Bloody Tear

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Bloody Tear

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Statistics

Type	Event summonConsumable
Use time	45 (Very slow)
Tooltip	Summons the Blood Moon 'What a horrible night to have a curse.'
Rarity	2*
Research	3 required

• Internal Item ID: 4271

The Bloody Tear is a consumable item used to summon a Blood Moon. It can only be used at night; attempting to use it during the day will not commence the Blood Moon and will not consume the item. Likewise, the Bloody Tear cannot be used during a Blood Moon.

It is dropped with a 1/200 (0.5%) chance by the Wandering Eye Fish, Zombie Merman, Blood Zombie, Drippler, Clown, Blood Eel, and Hemogoblin Shark, and with a 1/9 (11.11%) chance by The Groom, The Bride, and Dreadnautilus.

Tips

• If the player wants a Slap Hand, they can hold on to a Bloody Tear until they find a Skeleton Merchant. They then can use the Bloody Tear, allowing the Skeleton Merchant to sell a Slap Hand.
• Since a Blood Moon cannot happen at the same time as a New Moon, using the Bloody Tear on a New Moon will cause it to change into a Waxing Crescent. This can be useful for acquiring Phase-dependent content faster.

Trivia

• The tooltip is a reference to Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, in which the game would show the same text whenever it became night. The name of the item comes from a track in Castlevania II known as "Bloody Tears".
• Bloody Tears will only drop if it is night and during a Blood Moon. Thus, any Blood Moon enemies killed after the Blood Moon ends will not drop a Bloody Tear. Also, statue-spawned enemies do not drop Bloody Tears.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.