Plaguebringer

Plaguebringer

Statistics

Type	Miniboss – Flying Enemy
Environment	Jungle – Underground Jungle
Damage	0 (Contact) 70 / 140 / 189 (Charge) 104 / 140 / 87 (Stinger) 144 / 200 / 126 (Rocket)
Max Life	8750 / 17500 / 19686
Defense	24
DR	20%
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Plague 100% chance
Debuff duration	2 seconds (Charge, Plague Rocket) 1.5 seconds (Plague Stinger)
Debuff tooltip	Rotting from the inside
Immune to
Banner	Plaguebringer Banner

Resistances

Cold	-
Water	-
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	Vulnerable
Heat	-

Drops

Coins	1  50

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Stinger
  100%
• Plague Cell Canister (8-12)
  100%
• Plagued Fuel Pack
  25%
• Plague Caller
  2%

Sounds

Hurt

Killed

Charge

Shooting

Spawning Plague Chargers

Not to be confused with The Plaguebringer Goliath, a related boss.

The Plaguebringer is an uncommon Hardmode enemy that spawns in the Jungle after Golem has been defeated. It behaves similarly to Queen Bee, alternating between backing away at a minimum distance before charging at the player horizontally three times and hovering above them while firing explosive Plague Stingers. While firing stingers, it has a 6.66% chance to fire a Plague Rocket instead of a plague stinger. The chance of firing a plague rocket and stinger fire rate increases in higher difficulties.

If the player is outside of the Jungle, it becomes enraged, charging more aggressively and charging up to five times instead of three.

Notes

• It can often take unsuspecting players by surprise, due to its ability to fly through tiles.
• The Plaguebringer can be forewarned by its generic boss roar effect and a Boss Health Bar appearing.
• In the Get fixed boi seed, the Plaguebringer's sprite is twice as large.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Plaguebringer: "Nothing can escape the Plague; everything is either assimilated or culled. Such is the case of queen bees. While strong enough to stave off plagued creatures, they are often forced to abandon their hives due to their subjects becoming infected. This leaves their larvae to be overtaken by nanites, and soon after, a plaguebringer is born."

• The Plaguebringer uses a slightly edited version of The Plaguebringer Goliath's previous sprite.
• The Plaguebringer was formerly known as "Plaguebringer Shade".
  • This was due to the fact that The Plaguebringer Goliath used to spawn a duplicate of herself, referred to as a "Shade", which used a separate sprite.

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.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Buffed health from 3000 / 6000 / 9000 to 8750 / 17,500 / 19,687 .
  • Nerfed stinger damage in Master Mode from 105 to 87 , and rocket damage from 150 to 126 .
  • Now has 25% less health and 10% less damage in Master Mode.
  • Made its flying movement smoother.
  • No longer deals contact damage while not charging.
  • Charges are now faster, but it now backs away to a minimum horizontal distance before charging.
  • Increased flying speed during the stinger attack, it now fires stingers faster in higher difficulties, and now has a higher chance of firing rockets in higher difficulties.
  • Removed Plague Charger spawn attack.

• 2.0.3.005: Increased Plagued Fuel Pack's drop rate from 10% to 25%.

• 2.0.3.005: Decreased Plague duration on contact from 4 seconds to 2, from stingers from 3 seconds to 1.5, and from missiles from 4 seconds to 2.

• 2.0.2.002: Now properly displays vanilla debuff colors and Hunter Potion effects.

• 1.5.1.003: Nerfed Expert Mode stinger damage from 208 to 140 and missile damage from 288 to 200 .

• 1.5.1.001:
  • No longer has increased health in Boss Rush and increased contact damage in Revengeance or Death Mode.
  • Buffed stinger damage from 60 / 104 / 120 / 136 to 104 / 208 , and missile damage from 90 / 144 / 168 / 180 to 144 / 288 .
  • No longer drops no loot while a boss is alive.
  • Now vulnerable to electricity debuffs but resistant to sickness debuffs.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed defense from 30 to 24.
  • No longer immune to any debuffs except Confused, Pearl Aura, Plague, Venom, and Poisoned.
  • No longer drops Hearts in Revengeance or Malice Mode.

