How this discussion works:
A member must submit a question in a comment to this discussion. I, or any other staff member, will answer it and will add both the question and answer beneath the header labeled "FAQ".
The rest of this forum section is for questions that are along the lines of "How should I go about defeating (insert boss)?" and the rest of the communtiy will discuss and give you tips on that.


Q: Why can't I get {item} from {boss}?

A: All bosses drop items. The four late game non-event bosses (plantera, golem, duke fishron and moon lord) as well as event bosss (debatable that they can be included here) can drop a variety of gear-related items (weapons, tools and accessories, e.g. duke fishron's tsunami). To make it so the player always receives an item, but does not receive all of the items, the boss always drops one of these items. However, the item the boss drops is still left up to RNG (random number generator, basically the luck/random factor). This means a player could get five of the same item in a row, or perhaps might never get a certain item.
There are also certain items that are not included with these drops. These are the rare drops. An example is plantera's "The Axe", an item that has a 1 in 50 chance of dropping from plantera. This is excluded from the pool of items that a player always receives one item from. This is also left up to RNG, and a player could either get one of these items from the first boss they kill that drops this item, or he might just have to grind hundreds of bosses.