Salamander

The Salamander is a Pre-Hardmode enemy that can be found in the Cavern layer. It fires projectiles that inflict the Poisoned debuff for 3 seconds.

Salamanders are unique in that their ability to spawn is connected to two other Cavern enemies, the Crawdad and Giant Shelly. Of these three enemies, a world will choose two types that it can spawn, leaving the third inaccessible. Salamanders will never spawn in a world that features both Crawdads and Giant Shellies together.

Trivia

 * Like their aforementioned analogs, Giant Shellys and Crawdads, Salamanders have multiple colored variants. Also like said analogs, these differently colored variants statistically identical, unlike various Zombie varieties.

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