The Lich is a boss mob found in the Twilight Forest. It spawns on the topmost level of a generated Lich Tower. The Lich is a tall skeleton-like creature wearing a purple cape and golden crown. The Lich holds a scepter that has the functionality of all three of the Scepters, but he only drops one type of Scepter on death. There is an achievement for gathering all three of the Scepters.
The Lich Fight
The fight is divided into three main stages. The first is where the Lich spawns two skeletal minions, each with a Scepter of Twilight to cast Ender Pearl projectiles. The Lich also uses the Scepter of Twilight function of his omni-scepter in this phase of the battle. In the first stage, you can not directly damage the Lich: you will have to take down his shields first. He has 4 shields orbiting around them, and it takes quite some damage to destroy them. Melee or shoot him, or try to deflect his own projectiles back at him (requires some timing though). You can also use the Scepter of Twilight to take the shields, it seems to be very effective. It is possible to get the minions to hit the Lich by putting the Lich in between you and the minion. Once the shields are destroyed, stage two begins. During stage two, the Lich spawns zombie minions, utilizing the Zombie Scepter function of his omni-scepter. In stage two, the player must damage the Lich (either by shooting or melee) which triggers the Lich to initiate stage three of the Lich fight. During stage three, when the player gets the Lich to only have three zombie minions attacking that player, the Lich will pull out a Gold Sword and start chasing the player and melee-attacking him. He will still teleport when the player hits him, though. Stage three's objective is to hit the Lich until he dies, at which point the Lich will drop some Ender Pearls, one of the three types of Scepter, and some golden armor with high-level enchants such as Protection 3. This can be difficult due to the Lich's tendency to teleport around the room and residual zombie minions.
Trivia
- The Lich can be damaged and killed by his own fireball explosions.
- The zombie minions, like regular zombies, have a chance to spawn with armor equipped, a chance which increases as the battle progresses.
- The Lich only spawns once, although there could be multiple Lich Towers, each containing a Lich.
- The Lich's Shields will be destroyed by any armor-piercing damage, like Scepter of Twilight and Rapier (one hit = one shield destroyed).
Treasure
The Lich drops a number of items when defeated. First, there is a strange array of golden armor and a golden sword, all strongly enchanted with a powerful random effects. Second, the Lich drops exactly one scepter, either Scepter of Life Draining; Scepter of Twilight, or the Zombie Scepter. Finally, the Lich drops around 1-4 Ender Pearls, a couple of bones. and the highly decorative Lich Trophy.