Aries

Aries

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Astral Infection – Surface
Damage	50 / 100 / 150 (pre-Astrum Aureus) 85 / 170 / 255 (post-Astrum Aureus)
Max Life	300 / 600 / 900 (pre-Astrum Aureus) 450 / 900 / 1350 (post-Astrum Aureus)
Defense	14 (pre-Astrum Aureus) 24 (post-Astrum Aureus)
DR	15%
KB Resist	40% / 46% / 52% (pre-Astrum Aureus) 50% / 55% / 60% (post-Astrum Aureus)
Inflicts debuff	Astral Infection 100% chance
Debuff duration	1.25 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is melting off
Immune to
Banner	Aries Banner

Resistances

Cold	-
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	-
Heat	Vulnerable

Drops

Coins	3  80

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Stardust (1-2 / 1-3 )
  50%
• Stellar Knife(After defeating Astrum Aureus)
  14.29%

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Not to be confused with XF-09 Ares, a mech in the Exo Mechs boss fight.

The Aries is a Hardmode enemy which spawns on the Surface Astral Infection biome. It leaps quickly towards the player with both small and larger strides.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Aries: "These creatures bound across the landscape endlessly, chasing down any intruders that dare enter the hive mind’s home. The star’s power has bestowed them limitless stamina, rendering them unable to feel exhaustion."

• Aries is named after the Zodiac astrological sign of the same name.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.3.007: Fixed its bestiary entry using the wrong apostrophe.

• 2.0.3.005: Decreased Astral Infection duration from 1.5 seconds to 1.25.

• 2.0.3.003: Decreased Astral Infection duration from 2 seconds to 1.5.

• 1.5.1.001: Now vulnerable to heat debuffs, but resistant to sickness debuffs.

• 1.5.0.001: Fixed a sprite sheeting error.

• 1.4.5.001: Fixed it spawning during events.

• 1.4.3.002: Now immune to Astral Infection.

• 1.4.2.105: Fixed its death sound not playing.

• 1.4.2.104: Now inflicts Astral Infection for 2 seconds on contact.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Now gains increased stats, equivalent to old stat values, after defeating Astrum Aureus.
  • Now drops Stellar Knife after defeating Astrum Aureus instead of Astrum Deus.
  • Nerfed health from 450 / 900 to 300 / 600 , damage from 85 / 170 to 50 / 100 , defense from 24 to 14, and knockback resistance from 50% to 40%.

• 1.4.2.101: Now has 15% damage reduction.

• 1.4.1.003:
  • Increased delay between when its hit sound can play.
  • Increased minimum coin drop amount from 3  80 to 10 .

• 1.4.0.002:
  • Increased volume of hit and death sounds.
  • Fixed all sounds not playing properly.

• 1.4.0.001: Introduced.