Fireball Staff火の玉の杖

Fireball Staff stats and effects

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What is Fireball Staff? Features and uses

Fireball Staff is a rare item in Core Keeper (Ranged & magic weapons). Its base level is 8 and it deals 187–227 magic damage (436–532 at level 20). It can be obtained from Malugaz the Corrupted, Iron Chest, Caveling Shaman.

Fireball Staff key points (from the game data)

• Attack interval: 1 s (about 1 attacks per second). Among 18 ranged & magic weapons, it ranks #8 in expected damage per second at level 20 with endgame gear (about 2,479).
• Upgrading to level 20 raises its effects: +35 burn damage applied on hit → +73.
• Upgrading from level 8 to 20 costs 4,242 Ancient Coins plus bars.
• Durability: 225. Reinforcing it at the Salvage and Repair Station doubles durability.
• Best source: Malugaz the Corrupted — 17.4% chance per kill.
• Sells to merchants for 14 Ancient Coins.

Calculated and summarized by this site from the game data (1.3.0.6).

Fireball Staff mechanics (checked against the game data)

• The Fireball Staff sets targets on fire (burn value 35 when obtained).
• At level 19 its base damage is 461, which works out to 415 to 507 with the ±10% spread.

Written by this site from values in the game files (1.3.0.6 prefabs and configuration files).

Fireball Staff notes

• A fully charged secondary attack launches an exploding fireball with boosted damage and a base blast radius of 1.5 tiles.
• At the staff's base level of 8, the blast deals 546 base mining damage.
• At level 19 without reinforcement, each Fireball Staff projectile deals 415 to 507 base magic damage, against 411 to 501 for the Scholar's Staff.
• Those figures do not include damage modifiers.
• What sets them apart: the Fireball Staff burns, the Scholar's Staff gets a three-shot charged secondary attack.
• The Fireball Staff's charged secondary attack can also be used for mining.
• To damage a Radiation Crystal with a direct hit, the Fireball Staff's projectile has to exceed 806 damage before the crystal's damage reduction.
• Each such direct hit deals at most 1 damage.

These notes cover behavior that the game files do not show directly. They are based on facts from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) page "Fireball Staff" (CC BY-SA 3.0), rewritten in this site's own words.

What you get from salvaging Fireball Staff (Salvage and Repair Station)

Fireball Staff can be salvaged. Salvaging it gives the following items.

• Scrap Parts×16
• Wood×6-10
• Slime×3-5

For each material, the amount is "amount used to craft × 0.49 (lower when durability is down, 0.3 at 0 durability) × the item's multiplier", and a fraction is the chance of one more (2.4 means 2, with a 40% chance of 3). The range is from 0 durability to full durability (items without durability always count as full). Scrap parts are a fixed number set by the item level. All items that can be salvaged are listed in salvaging.

How to get Fireball Staff (Boss drop, Enemy drop, Chests & pedestals)

Boss drop (1) Enemy drop (1) Chests & pedestals (1)

Source	Type	Biome	Amount	Chance
Malugaz the Corrupted	Boss drop	The Forgotten Ruins	1	17.4%
Caveling Shaman	Enemy drop	The Forgotten Ruins	1	1.5%
Iron Chest	Chests & pedestals	The Clay Caves, The Forgotten Ruins	1	7.5%6.7% from the guaranteed group, 0.25% per regular roll

"Chance" is the chance to get at least one of this item per try (opening one chest, defeating one enemy, one catch). A "guaranteed group" is the group of a chest or boss from which exactly one item always drops; it does not mean this item always drops (the chance of it being picked from that group is shown in small text). Only items that always drop are marked "Guaranteed". Fishing means catches with a fishing rod, separate from enemy and boss drops. Calculated from the game's drop tables (Conf/Loot, 1.3.0.6) the same way the game rolls them.

Other ways to get Fireball Staff

• Can come from the Iron Chest found inside a scene (building, ruin, camp and so on) (7.5% chance per container)
• Can come from the Ancient Chest found inside a scene (building, ruin, camp and so on) (7.7% chance per container)Where: Dirt Melody Room, Dirt Melody Room
• Can come from the Copper Chest found inside a scene (building, ruin, camp and so on) (7.5% chance per container)Where: Clay Melody Room

Scene containers, dungeon placements, guaranteed drops and natural spawns are based on the Obtaining data of the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) (CC BY-SA 3.0), because these are not in the game files this site reads. Scene names are the wiki's English names.