Shimmering
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Shimmering is a unique debuff. It is inflicted when an entity is submerged in Shimmer, or when the player's fishing pole's bobber touches Shimmer.
When an non-player entity is inflicted with the debuff, they will start turning transparent and become completely invisible, then become more and more opaque. If it has any special transmutations, it will transform into the respective entity/item when it is almost invisible. Entities that are immune to this debuff will not gain these effects.
When a player is inflicted with the debuff, they will enter a Shimmering state, which will make them unable to move or use items, become invincible to non-boss attacks, and start going down through all solid tiles that intersect with the player, until they reach a 2×3 opening or the Underworld layer. There is also an "unstuck" mechanic to prevent the player from being in the Shimmering state for too long.
See Notes for details about the effects of Shimmering.
Equipping the Chromatic Cloak will grant the player a more controllable Shimmering. They will not be inflicted with Shimmering instantly when touching Shimmer, and instead they can enter the Shimmering state at anytime by holding ▼ Down. However, after entering the Shimmering state, there is no other way to interrupt it, not even re-equipping the Chromatic Cloak.
Immune NPCs
Notes
- After inflicted with Shimmering, an non-player entity's opacity will decrease by 1% per tick[1], resulting in it being completely invisible after 1.67 seconds. For entities with special transmutations, it will transform when it has 10% opacity, or after 1.5 seconds. After it leaves Shimmer, its opacity will increase by 0.1% per tick, and become fully opaque after 16.67 seconds. Hurting the entity will increase its opacity by 10%, or subtract 1.67 seconds from the total gradual change time.[2]
- If the player is in the Shimmering state for more than 20 seconds, they will be teleported to an open space when any of the movement keys (▲ Up, ◀ Left, ▼ Down, ▶ Right) is pressed. If no movement key is pressed and the player remains in the Shimmering state for more than 60 seconds in total, they will be forcefully teleported to open space.[3]
- The following enemies' attacks can still deal damage to the player during Shimmering state:[4] The Torch God (projectiles), King Slime, Spiked Slime, Eye of Cthulhu, Servant of Cthulhu, Eater of Worlds, Vile Spit, Creeper, Dark Mage (projectiles only), Old One's Skeleton, Queen Bee (projectiles only), Bee, Skeletron and its arms, Deerclops (projectiles only), Wall of Flesh, The Hungry, Leech, Queen Slime and all her minions, The Destroyer, Probe, The Twins (projectiles only), Skeletron Prime and its arms, Ogre (projectiles only), Plantera, Plantera's Tentacle, Plantera's Hook, Empress of Light (projectiles only), Golem, Duke Fishron, Sharkron, Betsy (projectiles only), Lunatic Cultist, Phantasm Dragon, Ancient Vision, Moon Lord, True Eye of Cthulhu.
- The player cannot enter the Shimmering state in reversed gravity. Gravity will be reset to normal as soon as the player touches Shimmer.
- The descent speed in the Shimmering state can be sped up by holding the Portal Gun.
Tips
- Shimmering can be used to gain early access into the Jungle Temple.
History
- Desktop 1.4.4.4: Shimmering no longer grants the player invincibility against bosses.
- Desktop 1.4.4: Introduced.
- Console 1.4.4: Introduced.
- Switch 1.4.4: Introduced.
- Mobile 1.4.4: Introduced.
References
- ↑ A tick is a time unit countable by the software. Most of Terraria's updating logic happens every tick. A tick has the length of 1/60th of a second, hence there are 60 ticks in a second and 3600 ticks in a minute.
- ↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method
UpdateNPC_BuffApplyVFX()inTerraria.NPC.cs. - ↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method
TryToShimmerUnstuck()inTerraria.Player.cs. - ↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, fields
Sets.CanHitPastShimmerinTerraria.ID.NPCID.csandSets.CanHitPastShimmerinTerraria.ID.ProjectileID.cs.
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