Regarding /spawnboss command

[moisterrific]

Should all “boss” type NPCs be added to /spawnboss?

As in all the ones that display a health bar at the bottom of the screen? Or exclude mini-ish bosses like The Flying Dutchman and Martian Mothership?

[ronelm2000]

They ... wouldn't drop anything anyway as long as it's not the appropriate invasion.

[moisterrific]

Never knew that, I thought the drops aren’t affected by event. Cuz right now I’m thinking of adding all NPCs with “boss” health bars and purple “…had been defeated!” messages into the command.

[Kojirremer]

AFAIK, the ones without drops unless under their own event are Pumpkin and Frost Moon bosses, and maybe DD2's. Minibosses from normal invasions drop their junk anytime, but will now actively try to despawn (they didn't prior to 1.3).

[hakusaro]

I don't really see a reason why not

[bartico6]

I think adding any "gameplay significant" entity to this command makes sense even if its not an actual boss. Spawning Dutchmen, Ice Queens, Pumpkings etc makes total sense to me for this command. Anything miniboss+ is absolutely sensible to be in /spawnboss in my opinion

[hakusaro]

I tend to agree.

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[Kojirremer]

But would they also call their event, like nocturnal bosses do? Because as stated above, pumpkin/frost bosses have no loot unless on their event, and things like Mothron and Dreadnaughtilus despawn immediately if not spawned during an eclipse/bloodmoon.

[bartico6]

This is an interesting question - tShock has historically made sure that boss spawning won't fail due to spawn requirements but summoning an entire event/invasion feels somewhat excessive.

[hakusaro]

We tend to believe that a “command” to do something shouldn’t be overruled by game logic. The goal is to force certain things that would otherwise be impossible to be possible. Hence why we had teleportation using an elaborate spawn point shuffle routine for a while.

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