Caves-only survival tips?

[myxal]

1 hour ago, Alarsin said:

Second, treeguards no longer aggro the Toad if they take damage from the boomshrooms or spore clouds since those do not count as the Toad (for example, if you die to either of those two, it'll say that you were killed by boomshroom/spore cloud).

This is true, though making treeguards aggro is still pretty easy (at least at the beginning of the fight) - just have have a regular tree in the area a walk toadstool over it. Come to think of it, with enough pinecones, the way to get treeguards in the area in the first place would be to plant a forest before engaging toadstool, then summoning toadstool once the trees are all tier 3.

I don't know how to spawn the big treeguards, so I tested the following:

• 8 regular treeguards were able to get the toad down to 30k health before being killed
• spawned 2x100 trees (100 in each of 2 distinct spots) spawned several treeguards of various sizes, with me chopping the sporecaps were able to bring it down to 22k

In either case, progress beyond that point seems impossible - even if the toad is focused on something else, like a rock lobster, there's no way to chop the sporecaps fast enough. At best, I can keep setting him on fire, but he spawn new sporecaps by the time one set burns down.

1 hour ago, ShadowDuelist said:

Haven't tested myself, but I saw once a guy that planted trees very near toadstool's giant mushroom, so upon summoning him, his natural size would break those trees and any treeguard witnessing it, aggroes toadstool. I'll need to check if this still works tho(or if anyone knows pls comment)

It does, did that a few months ago. Not a good way to farm wood, as many trees drop nothing. As a method of spawning leifs though...

Hm, I've probably destroyed too many clockworks to make it legitimately in my game, but how about bishops?

As I was sniping the toad with a fire staff, he would not go beyond a certain point (distance from hole?). Gonna test this now...

Edit: Nah, toad's maximum distance from hole increases with # of sporecaps, so placing a bishop pen at the right distance isn't really possible...