Guide Voodoo Doll

Type	Boss summonAccessory
Tooltip	'You are a terrible person'
Rarity
Sell	2 SC
Research	1 required

Not to be confused with Clothier Voodoo Doll, which allows the player to harm the Clothier rather than the Guide (and re-summon Skeletron).

“
I heard there is a doll that looks very similar to the Guide somewhere in the underworld. I'd like to put a few rounds in it.
— The Arms Dealer

The Guide Voodoo Doll is a boss-summoning item used to summon the Wall of Flesh. It is a guaranteed drop from Voodoo Demons, a fairly rare enemy in the Underworld.

When the item is equipped as an accessory, it becomes possible for the player and other NPCs to kill the Guide with direct attacks from weapons (which normally would not damage him). If the item is dropped and destroyed by lava, then the Guide will instantly die, if he exists in the world. If the item is destroyed by lava in the Underworld while the Guide exists, the Wall of Flesh will be summoned.

On the Desktop version, Console version, and Mobile version, if more than one Guide Voodoo Doll is in a stack upon being destroyed by lava, other NPCs will be killed alongside the Guide depending on the amount within the stack.

The Guide Voodoo Doll cannot be reforged, and therefore cannot have modifiers.

Notes

Only one Wall of Flesh can be summoned at once, so throwing a second Guide Voodoo Doll into lava while the Wall of Flesh is currently spawned will waste the item even if another Guide moves in before defeating the boss.
If a dropped Guide Voodoo Doll lands on a player who is standing in lava, it will sometimes be collected while also summoning the Wall of Flesh, making it reusable.^Verify
The Wall of Flesh's sweep direction is determined by where the Guide Voodoo Doll is destroyed. If to the left of the world center (the player's initial world spawn point at the start of the game), the boss sweeps from left to right, and vice versa.
On the Desktop version, Console version, and Mobile version, the Guide Voodoo Doll is not required to summon the Wall of Flesh. It can also be summoned by directly killing the Guide via submerging them in lava in the Underworld.

Achievement

Like a Boss • “Obtain a boss-summoning item.”

Obtain any boss-summoning item. (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Category:

Collector

Trivia

In popular culture, a voodoo doll is a figurine resembling a person, which can be harmed in order to magically inflict harm on the person being mimicked.
The tooltip could be a reference to a quote from the character GLaDOS from the video game Portal 2.
Before the Wall of Flesh is defeated, several NPCs sometimes make references to the doll's function:
- Arms Dealer: "I heard there is a doll that looks very similar to <name of Guide> somewhere in the underworld. I'd like to put a few rounds in it."
- Nurse: "I need to have a serious talk with <name of Guide>. How many times a week can you come in with severe lava burns?"
- Guide: "When you are ready to challenge the keeper of the underworld, you will have to make a living sacrifice. Everything you need for it can be found in the underworld."
Its old sprite appears on the icons of these following buffs and debuffs:

On Fire!
Frostburn
Cursed Inferno
Chilled
Stinky
Sparkle Slime(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Invisibility
Shine

The Guide Voodoo Doll is one of only four pre-Hardmode boss-summoning items that cannot be crafted. The others are the Clothier Voodoo Doll, Suspicious Looking Egg(3DS version), and the Cursed stuffing(3DS version).
In 1.2 Mobile version, the Guide Voodoo Doll can be directly consumed in the inventory to summon the Wall of Flesh, just like other consumable boss-summoning items.