Terraria Map
Stats
| Type | Melee weapon |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Blue |
| Damage | 17 melee |
| Knockback | 5.5 |
| Critical strike chance | 4% |
| Use time | 45 (Very slow) |
| Buy price | 2 gold 70 silver |
| Sell price | 54 silver |
Crafted from
| Makes | Ingredients | At |
|---|---|---|
| The Meatball | 10 × Crimtane Bar, 5 × Tissue Sample | Iron Anvil |
Crimtane flail assembly and visceral orbit mechanics
The Meatball is a pre-Hardmode Crimson flail crafted from 10 Crimtane Bar ingots and 5 Tissue Sample pieces at an Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil. Delivering 17 base melee damage, this grotesque weapon uses modern flail mechanics. Holding down attack spins the fleshy spiked orb continuously around the character, shredding advancing bats and deflecting hostile enemy projectiles while mining or exploring dangerous caverns. Holding the spinning head against stationary targets delivers continuous rapid damage ticks in tight corridors. Releasing the button launches the heavy flail head across medium distances.
Zone control tactics and pre-Hardmode flail ranking
As the Crimson counterpart to the Corruption's Ball O' Hurt, The Meatball offers superb close-range crowd suppression. Releasing the attack throws the weighted sphere forward to batter heavy targets like Face Monsters and Blood Crawlers before retracting. Its rotating barrier is especially effective against Creepers during the Brain of Cthulhu boss encounter. Reforging to the Godly prefix provides the finest balance of damage, critical strike chance, and knockback.
Trivia
- The Meatball takes its playful culinary name from its visual similarity to a spiked sphere of minced flesh.