Tutorial: How to beat moon lord in single player

[Wel Wyrmin]

Many of you who play alone might have come across the problem that moonlord is insanely powerful and you don't stand a change with the best possible gear at the moment. But fear no because now you have a solution to it.

First I'm talking about requirements:
+ High defense (Beetle armor) (Spectre armor healing, vampire knives are not healing you)
+ Heart statues (Minium of 18), 3 different colored wiring and 1 sec timer (x3)
+ Heartreach potion
+ Cross Necklace (or another same kind)
+ Spikes from dungeon
+ Fast speed (UFO mount)
+ Vortex Beater or another good ranged weapon (with around 2000 chlorophyte bullets)
+ Shield for knockback resistance

Next let's talk about an arena for it and how to build it step by step.
1. Make 1 block high layer of spikes from dungeon

2. Below the spikes add heart statues in two seperate platforms.

3. Wire so that only 1 per 3 statues will be activated with 1 timer. So red wire will tick statues 1, 4, 7, 10... green will 2, 5, 8, 11... and so that blue will rest.

4. Add 3 timers (1 per colored wire) and wait around 3,3 sec before activating second and another 3,3 sec to last (makes 6+20 hearts drop after 3 sec so you can regenerate 120 hp in 3 sec and in 10 second you will regen 360 hp.

Now I tell you how the fight goes:
You drink potions needed before the battle (activate timers before attempting to spawn moonlord). Heartreach potion required at this moment, so you can collect all hearts in insane radius when moonlord attacks.
Then you go to the arena and push your self towards the spikes and move along the spike platform back and forward. 1 dmg per sec, but heart statues heal you before you die. Also with cross necklace the invulnerability is enhanced so you will instantly take damage from spikes (1) and your invulnerability time will reduce moonlords attacks to 0 (slow fire, but insane dmg).
Constantly shoot moonlords hands and eye until it goes to stage 2. Then you have to go below the platform and push yourself up towards the spike platform (UFO mount is good because infinite flight). You keep taking 1 dmg and moonlord isn't likely to damage you at all.
When below the platform start shooting down into it's heart. If above spike platform you can't make damage at all to it.

If you've done it like I did you should never fall below 450 hp (if you have max 500 hp) and boom! Moonlord is defeated and you can claim the reward.

Happy fighting!

[Ͽ҈҉Ͼ]

Tapak a écrit :

MrMelonman a écrit :

Heart statues are not cheating, because they are impletemented in game for that reason. Of course it makes the fight way too easy, but if you want to beat it easily you can do it like this.

It actually cheating is, because you are using statues from different worlds and everyone can do it with statues, the game itself is about dodging a lot, also about strategy but not about using heartstatues like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It is legal I know but if you can beat him with heart statues, no one is going to be like: wow that guy is good.

Some would say that designing and building an arena to fight in is part of the game just as much as dodging is. They are two different methods to get the same basic result. Something like this isn't cheating since it is using intended game mechanics in a way to offset other intended game mechanics.

Pulling things from other worlds does not make it cheating either since it the base world generation often makes it so that certain things will not always appear in the world... Corruption/crimson and pyramids being the more obvious ones. If you manually explored and collected all those statues, it is legitimate to use them in my book since this is countless hours spent in preparation for a single fight... Compared to countless hours attempting the fight over and over and over and over again trying to learn how to dodge well.

[CatfishBurglar]

My strategy of running from one side (along a flattened or at least continuous path), attacking while passing him, then warping back to the other side to do another run was going kind of well ....until the martians came. I've beaten moonlord on my normal world, but haven't achieved it on the expert world yet.

[Chuck]

Tapak a écrit :

MrMelonman a écrit :

Heart statues are not cheating, because they are impletemented in game for that reason. Of course it makes the fight way too easy, but if you want to beat it easily you can do it like this.

It actually cheating is, because you are using statues from different worlds and everyone can do it with statues, the game itself is about dodging a lot, also about strategy but not about using heartstatues like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It is legal I know but if you can beat him with heart statues, no one is going to be like: wow that guy is good.

Go be salty somewhere else.

[CatfishBurglar]

Irrevelant but helpful information: The martian saucer's attack pattern can be exploited for kills without taking one bit of damage.

