Lifelight

Lifelight

Statistics

Type	Boss
Damage	55 / 110 / 165
Max Life	36,500 / 73,000 / 109,500
Defense	0
DR	50% 80% (Shelled)
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Smite
Debuff duration	10 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Life regen reduced and 10% more damage taken
Immune to

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• 1 of the following Weapons will drop:
• Enchanted Lifeblade
  25%
• Lightslinger
  25%
• Crystalline Congregation
  25%
• Expixive Staff
  25%
• Pixie Dust (15-25)
  100%
• Divine Crate (1-5)
  100%
• Soul of Light (1-3)
  100%
• Lifelight Trophy
  10%
• Greater Healing Potion (5-15)
  100%
• Gold-Tinged Feather
  25%/25%
• Lifelight Relic
  10%
• Treasure Bag(Lifelight)

  • Life Revitalizer

  100%

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Lifelight is a Hardmode boss. While it can be summoned as soon as Hardmode is initiated, it is recommended to fight it after defeating all mechanical bosses.

Summoning

Lifelight is summoned by using Crystalline Effigy in Hallow during daytime.

Behavior

At the start of the fight and Phase 2, every available attack will be stored in a list. When an attack is chosen, an attack will be randomly picked out of and removed from this list. When the list is empty, it refills with the available attacks. This effectively means that the boss will always go through all of the attacks of each phase (in a random order) before repeating them.

• Lifelight's Damage resistance also applies to damage over time debuffs.

Expert Mode

After falling below 75% health and finishing the current attack, the boss enters a phase transition and initiates Phase 2, with a set of new and improved attacks.
Phase transition: Damage Reduction is increased to 87.5% while below threshold until the phase transition ends.

Eternity Mode

In phase 1, passively fires a life bomb every few seconds, regardless of the current attack state.

Masochist Mode

An arena surrounds the boss, preventing players from leaving. This arena is locked in place during charge attacks. Several changes to attacks, listed in their descriptions.

