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First mechanical boss: The Destroyer
Terraria

First mechanical boss: The Destroyer

Learn how to summon and defeat The Destroyer, Terraria's first mechanical boss, with recommended equipment and strategies.

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Learn how to summon and defeat The Destroyer, Terraria's first mechanical boss, with recommended equipment and strategies.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Build very long platform levels, 2-3 times the width of your screen, with 6-8 levels stacked vertically.
  2. 2
    Place Sunflowers and Honey Crevices throughout the arena.
  3. 3
    Set up Campfires and Heart Lanterns for passive healing.
  4. 4
    For the cheese strategy, build rope/platforms to reach 150 tiles above the ground, removing them as you ascend, and build a box to hide in. The Destroyer cannot reach you here, but its Probes can still attack.
  5. 5
    When fighting normally, use Leaf Wings to fly around and avoid lasers. Alternate between damaging the body and killing the probes, as probes spawn every time you damage the Destroyer's body.
  6. 6
    In Expert Mode, avoid the head as it can two-shot you.

Recommended Equipment:

  • Daedalus Stormbow: Dropped by a Hallowed Mimic (created by using 5 Souls of Light to craft a Key of Light and killing enemies in The Hallow). It rains arrows at the cursor location for extreme damage.
  • Cross Necklace: Found in a chest in the Cavern layer. Extends invincibility from 0.33 seconds to 0.66 seconds after taking damage, reducing damage from rapid fire lasers and probes.
  • Piercing Weapons: Recommended due to The Destroyer's large, segmented body, allowing attacks to hit multiple segments.

Summoning The Destroyer:

  • Natural Spawn: 10% chance to spawn at dusk (7:30pm) after smashing a Demon or Crimson Altar, only if you haven't killed it before.
  • Summoning Item: Craft a Mechanical Worm at a Hardmode anvil using Rotten Chunk/Vertebra x6, Iron/Lead Bar x5, and Soul of Night x6.

The Destroyer Stats:

  • Head: 80,000/120,000 HP, 70/280 Damage, 0 Defense
  • Body: Same HP, 55/93 Damage (melee), 44/72 Damage (laser), 30 Defense
  • Tail: Same HP, 40/68 Damage, 35 Defense
  • Probes: 200/300 HP, 50/80 Damage (melee), 50/88 Damage (pink laser), 20/20 Defense

Drops:

  • Normal Mode: Coins (12g), Souls of Might (25-40, 100%), Hallowed Bars (15-30, 100%), Greater Healing Potions (5-15, 100%), Destroyer Mask (14.29%), Destroyer Trophy (10%)
  • Expert Mode: Coins (30g), Mechanical Wagon Piece (100%)
  • Master Mode: Deactivated Probe (25%), Destroyer Relic (100%)

Post-Defeat Use of Drops:

  • Souls of Might: Used to craft Light Discs (melee boomerang) and the Megashark (ranged weapon requiring Minishark, 5 Shark Fins, and Illegal Gun Parts from the Arms Dealer).
  • Hallowed Bars: Used to craft Hallowed equipment, including the Hallowed Repeater.

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