Why is this Terraria boss so forgotten? 

As someone who built a base in an ice biome in pre-hardmode, let me tell you: you don't forget this thing once you have.

Red did confirm that he was going to add the Deerclops summon item to the Ice Chest loot pool, so that it would become more accessible to regular players.

I fight Deerclops every run for one specific reason- I am emotionally attached to the talking axe.

There are three things that keep me attached to this boss: - Being a Don't Starve fan - The battle theme - The fact that Deerclops himself has no contact damage hitbox. Last part really changed my thinking around the boss, and made me love the Magiluminescence, actually preferring it instead of Shield of C'thulhu, since it serves the same purpose, but in a more controllable way.

The main use of the eye bone is so that you can always quick stack your money to your piggy and never lose it

i always fight deerclops as if it was a required boss, since it has amazing drops for the early PRE-hardmode and the fact that it doesn't despawns after you die usually means free great items (and also, you get to hear a banger while fighting it)

Houndius Shootius is enormously underrated, IMHO. As the earliest sentry weapon you can get without doing OOA, it makes Goblin Invasions and Blood Moons a fair bit easier to deal with. And it's a free extra sentry in OOA, which makes a difference in the first tier.

Deerclops is a vibe check; one that catches you off guard. But I'll say this that the Weather Pain is an underrated magic weapon. It's worth cheesing Deerclops for, especially since he doesn't despawn if he spawned naturally. If you're on expert too, the Bone Helm is extremely worth for early farming too. Kind of hoping the next collabe boss we get is a hardmode boss.

so sad to see deerclops being forgotten, as it is one of the most memorable bosses you'll fight in dont starve, catching you by surprise in the winter.

Y'know Don't Starve Together is adding a harder version of Deerclops called Crystal Deerclops and while I kinda doubt it'll happen it would be really cool if Crystal Deerclops got added as a hardmode boss

Deerclops is a really interesting boss since it's the only boss that doesn't despawn if you die (I think his timer is 24 minutes). Also the Bone Helm is really good for Wall of Flesh, combines with the Bone Glove it helps a lot to keep the hungry tentacles out of the way to deal damage to the main eyes and mouth.

I feel like his drops are being undersold slightly. ~ The bone helm is great for farming setups or for while you're building since it fills the role of an extra summon in taking things out automatically, and even in general encounters out in the wild, while it may not be ideal for bosses unless they've got lots of low health adds, it's great for knocking back enemies or reducing pressure by killing things you're not focussing on. Seriously it's 10/10 in zenith seed if you can somehow manage to get your hands on it. ~ Houndius Shootius has the best damage to fire rate ratio of the prehardmode sentries, and its projectile is fast to boot. As a summoner doing prehardmode content it's THE best sentry to use unless you've got a mob trap/farm going, in which case the explosive trap is probably the most reliable competitor, but any prehardmode summoner using the early game +1 sentry accessory should be going for this sentry. ~ The Weather Pain is one of very few homing perhardmode magic spells and furthermore is capable of hitting multiple times, making it great for more mobile engagements. With its fast movement and ability to hit enemies like 14 times, It's easiest to think of it as a prehadmode variant of the razorblade typhoon, and its armour penetration certainly doesn't hurt.

Tip: flinx spawn way more common on non ice biome specific blocks like silt or stone or dirt or any common material thats not from the ice biome.

When farming Flinx Fur find somewhere underground snow biome ends, they spawn more often on non-snow blocks like stone while player is in snow biome. when I tried it they spawned much faster than expected

I fight him every playthrough for chester alone

The missed opportunity is that they didn't add Christmas version of Deerclops.

This boss needs to known Fr. Im so happy that i got to see this because my school almost got caught on fire

The one time when your under geared and you somehow manage to naturally spawn Deerclops, that is a fear one will never forget.

