Animated Wooden Hulk

The Animated Wooden Hulk is an optional sideboss that can be found anytime beyond steel tier. It is summoned with the Wooden Skeleton, whose blueprint is found on the Forgotten Remnants. In the future, it will be part of a side progression tree involving another, currently unimplemented boss.

## Summon

The Animated Wooden Hulk can be summoned by placing an Onyx into a Wooden Skeleton on any planet type. The Wooden Skeleton is crafted using 5 wood and 3 berries at a Work Table, however it cannot be crafted from the start of the game, and a blueprint for it must be found in the Forgotten Remnants. Within the Forgotten Remnants, the blueprint can be found in chests and on the floor on the second floor.

## Behaviour

Upon being summoned, the Animated Wooden Beast will initially be passive. It will wander around randomly, with no boss bar. Upon being hit however, the fight will begin.

### Phase 1:

The Wooden Hulk has only one attack in this phase, in which it will do a melee swipe at the player doing 25 damage and almost certainly bleeding the player (without bleed negating armour that is). This attack is made more deadly by the fact that the Hulk does not stop while doing this attack (unlike most other enemies in the game). This, coupled with the high top speed of the Hulk, means that it is often hard to dodge its attacks.

### Phase 2:

After reaching 50% health, the fight will progress into stage 2. The Wooden Hulk will gain multiple new attacks, and a new attack pattern. Its first new attack is a heavy smash attack, where it will raise its arms and slam the ground, damaging everything around it. Another of its new attacks is its push attack, where it will forcibly launch you away with a lot of force. This leads into its last, but potentially most powerful attack, where it charges up for 5 seconds and then heals itself for 200 health. This attack can be cancelled by hitting it for the duration of the charging animation. The attack pattern at melee range goes as follows: melee, melee, groundslam, melee, melee, groundslam, melee, melee, push. Immediately outside of melee range, the Hulk will occasionally try to push the player away. At a large distance from the player, the Hulk will try to heal itself.

## Loot

Upon being defeated, the Animated Wooden Hulk will ragdoll and drop to the ground. It drops 3 wood, 2 sacred wood, an Onyx, 60 or 80 Money, the Ligneous Claws (a fast attacking but short range weapon), and its lore (if it hasn't already been read).

## Tips

The Animated Wooden Hulk moves while executing its main attack, which can make dodging while using melee very difficult. However, the Hulk also has a slow acceleration, meaning it takes a long time to speed up and a long time to stop. This can be used to your advantage, by leading the hulk away and circling around it afterwards. Alternatively, one skilled enough to time it perfectly can use a shields Perfect Parry to block incoming attacks, however not much attack roundup time is offered to prepare for this.

## Trivia

* The Animated Wooden Hulk is 244 cm tall, including the distance at which it floats upon the ground.
* The Animated Wooden Hulk existed in the game long before it was officially added in the patch notes of 0.7.2, however it was missing much of its attacks and was unable to be summoned without using the cheat menu.
* When the Wooden Hulk swings its arms, a dark trail can be seen.
* The Animated Wooden Hulk one shots trees with its basic attack, and is relatively easy to dispatch late game, meaning it can be a funny way of gathering lots of wood.
* The only lore the Hulk drops was not written by the Ugs, implying that the Ugs never discovered it.
* According to the lore, the Animated Wooden Hulk was an experiment by the Ancient Ones soon after they discovered dark magic. The lore also confirms its initially passive behaviour.
* The head of the Animated Wooden Hulk is missing one horn, and the other appears to be sawn off.