Pirate Staff

The Pirate Staff is a Hardmode, pre-mechanical boss summon weapon. It spawns a pirate minion that attacks enemies by slashing them with a sword. The Pirate Staff is dropped with a chance by pirates, with a chance by the or in a loot_box (every type of it)
== Notes ==
* The Pirate Staff has a damage cooldown of 0.3 seconds per enemy. It does not trigger invulnerability frames.
* The item is quite rare. On average, it will take 6–7 complete Pirate Invasions before this item drops (assuming the player can kill two Flying Dutchmen and 200 pirates per invasion).
* In worlds, the Pirate Staff can be purchased from the Princess for after a Pirate Invasion has been defeated.
== Tips ==
* The Pirate Staff is exceptionally deadly against ground-based enemies and bosses, or enemies with multiple segments such as The Destroyer, as each pirate will deal its full listed damage on every segment.
* Because the pirates are grounded minions with a limited jump height, the Pirate Staff is ineffective against flying enemies and bosses with very high mobility, such as The Twins.
== Trivia ==
* Each time the pirate minion is summoned, it has a random one of three possible sprite graphics, all of which are functionally identical. In the game code, they are called the "One Eyed Pirate", "Pirate Captain", and "Soulscourge Pirate".
** The "One Eyed Pirate" variant seems to resemble a miniature version of the Pirate Deadeye enemy.
* The pirates seem to use a miniature version of the Falcon Blade when attacking.
* The pirates will defecate occasionally, similar to their behavior in the Pixel Piracy game, and similar to the effect of activating a Toilet. This has no functional effect.
** This occurs every 30–40 seconds of the pirate not moving horizontally.
* This item is one of several crossover references to the game .
* If the player strays too far from a pirate, a parrot will carry it back to the player.
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