Golem

The  is one of the four bosses added in 1.2. It can be found in the Jungle Temple and is summoned by inserting a Lihzahrd Power Cell (which is dropped from Lihzahrds and found in Lihzard chests) into a Lihzard Altar.





Location
The Golem is located in the Jungle Temple, which can be unlocked using a Jungle Temple Key, dropped from Plantera. Alternatively, if the player has a Picksaw from a previous battle they can mine their way in.

Though Plantera is a Hard Mode Boss, the Golem can be fought in any mode, provided you have the Key or can break your way in with the Picksaw or other means such as a teleporter that you can buy from the Steampunk after killing a hardmode boss. This is the easiest way.

You can move the altar and summon him where you want by placing and using the altar somewhere else if you own a Picksaw.

Stage 1

 * You will be able to hit him in three places -- his head and his two fists.
 * He will try to punch you using his fist (which can be extended in all directions). The fists can be blocked or batted back by hitting them, and will retract if they hit a solid surface.
 * He will shoot bouncing fireballs from his head.
 * He will jump around in an attempt to crush the player.
 * Once his health lowers, he will shoot yellow lasers that go through walls.

Stage 2

 * When his health is diminished, his head detaches and his main body becomes vulnerable.
 * His head will start shooting yellow lasers at you as soon as his health reaches a certain point with more damage and greater speeds the lower he gets.
 * If the fists are still alive, they will start punching and flailing around relentlessly.

Battle Strategies

 * 1) A simple way to defeat the boss is to build a wooden platform bridge across the chamber. When the golem spawns, it will fall onto the platform, but will not jump down. The player can then use a ranged weapon to take down the boss with relative ease.
 * 2) One of the easiest ways to beat the boss is to make a box that he can get trapped in and collect all the traps in the dungeon; set them up in the room somewhere where you can run back and forth and activate it with a button, avoiding the lasers whilst doing major damage the various traps to swiftly dispatch the boss.
 * 3) You can also equip any of the wings, balloons, or any double-jumping equipment to have an on-the-move fight
 * 4) Another easy way to kill the golem is hang with a hook  on one corner and shoot with  Magnet Sphere and wear Full Spectre Armor To resist damage caused by fireballs
 * 5) Build a box around you and use something such as a death sickle or a chlorophyte partisian to damage him, although you will still take damage from his lasers.

When fighting the boss with no area-augmentations, Important things to note are:
 * The fists can be interrupted mid-attack by dealing any level of damage to them.
 * The fireballs he shoots will bounce repeatedly in straight lines, originally being aimed directly at your character.
 * The lasers that he shoots have a very high unit-speed making them incredibly hard to dodge unless you are moving directly perpendicular of their original direction.
 * He will temporarily stop shooting lasers when transitioning to the second stage of the battle, until his health gets low again. A player can trap him and get a breather from the battle to regenerate and recover potion cooldown.

Bugs

 * Sometimes, if Golem gets stuck in a wall, it will have a crooked head and its eyes will be in the wrong position.
 * Occasionally, a temple will spawn without an Altar to summon the Golem. The only way to correct this problem is making another world.
 * If the Altar spawns on top of a destroyable block (such as a trap), destroying it will allow to pick it up and bring it somewhere else. Killing the Golem in this way, however, will not let him drop the Picksaw.
 * Sometimes when Golem is summoned, the head can get stuck inside the lihzahrd bricks and you will not be able to defeat him; unless you have a Picksaw with you.