Talk:Granite Elemental

Coin Drops

On the wiki page is shown that the Granite Elemental drops 10 silver. I have found that this is false as I have murdered a lot of Granite Elementals and found that they drop 20-30 Silver. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dankm3m3 (talk • contribs) at 23:42, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Are you playing in an Expert world by any chance? The coin drops of Granite Elementals are as follows: 1000/2500›2000›4000 Copper Coins (i.e., 25 SC in Expert pre-Hardmode, 20 SC in Expert Hardmode, and 40 SC in Expert post-Plantera-Hardmode). --Rye Greenwood (talk) 23:52, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

As it turns out I was and I look like a complete idiot now :I — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dankm3m3 (talk • contribs) at 23:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

That's no problem. Your confusion indicates that the information on the page is not entirely clear and other people probably experienced the same. Maybe we can come up with a way of including the Expert values in the infobox. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 10:43, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Pass-Through and Spawning Mechanics

I've been doing some testing with Granite Elementals, specifically with the distances that they are able to pass through block before becoming solid again. They will not begin to pass through blocks unless the player is at least 56 blocks away, and they will not become solid again until they are within at least 36 blocks of the player AND currently in an area they can occupy (not solid). I would assume that this is a spheroid region around the player until proven otherwise.

I've also noticed Granite Elementals and Golems spawning from the opposite direction of nearby Granite Caves, and have since discovered that they do not require Granite as a spawn surface. Instead, any amount, even just 1 block, of nearby Granite will allow them to spawn in any area otherwise able to spawn monsters. This has also lead me to believe that their spawn rates may be influenced by the amount of nearby granite, as it took several minutes for an Elemental to spawn with 1 block, but spawned almost immediately with 50. Spawn rates for Elementals (and probably Golems too) also seemed much higher when standing on Granite, even with just 1 block. All of this seems to be similar to the mechanics described on the Marble Cave page, but left surprisingly absent from either this page or the Granite Cave or Granite Golem page.

Can somebody confirm my findings before adding them to these three pages? TheGreatAlphaA (talk) 03:10, 18 February 2020 (UTC)