Ways to farm giant loot using giant statues.

[RatherUncreativ]

Marble Sculptures let you summon the shadow bosses based on the moon's cycle to farm ruins, so it would make sense if you could use giant statues to farm their loot based on moon cycles. It would require already having defeated the giant for the sketch, so it wouldn't be game breaking by allowing you to get boss loot before you see them.

 

I didn't realize until recently that you need the boss drop to make the statue, so that would either need to be changed or the bosses would need to 2x the boss drop when you summon them.

 

If farming bosses year-round sounds overpowered, you can add the caveat they must die before night ends or they'll drop the one drop it took to make them and you'll have gained nothing (e.g. forest fuelweaver falling apart during the day.) Face tanking Deerclops to kill him in a minute isn't difficult, but the time limit means you:

1. Can't use them to farm trees for days (Looking at you, Bearger.)
2. Must use more resources to kill them quickly. You can kite Deerclops, but that takes more time that you might not have. Tanking takes armor, and armor takes resources.
3. Want to have multiple people, because more people means less chance of it being a despawned waste of time.

Sure, you can set up a tentacle trap, but that's time and effort you wouldn't need to put in if you could just spend all day casually kiting them.

 

This also lets fancy megabase builders use boss statues without feeling guilty, because you aren't using your yearly allowance of one Deerclop's Eyeball to spice up your base. (Just make sure it's caged off so no newbie hammers it on a full moon.)

 

Side note, I saw on the wiki you can make Moon Glass statues, so if you really wanted to make this special, force players to farm Moon Glass. You can make Moon Glass boss skins, and better explain why they suddenly "shattered" come daytime.