Wilson holding the Ice Staff.
The Ice Staff is a Magic ranged weapon. It requires 1 Spear and 1 Blue Gem to craft and a Prestihatitator to prototype. It may also be found in an Ornate Chest or dropped by an Ancient Pseudoscience Station when struck with a Hammer.
When used, the Ice Staff temporarily freezes a Mob usually within 1-4 blasts. Small creatures such as Birds and Rabbits take one blast to be frozen, while big ones such as Treeguards take four blasts before they are frozen. Each use costs 5% durability, equating to 20 uses.
Each time an Ice Staff is used, the character's Sanity is decreased by 1.
Creatures that periodically drop things (such as Beefalo producing Manure) will still leave them behind while frozen.
Lureplants, Eyeplants, Rock Lobsters, Depths Worms, Chester, Baby Beefalo, Blue Hounds, Ghosts, Shadow Creatures, Packim Baggims, and Tiger Sharks are immune to the Ice Staff's freezing effect.
Downloadable ContentEdit
In the Reign of Giants DLC, the Ice Staff can be used to extinguish smoldering or burning objects. The amount of blasts needed to freeze a Deerclops is increased to six.
In the Hamlet DLC, Ice Staves can be bought for 50 Oincs at The Flying Pig Arcane Shop in the Pig City.
Don't Starve TogetherEdit
In Don't Starve Together, select freezable mobs (mostly bosses) have the diminishing returns trait. A mob with this trait will gradually require more and more hits with the ice staff to freeze, up to a maximum of 2.5 * its natural resistance. This extra resistance rises at a rate of 25% of the natural resistance each time the mob is frozen. Additionally, the time it takes for the mob to thaw and unfreeze is also gradually reduced, down to a minimum of just 0.1 second. The extra resistance gained slowly decays.
In the table below, mobs with this trait are bolded.
Freezing EffectEdit
Mobs have varying resistance to the Ice Staff's freezing effect and may require several charges in order to be frozen.
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Ice Staff TrapEdit
TriviaEdit
- The Ice Staff was added in the A Winter's Tale update.
- This item used to be a part of the Gemology tab before it was removed.
- Glommer in the Reign of Giants DLC is the only mob that is not encased in ice when frozen.
GalleryEdit
 An older version of Wolfgang holding the old version of the Ice Staff.  The tex file of the original Ice Staff.  A Wilson figure holding a model Ice Staff.  Frozen Butterfly.  A frozen Bee.  A frozen Killer Bee.  A frozen Rabbit.  A frozen Beardling.  A frozen Crow.  A frozen Redbird.  A frozen Snowbird.  A frozen Gobbler.  A frozen Smallbird.  A frozen Smallish Tallbird.  A frozen Tallbird.  A frozen Spider.  A frozen Spider Warrior.  A frozen Cave Spider.  A frozen Spitter.  A frozen Spider Queen.  A frozen Pig.  A frozen Werepig.  A frozen Beefalo.  A frozen Mosquito.  A frozen Frog.  A frozen Tentacle.  A frozen Hound.  A frozen Koalefant.  A frozen Winter Koalefant.  A frozen WeeTusk.  A frozen MacTusk.  A frozen Krampus.  A frozen Guardian Pig.  A frozen Merm.  A frozen Clockwork Knight.  A frozenClockwork Bishop.  A frozen Clockwork Rook.  A frozen Treeguard.  A frozen Lumpy Treeguard.  A frozen Deerclops.  A frozen Slurtle.  A frozen Snurtle.  A frozen Splumonkey.  A frozen Batilisk.  A frozen Bunnyman.  A frozen Beardlord.  A frozen Damaged Rook.  A frozen Damaged Bishop.  A frozen Slurper.  A frozen Bearger.  A frozen Birchnutter.  A frozen Moose/Goose.  A frozen Glommer, not encased in ice.  A frozen Moleworm.  A frozen Blue Whale.  A frozen Bottlenose Ballphin.  A frozen Dogfish.  A frozen White Whale.  The projectile sent out by the Ice Staff. |
