Bee Gun

The Bee Gun is a magic weapon that fires homing bees. It is obtained from the Queen Bee. Despite the name, it requires mana to fire, not ammo. The weapon is particularly strong against early pre-Hardmode bosses.

At first glance, the weapon seems weak as it has a low base damage, However, it shoots between 1 and 4 bees each time it is fired. Moreover, the bees bounce three times before expiring and home in on enemies within their line of sight. This makes it effective against flying enemies/bosses and in dungeons. The bees do not, however, home in on aquatic enemies because of their inability to enter water. You can make a coin farm out of this by having a Lucky Coin and some enemies. All you need is to keep on firing until you run out of mana, in which you can either wait for mana regeneration or kill the enemies.

A good tactic against bosses is to get in an enclosed room and fire bees before even summoning the boss. The bees will bounce off walls and you'll have a small army of bees waiting for the boss. This tactic isn't good against fast bosses since the bees won't be able to catch up to the boss before he leaves the room. This is an easy way to kill bosses like skeletron pre-hardmode.

However, like natural bees, they do not enter water or lava and will expire on upon entering either of them, although they can still enter honey.

The Bee Gun is unable to acquire the Mythical Modifier, nor any other modifier that affects knockback. The best modifier for this weapon is Mystic or Demonic.

Like all homing weapons, the bees will not attack players in pvp.