Gauss Rifle
Statistics
| Type | Weapon |
|---|---|
| Damage | 150 Ranged |
| Knockback | 30 (Insane) |
| Critical chance | 4% |
| Use time | 32 Slow |
| Velocity | 27 |
| Tooltip | A large and slow weapon, the concussive force of its projectiles do well in clearing large groups Fires a devastating high velocity blast with absurd knockback Current Charge: [CHARGE] |
| Rarity |  |
| Sell | 12  |
The Gauss Rifle is a craftable Hardmode ranged weapon. When used, it fires a high velocity stream of blue particles, exploding on impact with an enemy or blocks. It consumes charge on use.
The weapon consumes 0.1125 units of charge per use and has a maximum charge of 135.
Its best modifier is Unreal.
Crafting
Recipe
The Gauss Rifle cannot be crafted until the Encrypted Schematic from the Jungle Bio-center Lab is decrypted. If the requirement has not been met, two lines of tooltip are added at the bottom of the item:
You don't have sufficient knowledge to create this yet
A specific schematic must be deciphered first
| Crafting Station | ||
|---|---|---|
 Mythril Anvilor  Orichalcum Anvil | ||
| Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
 | Dubious Plating | 12 |
 | Mysterious Circuitry | 18 |
 | Life Alloy | 5 |
 | Infected Armor Plating | 5 |
| Result | ||
 | Gauss Rifle | 1 |
Trivia
- The Gauss Rifle is a reference to the weapon of the same name from the Fallout series, and uses the same firing sound effect.