I rarely fight deerclops since in early prehardmode his slow effect and high damage are annoying to deal with (alongside trying to stay in his “bubble” to prevent invulnerability). When I finally do get enough defence / warmth potions to tank them, all their drops minus the eye bone are irrelevant (even so, I like having different pets per character). I think the main difference between deerclops and other optional bosses is that the other boss drops have long lasting effects on your run (king slime give you a great mount for dodging and an entire tileset, queen bee gives access to witch doctor, good summon gear, and flasks, and queen slime gives the most consistent summon weapon, a unique hook, a town slime, and another great dodging mount) while deerclops’ drops are almost instantly obsolete (Lucy is worse than axe of regrowth, houndius is worse than OOA sentries, and the other weapons and accessories are just flat-out bad).

i love deerclops! chester and its sentry drops are so useful, mostly cuz im a summoner hahah

Deerclops is late pre-hardmode in difficulty, but mid pre-hardmode in drops (except the Eye Bone)

A recommendation to an arena for Deerclops. Don't put platforms AT ALL. Being on a platform above him causes the ice chunk attack which is much harder to dodge than his normal swipes. Stick close to him, using a double jump and/or spectre boots to keep above his swipes and you can no-hit him pretty easily. Chester is worth it, and the bone helm is actually pretty nice in a fishing loadout to keep the smaller baddies at bay.

Deerclops music So good

Deerclops is rather useful early game as its items are decent, and the boss can technically be very easy to defeat, since it doesn't despawn when you die to it, meaning you can just keep running back to it until it dies. Helped me on my master mode run

I remember when deerclops spawned during a blizzard and it took me and my friend like 20 minutes to kill it xD

A few things to add since terraria is a different game when you always play it on ftw Mastermode The bonehelm scales with summon damage making a really good summoner accessory early on The boss doesn’t despawn when you die. He will eventually leave if it’s been a whole day since he was summoned which lets me and my friends beat it even before boc or eow making his gear and the bone helm a very useful accessory

Tbh Deerclops can be fought super early, all you need are rocket boots and a shield of cuthulu and you’re basically untouchable even without an arena, just fly up and dash over him while using anything but a close melee weapon, land on the other side, and repeat, free win.

So true I rarely fight him he's just not that necessary for progression

I think It would be cool if they added Chester’s shadow or yeti forms.

As someone who goes out of their way to kill every boss in the game with each playthrough, I have yet to forget deerclops.

Fun fact: the chester pet actually shares the same inventory space as the piggy bank

Being a Don't Starve junkie I cannot resist fighting this guy every playthrough, like the fight is just really satisfying, although I definitely get why people skip it

I remember walking through a blizzard at midnight with more than 9 defence while having 400hp and taking a hike away from NPCs. "What the fu--, he can do that on his own!?"

I had no fucking idea Deerclops could spawn naturally. That's crazy

3:59 Honestly Deerclops message should be "That sounded big!" and you can't convince me otherwise

I feel like having the deerclops sounds from DST play during a nighttime snowstorm in the tundra could help with players finding out he exists, or maybe even npcs in the tundra hinting at it's existance.

You can try to fight him as soon as you start a new playthrough because of his unique despawn mechanic. Instead of disappearing when every player is killed, he despawns once a full in-game day has passed since his spawning. I was playing with a friend when we got surprised by Deerclops, and we kept fighting and dying, but we managed to kill him, making him the first boss we defeated on that playthrough. Also I was a summoner in that playthrough, both the sentry and the skull accessory carried me until skeletron.

If i remember correctly flinxes actuallly have about an equal spawnrate to the most common ice cave enemies, but they have significantly reduced spawns on snow, ice, or thin ice. If you replace some areas with wood or common ores like copper and tin, they spawn more frequently.

I made the mistake of fighting it wearing only platinum armour, using a starfury and gray zapinator. Boy am I glad he doesn’t despawn

When I was going to the corruption and deerclops randomly spawned in the snow biome on the way there it was so much fun and I think the unexpectedness of it also added to the feeling

Fun fact: you don't need to defeat the Eye of Cthulhu or Eater of Worlds to beat the game, but Skeletron has to be defeated because the Old Man's spawning will overrite the cultists.

