Who thinks it there should be other types of elementals (like fire, ice, or lightning)?

Rock elementals are extremely tough to kill or knockout. Over encumbering them inside or around your base and setting them to aggressive allows them to defend your base with their rock throw attack without being kited away by enemies.

Store your loot on one underwater in rock mode, no one will ever find it

For the survivor who said the rock golem can walk in lava and they tested it out in creative. If you are riding anything in creative it doesn’t take any damage

Friend: how did you get all this stone, obsidian and crystal?

Me: I USED THE STONES TO DESTROY THE STONES!

But seriously, they’re pretty good gatherers

Rock Elemental can take a lot of hits reducing damage by 50% from all non-blunt damage. A TAMED Rock Elemental can NOT fight a wild one. It works the same as a Giga so I would advice against it.

they should make it so when its hurt and you put stone in it it does this cool animation where it repairs/heals itself will the the rocks rarer minerals repairs/heals itself more

There is a fire elemental. It's on genesis

Use golems as a place to put stone, they carry alot and will eat it when hungry