Pirate Staff

   

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Pirate Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	40 / 32 (Summon)
Knockback	6 (Average) / 2 (Very weak)
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons pirates to fight for you
Rarity	05*
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Pirate
Buff tooltip	The pirate will fight for you

Projectile created

• One Eyed Pirate
  
• Soulscourge Pirate
  
• Pirate Captain
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 2584
• Internal Buff ID: 135
• Internal Projectile ID: 393, 394, 395

 Dropped by

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Flying DutchmanFlying Dutchman	1	1%
Pirate CaptainPirate Captain	1	0.2%
Pirate CorsairPirate Corsair	1	0.05%
Pirate CrossbowerPirate Crossbower	1	0.05%
Pirate DeadeyePirate Deadeye	1	0.05%
Pirate DeckhandPirate Deckhand	1	0.05%

The Pirate Staff is a Hardmode, pre-mechanical boss summon weapon. It spawns a pirate minion that attacks enemies by slashing them with a sword. Like other minions, the summoned pirate is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, or cancels the buff. The Pirate Staff is dropped with a 0.05*1/2000 (0.05%) chance by pirates or with a 1*1/100 (1%) chance by the Flying Dutchman.

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 Pirate Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Notes

• The Pirate Staff has a damage cooldown of 0.3 seconds per enemy. It does not trigger invulnerability frames.
• The item is quite rare. On average, it will take 6–7 complete Pirate Invasions before this item drops (assuming the player can kill two Flying Dutchmen and 200 pirates per invasion).
• In Celebrationmk10 worlds, the Pirate Staff can be purchased from the Princess for 5 after a Pirate Invasion has been defeated.

Tips

• The Pirate Staff is exceptionally deadly against ground-based enemies and bosses, or enemies with multiple segments such as The Destroyer, as each pirate will deal its full listed damage on every segment.
• Because the pirates are grounded minions with a limited jump height, the Pirate Staff is ineffective against flying enemies and bosses with very high mobility, such as The Twins.

Trivia

• Each time the pirate minion is summoned, it has a random one of three possible sprite graphics, all of which are functionally identical. In the game code, they are called the "One Eyed Pirate", "Pirate Captain", and "Soulscourge Pirate".
  • The "One Eyed Pirate" variant seems to resemble a miniature version of the Pirate Deadeye enemy.

The three variations of the minion's feces.

• The pirates will defecate occasionally, similar to their behavior in the Pixel Piracy game, and similar to the effect of activating a Toilet. This has no functional effect.
  • This occurs every 30–40 seconds of the pirate not moving horizontally.
• This item is one of several crossover references to the game Pixel Piracy.

A parrot carrying a pirate minion.

• If the player strays too far from a pirate, a parrot will carry it back to the player.

The Pirate Staff in use.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.2.3: Can now be purchased from the Princess in Celebrationmk10 worlds after defeating a Pirate Invasion.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Damage increased from 32 to 40, knockback from 2 to 6.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1: Now requires 10 mana to use.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.08: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.11212: Introduced.