Ancient Tome

Ancient TomeHardmode exclusive

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Spirit biome – Underground Spirit
Damage	0 (Contact) 40 / 60 / 70 (Ancient Flame) 60 / 90 / 105 (Flame Explosion)
Max Life	410 / 820 / 1230
Defense	12
KB Resist	45% / 50.5% / 56%
Immune to
Banner	Ancient Tome Banner

Drops

Coins	30  60

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Ancient Rune (1-2)
  50%
• Ancient Grimoire
  5%
• Obolos
  1%

Projectile created

Ancient Flame

The Ancient Tome is a Hardmode enemy that spawns in the Spirit and Underground Spirit biomes. It flies towards the player in attempt to stay within a close distance of them and can fly through tiles while doing so. It periodically stops in place for a brief moment and fires an ancient flame that attempts to home in on the player, slightly recoiling itself upon doing so. The flames pass through tiles and explode after a short amount of time, causing a large damaging explosion similar to the Desert Spirit's flames. Upon taking damage, its animation speed increases which is purely visual and does not affect the enemy in any way.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Ancient Tome: "A mysterious tome possessed by ancient spirits. Each contains a strange set of pages written in an indecipherable language."

History

• 1.5.0.32:
  • Significantly reworked its AI, which includes the following changes:
    • No longer deals contact damage.
    • Animation speed now increases upon taking damage.
    • Now has a consistent and lower fire rate.
    • Now recoils upon firing ancient flames.
    • Ancient flames now last for a shorter time and cause a damaging explosion upon dissipating.
  • Now has a 1/100 (1%) chance to drop Obolos.
  • Ancient flames now sync in multiplayer and reduced their damage slightly.
  • Reduced its spawn rate in the Spirit biome.
  • Fixed it firing between 2 and 3 minus 1 ancient flames in which both functioned the exact same way.

• 1.4.4.1: Now drops its own respective banner.

• 1.0.0.0: Introduced.