The Meatball

Type	Weapon
Damage	34 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) / 16 (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) (Melee)
Knockback	5.5 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	45 (Very slow)
Velocity	12
Rarity
Sell	54 SC
Research	1 required
Use	https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Item_1.wav

(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) The Meatball in use.

(Old-gen console and 3DS versions) The Meatball in use.

The Meatball is a pre-Hardmode flail crafted using Crimtane Bars and Tissue Samples. It is the equivalent of the Corruption's Ball O' Hurt (which is not crafted, but obtained by smashing a Shadow Orb).

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

Crafting

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
The Meatball	Crimtane Bar10 Tissue Sample5	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil

(Old-gen console and 3DS versions) Despite having similar stats to its Corruption counterpart, the Ball O' Hurt, it is relatively less useful since it is not recommended to be used on the Brain of Cthulhu itself, unless a melee player, unlike the Ball O' Hurt which is a viable option for the Eater of Worlds.

The Meatball is one of the three craftable flails in the game, the other two being the Flaming Mace and Dao of Pow.
The Meatball's name is a reference to the real food made of meat and to how the Crimson is flesh/meat-themed.
Modifier prefixes are added in front of the "The" in its name, which can result in a grammatically incorrect name such as "Keen The Meatball". It shares this trait with all other items that can obtain modifiers and whose names begin with "The". This error is not present in the Old-gen console version.