Botanic Piercer

Botanic Piercer

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	88 Melee
Knockback	8.5 (Very Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	17 Average
Velocity	11
Tooltip	Fires a botanic energy beam
Rarity
Sell	12
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Botanic Piercer

Botanic Spear

Sounds

Use

The Botanic Piercer is a craftable Hardmode spear. When swung, it will fire out a green spear beam that deals 70% of the weapon's damage and knockback, pierces infinitely, but cannot go through tiles.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Chlorophyte Partisan	1
	Dark Lance	1
	Gungnir	1
	Living Shard	12
Result
	Botanic Piercer	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Elemental Lance	Botanic Piercer Luminite Bar (5) Life Alloy (5) Galactica Singularity (5)	Ancient Manipulator

total: 1 row(s)

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:
  • Renamed from "Terra Lance" to "Botanic Piercer".
  • Projectiles can no longer pass through tiles.
  • Resprited.
  • Fixed it having strange visual offsets when thrusted.

• 2.0.3.007: Fixed it lingering for extra animation cycles when switching to another spear while in use.

• 2.0.2.002: Spear now grants 6 local immunity frames instead of 5 global immunity frames, and spear projectile now grants 10 local immunity frames instead of 5 global immunity frames.

• 2.0.2.001: Decreased sell price from 16 to 12 .

• 2.0.1.001: Now uses 12 Living Shards in its recipe instead of 7.

• 1.5.1.001: No longer considered a nature weapon.

• 1.4.4.004: Nerfed projectile damage from 85% base damage to 70%.

• 1.4.3.001: Now uses Dark Lance and Gungnir in its recipe.

• 1.4.2.107: Projectiles are now briefly invisible upon spawning.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Beam now makes a sound upon death.
  • Added a tooltip.

• 1.4.2.101: Nerfed damage from 100 to 88.

• 1.4.1.003: Now uses 1 Chlorophyte Partisan and 7 Living Shards in its recipe instead of 1 Exsanguination Lance, 1 Hellion Flower Spear, 1 Starnight Lance, and 5 Living Shards.

• 1.4.1.001: Resprited.

• 1.3.3.001: Resprited beam.

• 1.2.0.001: Nerfed damage from 112 to 100.

• 1.1.7.864:
  • Buffed damage from 102 to 112.
  • Now sets NPC immunity frames to 5 instead of 6.

• 1.1.7.851: Buffed damage from 92 to 102, use time from 19 to 17, and made it ignore 5 immunity frames.

• 1.1.7.56:
  • Buffed shot speed from 9 to 11.
  • Increased spear length.
  • Now has auto use.

• 1.1.6.16: Introduced.