The Groom

The Groom

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Blood Moon Graveyard
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	14/28›24/42›36
Max Life	200/400›440/600›660
Defense	8
KB Resist	50%/55%/60%
Banner	The Groom Banner

Drops

Coins	10Pre-Hardmode: 25Hardmode: 20

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Top Hat
  90%
• Brain
  75%
• Bloody Tear
  20%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 53

The Groom is a Zombie variant that appears during a Blood Moon or very rarely at any time in a Graveyard biome. It acts the same as normal Zombies, slowly walking towards the player to deal contact damage, while attempting to navigate around obstacles and opening doors if they are in the way. It has greater health than most other Zombies, and is dressed in a tuxedo and top hat.

It does not have any variants, nor does it have an Armed variation in Expert Mode. The Bride is its marriage counterpart.

The Bestiary entry for The Groom: "Tall, handsome, and dead. This unlucky fellow did not survive his wedding and is ready to take it out on everyone."

Achievements

Til Death... • “Kill the groom.”

Defeat The Groom for the first time.

Category: Slayer

Notes

• Due to the increased variation of enemy types that appear during Hardmode, The Groom will have a lesser chance of spawning.

Trivia

• The Groom drops the Top Hat, while the other two pieces of the Tuxedo set are crafted using Silk and Black Thread.
• Following a Discord message where Redigit jokingly answered a Discord user's question of "who are the angler's parents" with "they ded", a Reddit user declared "officially starting" a theory of the Groom and the Bride being the Angler's parents, to which Redigit, likewise jokingly, replied "This is now canon."

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Can now drop the Bloody Tear outside of a Blood Moon.

• Desktop 1.4.1: Drop chance of Bloody Tear has been increased from 1/9 to 1/5.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now drops the Bloody Tear.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.0.5: Fixed to actually spawn correctly.

• Desktop 1.0.4: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

• Console 1.0.933.1: No longer drops the Brain. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: No longer drops the Brain. ()

• Console 1.02: Now has a chance to drop the Brain.

• Console-Release: Introduced.  

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: No longer drops the Brain.

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Now has a chance to drop the Brain.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.