The Destroyer

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"You feel vibrations from deep below..."

The Destroyer is a Hardmode Mechanical Boss that is essentially a harder version of the Eater of Worlds. Like the Eater of Worlds, The Destroyer is a very large Worm. Though it appears to be similarly made up of many segments, individual segments cannot die, and The Destroyer will not split apart into multiple enemies. The entire body has a single shared Health, and will remain at full size until it is killed.

The Destroyer is summoned using a Mechanical Worm at Night. Night time is the only condition required for summoning. It must be killed before dawn, otherwise it despawns. In the PC version, it can also spawn randomly on any given night once Hardmode begins, if you haven't defeated it yet in the current world. Its arrival is announced via the message, 'You feel a quaking from deep underground...', or 'You feel vibrations from deep below...'.

Each of The Destroyer's segments contains a red-lit Probe, which are independent flying enemies that are launched periodically as The Destroyer takes damage. They fire lasers at the player, both while within The Destroyer and when detached. Probes can be killed individually once detached. If the red light is missing from a segment, it means the Probe was already launched from that segment.

In the PC version, the Destroyer's body is immune to all debuffs, though launched Probes are not.

Tips

 * The Destroyer is the only one of the three "mech" bosses whose movement can be somewhat confined. Being a worm-type, it needs blocks in order to maneuver, and will not launch high above-ground as much as it tends to stay low. By standing on a bridge of Wood Platforms high above the ground, The Destroyer will not reach the player as often, and the player can fire down on it through the platforms. With a high enough bridge, the boss may never make contact with the player at all, even though its easier flying Probes will.
 * Penetrating and AoE weapons are most effective against the Destroyer, and using pre-Mech equipment, weapons that can hit multiple segments at once is the only possible way to kill it. The Ice Sickle, Dao of Pow, Poison Staff, Star Cannon, Demon Scythe, Nimbus Rod, Cursed Flames, Golden Shower, Magic Dagger, Frost Staff, and even Traps are useful for this purpose. Ammunition such as Meteor Shots, Explosive Bullets, Hellfire Arrows, Jester's Arrows and Holy Arrows is recommended for use with Ranged weapons. Using a large quantity of Grenades can also be somewhat effective. If Skeletron Prime has been defeated, using the Flamethrower is also a good option, and if The Twins have been defeated, the Magical Harp is perfect for this purpose, and using an Optic Staff is highly recommended.
 * For endgame farming purposes, the use of strong, penetrating and AoE weapons can kill the Destroyer in a matter of seconds, if appropriate modifiers and accessories are used. Endgame weapons which are especially useful useful against the Destroyer include the Stynger, Flower Pow, Death Sickle, Mushroom Spear, Paladin's Hammer, Terra Blade, North Pole, Stake Launcher, Elf Melter, Rocket-firing weapons, Unholy Trident, Venom Staff, Nettle Burst, Shadowbeam Staff, Inferno Fork, and Razorblade Typhoon, as well as any endgame Ranged weapon while using the ammo stated above.
 * An advised armor for the Destroyer is a full set of Chlorophyte Armor because of the leaf crystal, to fight off the probes
 * The Destroyer can go over you, trapping you. When it does this, swing a strong sword, the Cutlass being very useful, and you will be sure to deal large amounts of damage.

Bugs
{{Bug|Sometimes The Destroyer will not spawn if you are in The Underworld, only if it is cued by "you feel vibrations from deep below" {{Bug|When a player or players contain more than 33 goodie bags in their inventory, it can cause the Destroyer to instantly spawn.}} {{Bug|When you summon The Destroyer in the Jungle, sometimes a Queen Bee is spawned instead.}} {{Bug|Occasionally, when summoned with the Mechanical Worm or its message randomly appears on a night, The Destroyer does not appear.| 1.2}} {{Bug|{{console icon}} In the console version, if the Destroyer is summoned too fast in a multiplayer server, it has a chance of becoming invincible and will not be destroyed until the server gets restarted, or it becomes day.}} {{bug|Sometimes when the message for The Destroyer (You feel vibrations from deep below) appears, Queen Bee will spawn instead of The Destroyer.}} {{bug|{{console icon}} In the console or PC version the Destroyer will despawn at 12pm or die, but drop items anyway.}} {{bug|Sometimes when the player kills The Destroyer, the game will lag out extremely and if you log out and log back in the loading of the world fails.}} {{bug|In multiplayer, if you and another player are extremely far away and you die fighting the Destroyer, it will attempt to attack the other player but not reach it before you respawn. This causes it to become mostly invisible, and sometimes move incredibly fast or break into smaller Destroyers.}} {{Bug|In multiplayer, if you're deep underground and you get the message, "You feel vibrations from deep below..." he will not spawn. He will instead spawn the next night unexpectedly.}} {{Bug|In multiplayer, especially LAN worlds, The Destroyer is extremely buggy. Proven in LAN, The Destroyer randomly teleports in and out of spots, as all NPC's, but The Destroyer is different. When he teleports out, he sometimes will come back in all bundled up in a ball, and be stuck like that, making for an easy kill. Other times, it will come back invisible for all others except one person, and continue to attack him/her. If the other players walk into The Destroyer for the one who can see it, they will not take damage. On other occasions, he will go after a single player knowing that the other is there, in spite of his back and forth attack pattern. And sometimes only the head will be visible and other segments of the body will appear as you hit the ones already visible, this will make probes invisible too but able to shoot you.}} {{bug|{{console icon}} In the Console Version, when summoned on multiplayer, The Destroyer may glitch in appearance and turn invisible while looking like it was destroyed.}} {{bug|{{console icon}} in the Console Version, the drops from The Destroyer continue to appear at the head, making it difficult to get them if the head was underground.}} {{bug|It is possible for the "You feel vibrations from deep below" message to appear on nights where other events are occuring (such as a Blood Moon). The destroyer will still spawn, making it extra hard to kill.}} {{Bug|Sometimes when you summon The destroyer with the Mechanical Worm, only his head will spawn.}} {{Bug|Sometimes when you kill The destroyer, it will not drop any loot.}} {{Bug|Sometimes when you get killed by the Destroyer when it's at 40,000 health it will trigger it so the game thinks that you killed Plantera.}} {{bug|{{console icon}} On Xbox, he will not drop any Souls of Might. (Only tested once, I found his other drops.)}}

History

 * Drops now appear at the location of the segment that was closest to the player on defeat, instead of from the head.