Desert Scourge

Type	Boss – Burrowing Enemy
Damage	24 / 32 / 40 / 48 / 72
Max Life	4,200 / 6,720 / 8,000 / 8,568 / 10,200
Defense	6
DR	5%
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance;
Debuff duration	4 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Type	Boss – Burrowing Enemy
Damage	45 / 66 / 88 / 110 / 165 (Contact); 26 / 36 / 44 / 52 / 84 (Sand Blast)
Max Life	4,200 / 6,720 / 8,000 / 8,568 / 10,200
Defense	4
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance;
Debuff duration	10 seconds (Contact)
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Type	Boss – Burrowing Enemy
Environment	Desert
Max Life	4,200 / 6,720 / 8,000 / 8,568 / 10,200
KB Resist	100%
Immune to
Cold	Vulnerable
Water	Vulnerable
Sickness	Vulnerable
Electricity	-
Heat	-
Coins	5

If you were looking for something other than the Desert Scourge, see Scourge (disambiguation).

"...There is always a bigger fish in the sea."

The Desert Scourge is a Pre-Hardmode boss. It is intended to be one of the first bosses fought by the player and is considered to be the weakest of all of the bosses added by the Calamity Mod. It is intended to be fought after the King Slime, but it can still pose a considerable challenge to new players with only basic equipment.

Spawn

The Desert Scourge does not spawn on its own and requires the player to summon it with the Desert Medallion in the Desert or Underground Desert.

Segments

Desert Scourge Tail

Statistics

Type	Boss – Burrowing Enemy
Damage	18 / 24 / 30 / 36 / 54
Max Life	4,200 / 6,720 / 8,000 / 8,568 / 10,200
Defense	9
DR	10%
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Behavior

Desert Scourge behaves like a regular worm enemy, moving through blocks and attempting to ram the player. The Desert Scourge has 16 / 19 / 22 / 25 segments in total. If the Desert Scourge gets over 125 tiles away from the player, it will be forced to turn around to catch up with them.

The Desert Scourge will become enraged if the player leaves the Desert.

Attacks

When it reaches 50% / 75% / 100% health, the Desert Scourge will occasionally burrow underground and roar, then rapidly lunge at the player before burrowing again from a height of 37.5 tiles above the player, spawning a visual sand splash while doing so. It will also fire 12 / 18 / 21 / 24 Sand Blasts at the top of its lunge.
- This attack occurs every 9 / 7 seconds. After performing the attack, this timer resets on the apex of its lunge.
- If the attack takes longer than 10 seconds, it will automatically reset to its default behavior.

In Expert Mode

Increased segment count to 19.
Can use its burrow-and-lunge attack at 75% health.
Gains up to 66.67% bonus speed and 83.33% bonus acceleration as its health lowers.
When at 50% health, it burrows underground while becoming immune to damage and spawns two Desert Nuisances that attack the player. While they are alive, the boss will not be present.

In Master Mode

When at 50% health, no longer burrows underground and instead fights along side both Desert Nuisances.

In Revengeance Mode

Increased segment count to 22.
Can use its burrow-and-lunge attack regardless of health.
Shoots 21 sand blasts at the top of its lunge instead of 18.
When one Desert Nuisance dies, the other one moves and turns faster.

In Death Mode

Increased segment count to 25.
Requires 2 less seconds to prepare for its burrow-and-lunge attack.
The speed and acceleration boosts from Expert Mode are increased to 133.33% and 125% at maximum respectively.
Sand blasts have higher velocity.
Fires 24 sand blasts at the top of its lunge instead of 21.

On the For the worthy seed

Health is increased to 26,880 / 34,272 / 40,800 / 45,696 / 54,400 .
Moves 10% faster and turns 20% faster.
Is 60% smaller but segments increased to 77 / 92 / 107 / 122 .
Speed when falling is doubled.
Gains increased velocity.
The number of sand blasts shot at the peak of its lunge is increased to 24 / 32 / 36 / 40 .
Desert Nuisance has increased defense:
- 20 for its head segment.
- 30 for its body segments.
- 40 for its tail segment.

