Ice Elemental

Ice ElementalHardmode exclusive

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Snow biome + Night Ice biome
AI Type	Hovering AI
Damage	55/110/165 (melee) 90180270 (Frost Blast)
Max Life	200/400/600
Defense	20
KB Resist	40%/46%/52%
Banner	Ice Elemental Banner
Immune to

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Debuff	Frostburn
Debuff tooltip	It's either really hot or really cold. Either way it REALLY hurts
Chance	33.3% (Frost Blast) (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Duration	6 seconds12 seconds15 seconds

Drops

Coins	15 SC37 SC50 CC

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Frost Staff
  2%
• Ice Sickle
  (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 1% / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 0.56%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed
Attack

• Internal NPC ID: 169
• Internal Buff ID: 44

The Ice Elemental is a Hardmode enemy that hovers towards the player and shoots Frost Blasts which, on  Desktop,  Console, and  Mobile, have a chance to inflict the Frostburn debuff. It can appear in the Ice biome at all times, and in the Snow biome at night.

Notes

• Ice Elementals can only hover about eight blocks off the ground.
• Both the Ice Elementals and their projectiles emit a high amount of light.
• Frost Blasts cannot be destroyed by hitting them, unlike many other orb projectiles.
• Frost Blasts cannot travel through walls.
• Ice Elementals ignore the Shroomite/Vortex armor's set bonus and they can still fire at stealthly/invisible players.

Tips

• Although Ice Elementals have a high range, their projectiles travel slowly enough to dodge them.

Trivia

• Elementals are magical entities who embody/personify a force of nature. Historically, elementals personify one of the four Classical elements: earth, water, air or fire (sometimes plant, but never Aether). Dungeons & Dragons introduced elementals that were fusions, and other unconventional elementals.
• Unlike most ice-themed enemies, the Ice Elemental can neither inflict the Chilled nor the Frozen debuffs.
  • (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) They instead inflict the Frostburn debuff, and are the only enemy in the game able to do so.

• The Bestiary entry for the Ice Elemental: "Water elementals become icy when dense strong magicks accumulate in the coldest places. Their frosty shards freeze all."

See also

• Granite Elemental(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Sand Elemental(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Chaos Elemental
• Spectral Elemental(Old-gen console and 3DS versions)

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Ice Sickle drop rate increased from 1/180 to 1/100.

• Desktop 1.4.1: Projectile attack can now inflict Frostburn.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sprite updated. The old sprite was .

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Can now drop its banner.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.