Deadly Sphere Staff

The Deadly Sphere Staff is a Hardmode, post-Plantera summoning weapon that summons a Deadly Sphere minion. It attacks by charging at enemies to inflict contact damage. It cannot move through blocks. The Deadly Sphere Staff has a 2.5% / (1/40 / ) chance to drop from Deadly Sphere during a Solar Eclipse.
== Notes ==
* Summoned Deadly Sphere minions appear to have a shorter-than-average lock-on range (about 40 tiles) compared to many other summoned minions that can detect enemies off-screen. However, as of 1.4.4, their range has been increased.
* The minions can be summoned anywhere on the screen, even on solid tiles, and give off light, making the weapon useful for cave exploration.
== Trivia ==
* The Deadly Sphere has several visual forms. It periodically rotates between these after having attacked three times. This has no functional effect.
* The staff may appear or be reforged with the Deadly modifier, resulting in the name "Deadly Deadly Sphere Staff". A similar trick can be done with the Lucky Horseshoe, the Lucky Coin, and the Arcane Flower .
* Like the enemy that drops it, this item is a reference to the 1979 American science fantasy horror film .
* One of the designs for the Deadly Sphere resembles a , a fictional starfighter in the American epic space-opera media franchise . However, it is actually a visual reference to a variant of the sphere seen in the 1988 American science fantasy action-horror film , the sequel to Phantasm.
== History ==