Blowpipe

Surface chest discovery and seed gathering

Commonly discovered inside surface Wooden Chests and underground wooden containers, the Blowpipe functions as a resourceful early ranged weapon. When carried in the player's inventory, cutting wild surface grass yields ordinary Seeds to use as free ammunition. When fired, the tube expels seeds at 25 use time, dealing 9 base ranged damage supplemented by 3.5 knockback.

Zero-cost projectile foraging versus metal bows

The primary strength of the Blowpipe lies in its virtually unlimited ammunition economy. Because seeds accumulate naturally while running across surface plains and swinging weapons at weeds, players can fight without expending wood or stone to craft arrows. It can also fire crafted darts like Poison Darts, greatly elevating its lethality before transitioning to the Blowgun in Hardmode. Reforging it to Unreal provides the optimal prefix for velocity, damage, and critical chance.

Trivia

• Holding or carrying the Blowpipe enables grass tiles to drop Seeds, which otherwise do not drop from weed cutting.
• It is one of the earliest ranged weapons obtainable without mining any metal ore.