Gacruxian Mollusk

Gacruxian Mollusk

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	36 Rogue
Knockback	5 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	25 Slow
Velocity	15
Tooltip	Releases homing sparks while traveling Stealth strikes release homing snails that create even more sparks
Inflicts Debuff	Electrified 100% chance
Debuff duration	2 seconds (Sparks)
Debuff tooltip	Moving hurts!
Rarity
Sell	2  40
Research	1 required

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Use

The Gacruxian Mollusk is a Hardmode non-consumable rogue weapon that can be fished up in the Astral Infection. When used, it throws a snail that drops sparks as it travels. The snail travels in a straight line for a moderate distance before being affected by gravity. The sparks are affected by gravity, ignore tiles, weakly home in on enemies and inflict the Electrified debuff.

Performing a stealth strike with the Gacruxian Mollusk will cause the snail to leave a trail of additional snails, which continuously emit sparks for 3 seconds before disappearing. These additional snails will strongly home in on nearby enemies, or hover in place if no enemies are close enough.

Its best modifier is Flawless.

Notes

• This weapon's functionality is similar to the Spear of Paleolith, another early-Hardmode rogue weapon. The Spear of Paleolith has higher base damage and inflicts Armor Crunch, while the Gacruxian Mollusk has homing and a unique stealth strike effect.

Trivia

• Its name is a reference to Gacrux, which is a red giant star in the Crux (Southern Cross) constellation.

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: Sparks and stealth strike mollusks now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.

• 2.0.2.001: Sparks now inflict Electrified for 2 seconds.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .
  • No longer considered a nature weapon.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Dust now grants enemies 10 local immunity frames instead of 4.
  • Main snails spawn projectiles 75% slower.
  • Stealth strike homing snails spawn sparks 66.67% slower, last 2 seconds instead of 3, and pierce twice instead of four times.
  • Trailing sparks last 1.5 seconds instead of 2 and pierce once instead of twice.

• 1.4.2.108: Now counts as a nature weapon.

• 1.4.2.107: Fixed it having the rarity instead of .

• 1.4.2.106: Introduced.