Avalanche

Avalanche

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	100 True melee
Knockback	7.25 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	34 Very Slow
Tooltip	Spawns ice bombs that explode after 3 seconds into ice shards on hit
Inflicts Debuff	Glacial State 100% chance
Debuff duration	0.5 seconds (Ice Bomb)
Debuff tooltip	Cannot move
Rarity
Sell	4  80
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Ice Bomb

Ice Shards

Sounds

Use

Ice Shard

Ice Bomb

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Cryogen	1	25% / 33.33%

The Avalanche is a Hardmode broadsword that is dropped by Cryogen. When the weapon strikes an enemy, it creates ice bombs around the player that travel in either the cardinal or ordinal directions. Each bomb explodes into four gravity affected ice shards on enemy hits or after 3 seconds. Each ice shards deal 50% of the weapon's damage.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Kelvin Catalyst	Ice Star (100) Avalanche Hoarfrost Bow Icebreaker Snowstorm Staff Essence of Eleum (10)	Ice Machine

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• Despite appearing to be an axe, the Avalanche cannot be used to cut down trees.

Tips

• Due to the way the projectiles spawn, this weapon is exceptionally effective against Worm AI enemies, as every one of the falling shards will hit their long body.

Trivia

• This weapon was previously known as the "Permafrost", but was renamed due to the introduction of the Archmage NPC, which will always be named "Permafrost".

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.

• 2.0.2.001: Decreased sell price from 7  20 to 4  80 .

• 2.0.1.002: Fixed it damaging the player.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Decreased Glacial State duration from ice bomb from 1 second to 0.5.
  • No longer considered an ice weapon.

• 1.5.0.003:
  • Reworked, ice bomb projectiles that spawn on hit now travel in an "X" or "+" pattern and explode into gravity affected ice shard projectiles after 3 seconds.
  • Buffed damage from 60 to 100, but nerfed use time from 19 to 34.

• 1.4.5.006: Buffed ice shard projectile damage from 30 damage to 50% base damage.

• 1.4.5.005: Now has a 150% size modifier.

• 1.4.4.001: Resprited.

• 1.4.3.002: Can no longer be crafted.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Fixed ice bomb not benefitting from increased all-class damage.
  • Swing now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.105: Tooltip now mentions that its effect occurs on hits in general instead of just enemy hits.

• 1.4.0.001: Renamed from "Permafrost" to "Avalanche".

• 1.3.4.103: Resprited.

• 1.2.2.001: Resprited.

• 1.1.6.13: Now has use turn.

• 1.1.5.095: Introduced.