Golden Cudgel

Does not spawn randomly

The **Golden Cudgel** is a Legendary Melee Weapon found in the game.

It is the motif weapon of Gold Mask.

## Usage

### Overall

* This weapon has three modes which can be cycled through using the extra button.
* The player character will say "Engorgio" when changing to a larger mode, and "Reducio" when changing to small mode.
* The player cannot attack within 1 second after changing the mode.

### Short Mode

* Spins around the player.
* Holding the attack button will increase movement speed slightly.

### Medium Mode

* Performs 2 swinging attacks and then 1 spin attack.

### Long Mode

* Performs a melee attack and launches a trail of up to 13 shockwaves, if there is any energy to spare.
* Holding the attack button will decrease movement speed slightly.

## Tips

### Strategies

* This weapon is essentially a combination of Laser Sword Gold, Sickle, 40m Long Blade and Sandworm, having utility on specific scenarios with its different mechanics.
* The small mode can block the majority of bullets in most bullet-hell situations. Despite that, some bullets may still pass through the circle and hit the player. The player should try to move around often so that they won't be hit at all.
* The medium mode has a greater range, while trading off some bullet block and hit speed.
* The large mode performs a massive melee hit and a line of quakes that may damage groups of enemies effectively. Its slow hit speed and energy cost become its largest weaknesses.
* The main drawback of this weapon is its overriding buff dependency. In spite of its versatility, all three modes need adequate buffs to increase their viability.

### Recommended Buffs

* Reflect Buff - The melee attack can reflect enemies' bullets.
* Melee Range Buff - Increases the melee range.
* Laser Buff - Increases shockwaves' radius.
* Shotgun Buff - Fires a spread of three shockwaves instead of just one.
* Energy Orb Buff - To compensate to the energy lost by the third attack.

## Forging Materials

 Timber
 Ironstone
 Fragment
 Gems

## Trivia

* This weapon was added in Update 2.6.5. Before this version, Gold Mask had no motif weapon.
* This weapon's sprite is a recolored version of the Woodstick.
* It is a reference to Sun Wu Kong (孙悟空), also known as "Monkey King" and one of the main characters in the Chinese legend Journey to the West. The monkey took the Golden Cudgel from the East Sea Dragon Emperor's palace (thus the Chinese name used in game: Oceanic Stabilizer Needle, which reads 定海神针. Sun Wu Kong still calls it the Golden Cudgel). He primarily uses it as a powerful melee weapon, and whenever he isn't the stick can be contracted with magic and stored on his ear.
	+ This in turn refers to the fact that Gold Mask is the leader of all monkeys found in the Relics, and fights with multiple weapons.
	+ Since the Golden Cudgel is based on a metallic needle, it is unknown why would the player needs timber to forge it.
	+ The Chinese transformation quotes are taken directly from common depictions of the Monkey King, who will say “大大大~” ("Grow, grow, grow!") and “小小小~” ("Smaller, smaller!"). Meanwhile in the English localization, the words "Engorgio" and "Reducio" are taken from the *Harry Potter* series.
* This is the first and currently the only weapon to have three modes being able to toggle.
* When Officer holds this weapon and enters the idling animation, the weapon will automatically switch to Small Mode but glitched. When switching from Medium Mode to Small Mode, the weapon will perform the spin attack with the range and damage of Medium Mode. When switching from Large Mode to Small Mode, it will not perform any attack.