Ice Star

Ice Star

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	45 Rogue
Knockback	2.5 (Very Weak)
Critical chance	11%
Critical damage	2x
Use time	11 Fast
Velocity	14
Tooltip	Throws fast but brittle homing ice stars Stealth strikes last longer and spawn smaller homing stars on first hits
Inflicts Debuff	Frostbite 100% chance
Debuff duration	1 second (Ice stars)
Debuff tooltip	It's either really hot or really cold. Either way it REALLY hurts
Rarity
Buy / Sell	20  /  4
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Mini Ice Star

Sounds

Use

Shatter

The Ice Star is a Hardmode rogue weapon sold by the Archmage NPC for 20 . It is a large throwing star made of ice, which pierces 3 times and will fall after traveling a short distance. It also has slight homing abilities.

Performing a stealth strike with the Ice Star will cause the next star thrown to pierce infinitely for four seconds before disappearing, and release rings of 8 smaller ice stars on enemy hits. The smaller ice stars will not be released if 10 or more stars are already present.

Its best modifier is Flawless.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Kelvin Catalyst	Ice Star Avalanche Hoarfrost Bow Icebreaker Snowstorm Staff Essence of Eleum (10)	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The homing ability of the weapon is extremely unreliable, as they will usually cause the projectile to fall quicker and not hit the enemy at all.
• The stars deal one-sixth of the weapon's base damage, sharply home-in onto enemies, go through tiles, deal typeless damage, and cannot deal critical hits.

Tips

• They can be used as an effective weapon against The Destroyer and the Aquatic Scourge as the slight homing can make them curve along the bosses' segments.

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.

• 2.1.0:
  • No longer consumable, and now stacks to 1 instead of 9999.
  • Increased sell price from 1 to 4 .

• 2.0.4.001: It and its stars now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • Stars now move at double the speed but reduced lifespan from 4.67 seconds to 1.
  • All stars now grant 30 effective local immunity frames instead of 9 exclusively for the stealth strike.
  • Stars that spawn from the stealth strike can now only happen on the first hit instead of up to 15 stars at a time, but now deal 100% base damage instead of 12.5%.
  • Stars no longer deal additional area of effect damage.

• 1.5.1.001: No longer considered an ice weapon.

• 1.5.0.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.4.002: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.4.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.3.002: Can no longer be crafted.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Now has a stealth strike effect.
  • Projectile now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.106: Decreased sell price from 6 to 1  20 .

• 1.4.2.103:
  • Buffed damage from 35 to 45.
  • Now pierces 3 times instead of infinitely.
  • Now has afterimages.

• 1.4.2.102: Changed its tooltip.

• 1.3.4.103: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.7.806: Increased thrown size.

• 1.1.5.0948: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.5: Introduced.