need help killing plantera/making a arena

[leftforkilling]

the jungle is the place i hate the most even with 73 defense i keep getting destroyed by moss hornets and i just want to kill it first try so i dont have to deal with its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[CodyGaming101]

Been there before, really does suck. I only have 1 character post-moonlord and a character pre-hardmode that i have for a playthrough though, so either I can't help or I'll help way too much.

[leftforkilling]

Originally posted by CodyGaming101:

Been there before, really does suck. I only have 1 character post-moonlord and a character pre-hardmode that i have for a playthrough though, so either I can't help of I'll help way too much.

im really fine with to much help since im in expert hardmode which is a pain and i wanted to kill him anyway possible

[CodyGaming101]

Mkay in that case, I can help.

[Sheeple]

Originally posted by leftforkilling:

Originally posted by CodyGaming101:

Been there before, really does suck. I only have 1 character post-moonlord and a character pre-hardmode that i have for a playthrough though, so either I can't help of I'll help way too much.

im really fine with to much help since im in expert hardmode which is a pain and i wanted to kill him anyway possible

kill all the bosses at once, is your final challenge

[Mikko]

I can

[just.nuke.em]

Plantera arena is the best to build pre hardmode, as it is one of the few that cannot be on the surface.

If you do have to make it in hardmode, put at least 50 meteorite ore in the center location of your planned arena. This will force all mobs that spawn to be meteor heads, which are much easier to deal with, and in some cases can just be taken care of with a pickaxe swinging while mining out the area. To make sure you have decent space coverage for the meteorite biome, just ~200 ore and space it out a bit.

[Winter Wolf]

The main thing about Plantera is you have to keep moving. So platform arena is your best bet. Using just.nuke.em's meteorite plan you would stick the 4 squares of 50 ore (actually almost squares because 7^2 +1 = 50) in each diagonal corner of your arena. I think 50 tiles in each direction is the max radius of the meteorite effect so you might do 100 platforms per plane and 10 planes (rows) to form your arena and put a campfire every other row as well as a heart lantern and star lantern (for mana regen).

As for tactics you essentially want to awaken the monster, then lead it to your arena and then start attacking around it. (Yo-yos seem to be the best choice here as you can center the yo-yo end on them and keep moving around.) You could also put a house above the arena for a spawn location and maybe a nurse station. If you are feeling extra ambitious you could make a dryad house too so that part of the time you are getting a boost to your stats and the boss takes some incidental damage. The downside to using meteorite is it will draw meteor heads to attack your npcs so maybe you remove the Meteor deposits (1 ore per section should do) when the arena is done and you're ready for plantera.

I recommend using a summon staff (imp is fine for this especially if you use bewitching station first) whilst building so that you don't have to take too many breaks just to keep yourself alive and out of danger.