The Perforators (2024)

The Perforators

Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	The Crimson
Max Life	12060 / 22440 / 27360 / 26685 / 32508 / 7776 (Total)
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Resistances

Cold	Vulnerable
Water	-
Sickness	Vulnerable
Electricity	-
Heat	Vulnerable

Drops

Coins	15

• Item (Quantity)Rate

• Blood Sample (25-30 / 30-40 )

  100%

• Vertebra (10-15 / 15-20 )

  100%

• Crimson Seeds (10-15)

  100%

• Crimtane Bar (10-15 / 15-20 )

  100%

• Ichor(In Hardmode) (10-20 / 25-30 )

  100%

• At least one of the following 7 items will always drop:

• Aorta

  25% / 33.33%

• Sausage Maker

  25% / 33.33%

• Blood Bath

  25% / 33.33%

• Vein Burster

  25% / 33.33%

• Eviscerator

  25% / 33.33%

• Flesh of Infidelity

  25% / 33.33%

• Tooth Ball (30-50 / 50-75 )

  25% / 33.33%

• Bloodstained Glove

  25% / 33.33%

• Bloody Worm Tooth

  100%

• Healing Potion (5-15)

  See Also

  The Hive Mind strategiesBrain of CthulhuWorm Food

  100%

• Bloody Vein

  10%

• Perforator Mask

  14.29%

• Perforator Trophy

  10%

• Thank You

  1%

• The Perforators and Their Hive (Lore)(Always on first kill)

  100%

• Treasure Bag(The Perforators)

  100%

• Perforators Relic(In Master or Revengeance Mode only)

  100% / 100%

• 1 Spawn
• 2 Bosses
  • 2.1 The Perforator Hive
• 3 Worms
  • 3.1 The Small Perforator
  • 3.2 The Medium Perforator
  • 3.3 The Large Perforator
• 4 Behavior
  • 4.1 The Perforator Hive
  • 4.2 The Small Perforator
  • 4.3 The Medium Perforator
  • 4.4 The Large Perforator
  • 4.5 In Expert Mode
  • 4.6 In Revengeance Mode
  • 4.7 In Death Mode
  • 4.8 On the For the worthy seed
  • 4.9 On the Get fixed boi seed
  • 4.10 During the Boss Rush
• 5 Aftermath
• 6 Resistances
• 7 Tips
• 8 Trivia
  • 8.1 Bestiary entries
• 9 History

These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Buffed Perforator Hive's health from 5000 / 8000 / 9600 / 12,000 / 14,400 to 6000 / 9600 / 11,520 / 12,240 / 14,688 .
  • Buffed small Perforator's health from 1000 / 2000 / 2400 / 3000 / 3600 to 1200 / 2400 / 2880 / 2700 / 3240 .
  • Buffed medium Perforator's segment health from 150 / 300 / 360 / 450 / 540 to 180 / 360 / 432 / 405 / 486 (total health from 1800 / 4200 / 5400 / 5760 / 6300 / 8100 / 8640 to 2160 / 5040 / 6480 / 6912 / 5670 / 7290 / 7776 ).
  • Buffed large Perforator's health from 2250 / 4500 / 5400 / 6750 / 8100 to 2700 / 5400 / 6480 / 6075 / 7290 .
  • Now properly scale their health in Master Mode. This should result in lower health overall.
  • Buffed the Perforator Hive's blood shot, ichor shot, and ichor blob damage from 36 / 56 / 68 / 76 / 102 to 36 / 56 / 68 / 80 / 114 .
  • Buffed small Perforator's head damage from 30 / 60 / 72 / 80 / 102 to 36 / 60 / 72 / 84 / 108 , body damage from 18 / 36 / 42 / 46 / 60 to 20 / 36 / 42 / 48 / 60 , and changed tail damage from 10 / 20 / 26 / 30 / 45 to 14 / 20 / 26 / 32 / 42 .
  • Buffed medium Perforator's head damage from 35 / 70 / 84 / 92 / 126 to 42 / 70 / 84 / 98 / 126 , body damage from 21 / 42 / 50 / 54 / 69 to 24 / 42 / 50 / 58 / 72 , and tail damage from 14 / 28 / 34 / 38 / 54 to 18 / 28 / 34 / 40 / 54 .
  • Buffed large Perforator's head damage from 45 / 90 / 108 / 118 / 150 to 54 / 90 / 108 / 126 / 162 , body damage from 24 / 48 / 56 / 60 / 75 to 28 / 48 / 56 / 64 / 84 , and tail damage from 18 / 36 / 42 / 46 / 60 to 22 / 36 / 42 / 48 / 66 .
  • Added new sounds for Perforator Hive spawn, Perforator Hive hit, death, firing blood shots, firing ichor blobs, and spawning worms, small Perforator hit and death, medium Perforator hit and death, and large Perforator hit and death.
  • No longer use a global scaling contact damage formula based on boss velocity. Instead, the Perforator worms now use a different formula for scaling contact damage based on velocity, which scales from half damage to full damage on the head, and 0 to full damage on the body and tail.
  • All Perforator worm bodies and tail are no longer immune to lifesteal.
  • Perforator Hive no longer deals contact damage in Classic and Expert Mode, and no longer deals contact damage while a Perforator is alive or during the ichor blob attack in Revengeance and Death Mode.
  • All Perforator worms now have a 400% health modifier in the Get fixed boi seed.
  • Decreased how far away the medium Perforator travels before turning around.
  • Large Perforator no longer does the burrow attack.

