Cultist Invasion

The Cultist Invasion is an event added by the Arcana update, which can be used to fight the Arch-Lich.

## Description

This event can be triggered by crafting a Cultist Totem. Currently, this is the only method to trigger this event.

The event will take place at wherever the player so chooses in the overworld. As soon as the invasion has begun, wave 1 of the event will begin immediately. To help locate the enemies better, all invaders are given a permanent glow effect that allows them to be seen by players through walls. Cultist Invasion enemies will begin appear from of its 4 chosen spawnpoints at random. Up to 32 Cultist Invaders can exist at once; after which point no more will spawn until slots are freed up by killing them. Killing enough invaders will progress the wave and, once enough are killed, another wave will begin.

## Waves

There are 4 waves in this event; wave 1, 2, 3, and the final wave which lasts indefinitely until the boss - which spawns once the final wave begins - is defeated.

### Wave 1

The first wave of this event consists of Re-animated Bones, Alchemisty, and Footman. Kill 30 invaders to begin wave 2.

### Wave 2

The second wave of this event consists of Re-animated Bones, Alchemisty, Lich, Infantry, and Knight. Kill 40 invaders to begin wave 3.

### Wave 3

The third wave of this event consists of Lich, Alchemisty, Jester, and Summoner. Kill 60 invaders to begin the final wave.

### Final Wave

The final wave of this event consists of every possible enemy that could spawn during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd wave. Additionally, once this wave starts, the Arch-Lich will immediately spawn. Killing the Arch-Lich will immediately end the event in success, as well as killing all fellow invasion enemies.

## Enemies

### Re-animated Bones

The Re-animated Bones is a Skeleton wearing an Iron Helmet. It will randomly spawn with either a Bow or an Iron Sword. Its health has been boosted to 30.

### Lich

Not to be confused with the boss of this event, the Arch-Lich, the Lich is a Wither Skeleton wearing a full set of Leather armor. It will commonly spawn with a Wand of Sparkbolt, but has a 20% chance of spawning with a Wand of Fireball instead. Its health has been boosted to 50.

### Alchemisty

The Alchemisty is a Witch that has had its health boosted to 40.

### Footman

The Footman is a Pillager that uses a Crossbow. It will randomly use either a normal arrow, weakness arrow, harming arrow, or strong harming arrow. Its health has been boosted to 40.

### Knight

The Knight is a Vindicator riding a Skeleton Horse. While the Skeleton Horse is friendly, the Vindicator wields a Diamond Sword. Its health has been boosted to 50.

### Infantry

Infantry are Pillagers that use a Crossbow that contains a Firework Rocket. Its health has been boosted to 40.

### Summoner

The Summoner is an Evoker that summons weaker Vexes. Typically, the Vexes it spawns can be killed in one hit with any damage. The Evoker's health has been boosted to 40.

### Jester

The Jester is an Illusioner that has had its health boosted to 50.

## Arch-Lich

The Arch-Lich is the final boss of the Cultist Invasion which spawns once the final wave begins. Instead of spawning from one of the 4 spawnpoints randomly like the other enemies of the invasion, it will spawn at the origin point where the event was initiated.

The Arch-Lich has 1000 health and wears colorfully-dyed Leather armor, all of which contain Blast Protection 10. Not only is it retroactively immune to explosive-based damage, it completely deflects the Ball and Chain and takes no damage whatsoever from it. Though it appears to hold the Wand of Magic Missile, it can use 2 different wands' powers. The Arch-Lich will randomly fire Magic Missiles or non-destructive exploding fireballs.

Once it is killed, it will randomly drop 24 to 32 bones. Additionally, it is guaranteed to drop at least 1 Arcane Essence, but it can drop up to 2. Finally, it is also guaranteed to drop the book "Ramblings of a Mad Man," which hints towards how to obtain the Tome of Arcana and how to brew a Potion of Undeath.

## Trivia

* Originally, instead of the final boss being the Arch-Lich, it would have been a fight with Stevari. The character had already been modeled and rigged to be used in-game, but has gone unused. It would have been similar to how it is fought in the game it is from, Noita.