Shifting Sands

Shifting Sands

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	76 Magic
Knockback	5 (Average)
Mana cost	20
Critical chance	4%
Use time	30 Very Slow
Velocity	21 effective
Tooltip	Casts a sand shard that follows the mouse cursor
Rarity
Sell	9  60
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Shifting Sand Shard

Sounds

Use

Explosion

The Shifting Sands is a craftable Hardmode wand that is a direct upgrade to the Magic Missile. When used, it fires a sand shard that follows the cursor and pierces 4 times before exploding on the fifth or upon tile contact. Only 1 sand shard can exist at a time, preventing the weapon from being used again until the current sand shard dissipates. Unlike the Magic Missile, the weapon auto-fires and the projectile does not home in on enemies.

Its best modifier is Mythical.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Magic Missile	1
	Grand Scale	1
	Forbidden Fragment	2
	Spectre Bar	5
Result
	Shifting Sands	1

Trivia

• The Shifting Sands was implemented based on a community suggestion made by ijones72 and ThatGuy on the mod's Discord server.

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: Nerfed damage from 92 to 76.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • Buffed damage from 61 to 92.
  • Decreased sell price from 12 to 9  60 .

• 1.4.5.001: Nerfed damage from 85 to 61, and it can now only spawn up to one projectile when continuously held.

• 1.4.4.004:
  • Nerfed damage from 90 to 85, and use time from 18 to 30.
  • Now has auto use and projectiles grant 10 local immunity frames instead of 5 global immunity frames.

• 1.4.2.105: Explosion now pierces infinitely and grants 10 local immunity frames.

• 1.4.2.103: Sand Darts now have afterimages.

• 1.4.1.001: Buffed damage from 90 to 95.

• 1.3.3.011: Introduced.