Moss Hornet

Moss HornetHardmode exclusive

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Underground Jungle
AI Type	Flying AI
Banner	Moss Hornet Banner
Immune to

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Debuff	Poisoned
Debuff tooltip	Slowly losing life
Chance	33%100%
Duration	102–10 or 20 seconds

Drops

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Bezoar
  1%2%
• Tattered Bee Wing
  0.67%
• Stinger
  16.67%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

Not to be confused with the Hornet, a similar pre-Hardmode enemy.

The Moss Hornet is a Hardmode flying enemy similar to the pre-Hardmode Hornet, being encountered in the Underground Jungle as well.

Compared to the more random flying patterns of pre-Hardmode Hornets, Moss Hornets act more aggressively, hovering closer to the player's position and shooting their stingers in rapid bursts. The stingers have a 33.33*1/3 (33.33%) chance to inflict the Poisoned debuff to the player for 10 seconds. In Expert Mode, the chance is 33.33*1/3 (33.33%) for 20 seconds and 66.67*2/3 (66.67%) for 2–10 seconds. They cannot be destroyed with weapons and travel at about the same speed as the darts from a Dart Trap.

Moss Hornets have a 0.67*1/150 (0.67%) chance to drop Tattered Bee Wing if any Mechanical boss has been defeated in the world, which is solely used in the creation of Bee Wings.

Variants

All variants of Moss Hornets have identical drops.

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

2 values: Pre-Hardmode › Hardmode
3 values: Pre-Hardmode › Hardmode › Post-Plantera

NPC ID	Type		Health	Damage	Defense	KB Resist	Coins
-18		Tiny Moss Hornet	176/352/528	56/112/168 (contact) 4896 (ranged attack)	17	40%/46%/52%	48012
-19		Little Moss Hornet	198/396/594	63/126/189 (contact) 54108 (ranged attack)	19	45%/51%/56%	5401350
176		Moss Hornet	220/440/660	70/140/210 (contact) 60120 (ranged attack)	22	50%/55%/60%	615
-20		Big Moss Hornet	242	77 (contact) 66132 (ranged attack)	24	55%	660
-21		Giant Moss Hornet	264/528/792	84/168/252 (contact) 72144 (ranged attack)	26	60%/64%/68%	72018

Notes

• Moss Hornets contribute towards the total for dropping the Hornet Banner and do not have their own banner, despite not being considered a variant of the Hornet, nor even being affected by the buff of the banner they drop.

Trivia

The Bestiary entry for the Moss Hornet: "The empowered flora of the Jungle has merged with these species of Hornet, strengthening their exoskeletons and stingers."

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4.9: Sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.4.4: Now has a chance to drop Stingers

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Can now drop its own respective banner.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Now has a chance to drop the Bezoar and the Hornet Banner.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.