Guide Voodoo Doll

Guide Voodoo Doll*

Statistics

* Internal Item ID: **267**

 Obtained from Classic Expert Master

Not to be confused with Clothier Voodoo Doll, which allows the player to harm the Clothier rather than the Guide (and re-summon Skeletron).

> “I heard there is a doll that looks very similar to the Guide somewhere in the underworld. I'd like to put a few rounds in it.
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> — The Arms Dealer
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The **Guide Voodoo Doll** is a summoning item for the Wall of Flesh. It is a guaranteed drop from Voodoo Demons, a fairly rare enemy in The Underworld.

When the doll is equipped as an accessory, it becomes possible for the player and other NPCs to kill the Guide with direct attacks from weapons (which normally would not damage him). If the item is dropped and destroyed by lava, then the Guide will instantly die, if he exists in the world. If the doll is destroyed in The Underworld (and the Guide exists), it will summon the Wall of Flesh.

As of 1.4.4 Guide Voodoo Dolls can be stacked up to 9,999. Throwing a stack of more than one into the lava will summon the Wall of Flesh, and kill the Guide, as well as killing a number of other randomly chosen NPCs in the world (including town pets and town slimes), equal to the number of dolls that were thrown. *There are no other effects to doing this, however.*

The Guide Voodoo Doll cannot be reforged, and therefore cannot have modifiers.

## Notes

* Only one Wall of Flesh can be summoned at once, so throwing a second doll into lava while a Wall of Flesh is currently spawned will waste the doll.
* If a dropped doll lands on a player who is standing in lava, the doll will sometimes be collected while also summoning the Wall of Flesh, making it reusable.
* The Wall of Flesh's sweep direction is determined by where the doll is dropped. If to the left of the world center (the player's initial world spawn point at the start of the game), the boss sweeps from left to right, and vice versa.
* Throwing the doll into the closest lava sea to the left or right end will cause the Wall of Flesh to despawn right after it spawns.
* On the PC version, Console version, Mobile version, and tModLoader version, the Guide Voodoo Doll is not required to summon the Wall of Flesh. It can also be summoned by directly killing the Guide via lava in the Underworld.

## Achievement

 **Like a Boss** • *“Obtain a boss-summoning item.”*Obtain any boss-summoning item. Category:  Collector
## Trivia

* In popular culture, a Voodoo doll is a figurine resembling a person, which can be harmed in order to magically inflict harm on the person being mimicked.
* Before the Wall of Flesh is defeated, several NPCs sometimes make reference to the doll's function:
	+ Arms Dealer: "I heard there is a doll that looks very similar to <name of Guide> somewhere in the underworld. I'd like to put a few rounds in it."
	+ Nurse: "I need to have a serious talk with <name of Guide>. How many times a week can you come in with severe lava burns?"
	+ Guide: "When you are ready to challenge the keeper of the underworld, you will have to make a living sacrifice. Everything you need for it can be found in the underworld."
* Its old sprite appears on the icons of these following buffs and debuffs:

* On Fire!
* Frostburn
* Cursed Inferno
* Chilled
* Stinky
* Sparkle Slime
* Invisibility
* Shine

* The Guide Voodoo Doll is one of only four pre-Hardmode boss summoning items that cannot be crafted. The others are the Clothier Voodoo Doll, Suspicious Looking Egg, and the Cursed stuffing.
* Despite the fact that the Guide Voodoo Doll needs to be dropped in lava to summon the Wall of Flesh, it will not summon the boss if it is still attached to the Voodoo Demon due to the fact that the sprite of the doll is immune to lava before being dropped.

## History

PC version
* Desktop 1.4.4: Guide Voodoo Dolls now stack to 9999. Dropping more than one at the same time into lava will kill other NPCs in addition to the Guide.

* Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

* Desktop 1.1: Dropping the doll in lava in The Underworld now summons the Wall of Flesh.

* Desktop 1.0.5: Introduced.

Console version
* Console-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo Switch version
* Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

Mobile version
* Mobile 1.3.0.7: No longer consumable.

* Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DSversion
* 3DS-Release: Introduced.