy to them at the point in the game they are at, and to reward them for grinding materials to get a 10 stack of a single boss summoner, I am proposing a group of new items called the Eternal Boss Summoners.
Basically they function exactly the same as the items that summon bosses with the difference being that they aren't consumed like the normal ones are. As you can imagine, this allows a player to continuously fight a boss or bosses for as long as they feel like. These won't be easy to get however (The recipes for this group of items are listed below) and are more intended as a reward for the player for collecting 10 of a single boss summoning item and give them the privilege of fighting them all the time when they want to. The bosses are still the same bosses you fought before and the EoC and Twins for example still have to be fought at night as an example.
Credits:
@Sigma90 Suggestions for more items/fleshing out of this suggestion.
@Grand Paladin Tyrux For better names for the Boss items.
@BBGoo For creating Sprites for this Suggestion. (All Sprites in this Suggestion were created by BBGoo)
Here are the items themselves:
Ancient Crown
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of unchallenged royalty"
Recipe:
10 Slime Crown
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of unchallenged royalty"
Recipe:
10 Slime Crown
Eye of the Forgotten
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of the eternal watcher"
Recipe:
10 Suspicious Looking Eye
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Sight
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of the eternal watcher"
Recipe:
10 Suspicious Looking Eye
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Sight
Feast of the Darkness
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of eternal hunger"
Recipe:
10 Worm Food
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Might
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of eternal hunger"
Recipe:
10 Worm Food
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Might
Spine of the Immortal
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of pure chaos"
Recipe:
10 Bloody Spine
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Might
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of pure chaos"
Recipe:
10 Bloody Spine
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Might
Avatar of the Guide
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of horrific sacrifice"
Recipe:
1 Guide Voodoo Doll
1 Clothier Voodoo Doll
1 Ancient Essence
2 Life Fruit
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of horrific sacrifice"
Recipe:
1 Guide Voodoo Doll
1 Clothier Voodoo Doll
1 Ancient Essence
2 Life Fruit
Larva of the Queen
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of a mother's fury"
Recipe:
5 Abeemination
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Fright
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of a mother's fury"
Recipe:
5 Abeemination
10 Hallowed Bar
5 Soul of Fright
Key of Absolute Darkness
Tooltip:
"Charged with the essence of eternal souls"
Recipe:
1 Ancient Essence
100 Soul of Night
Tooltip:
"Charged with the essence of eternal souls"
Recipe:
1 Ancient Essence
100 Soul of Night
Key of Cleansing Light
Tooltip:
"Charged with the essence of eternal souls"
Recipe:
1 Ancient Essence
100 Soul of Light
Tooltip:
"Charged with the essence of eternal souls"
Recipe:
1 Ancient Essence
100 Soul of Light
*Note that the Jungle Mimic still hasn't been officially implemented into the game as of this post, this recipe is for when it is implemented, it can also be changed depending on how the normal Jungle Mimic Item is gotten.
Key of Biologic Rebirth
Tooltip:
"Charged with the essence of eternal souls"
Recipe:
10 Life Fruit
1 Ancient Essence
Key of Biologic Rebirth
Tooltip:
"Charged with the essence of eternal souls"
Recipe:
10 Life Fruit
1 Ancient Essence
Eternal Mechanical Eye
Tooltip:
"Contains the Essence of Eternal Sight"
Recipe:
10 Mechanical Eye
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Contains the Essence of Eternal Sight"
Recipe:
10 Mechanical Eye
1 Ancient Essence
Eternal Mechanical Worm
Tooltip:
"Contains the Essence of Eternal Might"
Recipe:
10 Mechanical Worm
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Contains the Essence of Eternal Might"
Recipe:
10 Mechanical Worm
1 Ancient Essence
Eternal Mechanical Skull
Tooltip:
"Contains the Essence of Eternal Fright"
Recipe:
10 Mechanical Skull
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Contains the Essence of Eternal Fright"
Recipe:
10 Mechanical Skull
1 Ancient Essence
Zero Point Module
Tooltip:
"Used at the Lihzahrd Altar, contains limitless energy"
Recipe:
10 Lihzahrd Power Cell
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Used at the Lihzahrd Altar, contains limitless energy"
Recipe:
10 Lihzahrd Power Cell
1 Ancient Essence
Vile Flower
Tooltip:
"Summons Plantera"
Recipe:
25 Spooky Wood
3 Life Fruit
10 Daybloom
Tooltip:
"Summons Plantera"
Recipe:
25 Spooky Wood
3 Life Fruit
10 Daybloom
Bulb of the Keeper
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of the eternal guardian"
Recipe:
10 Vile Flower
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of the eternal guardian"
Recipe:
10 Vile Flower
1 Ancient Essence
Prey of the Leviathan
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of the hunter's wrath"
Recipe:
10 Truffle Worm
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of the hunter's wrath"
Recipe:
10 Truffle Worm
1 Ancient Essence
Phantasmic Sigil
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of impending doom"
Recipe:
10 Celestial Sigil
1 Ancient Essence
Tooltip:
"Contains the essence of impending doom"
Recipe:
10 Celestial Sigil
1 Ancient Essence
All items can be crafted at Mythril/Orichalcum Anvil, the Eternal Slime Crown can also be crafted at a normal anvil.
