Talk:Elephant Cactus/@comment-26444549-20170109165847

Been running some numbers on farming these bad boys. Thought I'd share:

A speargun+spear will kill one in 4 hits. Spear guns get 8 uses and Spears get 15. So, for farming say, 80 EC (which seems to be the average number found in Volcano), we'd need 40 spear guns and 22 spears.

So for the spear guns, that's 120 bamboo and 40 jellyfish (which would need 4 nets=16 twigs, 8 silk, 4 rope)

And the spears would cost 44 twigs, 22 rope and 22 flint.

So, supposing we were gonna craft everything at the volcano and catch jellyfish outside, I would need to bring in total 120 bamboo, 60 twigs, 8 silk, 4 rope, and 22 flint.

A formidable shopping list, but not terribly expensive. The bamboo would be the most annoying and time-consuming to farm.