Ice Staff

Ice Staff
"Freeze enemies in their tracks."
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	() (, Ocean () )
Code
"icestaff"

“It's cold to the touch.”

–Wilson

“Booooring.”

–Willow

“Frosted tip.”

–Wolfgang

“A staff to freeze.”

–Wendy

“ITS MOLECULES ARE BARELY MOVING”

–WX-78

“Some kind of ice-throwing contraption.”

–Wickerbottom

“It reminds me of home.”

–Woodie

“Cool staff.”

–Maxwell

“A gift fröm Ullr!”

–Wigfrid

“It makes me feel funny.”

–Webber

“Too cold to hold.”

–Walani

“It flash freezes poulet!”

–Warly

“Thet staff be chillin'.”

–Woodlegs

“This doesn't seem safe.”

–Winona

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 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.

Reign of Giants

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.

Don't Starve Together

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 Effect

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

1 Blast: Bee Birchnutter Butterfly Catcoon Crabbit Crow / Redbird / Snowbird / Canary Doydoy Flup Frog Grass Gekko Moleworm Mosquito No-Eyed Deer / Red Gem Deer Parrot / Parrot Pirate / Seagull / Toucan Poison Mosquito Rabbit / Beardling Rabbit Smallbird Wobster 2 Blasts: Ancient Guardian Batilisk Beefalo Beehive Bottlenosed Ballphin Bunnyman / Beardlord Buzzard Clockwork Bishop Clockwork Castle Clockwork Knight Critters Dogfish Fishermerm Floaty Boaty Knight Blue Gem Deer Glommer Gobbler Grumble Bee Hound Jellyfish MacTusk / Mactusk N' Son Merm Monkey Pig / Guardian Pig / Werepig Prime Ape Sea Hound Slurper Slurtle / Snurtle Snake / Poison Snake Spider / Spider Warrior / Spitter / Cave Spider Spider Den (Tier 1) Splumonkey Stink Ray Swordfish Smallish Tallbird Volt Goat Wildbore 3 Blasts: Beefalo Blue Whale / White Whale Ewecus Houndius Shootius Koalefant / Winter Koalefant Krampus Lavae Extra-Adorable Lavae Spider Den (Tier 2) Spider Queen Tallbird Tentacle / Baby Tentacle / Shadow Tentacle Warg Water Beefalo 4 Blasts: Antlion Bearger Bee Queen Deerclops (6 in ) Klaus Red Hound Moose/Goose / Mossling Spider Den (Tier 3) Toadstool Treeguard / Palm Treeguard 5 Blasts: Pengull 8 Blasts: Dragonfly 12 Blasts: Enraged Dragonfly

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.
• Glommer in the Reign of Giants DLC is the only mob that is not encased in ice when frozen.

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. An 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 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.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST