Blood Rain Bow

  

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Blood Rain Bow

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Uses ammo	Arrows
Damage	14 (Ranged)
Knockback	3 (Very weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	19 (Very fast)
Velocity	18 (not affected by ammo)
Tooltip	Rains blood from the sky 'Reign in Blood'
Rarity	03*
Sell	1 GC
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Blood Rain
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 4381 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Projectile ID: 819

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Wandering Eye Fish(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Wandering Eye Fish(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	12.5%
Zombie Merman(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Zombie Merman(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	12.5%

The Blood Rain Bow attacking Target Dummies.

The Blood Rain Bow is a pre-Hardmode bow which rains 1–3 streams of blood from the sky instead of arrows. Each shot consumes one arrow from the player's inventory. The streams fall in a widespread area where the cursor is pointed, but are blocked by solid blocks. The Blood Rain Bow has a 1/8 (12.5%) chance of being dropped by Wandering Eye Fish and Zombie Mermen, both of which spawn while fishing during a Blood Moon.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Tips

• While using this bow, unique arrow effects are not applied. It is advised to use arrows with high damage, which carries over to the blood streams. Also, it has a low base damage of 14 and a very fast effective use time of 9.5 (2 shots on average per use), making the arrow damage more significant.
  • An especially powerful choice is the Shimmer Arrow, which has no additional crafting cost over the Wooden Arrow and can be obtained prior to any bosses (provided that the player has explored The Aether biome), and has a base damage of 12, falling only behind the Hellfire Arrow by 1 base damage in pre-Hardmode. Since unique arrow effects are not applied, the Shimmer Arrow's drawback of being hard to aim due to reversed gravity is completely negated.
• The Blood Rain Bow can be useful for fighting the Eater of Worlds due to the large hitbox of its long body, which mitigates the projectiles' inaccuracy.

Trivia

• The bow can be considered a pre-Hardmode counterpart to the Daedalus Stormbow due to its similar ability to rain projectiles from the sky.
• If Blood and Gore is disabled in the Settings, the bow rains down greyish clouds instead. Its functionality is unaffected.
• The Blood Rain Bow's tooltip 'Reign in Blood' is a reference to the thrash metal band Slayer's third studio album of the same name.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Projectiles now generate a little bit of light and can be seen better at night.

• Desktop 1.4.1: Drop chance increased from 1/24 to 1/8.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.4.0.5.4.1: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.4.0.5.5: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.