Luminite Bullet

Type	Ammunition
Damage	20 (Ranged)
Knockback	3 (Very weak)
Base Velocity	2
Velocity Multiplier	6×
Tooltip	'Line 'em up and knock 'em down...'
Rarity
Sell	2 CC
Research	99 required

Desktop/Console/Mobile-Only Content: This information applies only to the Desktop, Console, and Mobile versions of Terraria.

The Luminite Bullet is a type of Hardmode, post-Moon Lord bullet crafted from Luminite Bars. The Luminite Bullet can pierce an infinite number of targets. The damage of the Luminite Bullet decreases by 4% for each target it pierces. This can reduce its damage down to 0, making it unable to deal damage but still continues traveling. It will disappear after 1.67 seconds^[1] or upon hitting a solid block.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Luminite Bullet(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)333	Luminite Bar(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	Ancient Manipulator(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

A Luminite Bullet fired from a Handgun piercing Target Dummies.

Notes

Luminite Bullets are able to damage up to 26 enemies with an Annoying Minishark that has no other damage buffs, or 101 enemies with a Ruthless Sniper Rifle that has every possible damage increase. These are not affected by critical hits.
Luminite Bullets have unique piercing mechanics. Unlike Meteor Shot and other piercing projectiles, when a Luminite Bullet successfully hits an enemy NPC, it prevents granting invincibility frames to it.
- This allows every bullet to deal full damage despite being a piercing weapon, even at high fire rates.
- Luminite Bullets still cannot hit targets already invincible, when the effect is caused by something else. This gives Luminite Bullets synergy with other Luminite Bullet users, but works very poorly with other piercing weapons.
Luminite Bullets are slightly slower than High Velocity Bullets. This is most notable at very high screen resolutions.

Tips

Luminite Bullets complement the Sniper Rifle well due to the piercing effect and high base damage to further increase the sniper's damage.
Despite having the highest base damage of all bullets, their piercing makes Luminite Bullets more suitable for crowd control than for individual targets. A rapid-firing gun such as the S.D.M.G works well here.

Trivia

Luminite Bullet has the highest base damage of all bullets.
Luminite Bullets are the only bullets that can be crafted without using Musket Balls or Empty Bullets.