Mineral Mortar

Mineral Mortar

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	30 Ranged
Knockback	5 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	33 Slow
Velocity	14
Tooltip	Shoots an onyx bomb that explodes into sand sharks on death
Rarity
Sell	7  20

Projectiles created

Onyx Shark Bomb

Sand Shark

The four Sand Shark-shaped projectiles' arcs, with three of them hitting Target Dummies. Notice how the sharks only appear upon block collision.

The Mineral Mortar is a craftable Hardmode launcher that fires projectiles shaped like Forbidden Fragments. Upon collision with a block, this projectile splits into four flying Sand Shark-shaped projectiles that spread out and do additional damage. Neither the initial rocket nor the sharks can hit more than one enemy, though the initial blast has a small area of effect which ignores enemy immunity frames.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Forbidden Fragment	2
	Any Adamantite Bar	13
Result
	Mineral Mortar	1

Tips

• Since the sharks released by the weapon slightly home towards the player, one can kite them into enemies for additional damage if desired.
• Despite the fact that rockets are normally post-Plantera, players can craft rockets in Calamity by using Explosive Powder and an Empty Bullet.

Trivia

• Unlike many rocket launchers, it will not deal any damage to the player.
• In the mod's source files, the Sand Shark projectile is referred to as 'SandyWaifuShark'.
  • This is likely a reference to the weapon's recipe requiring Forbidden Fragments, which are dropped from Sand Elementals.