Daybreak

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Daybreak
  • Daybreak item sprite
Autoswing
1
Statistics
Type
Weapon
Damage150 (Melee)
Knockback5 (Average)
Critical chance4%
Use time16 (Very fast)
Velocity20 (effective)
Tooltip'Rend your foes asunder with a spear of light!'
RarityRed (Rarity level: 10)
Sell10 GC
Research1 required
Inflicts Debuff
DebuffDaybrokenDaybroken(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Debuff tooltipIncinerated by solar rays
Chance100%
Duration5 seconds
Projectiles created
  • Daybreak
    Daybreak
  • Solar Explosion
    Solar Explosion
Sounds
Use
Solar Explosion
  • Internal Item ID: 3543 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Internal Buff ID: 189 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Internal Projectile ID: 636, 953
The Daybreak being used on a Target Dummy. Each spear that sticks onto the dummy increases the debuff's effect.

The Daybreak is a Hardmode, post-Lunatic Cultist melee weapon that fires a gravity-affected sun spear projectile. It sticks onto the targeted enemy upon contact, dealing damage and inflicting the Daybroken debuff, which deals 100 damage per second for a duration of 5 seconds. Up to eight sun spears can be stuck onto a single enemy at one time, resulting in 800 DPS for the debuff.[1]

When more than eight sun spears are attached, the earliest one will dissipate and cause a Solar Explosion. Additionally, a sun spear will dissipate and cause a Solar Explosion whenever it collides with blocks, when the target it is stuck to dies, or when its duration ends. Solar Explosions deal the weapon's damage and inflicts the Daybroken debuff, but cannot deal critical hits.[2]

Its best modifier is Ruthless. Since part of the Daybreak's damage output comes from the Solar Explosions which cannot critically hit, critical hit chance bonuses are less effective than direct increases in damage.

Crafting

Recipes

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
DaybreakDaybreak(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Ancient ManipulatorAncient Manipulator(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Notes

  • Melee speed boosts increase its velocity, but not fire rate.
  • The sun spears are unaffected by gravity for the first 0.38 seconds after being fired.
  • While the sun spears can receive bonuses to inflict debuffs (e.g. from flasks, Frost armor, or Magma Stone), Solar Explosions cannot.
  • Each sun spear applies its own separate duration of the Daybroken debuff.
  • The size of the Solar Explosions range from 2.75×2.75 tiles to 6.5×6.5 tiles.[3]

Tips

  • The Daybreak deals much more single-target damage compared to the Solar Eruption, its Solar Fragment counterpart, which is better at damaging multiple targets.
  • Since the damage of the Daybroken debuff cannot be increased by other items, its DPS is viable even with defensive builds, like ones using the Beetle Shell.

Trivia

  • The Daybroken debuff does not have a unique debuff icon as it can never be applied to players. It instead uses a copy of the Stardust Dragon buff's icon as a placeholder.
  • The Daybreak appears to function as a javelin, a smaller type of spear primarily used for throwing instead of thrusting.
  • The word daybreak means dawn, the time in the morning when daylight first appears.
  • The Daybreak and the Phantasm are the only weapons made from Lunar Fragments to not have a pillar's name in their name (e.g. "Solar").
  • It can be considered a massively more powerful Bone Javelin, as its projectiles are affected by gravity and stick to enemies to inflict damage over time.

History

  • Desktop 1.4.1: Projectiles now explode when expiring or upon hitting a wall. The explosion does the same damage as the weapon and can hit nearby enemies as well.
  • Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now spreads the debuff to nearby enemies even if the attack kills the target in one hit.
  • Desktop 1.3.0.4: Fixed Daybroken debuff spreading to friendly NPCs, killing them.

References

  1. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop version Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, field _javelinsMax8 in Terraria.Projectile.cs and methods Damage() in Terraria.Projectile.cs, StatusNPC() in Terraria.Projectile.cs, UpdateNPC_BuffApplyDOTs() in Terraria.NPC.cs, and AI() in Terraria.Projectile.cs. The relevant part in Terraria.Projectile.AI is the aiStyle == 113 code block.
  2. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop version Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method SetDefaults() in Terraria.Projectile.cs.
  3. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop version Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, methods Kill() in Terraria.Projectile.cs and AI() in Terraria.Projectile.cs. The relevant part in Terraria.Projectile.AI is the aiStyle == 117 code block. The scale of the explosion will be between 0.85× to 2×.
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