On the Get fixed boi seed

Gains increased velocity.

During the Boss Rush

Gains an additive 133.33% speed and an additive 100% acceleration.
Number of sand blasts fired increased to 30.

When enraged

Gains an additive 266.67% speed and an additive 200% acceleration.
More aggressive and makes much sharper turns.

Summons

Both variants of the Desert Nuisance are spawned from the Desert Scourge when it is below 50% health or during the Boss Rush.

Desert Nuisance

Map icon

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Environment	Desert
Max Life	1,500 / 2,100 / 2,520 / 3,150 / 3,780
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Resistances

Cold	Vulnerable
Water	Vulnerable
Sickness	Vulnerable
Electricity	-
Heat	-

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Desert Nuisance Head

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	44 / 60 / 76 / 114
Max Life	1,500 / 2,100 / 2,520 / 3,150 / 3,780
Defense	3
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Desert Nuisance Body

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	28 / 32 / 36 / 63
Max Life	1,500 / 2,100 / 2,520 / 3,150 / 3,780
Defense	5
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	1 second
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Desert Nuisance Tail

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	16 / 20 / 24 / 36
Max Life	1,500 / 2,100 / 2,520 / 3,150 / 3,780
Defense	8
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	0.5 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Young

Desert NuisanceYoung

Map icon

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Environment	Desert
Max Life	1,300 / 1,820 / 2,184 / 2,730 / 3,276
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Resistances

Cold	Vulnerable
Water	Vulnerable
Sickness	Vulnerable
Electricity	-
Heat	-

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Desert Nuisance HeadYoung

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	44 / 60 / 76 / 114
Max Life	1,300 / 1,820 / 2,184 / 2,730 / 3,276
Defense	2
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Desert Nuisance BodyYoung

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	28 / 32 / 36 / 63
Max Life	1,300 / 1,820 / 2,184 / 2,730 / 3,276
Defense	4
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	1 second
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Desert Nuisance TailYoung

Statistics

Type	Burrowing Enemy
Damage	16 / 20 / 24 / 36
Max Life	1,300 / 1,820 / 2,184 / 2,730 / 3,276
Defense	7
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	0.5 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life

Aftermath

A Sandstorm starts, and they can now occur naturally.
Prism-Backs will begin dropping Prism Shards.
The Sparkling Empress will be obtainable by fishing in the Sunken Sea.
The Giant Clam can now spawn in the Sunken Sea.
Ghost Bells will begin dropping the Voltaic Jelly.

Resistances

All segments take reduced damage from most non-minion piercing projectiles. Each hit decreases the damage of the next hit by 12%, until the eighth hit onwards which will deal 20% of the original damage.
All segments take 20% damage from grenade-type projectiles. A list of affected projectiles is below.

Resisted grenades
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All segments also take 50% damage from true melee hits.

Notes

All of the Desert Scourge's loot will spawn at the nearest segment except for the Sand Blocks and Hearts, which will always spawn at the head.
Each Desert Nuisance will have 35,000 health during the Boss Rush.

Tips

For more elaborate strategies on defeating the Desert Scourge, including weapon and arena recommendations, see Guide:Desert Scourge strategies.

While the player can fight the Desert Scourge as the first boss, caution is still advised, as its size and speed can easily take down an unprepared player.
The Desert Scourge is a good boss to farm for money in Pre-Hardmode.

Trivia

Desert Scourge's theme is Guardian of the Former Seas, which was composed by the artist DM DOKURO.
The Desert Scourge was one of the first bosses to be added to the Calamity Mod, along with The Slime God and The Devourer of Gods.
If the Boss Checklist Mod is installed, its unique despawn message will be "The scourge of the desert delves back into the sand."

Bestiary entries

Desert Scourge: "A sea serpent that once swam through the waters of the Ilmeran Sea, it curiously chose to stay in its home rather than find a new one deep below. Quickly taking to a diet of antlion and cactus, it was able to take the place of possibly the desert's apex predator after its only competition went into hiding."
Desert Nuisance: "Though these serpents are of the Desert Scourge's species, they are notably younger and less developed. Choosing to hunt in a pack with the large scourge due to this weakness, many have seen them tear apart prey not unlike the piranhas that once populated the former sea."

