Ridiculous way to kill bosses

So i was doing the boss required for X sectors, and i thought, "hey, wouldnt it be funny if i spawned him on an airship and made it fight pirates?" so i did. it was on a delta-level planet, of course. unfortunately i forgot to screenshot or take a video, but...

I basically lured all the pirates into the big top right room of the pirate ship via hitting someone and then blocked them in with a wall.
I made walls around the designated "deck arena" right outside the room to the left.
I cleared the arena of any stray walls or platforms that would mess with spawning.
I made a little walled in section right below the deck arena for me to spectate in safely.

So then i spawn the X sector boss on the deck, successfully!
*clears wall blocking the trapped gladiator pirates*
*a couple pirates run onto the arena*
...and then nothing happens. It's as if the pirates are allied with the big jelly thing.
all of a sudden, a bird flies in, hits a pirate, and all hell breaks loose on deck. The jelly thing probably killed like 10 pirates. Meanwhile under the deck, the random pixels and pirate clothing go straight to the spectator area after a couple seconds, the jelly thing actualy ends up dying, and the quest item flies directly below deck to me. It was probably the funniest, most entertaining thing ive seen in all of starbound so far; so many "you killed"s. I'm not even sure what happened, things just exploded. Will probably do it again just to record.

...but lmfao!

in other news...interesting stuff i find (outdated, last patch)

confirmed instrument chest planets (surface chests unless otherwise stated):

---alpha sector, alpha delta per 9669 (III), -72887304 -4994481, 2 intstrument chests (go right) got a reed organ and piano here
---alpha sector, alpha asgardion minoris (I), 75577112 -88404518, 2 instrument chests (go right) first is visible from surface but slightly in a cave, second is in a glitch tower. got a rock organ and reed organ
---X sector, X 52 cyg minoris (I d), -24514510 -58204483, 2 instrument chests (go left) got a flute and an oboe
---beta sector, beta omega psc 0731 (III) ( ! gigantic planet ! ), -57039395 20222342, although there was only 1 actual instrument chest (got a floran xylophone), this planet has so many prize chests (like 20) from minilabs and 2 of those diamond complexes with the matter blocks that i ended up getting 3 more instruments and 1 or 2 nice cosmetics. plus, the planets full of fiber plants so you can stock up on 200+ bandages. would pillage again

 

Bosses have to attack one of the pirates before they'll attack back. But yeah, tricking bosses into smacking a pirate or two (or dozen) is my favored way of "fighting" them. There's something a little satisfying about seeing all hell break loose on deck.

 

so i take it you are enjoying your starbound experience

 

I was able to capture two delta animals, one which breathed fire and another electricity. The boss was dead within seconds. o - o

But yeah, I must try this hehe.

 

yeah i did the same thing, it's easy and cheap but it's also cleaver

 

did this in a glitch village, after a guard hit the boss it started hunting down terrified villagers. ended up having to kill the boss myself, but it wasnt so hard when he was distracted by the villagers running around.

 

What was the coords for the planet with the airship?

 

I approve of this quite hilarious

 

no idea lol. you could easily find a delta airship in that coordinates thread or at http://orcz.com/Starbound:_Coordinates