Sprites The Permafrost - Hell alternate

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The Destroyer
"When hell freezes over..."
What would happen if the Underworld was frozen? Say hello to the Permafrost!

Environment
The Permafrost has small pools of Nitrogen, which there are less of than in Hell. There’s a bunch of houses built from dry ice bricks, and the ones at the last thirds are instead Icium Inns, which replace the Hellstone Houses. Water that spills into the Permafrost is instantly turned into Slush. The Ash is replaced with Snow, and the snow is dotted with Shiverthorns (Ash is found bordering lava pools now in the Cavern Layer, and fireblossom will spawn on it).

Nitrogen gives the Cold-Blooded debuff, (in a similar way to honey) which does:
5 damage per tick
Tripled damage from fire blocks, fire damage, and fire debuffs
-50% movement speed

Nitrogen, when touching other liquids, does the following:
Any Water is turned to Dry Ice
Lava is turned to Obsidian
Honey is turned to Frozen Honey Blocks.
Blocks
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Nitrogen
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Frigidium Ore
Tool: Nightmare Pickaxe+
Info: Frozen ore made of pure nitrogen and ice. It gives cold-blooded after a couple seconds of contact, and drops half a tile of Nitrogen upon mining in the Permafrost.

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Dry Ice
Requires a Nightmare Pickaxe+
Cannot be bombed

Freezeforge
Tool: Nightmare Pickaxe+
Info: A large carved geode with quicksilver and gem additions. Used to craft Arquerite Bars.
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Living Droplet Block
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Icium Bar
Direct alternate to Hellstone Bars.
* Used to craft Icium equipment.
Recipe:
Icium (3)
Dry Ice (1)
@ a Freezeforge.

Glacier Salmon
Direct alternate to Flarefin Koi.
Fished from Nitrogen with the Hotline Fishing Rod.

Cryo Coating Potion
Indirect alternate to Obsidian Skin Potion.
Grants "Cryonicoating" Buff for (up to) 3 minutes.
Grants immunity to Nitrogen and Nitrogenic blocks.
Plus 3 defense.

Icefield Potion
Direct alternate to Inferno Potions.
Gives the “Icefield” buff, which:
On every attack dealt, ice spikes are shot all around you, dealing 25 damage each.

Crafted Equipment

Hailstorm Armor
Direct alternate to Hellstone Armor.

Hailstorm Helmet
8 Defense.
+10% damage
Recipe:
Icium Bars (10)

Hailstorm Breastplate
9 Defense.
+13% melee speed
Recipe:
Icium Bars (20)

Hailstorm Booties
5 Defense.
+15% movement speed
Recipe:
Icium Bars (8)

Set Bonus: Sextuples movement speed on metallic and icy surfaces
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Slicicle
“Ice so cold it burns.”
Direct alternate of the Fiery Greatsword.
Damage: 33
Use Time: 22
Knockback: 4
* Inflicts Freezing for 2 seconds
* When swung, it has a 25% to fire icy twinkles that travel for about 10 blocks, and deal 200% the damage.
Recipe:
Icium Bars (20)
@ an Anvil.
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Cryo Chakram
Direct alternate to the Flamarang.
‘Do you wanna throw a snowflake?.’
Damage: 25
Use Time: 9
Knockback: 4
* Inflicts Chilled for 4 seconds
* Will throw 2 every 10 throws
Recipe:
Thorn Chakram
Icium Bars (10)
@ an Anvil.
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Frosty Flaker
Direct alternate to the Phoenix Blaster.
Damage: 20
Use Time: 7
Knockback: 3
Transforms all bullets into frosty flakes, which inflict Freezing for 2 seconds, and pierce infinitely, and don't have I-frames.
Recipe:
Handgun
Icium Bars (10)
@ an Anvil.
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Glaciating Arrow
Direct alternate to Hellfire Arrows.
* Gouges foes for 3 seconds, completely freezing the enemy.
Damage: 8
Velocity: 8
Recipe:
Wooden Arrows (50)
Icium Bar
@ an Anvil. Recipe makes 50.

White Owl Staff
Damage: 25
Knockback: 0.5
Use time: 20
Fires once every 12 frames, and otherwise acts like the imp.

Found in Shining Chests
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Marshmallow
Damage: 32
Knockback: 3
Critical chance: 4%

Use time: 19

Moonshine
Yes, that Blue Moon. It fits here, and is just a worthless chest item there.
Damage: 41
Use time: 39
Knockback: 6
Critical chance: 4%
Velocity: 13
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Iceblaster
Fires small snowflakes
Damage: 27
Use time: 11
Mana: 3
Velocity: 27
Knockback: 0.25
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Flower of Frost
Found in Shining chests as well, but at a 50% reduced chance than the other items.

