Which boss needs a Rework? (2025)

[Keknutui]

I'm currently going through the world of Wendy, and I still can't believe that there are more than 30 bosses in DST. Each of them has unique mechanics and loot, but sometimes some of them seem outdated, and some just need improvement.

•Great Depths Worm

Interesting by design, BUT I started to hate this guy for having to wait for him, and after killing the player, there's an emptiness in his soul. I believe that the boss needs an item capable of summoning him and a unique loot for easier movement through caves / the ability to guess the appearance of deep worms, which are sometimes difficult to fight.

•Toadstool

The boss challenge, which presented time trials to the players, once upon a time. Right now it's just a fat hp boss who has terrible loot that might be worth recycling.

•Twins of Terror

A boss who is a copy of another one with minimal differences and has a very controversial and weak item. (Seriously, who uses it at all if there is a Glass Cutter/Dark Sword. Even the pleasure of re-fighting with 2 eyes of terror does not give)

•Frostjaw

Perhaps the best of my list, but the most raw boss in terms of loot and combat. I think at least once he went out into the Ocean for every player. Conceptually, they wanted to make him in the form of a boss, the number of which is chosen by the player himself, but work on his rework was stopped and postponed, most likely due to the Rifts arch and the skill tree.

Perhaps some of you are also concerned about this problem and can write which bosses are the most under-developed or outdated.

Edited November 3, 2025 by Keknutui

[Dingle]

The poll is flawed, it requires a vote for part 2. I didn't feel like any of the part 2 bosses were lacking.

My votes:

Toadstool - the loot is so useless to me, that we just save him as the final boss. We only kill him to check him off the list, that's it. I'd rather use the astral detectors than mushlamps.

Greater Depths Worm - this boss has STILL never spawned for me legitimately. Ever. The loot also seems completely uninteresting, anyway. Some unique thing (or maybe it drops surprising seeds?)+ a way to spawn it on purpose would both be appreciated.

Oh and being able to fight multiple frostjaws again for more loot would be great. That and I was looking forward to that "frostjaw as follower" thing they were cooking up, but it never happened. I like the fight itself, though, so I didn't vote for a rework.

[Pe Dabliu]

Moose: this boss is so bugged, loosing agro all the time, despawning in the middle of a fight. Goose is so clearly outdated and needs some major bug clean up

Shadow pieces: They're so, idk, beta feeling. There should be unique drops for each of them, the night set does not feel rewarding at all. Right now they're just there as a step for the fuel weaver, but have no proper personality.

Twins: we've already seen fire that doesn't burn, it's not an excuse for klei to not make them more source accurate. Magic fire and lasers that only damage the player and nothing else is a reality in the game right now, so the twins should be getting new attacks.

Toadstool: All that hp for just decorative drops, and a worse pan flute. Either give him drops that are worth the health pool, or reduced his hp already.

The big worm: no unique drops, shows up extremely randomly. Ar the current state, might as well not even be in the game. Needs major spawn reworking, and have a proper drop.

Frostjaw: klei has already said they have plans for him, after the new color were added by mistake during a beta. I guess I'm just waiting to see whats up with that.

Deerclops: that might not be a popular opinion, but I think he's soooo boring. I really believe that his attacks should have the launch knock back effect when we're not frozen.

Edited November 3, 2025 by Pe Dabliu

[Keknutui]

52 minutes ago, Dingle said:

The poll is flawed, it requires a vote for part 2. I didn't feel like any of the part 2 bosses were lacking.

My votes:

Toadstool - the loot is so useless to me, that we just save him as the final boss. We only kill him to check him off the list, that's it. I'd rather use the astral detectors than mushlamps.

Greater Depths Worm - this boss has STILL never spawned for me legitimately. Ever. The loot also seems completely uninteresting, anyway. Some unique thing (or maybe it drops surprising seeds?)+ a way to spawn it on purpose would both be appreciated.

