Minishark

The Minishark is a gun that can be bought from the Arms Dealer for and can use any form of bullet. It is capable of autofiring and each shot has a chance of not consuming any ammunition. It has the lowest use time of all pre-Hardmode ranged weapons.
== Crafting ==
=== Used in ===
== Achievement ==
== Tips ==
* The Completely Awesome achievement can be unlocked without spending the by buying a Minishark and then reselling it without closing the shop window.
* The Minishark deals small amounts of damage at a rapid rate. Against enemies with higher defense, such as bosses, its damage is reduced to 1 per hit, causing a significant decrease in overall damage output. , e.g. via the Shark Tooth Necklace, can help alleviate this shortcoming.
** As most Hardmode enemies have enough defense to reduce the Minishark's damage to 1 per hit and have significantly more health, it becomes functionally useless beyond this point and is better replaced by its upgrade, the Megashark.
** Similarly to increased armor penetration, bullets that deal higher damage can significantly increase the weapon's DPS. 
* Even with the chance not to consume ammo, the Minishark can still use a large amount of bullets very quickly, especially with modifiers that decrease its use time. However, the ammo-conserving effect of the Minishark can be increased substantially by adding certain gear, e.g. the following:
:{| class="terraria align-center" style="line-height:1.3"
! rowspan=2 | Gear
! colspan=2 | Chance not to consume ammo
! rowspan=2 | Avg. yield of9999 bullets
! rowspan=2 | Avg. ammo consumption rate
|-
! !! 
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==Trivia==
*The name is likely a reference to the fictional hand-held , which has been popularized in video games and films since the 1980s. In practice, a man-portable M134 minigun would be nearly impossible to manage as an individual infantry weapon, and highly impractical for a human being to either carry or operate.
*The Minishark's color and design is similar to that of the machine gun from the 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter . They are also both automatic guns with multiple barrels and low damage per bullet.
*The Minishark, along with the Clockwork Assault Rifle, Star Cannon, Flintlock Pistol, are some of the only guns without knockback.
* The Minishark is the first of several rapid-firing guns that were named and designed based on a water creature, the others being the Gatligator, Megashark, and S.D.M.G..
* The Minishark is implied to be made from a live shark. This is supported by several details:
** The Arms Dealer has a chance to say: "I see you're eyeballin' the Minishark. You really don't want to know how it was made.", suggesting it was created from a live shark.
**An excerpt from the Arms Dealer's Bestiary entry says, in part, "...guns made from sharks"
**5 Shark Fins are required to craft a Megashark.
==History==
==Footnotes==