The Sponge

The Sponge

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Statistics

Type	Accessory
Tooltip	Projects a quantum foam barrier that absorbs up to 180 damage Halves Adrenaline lost on hit if the barrier fully absorbs the hit The barrier grants 30 defense and reduces damage taken by 10% while active The barrier starts recharging 9 seconds after being hit Recharging from zero to full charge takes 6 seconds Being hit again while recharging restarts the charge timer
Rarity
Sell	40
Research	1 required

Cooldowns used

Sponge Barrier Durability
 (Absorbs 180 damage, depletes when hit)

Sponge Barrier Recharge
9 seconds (Taking damage)

Sounds

Activate

Hit

Break

April Fool's sprite

The Sponge's protective barrier

The Sponge is a craftable post-Moon Lord accessory which is the direct upgrade of the Rover Drive. After nine seconds of equipping the item without taking damage, a barrier covers its user, which grants 30 defense and 10% damage reduction. As the barrier is formed, it builds up to 180 shield durability at a rate of 30 durability per second. Durability depletes instead of health as the player takes damage equal to the amount of damage taken. Once all 180 shield durability is depleted, the barrier breaks and all effects are taken away.

Durability regenerates the same way as it is formed, requiring the player to not take damage for nine seconds, causing it to regenerate at a rate of 30 durability per second. It can regenerate if the shield is partially or fully damaged, but will immediately be interrupted as the player takes damage.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Cosmic Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Rover Drive	1
	Mysterious Circuitry	10
	Dubious Plating	20
	Cosmilite Bar	5
	Ascendant Spirit Essence	4
Result
	The Sponge	1

Notes

• If the shield absorbs an attack without breaking, then the blocked attack will not trigger any on-hit events, such as resetting the not-hit time counter of health regeneration, defense damage, inflicting the attack's debuffs (if it has any) or granting any on-hit effects granted by accessories or armor.
• Equipping The Sponge in a social accessory slot will create a visual shield that has no protection.

Tips

• The Sponge's energy shield blocks damage after all reductions, meaning that it gets more powerful with tanky builds.
• This accessory has synergy with The Evolution, as it reduces the damage of incoming projectiles to 1, dealing minimal damage to the shield.

Trivia

• During April 1st (April Fool's Day), the Sponge's sprite changes to a cube resembling a real life cleaning sponge.
• The Sponge gets its name from the term "damage sponge" due to its ability to increase the defense and survivability of the player.

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.

• 2.0.4.005: Fixed shield effect having strange flickering in multiplayer, and shield dye rendering breaking network streams.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Now halves the amount of Adrenaline lost if the shield fully absorbs a hit.
  • Increased sell price from 28 to 40 .
  • Fixed an exploit where its shield granted immunity frames for all cooldown slots if the shield fully absorbed a hit.

• 2.0.3.008: Shield can now be dyed, and no longer changes color based on the player's team.

• 2.0.3.005: Nerfed damage reduction boost while the shield is up from 30% to 10%.

• 2.0.3.003:
  • Reworked:
    • No longer grants 20 defense, 30 max mana, or immunity to Armor Crunch.
    • Now grants a shield with a durability of 180. This shield can recharge if no damage is taken for 9 seconds, taking 6 seconds to fully charge.
    • While the shield is active, the player is granted 30 defense and 30% damage reduction.

• 2.0.3.002:
  • No longer has any of The Absorber's functionality, and now only grants 20 defense, 30 max mana, and immunity to Armor Crunch.
  • Now uses Rover Drive in its recipe instead of The Absorber.
  • Tooltip now reads "OUT OF ORDER".

• 2.0.3.001: Adjusted its offset and scale in the inventory.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Jump speed boost is now 75% less effective if the player has auto jump.
  • Buffed mushroom spore damage from 56 to 70, and spore lifespan from 2 seconds to 5.
  • Buffed defense boost from 10 to 20, damage reduction boost from 10% to 15%, max health and mana boosts from 20 to 30, life and mana regeneration boosts when standing still from 2 to 4, and healing on hit from 5% to 6.25%.
  • Nerfed movement speed boost from 12% to 5%.
  • No longer inherits the effects of Amidias' Spark, Giant Shell, or Ambrosial Ampoule.
  • Now uses 4 Ascendant Spirit Essences, 20 Dubious Plating, and 10 Mysterious Circuitry in its recipe instead of 1 Ascendant Spirit Essence and Ambrosial Ampoule.
  • Now requires a Cosmic Anvil to craft instead of a Draedon's Forge.
  • Adjusted tooltip to clarify the amount of healing provided on hit.

• 1.4.5.002: Now uses 5 Cosmilite Bars and 1 Ascendant Spirit Essence in its recipe instead of 15 Cosmilite Bars and 15 Phantoplasm.

• 1.4.5.001:
  • Fixed a bug that prevented its thorn effect from stacking with The Absorber.
  • Tooltip now accurately displays its jump speed boost instead of it being exaggerated by 5x.

• 1.4.4.001: Resprited. Previous sprite was

• 1.4.3.002: Now has a tooltip stating it provides cold immunity in Death Mode.

• 1.4.2.106: Now inherits Sea Shell's effect.

• 1.4.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage reduction boost from 12% to 10%.
  • Removed the "-like" from "Honey-like" in tooltip.

• 1.3.2.001: Nerfed max health and mana boosts from 30 to 20, defense boost from 20 to 10, and damage reduction towards bee/hornet enemies from 50% to 25%.

• 1.2.1.001: Tooltip now mentions that it grants 30 max health and mana.

• 1.2.0.002: Nerfed damage reduction boost from 18% to 12%.

• 1.1.7.971: Sparks now hit every 10 frames.

• 1.1.7.921:
  • Now uses 5 Phantoplasm in its recipe.
  • Merged several lines in its tooltip.

• 1.1.7.901: Introduced.