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.

2.0.4.005: Fixed multiplayer desyncs which caused it and Desert Nuisances to appear as only a head.

2.0.4.003:
- Now only swaps targets after the burrow attack, and Desert Nuisances now always target the same player until they die.
- Now falls faster if it is over 11.25 tiles above the player.
- Slightly increased normal Desert Nuisance's max speed and turn speed, but slightly decreased young Desert Nuisance's max speed and turn speed.
- Desert Nuisances can no longer pick up money.
- Fixed it sometimes spamming a massive amount of sand blasts if it is caught below the player during the burrow attack.
- Fixed it still spawning Desert Nuisances at the start of the fight in Boss Rush.

2.0.4.002:
- Buffed head damage in Master Mode from 132 to 165 , and both Desert Nuisance's head damage from 90 to 114 .
- Decreased max speed and turn speed in all difficulties.
- Decreased both Desert Nuisance's max speed and turn speed in all difficulties.
- Fixed body and tail segments not appearing in multiplayer.
- Fixed its map icon disappearing when the Desert Nuisances appear in Master Mode, despite him not hiding.

2.0.4.001:
- Introduced Desert Nuisance (Young).
- Buffed health from 2500 / 4000 / 4800 / 6000 / 7200 to 4200 / 6720 / 8000 / 8568 / 10,200 .
- Buffed Desert Nuisance health from 1120 / 1680 to 1500 / 2100 / 2520 / 3150 / 3780 .
- Buffed head damage from 30 / 66 / 88 / 99 / 132 to 45 / 66 / 88 / 110 / 132 , body damage from 16 / 32 / 40 / 44 / 60 to 24 / 32 / 40 / 48 / 72 , and tail damage from 12 / 24 / 30 / 32 / 42 to 18 / 24 / 30 / 36 / 54 . Nerfed sand blast damage from 26 / 44 / 60 / 76 / 108 to 26 / 36 / 44 / 52 / 84 .
- Buffed Desert Nuisance's head damage from 20 / 44 / 60 / 70 / 90 to 30 / 44 / 60 / 76 / 90 , body damage from 14 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 45 to 21 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 63 , and tail damage from 8 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 30 to 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 36 .
- Buffed Desert Nuisance's head defense from 2 to 3, body defense from 4 to 5, and tail defense from 7 to 8.
- No longer uses a global scaling contact damage formula based on velocity. Instead, it and Desert Nuisance now uses a different formula for scaling contact damage based on velocity, which scales from half damage to full damage on the head, and 0 to full damage on the body and tail.
- It and Desert Nuisance's body and tail are no longer immune to lifesteal.
- Decreased total segment count from 26 / 31 / 36 / 41 to 16 / 19 / 22 / 25 .
- No longer gains increased size in higher difficulties.
- Increased velocity in all difficulties, but decreased how fast velocity increases as health lowers.
- Head no longer fires spreads of sand blasts.
- Burrow attack timer now only increments if the head is below the player and far enough away, increased the delay between burrow attacks, burrow attack no longer has a shorter delay in Death Mode, and increased speed during the burrow attack. Burrow attack now spawns a visual sand splash when emerging from the ground.
- Increased velocity of sand blasts in the burrow attack, and increased number of sand blasts from 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 30 in Boss Rush to 12 / 18 / 21 / 24 / 30 in Boss Rush.
- Decreased enrage scale's boosts to velocity and turn speed.
- Desert Nuisances are no longer summoned at the start of the fight in Revengeance Mode, and instead are summoned at 50% health in Expert Mode. While Desert Nuisances are alive, Desert Scourge is immune to damage and hides underneath the ground.
- Killing one Desert Nuisance now gives the other a slight boost to enrage scale in Revengeance Mode. Both Desert Nuisances always have this boost in Death Mode.
- Now forced to turn around if it gets over 125 tiles away from the player.
- Now gains increased turn speed in Death Mode.
- Now gains increased velocity in For the worthy and Get fixed boi.
- No longer drops Aero Stone.
- Resprited it, Desert Nuisance, and it and Desert Nuisance's gores. Previous sprites were
- Resprited sand blasts. Previous sprite was

2.0.3.007: Fixed it and Desert Nuisance's bestiary entries using the wrong apostrophe.

