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Piercing

Piercing is a secondary stat that applies to projectiles. A projectile with piercing x, will have its projectile continue through that amount of enemies instead of disappearing. Weapons have a default 50% damage falloff on each pierce unless another number is stated. Meaning that the attack deals 50% less damage on the next hit after piercing an enemy.

Some Weapons have piercing by default, and piercing can be gained on all projectiles with the Bandana item.


If a projectile has both Bounce and Piercing, the Bounce occurs first. Be vary of buying Ricochet with weapons that relies on piercing, as the Damage falloff of the bounce will cause all the following piercing hits to do -50% damage.

  • Explosive projectiles explode on every bounce and pierce.
  • Piercing affects all projectiles. This includes ranged weapons, Turrets, and projectiles spawned by weapons such as Cacti Club.
  • A piercing projectile will inflict knockback on each hit, unless it has bouncing. A projectile stops knocking enemies back once it bounces.

Damage falloff

Every weapon has a damage falloff. The default is 50%, but some weapons like the Crossbow (0%) or Double Barrel Shotgun (30%) have different amounts. This falloff means that the attack deals x% less damage rounded down after piercing a target.


For example if you have a Tier 1 Double Barrel Shotgun which pierces 2 times with -30% damage on each, and a bandana which adds +1 piercing, the damage would be as follows:

Say the first enemy takes 10 damage, it then pierces to the next target, dealing 7 damage. It then pierces again, dealing 70% of 7= 4.9 which is rounded down to 4 damage dealt. Finally, the bandana enters and the shot pierces the third time, dealing 2 damage on the final hit. - A total of 10+7+4+2=23 damage.


If you had a pumpkin in the same example, the first shot would deal 10, pierce dealing 85% damage, rounded down to 8 damage. Then Pierce again dealing 6 damage. Then the bandana pierce would deal 5.1 rounded down to 5 damage. A total of 10+8+6+5=29 damage.

Piercing works with any projectile. Even the ones from Alien Eyes, Baby with a Beard, Cacti Club, and Turrets.

Sharp Bullet

Sharp Bullet.png Sharp Bullet is a cheap tier 1 item that gives you +1 Piercing, just like the Bandana. But it comes at the cost of increasing the damage falloff by 20%. So this means that instead of the default 50% damage on the second hit, you're only doing 30%. You can overcome this by getting an extra pumpkin or two. Sharp Bullet tends to be a quite powerful option on most ranged weapons that don't have piercing by default. On the other hand it often isn't worth it on weapons that have piercing by default such as Double Barrel Shotgun.png Double Barrel Shotgun.


Critical Hits

Piercing attacks deal critical hits on individual basis. If the first target hit is dealt a critical hit, it doesn't make the rest of the targets hit also be critical hits, nor does it increase the damage dealt to the next target. So if you in the former example crit on the first hit and deal 20 damage, the next target still takes 7 damage.

Items

Name Rarity Effects Base Price Limit Unlocked By
Tier 3 Projectiles pierce through +1 additional target
-10% Damage
75
Tier 1 Projectiles pierce through 1 additional target
-20% Piercing Damage
-5 % Damage
25 1
Tier 2 +15% Piercing Damage. Can't go above base damage
-2% Damage
40

Weapons

Name Class Damage Attack Speed DPS Crit Damage/Chance Range Knockback Lifesteal Special Effects Base price Unlocked by
Precise, Medieval

8(50%Ranged Damage.png10%Range Stat.png)
10(50%Ranged Damage.png10%Range Stat.png)
12(50%Ranged Damage.png10%Range Stat.png)
15(50%Ranged Damage.png10%Range Stat.png)

1.13s
1.13s
1.13s
1.13s

7.1(44%Ranged Damage.png8%Range Stat.png)/s
8.8(44%Ranged Damage.png8%Range Stat.png)/s
10.6(44%Ranged Damage.png8%Range Stat.png)/s
13.3(44%Ranged Damage.png8%Range Stat.png)/s

x1.5 (30%)
x1.75 (35%)
x2 (40%)
x2.25 (45%)

350
350
350
350

8
8
8
8

0
0
0
0

Pierces up to 1/2/3/4 times on critical hit

18
36
66
140

Default
Legendary, Gun

-
-
-
3x3(100%Ranged Damage.png100%Engineering Stat.png)

-
-
-
0.07s

-
-
-
128.6(1428.6%Ranged Damage.png1428.6%Engineering Stat.png)/s

-
-
-
x2 (3%)

-
-
-
500

-
-
-
5

-
-
-
0

Cooldown is 4.4s every 100 shots.
Pierces 1 enemy dealing -50% less damage with each pierce.