• 2.0.3.005: Now drops Flesh of Infidelity instead of Blood Clot Staff.

• 2.0.3.002: Changed the word "Gods" in the Perforator Hive's bestiary entry to be lower case.

• 2.0.3.001: All Perforator worms are no longer trackable by the vanilla boss health bar.

• 2.0.2.002:
  • Changed Boss Checklist Mod despawn message from "The parasitic hive began searching for a new host." to "The Perforators search for more hosts to gorge themselves on."
  • The Perforator Hive and all Perforators now properly display vanilla debuff colors and Hunter Potion effects.

• 2.0.1.001:
  • The Hive's Blood Geysers now last 10 seconds instead of 7, but have a maximum vertical speed of 12.
  • Now drop 10-15 Crimtane Bars, Vertebrae, and Crimson Seeds instead of 12-15 of each, and now drops 25-30 Blood Samples instead of 35-45.
  • Treasure Bag now drops 30-40 Blood Samples instead of 45-60 , and now drops 25-30 Ichor instead of 15-30 .

• 2.0.0.003: Fixed it and Hive Mind not being next to each on the Boss Checklist Mod.

• 2.0.0.001:
  • The Perforator Hive now gains 30% damage reduction while a Perforator is alive instead of becoming invulnerable.
  • The Perforator Hive now drops its loot when defeated even if all Perforators are not yet defeated.

• 1.5.1.003:
  • Now drops 15 .
  • Buffed Perforator Hive health from 4500 / 7200 / 8640 to 5000 / 8000 / 9600 .
  • Perforator Hive is no longer invulnerable while the Large Perforator is alive.
  • Perforator Worms now spawn at 75%, 50%, and 25% health respectively instead of 70%, 40%, and 10% on all world difficulties.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Perforator Hive to stick on top of the player and spaz out.

• 1.5.1.001:
  • Buffed The Perforator Hive health from 3750 / 6000 / 8640 to 4500 / 7200 / 8640 .
  • Smoothen The Perforator Hive's movement, overall making it slower.
  • Nerfed Small Perforator health from 1250 / 2125 / 2550 to 1000 / 2000 / 2400 .
  • Changed Medium Perforator health from 160 / 224 / 252 (1920 / 3584 / 4536 / 5040 total) to 150 / 300 / 360 (1800 / 4200 / 5400 / 5760 total).
  • Nerfed Medium Perforator segment count from 12 / 16 / 18 / 20 to 12 / 14 / 15 / 16 .
  • Buffed Medium Perforator fall speed but nerfed player tracking speed.
  • Nerfed Large Perforator health from 2500 / 5000 / 5400 to 2250 / 4500 / 5400 .
  • Nerfed Large Perforator fall speed after the lunge attack by 50%.
  • Nerfed all Perforators size modifiers in Death Mode from 125% to 120%.
  • The Hive and all worms are now vulnerable to cold, sickness, and heat debuffs.
  • All Perforators no longer drop Blood Samples, Crimtane Bars, or Vertebrae.
  • Blood Sample sprayed drops are now in stacks of 5.
  • Increased Blood Sample drop from The Perforator Hive from 25-30 / 30-40 to 35-45 / 45-60 .
  • Increased Crimtane Bar drop from The Perforator Hive from 2-5 / 9-14 to 12-15 / 15-20 .
  • Increased Vertebrae drop from The Perforator Hive from 3-9 / 10-20 to 12-15 / 15-20 .
  • Now drop 10-15 Crimson Seeds.
  • Now drop Bloody Worm Tooth regardless of world difficulty.