[ShinyShine]

I just got the nurse and activated auto pause, just heal every twenty seconds and he cant get near killing you. and the nurse's new self healing ensures she never dies

[Brozart the Glock Saint]

guys, Iv just beaten the moonlord by standing next to my nurse, heal all the time and destroy all his parts with my yoyo(the eye of cthulhu)

[Wel Wyrmin]

A.D. Davidusch a écrit :

guys, Iv just beaten the moonlord by standing next to my nurse, heal all the time and destroy all his parts with my yoyo(the eye of cthulhu)

Sure... But using nurse aint a thing anymore in moon lord battle...

[Dowlphwin]

Sadistic Cannibal a écrit :

First I'm talking about requirements:
+ Heart statues (Minium of 18)

Thank you for not wasting my time. ;-)

[Dowlphwin]

Master of Shadows a écrit :

MrMelonman a écrit :

Heart statues are not cheating, because they are impletemented in game for that reason. Of course it makes the fight way too easy, but if you want to beat it easily you can do it like this.

It actually cheating is, because you are using statues from different worlds and everyone can do it with statues, the game itself is about dodging a lot, also about strategy but not about using heartstatues like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It is legal I know but if you can beat him with heart statues, no one is going to be like: wow that guy is good.

Then learning for a school test one day before the test when you know there'll be a test is cheating, too. Because, you know, that's easy. You're supposed to know the stuff all the time, not just for the test.
So many people trying to cheat on tests.
The Moon Lord is cheating, too, because he was way more hitpoints and more powerful weapons than you. It's a totally unfair fight, evidenced by the stupid and predictable way in which he acts and he still gives the player a hard time with that.
;-)

[Tapak]

Dandowlion a écrit :

Master of Shadows a écrit :

It actually cheating is, because you are using statues from different worlds and everyone can do it with statues, the game itself is about dodging a lot, also about strategy but not about using heartstatues like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It is legal I know but if you can beat him with heart statues, no one is going to be like: wow that guy is good.

Then learning for a school test one day before the test when you know there'll be a test is cheating, too. Because, you know, that's easy. You're supposed to know the stuff all the time, not just for the test.
So many people trying to cheat on tests.
The Moon Lord is cheating, too, because he was way more hitpoints and more powerful weapons than you. It's a totally unfair fight, evidenced by the stupid and predictable way in which he acts and he still gives the player a hard time with that.
;-)

Nice nonsense here.
If you are feeling the same way when you beat moonlord with 18 Heartstatues as if you would beat him without them then congratulations, you are the lazy type of guy who just does not care if you choose the easy way or the hard one.
I can call my five friends to beat up Moonlord and not call it cheating, since there is a multiplayer :O

And how can you compare having heart statues with learning to school? O_O
Learn his moves, learn how to dodge them, learn which part to focus first, learn which weapons are best to use on him and which attachments(or test it, if you want to take the more hard way) and then try to beat him with all this knowledge.
Such logic, much arguments..

[kingart1742]

sorry if someone already said this but i couldnt keep reading these comments because i was starting to get cancer. The eye lazer is not hard to dodge! git gud

[Tapak]

kingart1742 a écrit :

sorry if someone already said this but i couldnt keep reading these comments because i was starting to get cancer. The eye lazer is not hard to dodge! git gud

agree, git gud lol

[Wel Wyrmin]

kingart1742 a écrit :

sorry if someone already said this but i couldnt keep reading these comments because i was starting to get cancer. The eye lazer is not hard to dodge! git gud

Well. The Moon Lord has been quite buffed now. Although I beat him single player without a single heart statue or without nurse. Just make a platform above your head and move a lot. Then like 90% of its attacks deal 0 dmg.

[prpl_mage]

This thread is originally more than a month old.
As someone mentioned, you can't teleport to the nurse anymore but you can just walk up to her and heal and then head back out to fight.

[Wel Wyrmin]

prpl_mage a écrit :

This thread is originally more than a month old.
As someone mentioned, you can't teleport to the nurse anymore but you can just walk up to her and heal and then head back out to fight.

When I tried to use nurse it didn't work for me. They perhaps removed the nurse entirely.