The Rotted Fork

The Rotted Fork

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	14 (Melee)
Knockback	5 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	31 (Slow)
Velocity	4
Rarity	01*
Sell	150 / 20
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• The Rotted Fork
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 802
• Internal Projectile ID: 153

Animation of The Rotted Fork. Note its piercing abilities.

The Rotted Fork is a spear that drops from Crimson Hearts found in Crimson chasms, and can also be obtained by opening Crimson Crates which are found by fishing in the Crimson.

Its best modifier is Godly or Demonic. Both modifiers increase the average damage output by the same amount.

Tips

• It is a very effective weapon against the Brain of Cthulhu, as it can easily kill the Creepers in the first phase and knock it back in the second phase.

Trivia

• The Rotted Fork is the counterpart to the Corruption's Ball O' Hurt, as the Ball O' Hurt is the melee weapon drop from Shadow Orbs and also boasts a relatively long range and piercing capability.
•     Modifier prefixes are added in front of the "The" in its name, which can result in a grammatically incorrect name such as "Keen The Rotted Fork". It shares this trait with all other items that can obtain modifiers and whose names begin with "The". This error is not present in the  Old-gen console version.
• Despite appearing to be a weapon made of Crimtane Bars and Tissue Samples, it is uncraftable.
• It resembles a real-world guandao, a type of Chinese pole weapon that is used in some forms of Chinese martial arts.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Aligned sell value with all other Crimson Heart/Shadow Orb loot, increasing it from 20 to 150.
  • Item and projectile sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.