Talk:Elephant Cactus/@comment-27474806-20160404070710

How to get all of the elephant cactus from the Volcano? Melee seems to be too costly on healing items, good weapon and lots of good armor. On the other hand, exploding them out seems to a good option, given that you have lots of rotten egg, charcoal and nitre (you won't have masses of these unless you were preparing on purpose). However, speargun seems to be a good option: speargun is easy to mass produce: you only need lots of jellyfish, and you can easily do so with several silk. Assuming that a Volcano world has 60 of these on average, here is the most resource efficeint way to mass collect them:

2 obsidian spear: 6 obsidian + 2 dragoon heart + (2 spear) <- just explore two dragoon den <- 2 gunpowder

15 spear gun: 15 Jellyfish + 45 bamboo <- 2 Net + 2 Gold Machete

Therefore, with good method, 2 Net + 2 Gold Machete + 2 Gunpowder and some grass, flint and twig gives you SUPERPOWERS!