Staff of the Mechworm

Staff of the Mechworm

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	100 Summon
Knockback	2 (Very Weak)
Mana cost	10
Use time	9 Very Fast
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons an aerial mechworm to fight for you
Grants Buff	Mechworm
Buff tooltip	The mechworm will protect you
Inflicts Debuff	God Slayer Inferno 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds (Head) 2 seconds (Body and Lasers) 1.5 seconds (Tail)
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is burning off
Rarity
Sell	28
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

Laser

Charge

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Devourer of Gods	1	25% / 33.33%

Summons Minion
Mechworm

The Staff of the Mechworm minion demonstrated against a Super Dummy.

The Staff of the Mechworm is a post-Moon Lord summon weapon that is dropped by The Devourer of Gods. Upon use, it summons a flying mechanical worm that charges, fires lasers, teleports onto enemies inflicting them with the God Slayer Inferno debuff and ignores immunity frames. The mechworm is in constant flight and can travel through walls and blocks. The Staff does not spawn multiple minions upon use, instead increasing the number of segments by one.

Losing minion slots while the mechworm is active will remove any segments that were associated with the minion slots lost.

Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Staff of the Mechworm has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Shimmer Transmutation
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Metastasis	1
Result
	Staff of the Mechworm	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Apotheosis	Spell Tome Cosmic Discharge Staff of the Mechworm (2) Excelsus (2) Ascendant Spirit Essence (11) Cosmilite Bar (33) Shadowspec Bar (5)	Draedon's Forge

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The Mechworm has a tendency to attack enemies off screen. This can make farming for specific item drops difficult at times.
• Just like the Stardust Dragon, the Mechworm will wander off occasionally. Keep this in mind, due to the worm being a single minion, it can and will leave you defenseless.
• Although the Mechworm pierces enemies, it does not give enemies immunity frames and will not disrupt attacks.

Tips

• Keep a secondary weapon ready, in case the Mechworm begins attacking enemies further away from you.
• The Mechworm is very useful for farming, with high level summons being more than capable of taking on any pre-Devourer boss with the exception of Providence, the Profaned Goddess as it will struggle to keep pace with Providence.
• Due to the Mechworm's "path" when floating around the player, the Mechworm may kill critters or bait you may be attempting to catch.

See Also

• Metastasis, the exhumed version of this item.

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.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • Now inflicts God Slayer Inferno.
    • The mechworm's head inflicts it for 3 seconds, the body segments and lasers inflict it for 2 seconds and the tail inflicts it for 1.5 seconds.

• 2.0.1.003: Nerfed damage from 118 to 100.

• 2.0.1.002:
  • Minion now has a velocity multiplier of 2 and hits twice as often. Increased its target range by 27.27%.
  • Fixed it scaling with summon damage twice.

• 2.0.1.001: Nerfed damage from 161 to 118 and the Mechworm segments now grant 30 local immunity frames instead of 10.

• 1.5.1.001: Fixed a visual offset for its minion.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 255 to 161.
  • Decreased mana cost from 15 to 10.
  • Now has a use time of 9 instead of 11.

• 1.4.5.004:
  • Reworked, now summons a mechworm that charges, fires lasers, and teleports onto enemies. Its damage can be further increased by summoning additional segments that require and occupy minion slots.
    • This change is inherited by the God Slayer Horned Helm and Auric Tesla Space Helmet's Mechworms.

• 1.4.5.001: Now grants 5 local immunity frames instead of 4.

• 1.4.4.002: Fixed a bug where the Mechworm would randomly attach on targets and disappear from losing any minion slots.

• 1.4.3.002: Fixed minion's segments detaching at high speeds.

• 1.4.3.001: Fixed minion segments desyncing or disconnecting.

• 1.4.2.109: Fixed the Mechworm randomly attaching to other projectiles and scaling in size.

• 1.4.2.101: Fixed a couple bugs with the Mechworm.

• 1.4.2.001:
  • Now has glowmasks.
  • Resprited it and buff.

• 1.3.0.001: Buffed damage from 25 to 30, and increased the speed of the mechworm.

• 1.2.3.006:
  • Damage scaling is now capped at 10 slots.
  • Added the line, "The damage scaling stops growing after 10 minion slots" to tooltip.
  • Resprited the buff.

• 1.2.3.005: Resprited the buff.

• 1.2.2.005: Resprited.

• 1.2.2.001: Nerfed damage from 62 to 25.

• 1.2.1.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 75 to 62.
  • Can no longer be swung if all of the player's minion slots are taken.
  • Resprited the minion.

• 1.1.7.901: Removed the line, "The tail will disappear when minion slots are maxed out" from tooltip.

• 1.1.7.855: Now hits every 4 frames.

• 1.1.7.851: Resprited the minion.

• 1.1.7.805: Resprited the buff.

• 1.1.7.801:
  • Resprited.
  • Fixed not being able to use the minion targeting feature.

• 1.1.7.701: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.1.7.55: Fixed it displaying buff time in tooltip.

• 1.1.7:
  • Buffed damage from 55 to 75.
  • Can no longer be crafted.
  • Now produces dust when summoning its minion.

• 1.1.6.11: Resprited the minion.

• 1.1.6.1:
  • Buffed damage from 36 to 55.
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.1.5.02: Resprited.

• 1.1.4.4741: Damage now scales with minion slots.

• 1.1.4.46: Fixed it having odd damage scaling.

• 1.1.4.45: Mechworm tail should now properly connect to the rest of the body.

• 1.1.4.44: Visual fixes to the minion.

• 1.1.4.43: Introduced.