Crescent Moon

Crescent Moon

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	380 Melee
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	18 Average
Tooltip	Fires a whip sword that summons homing crescent moons 'People wanted the moon, let's bring the moon to them'
Inflicts Debuff	Nightwither 100% chance
Debuff duration	4 seconds (Flail) 3 seconds (Moons)
Debuff tooltip	Incinerated by lunar rays
Rarity
Sell	35
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Crescent Moon

Crescent

Sounds

Use

Moons

The Crescent Moon is a craftable post-Moon Lord flail that autoswings. Similar to the Solar Eruption, it fires a long whipsword from the player's position that quickly retracts. When used, it releases homing crescent moons that pierce infinitely and last for 0.77 seconds, each dealing 40% of the weapon's damage.

Its best modifier is Godly or Demonic. Both modifiers increase the average damage output by the same amount. However, Ruthless might be preferred if the player already has very high critical strike chance.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Ancient Manipulator
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Lumenyl	8
	Ruinous Soul	3
	Exodium Cluster	16
Result
	Crescent Moon	1

Trivia

• The weapon's tooltip is a reference to scrapped plans for the Moon Lord to be the moon itself descending onto the world.

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.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Homing moon projectiles now pierce infinitely instead of 4 times and have 2 extra updates instead of 1, but grant 6.67 effective local immunity frames instead of 5 and last 0.77 seconds instead of 1.5.
  • Moon projectiles now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.
  • Increased sell price from 26 to 35 .

• 2.0.2.001: Decreased sell price from 28 to 26 .

• 2.0.1.002: Buffed damage from 300 to 380. Increased homing radius by 50%.

• 1.5.1.001: Resprited it and flail. Previous sprites were

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 500 to 300.
  • Now grants enemies 8 local immunity frames instead of 3.

• 1.4.5.004: Nerfed homing moon projectile damage from 40% base damage to 18%.

• 1.4.5.001: Resprited. Previous sprites were

• 1.4.3.002: Fixed it not cutting grass.

• 1.4.3.001: Introduced.