0.5 (Awakened Light)

0.5
"Desert and Snow update"
Release date	October 15th, 2021
Version chronology
← Prev	0.4.1
Current	0.5
Next →	0.5.1

This update mainly focused on adding more items and enemies to the Desert and Snow biomes as well as relic weapons.

Additions

• Added Dimensium, Frost Scale, Mana Sandstone, Old Dusty Bow Arm, Old Dusty Bow Middle Piece, Old Frozen Rod, Old Frozen Staff Head, Old Molten Blade, Old Molten Guard, Old Stained Bone, Old Stained Flesh Stick, Old Tainted Curse Container and Old Tainted Mandible.
• Added Awakened Archbird, Burning Saber, Cooling Staff, Cursed Desert, Cursed Maw, Data Miner, {Dormant King, Flesh Ripper, Forbidden Metal Bow, Ice Crystal Staff, Injector Scythe, Mandible Metal Bow, Sheol Saber and Snipe Worm.
• Added Moon Rune Stone and Plant Murder Starter Set.
• Added Desert Necklace, Drakescale Shield and Frostburn Wings.
• Added Old Sea Crown
• Added Ancient Depictions, Broken Ancient Depiction, Dimensional Forge and Monument of the Eternal Bond.
• Added banners for all enemies.
• Added Baby Glowmarin, Frostburn Slime, Gilania, Ice Drake Juvenile and Lesser Sand Elemental.

Changes

General

• Sandstone Geodes can now drop Forbidden Fragments alongside their normal loot.
• Frozen Geodes can now drop Frost Cores alongside their normal loot.

Enemies

• The amount of Storm Front Eels that can be on-screen at once has been caped at 1.

Reworks

• Reworked Frostborn Blade.
• Reworked Tundrana Scythe.

Balance

• Frozen Geodes can no longer drop Pink Ice Blocks in Pre-Hardmode.
• Gave many weapons increased crit chances.
• Eclipse Reaper projectiles now fly further before stopping.
• Increased drop chance of all Geodes, the exception being the Moon Geode, which got its rate decreased.
• Decreased Shinorians speed but increased its damage.
• Muddy Geodes now drop after all of the mech bosses have been defeated instead of Plantera.
• Segnificantly nerfed the Royal Belt.

Recipes

• Added 6 Frost Scales to the Blizzard in a Bottle recipe.
• Replaced Ice Blocks in the Ice Mirror recipe with 3 Frost Scales.
• Sidane's Quiver now uses 2 Reincarnated Souls instead of 2 of each mech boss soul.
• Added 6 Mana Sandstones to the Sandstorm in a Bottle recipe.
• Added 3 Mana Sandstones to the Flying Carpet recipe.
• Added a Forbidden Fragment and Frost Core to the Celestial Lepidoptera recipe.
• Reduced the amount of Dark Matter Clumps needed to craft the Moonlight Moth from 15 to 10.

Vanilla Changes

• Added recipes for the Frostbrand, Ice Blade, Ice Boomerang, Sharpening Station and Wooden Boomerang.

Fixes

• Fixed an error on the Nero Armor sprite sheet.
• Fixed an oversight that made the Thunderbubble Bow unobtainable.
• Fixed the Nero Hammerhead Mask not informing the player about the 100 mana it grants.
• Fixed the Parrot Lobster hitbox being over twice as tall as the enemy.