History:The Perforators

* **1.5.0.001**:
	+ Nerfed Boss Rush base health from 2,700,000 / **4,320,000** to 270,000 / **432,000**.
	+ The Perforator Hive now occasionally charges up and launches several Ichor blobs towards the player when below 70% health. Ichor blobs will linger on tiles for 10 seconds. This attack can not be performed if any Perforator worms are alive.
	+ All projectiles spawned by the Perforator Hive can now pass through tiles so long as they are above the player.
	+ The Perforator Hive will now deal no contact damage for the first 3 seconds after spawning in.
	+ The Perforator Worm AI now uses custom AI instead of Worm AI.
	+ The Perforator worms no longer drop Hearts in Revengeance or Malice Mode.
	+ The Perforator Hive now inflicts Burning Blood for 3 seconds.
	+ The Perforator Worms can no longer inflict Bleeding.
	+ Increased Blood Sample drop amount in Normal Mode from 7-14 to 25-30.
	+ Ichor drops are now compacted into stacks of 2.
* **1.4.5.004**:
	+ The Perforator Hive now fires its projectiles less often while a Perforator worm is alive.
	+ Now enrage outside of the Crimson.
	+ Now less aggressive in the Underground Crimson.
	+ The Perforator worms now move slower but gain speed as their health decreases.
	+ Nerfed the medium Perforator worm's total health from 2000 / **3906** / **4912** / **5526** to 1600 / **3122** / **4016** / **4518**. Nerfed individual segment health from 200 / **279** / **307** to 160 / **223** / **251**.
	+ The large Perforator worm will now lunge at the player less often in all world difficulties.
* **1.4.5.003**:
	+ The Perforator Hive's projectiles now rain in a consistent spread instead of at random.
	+ All Perforator Worms no longer fire Blood clots, and all Perforator Worms now have increased size and body segments based on world difficulty.
		- Significantly reduced the speed of the Small Perforator Worm in all difficulties, buffed health from 1250 / **1749** / **2099** to 1250 / **2125** / **2550**
		- Medium Perforator Worm can now split similarly to Eater of Worlds, changed health from 2000 / **2799** / **3079** total to 200 / **279** / **307** per segment.
		- Large Perforator Worm can now burrow and lunge towards the player, buffed health from 2500 / **3499** / **3779** to 2500 / **5000** / **5400**.
	+ Buffed Perforator Hive contact damage from 30 / **48** / **60** / **69** to 30 / **54** / **63** / **72**.
	+ Buffed Small Perforator Worm Head contact damage from 30 / **60** / **72** / **79** to 30 / **60** / **72** / **80**.
	+ Buffed Small Perforator Worm Body contact damage from 18 / **28** / **32** to 18 / **36** / **42** / **46**.
	+ Buffed Small Perforator Worm Tail contact damage from 10 / **16** / **18** to 10 / **20** / **26** / **30**.
	+ Buffed Medium Perforator Worm Head contact damage from 35 / **70** / **84** / **92** to 35 / **70** / **84** / **92**.
	+ Buffed Medium Perforator Worm Body contact damage from 21 / **33** / **37** to 21 / **42** / **50** / **54**.
	+ Buffed Medium Perforator Worm Tail contact damage from 14 / **22** / **25** to 14 / **28** / **34** / **38**.
	+ Buffed Large Perforator Worm Head contact damage from 45 / **90** / **108** / **118** to 45 / **90** / **108** / **118**.
	+ Buffed Large Perforator Worm Body contact damage from 24 / **38** / **43** to 24 / **48** / **54** / **60**.
	+ Buffed Large Perforator Worm Tail contact damage from 18 / **28** / **32** to 18 / **36** / **42** / **46**.
* **1.4.3.002**:
	+ Each worm now has a separate health bar from the hive.
	+ Now immune to Glacial State, Temporal Sadness, Time Distortion, Tesla Freeze, Eutrophication, Pearl Aura, Webbed, and Slow.
	+ Fixed some velocity issues on the Revengeance Mode Perforator Hive.
* **1.4.3.001**:
	+ Nerfed The Perforator Hive's contact damage from 30 / **48** to 30 / **48** / **60** / **67**.
	+ Nerfed Large Perforator's head contact damage from 45 to 45 / **90** / **108** / **118**.
	+ Nerfed Large Perforator's body contact damage from 24 / **38** / **43** to 24 / **38**.