2.0.3.003:
- Direct sand blast spreads are now fired more often.
- Increased number of sand blasts fired during the lunge attack from 12 / 16 / 18 / 20 / 24 during Boss Rush to 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 30 during Boss Rush.

2.0.3.002:
- Renamed "A Desert Nuisance" to "Desert Nuisance".
- Desert Nuisance is now affected by the Boss Health Boost Percentage configuration option.

2.0.3.001: A Desert Nuisance is no longer trackable by the vanilla boss health bar.

2.0.2.002:
- Changed "delved" to "delves" for its Boss Checklist Mod despawn message.
- Increased the minimum distance to player required for its head to fire Sand Blasts from 18.75 tiles to 20.

2.0.1.003: Fixed A Desert Nuisance not spawning in multiplayer.

2.0.1.002: Now drops 5-15 Lesser Healing Potions instead of 8-14.

2.0.1.001:
- A Desert Nuisance now has a map icon.
- Now drops 25-30 Coral, Seashells, and Starfish instead of 5-9 of each, and 25-30 Pearl Shards instead of 7-14.
- Treasure Bag now drops 30-40 Coral, Seashells, and Starfish instead of 7-11 of each, and 30-40 Pearl Shards instead of 10-16 .

1.5.1.003: Now drops 5 .

1.5.1.001:
- Nerfed health from 2600 / 4160 / 4800 to 2500 / 4000 / 4800 .
- Nerfed fall speed after the lunge attack by 50%.
- It and A Desert Nuisance are now vulnerable to cold, water, and sickness debuffs.
- Nerfed size modifier in Death Mode from 125% to 120%.
- Now drops Ocean Crest regardless of world difficulty.

1.5.0.003: No longer spawns Dried Seekers.

1.5.0.002:
- Decreased velocity by 25% on all world difficulties.
- A Desert Nuisance no longer drops Hearts.

1.5.0.001:
- Renamed "Desert Scourge (small)" to "A Desert Nusiance".
- Buffed health from 2300 / 3680 / 4240 to 2600 / 4160 / 4800 .
- Nerfed Boss Rush health from 16,500,000 / 26,400,000 to 1,650,000 / 2,640,000 .
- No longer immune to any debuffs except Confused and Pearl Aura.
- A Desert Nusiance no longer drops Hearts in Revengeance or Malice Mode.
- Defeating it will now increase Antlion, Antlion Swarmer, and Tomb Crawler health by 25%. Antlion and Antlion Swarmer's defense is also increased by 50%.
- Now uses custom AI instead of Worm AI.

1.4.5.004: No longer becomes invincible and instead enrages when leaving the Desert.

1.4.5.003:
- Can now dive and lunge towards the player while burrowing in all world difficulties. A new sound effect is played before this occurs.
- Now larger, has more body segments, burrows more often, and gains increased velocity and acceleration as its health decreases in Death Mode.
- Buffed head damage from 30 / 66 / 82 / 94 to 30 / 66 / 84 / 99 .
- Buffed body damage from 16 / 27 / 31 to 16 / 32 / 40 / 44 .
- Buffed tail damage from 12 / 20 / 23 to 12 / 24 / 30 / 32 .

1.4.5.001:
- No longer prevents sandstorms if it hasn't been defeated before Hardmode.
- Now drops Sandy Angling Kit instead of an array of fishing gear.

1.4.3.002:
- No longer drops Angler Tackle Bag.
- Small Desert Scourges are now immune to Eutrophication, Glacial State, Pearl Aura, Slow, Temporal Sadness, Tesla Freeze, Time Distortion, and Webbed.
- Small Desert Scourge head segments are no longer immune to all debuffs, and body and tail segments are no longer immune to Glacial State.

