Magma Boss

"I have defeated the Magma Boss more times than I can count!"

- Elle of the Nether

The Magma Cube Boss (Also known as the Magma Boss) is a Boss found in the Magma Fields in the Blazing Fortress.

Spawning
The Magma Cube Boss spawns every 2 hours. The spawn time is the same in each server as of update 0.10

Prior to spawning, lava flows down the mountain towards the valley of the boss arena. The closer the lava is to the ground, the sooner the boss will spawn.

In addition to the lava flow, a huge wave of blazes spawns 20 minutes prior to the boss spawning. When the timer reaches 10 minutes to spawn, a huge wave of Magma Cubes spawn. 2 minutes prior to the boss spawning, the Music Disc "13" can be heard by players in the arena.

Players can look up when the next Magma Cube Boss will spawn at this link: Magma Boss Timer Link

If the first boss in a server is killed too quickly, there is a chance that a second and even third boss can spawn immediately.

Drops
Each player that deals damage to the Magma Cube Boss will have their own loot (that is only visible to them) drop depending on how what place they get just like an Ender Dragon Fight. The higher the place, the greater the chance of getting rarer drops or more drops. Anyone who deals at least 1 damage will receive an Ember Fragment, which can be used to craft the Ember Armor Set.

The following items may drop when killed:
 * Ember Armor
 * Ember Fragments
 * Magma Cream
 * Enchanted Magma Cream
 * Magma Cube Pet ( and, lower rarities drop from magma cubes)
 * Travel Scroll To Magma Fields (Requires )
 * Molten Cube

Behavior
The Magma Boss targets and attacks nearby players, jumping to reach them and dealing heavy damage on contact. In addition, it can shoot a volley of fireballs at faraway damage, igniting and harming players it hits.

The boss does not respect invincibility frames, similar to the Ender Dragon. It also bypasses protection from the Skeleton's Helmet.

Any damage it receives above 2,000 is reduced to 2,000 + 10% of the additional damage.

When the boss dies, it turns the ground beneath it into yellow hardened clay, and a beacon shows its location of death. Its loot drops within the yellow area for collection. If the boss is killed quickly, a second boss can spawn.

Strategy
Many players should work together to efficiently defeat the boss. Since the player has a higher chance of receiving rare drops if they deal more damage than other players, it is in the player's best interests to optimize their DPS.

An effective way of damaging the boss for lesser amounts of damage dealt to the player is to shoot with a bow. This will keep the player safe from the Boss's attacks but will deal less damage than a melee weapon. Using a more powerful bow, such as Runaan's Bow, will yield more damage dealt. As well as the Runaan's Bow, a Hurricane Bow could be better because of the multiple arrows being able to hit the boss at once

Using a melee weapon is a much riskier strategy of damaging the boss. The Magma Cube Boss will deal substantial damage to those players standing within melee range. The player is not advised to undertake this strategy unless they have very effective armor with Enchantments such as Growth or Protection.

Using Potions can also significantly increase the amount of damage a player deals. For instance, Critical Potions can increase the player's critical damage and Archery Potions can be used to increase ranged damage.

When the boss dies, each player gets separate drops, although only one player will get the Magma Cube Pet. If the person quits the lobby or exits the game when the items are dropped then they will not get the items.

Note that Arrows often bounce off the magma boss due to Minecraft mechanics.

As the Magma Cube Boss is a magma cube, the Slime Bow does 5x damage against it, meaning it's possible to kill a Magma Boss in the first and only hit on it. Doing this seems to spawn a second Magma Boss, as whenever the boss is killed extremely fast, the server spawns another one, presumably to give players a chance to get items if this does occur.

Bugs
If encountering any of these bugs, going to another server can generally fix the problem.

Indicators

 * 1) Some servers do not have lava flowing correctly.
 * 2) Some servers do not spawn the wave of blaze or magma cubes like they should.
 * 3) The music disc can only be heard by a few players. The reason for this is unknown.

Spawning

 * 1) Some servers do not spawn the magma boss when they should. This was meant to be fixed in update 0.7, however, it still affects some servers today.
 * 2) If the boss is killed too fast, a second one will spawn.

Trivia

 * You will see your ranking for how much damage you dealt after the boss is killed.
 * The Magma Boss was the first boss to be added.
 * As of one of the newer updates the Skeleton's Helmet will no longer work on the boss.
 * The Magma Boss is now one of the more useless bosses, as the Magma Cube Pet doesn't give a large bonus, and is also now very weak. The Eek! Spray emphasizes this.
 * The Ember Rod used to be a drop from the Magma Cube Boss, but was later removed, most likely because of other weapons outclassing it.