Machine Biome

[Evilawngn0me]

My son and I have been tossing an idea back and forth about a new biome.
He loves that there is a slime for each area, and brainstorming additional slime bosses sort of lead to us riffing about a new biome.
His idea was for a slime boss, that had kind of rolled around in a 'Tech' biome, and so it had metal plating kind of in and around it, with an antenna out of the top (The antenna is important for the mechanics of the fight.)
Let me see if I can format this in a logical way.

The mechanic behind the ground slime would be similar to that of the acid in the hive biome. If you walked onto it, you would need to keep moving as each square has a delay before it discharges an electrical pulse that would damage the player. (You could use the radiation damage that exists with the large crystal in the desert of beginnings)

The boss fight itself would have (at the moment he has kind of code named the boss 'Alpha' after the electrical wave) Alpha bounce around his area, same as the other slimes, but every third jump or so, electrical arcs of energy would shoot out of eight pylons around the arena to the antenna on his head. So it would be ill advised to blindly run in a circle. With the addition of how the ground slime functions, it would make the encounter challenging as you would need to keep moving. Once Alpha enrages, the pylon begin firing one or two at a time randomly, with each jump.

My son is also very determined that he should drop a mini pet as well. I have assured him if this post even gets viewed that would likely not need to be stated, but he was quite insistent I put it in.

The mechanical biome could be a mini biome like the forge. Or a larger one, it opens up some opportunity to segue into additional automation features. Perhaps you could even make a few items that you cannot craft, but that you would have to find in this biome and repurpose. It also gives the opportunity for new foes to fight that could be robots. Perhaps they move quickly and fire at range, their weakness could be closing the gap quickly giving a bit more use to things like the feather that allows you to dash.

We have brainstormed a lot of ideas surrounding this I won't make the suggestion four pages of 'what ifs'.
Let me know what you guys think. I'll filter the replies before I let my son read through them haha.