1.4.3.001:
- Nerfed head damage from 30 / 66 / 82 / 94 to 30 / 66 / 79 / 87 .
- Buffed body damage from 16 / 27 / 31 to 16 / 27 / 33 / 37 .
- Buffed tail damage from 12 / 20 / 23 to 12 / 20 / 25 / 28 .
- Nerfed small Desert Scourge's head damage from 45 / 53 to 45 / 50 .
- Buffed small Desert Scourge's body damage from 20 / 23 to 25 / 28 .
- Buffed small Desert Scourge's tail damage from 16 / 18 to 20 / 23 .
- Nerfed sand blast damage from 60 / 69 to 60 / 67 .
- Decreased Angler Earring drop rate from 10% to 6.67%.
- Decreased Angler Tackle Bag drop rate from 6.67% to 5%.
- Death Mode now causes it to move at highest speed immediately, instead of gradually speeding up as health lowers.
- Resprited Desert Scourge (small). Previous sprite was

1.4.2.106:
- Buffed Boss Rush health from 4,100,000 / 6,560,000 / 7,200,000 to 16,500,000 / 26,400,000 / 28,000,0000 .
- Changed head damage from 20 / 72 / 180 to 30 / 66 .
- Buffed body damage from 25 to 27 , and nerfed defense from 8 to 6.
- Buffed tail damage from 19 to 20 , and nerfed defense from 12 to 9.
- Nerfed sand blast damage from 60 to 48 .
- Nerfed small Desert Scourge's body defense from 5 to 4, and tail defense from 8 to 7.
- No longer gets a speed boost after defeating Skeletron.
- Small Desert Scourges no longer gain an increased segment count after defeating Skeletron.
- Decreased maximum amount of Dried Seekers from 5 to 3.

1.4.2.105:
- Now starts a Sandstorm when defeated for the first time.
- Now prevents Sandstorms from occurring until defeated.

1.4.2.104: No longer drops Ocean Crest in Normal Mode.

1.4.2.103: Sand blasts now have afterimages.

1.4.2.102:
- Buffed body damage from 12 / 19 to 16 / 25 , tail damage from 9 / 14 to 12 / 19 , and nerfed tail defense from 18 to 12.
- Buffed small Desert Scourge's head damage from 13 / 28 to 18 / 36 , body damage from 9 / 12 to 10 / 20 , tail damage from 4 / 5 to 8 / 16 , and nerfed tail defense from 9 to 8.

1.4.2.101:
- Now drops Scourge of the Desert in all difficulty modes instead of Revengeance Mode and higher.
- It and small Desert Scourges are now immune to Exo Freeze.

1.4.2.001:
- Nerfed Boss Rush health from 8,100,000 / 12,960,000 / 14,400,000 to 4,100,000 / 6,560,000 / 7,200,000 .
- Body and tail segments can no longer be lifestealed off of.
- Small Desert Scourge body and tail segments can no longer be lifestealed off of.
- Projectiles now have more descriptive names.

1.4.1.003: Small Desert Scourges no longer drop money.

1.4.1.001:
- Buffed Boss Rush damage modifier from 4.75x to 6x.
- Now inflicts Bleeding in all difficulty modes instead of just Expert Mode and higher.
- Decreased Bleeding duration from small Desert Scourge head from 3.33 seconds to 3, from body segments from 1.67 seconds to 1, and from tail from 0.83 seconds to 0.5.

1.4.0.001:
- Buffed health from 2300 / 3680 / 4000 / 7840 to 2300 / 3680 / 4240 / 8160 .
- Nerfed body damage reduction from 10% to 5%, and tail reduction from 25% to 10%.
- Lowered sand blast fire rate.
- Now drops Sand Blocks.

1.3.4.101: Head no longer has 10% damage reduction, and nerfed body damage reduction from 15% to 10%.

1.3.4.001:
- Nerfed health from 4000 / 6400 / 7200 / 16,320 to 2300 / 3680 / 4000 / 7840 .
- No longer takes 80% damage from and reduces piercing of Molotov Cocktails.
- No longer takes 50% damage from explosives.
- No longer drops Duke Fishron (lore item).

