Game Mechanics Gold critters could have a little more HP or Defense

[Maerk]

I've been doing a few new playthroughs both on modded and vanilla and I can't seem to reach any gold critters before they get killed (both for collection and the golden delight).

That case is specially true with the gold worm for the shimmer upgrade, I know they show up on cans of worms, but these are very limited per world. In the past week alone I've seen 3 gold worms spawn, show up on the lifeform analyser, before immediately getting killed by a random underground enemy that spawned on top of it, it's always a bummer since they have such a low chance of spawning.

If they were more resistant or didn't take contact damage from enemies, it would be much more consistent to catch them and not necessarily overpowered.

 

[Golden Heretic Snakeboat]

for the longest time, truffle worms have been harder to catch then they honestly should've been, then it was changed in 1.4.3 to make them immune to enemies. i don't see any reason as to why golden critters should not have the same change

 

[Maerk]

for the longest time, truffle worms have been harder to catch then they honestly should've been, then it was changed in 1.4.3 to make them immune to enemies. i don't see any reason as to why golden critters should not have the same change

You could argue that gold critters aren't "required for game progression" unlike the truffle worms, but still, it's a QoL thing, I like decorating my base with them

 

[zenithspeed]

You could argue that gold critters aren't "required for game progression" unlike the truffle worms, but still, it's a QoL thing, I like decorating my base with them

truffle worms aren't required for progression though... yes DF's loot is good but he isn't a required boss

 

[Maerk]

truffle worms aren't required for progression though... yes DF's loot is good but he isn't a required boss

I mean, if you're only considering defeating moonlord as the objective you could also skip straight to skeletron early on, in Pre-HM you only need him and WoF to "beat the game", but beating any boss is still progress

 

[zenithspeed]

I mean, if you're only considering defeating moonlord as the objective you could also skip straight to skeletron early on, in Pre-HM you only need him and WoF to "beat the game", but beating any boss is still progress

yeah, it's entirely possible to do only skeletron and wof in phm (hm has a lot more required bosses but it makes sense because it takes up like 2/3 the gameplay