Dust Devil (Aequus)

Dust Devil

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Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	SpaceWindy Day
AI Type	Dust Devil AI
Damage	15 / 30 / 45
Max Life	18000 / 27000 / 40500
Defense	15
KB Resist	0%
Immune to

Drops

Coins	10

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Atmospheric Energy(Aequus) (3)
  100%
• One of the following 2 items will be dropped
• Phasebrink(Aequus)
  50%
• Wind Fan(Aequus)
  50%
• Dust Devil Trophy(Aequus)
  10%
• Greater Healing Potion (5-15)
  100%
• Treasure Bag(Dust Devil)

  • Storm Cloak

  100%
• Dust Devil Relic(Aequus)
  100%

“

A powerful elemental spirit with control over both flame and frost. It uses this power to stir up violent gales, forming a constant tornado around its body for protection.

— Bestiary (Dust Devil)

Dust Devil is a Hardmode boss intended to be fought at the same time as Queen Slime.

While it is alive, the vanilla music Boss1 will play.

Spawning

Using the Tornado in a Bottle, in space can be used to manually summon the boss, even outside of a Windy Day.

Behavior

When awoken, Dust Devil will fall from the sky, spawning orbiting tiles around itself. After this animation, it will begin the Tile Suction attack.

• Tile Suction- Dust Devil will pull damaging tiles from its tornado, bringing them towards itself. It will carry these tiles into the next attack, firing them towards the player after a few seconds. It will then use the Fireballs and Ice attacks afterwards.
• Enemy Suction- Dust Devil will pull enemies from offscreen, and begin chasing the player, throwing the enemies towards them. It will then use the Fireballs and Ice attacks afterwards.
• Fireballs- Dust Devil will start dashing above the player, and fire 3 volleys of fireballs which slowly gain speed.
• Ice- Dust Devil will slowly dash towards the player, and fire 2 volleys of icicles which travel in a flower pattern.

Secret world seed changes

For the Worthy

• Its vertical hitbox becomes x10 taller, making it extremely hard to get around the boss without the help of teleportation.

Aftermath

Once Dust Devil has been defeated for the first time, the following will occur:

• The Sky Merchant will begin selling the Tornado in a Bottle.
• Mistral herbs will begin spawning on Cloud blocks.
• The Occultist will no longer say "The light and dark dance together again... fun times are ahead, I think!".
• The Pumpinator will no longer display the "Strong space winds may cause new creatures to appear" tooltip.