Moon Stone

Moon Stone

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Statistics

Type	AccessoryCrafting material
Tooltip	During nighttime, grants minor increase to damage, melee speed, critical strike chance, life regeneration, defense, mining speed, and minion knockback
Rarity	05*
Sell	7 GC50 SC
Research	1 required

• Internal Item ID: 900

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Vampire Vampire	1	2.86%5.63%
Vampire (Vampire Bat)  Vampire (Vampire Bat)	1	2.86%5.63%

Not to be confused with Moon Charm.

The Moon Stone is a Hardmode accessory which has a 1/35 (2.86%) / 69/1225 (5.63%) chance to drop from Vampires during the Solar Eclipse event. It grants the same stat bonuses as the Sun Stone, but these bonuses will only activate during the night or during a Solar Eclipse.

The stat bonuses are:

• +10% melee speed
• +10% damage (all types)
• +2% critical strike chance
• +1 HP/s health regeneration
• +4 defense
• +15% mining speed
• +0.5 minion knockback

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Celestial Stone	Sun Stone Moon Stone	Tinkerer's Workshop

Notes

• Despite the Solar Eclipse taking place during the day, the Moon Stone does work during the event.
  • This may be because the moon is the object that causes solar eclipses in real life.

Tips

• The accessory may prove useful during the battles with the mechanical bosses, since these take place at night.
• An easier/faster way to get the Moon Stone is by placing a Water Candle or consuming a Battle Potion because the Blood Moon and Solar Eclipse does not have a set spawn rate.
• For an average damage output, this accessory is statistically superior to Avenger Emblem for all class types except for summoner, since summoning weapons are not affected by the critical strike chance of the player. However, the damage loss for summoners are still a marginal 2%, while providing more survivability and minion knockback.

Trivia

• The Moon Stone and its counterpart, the Sun Stone, could be a reference to the platform-adventure action role-playing game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. There are two items with very similar names, looks, and effects in the game: Moonstone and Sunstone.
  • Futhermore, the main character of the game, Alucard, is a Dhampir, which are the product of a human parent, and a vampire parent, and the item is dropped by the Vampire enemy, which could reference Alucard's father, Dracula.
• Despite the fact that this item is obtained from the Vampire enemy, its counterpart, the Sun Stone, is obtained from the Golem boss.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: No longer stacks with the Celestial Shell, Celestial Stone, and Sun Stone.

• Desktop 1.3.2: Equipped sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Inventory sprite updated. Old sprite was .

• Desktop 1.2.1.2: Now used in the Celestial Stone crafting recipe.

• 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.