Mourning Wood

Mourning WoodHardmode exclusive

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 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	Pumpkin Moon
AI Type	Mourning Wood AI
Damage	120/180/270 (melee) 100200300 (Flaming Wood, health ≥ 25%) 150300450 (Flaming Wood, health < 25%) 80160240 (Greek Fire, health ≥ 25%) 100200300 (Greek Fire, health < 25%)
Max Life	14000 / 12000
Defense	34 / 28
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Drops

Coins	1250

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Higher item drop chances in later waves
• Spooky Wood (30–50)
  100%
• One of the following 5 items may be dropped
• Spooky Hook
  2–20%5–20%
• Spooky Twig
  2–20%5–20%
• Stake Launcher

  + Stake (30–60)

  2–20%5–20%
• Cursed Sapling
  2–20%5–20%
• Necromantic Scroll
  2–20%5–20%
• Mourning Wood Trophy
  100%
• During wave 15 only
• Witch's Broom
  5–20%
• Hexxed Branch
  6.25–25%
• Mourning Wood Relic
  25–100%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 325

Mourning Wood is a Hardmode mini-boss that spawns during the Pumpkin Moon event. The boss is a living tree form that resembles a jack-o-lantern. Killing the Mourning Wood will add 75 points during the Pumpkin Moon event. It is the Pumpkin Moon equivalent of the Everscream which behaves in an almost identical way to the Mourning Wood.

Attacks

Mourning Wood alternates between two attacks:

• Fires a volley of "Flaming Wood" (flaming spikes) at the player. These pass through blocks.
• Fires a jet of "Greek Fire" (sparkling flames). These do not pass through blocks. They are affected by gravity and remain on the ground for a while, doing damage to players that touch them.

Notes

• The drop chance of the Mourning Wood's dropped items increases linearly with the wave it is in (lowest drop chance in wave 4, highest drop chance in wave 15). In wave 15 it will also drop a trophy and other loot.
• Mourning Wood can initially pass through blocks when it spawns within them, floating towards the player until it reaches an open area. It resembles a Wraith's behavior. Otherwise it walks on surfaces and cannot jump.
• In the  Mobile version, Mourning Wood will not despawn or run away when it is on screen.
• It does not despawn after killing all available players, unless on the Nintendo 3DS version.
• The Stakes' drop rate is reduced on the Nintendo 3DS version.
• The closer to death a Mourning Wood is, the faster it moves, a trait shared with several other enemies.

Tips

• Pay attention to when a Mourning Wood stops walking. This means it is going to perform one of its two ranged attacks.
• It is advisable not to enter a small room while fighting a Mourning Wood because its "Flaming Wood" attack can go through walls.
• Mourning Wood's "Greek Fire" attacks cannot pass through water, therefore submerging the mini-boss at least halfway up is an easier way to defeat it. Note the "Flaming Wood" attacks do pass through water.
• Mourning Wood can be defeated with relative ease by aiming the North Pole above it so it gets hit by several of its snowflake projectiles.

Trivia

• Mourning is the grief over someone's death, and fits in well with the Halloween theme of the Pumpkin Moon.
• The name is a pun on "morning wood", a slang term referring to nocturnal erections during REM sleep. Throughout the game, similar innuendos can be found, such as the Golden Shower and Master Bait items.
• Real-life Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Roman Empire in naval battles. Some historians believe it could be ignited on contact with water, which contradicts the properties of the projectile in-game.
• According to the Splinterling's Bestiary entry, Mourning Woods reproduce by snapping cuttings from their bodies and thrusting them into the soil. The cuttings eventually grow into Splinterlings.
• The projectiles Mourning Wood shoots from the flaming wood volley is strikingly similar to the stakes fired from the stake launcher, a weapon the Mourning Wood itself drops.
• Mourning Wood is the only event mini-boss to drop an Expert Mode-exclusive item, the Witch's Broom.
  • Additionally, it is the only enemy that can drop two mount-summoning items at once: the Witch's Broom and the Hexxed Branch.
• Similarly to its Frost Moon-themed counterpart, Everscream, the “Flaming Wood” volley Mourning Wood uses is strikingly similar to the “Needles” attack that Everscream uses, with different speeds and projectile sizes. Alongside that, the “Greek Fire” attack acts very closely to the Exploding Ornaments that are dropped form Everscream in a near identical fashion.

The Bestiary entry for the Mourning Wood: "These enormous murder trees nightmarishly stomp about, prepared to shower endless fiery destruction upon all life."

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Health increased from 12000 to 14000.
  • Defense increased from 28 to 34.
  • Increased the number of enemy slots taken, to be more in line with Frost Moon bosses, dramatically reducing how many can spawn at a time

Reduced base Spooky Wood drop count. However, due to the faster point gain in Expert/Master, they now have bonus drop quantities in Expert and Master.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Witch's Broom was added to the Expert Mode drop pool.
  • Now has Master Mode drops: it will always drop the Mourning Wood Relic on death and also has a 25% chance of dropping the Hexxed Branch mount.

• Desktop 1.2.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.