I don’t know if you need the annoying enchant or not but the axe will talk if you put it in a chest and take it out. I rarely fight the boss so I’ve only gotten the axe once and it had the annoying enchant.

I think something they could do is make deerclops drop a whip. Summoners are the only ones who come by flinx fur to begin with anyway

Let's go new sockrteez video

Judging from the range you fought the boss from and the way you used the weather pain I think it's safe to say that you don't fight him every playthrough haha

I just don’t spend enough time in the snow biome for it to spawn normally, and flinxes are a pain to hunt for

I was once in the snow biome during a blizzard for whatever reason, and then Deerclops spawned, I had no means to kill it as I was on a multiplayer world, mastermode, I was inevitably killed, then I wanted to go back and find my gold, but it kept killing me and my friends over and over again, we hadn't even defeated eater of worlds yet.

Deerclops will always do the Icicle attack if you stay close to him. That attack is really easy to dodge because all you have to do is jump. It also means that you don't have to worry about being too far away and him going invincible.

I tried beating deerclops as my first boss in a mage playthrough, and it was very easy, but the weapons are just terrible, they NEED a buff

honestly knowing his attack pattern (2 ice attacks away from itself, 1 ice attack towards itself) you can easily stay within range of it while also dodge its attacks and not get into ranges where it does its other attacks (hands spawn and rubble attack) just gotta run under it through its legs (they have no hitbox so you don't take damage when running through it) to bait the attack to where you were, repeat running under him and on 3rd run under him run further away and from this point just repeat the pattern

I always fight Deerclops on my playthrough. I fought Deerclops five times on my recent Classic Pure Mage just right after EoC, pretty great I daresay. Wand of Frosting, one of the earliest mage weapon, is more than enough to obliterate that deer(even Copper Shortsword still do the trick). The fact that Deerclops doesn't despawn when you die is quite unique compared to other bosses.

Some changes to Deerclop’s drops to make them functional at the time you get them: Lucy the Axe: Give it some goofy Axe of Regrowth-level axe power and faster swing speed. Useful tool, decent weapon. Pew-matic Horn: give it a damage buff, firing speed buff, Crit buff, all the buffs. Good lord, the damage variance on it is so atrocious that it feels unusable even with a full pre-hardmode ranger loadout. If you want to keep the random damage, then at least make most of the damage numbers decent. Weather Pain: This one is actually pretty good, not gonna lie. If I HAD to suggest something, I’d say maybe make the projectile larger, but it really doesn’t need it. Houndius Shootius: You would think, that as the only Pre-Hardmode sentry that’s not directly tied to the Old One’s Army, the Houndius Shootius would be a good middle-of-the-road sentry: capable of reasonable single-target and multi-target damage. Unfortunately, it’s not that good at either. The low fire rate and lack of piercing hurts it, so give it some extra fire rate (25% extra should do the job) and have the projectile pierce through three enemies and it’s great. Bone Helm: Make it scale with damage buffs. That’s it. That’s all it needs. There’s only three accessories that passively attack, and the other two are far and away better, even relative to their level. The Volatile Gelatin is incredibly useful in the Hardmode Dungeon to deal with surprises like Bone Lee, and the Spore Sac hits for 400 damage and poisons. They both are reasonable picks at their level, and the Bone Helm isn’t, because it doesn’t deal enough damage or give enough utility to be worth an accessory slot

Honestly i never had him spawn naturally, i always spanw him my self. I even waiting for like 2 hours, nothing

Deerclops is forgotten because: 1: He’s pretty easy. Unless you’re really bad, you can beat him as soon as you’ve got a Minishark. 2: His drops are not that good. 3: His summon is hard to craft. 4: He isn’t fun to fight. That being said, I have little experience fighting him. Maybe he’s better if you grind him.

Also he doesn't despawn, which makes him easier to defeat as you don't have to stay alive to defeat him.

You can actually fight deerclops before any of the other bosses, as you can use bombs to acquire the evil ores from naturally spawning veins.

