Legacy:Exploding Bullet

This is the Legacy page whose information relates to the article Exploding Bullet.
It applies only to the Old-gen console and 3DS versions of Terraria, detailing their differences from modern versions.

On the Old-gen console version, the explosions from the bullets can harm the player.

Notes

When fired from guns with low use time (e.g. Clockwork Assault Rifle) at a single target, some of the Exploding Bullets will not deal damage to the target and pass through due to how piercing damage works.^Verify

Tips

(Old-gen console version) Care must be taken when fighting in close quarters as the explosions can harm the player, especially when using high-damage weapons such as the Sniper Rifle.
(Old-gen console version) The self-damage of the Exploding Bullet is considered PvP damage. This means that it can only trigger 0.13 seconds (8 ticks^[1]) of invincibility frames when it damages the user, and the user can respawn at full health if they died from it. The short invincibility duration can be exploited to create a highly damaging rain of stars with a Star Cloak.

Footnotes

↑ A tick is a time unit countable by the software. Most of Terraria's updating logic happens every tick. A tick has the length of 1/60th of a second, hence there are 60 ticks in a second and 3600 ticks in a minute.

[tick_desc-1] A tick is a time unit countable by the software. Most of Terraria's updating logic happens every tick. A tick has the length of 1/60th of a second, hence there are 60 ticks in a second and 3600 ticks in a minute.

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