Disappearing Alchemist (Spoilers)

[gothmog77]

I've been trying to fight the Alchemist in the Laboratory west of the Dark Cave. I had died to him once before, so my plan was to kite him to the surface where I can outmaneuver him with my teleport wand. I made a tunnel straight down from the snowy surface to the orb room, and lured him to the surface, then fought back and forth a few minutes up there before running low on health. I teleported away back to a Holy Mountain with a health refill, then went back out to finish off the Alchemist. I ran back and forth from the Tree to the Lake several times, but couldn't find him. Checked his orb room, tried flying across a bit higher in the sky, no sign of him. Can he wander off really far or despawn?

[Doombringer]

I had a problem a few runs ago where the Forgotten never spawned.
I've also had the pyramid boss fly into space and have not been able to find him again, so I guess it can happen with the alchemist too...

He spawns in parallel worlds, so it is still possible to find many copies of him in a run.
(Note that the version that spawns on the surface of parallel worlds and is a different color doesn't drop items - just run past these, the actual boss version still drops items.)

[brianhj]

I've had high alchemist disappear. I think I left the battle and returned and he was gone. There was a section of the ceiling of his lair cut out in the shape of his shield and then perfectly straight horizontal for a full screen width or so. I imagined him losing control and then taking off at the speed of light never to be seen again.


Also the disappearing act seemed to start happening after the epilogue patch

[gothmog77]

Update: I did eventually find him not too far away on the surface, and finally killed him.

[Takovacs]

Originally posted by gothmog77:

Update: I did eventually find him not too far away on the surface, and finally killed him.

That took you a while.

[gothmog77]

Originally posted by TakovacsPlays:

Originally posted by gothmog77:

Update: I did eventually find him not too far away on the surface, and finally killed him.

That took you a while.

Lol!

Yeah I took a break from the game for some months, just got back into it and continued the save file.

[The Lord of the Pidgeons]

Yeah sometimes bosses can wander off. Had this happen with the wizard boss and had to fight him in pitch black because I didnt have the eye perk yet.