Butcher's Chainsaw

  

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Butcher's Chainsaw

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Statistics

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Type	Tool
Damage	120 (Melee)
Knockback	8 (Very strong)
Bonus	-1 range
Critical chance	4%
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Velocity	48
Tool speed	4
Tooltip	Sparks emit from struck enemies
Rarity	08*
Sell	10
Research	1 required

Inflicts Debuff

Debuff	Hellfire
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Chance	50%
Duration	1–4 seconds

Projectiles created

• Butcher's Chainsaw
  
• Spark
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 3098
• Internal Buff ID: 323
• Internal Projectile ID: 509, 504

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Butcher Butcher	1	2.5%

The Butcher's Chainsaw attacking Target Dummies. Notice how the sparks deal half damage and inflict the Hellfire debuff.

The Butcher's Chainsaw is a Hardmode, post-Plantera chainsaw that has a 2.5*1/40 (2.5%) / 3.75*3/80 (3.75%) chance to drop from Butchers during a Solar Eclipse. Upon striking an enemy or critter, it will emit sparks akin to the projectiles produced by the Wand of Sparking, dealing damage to nearby enemies/extra segments as well. These sparks deal melee damage, meaning that any melee buffs, accessories, or armor will boost them. They also have a chance to inflict the Hellfire debuff.

Its best modifier is Godly or Demonic. Both modifiers increase the average damage output by the same amount.

Notes

• The sparks that fly off the chainsaw deal half the weapon's damage (60 base damage) and inflict 20% of its knockback (1.6 (Very weak) base knockback).
• The duration of the Hellfire debuff inflicted by the sparks is as follows: 83.33*5/6 (83.33%) chance for 1–2 seconds and 16.67*1/6 (16.67%) for 2–4 seconds (average duration is 1.75 seconds).

Tips

• Due to its high damage per hit and ability to hit enemies multiple times in rapid succession, the Butcher's Chainsaw has a high DPS. With damage-boosting modifiers/accessories, the weapon has a higher potential DPS than other weapons available after Plantera, including the Terra Blade.
• As the Hellfire debuff only applies to enemies hit by the sparks, not by the chainsaw itself, careful positioning is required to make full use of the weapon's damage potential.

Trivia

• The Butcher and the Butcher's Chainsaw are both a tribute to the 1974 American slasher film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
• The Butcher's Chainsaw has the highest base damage and knockback of any tool, due to being designed for combat.
• Enemies immune to the Hellfire debuff do not resist the damage from the sparks.
• Like all chainsaws, it will stop functioning after a minute and has to be re-started.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Both the Chainsaw and its Sparks now use static immune frames: the sparks are now able to hit the same target that they are being spawned off of when hitting with the chainsaw.
  • Spark projectiles now inflicts Hellfire instead of On Fire.
  • Average debuff duration increased from 1.5 seconds to 1.75 seconds.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Sparks now deal melee damage instead of magic damage.
  • All drills and chainsaws now dig faster than their non-mechanical counterparts, but have shorter range.
  • Additionally, optimized digging loadouts still perform better on pickaxes/axes, but drills and chainsaws will be faster on non-optimized loadouts.
  • Increased On Fire! chance from 33% to 50%.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.