UFO Boss insanely hard?

I just killed the boss (or at least I think so - got the molten core).
Did that without leaving the first planed (had no idea that coal can be fuel - just read it a moment ago here). Got quite lucky with a random ship spawn - it had 2 plasma granades. Took ~1/3 of his hp.
The rest of work was done by a 1h slicer (yes, not a bow).

Remember, that the best armor on first planed is that leather armor (you need a yarn and lots of leather).

About the strategy - I build a ladder from platform (maybe 20 of them) and waited below till he started his bombardment. When he did that, I jumped onto the height he was moving and stabbed him as much as possible.
Oh, and I had phase jump (double jump) - that probably help a bit as well.

 

Everyone kept telling me to trap it or bunker to kill it. I tried over six times, killing it once but not getting to the molten core in time before it disappeared (stuff disappears waaayyy too fast), but today I figured I'd just power through and just eventually get it done.

So it completely smashed through everything I'd built, including my house. I can't for the life of me understand why it was necessary to make this guy even harder, devoting recources to that end during a beta no less. It just seems like a pointlessly difficult way to gate content so that it seems longer. Maybe I'm just bitter because the house I spent hours building is destroyed and all the materials that I used to build it disappeared before I could get back. I honestly wouldn't have minded had it been the first time I summoned the boss but it was almost old hat to me now, and then this update. I guess I should check every update log/list from now on. But I actually had no idea the game had been updated it's been doing it so often.

I feel like this is Demon's/Dark Souls and I have to pay like 10,000 souls to get through a fog door to the boss. It's already disheartening to lose but now I'm paying for that luxury.

 

That's how I beat it, actually. (hide in a hole of Dire stone)

It also despawns if you are in your ship too long. pressing esc skips the spawn animation, letting you get back into the fight.

Took about ten deaths.

(side note: I also had an overpowered rusty hammer which lights things on fire and kills tanks in one hit which I got from an apex guard earlier. So there's that.)

 

It's not that difficult if you just explore a few planets, build your way up through the items. Some of the planets will have a special mob that drops a legendary weapon and if you are lucky then you can find the double jump tech, put this alongside silver armour (will take you an hour max to get enough silver to make a full set) and the boss is easy to beat. You just need to be patient and take the time to gear up instead of taking the easy way out and building walls around it and all that nonsense. It has been nerfed now though and it breaks blocks so that cheap trick might not work as well, didn't even try it personally so not sure how effective it is.

 

Silver armour is far, far superior to Iron. If you wear a full set, the boss himself will hit you for only 3% of your hp, the other mobs even less.

 

Stop using two-handed weapons. Use two one-handed swords and pulse-jump from a hill when he's firing blasts downward or beaming penguins down.
The twin swords also have the bonus of being able to constantly attack so all you have to do is run into, and stand on top of, the penguins until they die.

 

What i did was to get a spinning wheel and make the Snow infantry armor which is as good as the golden armor. Get some bandages and the iron bow and the boss becomes a long easy fight.

 

Pretty much this. IF you have silver armor the first boss is a pushover. Cheesing him is then unnecessary.

OP needs to explore other planets or dig deeper until he can get a silver set.

 

boss arent hard just build around him blocks

 

he is very easy to beat if you find molotov or bombs or even craft iron bow

1) build 2 towers about 25-30 blocks apart each tower 30 blocks+ high
2) create step up outside of one for a quick ascent
3) place beacon in centre of this area and activate with E (i forgot to activate it and was sat for ages)
4) climb up out side quick as possible
5) when UFO drops to attack build line of blocks across top (i used cobblesstone) leaving a gap in middle (you only need to build the cover big enough so the UFO cant fly out)
6) drop Bombs / Molotovs or shoot with iron or normal bow (will take ages with normal tho)
7) collect molten core from bottom when he is dead

took me less than 5 minutes to kill the ufo

 

Take a look at the date when this thread was created. Everything in here is irrelevant with the current patch.

Don't necro threads.

 

Are you sure people still need guides and bunkers to defeat this boss. As of last patch he seems to have become a joke, easily defeated with minimal preparation besides making sure you have the best-in-tier weapons and armour and making sure you have some cover (not nessecarily a fort, just, terrain to ensure you arn't taking direct fire from all the adds simultaneously and have somewhere to duck behind if you need health)

Spoiler: You have to defeat him to unlock silver armour

 

I defeated it first time first try last night. I built the beacon at my house. The Ufo destroyed the roof/attic space and the upstars floor :/ but I had a secret complex beneath my house and just kept going down there for a snooze then returning to school it.

 

Well back on the 4th when the topic was made, yeah, it was hard and poorly balanced. Now its more in line for a first boss encounter and completely doable.

 

Let's not bring up balance issue from previous patches!

Thread needs a lock now, it's not relevant any more.

Also, +1 to Firetempest for the old Cpt. Vor! May we ever remember him for his glorious red armour!

 

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