Pirate Staff

The Pirate Staff is a ground melee Hardmode, pre-mechanical boss summon weapon that spawns a pirate minion that attacks enemies via a melee sword attack. Like other minions, the summoned pirate is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, or cancels the buff. The Pirate Staff is dropped with a chance by pirates or with a  chance by the.

Tips

 * The Pirate Staff is exceptionally deadly against ground-based enemies and bosses, or enemies with multiple segments such as the Destroyer, as each pirate will deal its full listed damage on every segment.
 * Because the pirates are restricted to being on the ground with only their jumping providing vertical mobility, the Pirate Staff is less effective, and almost useless, against flying enemies and bosses with very high mobility, such as The Twins.

Trivia

 * Each time the pirate minion is summoned, it has a random one of three possible sprite graphics, all of which are functionally identical. In the game code, they are called the "One Eyed Pirate", "Pirate Captain", and "Soulscourge Pirate".
 * The "One Eyed Pirate" variant seems to resemble a miniature version of the Pirate Deadeye enemy.
 * This item is one of several crossover references to the game .


 * The pirates will defecate occasionally, similar to their behavior in the Pixel Piracy game. This has no functional effect.
 * This occurs every 30–40 seconds of the pirate not moving horizontally.


 * If the player strays too far from a pirate, a parrot will carry it back to the player.