Как найти призывалку императрицы света в террарии

Императрица света (англ. Empress of Light) — босс сложного режима. Хоть она и может быть вызвана сразу после победы над Плантерой, она будет значительно сложнее чем большинство боссов хардмода. Чтобы справиться с Императрицей света, потребуется экипировка, выбиваемая с Голема. Сражаться с Императрицей света совершенно необязательно и это не влияет на продвижение по игре. Однако победа над ней наградит игрока мощным оружием.

Пока Императрица Света жива, будет играть её эксклюзивная музыка.

Призыв

Императрица Света может быть вызвана, если убить призматическую златоглазку, которая является редким жуком, обитающим на поверхности биома освящения в ночное время суток. Поскольку это редкое существо, оно может быть обнаружено анализатором форм жизни. Если убить призматическую златоглазку в освящённом биоме ночью или днем, будет призван босс Императрица света.

Как и всех дружественных существ, призматическую златоглазку можно поймать с помощью сачка, которую затем можно будет выпустить и убить вручную.

Поведение

Босс использует быстрые атаки переливающиеся разными цветами. У неё есть две схемы поведения:

• В первой фазе она будет переключаться между различными атаками, среди которых стоит отметить одну — Императрица света выпускает несколько снарядов летящих в игрока. Снаряды слегка наводятся на игрока.
• Во второй фазе она будет стрелять снарядами по экрану, летящими как по прямым линиям, так и под разными углами.

Если сражаться с боссом в дневное время суток, все её атаки будут наносить огромный урон, мгновенно убивая игрока. Однако если Императрица света будет убита днём, то после смерти с неё выпадет террапризма.

Советы

• Чтобы получить террапризму, Императрица света должна быть не только убита в дневное время, но и весь урон должен быть нанесён ей так же в дневное время суток. Любая атака Императрицы в дневное время суток мгновенно убивает игрока.
• Подумайте об использовании сачка, чтобы при обнаружении ловить призматических златоглазок, а не убивать их сразу. Это позволит вам легко сражаться с Императрицей света в любой момент, когда вы будете наиболее готовы к сражению. Обратите внимание, что если призматическая златоглазка убежит за пределы биома освящения, она тут же исчезнет.
  • Хоть златоглазки и исчезают за пределами освящения, их всё же можно убить вне биома освящения. Для этого нужно, предварительно выбрав оружие с быстрой атакой, выпустить златоглазку из инвентаря, затем, щелкнув левой кнопкой мыши, начать быстро наносить удары, чтобы убить златоглазку пока она не исчезла и тогда босс будет призван.
• Если драться с боссом в дневное время суток, Императрица света будет использовать атаки, которые будут мгновенно убивать игрока.

Интересные факты

• Cenx до выхода обновления 1.4 описала этого босса как «прекрасный буллет хэлл». (Прим. — буллет хэлл, от английского Bullet Hell — ад из пуль. Название игрового события, когда на экране появляется очень много снарядов врага, заставляющих игрока уворачиваться от них. Чаще всего встречаются в жанрах Scroll Shooter).

• Она похожа на босса Скелетрона Прайма и Скелетрона в том, что её урон увеличивается в дневное время суток. Тем не менее, они отличаются от Императрицы света тем, что после смерти днём с них не выпадают дополнительные предметы.

• Императрица света — один из двух новых боссов, добавленных в обновлении 1.4.0.1, другой — Королева слизней.

• Она и Плантера являются единственными боссами, которые имеют одинаковый шанс выпадения музыкальных инструментов топор и звёздная мелодия.

• Императрица света — один из 5 боссов с эксклюзивной музыкой, остальные — это Королева слизней, Плантера, Герцог рыбокрыл и Лунный лорд.

The Empress of Light is a Hardmode, post-Plantera boss fought in The Hallow. While she can be fought as soon as Plantera is defeated, she is significantly more difficult than most Hardmode bosses and will typically require post-Golem gear. The Empress of Light fight is optional and is not required for progression.

While the Empress of Light is alive, her exclusive music Empress of Light will play. When Otherworldly music is enabled, the track Boss 2 (Otherworldly) will play instead.

Summoning

The Empress of Light is summoned by killing a Prismatic Lacewing, a rare critter that spawns in the surface Hallow at night between 7:30 PM – 12:00 AM once Plantera has been defeated in the current world. The Prismatic Lacewing is one of the few entities that can be detected by the Lifeform Analyzer.

The Prismatic Lacewing can be killed at any time in any biome to summon the boss. However, if released outside of the Hallow biome it will despawn near instantly, so it must be placed onto a persisting and damaging projectile or by using a weapon that could attack and kill it before the critter vanishes.

Although the Prismatic Lacewing only spawns naturally in worlds where Plantera has been defeated, it is possible to bring one to a Pre-Hardmode world and kill it to summon the boss.