	+ Nerfed Large Perforator's tail contact damage from 18 / **28** / **32** to 18 / **28**.
	+ Nerfed Medium Perforator's head contact damage from 35 to 35 / **70** / **84** / **92**.
	+ Nerfed Medium Perforator's body contact damage from 21 / **33** / **37** to 21 / **33**.
	+ Nerfed Medium Perforator's tail contact damage from 14 / **22** / **25** to 14 / **22**.
	+ Nerfed Small Perforator's head contact damage from 30 to 30 / **60** / **72** / **79**.
	+ Nerfed Small Perforator's body contact damage from 18 / **28** / **32** to 18 / **28**.
	+ Nerfed Small Perforator's tail contact damage from 10 / **16** / **18** to 10 / **16**.
	+ Nerfed blood geyser and ichor shot damage from 36 / **56** to 36 / **56** / **70** / **78**.
	+ The Perforator Hive now has a greater acceleration but lower maximum speed.
		- In Revengeance Mode, The Perforator Hive has an even greater acceleration but even lower maximum speed as The Perforators are spawned, which is even more effective while any is alive.
	+ All Perforators are now immune to Webbed.
	+ Death Mode now causes all Perforators to move at highest speed immediately, instead of gradually speeding up as health lowers.
	+ Decreased projectile firing rate in Death Mode.
* **1.4.2.106**:
	+ Nerfed the Hive's contact damage from 35 / **56** to 30 / **48**, and buffed its defense from 0 to 4.
	+ Small Perforator stat changes:
		- Nerfed head's damage from **69** to **60**.
		- Nerfed body's contact damage from 20 / **28** to 18 / **28**, and its defense from 8 to 4.
		- Buffed tail's contact damage from **14** to **16**, and nerfed its defense from 18 to 8.
		- Buffed blood clot damage from 22 / **36** to 30 / **48**.
	+ Medium Perforator stat changes:
		- Nerfed head's damage from **80** to **70**, and buffed its defense from 0 to 2.
		- Nerfed body's contact damage from 25 / **35** to 21 / **33**, and its defense from 10 to 6.
		- Changed tail's damage from 15 / **21** to 14 / **22** and nerfed its defense from 22 to 10.
		- Buffed blood clot damage from 22 / **36** to 30 / **48**.
	+ Large Perforator stat changes:
		- Changed head's damage from 40 / **92** to 45 / **90**, and buffed its defense from 0 to 4.
		- Nerfed body's contact damage from 30 / **42** to 24 / **38**, and its defense from 12 to 8.
		- Nerfed tail's damage from 20 to 18, and its defense from 25 to 12.
		- Buffed blood clot damage from 22 / **36** to 30 / **48**.
* **1.4.2.105**:
	+ Increased the Perforator Hive's speed.
	+ Blood Geyser projectiles can now pass through tiles after 3 seconds have passed, and no longer pass through tiles at all times in Death Mode.
	+ Ichor Shot projectiles now pass through tiles after 3 seconds have passed.
* **1.4.2.102**: Decreased the size of The Perforator Hive's burst dusts.
* **1.4.2.101**:
	+ Buffed The Perforator Hive's health from 2500 / **4000** / **5750** / **8049** to 3750 / **6000** / **8640** / **12,160**, and Boss Rush health from 1,800,000 / **2,880,000** / **3,200,000** to 2,700,000 / **4,320,000** / **4,800,000**.
	+ Nerfed the small Perforator's health from 2000 / **2800** to 1250 / **1750**, and Boss Rush health from 600,000 / **840,000** / **1,120,000** to 500,000 / **700,000** / **840,000**.
	+ Nerfed the medium Perforator's health from 3000 / **4200** to 2000 / **2800**, and Boss Rush health from 900,000 / **1,260,000** / **1,540,000** to 700,000 / **980,000** / **1,260,000**.
	+ Nerfed the large Perforator's health from 3500 / **4900** to 2500 / **3500**, and Boss Rush health from 1,200,000 / **1,680,000** / **2,100,000** to 800,000 / **1,120,000** / **1,400,000**.
* **1.4.2.001**:
	+ Nerfed the hive's Boss Rush health from 3,500,000 / **5,600,000** / **6,400,000** to 1,800,000 / **2,880,000** / **3,200,000**.
	+ All three Perforators' body and tail segments can no longer be lifestealed off of.
	+ The hive is now immune to Glacial State and Temporal Sadness.
