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Hey, I finally finished checking out the beta, and I must say, it looks and feels amazing. I just couldn't believe my eyes when the hounds started twitching and the pengulls left the sea, it all felt so... thematically appropriate and yet eerily foreshadowing to something greater.

So, as a suggestion, I believe it would be jaw-dropping to see the Old Giants having some love in this update, as the hounds did. My suggestion is that bosses killed in the maddening Lunar Islands revive as tougher fights, in a similar way to Klaus. Players could use the Altar as a Telelocator Focus of sorts, in order to start some biome-locked bosses... or just have the warning-before-spawning bosses (Deerclops and Bearger) "refightable" on the Moon.

I know this all sounds very "late-year update" or maybe oddly specific, but it would give the more experienced players a pretty big long-term goal, alongside a challenge and the possibility for new craftables, using Glass or Moonrock variants of the original bosses' drops, so I don't think anyone minds waiting for that :v

Just the idea of a battered-up "Deercorps" creating a ring of Ice walls around the players gives me shivers, so I decided to draw something to go with this suggestion. I know it's a shameless art-plug, but it's suggestion-related, so... here's something

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Once again, Thanks for the amazing update, and I can't wait to see what you guys have in mind for this year <3
 

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Just now, minespatch said:

Sorry to be off topic do you have a art thread?

My favorite aspect for your deerclops is the moonshard claws

I don't usually draw DST stuff outside of the Weekly Art Stream challenges, so nope, I haven't made one yet ; -; maybe I'll make one sometime, this update got me inspired

and yeah, I tried to reference the "Sandy Claws" on this one, glad ya liked it ^^

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7 minutes ago, Mooagain said:

Wouldn't it be possible to make a base out of moon turf and lure the bosses there?

Oh so like, moon turf is unhallowed ground? Ressurect horrible monsters? I hope we see some zombie pigs!

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Huh, when I read "horror bosses", my first guess was _boss versions of the NEW things_.  So, like a horror VARG, was the first place my brain went.

But mutating the bosses we already have via the effects of Lunitari the moon island would be cool too...and terrifying...

(I REALLY don't wanna run into a horror varg.  holy. crap. : P)

...Notorious

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7 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

Huh, when I read "horror bosses", my first guess was _boss versions of the NEW things_.  So, like a horror VARG, was the first place my brain went.

But mutating the bosses we already have via the effects of Lunitari the moon island would be cool too...and terrifying...

(I REALLY don't wanna run into a horror varg.  holy. crap. : P)

...Notorious

The Horror-Varg idea reminded me of something. Somewhere in the code, someone found tags such as "nohunt" and "moonhunt" IIRC
Maybe
Just maybe
The devs were already planning on the thing you just said, and Hunting Tracks on the moon would yield different (and possibly nightmare-inducing) results :V 

but eh, at this point they could be anything!

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