Nail Gun

The Nail Gun is a Hardmode, post-Plantera ranged weapon which has a 4% / (1/25 / ) chance to drop from Nailhead during Solar Eclipses. It uses Nails as ammunition, which are sold by both the Merchant and the Arms Dealer when you have the Nail Gun in your inventory for each.

When a nail hits an enemy, it sticks to it. It deals low damage on impact, but explodes after roughly 2 seconds, dealing massive damage. The nails also stick to surfaces and explode in the same manner. The explosion does not damage the shooter. Nails are unaffected by gravity until they have flown roughly 30 blocks, at which point they fly with an arc similar to that of an arrow. If used in PvP, the nails will not stick to players and will instead deal damage somewhere in between the initial damage and the explosion's damage. Its best Modifier is Demonic or Deadly, with the latter granting slightly higher DPS at a cost of ammo consumption.



Trivia

 * The Nail Gun behaves similarly but not identically to the Needler from the Halo series. The main mechanical difference is that the Needler, unlike the nailgun, fires projectiles with both limited tracking(similar to Chlorophyte Bullets) and the ability to create a high-damage "supercombine explosion" if a large number of shots land before they explode. This resemblance is greatest in the iterations of the Needler seen in Halo: Combat Evolved and out-of-game lore, in which a single needle's explosion is portrayed as much more powerful than it is in later games and the "supercombine explosion" is less necessary for dealing effective damage.

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