Frost Moon



The Frost Moon is a post-Plantera Christmas-themed event summoned with the Naughty Present at night, and ending at dawn (4:30 a.m.). It can be summoned any time of year, and does not require the actual Christmas season. During the event, unique and highly difficult enemies spawn at high rates and attack the player. It is similar to the Pumpkin Moon event, but has more variety and difficulty. Visually, the moon turns into a snowman head, though remaining in its current phase. Unique music also plays.

The entire event consists of 15 waves, plus 5 "bonus waves". Waves progress as you reach certain kill scores (though kill scores are not displayed to the player before wave 20). After a wave's required score is met, the next wave begins, and the kill score is reset to 0. Chat messages will indicate when the wave has advanced, and which wave has been achieved. See the table below (Waves) for the points awarded for each enemy and the score required for each wave.

The Naughty Present that summons the Frost Moon requires materials only available in Hardmode worlds where the player has already defeated Plantera (though it can still be summoned in Pre-Hardmode worlds). As such, it is intended to present a challenge even to players with the best possible equipment. In the final waves, multiple boss-level enemies are fought at once.

Frost Moon enemies drop powerful weapons, as well as pet and vanity items. Most drop with extreme rarity, and even players who manage to complete the event will find they need to do so several times before obtaining them. Drop chances for items dropped by bosses increase as waves are completed. At wave 15 there is a 25% chance each Ice Queen, Santa-NK1 and Everscream killed will drop their respective trophies. This increases to 33% at Wave 17 and 50% at Wave 19.

Points per kill

 * Zombie Elf: 1
 * Gingerbread Man 2
 * Elf Archer: 3
 * Nutcracker: 4
 * Flocko: 5
 * Elf Copter: 8
 * Krampus: 10
 * Present Mimic: 20
 * Yeti: 18
 * Everscream: 50
 * Santa-NK1: 100
 * Ice Queen: 150

Wave scores & enemies

 * Total points required to reach Wave 15: 13555, Wave 20: 47130
 * Present Mimics may spawn at any wave, instead of wave-appropriate enemies, if there are currently less than four Present Mimics around.
 * The maximum number of bosses at once depends on the wave. While this number is reached (or possibly exceeded, for example if the player manages to somehow reach Wave 9 without killing two Everscreams from Wave 6), no more of this type of boss will spawn.

Tips

 * Water Candles, Battle Potions and Calming Potions have no effect during the invasion, as the same with some other events.
 * If the player is killed during the event, the event is not cancelled. The player will keep re-spawning and can continue fighting its enemies as the event continues until dawn. In single-player games, exiting the world and reloading it will cancel the event.
 * The Frost Moon does not stack with the Blood Moon. Summoning the Frost Moon while a Blood Moon is active will result in a regular Frost Moon.

History
Lune de Glace 서리의 달 Lodowy Księżyc 霜月