* **1.4.1.003**:
	+ Increased The Perforator Hive minimum coin drop amount from 5 File:Gold Coin.png to 6 File:Gold Coin.png.
	+ Increased the distance that The Perforator Hive hovers above the player.
* **1.4.1.001**:
	+ Buffed The Perforator Hive's Boss Rush health from 2,400,000 / **3,840,000** / **4,800,000** to 3,500,000 / **5,600,000** / **6,400,000**.
	+ Buffed Boss Rush damage modifier from 4.75x to 5x.
	+ The Perforator Hive's Blood Geysers and the Perforators' Blood Clots now inflict Burning Blood for 2 seconds instead of 3.33.
	+ The Perforator Hive's Ichor Shots now inflict Ichor for 3 seconds instead of 3.33.
	+ The Perforators' heads and tails now inflict Bleeding in all difficulty modes instead of just Expert Mode and higher.
	+ Increased Burning Blood duration from the small Perforator's head from 2 seconds to 3.
	+ Increased Burning Blood duration from the medium Perforator's head from 3.33 seconds to 4.
	+ Increased Burning Blood duration from the large Perforator's head from 4 seconds to 5.
	+ Decreased Horror duration from all three Perforators' heads from 5 seconds to 3.
	+ The Perforators' body segments can now inflict Burning Blood and Bleeding.
	+ The Perforators' tails can now inflict Burning Blood.
* **1.4.0.001**:
	+ Now have gores.
	+ Lowered fire rate of the worm's projectiles.
	+ Resprited Medium Perforator's Tail and Perforator Hive's Blood Geyser and Ichor Shots.
* **1.3.4.101**:
	+ Buffed The Perforator Hive health from 2500 / **4000** / **5000** / **7000** to 2500 / **4000** / **5750** / **8049**.
	+ The Perforator Hive no longer has 15% DR.
	+ The Perforator Hive now drops 10-21 Ichor in Hardmode in Normal Mode.
* **1.3.4.001**:
	+ Nerfed The Perforator Hive's health from 2800 / **4480** / **6400** / **15,200** to 2500 / **4000** / **5000** / **7000**.
	+ Nerfed the small Perforator's health from 2500 / **3500** to 2000 / **2800**.
	+ Nerfed the medium Perforator's health from 3500 / **4900** to 3000 / **4200**.
	+ Nerfed the large Perforator's health from 4500 / **6300** to 3500 / **4900**.
	+ The Perforator Hive now only becomes invincible when the large Perforator is alive.
	+ The Perforator Hive now plays a sound and creates a small, harmless dust burst whenever it shoots a volley of projectiles.
	+ Slightly increased the speed of all three Perforators.
	+ The Perforator Hive now drops **15-31** Ichor in Hardmode in Expert Mode.
* **1.3.3.001**:
	+ Decreased small Perforator's segment count from 12 to 8.
	+ Decreased medium Perforator's segment count from 22 / **8** to 12 / **7**.
	+ Decreased large Perforator's segment count from 32 / **12** to 17 / **9**.
	+ The Perforator Hive now has a 50% chance to shoot a volley of ichor shots instead of blood geysers.
	+ Tweaked movement of all three Perforators.
	+ Resprited Boss, Treasure Bag and map icon.
* **1.3.2.001**:
	+ Nerfed blood geyser damage from 44 / **60** / **63** / **90** to 32 / **48** / **50** / **72**.
	+ The small worm can now fire blood geyser projectiles.
* **1.3.1.001**: Fixed bug where the Perforator worms wouldn't spawn above a certain height during the Perforator fight.
* **1.3.0.001**:
	+ Perforator Hive is no longer immune to Frostburn, Cursed Inferno, On Fire!, Poisoned, Brimstone Flames, Holy Flames, Plague, Glacial State, and Temporal Sadness.
	+ Adjusted the Y velocity of the Perforator Hive's Blood Geyser projectiles.
	+ Blood clot projectiles no longer create dust when destroyed.
* **1.2.4.201**: The individual Perforators no longer count as bosses, only the Hive does now.
* **1.2.4.101**:
	+ Buffed the Hive's health in Death Mode from **10,400** to **15,200**.
	+ The small Perforator now loses 7 segments in Death Mode.
	+ The medium Perforator now loses 14 segments in Death Mode.
	+ The large Perforator now loses 20 segments in Death Mode.
	+ Now uses Blood Coagulant as its theme.
