Mantis Claws
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Mantis Claws
| Dropped by | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entity | Quantity | Rate |
| Mantis Shrimp (After Plantera has been defeated) | 1 | 20% |
The Mantis Claws are a Hardmode melee weapon that is dropped by Mantis Shrimps after Plantera has been defeated. When used, they swing extremely fast at a short range, creating a visual explosion and inflicting the Hellfire debuff on hit.
Their best modifier is Legendary.
Trivia
- The explosion effect is a reference to real-life mantis shrimp, and how their claws attack their prey with such speed and force that it creates a tiny vacuum called a cavitation bubble between the claw and the striking surface, the sudden collapse of which creates a shockwave as water rushes to fill in this gap. This explosion causes their targets to be hit twice: once from the claw itself and then a second time from the following explosion, similarly to the in-game weapon (although the in-game explosion does not deal any damage).
- The word "shrimple" in the weapon's tooltip is a pun on the words "shrimp" and "simple".
History
These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.
- 2.0.3.002: Added a flavor tooltip.
- 2.0.2.002: Buffed damage from 88 to 144.
- 2.0.2.001:
- Now inflicts Hellfire for 5 seconds.
- Decreased sell price from 12
to 9 60 
.
- 2.0.0.001: Nerfed use time from 6 to 8, but removed its melee swing speed nerf.
- 1.5.1.001: No longer considered a nature weapon.
- 1.5.0.001: Nerfed damage from 120 to 88 but buffed use time from 7 to 5.
- 1.4.5.001: Now only gains 25% of melee swing speed boosts.
- 1.4.3.001: Swing now functions in PvP.
- 1.4.2.105: Explosions now use a custom projectile instead of the vanilla solar explosion projectile.
- 1.4.2.102: Added a tooltip.
- 1.4.2.001: Buffed damage from 90 to 120.
- 1.4.1.003: Now uses the
rarity instead of 
.
- 1.3.0.001: Introduced.
