Nightglow

  

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Nightglow

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	50 (Magic)
Knockback	2.5 (Very weak)
Mana	23
Critical chance	4%
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	34 (effective)
Rarity	08*
Sell	5 GC
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Nightglow
  

Sounds

Use
Impact

• Internal Item ID: 4952 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Projectile ID: 931

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Empress of Light(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Empress of Light(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	25%
Treasure Bag(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) (Empress of Light)Treasure Bag (Empress of Light)(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	25%

The Nightglow attacking Mimics.

The Nightglow is a Hardmode, post-Plantera magic weapon that fires four rainbow-colored projectiles which emerge from the player and home in on nearby enemies. Each projectile ricochets off solid blocks and can pierce twice before dissipating on the third hit, but loses 20% of its damage for each enemy struck.^[1] The Nightglow has a 1/4 (25%) chance of being dropped by the Empress of Light.

Its best modifier is Mythical.

Notes

• The projectile applies 30 ticks^[2] of local invincibility frames upon hit.^[3]
• The projectiles can home in on enemies within a 50-tile radius.^[4]
• After being fired, there is a 0.5-second delay before the projectile can begin homing in on enemies.
  • After this delay has passed, the projectile has a remaining lifetime of 1.5 seconds which ticks down twice as fast when it is not tracking a target.^[4] This means that the projectile lasts for 1.25 seconds in total without any targets nearby, or for 2 seconds if it immediately finds a target.
• The weapon is visibly held by the player when selected and provides light.

Trivia

• As the weapons that the Empress of Light drops are based on her attacks, the Nightglow seems to be based on her Prismatic Bolts.
• The Nightglow appears in the video game Palworld as a part of a crossover.
• Like the Last Prism, the Nightglow has secret color themes for developers and beta testers. This is triggered by using a specific set of character names:

List of names

Name	Color(s)
Acamaeda	Green Yellow Red
Alchemystics	Red Pink Purple
Antithesis	Light Blue Black
Aurora3500	Purple Blue Green
Bame	Purple Yellow
Cenx	Pink Green
Criddle	Yellow Orange
Crowno	Purple
Darthkitten	Red White
darthmorf	Dark Red Black
Discipile	Yellow Orange
Doylee	Red Pink Blue
Ghostar	White Blue Black
Grox The Great	Light Blue Green
Jaxrud	Green Yellow
Jenosis	Yellow Red Pink
Kazzymodus	Green Black
Khaios	Dark Green Black
Lazure	Red Pink Blue
Leinfors	Purple
Loki	Red Black
ManaUser	Blue Green
Mid	White Red Black
Nike Leon	Orange Red
Nimbus	White
ppowersteef	Yellow Red
RBrandon	Dark Orange
Redigit	Blue
Serenity	Pink White
Sigma	Yellow Red
teiull	Red Pink Blue
Unit One	Blue Yellow
Vulpes Inculta	Purple
Waze3174	Red Yellow Green
Xman101	Orange Black
Yoraiz0r	Pink
Zoomo	Purple

• In real life, nightglow (or airglow) is a faint emission of light by the Earth's atmosphere which causes the night sky never to be completely dark.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Projectiles that are not currently tracking a target linger roughly 50% longer before disappearing.
  • Projectiles will have their duration reset to full upon beginning to track a target.

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Mana cost decreased from 26 to 23.
  • Projectiles will now bounce, rather than break, when they come into contact with a block.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.4.0.5.4.1: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.4.0.5.5: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.

References