1.3.3.001:
- Tweaked movement of it and small Desert Scourges.
- Now takes 80% damage from Molotov Cocktails instead of 65%.
- Now takes 50% damage from explosives instead of 20%.
- Now takes 80% damage from infinitely piercing projectiles instead of 25% in Revengeance Mode.
- No longer divides projectile damage by the amount of times that said projectile pierces in Revengeance Mode.

1.3.2.001:
- Changed head damage from 30 / 66 / 166 to 20 / 71 / 179 .
- Nerfed body damage from 16 / 25 to 12 / 19 .
- Small Desert Scourge changes:
  - Nerfed head damage from 34 / 49 to 29 / 42 .
  - Nerfed body damage from 23 / 33 to 19 / 28 .

1.3.1.001: Sand blast projectiles now last 5 seconds instead of 2 and now create more dust.

1.3.0.001:
- It and small Desert Scourges are no longer immune to Exo Freeze.
- No longer gets increased segments, damage, defense, and health after defeating Skeletron.
- Lowered speed boost after Skeletron has been defeated.
- Small Desert Scourges no longer get increased damage, defense, and health after defeating Skeletron.
- Resprited it and map icon. Previous sprite was

1.2.4.201: Small Desert Scourges no longer count as bosses.

1.2.4.101:
- Buffed Death Mode health from 10,720 to 16,320 .
- Smaller worms now start flying at a shorter distance in Death Mode.

1.2.4.002:
- Buffed head damage in Death Mode from 99 to 121 .
- Now takes 65% damage from Molotov Cocktail flares in Expert Mode.
- Now takes 20% damage from explosives in Expert Mode.
- Can now periodically fire blasts of sand in Revengeance Mode.
- Small Desert Scourges no longer drop money.
- Now becomes invincible while outside of the Desert.

1.2.3.006: Now uses Guardian of the Former Seas as its theme.

1.2.3.004: Now more aggressive in Death Mode.

1.2.3.002: Now gets 10,720 health in Death Mode.

1.2.1.006:
- Original fight:
  - Nerfed body damage from 20 / 32 / 40 to 16 / 25 / 31 .
  - Nerfed small Desert Scourge's health from 1000 / 1400 to 800 / 1120 .
- Post-Skeletron refight:
  - Nerfed health boost from 6000 to 4000.
  - Nerfed head damage from 50 / 100 / 125 to 45 / 99 / 123 , and defense from 20 to 10.
  - Nerfed body damage from 40 / 64 / 80 to 30 / 48 / 60 .
  - Nerfed tail damage from 20 / 44 / 55 to 15 / 33 / 41 , and defense from 20 to 15.
  - Small Desert Scourge:
    - Nerfed health boost from 3000 to 2000.
    - Nerfed head damage from 30 / 60 / 75 to 25 / 55 / 68 , and defense from 10 to 5.
    - Nerfed body damage from 20 / 28 / 35 to 16 / 22 / 27 , and defense from 20 to 16.
    - Nerfed tail damage from 10 / 14 / 17 to 7 / 9 / 11 , and defense from 25 to 20.

1.2.1.004: Nerfed Revengeance Mode health from 8320 to 7200 .

1.2.0.002:
- It and smaller Desert Scourges now gain additional health, contact damage, and defense after defeating Skeletron.
  - Gains 20 body segments and extra speed.
  - Smaller Desert Scourges gain 10 body segments.
- Can now drop Angler Earring, Angler Hat, Angler Vest, Angler Pants, Angler Tackle Bag, Crate Potions, Fisherman's Pocket Guide, Fishing Potions, High Test Fishing Line, Sextant, Sonar Potions, Tackle Box, and Weather Radio.
- Can now drop Golden Bug Net after defeating Skeletron.

1.2.0.001:
- Now gets 8320 health in Revengeance Mode.
- Now has 5% damage reduction on the head, 10% damage reduction on the body, and 25% damage reduction on the tail.
- Body and tail segments are now immune to all debuffs instead of just Glacial State.
- Smaller Desert Scourges now count as bosses.
- Now cuts the damage of infinitely piercing projectiles by 50% instead of 20%.
- Now has a 2% chance to drop Laudanum or Stress Pills in Revengeance Mode.

