Terraria How to Summon the Lunitic Cultist Again

Lunatic Cultist

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Debuff	On Burn down!
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Adventure	100% (Fireball)
Duration	0.5–2.5 1–5 seconds

Drops

Coins	10 25

• Item (Quantity) Rate

• 100%

• 14.29%

• 10%

• 100%

• Internal NPC ID: 439
• Internal Vitrify ID: 24

"The fanatical leader of the Dungeon coven..."

Not to be confused with Cultist.

The Lunatic Cultist is a Hardmode, post-Golem boss summoned past killing the Cultists that spawn at the Dungeon's entrance later on Golem is defeated. Defeating the Lunatic Cultist initiates the Lunar Events.

Afterwards all four Celestial Pillars have been destroyed, The Moon Lord will spawn and the Cultists will respawn at the Dungeon archway, allowing the player to fight the Lunatic Cultist and initiate the Lunar Events again.

Unlike most bosses, the Lunatic Cultist does not drop any weapons; yet, it does drop the Ancient Manipulator, a placeable item that is used to craft many endgame items.

While the Lunatic Cultist is alive, the music Golem will play. When Otherworldly music is enabled, the runway Boss two (Otherworldly) will play instead.

Beliefs [ ]

The Lunatic Cultist makes its first cursory appearance at the Mysterious Tablet every bit presently as the Cultists are defeated. It is not vulnerable to set on at this time. It then warps to merely above where the player was when the teleport started, and cycles between three attacks:

When the Lunatic Cultist reaches half health, it volition occasionally supplant an assault with two spreads of five destructible Ancient Light projectiles.

In Expert Mode later reaching half health, it may also replace an attack with numerous Ancient Dooms that fire four majestic Prophecy'due south Cease projectiles in a cross blueprint.

The Lunatic Cultist cycles through five attacks (six when below half wellness) before proceeding to spawn phantom duplicates of itself called Ancient Cultists, along with a larger version of the Mysterious Tablet via a "ritual". Unless the 1 true Lunatic Cultist is interrupted past an set on from a role player during this ritual, the duplicates wing in formation and add together their homing Shadow Fireball attacks.

Attacking a duplicate or taking also long hitting the existent cultist results in the summoning of the Wyvern-like Phantasm Dragon . If there is already a Phantasm Dragon inbound, attacking a indistinguishable triggers an Aboriginal Vision , which will charge the player diagonally. Duplicates can be eliminated by striking the truthful Lunatic Cultist during the ritual, simply if not, large quantities of duplicates tin can aggregate.

Notes [ ]

• The Lunatic Cultist locks on to every player, then if one player uses a Magic Mirror or an Ice Mirror it will despawn.
• If the player loses against the Lunatic Cultist, the Lunatic Devotes and Cultist Archers at the Dungeon will respawn after one in-game day passes.
• The Cultists will not spawn if Skeletron has non yet been defeated in the current world, since the Quondam Man takes spawn priority over the Cultists, except on the mobile version, where the cultists take spawn priority.
• The Lunatic Cultist will only take 75% of the damage from the following projectiles:
  • Chlorophyte Bullets, Possessed Hatchet, Bloom Pw'south flail (petals are unaffected), Snowman Cannon using Rockets I, II, Three and IV, Slime Staff, Spider Staff, Scourge of the Corruptor's Tiny Eaters (Main Javelin unaffected), Bat Scepter, Piranha Gun, Chlorophyte Armor's Set Bonus, Magnet Sphere, Spectre Staff, Raven Staff, The Horseman'southward Blade Flaming Jacks, Storm Staff, Imp Staff, Hornet Staff, Queen Spider Staff's Baby Spiders, Optic Staff, Flairon Bubbling, Razorblade Typhoon, Influx Waver'south projectiles, Medusa Head, Seedler's projectiles and Crystal Darts.
• It can only have 6 decoys active at the same time.
• By using a Magic Mirror, Recall Potion, etc., the player can teleport away from the Lunatic Cultist and it will despawn.
  • If the player teleports away before the Lunatic Cultist'south spawning animation finishes, the tablet will cease its animation while the Lunatic Cultist despawns.
• The Lunatic Cultist volition always spawn at the Dungeon entrance's original location, regardless of modifications (similar to the four Cultists), meaning that if the four Cultists are teleported or otherwise moved away, and then killed there, the Lunatic Cultist volition instantly despawn if the dungeon entrance is out of range.
  • Removing the floor and ceiling at the entrance to the dungeon (where the Quondam Human being spawns for Skeletron summon) will forbid the cultists from spawning.

Accomplishment [ ]

Obsessive Devotion  • "Defeat the Ancient Cultist, fanatical leader of the dungeon coven."

Defeat the Lunatic Cultist for the showtime time.

