Xeno Staff

  

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Xeno Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	36 (Summon)
Knockback	2 (Very weak)
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons a UFO to fight for you
Rarity	08*
Sell	10
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	UFO
Buff tooltip	The UFO will fight for you

Projectiles created

• UFO
  
• UFO Ray
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 2749
• Internal Buff ID: 140
• Internal Projectile ID: 423, 433

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Martian Saucer Martian Saucer	1	16.66%

"UFO" redirects here. For the mount, see Cosmic Car Key.

The Xeno Staff in use. Note how the UFO teleports above the Skeletons on the right.

The Xeno Staff is a Hardmode, post-Golem summon weapon that spawns a UFO minion that instantly teleports above the nearest enemy before rapidly firing thin blue lasers at its target. The UFO's lasers are fired instantaneously at a rate of once every 0.4 seconds on average. If the UFO minion is more than 75 tiles away from the player, it ceases to attack enemies and returns to the player. The Xeno Staff has a 16.67*1/6 (16.67%) chance of being dropped by the Martian Saucer during the Martian Madness event.

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 Xeno Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Tips

• Despite having lower damage than the Tempest Staff, the UFO is superior to Sharknados regarding attack speed and accuracy. However, it cannot attack in all directions like the Sharknados. This is usually a problem in tight spaces but not when in open spaces.

Trivia

• Prior to the 1.3.5 update, the Xeno Staff had an extremely low sell value, making reforging it to a desired modifier very cheap.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4.9: Increased average cooldown between attacks from 0.36 seconds to 0.4 seconds.

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Increased average cooldown between attacks from 0.33 seconds to 0.36 seconds.
  • UFOs no longer need to fully return to the player before they can teleport and re-engage with a new enemy.
  • UFOs will now attempt to return to the player faster depending on how fast the player is moving.

• Desktop 1.4.1: Increased average cooldown between attacks from 0.3 seconds to 0.33 seconds.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sell price increased from 20 to 10.

• 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.