1.1.7.901:
- Introduced Desert Scourge (small).
- Changed health from 5225 / 5747 to 4000 / 6400 .
- Buffed body damage from 30 to 32 .
- Buffed tail damage from 13 to 14 .
- Decreased amount of dust produced when hit and killed.
- Now has a higher chance to spawn Dried Seekers when hit, but can now only spawn 5 at a time.
- Can no longer naturally spawn.

1.1.7.859:
- Now takes up 7 NPC slots instead of 5.
- Now immune to all debuffs.

1.1.7.852: Now has gores.

1.1.7.804: Now uses vanilla enemy spawn chance instead of custom one.

1.1.7.801: Now drops 2 instead of 5 .

1.1.7.701: Now becomes invincible instead of despawning if the player leaves the Desert.

1.1.7.56: Now despawns if brought out of the Desert for too long.

1.1.7.5: No longer spawns if the player is near a Celestial Pillar.

1.1.7:
- Now spawns 10x less frequently.
- Now drops up to 3 Coral, Starfish, and Seashells instead of 2.
- Decreased all weapon drop chances from 33% / 50% to 25% / 33% .

1.1.6.15:
- Body segments now produce less dust when hit.
- Head and tail now produce dust when hit.
- All segments now produce dust when killed.
- Body segments no longer spawn water tiles when hit.
- No longer takes 50% damage from projectiles that pierce more than three times in Expert Mode.

1.1.6.14: Decreased speed.

1.1.6.13:
- Nerfed Expert Mode health from 7315 to 5747 .
- Buffed Expert Mode head damage from 44 to 60 , body damage from 22 to 30 , and tail damage from 9 to 13 .
- Increased speed.

1.1.6.1: Resprited map icon. Previous sprite was

1.1.5.094: Can now drop a Desert Scourge Trophy.

1.1.5.091: Can now drop a Desert Scourge Mask.

1.1.5.081: All body segments should now have equal velocity and rotation formulas.

1.1.5.08: Now has greater horizontal mobility.

1.1.5.03:
- Treasure Bag no longer drops Victide armor.
- Reduced all weapon drop chances from Treasure Bag from 100% to 50% .

1.1.5.02: Resprited. Previous sprite was

1.1.5: Now only has a 4% chance to spawn a tile of water when hit.

1.1.4.473: Fixed multiplayer desyncing issues.

1.1.4.46: Body segments now have a 50% chance to spawn a tile of water when hit in Expert Mode.

1.1.4.44:
- Now gains boosted stats in Hardmode and after defeating Moon Lord:
  - Gains a 600% health boost and a 200% damage boost in Hardmode, and an additional 300% health boost and 200% damage boost after defeating Moon Lord.
  - Head is set from 0 defense to 10 in Hardmode and 25 after defeating Moon Lord.
  - Body is set from 8 defense to 20 in Hardmode and 45 after defeating Moon Lord.
  - Tail is set from 18 defense to 40 in Hardmode and 75 after defeating Moon Lord.
- Now more resistant to explosive and piercing projectiles.
- Can now spawn in the Desert after defeating Skeletron.

1.1.4.43:
- Cleaned up AI.
- Can now drop Seabound Staff.
- Resprited. Previous sprite was

1.1.4.3: No longer generates Aerialite Ore after being killed three times.

1.1.4.2:
- Speed lowered.
- Now cuts explosive damage in half.
- Now has a map icon.

1.1.4:
- Buffed health from 1625 / 2762 to 5225 / 8882 .
- Buffed head damage from 25 / 37 to 40 / 60 .
- Buffed body damage from 10 / 15 to 20 / 31 .
- Buffed tail damage from 5 / 7 to 9 / 13 .
- No longer becomes near invincible in Expert Mode.

1.1:
- Body segments now gain 5 defense in Expert Mode.
- Tail segment now gains 8 defense in Expert Mode.
- Now generates Aerialite Ore on defeat.
- Treasure Bag now drops Ocean Crest.
- Resprited. Previous sprite was

1.0: Introduced.

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