Talk:Spiky Ball/@comment-208.103.239.135-20110523003245/@comment-24.108.98.42-20110526040617

i havnt tested it yet, but i imagine they are like anything else you drop...they stay until you close the game and reload it. like if you drop a bunch of dirt from your inventory to make room for something more valuable, it will stay where you put it for your whole session (until you hit save&exit and load your world again).

again, i havnt specifically tested this with the spiky balls, but it seems to be the case. i was able to completely mine the roof of the dungeon in preparation for the fight with skeletron and they stayed until i fought him (which was quite a while later, as it was daytime when i was preparing, i went home and got my equipment/potions ready etc, prolly 15 mins or more in between).