Beenade
Statistics
Type | |
---|---|
Damage | 12 (Ranged |
Knockback | 1 (Extremely weak) |
Consumable | ✔️ |
Critical chance | 4% |
Use time | 15 (Very fast) |
Velocity | 6 |
Tooltip | Explodes into a swarm of bees |
Rarity | |
Sell | 5 |
Research | 99 required |
Projectile created
- Beenade
Sounds
Use | |
---|---|
Explosion |
- Internal Item ID: 1130
- Internal Projectile ID: 183
Beenades are consumable ranged / throwing weapons that can be dropped by the Queen Bee boss or crafted on the PC version, Console version, Mobile version, Old Chinese version, tModLoader version, and tModLoader 1.3-Legacy version using Grenades and Bee Wax. They act similarly to regular Grenades, but release 15-25 friendly bee projectiles upon exploding that home in on enemies. Each bee can attack or ricochet a total of 3 times and each bee hit inflicts the total Beenade damage.
Crafting
Recipe
Result | Ingredients | Crafting station |
---|---|---|
Beenade | Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil |
Notes
- Unlike some other bee-spawning items, the Hive Pack does not provide additional chances to spawn more bees for the Beenade.
- Beenades that explode in water and lava will not spawn bees. Bees instantly despawn on contact with either. Bees do spawn in honey, though they move more slowly until they exit.
- Bees spawned from Beenades act as entities, and therefore there can only be 400 in a world at any given time (likely fewer if there are other objects/coins floating around somewhere). Since each Beenade spawns 15-25 bees upon exploding, it would take 20 Beenades to completely exhaust the DPS output limit of bees, given that no other bee-spawning items are used, and given that there are no other entities in the world (
(400-<number of loose entities>)/20=20
). - Bees spawned from Beenades do not home in on players in PvP.
Tips
- Beenades are perhaps best used in large, open spaces. Since tight spaces have a higher chance of having bees bouncing off surfaces, thereby reducing potential damage, the real damage is caused by the bee swarm.
- Beenades are exceptionally effective against certain bosses. Against the Wall of Flesh, they swarm the Hungries, taking them out very quickly. 50-100 can kill the Wall of Flesh in normal mode. 100-150 can kill the Wall of Flesh in Expert Mode
. - If there are a high number of loose entities in your world (objects/coins/blocks), be aware that spawning many bees can likely cause the oldest entities to despawn, causing the oldest objects to be lost forever. It may therefore be wise to collect all loose, valuable items before spamming bee-spawning items.
- Equipping the Hive Pack
will cause around half of the spawned bees to deal about 8% more damage and a small amount of knockback, in addition to flying noticeably faster.
Trivia
- "Beenade" is a portmanteau of "bee" and "grenade".
History
- Desktop 1.2: Introduced.
- Console 1.0.933.1: Made changes from PS4’s 1.0.750.0 update. ()
- Console 1.0.750.0: ()
- Can now be crafted.
- Weapon type changed from Ranged to Throwing.
- Console 1.02: Introduced.
- Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.
- Mobile 1.2.12773: Fixed a bug with Beenades involving PvP.
- Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.
- 3DS-Release: Introduced.