The Hive

The Hive

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	92 Ranged
Knockback	3.5 (Weak)
Critical chance	20%
Use time	34 Very Slow
Velocity	13
Tooltip	Launches a wide spread of 4 missiles that explode on contact with enemies and tiles Charging the launcher decreases the spread and increases the velocity of the missile barrage Fully charging the launcher will cause it to fire a nuke to decimate a massive area on impact
Inflicts Debuff	Plague 100% chance
Debuff duration	1.5 seconds (Rocket, Bees) 1 second (Nuke)
Debuff tooltip	Rotting from the inside
Rarity
Sell	12
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Hive Missile

Hive Nuke

Plague Bee

Sounds

Use

Fire

Full Charge

Missile Explosion

Nuke Explosion

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Plaguebringer Goliath	1	25%
Treasure Bag (The Plaguebringer Goliath)	1	33.33%

If you were looking for something other than the launcher, see Hive (disambiguation).

The Hive is a Hardmode launcher that is dropped by The Plaguebringer Goliath. When used, it fires a spread of 4 short-ranged plague missiles that explode on impact with tiles or enemies, each producing 2 homing bee projectiles. Holding down the fire button will charge the weapon, narrowing the spread of the missiles while increasing their velocity and range. After charging for 1.5 seconds, the weapon will become fully charged as indicated by a sound effect and red flash, and the spread of missiles will be replaced by a single high-velocity plague nuke that explodes in a massive radius, dealing 1000% of the weapon's damage while producing 20 homing bees.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Notes

• Using Cluster Rocket I or Cluster Rocket II as ammo increases the number of bees from missiles from 2 to 3, but each bees deal 20% damage instead of 30%. The number of bees from nukes also increases from 20 to 30, but each bees deal 30% damage instead of 40%.
• In the Get fixed boi seed, the number of bees from nukes increases from 20 to 100, and 30 to 150 with Cluster Rockets.
  • The nuke also plays one of 11 sounds of various developers saying "bees" upon exploding.
• The Moon Lord's core takes only 80% damage from The Hive's nukes.
• Duke Fishron takes only 120% damage from The Hive's plague bees.

Trivia

• This weapon is a reference to a rocket launcher of a similar name from Borderlands 2.

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:
  • Reworked:
    • Buffed damage from 60 to 92, and critical strike chance from 4% to 20%.
    • No longer randomly fires one of 4 different rockets with various effects.
    • Now fires a spread of plague missiles on use. Holding down left click charges up the weapon, decreasing the spread and increasing the velocity of the missiles.
    • The launcher reaches full charge after 1.5 seconds; firing with full charge will replace the spread of missiles with a nuke that explodes in a large radius, dealing 10x base damage and releasing several plague bees that home in on enemies.

• 2.0.3.003: Nerfed damage from 80 to 60, and use time from 21 to 34.

• 2.0.2.001: Decreased sell price from 16 to 12 .

• 2.0.1.003: Fixed functions of Honey Rocket and Lava Rocket being swapped for its rockets.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Bee RPG, Hive Bomb, and Goliath Rocket now inflict Plague for 3 seconds instead of 5.
  • Rockets can now explode tiles when using Rocket IIs or Rocket IVs.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Rocket projectiles are no longer affected by gravity.
  • Resprited all rockets.

• 1.4.3.001: Adjusted holdout offset.

• 1.4.2.105:
  • Rocket explosions now pierce infinitely and grant 10 local immunity frames.
  • Increased the size of explosions.
  • Resprited it and rockets.

• 1.4.2.104: Projectiles now make sounds upon hitting blocks.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Increased Plague duration from Goliath Rockets from 3.33 seconds to 5.
  • Added a tooltip.

• 1.4.2.001: Explosions now deal ranged damage.

• 1.4.1.003: Resprited it and all rockets.

• 1.3.4.001: Resprited Hive Bombs.

• 1.1.7.971: Resprited.

• 1.1.7.901:
  • Increased the size of Bee RPGs.
  • Goliath Rockets no longer collide with tiles.
  • Removed tooltip "Full of bees and RPGs".

• 1.1.7.701: Bee RPGs now produce less dust.

• 1.1.7.61: Buffed damage from 52 to 70.

• 1.1.7: All projectiles now have an equal chance of being fired.

• 1.1.6:
  • Now smaller.
  • Hive Bombs now inflict Plague.
  • Resprited.

• 1.1.5.05: Fixed rockets interacting strangely with tiles.

• 1.1.4.44: Introduced.