1:04 Small mistake: snow flinx only spawn at the cavern layer, not underground! Don't waste time farming for an hour in the underground snow like my friend did that one time...

I think that probably the single biggest thing holding deerclops back is how accurate it is to it's home game. It is the only boss in the game that won't despawn unless you leave it alone for SEVEN MINUTES, allowing for you to potentially kill it as early as pre-world evil, so all of its drops have been scaled back, and it's HP is quite large for the rewards you get. If you did something as simple as just, remove the 7 minute despawn time, then you could easily buff all of the weapons he drops, or drop his health and damage down a few pegs. While you could kill him as your first boss with many deaths but overall little difficulty, the fight takes forever, becomes annoying, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth that you'll never want to replicate in any other playthrough. Make him despawn and nerf his health so he's like on tier with, idk queen bee or smth. Pre-skeletron, but gives a good weapon to power you up. Also yeah the drops also suck too maybe give them a little love now that you can't cheese him by using a bed?

Just saying, "that sounded big" is always a good spawn message

I always fight Deerclops in my playthroughs, like, literally every time, I don’t even know why I do because I never use any of his items except sometimes the bone helm (if anybody is wondering I fight him either in between EOW/BOC and Skeletron or Skeletron and WOF)

Should’ve made the boss message “Clipping and clopping, here comes a stomping”

Few corrections! Technicly the only required pre hardmode boss is wall of flesh. You could beat the while game without ever fighting the eye, the slime, skeletron, Brain or worm. Also Sphinxs arent that rare to spawn acxually. The thing is they can only spawn on slush blocks (mayby Ore too? Could be a rumor). So just by making a line of lets say 300 Slush you should see sphinxes.

As a big fan of both Terraria and Don't Starve, it saddens me a lot, seeing deerclops so... underused in terraria, compared to the Eyes in DS.

I still fight deerclops not even for the drops but for his banger track

I like his music

It's worth noting that while deerclop does have the most HP of any boss in pre-hardmode, he doesn't despawn upon the player dying and as daunting as his attacks can be; most of his harder to dodge attacks he only use when you aren't in close proximity to him. You can effectively keep fighting him indefinitely even if you are dying to whittle down his health, and if you learn to dodge his attack close range attacks then he can go from post-skeletron to just post-evil boss or even post-EOC if you are good enough. Having his drops that much earlier on make them that much better to go for, and aside from Lucy which is better as a tool than a melee he offers great weapons for each class. Deerskull is a decent filler accessory at that point too if you prefer something more offensive, otherwise it's good in a fishing or building loadout.

This thing always get me by surprise in every single playtrough. I don't get how someone miss it when storms are so common. Unless they go out of their way to never travel at night.

probably though I do like the skull crown effect very good against eater of worlds. edit bone helm not skull crown sadly.

What i would do as a rework for the bonehelm is simple : Make it so that on hit (on any class) it would summon a shadow hand that would attack for 5 seconds, dealing 50% of the weapons damage (aka, if a weapon dealt 6 damage, the shadow hands would do 3)

ive found water walking boots and luring him into a medium to large sized lake is pretty handy for the fight.

Chester is not only the most useful minion in the game, but also one of the cutest, in my opinion

I didn't even know deer clips existed till I fought it in a complete whim, I got jumpscared the hell out of it when it spawned

People who seem to have a lot of effort to find Flinx' do not seem aware of their spawn requirements. They basically do not spawn on regular snow-biome blocks like snow and ice, and you can only find them in the cavern layer. The absolute best way to consistently and quickly find Flinx' is to drop down to the cavern layer, have the ice biome still be in the background, but near where the regular caverns cross the ice biome caverns. Since Flinx' can spawn on stone, dirt etc, they will start spawning there, and you will have no issue collecting the Flinx Fur.

in all of my multiplayer worlds bro likes to spawn on my friend when they least expect it and I have to run to the rescue, it's practically tradition at this point every time me and my friend start a new world

Main issue with the fight is those fucking shadow hands added in expert, unpredictable, they predict your movements, are fucking huge and can practically just appear on top of you, and also just mess up the whole rhythm of the fight

May be a forgetable boss, but has an amazing soundtrack

I will say, I get the money through almost always very early on, when blood moons happens, mostly pre eye and sometimes as late as pre eater of worlds/ brain of cthulu

with the new update of dont starve (host of horros) maybe deerclops will have some changes to look like crystal deerclops

As someone who needs that beesechurger pet, I never forgot him.

