Martian Madness

"Martians are invading!"

Martian Madness is a Hardmode, post-Golem invasion-style event that includes several alien-themed enemies. It can only be triggered after Golem has been defeated.

Martian Madness is triggered by a Martian Probe, which spawns randomly in the two outer lateral thirds of the map (with a higher spawn chance in the Space layer). When this small flying enemy detects a player or is attacked, it immediately attempts to fly away. If the Probe is allowed to escape and despawns off-screen, the event starts.

Once triggered, the status message "Martians are invading!" appears, and UFOs start flying in the background (as seen in the banner above); though Martian Madness enemies will not actually begin spawning until the player is located near the default spawn point or near an NPC with valid housing. As with other invasion-style events, a progress bar is shown in the bottom right corner while the event is ongoing. This bar fills as event enemies are defeated. When it reaches 100%, the event ends and Martian enemies stop spawning.

Martian Madness currently features 11 exclusive enemies and one exclusive boss, resulting in 11 different and one trophy.

Tips

 * If the Martian Probe has detected a player, chasing it might cause it to despawn, thus care should be taken.
 * While most minions will not deliberately target the Martian Probe, some can still accidentally kill it before it has the chance to detect players and escape, preventing the event from triggering. Minions should be dismissed if the player is trying to cause an invasion to occur.
 * Since the Martian Saucers drop the most valuable loot out of all enemies, it is usually preferable to allow as many of them to spawn as possible. Moving to a small arena high enough above the ground makes it easier to ensure no ground-based enemies spawn, increasing the chance of a Saucer to spawn.
 * By using two portals or Teleporters placed about 1000 feet apart, it is possible to quickly despawn regular invasion enemies without progressing the event, giving Martian Saucer more chances to spawn.

Trivia

 * The martian walkers are a reference to the alien fighting machines included in 'the war of the worlds' a book by H.G.Wells, a musical story by Jeff Wayne, and a 2005 movie featuring Tom Cruise.
 * The Tesla Turret is based upon the s, invented by, which can look similar and are often used to generate arcing electrical discharges ("artificial lightning").
 * Unlike most other enemies in the game, Martians have purple blood when killed rather than red.
 * Although it says this event will swarm the world spawn, in reality, it swarms the area nearest to the player as long as NPCs are nearby. Example: If a player is in the ocean while an invasion event is happening, the invasion will swarm spawn. While if the player has an NPC with a beachside house at the ocean, the invasion will swarm that area instead.

History
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