Ice Staff

Ice Staff
Crafting
Recipe	×1 ×1
Tab
Tier
Effects
	-1
Properties
Durability	20 Uses
Stacks up to	Does not stack
Perk
Freezes the target
Sources
Dropped by	()
Code
"icestaff"

“That is the opposite of fire.”

–Willow

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. Red Hounds, however, takes 12 blasts to be frozen so using the staff on them is not efficient. Each use costs 5% durability, equating to 20 uses.

Each time 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, Depths Worms, Chester, Baby Beefalo, Blue Hounds, Ghosts and Shadow Creatures are immune to the Ice Staff's freezing effect.

Reign of Giants

In the Reign of Giants DLC, the Ice Staff can be used to extinguish smoldering or burning objects.

Freezing Effect

Mobs have varying resistance to the Ice Staff's freezing effect and may require several charges in order to be frozen.

1 Blast: Redbird / Crow / Snowbird Frog Insects Rabbit / Beardling Pengull Moleworm Catcoon 2 Blasts: Ancient Guardian Beefalo Gobbler Hound Mactusk N' Son Merm Pig / Guardian Pig / Werepig Bunnyman / Beardlord Spider / Spider Warrior / Spitter / Cave Spider Batilisk Slurtle / Snurtle Splumonkey Clockwork Castle Slurper Volt Goat Buzzard 3 Blasts: Clockwork Bishop / Clockwork Knight Koalefant / Winter Koalefant Krampus Smallbird / Smallish Tallbird / Tallbird Spider Queen Tentacle 4 Blasts: Deerclops Treeguard Bearger Moose/Goose 5 Blasts: Dragonfly 12 Blasts: Red Hound

Ice Staff Trap

Occasionally, an Ice Staff can be found surrounded by sleeping Blue Hounds: this is a Set Piece trap. When the Staff is taken, the player will lose 33 Sanity, it will rain, and all the Hounds will wake up and attack - otherwise, the player can walk among them safely. The Blue Hounds can be killed one by one while asleep before picking up the staff, and the others will not wake up. The Ice Staff will have a random amount of durability.

Trivia

• 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.

Bugs

• If a mob is hit by an ice staff while playing its "death" animation, it will instantly switch to its "hit" animation before fading out normally.

Gallery

The tex file of the original Ice Staff A older version of Wolfgang holding the old version of the 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 frozenFrog 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 Castle 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

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST