Nova

Nova

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Astral Infection – Surface
Damage	45 / 90 / 135 (pre-Astrum Aureus) 75 / 150 / 225 (post-Astrum Aureus)
Max Life	230 / 460 / 690 (pre-Astrum Aureus) 350 / 700 / 1050 (post-Astrum Aureus)
Defense	15 (pre-Astrum Aureus) 25 (post-Astrum Aureus)
DR	15%
KB Resist	50% / 55% / 60% (pre-Astrum Aureus) 60% / 64% / 68% (post-Astrum Aureus)
Inflicts debuff	Astral Infection 100% chance
Debuff duration	0.75 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Your flesh is melting off
Immune to
Banner	Nova Banner

Resistances

Cold	-
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	-
Heat	Vulnerable

Drops

Coins	11

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Stardust (2-3 / 3-4 )
  100%
• Glorious End(When exploded)
  14.29%
• Stellar Cannon(After defeating Astrum Aureus)
  14.29%

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Explosion

The Nova is a Hardmode enemy which spawns on the Surface Astral Infection biome. Initially, it loosely hovers near the player. If it maintains a line of sight on the player for long enough, it starts pulsating and stops in place, then begins to accelerate in a straight line until it collides with the player or any surface, exploding on contact.

Notes

• Novas will only drop Glorious End when they die from their explosion. Otherwise, they drop the Stardust and Stellar Cannon.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Nova: "Warped yet simple creatures created from but stardust and mana, containing a volatile nucleus within. They feel that they must defend the infection despite lacking proper means of even defending themselves, and so all they can do to ward off intruders is overcharge their nucleus, causing themselves to combust."

• This enemy is named after a nova (Latin for "new", as in "new star"); a strong and rapid increase in the brightness of a star.

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.

• 2.0.3.005: Decreased Astral Infection duration from 1 second to 0.75.

• 2.0.3.003: Decreased Astral Infection duration from 2 seconds to 1.

• 2.0.1.001:
  • Now has a different loot pool based on if it explodes or not:
    • If it explodes, it can drop Glorious End at a 14.29% chance.
    • If it doesn't explode, it drops 2-3 / 3-4 Stardust and has a 14.29% to drop Stellar Cannon after defeating Astrum Aureus.

• 1.5.1.001: Now vulnerable to heat debuffs, but resistant to sickness debuffs.

• 1.4.5.001: Fixed it spawning during events.

• 1.4.3.002: Now immune to Astral Infection.

• 1.4.3.001: Moves 50% faster and has a higher chance to perform a charge in Death Mode.

• 1.4.2.105: Fixed its death sound not playing.

• 1.4.2.104: Now inflicts Astral Infection for 2 seconds on contact.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Now gains increased stats, equivalent to old stat values, after defeating Astrum Aureus.
  • Now drops Stellar Cannon after defeating Astrum Aureus instead of Astrum Deus.
  • Nerfed health from 350 / 700 to 230 / 460 , contact damage from 75 / 150 to 45 / 90 , defense from 25 to 15, and knockback resistance from 60% to 50%.
  • Explosion now inherits contact damage values instead of having a fixed damage value of 100.

• 1.4.2.101: Now has 15% damage reduction.

• 1.4.1.003:
  • Increased delay between when its hit sound can play.
  • Increased minimum coin drop amount from 11 to 20 .

• 1.4.0.002:
  • Increased volume of hit and death sounds.
  • Fixed all sounds not playing properly.

• 1.4.0.001: Introduced.