Deerclops is such a fun fight and has a surprising amount of Health for where it is in the game

I fought deerlops on my master mode for the worthy mage playthrough for the mage weapon, it has solid dps and it was easy to kill him since he doesn't despawn

I honestly wish the bone helm could get a hardmode or atleast some form of an upgrade. I can't count the times I ACTUALLY fought deerclops and wanted to keep using the bone helm

I always fight Deerclops since i quite like the fight and makes for a decent testing dummy for before WoF. One bad thing i can say is the shadow hands can be quite a nuisance.

I would love an video about neetle burst or crystal vile shard

By the time I fight it in master mode the only useful it's is that portable chest and the equipe able item that attacks for you or if you in the get fixed boy seed then the item that removes your hunger

The massive 80000 deerclops fight looks insane

The fact that deerclops were supposed to fight after Eye of Cthulhu or before evil biome bosses XD

Also you forgot to mention that deerclops is the only boss the doesn't despawns after you die instead it will have a 24 min timer and after that timer stops and died after the timer stops it will then despawn, so basically the deerclops fight is incredibly easy because of how deerclops despawns

I never kill him because, The houndies shooties is the worst sentury in the game and, as a summoner I already got better senturies.

after over 500 hours, i finally killed deerclops for the first time last night... although i had no idea when in the progression i was supposed to fight him, so i was well over-geared.

The funny thing is the "optional" bosses are basically requiredfor summoner. Most Mounts count as summons for damage then queen bee is the only summoner set prehard besides flinx stuff and of course deerclops I believe the accessory with the hands count as a summon damage and of course the sentry summon

Deerclops is fairly easy if you have a balloon and some rocket boots. You can easily jump over the ice smash attack. He will repeat that twice then an ice smash but on both sides and doesnt reach as far. He will repeat that over and over until you go above him or get too far.

Its a fun boss, but its weapons are underwhelming and its spawn is hard to find. Its also somewhat new, which means newer players wont have heard of it because it hasnt built a reputation yet. Thats also why I often forget Queen Slime exists

I always see people overthink this fight, clops's legs aren't a hitbox allowing you to walk right under him, and with good ground speed its possible to kite him such that he never or rarely hits you, it does kind of go against what most other bosses expect of you with a lot of mobility and jumping, but deerclops actively punishes you for trying given his ranged attacks are much stronger than his melee and harder to dodge as well as becoming invincible if you're too far away which isn't far at all for his size. Expert deerclops is a bit tricker due to the shadowhands but the same logic still applies and at worst you come a bit later in pre-hardmode progression with better defence and stronger weapons and healing.

I think that the bone helm (and other accessories that auto-attack) should benefit from damage buffs, since at least from my testing, the bone helm has a flat damage that can't be increased with armor. I think it should count as either magic or summon damage, and benefit from buffs to those damage types, as well as general damage buffs.

Deerclops is great as a first boss, because it won’t despawn on death. The pewmatic horn can easily carry you through skeletron.

i think sockrteez should make a video about attack size.

I do not know if he is saying as if the eye bone is buffer than the money trough, but what I can say (hopefully he has already mentioned about this, 'cause IDK) is that the eye bone is actually equivalent to the money trough. The eye bone shares the inventory of the piggy bank, for some reason...

I remember deerclops spawning on my first ever world and I died about 15 times slowly whittling down bros health with a blood butcherer

I always do a deerclops fight, mainly for chester and lucy, the rest of the drops are eeehhh, and my ranger friends just opt out every time