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 9999 bullets ! rowspan=2 | Avg. ammo consumption rate (continuous fire)
 * The Completely Awesome achievement can be unlocked without spending the 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, such as bosses, its damage is reduced to 1 per hit, causing a significant decrease in overall damage output., e.g. via the Shark Tooth Necklace, can help alleviate this shortcoming.
 * As most Hardmode enemies have enough defense to reduce the Minishark's damage to 1 per hit and have significantly more health, it becomes functionally useless beyond this point and is better replaced by its upgrade, the Megashark.
 * Similarly to increased armor penetration, bullets that deal higher damage can significantly increase the weapon's DPS.
 * Even with the chance not to consume ammo, the Minishark can still use a large amount 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:
 * {| class="terraria align-center" style="line-height:1.3"

! Individual !! Total
 * align=left | ❌&ensp; || colspan=2 | ||  shots
 * 1 every seconds
 * align=left | or   ||  ||  ||  shots
 * 1 every seconds
 * align=left | ||  ||  ||  shots
 * 1 every seconds
 * }
 * align=left | ||  ||  ||  shots
 * 1 every seconds
 * }

Trivia

 * The name is likely a reference to the fictional hand-held, which 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 Minishark, along with the Clockwork Assault Rifle, Star Cannon, Flintlock Pistol, 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 Minishark is implied to be made from a live shark. This is supported by several details:
 * The Arms Dealer has a chance to say: "I see you're eyeballin' the Minishark. You really don't want to know how it was made.", suggesting it was created from a live shark.
 * An excerpt from the Arms Dealer's Bestiary entry says, in part, "...guns made from sharks"
 * 5 Shark Fins are required to craft a Megashark.