Finch Staff

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Finch Staff
  • Finch Staff item sprite
Auto-use
Stack digit 1.png
Statistics
Type
Weapon
Damage7 (Summon)
Knockback4 (Weak)
Mana10
Use time36 (Very slow)
Velocity10
TooltipSummons a baby finch to fight for you
RarityRarity level: 1
Sell1 GC
Research1 required
Grants Buff
BuffBaby FinchBaby Finch(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Buff tooltipThe baby finch will fight for you
Projectile created
  • Finch
    Finch
Sounds
Use
  • Internal Item ID: 4281 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Internal Buff ID: 216 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Internal Projectile ID: 759
Obtained from Obtained from
Classic Mode.png Classic
Expert Mode.png Expert
Master Mode.png Master
EntityQty.Rate
Living Wood ChestLiving Wood ChestLiving Wood Chest11/3 (33.33%)
Using the Finch Staff to attack a Slime.

The Finch Staff is a pre-Hardmode summon weapon that summons a Baby Finch minion. It attacks by flying towards enemies and dealing contact damage. Like other minions, the summoned Baby Finch is invincible and follows the player until they die, summon a replacement minion, cancel the buff, or leave the world. The Finch Staff is a starting item for Journey Mode characters, and also has a 1/3 (33.33%) chance of being found in Living Wood Chests within Living Trees in all modes.

While the Baby Finch buff is active, a nest appears on the player's head, in which the Baby Finch will rest when not attacking. When multiple Baby Finches are summoned, they will all be visible and stacked on top of each other on the player's head.

Unlike most other summon weapons, its best possible modifier is Mythical because both the Ruthless and Mythical modifiers only raise its base damage to 8 due to rounding.

Crafting

Recipes

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
Finch StaffFinch Staff(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)ShimmerShimmer Transmutation(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Notes

  • The Baby Finch will always be summoned at the player's cursor; it will have to fly to the player's head before nesting. However, the nest sprite appears instantly when the first Baby Finch is summoned.
  • Unlike other summoning weapons, a Baby Finch is summoned when the player spawns without needing to use the staff if it is in the inventory.
  • Baby Finches do not target enemies without a clear line-of-sight, even if they are targeted with ⚷ Open / Activate.
  • The Baby Finch minion applies 15 ticks of local immunity frames upon hitting an enemy, meaning it can potentially hit up to four times per second.[1]
    • Due to using local immunity frames, the damage output of Baby Finch minions will scale linearly with player's minion slots. This is unlike most other pre-Hardmode minions.
  • The Baby Finch minion can target enemies up to 50 tiles away from the player, and will automatically return to the player's side if its current target gets more than 50 tiles away from the player.[2]

Tips

  • Despite reaching relatively high speeds, the Baby Finch has difficulty turning, and may often fly in circles while trying to charge targets.
  • If the player is attempting to use only summon weapons, it is usually a good idea to use the Finch Staff to farm for the Leather Whip (which will increase the damage both the player and Baby Finch do), before attempting to fight bosses or explore more challenging areas, such as The Crimson/The Corruption or Underground Jungle. Alternatively, the player could replace the Finch Staff completely with the Slime Staff, although it is incredibly unlikely to drop and relies heavily on luck.
  • Rapidly summoning Baby Finches onto an enemy can be helpful if the Baby Finch is not actively targeting it.
  • Cornering an enemy with a Baby Finch will result in very high DPS.
  • Compared to other early-game summons, it's much easier to get than Slime Staff and has piercing, unlike Flinx Staff, so it is a good option against the Eater of Worlds or Brain of Cthulhu, as they have many parts to hit.

Trivia

Gallery

  • A player with one finch summoned.
    A player with one finch summoned.
  • A player with eleven finches summoned.
    A player with eleven finches summoned.

History

  • Desktop 1.4.1:
    • Reworked to be more reliable with hitting its targets.
    • Enemies knocked back by the Baby Finches are knocked away from the player now, regardless of the angle of the Baby Finch.
  • Desktop 1.4.0.5: Fixed an issue where Baby Finches were unable to descend through platforms.
  1. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop version Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method SetDefaults() in Terraria.Projectile.cs.
  2. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop version Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method AI_158_BabyBird() in Terraria.Projectile.cs.
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