Grenade

Type	WeaponCrafting material
Damage	60 (Ranged / Throwing )
Knockback	8 (Very strong)
Consumable	✔️
Critical chance	4%
Use time	45 (Very slow)
Velocity	5.5
Tooltip	A small explosion that will not destroy tiles
Rarity
Buy	75
Sell	15
Research	99 required
Use
Explosion

“
Would you rather have a bullet hole or a grenade hole? That's what I thought.
— The Demolitionist

Grenades are explosive consumable ranged / throwing weapons which can be purchased from the Demolitionist for 75 each, or found rarely in natural Chests. Once Hardmode is activated, they can be found in Pots (replacing Shurikens).

A thrown Grenade will bounce slightly and roll until it either hits a valid target or 3 seconds have elapsed, after which it will explode.

Crafting[]

Grenades do ranged damage, and thus the base damage of 60 is increased by any ranged damage modifier. Ranged armor set bonuses apply as well; e.g. the Frost Armor, which causes Grenades to inflict the Frostburn debuff.
Grenades do throwing damage, so ranged armor set bonuses will not apply. Throwing armor set bonuses will, however.
Grenades damage all enemies within a radius of approximately 5 tiles.

Grenades are extremely useful early-game, dealing enormous damage for such an easy weapon to acquire.
Because Grenades automatically explode when they hit an enemy, using them as short-ranged weapons is risky as they can easily cause self-inflicted damage.
As Grenades do splash damage, they can be useful against a large number of different enemies:
- The Brain of Cthulhu's first phase.
- The Wall of Flesh and The Hungry.
- Most worms: A single Grenade is usually enough to kill a Bone Serpent and sometimes a World Feeder.
- Groups of enemies, e.g. during events like the Blood Moon or Goblin Army or in the Dungeon.
Using Grenades against a Caster AI enemy is especially inadvisable. A Grenade can easily explode upon hitting one of the enemy's projectiles, often much closer to the player than anticipated.

The sprite is very similar to the American M67 grenade, a grenade produced since 1968.
Despite the similarities in name, it cannot be used as ammo for the Grenade Launcher, as it consumes rockets.

Desktop 1.4.0.1:
- Sprite updated.
- Weapon type changed from Throwing to Ranged.

Desktop 1.3.0.1:
- Can now be used to craft Beenade and Bouncy Grenade.
- Weapon type changed from Ranged to Throwing.

Desktop 1.1:
- Price decreased from 5 to 4.
- Stack limit increased from 20 to 99.