Alucard_I
Official Terrarian
Then just write a message in the Ulterraria:Reborn thread, that you want your idea to be added! Just so I won't forget.
Weapons & Equip The Polar Shovel - A Shovel Knight Homage
- Thread starter TheQuietBisharp
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Kirito [Lone Wolf]
Terrarian
I love Ulterraria so that's fine.
DJFlare84
Mechanic
I don't think the Shovel should actually use ammunition from your inventory, since that would make it fall more in line with the theme of ranged weapons.I got this idea while I was outside shoveling snow. We all know this guy, correct?
(Thanks for fixing it up @Pumpking!)
Well, my idea is for his shovel to be a rare drop (1%) from wolves in a Snow biome, as they look alike to the wolves in Polar Knight's level. It can also be dropped by Armored Vikings, since that is where Polar Knight's inspiration came from. It will be a Hardmode drop that does 60 melee damage and casts a snowball similar to a boulder that does 60 damage as well. A suggestion by @SzGamer227, the Polar Shovel will use SnowBlocks for ammunition. I know, people hate RNG but it's a referential item, it isn't meant to be common.
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Melee weapons with projectiles NEVER cost ammo or mana, which is what makes them great in the first place.
I think it would be neat, however, if the user had to be in a snow biome in order for the projectile to work.
Guide in use
Skeletron Prime
it would look better as an npc 
TheQuietBisharp
Official Terrarian
What do you mean?it would look better as an npc
Guide in use
Skeletron Prime
an npc that sells some snow like stuff and has a rare drop chance of his shovel
TheQuietBisharp
Official Terrarian
Yeah but, NPCs aren't meant to be killed, and a snow based NPC could be cool but I doubt they'd add any more entirely new NPCs.
SzGamer227
Spazmatism
The Painter drops his Paint Gun, and the Dye Trader drops his Scimitar.
That aside, I don't think a snowy Shovel Knight NPC who sells random tundra junk is a good idea.
Vx!9?kRjK{?N4\e)
Terrarian
I like this. It would be also cool if a propeller was loot in sky islands.
Alucard_I
Official Terrarian
@TheQuietBisharp
Hey dude, remember last time I asked ya if I could add your idea to the mod? Well, we're making it happen! Your shovel is going to be in our mod(Ulterraria). Just some questions first:
1) Can it (technically) be a pickaxe? Can it mine blocks? Does it have restrictions as to what blocks it can mine? Right now it can only mine dirt, grass, silt, slush, clay and snow.
2) Do you want the same animation that normal pickaxes use? Or do you want it to look more like a shovel, so you wouldn't swing it over your head? We could make it like a spear.
3) Do you want it to throw the snow boulders? Or should we scrap that idea? If you want that, we'll probably have to give it two modes: throwing and digging. What are your thoughts on that?
Hey dude, remember last time I asked ya if I could add your idea to the mod? Well, we're making it happen! Your shovel is going to be in our mod(Ulterraria). Just some questions first:
1) Can it (technically) be a pickaxe? Can it mine blocks? Does it have restrictions as to what blocks it can mine? Right now it can only mine dirt, grass, silt, slush, clay and snow.
2) Do you want the same animation that normal pickaxes use? Or do you want it to look more like a shovel, so you wouldn't swing it over your head? We could make it like a spear.
3) Do you want it to throw the snow boulders? Or should we scrap that idea? If you want that, we'll probably have to give it two modes: throwing and digging. What are your thoughts on that?
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TheQuietBisharp
Official Terrarian
Oh. I think I'll put the creative liberty in your hands. You guys do as you wish.
Guide in use
Skeletron Prime
would be great as an npc, am I right?
The World Over Heaven
The Destroyer
Maybe you have another option for snowballs or snow blocks where it would be spread onto the ground and you use the shovel to make the boulders and fling them like in the actual fight.
Th3KrustOfSk3l3tron
Skeletron
this post is old, and you must provide more content in future
but anyways the Polar Shovel that you made was good @TheQuietBisharp, full support
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General Qi
Terrarian
Well, that's not entirely true. If for the sake of the completion you really wanted the NPC's unique equipment, you could lob some "Rotten Eggs" their way and murder them outright for those particular drops attributed to them.
THE STRANGLER
Steampunker
it could possibly dig snow horizontally when you cast a snow boulder, and kind-of dig ice
Explinorater
Plantera
Item: yes
1% drop: no
Give it something else, like a rare enemy that drops it or somethin'
1% drop: no
Give it something else, like a rare enemy that drops it or somethin'
leechheart
Skeletron Prime
I think if you made it so that it would use snowballs for ammunition, but if you have no snowballs, then it will just swing normally
Also I love shovel knight so much
Also I love shovel knight so much