NPCs & Enemies Skyware Mimic

Should the Hook Reset Flight Time?

  • Yes you can get the ice rod to do that anyway.

    Votes: 27 46.6%
  • No it would make it too powerful.

    Votes: 10 17.2%
  • It should add some flight time back instead.

    Votes: 21 36.2%

  • Total voters
    58

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Terrarian
Now the sky biome is too small for a naturally spawning mimics to be relied on so I'm going to have it like the Hallow or Corruption mimics.

Key of Flight
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15 Souls of Flight at a workbench

You know how these work. Moving on.



Skyware Mimic

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Sprite by @It's a me!

AI Type: Mimic
Damage: 90
Max Life: 3500
Defense: 34
KB Resist: 90%
Drops:
100% 3 Gold Coins
20% Flying Island
20% Shooting Star
20% Storm Cloud
20% Blessed Wing
20% Wyvern Whip
100% Greater Healing Potion
100% Greater Mana Potion



Damage: 66
Knockback: 12
Velocity: 8
Use Time: 44

It is a large flail that looks like a small flying island. While the item is selected the flail will be out even if you didn't use it yet. While it is in this passive state it will hurt enemies and it will try to stay within 5 blocks of you. You still throw it in the direction of the cursor when you click. As long as the cursor is held down the flail will try to stay at that point, there is a limit on the distance you can walk away before it begins to retract (12 blocks sound ok?). You might be wondering at this point why this isn't a yoyo. Well it doesn't gain the benefits from the yoyo accessories, you can't just move the cursor to move the weapon, and it doesn't bounce off of enemies.

This is a gun

Damage: 45
Knockback: 2
Use Time: 30
Velocity: 12

Stars spawn to strike where you struck. I could have worded that better. Think holy arrows but in a bullet form. The difference is that the amount of stars it spawns is a random number between 1 and 3 and they rain down to the spot that was hit.

This is a magic weapon

Damage: Special
Knockback: 0
Velocity: 12
Use Time: 17
Mana: 4 per second per stack

Left click releases a cloud which follows you and attacks enemies. You can release 5 at a time and when more than one is made it will merge into the other one. This grants new effects. Right click puts some of the cloud back in the container to conserve mana.

1 Stack: 23 damage bolts of lightning strike twice per second

2 Stacks: 34 damage bolts of lightning strike twice per second. They bounce to another enemy dealing 2/3 of the damage to the second enemy.

3 Stacks: 37 damage bolts of lightning. Hail projectiles drop from the cloud dealing 30 damage.

4 Stacks: 41 damage lightning bolts. Hail projectiles deal 40 damage.

5 Stacks: 45 damage lightning bolts which bounce twice. Each bounce is 2/3 of the previous one. Hail projectiles deal 50 damage. The cloud turns into a tornado and drags enemies within 6 blocks of the center toward the center of the tornado. The tornado is 3x7 but doesn't cause damage on its own.

Accessory
2 Defense
Tooltip: Extends flight infinitely

Before you start freaking out at me for making an infinite flight item I have something to say. It extends the flight of other items infinitely, it doesn't make you able to fly infinitely by itself. It ends up taking two accessory slots when you bring in the other item. I'll put some hypothetical situations down below.

Player has this and frostspark boots - As simple as it could be. You can use the rocket effect for as long as you want.

Player has this and wings - Again simple. You have an infinite flight time. This makes it so gliding is impossible.

Player has this and sandstorm in a bottle - Again it's very simple. You can extend the duration of the effect as long as you want and restart it at will. Balloon accessories might now be viable in the late game.

Player has this and a cloud in a bottle - There's no way to extend the duration on this one. You can however do as many jumps as you want with this one.

Player has this and bundle of balloons - This is more complicated. The jump effects can be extended infinitely (aside from those that are impossible) and when you stop using that effect it will move on to the next one. When the final effect is used it will cycle back to the first effect.

Notice how it says wing and not wings. If you got a better name say it.

It's a single hook that has the hook part look like a wyvern head.

35 Block Reach

15 Velocity

Here's what makes it special. If you don't hook onto anything you and the hook will be dragged toward each other so you still go half the distance without grabbing anything. It doesn't move fast enough for you to have sustained flight with this thing.

I am considering allowing it to reset flight time by doing so so I'm adding a poll

This is the first enemy I made which had the money dropped filled in.


So your thoughts? I love seeing alerts from comments.
 
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Oh man, this is perfect. Keeping in line with the Keys of -ight, awesome weapon ideas, and this gives a better excuse to make the Sky an actual biome.

I got two more similar to this one drafted out, but I didn't have sprites and I was too unmotivated to make them and too lazy to ask someone... thanks for the reminder!

The Blessed Wing is very cool and I will defend it to the death from any haters that might be out there.
 
this is a good idea. we need more mimics.
 
In my honest opinion, Sky islands are way too small. Sure, they did add Sky Lakes, but that isn't really much. This however, would be a good way to expand the Sky islands. With all these new items, I am sure this would add more thrills to the normal Terraria experience.

I also love how you balanced the blessed wing. I was getting afraid that it wouldn't be balanced, but you surely made my previous thought incorrect. I also love how the storm clouds stack to each other when more of one is present. Would be a nice touch.

So in other words, I need this in my Terraria life. Keep up the great work!

Sorry if I said anything incorrectly. I am a horrible critic.
 
Oh man, this is perfect. Keeping in line with the Keys of -ight, awesome weapon ideas, and this gives a better excuse to make the Sky an actual biome.
I was also going to make some for the boss souls. That was because I had an idea a while back for a burst fire rocket launcher called the "Destroyer of Mountains" That sounds like a lot of work though.

