Plantation Staff

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Plantation Staff
  • Plantation Staff.png
Stack digit 1.png
Statistics
TypeWeaponCrafting material
Damage58 Summon
Knockback1 (Extremely Weak)
Mana cost10
Use time20 Average
TooltipSummons a miniature Plantera to devastate enemies with floral fury
Occupies 3 minion slots and there can only be one Mini Plantera at a time
Grants BuffPlantationPlantation
Buff tooltipThe miniature plantera will protect you
RarityRarity Level: 8
Sell 12 Gold Coin.png
Research1 required
Projectiles created
Plantation Thorn Ball
Thorn Ball
Mini Plantera Seeds
Mini Plantera Seeds
Plantation Spore Clouds
Spore Clouds
Plant Tentacle
Plant Tentacle
Sounds
Mini Plantera (enraged).gif
Enraged sprite
Summons Minion
Mini Plantera
Mini Plantera.gif

The Plantation Staff is a craftable Hardmode summon weapon. It summons a miniature Plantera minion that cycles between 3 attacks. It starts out by firing thorn balls that stick to enemies and hit twice, then rapidly fires seeds at enemies. It will then spawn spore clouds around it, grow tentacles, and begin rapidly charging at enemies. When it finishes charging, the tentacles detach and home in on enemies. It requires three minion slots to summon one Mini Plantera and only one can exist at a time.

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 Plantation Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Crafting

Recipe

Used in

Tips

  • The Plantation Staff is very good for crowd-control and ground-based enemies but does very poorly against faster flying enemies such as Calamitas Clone, as it spends most of the time trying to catch up to them instead of attacking.

Trivia

  • The Mini Plantera behaves similarly to Plantera in Revengeance Mode whilst being obtainable on Normal Mode.
  • The Plantation Staff was implemented based on a community suggestion made by Providab on the mod's Discord server.

History

These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.
  • 2.0.3.006: Fixed it still having an alternate recipe using Flesh of Infidelity.
  • 2.0.3.005:
    • Reworked:
      • Buffed damage from 55 to 58.
      • No longer randomly fires seeds, bouncing thorn balls, and spore clouds at enemies, and no longer enrages and charges at enemies when below 75% health.
      • The Mini Plantera minion now cycles between 3 attacks. It first fires thorn balls that stick to enemies and hit twice, then rapidly fires seeds at enemies.
      • It will then spawn spore clouds around it, grow tentacles, and begin rapidly charging at enemies. When it finishes charging, the tentacles detach and home in on enemies.
  • 2.0.2.001:
    • Now uses Blade Staff in its recipe instead of Deepsea Staff and Optic Staff.
    • Decreased sell price from 16 Gold Coin to 12 Gold Coin.
  • 2.0.1.001: Now uses 12 Living Shards in both of its recipes instead of 10.
  • 1.5.1.001:
    • Decreased Poisoned duration from minion from 5 seconds to 3, and Venom from 5 seconds to 1.5.
    • Decreased Venom duration from green seeds and thorn balls from 3 seconds to 1.5, and from tentacles from 2 seconds to 1.
    • Moved Living Shard to the bottom of the recipe.
    • No longer considered a nature weapon.
  • 1.5.0.001: Now uses Eye of Night or Flesh of Infidelity in its recipe instead of Belladonna Spirit Staff.
  • 1.4.5.001:
    • Nerfed damage from 70 to 55.
    • Minion now enrages if the player goes below 75% health instead of 50% and requires 3 minion slots to summon instead of 2. Added spores and tentacles to the minion.
    • Now uses Belladonna Spirit Staff in its recipe instead of Entropy's Vigil.
  • 1.4.3.002:
    • Buffed damage from 60 to 70.
    • Fixed mini Plantera not targeting enemies properly.