Summary[]
- Alias: Nightmare Dragon, Theatre Dragon, Theatre Boss, Cricket
The Cricket, also known as the boss of The Theatre, is a mob that was introduced during the Ratboy's Nightmare Update. It can be found on the stage of The Theatre, however, players need to have a Theatre Key beforehand to access the zone in the first place.
Attacks[]
There are five known attacks that The Cricket can perform:
- Explosive Heads - If the player is far away from the boss, The Cricket will begin to cast a series of slow-moving explosive heads aimed towards the player's current position, that explodes on contact and inflict damage to nearby players. This can be seen once the boss begins to spin around in a circle.
- Hand Grapple - Similar to the Fantastic Dragon's Hand Clap's ability, The Cricket will attempt to pierce and harm the players in front of them.
- Laser Beam - If the player is far away from the boss, The Cricket will begin to cast a purple laser-beam at the player's current position, taking away large portions of their health pool.
- Slam - Uses its limbs to slam onto the ground, dealing damage to nearby players around them.
- Swipes - If the player is close to them, they will begin to use their limbs to swipe at the players.
Drop Rates[]
The drop rates of every single collectible that can be acquired from The Cricket. Any claims of "missing items" that The Cricket could drop will be cast aside as false information.
- 100% chance for Traveling Flea Circus
- 5% chance for Lasting Flower
- 1% chance for Perplexed Shellmouth
- 0.8% chance for Emperor's Cape
- 0.1% chance for Maskhat
Strategy[]
If the players possess a long-ranged weapon, they may attempt to use the pillars near The Theatre's entrance/exit to 'counteract' the laser-beam attack, however, players need to be wary not to be too close to the pillar as they will still be able to take damage from the boss's Explosive Heads attack. A good example of long-ranged weapons are the Caster Form of the Blade of the Throne (due to the energy slashes phasing through all objects and enemies once it is cast) and the normal attack from Staff of Dreams, which is similar in nature. Another way to dodge/counteract the laser-beam is using the normal attack of a salamander or Greater Storms Spellbook, making the laser-beam unable to hit the player.
Those who are good at dodging can attempt to take the Cricket at extremely close range, causing it to not use its ranged attacks and only do its predictable melee attacks. This should only be done with great practice and heavy armor, though, as getting hit can have devastating effects, and anyone who backs off too much could trigger the Crickets Laser Beam or Explosive Heads.
Trivia[]
- The Cricket is the official name of the mob, according to the description of the Traveling Flea Circus.
- The mob itself hardly resembles a real-life cricket, and more resembles a reskinned, skeletal Fantastic Dragon or Pygmy Dragon.
- Its fairly quick, nearly-instant spawn rate allows players to farm the mob for its loot.
- The Traveling Flea Circus was a collectible that was intended to be dropped by The Cricket as its main loot, however, an error had occurred upon launch, which instead causes The Cricket to drop the Left/Right Head of the Democan over the Traveling Flea Circus.
- The Left Head of the Democan, Right Head of the Democan, and the Hidden Key cannot be dropped from The Cricket after its drop table was fixed.
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