Giant Clam

Giant Clam

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Statistics

Type	Enemy – Aquatic
Environment	Sunken Sea
Damage	50 / 100 / 120 / 132 / 150 / 180 / 198 (pre-Hardmode) 100 / 200 / 240 / 264 / 300 / 360 / 396 (Hardmode) 70 / 112 / 140 / 161 (Psychic pearls)
Max Life	1250 / 2500 / 3750 (pre-Hardmode) 7500 / 15000 / 22500 (Hardmode)
Defense	9999 (closed) 10 (open in pre-Hardmode) 35 (open in Hardmode)
DR	30%
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Clamity 100% chance
Debuff duration	Infinite (While aggressive)
Debuff tooltip	The clams have been angered!
Immune to

Resistances

Cold	-
Water	Resistant
Sickness	Vulnerable
Electricity	Vulnerable
Heat	Resistant

Drops

Coins	1 (pre-Hardmode) 8 (Hardmode)

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Navystone (30-40)
  100%
• Mollusk Husk(In Hardmode) (25-30)
  100%
• One of the following four items will be dropped if the player is in Hardmode
• Poseidon(In Hardmode only)
  25%
• Clamor Rifle(In Hardmode only)
  25%
• Shellfish Staff(In Hardmode only)
  25%
• Clam Crusher(In Hardmode only)
  25%
• Amidias' Pendant
  33.33%
• Giant Pearl
  33.33%
• Giant Clam Trophy
  10%
• Giant Clam Relic(In Master or Revengeance Mode only)
  25% / 25%

Sounds

Hurt

Smash

Pearl Ring

Pearl Rain

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“

A specimen which has developed a grand size, and inexplicably, impressive psychic abilities.

— Draedon's Log - Study on Sunken Aquatic Life

The Giant Clam is a mini boss that rarely spawns in the Sunken Sea after defeating the Desert Scourge, and is generally the first mini boss that the player will encounter. It receives a huge buff during Hardmode. It is initially passive and closed up, but once the player hits it 5 times, the player receives the Clamity debuff, which boosts the spawn rate of Clams and making them aggressive while reducing the other enemies' spawn rate to 0, and the Giant Clam becomes aggressive.

While mostly immobile, it can perform one of 2 moves every 4 seconds. Its most common move is to teleport over the player's head and fall down on them. The other, less common move is to close itself up for a short while, then spawn 3 more Clams.

In Hardmode, it gains 2 new attacks which have a timer of 3 seconds, unrelated to its primary attacks, on top of making its tele-stomp attack faster. Its first attack is to shoot a ring of 6 psychic pearls along with another faster pearl that is always aimed towards the player. Its second attack is to summon a rain of 11 psychic pearls upon the player, which have a gap between them.

It will drop the Sea King if he is not already present in the world and the Desert Scourge has been defeated already. Additionally, Sunken Crates will include Giant Clam's weapons in Hardmode after it has been defeated.

It can be detected with the Lifeform Analyzer.

Summons

Image	Name
	Clam

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Giant Clam: "Clams slowly crystalise ambient magic around themselves into pearls, and as they grow larger, so too do their pearls. Upon growing to their full size, they are classified as Giant Clams, and gain the ability to use the magic stored in their pearls to some degree."

• The Clamity debuff name is a portmanteau of the word "clam" and the mod's title, "Calamity."
• The Giant Clam has a Draedon's Log entry dedicated to it that can be found in the Sunken Sea Bio-center Lab.
• If the Boss Checklist Mod is installed, its unique despawn message will be "The Giant Clam returns hiding in its grotto."