* **1.2.4.002**:
	+ Increased the max time it takes for the Perforator Hive to shoot volleys of projectiles.
	+ Buffed blood geyser damage from 30 / **48** / **50** / **67** to 44 / **60** / **63** / **84**.
	+ Worms now strictly spawn at every 30% of the Hive's health lost.
	+ Worms no longer spawn directly from the Hive, and now spawn offscreen.
	+ Worms' distance before flying decreased.
	+ Fixed a bug where Perforator worms would sometimes attach heads to each other.
* **1.2.3.005**: The Perforator Hive now rapidly shoots blood geysers in Death Mode that go through tiles.
* **1.2.3.002**:
	+ The Perforator Hive now gets **10,400** health in Death Mode.
	+ The Perforator Hive's blood geysers no longer collide with tiles in Death Mode.
* **1.2.1.001**: Fixed The Perforator Hive being unable to despawn properly.
* **1.2.0.002**: Merged its Boss Checklist entry with The Hive Mind's.
* **1.2.0.001**:
	+ The Perforator Hive now gets **6400** health in Revengeance Mode.
	+ Fixed all of the Perforators' body and tail segments not counting as bosses.
* **1.1.7.961**: Blood Geyser projectiles now produce less dust.
* **1.1.7.901**:
	+ Nerfed the The Perforator Hive's health from 5000 / **6000** to 2800 / **4480**, and contact damage from 55 / **66** to 35 / **56**.
		- Buffed Blood Geyser damage from **44** to **48**.
		- Can now drop Aorta, Blood Bath, Blood Clot Staff, Bloody Rupture, Eviscerator, Sausage Maker, Tooth Balls, and Vein Burster in Normal Mode.
		- Can now only spawn up to 5 Perforator Minis at a time.
		- Increased Blood Sample drop count from **15-24** to **30-40**, its Crimtane Bar drop count from **5-6** to **9-14**, and its Vertebrae drop count from **7-8** to **10-20**.
		- Increased Tooth Ball drop count from **50-74** to **50-75**.
		- Increased the chances for all weapons to drop.
	+ Small Perforator changes:
		- Buffed health from **2750** to **3500**
		- Changed head's contact damage from 53 / **58** to 30 / **68**.
		- Nerfed body's contact damage from 33 / **36** to 20 / **28**.
		- Nerfed tail's contact damage from 19 / **20** to 10 / **14**.
		- Nerfed Blood Clot projectile damage from 26 to 22.
		- Lowered segment count from 22 to 12.
		- No longer enrages outside of the Crimson.
	+ Medium Perforator changes:
		- Nerfed health from 4500 / **4950** to 3500 / **4900**.
		- Changed head's contact damage from 65 / **71** to 35 / **80**.
		- Nerfed body's contact damage from 40 / **44** to 25 / **35**.
		- Nerfed tail's contact damage from 25 / **27** to 15 / **21**.
		- Nerfed Blood Clot projectile damage from 28 / **40** to 22 / **36**.
		- Lowered segment count from 32 to 22.
		- No longer enrages outside of the Crimson.
	+ Large Perforator changes:
		- Nerfed health from 7000 / **7700** to 4500 / **6300**.
		- Changed head's contact damage from 80 / **88** to 40 / **92**.
		- Nerfed body's contact damage from 52 / **57** to 30 / **42**.
		- Nerfed tail's contact damage from 35 / **38** to 20 / **28**.
		- Nerfed Blood Clot projectile damage from 30 / **44** to 22 / **36**.
		- Lowered segment count from 42 to 32.
		- Head now produces less dust when killed.
	+ Perforator Mini changes:
		- Buffed health from 100 / **120** to 100 / **140**.
		- Buffed head's contact damage from **22** to **28**.
		- Buffed body's contact damage from **12** to **15**.
		- Buffed tail's contact damage from **5** to **7**.
* **1.1.7.801**: Perforator worms no longer drop any coins, only their Hive does.
* **1.1.7.701**: The Perforator Hive now becomes invincible instead of despawning if the player leaves The Crimson.
* **1.1.7.61**:
	+ Nerfed The Perforator Hive's Blood Geyser damage from 46 / **56** to 30 / **44**.
	+ Nerfed the small Perforator's head damage from **68** to **58**, body damage from **42** to **36**, tail damage from **24** to **20**, and Blood Clot projectile damage from 40 / **60** to 30 / **44**.
