Dryad's Tear

Dryad's Tear

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Statistics

Type	Ammunition
Damage	10 Ranged
Knockback	1.25 (Extremely Weak)
Velocity	2
Velocity Multiplier	6x
Tooltip	Splits into homing nature shards on impact which ignore enemy defense
Rarity
Sell	16
Research	99 required

Projectiles created

Dryad's Tear

Nature Shard

Dryad's Tears are craftable Hardmode bullets. Upon impact with tiles or an enemy, they will split into 2 nature shards which home in on enemies and go through tiles. The nature shards deal 10% of the main bullet's damage and have an innate 10 armor penetration.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Crystal Bullet	100
	Living Shard	1
Result
	Dryad's Tear	100

Tips

• Despite having low base damage, Dryad's Tears can have an incredibly high DPS when used with a gun that has a high enough base damage, even surpassing some post-Moon Lord bullets in many cases.

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.

• 2.0.4.003:
  • Buffed damage from 8 to 10.
  • Split bullets now deal 10% base damage instead of 30%, but now have 10 innate armor penetration.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Renamed from "Terra Bullet" to "Dryad's Tear".
  • Nerfed damage from 9 to 8, but split bullets can now pass through tiles.
  • Split bullets now home towards the closest enemy instead of the earliest enemy in the NPC array.
  • Improved dust visuals and added new particle visuals.
  • Resprited.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Buffed velocity multiplier from 2x to 4x.
  • Decreased sell price from 4 to 16 .

• 1.5.0.001: Redid dust code to prevent frame drops.

• 1.4.3.001: Resprited projectiles.

• 1.4.2.108: Reduced the amount of dust produced by main bullets by 33%, and split bullets by 50%.

• 1.4.2.105: Fixed them spawning split bullets and playing their sound in the wrong place.

• 1.4.2.001: Split bullets now deal 30% main bullet damage instead of 50%.

• 1.4.1.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 12 to 9.
  • Now splits 2 times instead of 2-3.
  • Now produces less dust.
  • Increased sell price from 1  50 to 4 .
  • Now uses the rarity instead of .
  • Resprited.

• 1.3.3.011:
  • Now splits into 3-4 bullets instead of 1-3.
  • Split bullets no longer have their damage cut in half in Revengeance Mode.

• 1.3.2.001: Resprited.

• 1.2.4.002: Now emits less dust.

• 1.2.1.001: Now splits into less bullets and produces less dust.

• 1.1.7.2: Introduced.