Gorgon

**Gorgons** are minibosses that lurk in coastal underground lairs and kill anything that looks at them with a petrifying gaze.

## Appearance

Gorgons are repulsive female humanoid monsters with the tail of a snake, the body of a woman, and hair made out of snakes. Their skin is pale green in color, while their tail is dark green and the many snakes on their hair are a deep green; as well as this, they wear light brown armor as well as green garments.

## Spawning

Gorgons can be located deep down in Gorgon Temples, gigantic, Greek-style crumbling stone temples which spawn randomly in Beach biomes.

## Drops

Gorgons will drop 1 gorgon head upon death.

## Behavior

If a gorgon is looking directly at a player and the player has their crosshair on her, her eyes start glowing a bright yellow, her mouth opens to reveal large fangs, the snakes on her head come to life, and she turns that player to stone; petrified players can be broken with a pickaxe, and yield 4-5 pieces of cobblestone once broken. A surprising thing to note about the gorgon is that she can also turn other mobs to stone, as long as she and her target are directly looking at each other. Wearing a blindfold will render a player immune to the gorgon's gaze; however, in response to this, the Gorgon will become more aggressive and start directly attacking that player, dealing 1 heart (2 HP) of damage and inflicting Poison III for 4 seconds.

### Combat

There are two strategies to defeat a gorgon:

The best way to take a gorgon on is to wear a blindfold, equip decent armor, use a powerful sword, and take her on. In addition to this, it is recommended that one should bring many buckets of milk, should they get poisoned by her attacks. Note that you must be blinded to avoid petrification; having anything that counters the blindfold's effect will not protect you from the Gorgon's gaze.

Alternatively, one can take on the gorgon without a blindfold by simply looking down and hitting her tail. However, this is a riskier approach, as one misstep can lead to being one-shot by the petrification. It is important to note that any equipped armor cannot be retrieved if the wearer gets petrified; the items will get "stuck" inside the statue instead of dropping on the ground.

## Gallery

Gorgon near the petrified zombieA gorgon's face when she petrifies an entityIn frontBehindFrom the side
## History

* 1.2.0:
	+ Introduced.
* 1.5.0:
	+ Now rarer by default.
* 1.5.2:
	+ Animals and NPCs now flee from gorgons.
	+ Added a config option for far gorgons can generate from a player's spawn point.
* 1.6.0:
	+ Can now draw drops from a configurable loot table.
* 1.9.0:
	+ Idle animations are now smoother.
* 1.9.1:
	+ Petrified mobs now render better when broken down.
* 2.0.0:
* Added new model (now has a longer tail and more detailed snakes).
* Added new texture (now appears to be covered in bronze armor).

## Trivia

* Like dragons , gorgons also have unique death messages for killing the player, including 2 "mundane" death messages and 1 comical death message. When the player get's killed by the gorgon's petrifying stare, one of the following messages will display:
	+ "<playername> was turned to stone by a gorgon"
	+ "<playername> was turned into gorgonzola by a gorgon"
	+ "<playername> was solidified by a gorgon"
* Death worms, cockatrices, and blinded cyclopes are immune to the gorgon's petrifying gaze, and thus will incite direct aggression from her when nearby.
* If you have keep inventory on and get turned to stone by a gorgon you will still lose the armor you have equipped.