-
-
-
270

Default
Gun

3x4(80%Ranged Damage.png)
6x4(85%Ranged Damage.png)
9x4(90%Ranged Damage.png)
9x6(100%Ranged Damage.png)

1.37s
1.28s
1.2s
1.2s

8.8(233%Ranged Damage.png)/s
18.8(265%Ranged Damage.png)/s
30.0(300%Ranged Damage.png)/s
45(500%Ranged Damage.png)/s

x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)

350
350
350
350

8
8
8
8

0
0
0
0

Pierces 2/2/2/3 enemies, dealing -30%/-30%/-30%/-30% less damage after each piercing

20
39
74
149

Default
Elemental, Heavy

-
1(1%Elemental Damage.png)
1(1%Elemental Damage.png)
1(1%Elemental Damage.png)

-
0.12s
0.12s
0.09s

-
8.3(8%Elemental Damage.png)/s
8.3(8%Elemental Damage.png)/s
11.1(11%Elemental Damage.png)/s

-
x2 (0%)
x2 (0%)
x2 (0%)

-
300
350
400

-
0
0
0

-
0
0
0

Deals -/3x5/4x6/5x8(100%Elemental Damage.png) burning damage
Pierces 99 enemies dealing 1 damage

-
56
103
207

Default
Legendary, Heavy

-
-
-
10(100%Ranged Damage.png)

-
-
-
0.07s

-
-
-
142.9(1428.6%Ranged Damage.png)/s

-
-
-
x3 (10%)

-
-
-
500

-
-
-
5

-
-
-
0

Pierces 3 enemies dealing -50% less damage with each pierce.

-
-
-
300

Default
Gun

40(400%Ranged Damage.png)
55(450%Ranged Damage.png)
70(500%Ranged Damage.png)
100(600%Ranged Damage.png)

2.15s
2.07s
1.98s
1.82s

18.6(186%Ranged Damage.png)/s
26.6(217%Ranged Damage.png)/s
35.4(252%Ranged Damage.png)/s
54.9(329%Ranged Damage.png)/s

x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)

500
500
500
500

0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0

Pierces 1 enemy dealing -25% less to the second enemy

15
31
61
122

Default
Heavy, Gun

-
-
1(50%Ranged Damage.png)
3(75%Ranged Damage.png)

-
-
0.09s
0.06s

-
-
11.1(555%Ranged Damage.png)/s
50.0(1250%Ranged Damage.png)/s

-
-
x1.75 (1%)
x2 (3%)

-
-
400
450

-
-
3
3

-
-
0
0

Pierces 1/2 enemies dealing -50% less damage with each pierce.

-
-
127
255

Default
Gun, Heavy

-
-
250(1000%Ranged Damage.png)
350(1500%Ranged Damage.png)

-
-
3.23s
3.23s

-
-
77.4(309%Ranged Damage.png)/s
108.4(464%Ranged Damage.png)/s

-
-
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)

-
-
800
1000

-
-
0
0

-
-
0
0

Pierces through enemies

-
-
127
255

Win a run with Demon.png Demon
Gun

12(100%Ranged Damage.png)
20(100%Ranged Damage.png)
30(100%Ranged Damage.png)
50(100%Ranged Damage.png)

1.2s
1.12s
1.03s
0.87s

10.0(83%Ranged Damage.png)/s
17.9(89%Ranged Damage.png)/s
29.1(97%Ranged Damage.png)/s
57.5(114%Ranged Damage.png)/s

x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)

400
400
400
400

15
15
15
15

0
0
0
0

Pierces 1 enemy dealing -50% less to the second enemy

10
22
45
91

Default
Gun, Explosive

5(50%Ranged Damage.png)
10(50%Ranged Damage.png)
15(50%Ranged Damage.png)
25(50%Ranged Damage.png)

1.3s
1.22s
1.13s
1.05s

3.8(38%Ranged Damage.png)/s
8.2(40%Ranged Damage.png)/s
13.3(44%Ranged Damage.png)/s
23.8(47%Ranged Damage.png)/s

x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)
x2 (3%)

450
450
450
450

0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0

50%/65%/80%/100% chance for projectiles to explode on hit. Pierces 3 enemies dealing 100% damage

15
31
61
122

Default