Pirate Staff

   

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Pirate Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	40 / 32 (Summon)
Knockback	6 (Average) / 2 (Very weak)
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons pirates to fight for you
Rarity	05*
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Pirate
Buff tooltip	The pirate will fight for you

Projectiles created

• One Eyed Pirate
  
• Soulscourge Pirate
  
• Pirate Captain
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 2584
• Internal Buff ID: 135
• Internal Projectile ID: 393, 394, 395

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Flying Dutchman Flying Dutchman	1	6.67%
Pirate Captain Pirate Captain	1	0.4% 0.2%
Pirate Corsair Pirate Corsair	1	0.1% 0.05%
Pirate Crossbower Pirate Crossbower	1	0.1% 0.05%
Pirate Deadeye Pirate Deadeye	1	0.1% 0.05%
Pirate Deckhand Pirate Deckhand	1	0.1% 0.05%

The Pirate Staff is a Hardmode summon weapon that spawns a Pirate minion, which attacks nearby enemies by pursuing and leaping onto the closest target while slashing at them with a small sword. Pirate minions attack enemies at a rate of once every 0.3 seconds per damaged enemy and trigger static immunity frames. Like other minions, the summoned Pirate is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, cancels the buff, or leaves the world. The Pirate Staff has a 0.1*1/1000 (0.1%) / 0.05*1/2000 (0.05%) chance to be dropped by regular pirates (except Parrots) during the Pirate Invasion event. The Pirate Staff has an increased 0.4*1/250 (0.4%) / 0.2*1/500 (0.2%) chance to be dropped from Pirate Captains, and a higher 6.67*1/15 (6.67%) / 1*1/100 (1%) chance to be dropped by the Flying Dutchman.

Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Pirate Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Notes

• The Pirate Staff is quite the rare item. On average, it will take 6–7 complete Pirate Invasions before this item drops (assuming the player can kill two Flying Dutchmen and 200 pirates per invasion).
• In Celebrationmk10 worlds, the Pirate Staff can be purchased from the Princess for 5 after a Pirate Invasion has been defeated.

Tips

• The Pirate Staff is exceptionally deadly against ground-based enemies and bosses, or enemies with multiple segments such as The Destroyer, as each pirate will deal its full listed damage on every segment.
• Because the pirates are grounded minions with a limited jump height, the Pirate Staff is ineffective against flying enemies and bosses with very high mobility, such as The Twins.

Trivia

• Each time the pirate minion is summoned, it will randomly take on one of three possible sprite graphics, all of which are functionally identical. In the game code, they are called the "One Eyed Pirate", "Pirate Captain", and "Soulscourge Pirate".
  • The "One Eyed Pirate" variant seems to resemble a miniature version of the Pirate Deadeye enemy.
• The pirates seem to use a miniature version of the Falcon Blade when attacking.

The three variations of the minion's feces.

• The pirates will defecate occasionally, similar to their behavior in the Pixel Piracy game, and similar to the effect of activating a Toilet. This has no functional effect.
  • This occurs every 30–40 seconds of the pirate not moving horizontally.
• This item is one of several crossover references to the game Pixel Piracy.

A parrot carrying a pirate minion.

• If the player strays too far from a pirate, a parrot will carry it back to the player.

The Pirate Staff in use.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Drop rates doubled outright. The increased drop rate from Pirate Captains has also been doubled.
  • Flying Dutchman now has a substantially increased chance of dropping this item, with a 1/15 chance.

• Desktop 1.4.2.3: Can now be purchased from the Princess in Celebrationmk10 worlds after defeating a Pirate Invasion.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Item sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Damage increased from 32 to 40, knockback from 2 to 6.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1: Now requires 10 mana to use.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.08: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.11212: Introduced.