Tips [ ]

• Avoid defeating the Lunatic Cultist if you are non withal ready for the Lunar Events. Beating the Lunatic Cultist causes the Lunar Events to brainstorm immediately, and there is no manner to de-summon them thereafter (aside from defeating them).
• The real Lunatic Cultist can be distinguished from its fakes in a number of ways:
  • The existent Cultist is the only one with a health meter.
  • The real Cultist has narrow slit-similar eyes, while the clones' eyes are holes.
  • The real Lunatic Cultist has a line on its hood while the fakes do non.
  • Nigh minions and homing weapons will simply attack the real Cultist.
    • This is not true as of version 1.4.0.1. Homing bullets act like regular bullets and minions volition not target the cultist or its decoys, although minions that deal contact harm may accidentally damage them. Interestingly, Flaming Jack projectiles from The Horseman'southward Bract and the Spectre Mask'southward damaging orbs will still target the real Cultist.
  • The real Cultist does not emit light, while the decoys do; notwithstanding, this may just exist apparent if fought at dark.
  • Using a Hunter Potion will but highlight the existent Cultist.
  • In normal mode, the decoy Cultists are named "Ancient Cultist" instead of "Lunatic Cultist". In Adept fashion, however, the decoys will besides be named "Lunatic Cultist".
• Using Autopause grants every bit much time equally needed for identifying the real Cultist.
• Attacking a decoy Cultist is not a bad idea if the player uses the Vampire Knives. The resulting Phantasm Dragon is very long and may be easily targeted to restore some life.
• Many of the Lunatic Cultist's attacks tin exist blocked by hiding behind solid blocks. A weapon that attacks through blocks or a yoyo can exist used to continue dealing damage.
• There is little reason to farm the Lunatic Cultist itself, as its only not-vanity drops are healing potions and the Ancient Manipulator, which you only need 1 of and does non sell for any money. However, defeating information technology is the merely way to access the Lunar Events and the various fragments.
• The mobile targeting system resets every time the Lunatic Cultist switches to another attack.

Trivia [ ]

• The Lunatic Cultist's attacks appear to be based on the four Celestial Pillars from the Lunar Events.
• It is a common conventionalities that the Cultists' design was inspired by Crowno's prepare. Nevertheless, according to Crowno^[1], the Lunatic Cultist was designed kickoff.
• The boss' appearance resembles a plague doctor costume, which was an outfit worn by plague doctors in the 17th century intended to protect them from airborne diseases.
• Information technology is the smallest boss and the merely one without an enkindling message.
• The Lunatic Cultist's mask, trophy, and achievement refer to information technology every bit Aboriginal Cultist rather than Lunatic Cultist, still using an early on evolution name. Several other enemy drops from 1.3 too retained their early development names until later patches.
  • In addition to this, an unimplemented achievement refers to it as the Insane Cultist.
• The Lunatic Cultist has an Expert Mode Treasure Pocketbook in Terraria's game files, only it is currently unobtainable as information technology does not actually drop it.
• This is the just boss to use music specifically titled subsequently another dominate, Golem, and the only boss whose music starts earlier the boss itself spawns, making it easier to obtain the music box.
• The term lunatic is nowadays unremarkably used as an informal synonym for insane, mentally ill, etc. The word itself, however, originated from the fact that diseases were historically thought to take been acquired past the moon, tying in with the moon-themed events following this boss.
• The Lunatic Cultist, Brain of Cthulhu, Moon Lord, Male monarch Slime, Queen Slime, and, in Good Way, Knuckles Fishron are the only bosses that tin can teleport.
• The caput icon displayed on the map is likewise shown for the Ancient Cultists.
• When the Lunatic Cultist first spawns, glowing particles start flowing to it from the Mysterious Tablet and it makes a noise that sounds like a heavily edited vocalism prune. It is randomly chosen from the following: .

After this, it makes a laugh-like sound (as well altered) and tilts upward its mask and shakes, to appear as if information technology is laughing at the player.

• Oddly, when the Lunatic Cultist is killed, the status message "Celestial creatures are invading!" appears earlier "Lunatic Cultist has been defeated!", hinting that the summoning ritual might accept finished before the Lunatic Cultist died.
  • Withal, this is non the case on the  Mobile version.
• When the Lunatic Cultist despawns afterwards a player has teleported away from information technology, it plays its dying blitheness.
• Wearing the Lunatic Cultist Mask and the Lunar Cultist Robe causes the actor to look very like to the Lunatic Cultist, nevertheless, the boss is all the same taller than the player, and is therefore distinguishable.
• When defeated with Blood and Gore enabled, the Lunatic Cultist'south head has round eyes, possibly indicating that it spawned a decoy to die in its place. Nonetheless, it tin can be respawned just like any other boss.
• The Lunatic Cultist is i of the few bosses in which all of its attacks, other than melee, do non increment linearly in Principal Style.
• It is the just non-issue boss not to have an Good Fashion-exclusive drib.
• The Lunatic Cultist has the most types of "servants" out of all the bosses, totaling at iv.

• The Bestiary entry for the Lunatic Cultist: "A fanatical leader hell-bent on bringing about the apocalypse by reviving the great Cthulhu through backside-the-scenes scheming."

History [ ]

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • In Master mode, now drops the Lunatic Cultist Relic and as well has a 25% chance to driblet its exclusive pet, the Tablet Fragment.
  • Most homing bullets and minions will no longer target the existent Lunatic Cultist during its Ancient Cultist decoy assault.

• Desktop one.iii.0.4:
  • No longer respawns while the Moon Lord is spawning.
  • Can no longer spawn during important events like boss fights, invasions etc.
  • Fixed rare occurrence of cultists sinking into the flooring in multiplayer.

• Desktop 1.three.0.i: Introduced.

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

• Switch one.0.711.6: Introduced.

• Mobile one.three.0.7: Introduced.

References [ ]

1. ↑ Post on Crowno'due south forums contour June 25, 2015

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