Like most critters, the Prismatic Lacewing can be caught with any bug net, and can then be released and killed by the player.

Behavior

If fought during the day, the Empress enters an “enraged” state, indicated by the color of attacks turning a bright yellow. While enraged, all of her attacks instantly kill the player regardless of equipment.
See below for exceptions.

If night falls (7:30PM) when fought during the day and she is not defeated, she will vanish and drop nothing.

If fought in Expert or Master Mode, she will always use her enraged attack pattern, but without the massive damage increase.

Attacks

• Prismatic Bolts – Summons a cloud of prismatic bolts that home in on the player after a short delay. These bolts do not have perfect tracking, and will miss if the player makes a sharp turn as they approach.
• Prismatic Bolts 2 – Fires prismatic bolts in a clockwise spiral, which behave identically to those used in the first variant of the attack. This version is harder to dodge, and when she is enraged she summons more bolts.
• Dash Attack – Positions herself to the left or right of the player before charging horizontally in the player’s direction. This attack is additionally preceded by a sound effect and several images of the Empress spinning around her right before she dashes. She briefly becomes invincible during the attack, removing any Daybreak spears attached to her and marks from whips.
• Sun Dance – Hovers above and slightly to the left of the player and emits 6 persistent rays of light (8 if enraged) that slowly rotate clockwise around her. 3 sets of rays are created per sun dance, each positioned slightly further clockwise than the last.
• Everlasting Rainbow – Releases a ring of 13 stars that slowly spiral out clockwise from her original position, then spiral back inward in the same direction. These stars leave behind a trail of light that will damage the player.
• Ethereal Lance – Summons a swarm of swords that launch in the direction the player was headed when they were summoned, telegraphed by colored beams. These swords are summoned behind where the player was moving, or all around the player if they were stationary. The swords do no damage until launched. If enraged, extra swords are summoned, and they will launch faster.
• Ethereal Lance 2 – Summons four evenly spaced waves of swords that travel across the screen, telegraphed by colored beams. The first wave travels from the left side of the screen to the right, the second from right to left, the third wave from top-left to bottom-right, and the fourth wave from top-right to bottom-left.
  • If enraged, there will instead be six waves of swords that target specific points around the player instead of traveling from one side of the screen to the other. The first wave travels from the left side of the screen to the right of the player, the second wave from the right side to the left of the player, the third wave from top side to the bottom-right of the player, the fourth wave from top side to bottom-left of the player, the fifth wave from the bottom side to top-right of the player, and the sixth wave from the bottom side to top left of the player.

Attack Pattern

The Empress has set attack patterns for both of her phases.

First Phase

When spawned, the Empress will hover in place for a few seconds before executing the following attacks in order:

1. Prismatic Bolts
2. Dash Attack
3. Sun Dance
4. Dash Attack
5. Everlasting Rainbow
6. Prismatic Bolts
7. Dash Attack
8. Ethereal Lance
9. Dash Attack
10. Everlasting Rainbow

This sequence of attacks repeats indefinitely until the second phase starts.

Second Phase

When the Empress is below half of her max health, she will disappear for a second then reappear above the next estimated location of the player, adopting a new appearance before executing a new set of attacks, with slightly shorter attack intervals than before:

1. Ethereal Lance 2
2. Prismatic Bolts
3. Dash Attack
   • If enraged, she will cast a modified version of Ethereal Lance after the dash before resuming her normal pattern (targets where the player is rather than where they will be)
4. Everlasting Rainbow
5. Prismatic Bolts
6. Sun Dance
7. Ethereal Lance
8. Dash Attack
9. Prismatic Bolts 2

This sequence of attacks repeats indefinitely until she is defeated.

Notes

• Despite being a Hardmode boss, the Empress of Light can be summoned in a pre-Hardmode world if the Prismatic Lacewing is killed quickly enough after being released, or is released in an artificially-created Hallow biome.
• If the Empress of Light is able to drop the Terraprisma, at 7:30, she will despawn. But if she was attacked during the night, she will not despawn, regardless of time.
  • However, initially attacking the Empress at night and continuing to attack her at day will not make her drop the Terraprisma when killed.
• The Empress of Light currently stands as the fastest boss in the game as no matter how far away the player moves before she finishes attacking, she will always zip above player position to initiate her next attack. Her speed beats Skeletron, Skeletron Prime and Enraged Queen Bee.
• Ethereal Lance is the only move the Empress can use to attack the player regardless of distance since the swords appear near the player’s position instead of traveling from the Empress to the player.
• When the Empress switches between her normal and enraged attack sets while in her second phase, she may perform a move twice in a row or jump to a different point in the other attack sequence. This is due to the addition of a variant of Ethereal Lance for her enraged attacks.