	+ Nerfed the medium Perforator's head damage from **84** to **71**, body damage from **52** to **44**, tail damage from **32** to **27**, and Blood Clot projectile damage from 38 / **52** to 28 / **40**.
	+ Nerfed the large Perforator's head damage from **104** to **88**, body damage from **67** to **57**, tail damage from **46** to **39**, and Blood Clot projectile damage from 40 / **60** to 30 / **44**.
	+ The Perforator Hive now takes up 10 NPC slots instead of 5.
	+ All Perforators no longer drop any coins.
	+ Individual Perforators can no longer spawn naturally.
* **1.1.7.56**:
	+ Nerfed The Perforator Hive's health from 6000 / **7200** to 5000 / **6000**, and its Blood Geyser damage from 60 / **68** to 46 / **56**.
	+ The Perforators and their Hive now despawn if brought out of the Crimson for too long.
	+ Blood Clot projectiles from the Perforators and Blood Geyser projectiles from the Hive now use dust type 235 instead of 5.
	+ The Perforator Hive now emits light.
* **1.1.7.55**: The Perforator Hive is now invulnerable while the large Perforator is alive.
* **1.1.7.5**:
	+ The Perforator Hive now spawns a Perforator Mini for every 30 hits instead of 15.
	+ No longer spawn if the player is near a Celestial Pillar.
	+ Resprited the Perforator Hive's map icon.
* **1.1.7.2**:
	+ Introduced The Perforator Hive.
	+ Buffed small Perforator's Blood Clot damage from **36** to **44**.
	+ Buffed medium Perforator's Blood Clot damage from **44** to **52**.
	+ Buffed large Perforator's Blood Clot damage from **48** to **60**.
	+ The fight now begins with The Perforator Hive instead of all three Perforators at once, with the Hive spawning each of the three Perforators at different amounts of health.
	+ The large Perforator no longer has scaling defense in Expert Mode based on which of the other Perforators are still alive.
	+ The large Perforator no longer drops the Perforator Trophy, Perforator Mask, and Treasure Bag.
	+ The Perforators no longer spawn Perforator Minis.
	+ Decreased the small Perforator's Blood Sample drop count from 3-5 to 2-5, its Vertebrae drop count from 1-4 to 1-3, and increased its Crimtane Bar drop count from 1 to 1-2.
	+ Decreased the medium Perforator's Blood Sample drop count from 5-10 to 3-7, and its Vertebrae drop count from 2-7 to 2-4.
	+ Decreased the large Perforator's Blood Sample drop count from 7-14 to 4-8, its Vertebrae drop count from 3-9 to 3-5, and its Crimtane Bar drop count from 2-5 to 2-4.
* **1.1.7**:
	+ Buffed small Perforator's head damage from 40 / **52** to 53 / **68**, body damage from 23 / **29** to 33 / **42**, and tail damage from 9 / **11** to 19 / **24**.
	+ Buffed medium Perforator's head damage from 55 / **71** to 65 / **84**, body damage from 31 / **40** to 40 / **52**, and tail damage from 11 / **14** to 25 / **32**.
	+ Buffed large Perforator's head damage from 65 / **84** to 80 / **104**, body damage from 42 / **54** to 52 / **67**, and tail damage from 15 / **19** to 35 / **45**.
	+ All three Perforators now enrage outside of the Crimson.
	+ Decreased all three Perforators' spawnrates.
* **1.1.6.15**:
	+ All body segments now produce less dust when hit.
	+ All heads and tails now produce dust when hit.
	+ All segments now produce dust when killed.
	+ No longer take 50% damage from projectiles that pierce more than three times in Expert Mode.
	+ Now drop Healing Potions.
	+ Now referred to in their death messages by size.
* **1.1.6.13**: Increased speed of all three Perforators.
* **1.1.6.1**: Resprited map icon.
* **1.1.5.094**: Can now drop a Perforator Trophy.
* **1.1.5.093**: Resprited the Treasure Bag.
* **1.1.5.091**: Can now drop a Perforator Mask.
* **1.1.5.081**: All body segments should now have equal velocity and rotation formulas.
* **1.1.5.08**: Now have greater horizontal mobility.
* **1.1.5.07**: Small and Medium Perforator's tails no longer inflict Burning Blood.
* **1.1.5.03**: Fixed looping in their code which made them cause extreme lag when spawned.
* **1.1.5**: Introduced.