Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

The abomination will be able to fight back but it will take a lot of damages from the surtling fire.

I understand people will find that cheesy but, to me, that's just pure logic. A few hit of the hoe to level the ground around the fire is enough to kill any future surtling spawns. You're taking advantage of their major weakness.

It's not worth it to wait for them to respawn anyway since it can take a few minutes but it's a nice thing to do when you're clearing nearby sunken crypts since you can just scoop up all the loots once you cleared the area. (and killing surtlings in the swamp isn't even a challenge since you're always wet and taking reduced fire damage while you can easily kill them in one hit)