Achievements

Tips

• To avoid accidentally summoning the boss, use the Guide to Critter Companionship, which prevents the player from damaging critters including the Prismatic Lacewing.
• Consider using a Bug Net to capture any Prismatic Lacewings rather than killing them immediately. This will allow the player to easily fight the Empress at a proper time and place once prepared.
• Although the Prismatic Lacewing can only spawn at night, the Empress of Light can be spawned at any time of day using captured Prismatic Lacewings.
• If the Prismatic Lacewing is released outside of the Hallow, it will disappear very quickly. This can be circumvented by placing the Lacewing directly into a stationary area-of-effect projectile, such as a Clinger Staff’s flame pillar or a Rainbow Gun’s rainbow.
• A Rod of Discord, dropped from Chaos Elementals, will help the player dodge some of her attacks.
• If attempting to fight the Empress during the day to obtain the Terraprisma, defense and damage resistance should be completely disregarded in favor of damage and mobility, as any damage taken will be beyond lethal regardless.
  • Note should be taken as attacks cannot be dodged while fighting her during the day, and will always instantly kill the player, so its advised to replace accessories like Master Ninja Gear with damage accessories.
  • The dash ability from Shield of Cthulhu, Master Ninja Gear or Solar Flare armor can increase mobility.
  • Using wings with hover or fast acceleration capabilities, such as Fishron and Betsy’s Wings, or the Jetpack can be quite effective for dodging due to their high speed and acceleration.
  • If using the Rod of Discord during her daytime fight, use it freely while ignoring the Chaos State debuff. Losing a fraction of health to Chaos State is far better than losing all of it to one of the Empress’s attacks.
  • A riskier strategy would see the use of flying Mounts instead of wings or boots, which would free up equipment slots for increased damage output.
• Use weapons that are capable of dealing damage reliably from long range, such as the Blizzard Staff, Possessed Hatchet, Chain Gun, or Tactical Shotgun with Chlorophyte Bullets.
• A large arena constructed of Asphalt Blocks and layers of platforms is highly recommended, especially with the demand to mobility whilst fighting the Empress during the day.
  • For fighting the Empress during the day, these arenas do not require boosting structures, such as Campfires or Heart Lanterns, as instant death negates their regeneration buffs.
• She is not immune to any practical debuffs. This can be a good extra source of damage, especially with the use of Ichor, Betsy’s Curse, or Daybroken.
• It is best to stay at an average level or below the Empress of Light as she zips above the player’s position after every attack she does making it lethal in daytime and/or damaging at night.

Trivia

• This boss was described as “a beautiful bullet hell” by Cenx before 1.4 was released.^[2]
  • Crowno has confirmed that the Empress is inspired by the Japanese video game series Touhou Project and other bullet hell games.^[3] One can see the inspiration clearly in her attack patterns and her music.
• The Empress of Light is one of 7 bosses with exclusive music, the others being Queen Slime, Plantera, Duke Fishron, Moon Lord, Queen Bee, and Deerclops.
• Seeing as she can deal tens of thousands of damage during her day form, she is the first enemy in the game to be stronger than Dungeon Guardian in terms of raw attack damage.
  • However, the Dungeon Guardian still holds the title as the toughest enemy in the game, because of its 9999 defense.
• The Empress of Light is one of 3 Hardmode bosses that are not necessary for game progression. The others are Queen Slime and Duke Fishron.
• She is the only nocturnal boss that uses upgraded moves rather than just one move when enraged.
• Several sound effects used by the Empress of Light appear to be samples of the “Whale Probe’s” communications from the 1986 American science fiction movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
• The Empress of Light’s light effect during spawn is internally named DeathAurora.
• The codename of Empress of Light is HallowBoss.
• Crowno has stated that the V-shaped line beneath the Empress’ eyes, which some players may mistake for a mouth, is actually her nose.^[4]
• The Empress of Light is one of the only boss fights that consists of a single destructible entity, the other being the Deerclops.
  • All other boss fights have either multiple bosses, multiple segments or boss minions that play a part in their boss fights.

• The Bestiary entry for the Empress of Light: “Beneath the Hallow’s cleansing blanket lies a vengeful fae goddess bent on scrubbing the land of any and all impurity.“

• This suggests that the Empress sees the player as impure after they have killed the Prismatic Lacewing.
  • They may also be mad at the player for killing the Guardian, or the Wall of Flesh.
• This may mean that the Empress of Light is the Ancient Spirit of Light mentioned in the official lore.

See also

• Blue Fairy
• Green Fairy
• Pink Fairy
• Pixie

History

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Fixed a issue where Empress of Light would sometimes teleport directly on top of the player after an attack
  • Now takes up more MANY more enemy slots, reducing or outright eliminating enemy spawns during her fight.
  • “Instant kill” attacks will no longer be avoided by Dodge procs such as Hallowed armor or Master Ninja Gear

• Desktop 1.4.1: Now drops the Rainbow Cursor, and grants an achievement.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.

• Console 1.4.0.5.4.1: Introduced.

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.

References