What's wrong with the Heart Statues?

[Guywars]

This is something that has bugged me for years and that i still haven't understood.
Sometimes heart statues work and sometimes they don't, or just a couple of them work, why?
I've done bosses super easily because all of the 15-20 heart statues were working, other times it was a nightmare because almost none of them was working properly, what's wrong with them?

[Retrolicious]

Since with your studies you noticed that they are glitching / buggy the only solution is to NOT rely on them when fighting hardcore bosses. Sure they are comfy and can be helpful in situations. Also they are nice to heal party members, but ultimatelly dont rely on them.

Good players can adjust to situations and play differently every time, be it accidents happen ( events , party wipe ) or be it mechanics not working ( heart statue bugs ).

Also i feel since expert mode got brutal in fact fighting on the run and not beeing fixed to a certain arena is much more beneficial! Best way to survive is not beeing hit at all than rather the second best option - beeing hit but healing afterwards to full !


And why they are bugging or whats up with them , i cant tell. I noticed that too, but my arenas consist mostly of heart statues as decorations ...
( its hard to find in one single world many of them )
So i tell my party and myself to work on dodging than rather to work on healing up!

update: do you feel they glitch more in 1.3 now ? did they change wiring maybe ?

[Guywars]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

Since with your studies you noticed that they are glitching / buggy the only solution is to NOT rely on them when fighting hardcore bosses. Sure they are comfy and can be helpful in situations. Also they are nice to heal party members, but ultimatelly dont rely on them.

Good players can adjust to situations and play differently every time, be it accidents happen ( events , party wipe ) or be it mechanics not working ( heart statue bugs ).

Also i feel since expert mode got brutal in fact fighting on the run and not beeing fixed to a certain arena is much more beneficial! Best way to survive is not beeing hit at all than rather the second best option - beeing hit but healing afterwards to full !


And why they are bugging or whats up with them , i cant tell. I noticed that too, but my arenas consist mostly of heart statues as decorations ...
( its hard to find in one single world many of them )
So i tell my party and myself to work on dodging than rather to work on healing up!

update: do you feel they glitch more in 1.3 now ? did they change wiring maybe ?

Yeah i feel like they glitch more, i rarely see all of the statues working now, it's a rare event.

As for the tips yeah i know i don't have to rely on them, we make tons of preparations before bosses: buffs, potions, heart lamps, camp fires, long arenas with various floors to run on and more.
I used to prefer the arena instead of just running around because we usually made really big ones so we were not really limited to a certain space, now with the UFO mount though, we just fly and kite.

[darth.crevette]

Heart statues are supposed to only work if there are less than a number of hearts already in the world, and (I think) less than 3 hearts around the statue itself. I've seen it glitch on multiplayer maps from time to time, and a single statue, if left alone, would generate enough hearts to refill your whole health in one go, but I that's not reliable at all.

[Retrolicious]

Originally posted by darth.crevette:

Heart statues are supposed to only work if there are less than a number of hearts already in the world, and (I think) less than 3 hearts around the statue itself. I've seen it glitch on multiplayer maps from time to time, and a single statue, if left alone, would generate enough hearts to refill your whole health in one go, but I that's not reliable at all.

Thats a very good hint. So maybe its a balancing mechanic and not a glitch.
If op is still interested in heart statues and cant let them go here is a wiki entrance you might want to read:
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Heart_statue

[Nours]

you can activate 3 statues with one swith and they have 5 - 6 sec cooldown... if your game lag, heart statue can bug a little... (all statues bug a little, forgot to spawn) you can do it with a 1s timer, when statues ready, heart will spawn.
i don t know if i answer...

[Woo baba sih lao]

you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid thay do work

[K@C7K@]

i have on my arena 8 hearth statues, all working but i have also 2 hearth statues unplugged

[JellyPuff]

Heart Statues stop producing hearts, if they've spawned 3. Pick them up and they produce again, until the total number of hearts reached 3 again.
That's their limit, otherwise they'd be OP.

But the area, in which they are being "limited" to 3 is rather small, so place multiple Heart Statues a bit away from each other for optimal results. I don't know the exact limit-range, that's something you need to figure out yourself.

Still kinda OP, actually.

Hearts from enemies within their limit-range also stops them from producing more it seems.

[Guywars]

Originally posted by Jellypuff:

Heart Statues stop producing hearts, if they've spawned 3. Pick them up and they produce again, until the total number of hearts reached 3 again.
That's their limit, otherwise they'd be OP.

But the area, in which they are being "limited" to 3 is rather small, so place multiple Heart Statues a bit away from each other for optimal results. I don't know the exact limit-range, that's something you need to figure out yourself.

Still kinda OP, actually.

Hearts from enemies within their limit-range also stops them from producing more it seems.

But in many occasions all my heart statues have worked together and they're like 15 in a straight line. Then after some time i go back to them and they either don't work at all or just a few of them work. So if there's a limit, it's more than 3.

[JellyPuff]

Then them producing more than 3 hearts is unintentional and a bug, not the other way around.