Rare enemies and de-spawning them

[xanaki]

Just want to say something about despawning rare enemies. I've been trying to farm few rare enemies lately, mainly the Nymph and Mimics (normal mimics, not biome mimics). I've seen them countles of times in the radar info (see rare enemies around you), and even with potion to sense the enemies around me I've been unable to find them. Because, they DE-SPAWN so fast while I'm searching for them.

Could you change the logic so that if you manage to get a rare enemy spawned, it stays longer around instead of de-spawning so fast.

Finding Mimics or Nymphs is hard enough now.

I can make hallowed and corrupted mimics etc. with crafting but they do not drop Philisophers Stone or other items dropped only by normal mimics.

[Bob of Mage]

Well I can give you some tips for normal mimic farming. I find them pretty easily when I have a long flat platform. The ash brigde I build in hell to fight the Wall of Flesh often has one on it when I run by.

In term of the radar I think it's range might not be as far as the spawns are. I once had a Pinky appear on the sensor, and I moved to the right and Pinky disappeared off the scanner. I moved back to the left and it reappeared and then I saw it after moving a good ways to the left. Now I could have seen two in less then ten seconds, or I could have moved up of it's range. I'd also point out that spawns can happen pretty far off screen.

[Col. Fagnificent]

theres a mimic statue u can use to manually spawn normal mimics

nymphs....ur outta luck

[xanaki]

Mimic (chest) statues, when wired, do not drop loot or coins. So you are out of luck with them too.

I been trying to do the farming also with my ash bridge in hell. For now without any success. But will try to keep it up :)

I find it very annoying that rare monsters are de-spawned pretty fast if you move anywhere. For me, this is the one and only complaint I've ever had with Terraria with over 200 hours of game play :)

[xanaki]

I just crafted another long bridge, this time in the Caverns layer. And while farming for mobs it happened again and again. I see "Mimic" in rare enemy indicator but when I move a bit to see where it is (it was not in sight immediately) it de-spawned again.

This is starting to get ridicilous. Please fix this.

[Xiarn]

Wow, you must be really unlucky. I've never had any trouble just coming across the things in my normal travels. Are you moving in one direction, and do you have any large pits or holes they could be falling down? I can't recall having issues with enemy despawns. Maybe look for the Nymphs more near where lava pools start? Thats where I usually find them (or their remains) On another note, they coud be falling into lava and dying too.

[Hikumi]

Here's what you do:

Dig a really long horizontal corridor 85 blocks to both the left and right. It can be any height, but make sure the entire empty space is on your screen, and seal off any not on your screen with solid blocks at least 45 blocks above and below the corridor

Now, wire 1-second timers to dart traps on level ground of that corridor, firing both left and right

Mimics will come to you. Enjoy

[xanaki]

Originally posted by Hikumi:

Here's what you do:

Dig a really long horizontal corridor 85 blocks to both the left and right. It can be any height, but make sure the entire empty space is on your screen, and seal off any not on your screen with solid blocks at least 45 blocks above and below the corridor

Now, wire 1-second timers to dart traps on level ground of that corridor, firing both left and right

Mimics will come to you. Enjoy

Thanks Hikumi. I have a corridor but it's not sealed from all around. I'll try this trick with timers too. Sounds fun :P

[maybemeow]

Originally posted by Col. Fagnificent:

theres a mimic statue u can use to manually spawn normal mimics

nymphs....ur outta luck

but those mimics dont actually drop anything...

[cipnrkorvo /''>]

Originally posted by lovely:

Originally posted by Col. Fagnificent:

theres a mimic statue u can use to manually spawn normal mimics

nymphs....ur outta luck

but those mimics dont actually drop anything...

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