Snowfeather Bow
Turns Wooden Arrows into little snowy owls.
Damage: 22
Knockback : 3
Critical chance: 4%
Use time: 15
Velocity: 6
Enemies
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Cryo-bat
Damage: 40/80
Max Life: 45/90
Defense: 10
KB Resist: 50%
Bat AI
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Nitrogenic Slime
Damage: 18/40
Max Life: 100/200
Defense: 7
KB Resist: 90%
Slime AI
Leaves behind a tile of Nitrogen when killed in Expert Mode

Snowy Owl
Fires white feathers
Flies away instead of teleporting
Damage: 45/90
Health: 85/170
Defense: 14
KB Resist: 100%
Caster AI

Auroran (Blessed) Stag
Damage: 0/55/110
Health: 150/300
Defense: 9
KB Resist: 100%
Unicorn AI
When found, it is passive, and allows you to ride it by right-clicking. Will act like Unicorn Mount. Still targeted by mobs, and if hit, it will throw you off and adopt the Unicorn AI. Can walk on Nitrogen, and jump up 5 block walls.
When Blessed, it will drop the Aurora Whistle.
Hardmode
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Glacial Bat
Damage: 80/160
Max Life: 200/400
Defense: 20
KB Resist: 100%
Bat AI

Simon
"You broke his crown."
Fires ice spheres.
Damage: 120
Health: 500
Drops
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Snowfall
Damage: 31
Knockback: 3.8
Critical chance: 4%
Use time: 19
Velocity: 13
Dropped by all Permafrost enemies Post-Skeletron pre-hardmode.

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Glacier Stone
Dropped by Cryo-bats and Glacial Bats
Melee attacks have a 50% to freeze the foe.
Tinkered to create the Cryo Gauntlet, making it an 80% chance.
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Auroran Story
Demon Scythe of the Permafrost.
Fires waves of rainbow light.
Damage: 40
Knockback: 0.75
Use time: 21
Velocity: 15
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Odd Plumber's Hat
Dropped by Nitrogenic Slimes as a 0.01%.
"Why do you have this, burn it now."
Placeholder, coming soon.
 
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I liked your idea, but I don't think the substitution of the Underworld by Permafrost is good without changing the Snow / Ice biome for some new hot biome.
You understand me?
 
Almost all of this is just "Underworld but cyan". New alternates are not interesting if they are just a reskin of existing items.

Auroran (Blessed) Stag
Damage: 0/55/110
Health: 150/300
Defense: 9
KB Resist: 100%
Unicorn AI
When found, it is passive, and allows you to ride it by right-clicking. Will act like Unicorn Mount. Still targeted by mobs, and if hit, it will throw you off and adopt the Unicorn AI. Can walk on Nitrogen, and jump up 5 block walls.
When Blessed, it will drop the Aurora Whistle.

See, original concepts like these is why alternates are fun to think of. I wonder what that Aurora Whistle is.

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Blue Moon
Yes, that Blue Moon. It fits here, and is just a worthless chest item there.
Damage: 29
Use time: 39
Knockback: 7
Critical chance: 4%
Velocity: 13

It doesn't actually fit here. The dungeon has this "water/blue" theme and this biome is purely ice-themed. A tiny bit of damage doesn't compensate retiering it here either; Sunfury is one of the worst weapons in the game yet it's notably stronger than this.
 
Almost all of this is just "Underworld but cyan". New alternates are not interesting if they are just a reskin of existing items.
Do you mean sprite-wise or idea wise?

See, original concepts like these is why alternates are fun to think of. I wonder what that Aurora Whistle is.
It's a mystery...

It doesn't actually fit here. The dungeon has this "water/blue" theme and this biome is purely ice-themed. A tiny bit of damage doesn't compensate retiering it here either; Sunfury is one of the worst weapons in the game yet it's notably stronger than this.
Hmm, I'll replace it.
 
Do you mean sprite-wise or idea wise?

Both, really. What we have here is pretty much just Hell's current items and enemies but with Ice effects.

Crimson alternatives to Corruption are almost always new concepts with some similarities (Cursed Inferno and Ichor are both debuffs with different effects, Crimson Rod and Vilethorn are both especially useful against their biome's boss) or the same weapon but with noticeably different stat distributions (Light's Bane and Blood Butcherer, Dart Pistol and Rifle), try to base your ideas around that.
 
I do like the concept of a frozen-over hell, but there's already an ice biome and a lot of these weapons aren't much different from the already existing underworld weapons.
 
Why does the Frosty flaker, which is a pistol, have a grip :dryadtongue:

Also infinite piercing does seem a little OP, but I suppose they're alright as they're only fired from that one gun.
 
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