Hornet Staff

       

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Hornet Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	12 / 9 (Summon)
Knockback	2 (Very weak)
Mana	10
Use time	22 (Fast)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons a hornet to fight for you
Rarity	03*
Sell	70
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Hornet
Buff tooltip	The hornet will fight for you

Projectile created

• Hornet
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 2364
• Internal Buff ID: 125
• Internal Projectile ID: 373

This article is about the minion summoning item. For the bee pets, see Beeswax and Nectar.

The Hornet Staff attacking a Skeleton.

The Hornet Staff is a pre-Hardmode summon weapon. It spawns a hornet minion that follows the player and attacks enemies with a ranged stinger attack, similar to the Hornet enemy's attack. The stingers travel in a straight line, do not pierce, and inflict the Poisoned debuff for 4–7 seconds. Like other minions, the summoned Hornet is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, cancels the buff, or leaves the world.

Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Hornet Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Hornet Staff	Bee Wax14	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil

See also

• Hornet – an enemy of similar appearance
• Bee – a very small enemy of similar appearance
• Bee Mount – a mount of somewhat similar appearance
• Baby Hornet pet – a hornet pet (which will not fight)
• Tiphia pet – a tiphia pet (which will do 1 damage to enemies every ~0.3 seconds, but not chase them)

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4.9: Minion sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.4.1.2: Damage increased from 11 to 12.

• Desktop 1.4.1: Damage increased from 9 to 11.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1:
  • Added requirement of 10 mana.
  • Fixed a bug where the minion buff did not disappear upon leaving a world.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced, requires 10 mana.

 Console version

• Console 1.08: Introduced, requires 10 mana.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.11212: Introduced, requires 10 mana.