Many people don't realize that Terraria is as much a building game as an adventure game, and setting up an arena to fight a boss would be considerably more helpful than fighting the boss out in the open.
Bonus fact:
During the wait for 1.2, there was a contest held for people to compose Terraria-themed music. There was a first, second, and third place winner decided. The winners got their prizes and were supposed to have their remixes put into the game as music boxes. However, the music was never added and the contest became buried in the sands of time, particularly since the thread for the contest was hosted on Terraria Online. The music still exists on Soundcloud, however. - Never to be added to the game.
thnksThis is the part where I have to tell you I didn't save the links. See, I assumed at the time that Terraria Online was going to exist forever as a lifeless husk courtesy of Curse and I could just link that thread to people who asked. Well, you know what they say about assuming.
However, we lucked out and I saved the link to one of them on my old browser, which I haven't used in years. The link still works.
https://soundcloud.com/xenonphenom/re-logic-terraria-day-theme
Yep, Boring Bowthere was literally an unadded weapon called "boring bow". wow
The Lamp Post still has 2 recipes, and the wiki has them, if I am understanding your questionThe glass lampost (or something like that) had 2 crafting recipies in 1.2.4.5, although that is not on the wiki