Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

If you take a stagbreaker with you to where you found the golems and smack the ground with it, you can put off Bonemass for awhile longer.

I've found the best defense against golems is to be in a deep hole. Which is where you will likely be when encountering them. There's not much point in killing them.

Counterpoint; They are a renewable source of crystal, Crystal bits do not respawn in caves.

Would be nice if they occasionally dropped silver too, I mean, they visibly have bits of silver in them and sticking out of them in the case of the stabhands variant.