Thorn, Bane of the Forest

Thorn, Bane of the Forest

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Statistics

Type	Boss
Damage	0 (Contact) 21 / 31 / 47 (All attacks)
Elemental damage	(All attacks) (Life Draining Thorns)
Max Life	2,100 / 3,150 / 4,725
Defense	6
Elemental multipliers	1.25x 1.25x 1.1x 0.75x 0.75x
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Ensnared 100% chance
Debuff duration	Infinite (Contact with the Thorn Trap, contact with the boss)
Debuff tooltip	Tangled in thorns
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	5 seconds (Cleave)
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life
Inflicts debuff	Poisoned 33.33% chance
Debuff duration	10 seconds (Poison Stingers)
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Immune to

Drops

Coins	1

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• 1 of the following 3 items will be dropped
• Cursed Grass Blade
  33.33%
• Cursed Thorn Bow
  33.33%
• Root Tendril
  33.33%
• Thorn Mask
  14.29%
• Thorn Trophy
  10%
• Treasure Bag(Thorn)

  • Circlet of Brambles

  100%
• Thorn Relic
  100%
• Bouquet of Thorns
  100%

Thorn, Bane of the Forest is a Pre-Hardmode boss recommended to be fought after King Slime.

While Thorn, Bane of the Forest is alive, the music Dramatic4 will play.

Spawn

Thorn can be spawned by using a Heart of Thorns at daytime, which can be found naturally growing on grass, usually near spawn.

Behavior

Thorn is a stationary boss, choosing an attack at random then either using another attack or teleporting. Standing in the boss's hitbox will inflict the Ensnared debuff instead of dealing contact damage.

Attacks

Thorn has 5 different attacks it alternates between, these include:

• Brambles - Spawns Thorn Seeds above the player that sprout into Thorn Traps upon hitting a solid tile or a platform (below 50% health, spawns seeds faster).
• Thorn Whip - Shoots out multiple Cursed Thorn tendrils in a row which sweep around the boss. Can be interrupted if the player moves far enough away (below 50% health, the tendrils get longer).
• Poison Stingers - Shoots a spread of 4 evenly spaced stingers that inflict Poisoned, then a spread of 8 stingers, then a spread of 4 (below 50% health, shoots 4 spreads of stingers, the spreads containing 4, 8, 4, and 16 stingers respectively).
• Life Draining Thorns - Shoots a burst of Life Draining Thorns that restore 20 of Thorn's health upon hitting a player (below 50% health, the burst is shot for longer).
• Cleave - Thorn slashes at the player's position 4 times, indicated by a flash occuring right before the slash (below 50% health, slashes 5 times and in a quicker succession). The slashes inflict Bleeding.
• Upon reaching 35% / 50% health, Thorn spawns a Mana Barrier which spins around it, reflecting magic projectiles back at the player and absorbing non-magic ones.

Aftermath

• The Alignment will increase by 2.
• Nightshade and Anglonic Mystic Blossom will begin growing occasionally on grass.
• The Clothier will begin selling Thorn Plushie.

Notes

• Most of Thorn's projectiles can't travel through tiles, the exceptions are the Thorn Whip and Cleave.
• Thorn's Brambles attack sprout on platforms level to the player and fall through higher ones.
• If Thorn goes back above 50% health through its Life Draining Seeds, its attack will return to their original state, but the Mana Barrier will stay.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for Thorn, Bane of the Forest: "An unfortunate warden of a cursed forest, doomed to be consumed by blighted thorns."

• Upon defeating Thorn, the Chalice of Alignment will say: "The blight should quell with this unfortunate warden slain."
• Thorn was originally created when Halm, the mod's creator, was trying to make an RPG game, and appeared as the first boss of the game.
• During Christmas, Thorn's name will change to "Everthorn, Bane of the Holidays"
• Thorn used to be a rematch boss in the Ancient Deity Duo fight.

Gallery

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  Teleport/death animation

History

• 0.7.5: Introduced.