Oh and being able to fight multiple frostjaws again for more loot would be great. That and I was looking forward to that "frostjaw as follower" thing they were cooking up, but it never happened. I like the fight itself, though, so I didn't vote for a rework.

You can create a maximum of 20 variations in the survey, and if you're talking about bosses, oh, I decided not to insert variations because they're basically the same boss.

[Echsrick]

none unless they be made less annoyingly like toadstool

[hyoton123]

Toadstool, and I would vote for it twice because it requires a rng drop from seeds or hallowed eve to fight the proper version.

[Kacpert25]

My top 3 bosses that need a rework:

1. Toadstool - A terribly boring fight. A few more attacks and some sporecap variants that would give Toadstool different buffs would be nice.

2. Bee Queen - Also a boring fight. A bit more interesting than Toadstool, but still boring. Nothing much changes during battle.
Bee Queen just spams minions, screams, and hits the player if they're close enough.

3. Dragonfly - It's not a bad boss fight. But the cheese with the walls really ruins the concept.
On the other hand the fight without this cheese is a bit clunky, as you either have to fight minions with a lot of health or use a lot of ice staffs to freeze them.
Furthermore, Dragonfly's Enraged form is very easy to counter, making this boss even easier to defeat.

Edited November 3, 2025 by Kacpert25

[E1L0S5H]

毒菌蟾蜍就应该改成只在掉落蘑菇皮的时候种树，一直种树会让玩家在打这个boss时非常的无聊。

蜂后攻击范围和攻击频率都应该削弱，并增加生成嗡嗡黄蜂的冷却时间。

巨型洞穴蠕虫需要削弱击飞和碰撞判定，可以增加掉落物或者蓝图：一个能够类似于出逃短靴的功能，在洞穴创造一个临时虫洞以供玩家传送至洞穴所有已被探索的地区。

[YourWorstNightm]

Please rework Moose/Goose's AI, at least. It's terrible!

[Evelo]

Dfly - Maybe not a rework but allow the Lavae to attack walls, lower her HP.
Bee Queen - Idk, the fight is fine just not fun as a solo player. Lower hp a touch imo.
Toadstool - Same as Bee Queen, the fight is fine just not fun as solo, Lower HP would make it more enjoyable.
AFW - The fight is fine as is, I'd just like the woven shadows to scale with the number of players present, similar to Klaus' Gem Deer AoEs.
Frostjaw - I just don't like the fight. Not fun or even engaging.
 

If we could add "hostility" to certain bosses that'd be awesome. Something that affects the world until they are killed. Could be anything really. I suggested Toadstool spawns the rot clouds around the caves smothering it in filth until he is killed. Just make me have to kill the bosses, everything being optional is boring.

[Scrumch]

Malbatross needs to be more than just 'hits you and then runs away'.

[Mike23Ua]

As long as more players = easier fight.. I’m going to forever say Dragonfly.

It makes no sense why a group of players are rewarded scales and it’s unique “faint” mechanic to make the fight easier, but if you fight this boss Solo? Whoa boy… it’s not fun.

[Well-met]

revert crab king

[Kacpert25]

5 hours ago, Pe Dabliu said:

Shadow pieces: They're so, idk, beta feeling.

Yeah, I agree. They don't even have their own boss theme music and their own boss figure.
Admittedly, there are knight, bishop, and rook figures that can be used to spawn them. But they don't represent them, they represent clockworks.
And a figure (or maybe even three figures) representing Shadow Knight, Shadow Bishop, and Shadow Rook in their final forms would look really sick.

1 hour ago, Well-met said:

revert crab king

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3279203481

Edited November 3, 2025 by Kacpert25

[Radicaljoe]

Twins of Terror I doubt will be visited again, but I hope they are. It's just 2 eye of terrors with way more hp and 1 just halves the dash animation(which is why people go after it first.)

Bee Queen is simply not fun. Like, she should be difficult because her rewards are good and that's why people will deal with her. But her whole fight is just spam bees and screams and her running away and slowing you down with honey if you dare chase her. Basically, she should stay difficult, but interesting difficulty. 

