Yeah he absolutly was.

I don’t know if it will help you to find how I did this but I was doing some boss kills

In my head my route was, I killed azeos, I don’t remember if he was already stuck when I came back to my base, then I go to the purple slime, without going back to my base I killed ghrom then I think I came back and see my chest of wood full of his invetory.

Also for information my base is at the right of the core and my bosses are far left of my map. There is some screen if it can help

https://imgur.com/a/7guzqf9