Any tips on solo misery toadstool?

[deerBamboo]

Hi everyon! I've been trying to solo misery toadstool lately but it seemed none of the methods I learnt from youtube videos worked.

At first, I was planning to go for misery toadstool on the spring of year 3 with weather pain and morning star, but after almost eliminated the two whole volt goat herds in my world several times I only got two horns. Afterwards, I kind of got obsessed with rebuilding and expanding my base and the new event of pig king came so some time passed while till today I only got 5 weather pains and 2 morning stars. Well I did try it on a trial with regular toadstool while I was using wigfrid, which I only bring toad's health down to half and I rolled back afterwards. I don't know how to do that test server thing while you can spawn everything so I test things in this roll-back way. I don't want to wait any longer, so I changed my strat to flingos, since the torch way just seemed too hard for me.

After setting up with 6 flingos and 10 feathers for smoldering, I started the fight. According to those videos, it would only take roughly about 3 days to kill misery toad. However, after 6 or 7 days toady still had 10k health while I used wolfgang who's almost full hunger all the time with either thulecite clubs or dark swords and then I just run out of fuel for flingo and failed to finish the toad since there were too many trees without flingo. So I rollback to 5 days ago cuz I wanted to try the fight again but found out I was already in fight 5 days ago and flingo fuel meter was like 1/5 down so the fight might have been like 6 or 7 days (I always lost track of time while in cave). And now I'm just too confused why it was so different from those videos on youtube. Misery toad felt like defroze really fast and 6 flingo can't really stop it from spawning trees. I did spend some time to kill two waves of depth worms during fight but I don't think it took that long at all. Maybe the first wave took a while but the toad was in third phase during second wave, and it almost instantly killed all worms with jumping on ground. Wolfgang barely took any damage at all and I still got plenty of food and chopped every tree as soon as it appeared before flingo died. The fight was way much longer than I ever imagined. I just don't know what's wrong. I did refuel all flingo once during fight but they all died at the end anyway. Can someone please give me some tips on this? Should I go back to my old plan with weatherpain? Just didn't know it would take so long that I couldn't go back to where I started now.

Here's what I prepared for misery toadstool:

1. Food: 80 or 60 jerky (can't remember exactly) + 40 pierogi + 40 dragonpie + 40 cactus + 2 ice cream ( I just want to eat it XP)

2. Weapon: 2 thulecite club + 80 nightmare fuel + 20 living log (I can't remember how many dark sword I used)

3. Armor: 5 thulecite crown + 2 battle helm

Yeah I definitely overprepared on these but should I bring more fuel next time maybe? Should it take that long? Please help me =_= I felt like I'm in the wrong direction.

Thank you.

[Majestix]

I soloed him last week. I used a variant of this method: 

I say variant, because firstly I was using fire staves instead of torches, which allows you to set things on fire much more quickly; and secondly I also used 12 or so weatherpains. I was sometimes lighting only the first few trees of each tree wave and weatherpaining the second half of them. This way I could start bashing the dude sooner after each tree wave. To do that throughout the fight would have required even more pains, though. My solo world had been going for about 700 days - it takes a while to gather all the materials (although I could have done it much sooner, I had already killed the regular TS and used lots of pains for felling trees).

I was playing Wolfgang, always left the Krampus sack with food and spare pains in the middle of the arena, and wore the belt of hunger every time I put the sack down. I used Thulecite clubs when the TS was dry and morning stars when he was wet.

Not sure how long my fight took, but it was long! I would say that the main tip for misery TS is to be overprepared: you need tons of materials, regardless of which method you use.

I hope, this helps. Good luck!

[deerBamboo]

6 hours ago, Majestix said:

I soloed him last week. I used a variant of this method: 

I say variant, because firstly I was using fire staves instead of torches, which allows you to set things on fire much more quickly; and secondly I also used 12 or so weatherpains. I was sometimes lighting only the first few trees of each tree wave and weatherpaining the second half of them. This way I could start bashing the dude sooner after each tree wave. To do that throughout the fight would have required even more pains, though. My solo world had been going for about 700 days - it takes a while to gather all the materials (although I could have done it much sooner, I had already killed the regular TS and used lots of pains for felling trees).

I was playing Wolfgang, always left the Krampus sack with food and spare pains in the middle of the arena, and wore the belt of hunger every time I put the sack down. I used Thulecite clubs when the TS was dry and morning stars when he was wet.

Not sure how long my fight took, but it was long! I would say that the main tip for misery TS is to be overprepared: you need tons of materials, regardless of which method you use.

I hope, this helps. Good luck!

Thank you. It's really helpful. I'll definitely try this method. Just to make sure I got the right idea. This video uses the three pond as position marks so that the poison clouds from burning old trees would always be around other ponds while the player can then attack toad freely without worrying about poison clouds everywhere on screen. 

Those trees are really annoying. The problem with flingo method is you can't use weather pain to chop down trees cuz they will destroy flingo too. And I didn't have any source of fire at the moment since it was summer and I got lantern + miner hat + moggle, so chopping trees with an axe became just too slow after all flingos died even if I clicked my mouse crazily. But it's much harder for me to go for weather pain now, since after I pushed the left one of each volt goat herd back to my base, they merged, and I had really bad luck on getting horns :s.

I guess I'll give it another shot as soon as Bearger spawns, cuz its late summer already. Definitely don't want to go back up after kill toady and see all my base ruined XP.

[Majestix]

The main point of the strategy is this: if you burn the trees, then you want to wait until they have burnt down before bashing TS again, since otherwise you are needlessly wasting resources and putting yourself in danger. But normally, if you wait for too long without attacking, he will just despawn again. So what PandoruMish was doing there was getting TS stuck behind a pond, and then waiting at his leisure for the trees to burn down. If you don't stray too far from TS, he will follow you, so that's how you get him stuck. While he is stuck and you are waiting, you can also pick up your backpack in the middle of the arena, eat, exchange 7% weatherpains for fresh ones, pick up fresh fire staves, etc.

It takes some practice, especially since he will be faster while the trees are out.

This strategy is, of course, much slower than just weatherpains, but is easier on your resources. It's much easier to stock up tons of torches/fire staves than the required number of weatherpains.

[deerBamboo]

3 hours ago, Majestix said:

The main point of the strategy is this: if you burn the trees, then you want to wait until they have burnt down before bashing TS again, since otherwise you are needlessly wasting resources and putting yourself in danger. But normally, if you wait for too long without attacking, he will just despawn again. So what PandoruMish was doing there was getting TS stuck behind a pond, and then waiting at his leisure for the trees to burn down. If you don't stray too far from TS, he will follow you, so that's how you get him stuck. While he is stuck and you are waiting, you can also pick up your backpack in the middle of the arena, eat, exchange 7% weatherpains for fresh ones, pick up fresh fire staves, etc.

It takes some practice, especially since he will be faster while the trees are out.

This strategy is, of course, much slower than just weatherpains, but is easier on your resources. It's much easier to stock up tons of torches/fire staves than the required number of weatherpains.

oh I see now. This way seems really easy to carry out XD I will definitely try it