Mineral Mortar

Mineral Mortar

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	85 Ranged
Knockback	20 (Insane)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	60 Snail
Velocity	25
Tooltip	Shoots an onyx bomb that explodes into huge area damage Uses rockets for ammo
Rarity
Sell	4  80
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Onyx Bomb

Sounds

Use

Explosion

The Mineral Mortar is a craftable Hardmode launcher. When used, it charges up and converts all rockets into fast onyx bombs that are affected by gravity and create large explosions on contact.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Any Adamantite Bar	13
	Forbidden Fragment	2
Result
	Mineral Mortar	1

Notes

• Unlike most launchers, it does not deal any damage to the player.

Tips

• Calamity changes the recipe for Rockets to be available at the start of Hardmode: Empty Bullets and Explosive Powders at a Pre-Hardmode Anvil.

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.

• 2.0.4.002: Increased the velocity of its rockets.

• 2.0.3.007:
  • Reworked:
    • Buffed damage from 30 to 85, knockback from 5 to 20, and shot speed from 14 to 25, but nerfed use time from 33 to 60. It no longer inflicts Armor Crunch.
    • No longer fires slow onyx bombs that explode into homing sharks on death.
    • Now charges up to fire a fast onyx bomb which is affected by gravity. These onyx bombs create a large explosion on death, and are affected by all rocket types.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • Now inflicts Armor Crunch for 3 seconds.
  • Decreased sell price from 7  20 to 4  80 .

• 1.5.1.001: Moved Adamantite Bar to the top of the recipe.

• 1.4.3.001: Adjusted holdout offset.

• 1.4.2.105:
  • Onyx bomb explosions now pierce infinitely and grant 10 local immunity frames.
  • Resprited it, sharks and onyx shards. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.2.103: Sharks now have afterimages.

• 1.4.2.102: Added a tooltip.

• 1.4.2.101: Resprited it, sharks and onyx shards. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.2.001: Onyx explosions now deal ranged damage.

• 1.3.3.001: Buffed damage from 27 to 30.

• 1.2.4.204: Nerfed damage from 41 to 27.

• 1.1.5.0947: Introduced.