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Unique drop for the creaking

At the moment the pale garden has no real incentive to go there except to grab a sapling and some plants. This can be done in daytime so there is no real reason to face the creaking. So, the creaking should have a drop. This drop "Name not decided" is a projectile item and will have a low drop chance, when a (probably natural) creaking gets poofed. This item when thrown at a mob, player or boss, will cause the target to freeze as long as the thrower is looking at them for a duration of time. This uses the creaking's interesting mechanic. The effect on the target will be scaled depending on what entity it is. I imagine that the projectile will take a straight path rather than affected by gravity to make usage of it easier. This will add a new element to PVP. As this is quite powerful, it will be a low chance for a creaking to drop one. Maybe one in twenty and possibly only from a naturally spawning one. 

This will give people a new incentive to enter the pale garden as this new drop would cater to adventurers and PVP'ers rather than just builders. Adventurers will use this to get a edge over bosses, especially as more are added, for example to score a precious ten seconds, for the boss to be frozen. And for PVP'ers, this well be a well sought after item in combat, the ability to freeze an enemy could change the tide of a battle. 

Feel free to comment below and help us refine this idea and make sure it's balanced. I believe this would really help this new game drop.

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    I think there are two ways that this item could be obtained which would determine wherever or not it is renewable or not. This first is that the creaking has a small chance to drop it when a naturally generated creaking heart is broken when a creaking is active and locked on to the player as there are a limited number of creaking hearts in the world this is not renewable. The second is that the creaking has a small chance to drop whenever a naturally generated creaking heart is broken when a creaking is active and locked on to the player or when the creaking spawned from a naturally generating creaking heart despawns when the night is over. 

    At the moment I am leaning to the second option as it would require less traveling from forest to forest and would prompt the player to spend more time in the pale garden biome collecting the item and brave the horrors of the creaking. However how we obtain this item should contribute to the balancing of said item. 

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    This feature could be made simpler if the targeted entities were just petrified. By this, I mean frozen for a duration of time wherever or not the thrower is looking at them. This is still in keeping with the petrified feeling of the pale garden. However, I believe using the creaking's mechanic for this item would be far more interesting as it would add a level of depth and skill when using this item.  

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    The creaking really needs a drop.

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    In response to the comment which consists of several no's. I intended the drop to only be obtained from breaking natural spawning creaking hearts and dropped from the corresponding naturally spawning creaking. My current idea is that this drop is not farmable, Although I am not opposed to it changing if someone comes up with a way of making it renewable yet balanced. (Maybe you could only get it from the first creaking that spawns from a player crafted heart?) I appreciate your feedback.

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    Yes I imagine so. Also I feel that for the drop to get actual use, instead of the the low dropping item, as I had originally intended. I think considering the rarity and size of the biome, the drop-rate will need to be increased as there is a very high chance that you don't get any from visiting this biome. What do you think?