Nychthemeron
| Type | Weapon |
|---|---|
| Damage | 60 Rogue |
| Knockback | 1 (Extremely Weak) |
| Critical chance | 4% |
| Use time | 19 Average |
| Velocity | 6 |
| Tooltip | Throws a spiky ball that ignores gravity and summons a pair of dark and light orbs that orbit the player Once the spiky ball disappears the orbs will home in on the nearest target Up to 10 spiky balls can exist at a time Stealth strikes cause all spiky balls and orbs to be thrown at once Press Right Click to recall all existing spiky balls |
| Rarity |  |
| Sell | 7  20  |
| Research | 1 required |
Dark Orb
Light Orb
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The Nychthemeron is a craftable Hardmode spiky ball. It throws up to 10 gravity-ignoring spiky balls that decelerate over time. The spiky balls break after hitting four enemies, contacting a solid block, recalling to the player, or completely stopping. While each spiky ball is active, a light orb and a dark orb orbit around the player. The orbs lose orbit and home onto nearby enemies once the balls are broken.
Right-clicking with the weapon will retract all of the spiky balls back to the player; holding right-click will slowly retract them, at about the speed they were thrown, and releasing right-click will do it quickly, near-instantly.
Performing a stealth strike with the Nychthemeron will cause all spiky balls to be thrown at once, which results in all light and dark orbs appearing simultaneously.
Its best modifier is Flawless.
Crafting
Recipe
| Crafting Station | ||
|---|---|---|
 Mythril Anvilor  Orichalcum Anvil | ||
| Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
 | Any Mythril Bar | 10 |
 | Dark Shard | 1 |
 | Light Shard | 1 |
| Result | ||
 | Nychthemeron | 1 |
Tips
- Nychthemeron is surprisingly powerful with its stealth strike. By throwing them and immediately recalling the spiky balls, one can throw the homing orbs onto nearby enemies for a massive damage as soon as possible.
Trivia
- A nychthemeron is a period of 24 hours.
History
- 2.0.3.003: Can no longer proc Venerated Locket's clone projectiles.
- 2.0.2.001:
- No longer stacks, but can still only throw the same amount of projectiles.
- Moved Light Shard below Dark Shard in its recipe.
- Now uses 10 Any Mythril Bars in its recipe instead of 30 Spiky Balls and 2 Any Mythril Bars.
- Increased sell price from 72 to 7 20 .
- 1.5.0.001:
- Stealth strikes now have a 67.5% damage modifier.
- Now uses 2 Any Mythril Bars in its recipe instead of 2 Hallowed Bars.
- 1.4.5.002: Fixed it being able to receive modifiers.
