Pirate Staff

   

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Pirate Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	40 (Summon)
Knockback	6 (Average)
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons pirates to fight for you
Rarity	05*
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Pirate
Buff tooltip	The pirate will fight for you

Projectile created

• One Eyed Pirate
  
• Soulscourge Pirate
  
• Pirate Captain
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 2584
• Internal Buff ID: 135
• Internal Projectile ID: 393, 394, 395

The Pirate Staff is a Hardmode summon weapon that spawns a pirate minion that attacks enemies via a melee sword attack. Like other minions, the summoned pirate 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 Pirate Staff is dropped with a 1/2000 (0.05%) chance by pirates or with a 1/100 (1%) chance by the Flying Dutchman.

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 Pirate Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Notes

• The item is quite rare. It takes an average of 9–17 complete Pirate Invasions before this item drops. (Assuming you can kill two Flying Dutchman per invasion and 200 pirates or a 2% chance and 10% chance respectively per invasion)

Trivia

A parrot carrying a pirate minion.

• Each time the pirate minion is summoned, it has a random one of three possible sprite graphics, all of which are functionally identical. In the game code, they are called the "One Eyed Pirate," "Pirate Captain," and "Soulscourge Pirate."
  • One of the variants seems to resemble a miniature version of the Pirate Deadeye enemy.
• This item is one of several crossover references to the game Pixel Piracy.
• The pirates will defecate randomly, similar to their behavior in the Pixel Piracy game. This has no functional effect.
• If the player strays too far from a pirate, a parrot will carry him back to the player.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Damage increased from 32 to 40, knockback from 2 to 6.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1: Now requires 10 mana.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.08: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.