Scion also still needs a review. Warbot I'm fine with, but Scion is just a timer battle of "how much damage can you do before Scion gets a cheap blast off that removes 50% of the walkable arena." Also, it needs actual attacks. The ground creep is the only actually dangerous attack, it's other 2 attacks are Eye of terror dash and Nova, which while nova is cool, you just stand behind the leg to avoid it. I'm sure you don't need me to go into more detail as there's already like 30 different Scion posts about how to make it better.

[Waywarbler]

Idk if Dragonfly needs a full rework? IMO I just wish she had another attack other than the swipe to dodge over and over again.

12 minutes ago, Radicaljoe said:

Scion also still needs a review. Warbot I'm fine with, but Scion is just a timer battle of "how much damage can you do before Scion gets a cheap blast off that removes 50% of the walkable arena." Also, it needs actual attacks. The ground creep is the only actually dangerous attack, it's other 2 attacks are Eye of terror dash and Nova, which while nova is cool, you just stand behind the leg to avoid it. I'm sure you don't need me to go into more detail as there's already like 30 different Scion posts about how to make it better.

I'm just, okay with how the Scion is right now, but I want it to be better.

I'm all for making the creep slam attack less punishing if we also get some more mechanics/attacks to go with it. It'd be more fair and feel less empty than it does right now.

(i feel like writing another Scion post now )

Edited November 3, 2025 by Waywarbler

[Radicaljoe]

1 hour ago, Waywarbler said:

I'm all for making the creep slam attack less punishing if we also get some more mechanics/attacks to go with it. It'd be more fair and feel less empty than it does right now.

Yeah, I don't just want Scion to be easier, I just want the entire fight to not crux on whether or not the boss sneezes in the wrong direction one singular time. It should be a hard fight, but it should be an array of hard attacks, not just 1 super attack.

[Baark0]

Seems like a good place to mention that I personally would love a way to re-locate/remove Moose/Goose nests. On my 3k day world I have a quad goose setpiece right next to where my cave entrance is, and since I put walls there to pen some bunnymen in to deal with bats, every spring I have to rush over and kill all the geese that spawn there, otherwise they'll attack and break all my walls. It's incredibly annoying, especially since the only option I have to actually get rid of them is disabling them in my world's config, but it's not very fun disabling one of the main attractions of spring because of some unlucky world gen rng.

As for actual bosses, Scrappy Werepig is one I think really sucks. No matter what I do vs it, dodging it's attacks feels way too difficult for how often they come up, they straight up feel undodgeable at times. Then it gets even worse post CC with the stupid laser attack which actually feels impossible to dodge without an absurd amount of speed. The drops also kinda suck, like when was the last time you saw actually anyone actively use Warbot gear? At the very least the repair kit recipe should drop pre-CC so non-Winona players can actually use a chest robot, instead of having to kill 2 whole bosses just so they can get an extra 3 days of Wobot uptime.

Oh also make the Scion's lava fields despawn please and thanks

Edited November 4, 2025 by Baark0

[Dingle]

1 hour ago, Baark0 said:

Seems like a good place to mention that I personally would love a way to re-locate/remove Moose/Goose nests. On my 3k day world I have a quad goose setpiece right next to where my cave entrance is, and since I put walls there to pen some bunnymen in to deal with bats, every spring I have to rush over and kill all the geese that spawn there, otherwise they'll attack and break all my walls. It's incredibly annoying, especially since the only option I have to actually get rid of them is disabling them in my world's config, but it's not very fun disabling one of the main attractions of spring because of some unlucky world gen rng.

As for actual bosses, Scrappy Werepig is one I think really sucks. No matter what I do vs it, dodging it's attacks feels way too difficult for how often they come up, they straight up feel undodgeable at times. Then it gets even worse post CC with the stupid laser attack which actually feels impossible to dodge without an absurd amount of speed. The drops also kinda suck, like when was the last time you saw actually anyone actively use Warbot gear? At the very least the repair kit recipe should drop pre-CC so non-Winona players can actually use a chest robot, instead of having to kill 2 whole bosses just so they can get an extra 3 days of Wobot uptime.

