User blog comment:Natcrew/Eye Of Cthulhu Help!/@comment-4246239-20111207223652

There's actually a guide to fighting the Eye of Cthulhu for the 1st time on this wiki. It's located on the Eye of Cthulhu's page.


 * 1: Do you have an arena to fight him in? A large arena with various levels of wooden platforms to move between will make dodging the Eye's attacks easier, while still allowing you to attack it with ranged weapons.


 * 2: Speaking of ranged weapons, Shurikens and Throwing Knives are 2 of the best weapons to use against it in the early game. You can buy some Shurikens from the Merchant at any time, but you'll need to wait until a Blood Moon to be able to buy Throwing Knives from him. A bow with Fire or Unholy Arrows will work as well, though the Bow should at least be a Gold Bow or better.


 * 3: How powerful is your armor? I'd recommend a full set of Silver Armor or better, though Iron Armor might be able to work out as well.


 * 4: Do you have a Magic Mirror? If "you feel an evil presence watching you", then a Magic Mirror will allow you to return to your arena quickly, assuming that your arena is located near your home. If not, then you may have to just wait in your arena until it decides to attack you.

If you don't satisfy the 1st 3 requirements, and "you feel an evil presence watching you", then what you can do, especially if you're playing as a hardcore character, is to exit your world, then reenter it. The Eye shouldn't come after you if you do that. However, if you don't want to do this for some reason, then you can just pick a spot that's close to your spawn point, let the Eye kill you, then go and collect your stuff again (though this won't work with a Hardcore character, as once you die, you stay dead).

Note that you can summon the Eye yourself with a Suspicious Looking Eye. Also note that, once you've defeated it once, it'll never summon itself to attack you anymore on that world.