Lunatic Cultist drops 3 Ancient Essence Items after it's defeat. A New Item that is used to craft Eternal Summoners for Hardmode Bosses.
Ancient Essence Sprite:
The Larva of the Queen only requires 5 of their base items because it is far more difficult to get the materials needed to craft the base items compared to the others. This is also to help worlds that might only have 1 Bee Hive spawn in the Jungle.
The sprites for these items would consist of their normal versions having a glow around them and have the item have a blue/purplish coloring, the Mechanical versions would have a more ethereal look to them from having the ectoplasm from their recipe.
Based on the recipes, this would not affect general game progression at all, and give players a fun objective to reach in hardmode all the way to after they've "beaten" the game.
Zero Point Module acts as the eternal item for the Lihzahrd Power Cell. It is used at the Altar but isn't consumed upon use.
The Vile Flower is a summoning item for Plantera that can only be obtained after reaching the Pumpkin Moon, so that players still beat Plantera the normal way of smashing its flower to summon it. Like the normal method of summoning it, Plantera can still only be summoned in the Jungle.
The Eternal Voodoo Doll works just like the Guide Voodoo doll in summoning the Wall of Flesh except that it doesn't get destroyed in lava and it will kill 1 random npc.
The Truffle Lure acts as bait, and it is not consumed by summoning Fishron, it can't be used for normal fishing
The Mimic Key summoners are used by right clicking on an empty chest similar to unlocking a chest. They aren't consumed like the other items. Also like the normal Key of Night, the Key of Absolute Darkness will only summon Corrupt Mimics in Corrupt Worlds and Crimson Mimics in Crimson Worlds.
EDIT:
Added Eternal Golem summoning item, Summoning item for Plantera and Eternal Version of it.
EDIT 2:
Changed Recipes for Pre-Hardmode Bosses from Souls of Light/Night to Hallowed Bars and Mech Boss Souls.
Added Poll to determine whether non-boss summoned items (For Skeletron/WoF/Plantera/Fishron) should be added, kept or removed.
EDIT 3:
Added new items and changed recipes to adapt to the 1.3 content. Also made all recipes easier to craft (only needing 10 of a normal item instead of 20) Thanks to @Sigma90 for the suggestions on new Eternal summoning items and better name for the Eternal Golem Summoning Item.
EDIT 4:
Changed names and tooltips of items to be more creative, thanks to @Grand Paladin Tyrux for the name suggestions. Added Eternal Summoners for the Mimic Minibosses.
EDIT 5:
Made formatting changes to make Suggestion a little more organized and easier to read. As well as to fit with some the overall formatting of my more massive suggestions. Fixed a few details about my statements to fit with recipe/name changes as well as 1.3 changes
Implemented @Grand Paladin Tyrux 's Suggestion to have Lunatic Cultist drop a new crafting material called Ancient Essence to replace the need for Luminite Bars/Ectoplasm in hardmode recipes
EDIT 6: (June 9th, 2017)
Added Sprites for all the items created by BBGoo, made more Formatting changes to make it nicer, and also removed poll as it is no longer relevant
Added Eternal Golem summoning item, Summoning item for Plantera and Eternal Version of it.
EDIT 2:
Changed Recipes for Pre-Hardmode Bosses from Souls of Light/Night to Hallowed Bars and Mech Boss Souls.
Added Poll to determine whether non-boss summoned items (For Skeletron/WoF/Plantera/Fishron) should be added, kept or removed.
EDIT 3:
Added new items and changed recipes to adapt to the 1.3 content. Also made all recipes easier to craft (only needing 10 of a normal item instead of 20) Thanks to @Sigma90 for the suggestions on new Eternal summoning items and better name for the Eternal Golem Summoning Item.
EDIT 4:
Changed names and tooltips of items to be more creative, thanks to @Grand Paladin Tyrux for the name suggestions. Added Eternal Summoners for the Mimic Minibosses.
EDIT 5:
Made formatting changes to make Suggestion a little more organized and easier to read. As well as to fit with some the overall formatting of my more massive suggestions. Fixed a few details about my statements to fit with recipe/name changes as well as 1.3 changes
Implemented @Grand Paladin Tyrux 's Suggestion to have Lunatic Cultist drop a new crafting material called Ancient Essence to replace the need for Luminite Bars/Ectoplasm in hardmode recipes
EDIT 6: (June 9th, 2017)
Added Sprites for all the items created by BBGoo, made more Formatting changes to make it nicer, and also removed poll as it is no longer relevant
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