Terraria - MGFBJ Skeletron, No Damage Taken, Pre-Boss/Invasion Gear

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Published on March 15, 2023 12:21:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkUKsebHeU4

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Terraria (2011)

Duration: 9:21

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Oh, I hate this boss.

When the hands go off screen, they get stuck, then snap back to the boss the next time you're near them, going through you at high speed in the process.
If you destroy them in a "get fixed boi" (GFB) world, Dark Casters start spawning, and regardless, the boss will start firing homing projectiles at you.
These homing projectiles are also triggered by just...hurting the boss. They're also why traveling in a general direction continuously, away from those awful hands, is not a good idea.

Now, I'm specifying that this is against the Skeletron of both the Master and Journey modes, because the latter is also important - bosses (supposedly) get more HP in Journey's Master mode than in regular Master mode. This is as nasty as Skeletron gets.
In the first few clips, you can see how little of an obstacle the boss was, despite its awfully erratic movement, and the fact that you have no Teleporters at this stage of the game, because when the "For the Worthy" (FTW) seed was new, Explosive Bunnies could still be used to stack tons of potential damage before the fight started, leaving the boss with no hands, and very little health.
Actually, the first full fight shown is also in a FTW world, but the clip is recent, instead of being around 3 years old, and from before the GFB seed was available. Now, even players in FTW worlds must suffer the fate of the Explosive Bunny nerf...

...but too bad for Skeletron, because this nearly 3 year old arena wasn't designed for killing the boss instantly - it was designed for a long, gruesome battle against a Terrarian with nothing but items that are available before any bosses have been fought.
By building the arena low enough to deal with the low gravity of GFB worlds, and intentionally leaving the boss's hands intact, to avoid triggering Dark Caster spawns, this old arena for FTW seeds can be repurposed for GFB seeds, and indeed, the other full fight, shown at the end of the video, is in a GFB world.

I go out of my way to show that Godmode is off in the first full fight shown, but actually, I had Godmode on for the other full fight. I was just verifying that the arena does indeed work in GFB worlds, and didn't expect to have the fight go so well (which is also why the audio is muted - I had background noise to chill to playing). I reviewed the replay to confirm it was a no hit - you're free to disagree if you think it looks like I got hit, but the arena clearly works in GFB worlds as well.

I play a bit sloppy in these videos because of my health issues. At some points, I nearly crash into the boss's head, because I teleported too late prior to dropping down due to my hands just deciding not to work. This arena isn't as good as I would like, and won't help someone who's physically challenged very much. Truly automating this boss seems like an impossible task, even with minecarts. Despite this, I have some minecart based arenas I'm working on for this boss as well.

Beating Skeletron first is important, because it grants access to Teleporters, which make every boss you fight after Skeletron a joke. They really do. Even the Empress and Moon Lord are easy to beat, with no damage taken, when using minecarts and teleporters...and only Skeletron is in the way.

I truly hate this boss.

(By the way, if you didn't catch it, I used Smart Cursor to place a bit of track at the start of the video - that was how I started racing away at full speed, after building speed between bumpers)

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