Salamander

  

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Salamander

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Cavern
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	18/36›32›64/54›48›96
Max Life	65/130›142›286/195›213›429
Defense	10/10›10›20
KB Resist	55%/60%/64%
Banner	Salamander Banner(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Debuff	Poisoned
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Chance	66% (Poison Spit)
Duration	2–4 seconds4–8 seconds5–10 seconds

Drops

Coins	1 SC20 CCPre-Hardmode: 3 SCHardmode: 2 SC40 CCPost-Plantera: 4 SC80 CC

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Potato Chips(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  1.33%
• Depth Meter
  1.25%
• Compass(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)
  1.23%
• Rally(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  3.9%

Projectile created

Projectile created

Projectile created

• Poison Spit
  

Sounds

Hurt
Killed
Poison Spit
Idle

• Internal NPC ID: 498–506
• Internal Buff ID: 20
• Internal Projectile ID: 572

The Salamander is a pre-Hardmode enemy found in the Cavern layer. It has nine color variants that all share identical stats and behavior. When a player is within its line of sight, the Salamander stays rooted in place and fires green spit projectiles that have a chance to inflict the Poisoned debuff.

Salamanders are unique in that their ability to spawn is connected to two other enemies: the Crawdad and the Giant Shelly. Of these three enemies, a world will choose two types that it can spawn, leaving the third inaccessible. Salamanders will never spawn in a world that features both Crawdads and Giant Shellies together. This is taken into account by the Bestiary progression logic (the missing enemy will register as unlocked when the other two exclusive creatures are unlocked) and the banner acquisition (any two of the trio's banners can be used to craft the banner of the missing member of the trio).

Trivia

• In real life, salamanders are small semi-aquatic or fully aquatic amphibians found throughout the Northern Hemisphere and are capable of regenerating lost limbs and damaged body parts.
• Despite Salamanders having different colors, the Salamander Banner always depicts the second green color variant.

• The Bestiary entry for the Salamanders: "An unusual amphibious bipedal lizard which inhabits the dark caverns. When threatened, it spews a highly corrosive acid everywhere."

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Any 2 of Salamander/Shelly/Crawdad Trio's banners can be used to craft the banner of the missing member of the trio.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now has a 1/75 (1.33%) chance of dropping Potato Chips.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.