Attacks

Attack	Phase 1	Phase 2
Opening	The boss appears at the top of the screen, being invulnerable at the start of the fight. It then summons its golden shard shield at the edges of the screen, which gradually moves inwards. Once the golden shield has reached its normal orbit, the boss's other parts appear, it becomes vulnerable then the fight begins.	-
Lifeshot Barrage	Three barrages of splitting life shots are rapidly fired: one straight towards the player, and two at even mirrored angles from the first barrage, which contract over time to make the angle between the barrages smaller.	-
Mines	Fires a random spread of non-damaging projectiles towards the player, which explode into damaging Life Mines that linger at their position. Repeated three times.	-
Lightbomb	Fires a Lightbomb towards the player, which explodes into a circle of life shots. After moving outward for long enough these shots split even more. Lightbombs explode into more shots.	Marks the player's current position, before teleporting to it, firing a spread of telegraphed cross shots and Lightbombs. Lightbombs explode into more shots.
Pixies	Spawns a barrage of pixies from the boss which fly upwards before homing towards the player.	Makes a screaming sound, and then charges 6 times towards the player while spawning a trail of homing pixies.
Reaction Shotgun	The areas around the player, relative to the boss, are marked with a blue filter. After a delay, one of these is chosen and removed, and shortly after, repeated quick waves of Life Waves are shot towards the remaining filtered area.	Same as Phase 1 version, but with another set of outer filter and waves of Life Waves, instead only making a small gap at the chosen area. Periodically fires one/three telegraphed Cross(es) towards the player while stuck in the zone.
Rune Expansion	The boss enters its shelled form as the circle of Life Runes around the boss fly out in a spiral pattern from the boss while speeding up, forming an outer border instead. Then, they contract back to the boss and slow back down.	Same as Phase 1 version, but time between expansion and contraction is longer, and telegraphed circles of Life Waves are fired from the boss during this window.
Deathray Spin	-	Acts as a transition to phase 2. Fires a wave of Mines while entering shelled form, then conjures a giant Holy Deathray pointed away from the player, which rotates roughly 2 full rotations. Lifelight is immune to damage while the Holy Deathray is active.
Crystalline Congregation	-	Spawns small crystal balls in a spiral pattern far away from the boss, which are sucked in to the boss' center, before being shot out in a random spread towards the player. Creates a stream of life waves targeting the player.
Charge (variant 1)	-	Makes a screaming sound, before charging at the player and releasing a circle of cross projectiles. Charge is repeated 6 times.
Charge (variant 2, teleporting)	-	Makes a screaming sound while marking a random spot near the player with a light, before teleporting to the marked spot, releasing a circle of cross shots, and charging towards the player. Teleport and charge are repeated 6 times.
Plunge	-	Marks a spot directly above the player with a light, before teleporting to it, and quickly charging downwards while unleashing a spread of cross shots with negative gravity. The plunge is repeated twice.
Enchanted Lifeblade Hexagon	-	A spread of shots form a hexagonal arena around the player. If the player leaves this arena, a new one will be created. While in this arena, 6 lingering swords are launched from the boss, that gravitate towards the player. The swords have higher speed and gravitation towards the player.
Running Cross Shot Barrage	-	Makes a roaring sound, before flying towards the player while repeatedly firing two sets of cross shots. The angle of the cross shots expands and contracts twice before the attack ends.
Running Life Wave Barrage	-	Makes a roaring sound, before flying towards the player while repeatedly firing spreads of Life Waves that accelerate shortly after spawning in. Each successive spread contains more life shots in a wider spread. This attack repeats 9 times.
Desperation	-	Always happens when below 10% Health. The boss gains 87.5% damage reduction and heals off damage until this attack is over, after which it will stop attacking. Makes an arena of bouncy blocks around the player, before unleashing a series of attacks: -Hovers above the player while repeatedly firing Lightbombs (which explode into a circle of life shots) diagonally upwards, and a slow barrage of cross shots downwards. - Spawns a circle of 12 deathray launchers around the arena. After a short delay each launcher will fire a Life Deathray towards the center. - Quickly spawns deathray launchers around the arena in a circular pattern, forcing the player to rapidly spin around the arena to keep up. After this attack ends the arena disappears and the boss dies automatically.

Debuffs

Source	Debuffs
All attacks	Smite

Trivia

• The music that plays during Lifelight's fight is Illustrious Illuminescence by ProVGM.
  • In Masochist Mode, an abridged version of Spitfire by Infected Mushroom will entirely replace the normal theme.
• The final attack in desperation phase is a reference to Sans Undertale's final attack, even using Gaster Blasters in early betas.
• The boss was originally named "Lieflight", as most of its old behavior was inspired by the Father of Lies, a joke boss which became an inside joke in the Fargo's Mod community.
• Lifelight's stronger champion variant is the Champion of Life.
• The *The Bestiary entry for Lifelight: "The brilliance emitting from its core is soothing but hypnotic. Holds sway over lesser organisms. Its true form cannot be perceived."

History

• 1.6.7:
  • Changed attack logic, certain attacks are now conditional
  • Shots in reaction shotgun area are aimed at player rather than randomly, telegraph appears later
• 1.6.6:
  • Weapon drops are now craftable with 2 of the Boss Bag
  • During blue wave shotgun attack, speed is scaled down the closer to the player the boss is
  • Adjusted spawn animation length
• 1.6.2.2: Fixed the aura not appearing during the phase transition attack.
• 1.6.2.1: Fixed issues with Damage reduction and its aura.
• 1.6: Visual rework, more details on update page.
• 1.5: Small Changes, details on update page.
• 1.4.2: Large-scale rework, details on update page.
• 1.4.2.4: Several small changes to attacks.
• 1.4.2.5: Minor rework merging Phase 2 and 3, details on update page.
• 1.4.1: Introduced.