Illustrious Knives

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Illustrious Knives

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	400 Melee
Knockback	3 (Very Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	10 Fast
Velocity	18 effective
Tooltip	Throws a flurry of homing knives that can heal the user
Inflicts Debuff	Holy Flames 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Dissolving from holy light
Rarity
Sell	56
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Illustrious Knife

Sounds

Use

The Illustrious Knives are a craftable post-Moon Lord developer melee weapon. When used, the weapon launches a spread of 4-8 slow moving green knives, similar to the Vampire Knives. The knives are destroyed upon contact with tiles but will rapidly accelerate and home in on nearby enemies and inflict them with the Holy Flames debuff.

When a knife hits an enemy, the player is healed by 1.5% of the damage dealt. This lifesteal is far stronger than either the Vampire or Empyrean Knives.

Their best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Draedon's Forge
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Empyrean Knives	1
	Core of Calamity	2
	Shadowspec Bar	5
Result
	Illustrious Knives	1

Notes

• The Illustrious Knives have a slightly higher chance than Vampire Knives or Empyrean Knives to throw out greater amounts of knives per usage. While they all throw a minimum of 4 knives, the predecessors have 4 independent chances of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 to increase the number of knives by 1, placing their average number of knives per throw at 4.94. The Illustrious Knives' 4 independent chances are 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, and 1/8, meaning its average number of knives is 5.04.

Trivia

• This weapon actually has a unique rarity but is referred to here as Hot Pink for consistency between weapons.
  • This unique rarity alternates between mint green (#9AFF97 ●) and mauve (#E497FF ●) colors.

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:
  • Decreased the speed of lifesteal projectiles, but decreased how much it affects the lifesteal cooldown.
  • Knives now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.
  • Changed dust usage for lifesteal projectiles.
  • Increased sell price from 40 to 56 .

• 2.0.2.001: Now uses 2 Cores of Calamity in its recipe instead of 3.

• 2.0.1.002: Buffed use time from 12 to 10, and added a velocity multiplier of 2.

• 1.5.1.001: Resprited it and projectile. Previous sprites were

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Now exclusively deals melee damage.
  • Nerfed damage from 2000 to 400.

• 1.4.5.006: Now transitions between rarity colors of (#9AFF97 ●) and (#E497FF ●).

• 1.4.5.001: Rogue variant can now trigger universal stealth strike effects.

• 1.4.4.001: Buffed damage from 1600 to 2000.

• 1.4.3.001: Projectile now functions in PvP.

• 1.4.2.103: Now has afterimages.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Increased Holy Flames duration from 8.33 seconds to 10.
  • Added a tooltip.

• 1.4.2.101: Resprited it and projectile. Previous sprites were

• 1.4.2.001: Buffed damage from 1320 to 1600, and altered lifesteal formula.

• 1.4.1.001: Fixed rogue variant using melee Empyrean Knives in their recipe.

• 1.4.0.002: Buffed damage from 1200 to 1320.

• 1.3.3.001: Buffed damage from 315 to 1200.

• 1.3.0.001:
  • Tweaked the rotation of thrown knives.
  • Resprited projectile. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.3.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.2.001: Buffed damage from 300 to 315.

• 1.2.1.005: Nerfed damage from 310 to 300.

• 1.2.1.004: Nerfed damage from 360 to 310.

• 1.2.1.001:
  • Buffed damage from 255 to 360.
  • Knives now fade out quicker, and they are now faster.

• 1.1.7.901:
  • On-hit effects no longer activate on Target Dummies.
  • Now requires a Draedon's Forge to craft instead of an Ancient Manipulator.
  • Removed tooltip "Great for impersonating devs! Rapidly throw life-stealing holy daggers".

• 1.1.7.701: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.1.7.5:
  • Buffed damage from 115 to 255.
  • Can now be dropped by Supreme Calamitas in Expert Mode.
  • Now requires an Ancient Manipulator to craft instead of a Hardmode Anvil.

• 1.1.7.3: Projectiles now last 5 seconds instead of 1.67, decay in damage slower, and healing projectiles are now slightly faster.

• 1.1.5.095:
  • Buffed damage from 45 to 115, and use time from 13 to 11.
  • Now uses 5 Cores of Calamity and 3 Shadowspec Bars in its recipe instead of 10 Bars of Life, 10 Luminite Bars, 15 Stardust Fragments, and 15 Yharon Soul Fragments.
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.5.08: Now requires a Hardmode Anvil to craft instead of a Particle Accelerator.

• 1.1.4.4742: Melee variant now properly deals melee damage.

• 1.1.4.474: Renamed from "Royal Knives" to "Illustrious Knives".

• 1.1.4.45: No longer stacks to 999.

• 1.1.4.44:
  • Introduced a melee variant.
  • Now uses 10 Luminite Bars and 10 Hellcaster Fragments in its recipe.

• 1.1.4.43: Introduced.