Zen Potion

Zen Potion

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Statistics

Type	Potion – Crafting material
Use time	17 Average
Tooltip	Vastly decreases enemy spawn rate
Grants Buff	Zen
Buff duration	15 minutes
Buff tooltip	Spawn rates are greatly reduced
Rarity
Sell	40
Research	20 required

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Astral Chest	3-5	100%

The Zen Potion is a craftable Pre-Hardmode buff potion. It grants the Zen buff, which reduces enemy spawn rates by 60% and maximum spawn count by 70%. It is also used in the crafting of the Tranquility Candle.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Alchemy Table
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Bottled Water	1
	Blood Orb	20
	Purified Gel	2
Result
	Zen Potion	1

Crafting Station
Alchemy Table
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Bottled Water	1
	Purified Gel	2
	Daybloom	3
Result
	Zen Potion	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Tranquility Candle	Peace Candle (3) Soul of Light (3) Core of Eleum (2) Zen Potion	Work Bench

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The Zen Potion is the exact opposite of the Zerg Potion, which greatly increases enemy spawn rate.

Trivia

• The appearance of the Zen Potion is based off the Yin Yang, a traditional chinese symbol.

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.

• 2.0.3.001: Resprited buff.

• 2.0.2.001: Now uses 3 Daybloom in its recipe instead 1, and no longer uses 2 Blighted Gel and 1 Pink Gel.

• 2.0.1.002: Fixed non-Blood Orb recipe not being affected by Alchemy Table's ingredient reduction effect.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Moved Bottled Water to the top of the recipe.
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.5.0.001: Increased buff duration from 10 minutes to 15.

• 1.4.5.004:
  • Now uses 1 Daybloom and 2 Purified Gel in its recipe instead of 3 Cores of Eleum.
  • Blood Orb recipe now uses 2 Purified Gel instead of 1 Core of Eleum.
  • Fixed a bug where the recipe was not affected by Alchemy Table's ingredient saving function.

• 1.4.3.002: Increased potency of spawnrate manipulating effect.

• 1.4.2.107: Buffed spawn rate reduction from 33% to 40%, but nerfed max spawn reduction from 99% to 70%.

• 1.4.2.106:
  • Now uses 3 Cores of Eleum in its recipe instead of 3 Essences of Eleum, and Blood Orb recipe now uses a Core of Eleum.
  • Decreased spawn rate reduction from 98% to 33%.
  • Now works at full power in the Abyss.

• 1.4.1.001: Now uses 1 Bottled Water, 2 Blighted Gel, 3 Essences of Eleum, and 1 Pink Gel in its recipe instead of 1 Calming Potion, 3 Blighted Gel, and 3 Pink Gel.

• 1.3.1.001: Now less effective in the Abyss.

• 1.2.4.202: Introduced.