Cursed Grass Blade

Cursed Grass Blade

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	18 Melee
Knockback	3 (Very Weak)
Elemental Bonus	(Swing)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 Very Fast
Tooltip	Slain enemies burst into seeds that sprout brambles of thorns
Inflicts Debuff	Poisoned 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Rarity
Sell	8  80
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Thorn Seed

Thorn Trap

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Thorn, Bane of the Forest	1	50%
Treasure Bag (Thorn)	1	50%

The Cursed Grass Blade in use.

The Cursed Grass Blade is a Pre-Hardmode sword that is dropped by Thorn, Bane of the Forest. Hitting an enemy will afflict them with the Poisoned debuff for 5 seconds. Upon killing an enemy, 2-3 harmless Thorn Seeds will burst from them and sprout into stationary Thorn Traps upon colliding with a tile or a platform. Thorn Traps rapidly deal 50% of the weapon's damage, can pierce infinitely, and will disappear after 3 seconds.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Shimmer
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Alder's Staff	1
Result
	Cursed Grass Blade	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cursed Thorn Bow	Cursed Grass Blade	Shimmer

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The Cursed Grass Blade will not spawn Thorn Seeds from enemies with a maximum health of 5 or less.

Tips

• This weapon performs excellently against events such as the Goblin Army, due to its effect activating upon killing enemies and allowing it to target large groups of enemies at once.
• It can be considered the Good Route alternative to Bindeklinge, with the latter also being a true melee sword dropped by Erhan, Anglonic High Priest, the Bad Route alternative to Thorn.
  • Bindeklinge is usually considered the superior option in most scenarios, with its on-crit projectiles allowing it to combat both crowds and single targets with much more consistency.

History

• 0.8.0.4042:
  • Buffed damage from 15 to 18.
  • Can now be shimmered into Cursed Thorn Bow.
• 0.8.0.4040: Resprited the Thorn Trap. Previous sprite was:
• 0.8.0.389: Resprited. Previous sprite was:
• 0.8.0.341:
  • Reworked:
    • No longer shoots a spread of 2-3 Stingers.
    • Now makes slain enemies burst into 2-3 Thorn Seeds that sprout into lingering Thorn Traps upon hitting a tile.
• 0.8.0.331:
  • Nerfed damage from 19 to 15 and Poisoned debuff's duration from 10 seconds to 5.
  • Decreased Stingers' damage from 100% of base to 50% and knockback from 100% of base to 0%
• 0.8:
  • Buffed damage from 13 to 19
  • Nerfed use time from 19 to 20.
• 0.7.5: Introduced.