Pygmy Staff

Pygmy Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	40 (Summon)
Knockback	3 (Very weak)
Mana	10
Use time	28 (Average)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons a Pygmy to fight for you
Rarity	07*
Sell	7
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Pygmies
Buff tooltip	The pygmies will fight for you

Projectile created

• Pygmy 1
  
• Pygmy 2
  
• Pygmy 3
  
• Pygmy 4
  
• Pygmy Spear
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 1157
• Internal Buff ID: 49
• Internal Projectile ID: 191, 192, 193, 194, 195

The Pygmy Staff in use. Note that as of 1.3.0.1, the first spear will pierce through enemies.

The Pygmy Staff is a ground ranged post-Plantera summon weapon. It spawns a pygmy minion that follows the player and attacks enemies via a ranged spear attack. Like other minions, the summoned pygmy is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, or cancels the buff. The Pygmy Staff is dropped by Plantera with a 25% (1/4) / 50% (1/2) chance.

Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Pygmy Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Notes

• Summoned pygmies do not deal damage themselves. Instead, they attack by throwing spears twice per second.
  • Spears do not pierce enemies, and vanish on the first target hit. As of 1.3.0.1, the first spear thrown per volley will pierce through enemies.
  • Spears do not prevent other spears from hitting the same target however, so overall damage per second increases linearly with the addition of more pygmies.
  • Spears have a 2/3 chance to inflict the Poisoned debuff for 10-21 seconds, and a 1/3 chance to inflict Venom, for the same duration. One of the two is always inflicted.
• Summoned pygmies' aims are somewhat inaccurate, so they might miss even relatively close and static targets, let alone moving ones.

Trivia

• Each time the Pygmy is summoned, it randomly has one of four possible sprite graphics. However, they are all functionally identical.
• The pygmy catches up to fast-moving players by flying while standing, sitting, or hanging on its spear.
• It is one of only four weapons in the game that can inflict Venom without any buffs or bonuses, the others being the Spider Staff, the Venom Staff, and the Queen Spider Staff.
• In real life, the term Pygmy is a term given to people of relatively short stature. This is geared towards tribes, especially the ones in Africa.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Projectile speed increased by 50%.
  • Detection range increased by 40%.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Minion sprites updated.
  • Minion spear sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Pygmies now have a chance to inflict Poisoned and Venom.
  • Pygmies now have a larger range and the first projectile thrown will always pierce rather than getting stuck.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1: Now requires 10 mana.

• Desktop 1.2.4:
  • No longer requires mana.
  • Damage increased from 29 to 34.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Damage increased from 27 to 29.

• Desktop 1.2.1: Damage increased from 25 to 27.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.