Mimic eyeball item duping concept

[Jakepeng99]

Right now, mimics are basically just a cool annoyance with no unique loot. But i had an idea, what if you could utilise their mimicing to your advantage?

 

Killing a mimic will make it drop an eyeball. The eyeball can be used on a basic resource to dupe it. For example, use it on grass to gain 5 grass. Use it on rocks for 5 rocks. Use it on marble to gain 3 marble (these stats are speculative). It might take a bit to balance some resources, but i think it will be a cool idea. Some rarer resources will take multiple eyeballs or give different amounts. It wont work on some resources, use your imagination to think of what it wont work on, and how this could be balanced. The mimics may be pre-riff now. It might be way too complex, but i wanted to share the idea for fun.

Post riff

I also had an idea for a post riff item. On the shadow plink, you can use a Shadow Atrium, 4 green gems, 5 dreadstone and 30 mimic eyeballs to make an item which can duplicate a majority of rare items, like a krampus sack or celestial crown. It might be op so the recipe could be changed to include a fuelweaver boss item, or the guardian horn.

[Mysterious box]

I think a different more funny idea would be that you could trick mobs with mimicked food other things to make them panic.

[Jakepeng99]

37 minutes ago, Mysterious box said:

I think a different more funny idea would be that you could trick mobs with mimicked food other things to make them panic.

Maybe. I kinda want it to reward you with killing it as well. 

[Kvetevk]

If you drop a torch and mimics will copy it, it will still emit light and have durability. After igniting something flamable, then the mimic will jump out.
This would be funny if you gave a griefer mimic torch.

Small eyeballs as a drop from them would be funny 
could collect like 10 to make deerclopses eyeball

[NPCMaxwell]

So did I get this right, the mimic will copy the appearance of items? (basically being a prop item with no actualy function that will attack you?) I don't know, but this sounds funny (*considers to add them to my maxwell's randomly spawning shadowcreatures (so far only shadowwaxwells and Charlie, but that would actually be a cool idea to add also other shadow-creatures to haunt him), though that would mean spawning those things on the surface quite regulary..uhm...I'll better wait and see what else they do when the beta is over*)

[Kvetevk]

31 minutes ago, NPCMaxwell said:

So did I get this right, the mimic will copy the appearance of items?

Not exacly, it will copy the item, skin and durability (it will have the same name and everything as that item), it will transform back if you use it and will take away a bit of sanity
Does not deal any damage, I think

[NPCMaxwell]

3 hours ago, KvetekSK said:

Not exacly, it will copy the item, skin and durability (it will have the same name and everything as that item), it will transform back if you use it and will take away a bit of sanity
Does not deal any damage, I think

Ah ok, so it should basically be "harmless" if spawned all over the world by hourly random chance.

( EDIT: This is not what they are intended to do in the normal game, I just consider adding them to have an hourly chance to randomly spawn close to my tall maxwell modded character xD Just saying for those who read this and go 'wait what?' )