Originally posted by haize:

Everything I do is solo, and from what I read, it was needed to deal with the adds from fighting Bonemass. I didn't want to spawn him and lose my gear because I couldn't handle the fight.

Moot point since I lost my gear anyway. Swamp key is gone and I'll never get it back, so I'm literally screwed.

Games are supposed to be fun. 20 hours trying to find 1 idiotic random item some ******* dev decided to thrown in for an iron weapon is so far from my idea of fun I can't explain it. The whole way of getting iron to begin with in this game is so ridiculous it's not funny, and then to throw extra BS gatekeeping on top of it tells me exactly how little the dev respects people's time.

I quite literally have better things to do with my time then play this awful game any longer.

It is absolutely not required. I literally just killed Bonemass twice in a row in 10 minutes with a bronze mace. You don't even need iron weapons for it. You can punch bonemass to death, Adds included.

You get a swamp key every time you kill the elder; Just go kill him again to get a new one. Also, your corpse is pretty definitely still there somewhere.

And you never just 'lose your gear' when you die to a boss. There's nothing stopping you from running in and grabbing it if you plan ahead. Set up a small base with a teleporter nearby and a chest filled with one of your previous armor sets as a backup with one of each of your food of choice and a poison resist potion and a healing mead- You die? TP back, grab your backup gear, pop the food, pop the poison resist, pop the healing mead and sprint in to grab your corpse, then book it away to equip your better stuff.


The only thing that gatekept you was your strict adherence to a guide that told you the best way to cheese a boss. You probably could have killed the boss a dozen times over if you just fought him with what you had before that 20 hour grind for that one obscure item to make that one obscure weapon people only use to cheese things and not as an actual weapon.