Minishark



The Minishark is a gun that can be bought from the Arms Dealer for and can use any form of bullet. It is capable of autofiring and each shot has a chance of not consuming any ammunition. It has the lowest use time of all pre-Hardmode ranged weapons.

Tips
! rowspan=2 | Gear ! colspan=2 | Chance not to consume ammo ! rowspan=2 | Avg. yield of 999 bullets ! rowspan=2 | Avg. ammo consumption rate (continuous fire)
 * The Completely Awesome achievement can be unlocked for free by buying a Minishark and then reselling it without closing the shop window.
 * The Minishark deals small amounts of damage at a rapid rate. Against enemies with higher defense, its damage is reduced to one per hit, causing a significant decrease in overall damage output. As most Hardmode enemies have enough defense to negate its damage completely and have significantly more health than basic enemies, it becomes functionally useless beyond this point and is replaced by its upgrade, the Megashark.
 * Combining the Minishark with a Shark Tooth Necklace can be useful, especially against bosses, whose high amounts of defense can severely reduce the already low damage per shot of the Minishark.
 * It is advised not to fight the Queen Bee on Expert or Master mode with the Minishark even with a Shark Tooth Necklace equipped, because her defense will increase as her health decrease, up to 28 defense towards the end of the fight.
 * Even with the 33.3% chance not to consume ammo, the Minishark can still use an entire stack of bullets very quickly, especially with modifiers that decrease its use time. However, the ammo-conserving effect of the Minishark can be increased substantially by adding certain gear, e.g. the following:
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Trivia

 * The fictional hand-held has been popularized in video games and films since the 1980s. In practice, a man-portable M134 minigun would be nearly impossible to manage as an individual infantry weapon, and highly impractical for a human being to either carry or operate.
 * The Minishark's color and design is similar to that of the Machine Gun from the 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter . They are also both automatic guns with multiple barrels and low damage per bullet.
 * The Clockwork Assault Rifle, Star Cannon, Flintlock Pistol, and the Minishark are some of the only guns without knockback.
 * The Minishark is the first of several rapid-firing guns that were named and designed based on a water creature, the others being the Gatligator, Megashark, and S.D.M.G..
 * The Arms Dealer mentions, "I see you're eyeballin' the Minishark. You really don't want to know how it was made." This suggests that the Minishark is just a carved out shark that is metalized.
 * Terraria features a lot of gore and mature concepts, such as the mechanized bosses that are really just the original bosses but with added machinery to make them stronger. This shows that the Minishark could just be a carved out shark that is plated with metal.
 * This also is further evidenced by the Minishark needing 5 extra shark fins to make a Megashark.