Mummies

A player being approached by two Dark Mummies.

Mummies are Hardmode Desert enemies. They spawn in areas where Sand blocks are present, and follow the Fighter AI (behaving similar to Zombies). Ordinary Mummies spawn even during the day at the surface. All variants spawn above height 0.

Dark Mummies are 150% faster than other Mummies. All mummies receive a 200% speed increase when they are reduced to 50% health or lower, making them hard to defeat for less prepared players.

Mummies inflict the following debuffs:

• Regular Mummies: Slow
• Dark Mummies/Shadow Mummies: Silenced, Darkness
• Light Mummies/Spectral Mummies: Confused

Variants

Mummy

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Desert
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	50 / 100 (90)
Max Life	130 / 260 (286)
Defense	16
KB Resist	40% / 46%
Inflicts debuff	Slow 12.5% chance
Debuff duration	15 seconds / 30 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Movement speed is reduced
Banner	Mummy Banner

Drops

Coins	6

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Fast Clock
  1% / 2%
• Mummy Mask
  1.33%
• Mummy Shirt
  1.33%
• Mummy Pants
  1.33%

• Internal NPC ID: 78

Dark Mummy

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Corrupted Desert – Crimson Desert
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	60 / 120
Max Life	180 / 360
Defense	18
KB Resist	50% / 55%
Inflicts debuff	Silenced 20% chance
Debuff duration	7 seconds / 14 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Cannot use items that require mana
Inflicts debuff	Darkness 25% chance
Debuff duration	15 seconds / 30 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Decreased light vision
Banner	Dark Mummy Banner

Drops

Coins	7

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Dark Shard
  10%
• Megaphone
  0.5% / 1%
• Blindfold
  0.5% / 1%
• Mummy Mask
  1.33%
• Mummy Shirt
  1.33%
• Mummy Pants
  1.33%

• Internal NPC ID: 79

Light Mummy

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Hallowed Desert
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	55 / 110
Max Life	200 / 400
Defense	18
KB Resist	45% / 51%
Inflicts debuff	Confused 7.1% chance
Debuff duration	7 seconds / 14 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Movement is reversed
Banner	Light Mummy Banner

Drops

Coins	7

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Light Shard
  10%
• Trifold Map
  1% / 2%
• Mummy Mask
  1.33%
• Mummy Shirt
  1.33%
• Mummy Pants
  1.33%
• Blessed Apple 
  0.5% / .67%

• Internal NPC ID: 80

Old-gen console / Mobile / 3DS Exclusive Variant

Shadow Mummy

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Corrupted Desert
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	60
Max Life	220
Defense	15
Banner	Shadow Mummy Banner

Drops

Coins	7

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Dark Shard (1-2)
  10%

Old-gen console / Mobile / 3DS Exclusive Variant

Spectral Mummy

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Hallowed Desert
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	80
Max Life	120
Defense	12

Drops

Coins	7

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Light Shard (1-2)
  10%
• Trifold Map
  1%

Tips

• Dark and Light mummies can easily be farmed for their shards by corrupting or hallowing a section of desert, or making an artificial desert. All that is necessary is a one-wide flat surface of pearlsand, ebonsand or crimsand. However, don't have both surfaces too close to each other, as one cancels out the other.

Notes

• Be careful when exploring Pyramids in the  Mobile version, because when you break pots, mummies can randomly spawn even if your world is not in Hardmode.
• In Crimson worlds, the only way to obtain a Blindfold is from Dark Mummies.
• Dark Mummy can drop the Megaphone and Blindfold at the same time. When one of them dropped (1/200 chance), there is 1/100 chance to drop another too. So there is 1/20000 chance to drop both.

Trivia

• The head of Shadow Mummy looks like Skeleton's Skull.
• The mummies in Terraria are bound incorrectly. Actually, in ancient Egypt, feet of the mummies were bound together and their hands were bound on their sides. However, in Terraria, (and almost every other fictional work), the hands and feet of the mummies are bound so that they could move them freely.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.5: Dark, Light, and Regular Mummy sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Dark and Light Mummies can now drop their own respective banner.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Dark Mummies and Pixies usually no longer drop both Status Protection accessories at the same time， 99% of the time.

• Desktop 1.2: Dark Mummies can also spawn in Crimson deserts if you are in a Crimson world.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.