Boomstick

The Boomstick is a gun occasionaly found in Jungle Shrines, Jungle Crates, and Ivy Chests located at the base of a Living Mahogany Tree. It fires a four-shot spread, but only consumes one bullet per firing. All four shots have a base power of 14, yielding 21 damage with Musket Balls and 23 damage per shot with Meteor Shot or Silver Bullets. The Boomstick is similar to its Hardmode counterpart, the Shotgun, but is much weaker as you would expect.

With some luck, and the audacity to enter the Underground Jungle as soon as an entrance is found, a Boomstick can potentially be acquired very early. Alternatively, by investing a little more time and being patient, it can also be found by opening Jungle Crates.

Its best Modifier is Unreal.

Tips

 * Due to the spread of the shots and the slow weapon speed, the Boomstick loses efficiency at long range. It is highly effective at close range, and hitting an enemy with all four shots can do around 80 damage, butchering most non-Hardmode enemies outside of Expert Mode. It can also be highly effective against large groups of enemies when used with Meteor Shots.

Trivia

 * The term 'boomstick' is a reference to Army of Darkness from the Evil Dead movie series, in which the protagonist, Ash, refers to his shotgun as a "boomstick". The word has since become a common name for shotguns, particularly short-barreled, or "sawed-off", variants.

History
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