Oh also make the Scion's lava fields despawn please and thanks

I'd love it if Scrappy guaranteed dropped the automechanic recipe, both pre and post rift.

[WendyHater9000]

Spider Queen’s actual attack range and her visual attack range are insanely inconsistent. Just give her an extra tentacle-whip on her limbs to match that ridiculous range.

[BalkanCockroach]

I voted twins and revenant. Ctrl+c, ctrl+v. Revenant is underwhelming and Twins not even remotely doing what they do in Terraria always dissapointed me.

[reddocc]

moose goose is a mess she either has two screens range from her nest or 10 wall units, sometimes she fails to land attacks and tbh the real boss and loot are the minions

[Bumber64]

14 hours ago, Keknutui said:

You can create a maximum of 20 variations in the survey, and if you're talking about bosses, oh, I decided not to insert variations because they're basically the same boss.

I think they're saying there needs to be a "none of the above" option in each question. Polls don't allow you to leave any question blank.

[Hungry French]

The survey should be called "Which bosses don't need a rework"... 80% of bosses need a rework. The rest only need some adjustments to make the combat more dynamic

7 hours ago, Baark0 said:

Кажется, сейчас самое время упомянуть, что лично я был бы рад возможности перемещать/убирать гнёзда лосей/гусей. В моём мире с 3000-м днём прямо рядом с входом в мою пещеру находится стая из четырёх гусей, и, поскольку я возвёл там стены, чтобы запереть кроликов и избавиться от летучих мышей, каждую весну мне приходится спешить туда и убивать всех гусей, которые там появляются, иначе они нападут и разрушат все мои стены. Это невероятно раздражает, особенно если учесть, что единственный способ избавиться от них — отключить их в настройках моего мира, но не очень-то весело отключать одну из главных достопримечательностей весны из-за какого-то неудачного генератора случайных чисел.

Что касается настоящих боссов, то, на мой взгляд, Скрэппи Верпиг — один из самых отстойных. Что бы я ни делал, уклоняться от его атак слишком сложно, учитывая, как часто они происходят. Иногда кажется, что от них вообще невозможно увернуться. После CC становится ещё хуже из-за дурацкой лазерной атаки, от которой на самом деле невозможно увернуться без невероятной скорости. Выпадающие предметы тоже так себе. Когда вы в последний раз видели, чтобы кто-то активно использовал снаряжение Warbot? По крайней мере, рецепт ремонтного комплекта должен выпадать до получения 100-го уровня, чтобы игроки, не достигшие уровня Вайноны, могли использовать робота-сундука, а не убивать двух боссов только ради того, чтобы получить дополнительные 3 дня работы Вобота.

А ещё, пожалуйста, сделайте так, чтобы лавовые поля Scion исчезали, и спасибо вам

Make less Moose in the world. And your problems will become less....

Spider Queen - is a good boss. But she lacks a lot. It would be nice to add a web attack like in UM.

Ancient Guardian - He's a good boss too... But I don't like the fact that he has a stun for too long.

Deerclops - God... Klei, give her at least 3 more attacks. Spider with 4000 HP and a long-range area attack is not fun.... And up attack period for speed as in DS.

Tree guard - same as deerclops but worse... Need 2 new attacks. You can even make it so that only one per spawn. ( And Spider Queen too )

Berger - give her 1 attack and a good boss. He's not bad right now. For example, how to attack the butt of her mutant version...

Dragonfly... Make the walls destructible... Add some kind of ranged attack. Do this' so that she would fly away in the winter and fly to the player in the summer.And do so' so that Dragonfly has 3 static stun's during the battle. The duration can be reduced from 10 seconds to 3.

[mima_]

turn all boss like klaus. where more people means more chaotic fun but surprisingly easier solo with perfect dodging ..