• 1.4.5.001:
  • No longer immune to War Cleave.
  • Now drops Stingers.
  • No longer drops loot while The Plaguebringer Goliath is alive.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Nerfed contact damage from 70 / 140 / 175 / 201 to 70 / 140 / 161 / 173 .
  • Nerfed stinger damage from 52 / 104 / 130 / 149 to 52 / 104 / 119 / 128 .
  • Nerfed missile damage from 66 / 132 / 165 / 189 to 66 / 132 / 151 / 163 .
  • Now has a natural spawn limit of 1.

• 1.4.2.108: No longer immune to Frostburn.

• 1.4.2.106: Nerfed contact damage from 80 / 160 to 70 / 140 , buffed stinger damage from 40 / 80 to 52 / 104 , and missile damage from 50 / 100 to 66 / 132 .

• 1.4.2.105:
  • No longer shoots in a random spread, and projectiles no longer deal more damage in Death Mode.
  • Fixed projectiles being fired from center instead of stingers.

• 1.4.1.003:
  • Now has a minimum coin drop amount of 1  50 .
  • Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.1.001: Buffed Boss Rush health from 150,000 / 300,000 to 200,000 / 400,000 .

• 1.4.0.001: Nerfed damage reduction from 40% to 20%.

• 1.3.3.001: Nerfed health from 6000 / 12,000 / 16,000 to 5000 / 10,000 / 12,000 .

• 1.3.2.001: Nerfed health from from 8000 / 16,000 / 16,800 / 26,000 to 6000 / 12,000 / 12,600 / 16,000 , and contact damage from 100 / 200 to 80 / 160 .

• 1.3.0.001: No longer immune to Exo Freeze.

• 1.2.4.201: Nerfed health from 15,000 / 21,000 / 28,000 to 8000 / 16,000 / 26,000 , and changed contact damage from 130 / 182 to 100 / 200 .

• 1.2.4.001:
  • Nerfed Death Mode health from 29,400 to 28,000 , and buffed Death Mode hive bomb damage from 150 to 180 .
  • Can now only spawn a maximum of 5 large Plague Chargers at a time.

• 1.2.3.007: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.3.001: Nerfed health from 27,000 / 37,800 to 15,000 / 21,000 .

• 1.2.2.007: Fixed a sheeting error.

• 1.2.2.005: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.2.1.006: Lowered spawn rate.

• 1.2.1.001:
  • Renamed from "Plaguebringer Shade" to "Plaguebringer".
  • Buffed health from 8000 / 11,200 to 27,000 / 37,800 .
  • Now naturally spawns in the Jungle after defeating Golem.
  • No longer has a transparency filter.
  • Now takes up 8 NPC slots instead of 1.
  • Increased projectile speeds.
  • Now drops Plague Cell Canisters.

• 1.2.0.002: Reduced the amount of dust produced by its missiles.

• 1.2.0.001:
  • Now has 40% damage reduction.
  • No longer immune to Ichor.

• 1.1.7.901:
  • Buffed health from 9360 to 11,200 , and contact damage from 156 to 182 .
  • Now less likely to spawn large Plague Chargers over normal ones.

• 1.1.7.859: Buffed contact damage from 110 / 132 to 130 / 156 and it now shoots less stingers.

• 1.1.7.61:
  • Buffed health from 7000 / 8190 to 8000 / 9360 , contact damage from 90 / 108 to 110 / 132 , nerfed stinger damage from 78 / 156 to 40 / 80 , and nerfed missile damage from 60 / 120 to 50 / 100 .
  • Now smaller and less transparent.
  • Increased Plague duration from contact from 1.33 seconds to 2.

• 1.1.7.56:
  • Buffed health from 3800 / 4446 to 7000 / 8190 .
  • Now immune to all debuffs.

• 1.1.7.5:
  • Nerfed health from 7500 / 8775 to 3800 / 4446 .
  • Decreased Plague duration from contact from 2 seconds to 1.33.
  • Increased overall aggressiveness.
  • Projectiles no longer increase in damage after defeating Moon Lord.
  • Now uses the NPCHit8 sound effect when spawning Plague Chargers instead of NPCHit1.
  • Now uses the Item42 sound effect when shooting projectiles instead of Item17.

• 1.1.6.15:
  • Now produces dust when hit.
  • Now produces dust when killed.

• 1.1.5: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.1.4.44: Introduced.