Armored Digger

Armored Digger

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Environment	Cavern
Max Life	20000 / 40000 / 60000
KB Resist	100%
Immune to	All debuffs
Banner	Armored Digger Banner

Resistances

Cold	-
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	Vulnerable
Heat	-

Drops

Coins	5

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Demonic Bone Ash (2-4)
  100%
• Mysterious Circuitry (4-8)
  100%
• Dubious Plating (4-8)
  100%

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Digging

Scrap

The Armored Digger is a worm-type mini boss that appears in the Cavern layer after Plantera has been defeated. It behaves similarly to The Destroyer, charging at the direction at the player continuously until turning around to ram again. The worm will also occasionally fire yellow falling scraps which will linger for a bit until disappearing. It drops Demonic Bone Ash, Dubious Plating, and Mysterious Circuitry.

When an Armored Digger spawns, the message "Armored Digger has awoken!" will be displayed. The Armored Digger will despawn when the player leaves the underground layer.

Segments

Armored Digger Head

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	90 / 180 / 206 / 223 / 270 / 310 / 334
Max Life	20,000 / 40,000 / 60,000
Defense	10
DR	10%
KB Resist	100%

Armored Digger Body

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	70 / 140 / 210 (Contact) 60 / 120 / 180 (Scrap)
Max Life	20,000 / 40,000 / 60,000
Defense	20
DR	20%
KB Resist	100%

Armored Digger Tail

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	55 / 110 / 165
Max Life	20,000 / 40,000 / 60,000
Defense	30
DR	30%
KB Resist	100%

Notes

• Armored Diggers do not replace Diggers, despite the latter replacing Giant Worms earlier in the game.
• Armored Diggers do not spawn when the player is inside a Dungeon or a Jungle Temple.
• Armored Diggers use a custom spawn rate. As such, it can only be modified by a select few spawn rate changes.
  • After spawning, it cannot be spawned again for 600 seconds. This cooldown cannot be affected by any means.
  • Its base spawn rate is 0.001% (1 in 100,000) every frame. Its spawn rate can be multiplicatively modified by the following:
    • Death Mode during a Blood Moon: 5x
    • Zerg Potion: 2x
    • Chaos Candle: 1.67x
    • Battle Potion: 1.43x
    • Water Candle: 1.25x
    • Revengeance Mode: 1.18x
    • Peace Candle: 0.8x
    • Calming Potion: 0.7x
    • Tranquility Candle: 0.6x
    • Zen Potion: 0.5x
    • Boss Effects: 0.02x

Tips

• As with most worm-type enemies, weapons or ammo with high piercing are the most effective at killing Armored Diggers.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Armored Digger: "Despite being relatively primitive compared to Draedon’s current technology, armored diggers continue to see use to this day. Though their primary directive is mining and delivering minerals, they also once cleared room for the numerous underground laboratories."

• One of its previous sprites was intended for The Devourer of Gods, but was repurposed due to it being too small.