I'm glad I got your approval. Especially since it was so fast!
 
I know I said you should probably change the name of the Blessed Wing, but I guess it's OK. o3o
If you ever get someone to sprite it, make the single wing look majestic and very different in form compared to the normal wings.

And I think I'm changing my opinion that the Wyvern Hook shouldn't reset the flight time. It would certainly be nice to have that effect, and if the hook is slow, the reset should be quite unwieldy anyway. I guess that counts as balance.
 
I know I said you should probably change the name of the Blessed Wing, but I guess it's OK. o3o
If you ever get someone to sprite it, make the single wing look majestic and very different in form compared to the normal wings.

And I think I'm changing my opinion that the Wyvern Hook shouldn't reset the flight time. It would certainly be nice to have that effect, and if the hook is slow, the reset should be quite unwieldy anyway. I guess that counts as balance.
I gave the option for it to give some flight time back so you can greatly extend flight time with extra effort.
 
Heyooo! You have my support:
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Also, I assume the Shooting Star is like the Starfury (old) but a gun?
Another thing. You should practice the formatting of the thread. Right now it doesn't really look, let's say, catchy. For example, in the stats part of the mimic, instead of having an empty line between each line group them together. Use bold too. It also makes the thread easier to read. Something like this:

Skyware Mimic (Sprite by @It's a me! )
skyware_large_mimic_by_its_a_me_m4rc05-d9ag856.gif

Stats:
AI Type: Mimic
Damage: 90
Max Life: 3500
Defense: 34
KB Resist: 90%

Drops:
3 Gold Coins (100%)
Flying Island (20%)
Shooting Star (20%)
Storm Cloud (20%)
Blessed Wing (20%)
Wyvern Whip (20%)
Greater Healing Potion (100%)
Greater Mana Potion (100%)

Other stuff here.

You can also centre it like some people do.
Here, have this on the house:
 

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Heyooo! You have my support:
68dGhkE.png
Also, I assume the Shooting Star is like the Starfury (old) but a gun?
Another thing. You should practice the formatting of the thread. Right now it doesn't really look, let's say, catchy. For example, in the stats part of the mimic, instead of having an empty line between each line group them together. Use bold too. It also makes the thread easier to read. Something like this:

Skyware Mimic (Sprite by @It's a me! )
skyware_large_mimic_by_its_a_me_m4rc05-d9ag856.gif

Stats:
AI Type: Mimic
Damage: 90
Max Life: 3500
Defense: 34
KB Resist: 90%

Drops:
3 Gold Coins (100%)
Flying Island (20%)
Shooting Star (20%)
Storm Cloud (20%)
Blessed Wing (20%)
Wyvern Whip (20%)
Greater Healing Potion (100%)
Greater Mana Potion (100%)

Other stuff here.

You can also centre it like some people do.
Here, have this on the house:
Actually the reason for the spacing is that I type suggestions on my tablet and I haven't found a way to disable them.

The shooting star has a bullet along side the stars. It essentially gives the holy arrow effect to this gun.
 
It looks very interesting.

Maybe the Blessed Wing also works on Flying Carpet and some finite flying mounts(like the Rudolph).
 
I would love to use a Wyvern themed Hook!

Along with making the Sky Biome more relevant to the game, these are some very interesting and unique weapons. Especially the Flying Island which looks like it is a completely new variation of a Flail.

I don't think the Blessed Wing is Overpowered, considering that it takes up another accessory slot. (And the Fishron/UFO Mounts give you infinite flight anyway regardless of your accessories).

Excellent work!
 
It looks very interesting.

Maybe the Blessed Wing also works on Flying Carpet and some finite flying mounts(like the Rudolph).
The things I listed were just hypothetical situations. Though the balancing thing about the item was that it takes 2 accessory slots, I don't know if it would be ok with flying mounts.
 
This is a pretty good suggestion! I'm not so sure about the blessed wing though... I'd love to have infinite flight, but I feel like it might make a lot of other accessories obsolete.
 
This is a pretty good suggestion! I'm not so sure about the blessed wing though... I'd love to have infinite flight, but I feel like it might make a lot of other accessories obsolete.
How so?
 
This is a pretty good suggestion! I'm not so sure about the blessed wing though... I'd love to have infinite flight, but I feel like it might make a lot of other accessories obsolete.
The only accessories I think would become obsolete are the Frostspark Boots (which already kind of were obsolete), Frog Leg (early-game anyways), and possibly a buffed Gravity Globe (no comment).
 
I don't know... I think it might just be because infinite flight would be available right at the start of hardmode.
 
I don't know... I think it might just be because infinite flight would be available right at the start of hardmode.
It still requires 2 accessories to be used. Plus don't higher tier wings get a higher speed?
 
Only thing I dislike, is that you only need to kill 1-2 wyverns to make one. Considering how they aren't that rare when you add a water candle and battle potion. I think it should be changed to 25 or 20 souls for a key.
This is nice though, sky islands need more things.
 
Only thing I dislike, is that you only need to kill 1-2 wyverns to make one. Considering how they aren't that rare when you add a water candle and battle potion.
Don't you get souls of light/night at the same rate though?
 
Don't you get souls of light/night at the same rate though?
That depends on how well you know how to farm, and the area in which you are doing it. But you could get 300 souls in a single night during a blood moon, which isn't the case underground I believe.
You are right though, do it right without a blood moon and/or solar eclipse and it's about the same.
 
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