Thorns Potion

Thorns Potion

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Statistics

Type	Potion
Consumable	✔️
Use time	17 (Very fast)
Tooltip	Attackers also take damage
Rarity	01*
Sell	2 SC
Research	20 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Thorns
Buff tooltip	Attackers also take damage
Duration	8 minutes(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 2 minutes(Old-gen console and 3DS versions)

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 301
• Internal Buff ID: 14

"Thorns" redirects here. For the plant, see Thorny bushes. For the magic weapon obtained during a Blood Moon, see Blood Thorn.

The Thorns Potion is a buff potion which grants the Thorns buff when consumed. The buff inflicts a knockback of 10 (Extremely strong) on enemies that come into contact with the player, dealing (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 100% / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 33% of their damage to them. This lasts for 8 minutes(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) / 2 minutes(Old-gen console and 3DS versions), but can be canceled at any time by right-clicking the icon (), by selecting the icon using Cycle Next/Previous Buff and then pressing Remove Buff (), by selecting the icon and canceling it in the equipment menu (), by double-tapping the buff icon (), or by canceling the buff from the buffs screen ().

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
only: Thorns Potion	Bottled Water Deathweed Cactus	Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
only: Thorns Potion	Bottled Water Deathweed Cactus Worm Tooth Stinger

Notes

• (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) This potion cannot be created in worlds with Crimson, as Worm Teeth are only dropped by Devourers in the Corruption. This is likely an unintended issue which arose with the 1.2.3 change. The Fishing feature introduced in 1.2.4 seems however to have balanced this by giving Crimson worlds the Heartreach Potion and Rage Potion while only giving Corruption worlds the Wrath Potion. However, both the Heartreach and Thorns Potions can be found in Chests, regardless of world type.
• The buff stacks with the Cactus armor's (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) thorns set bonus, but not with the thorns effect from the Turtle armor set bonus, which overrides it.
  • (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) The Thorns buff also overrides the Dryad's Blessing buff.
• (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) The reflected damage will be decreased by banners (25% in Classic or lower, 50% in Expert or above), rerolled inversely by luck (having negative luck will give a chance to increase incoming damage, and thus increasing thorns damage as a result) and capped at 1000 damage.

Tips

• This potion can be useful in fights where contact damage is likely, such as the Creepers spawned by the Brain of Cthulhu or the final portion of the Queen Bee fight. It should never be relied on for primary damage, though, as enemies and bosses commonly have much more health than the player.

Trivia

• (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) Like the Wrath Potion to the Rage Potion, the Thorns Potion may be seen as the Corruption counterpart to the Heartreach Potion, as they both give defensive buffs with imagery which references their respective biomes.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: No longer requires Worm Teeth or Stingers to craft.

• Desktop 1.4.1: The Thorns effect has been increased from 33% of damage taken to 100%.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Duration increased from 2 to 8 minutes.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Added 1 Stinger and 1 Worm Tooth to recipe.

• Desktop 1.0.5: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.