Pirate

The Pirate is a Hardmode NPC that appears once at least one Pirate Invasion has been defeated and a vacant house is available. He also has exactly the same texture as the Pirate Captain, an enemy from the Pirate Invasion.

On the, he will defend himself using either a gun or Cannon.

On the Desktop version, the Pirate prefers the Ocean Biome and likes the Angler NPC.

Names
The Pirate can have the following names:

Quotes

 * "" (reference to "It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" from Alfred Tennyson's poem )
 * "" (reference to the 1851 novel )
 * "" (reference to the sea song "")
 * "" (reference to the 1851 novel )
 * "" (reference to the sea song "")
 * "" (reference to the sea song "")

When is present:

If the player is female / Any gender :

During a :

Happiness Quotes

When living near the Angler:


 * "Me takes  under me wing, landlubber. Me love raisin' sea pups!"

When living in a sparsely populated area


 * "'Tis like having my own galleon, matey!"

When living in the Ocean biome


 * "Hardy har har, matey! the Ocean is me true home! Ahoy!"

Trivia

 * The Pirate looks exactly like the Pirate Captain in the Pirate Invasion.
 * Many of the Pirate's possible names allude to historical captains (though the "pirate" status of many of these figures is contested to this day):
 * Black Beard to the English pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach,
 * Red Beard to the Ottoman seaman who was known as Baba Oruç, which was transformed into Barbarossa (Redbeard in Italian) in Europe,
 * David to the idiom ,
 * Captain Morgan to the Welsh privateer, and
 * James T. Beard to the fictional starship captain from the American media franchise .
 * The name Jake could be a reference to the American musical and interactive children's animated television series .
 * Rarely, the Pirate and the Guide can have the same name (Jake or Jack).
 * During a, other than donning a party hat, his sleeves also appear different.
 * The flaming pumpkins from The Horseman's Blade will home in on the Pirate even though he is not an enemy.

History
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