• 1.5.0.002: Significantly decreased how often The Perforator worms burrow and lunge at the player on all world difficulties.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed Boss Rush health from 2,700,000 / 4,320,000 to 270,000 / 432,000 .
  • No longer immune to any debuffs except Confused and Pearl Aura.
  • The Perforator Hive now occasionally charges up and launches several Ichor blobs towards the player when below 70% health. Ichor blobs will linger on tiles for 10 seconds. This attack can not be performed if any Perforator worms are alive.
  • All projectiles spawned by the Perforator Hive can now pass through tiles so long as they are above the player.
  • The Perforator Hive will now deal no contact damage for the first 3 seconds after spawning in.
  • The Perforator Worm AI now uses custom AI instead of Worm AI.
  • The Perforator worms no longer drop Hearts in Revengeance or Malice Mode.
  • The Perforator Hive now inflicts Burning Blood for 3 seconds.
  • The Perforator Worms can no longer inflict Bleeding.
  • Increased Blood Sample drop amount in Normal Mode from 7-14 to 25-30.
  • Ichor drops are now compacted into stacks of 2.

• 1.4.5.004:
  • The Perforator Hive now fires its projectiles less often while a Perforator worm is alive.
  • Now enrage outside of the Crimson.
  • Now less aggressive in the Underground Crimson.
  • The Perforator worms now move slower but gain speed as their health decreases.
  • Nerfed the medium Perforator worm's total health from 2000 / 3906 / 4912 / 5526 to 1600 / 3122 / 4016 / 4518 . Nerfed individual segment health from 200 / 279 / 307 to 160 / 223 / 251 .
  • The large Perforator worm now lunges at the player less often in all world difficulties.

• 1.4.5.003:
  • Buffed Perforator Hive contact damage from 30 / 48 / 60 / 69 to 30 / 54 / 63 / 72 .
  • Buffed Small Perforator head damage from 30 / 60 / 72 / 79 to 30 / 60 / 72 / 80 .
  • Buffed Small Perforator body damage from 18 / 28 / 32 to 18 / 36 / 42 / 46 .
  • Buffed Small Perforator tail damage from 10 / 16 / 18 to 10 / 20 / 26 / 30 .
  • Buffed Medium Perforator head damage from 35 / 70 / 84 / 92 to 35 / 70 / 84 / 92 .
  • Buffed Medium Perforator body damage from 21 / 33 / 37 to 21 / 42 / 50 / 54 .
  • Buffed Medium Perforator tail damage from 14 / 22 / 25 to 14 / 28 / 34 / 38 .
  • Buffed Large Perforator head damage from 45 / 90 / 108 / 118 to 45 / 90 / 108 / 118 .
  • Buffed Large Perforator body damage from 24 / 38 / 43 to 24 / 48 / 54 / 60 .
  • Buffed Large Perforator tail damage from 18 / 28 / 32 to 18 / 36 / 42 / 46 .
  • The Perforator Hive's projectiles now rain in a consistent spread instead of at random.
  • All Perforator Worms no longer fire Blood clots, and all Perforator Worms now have increased size and body segments based on world difficulty.
    • Significantly reduced the speed of the Small Perforator in all difficulties, buffed health from 1250 / 1749 / 2099 to 1250 / 2125 / 2550 .
    • Medium Perforator can now split similarly to Eater of Worlds, changed health from 2000 / 2799 / 3079 total to 200 / 279 / 307 per segment.
    • Large Perforator can now burrow and lunge towards the player, buffed health from 2500 / 3499 / 3779 to 2500 / 5000 / 5400 .

• 1.4.4.001: Perforator Hive and all three Perforators now have glowmasks.

• 1.4.3.002:
  • Each worm now has a separate health bar from the Hive.
  • Now immune to Glacial State, Temporal Sadness, Time Distortion, Tesla Freeze, Eutrophication, Pearl Aura, Webbed, and Slow.
  • Fixed some velocity issues on the Revengeance Mode Perforator Hive.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Nerfed The Perforator Hive's contact damage from 30 / 48 / 60 / 69 to 30 / 48 / 60 / 67 .
  • Nerfed Large Perforator's head damage from 45 / 90 / 112 / 129 to 45 / 90 / 108 / 118 .
  • Nerfed Large Perforator's body damage from 24 / 38 / 43 to 24 / 38 .
  • Nerfed Large Perforator's tail damage from 18 / 28 / 32 to 18 / 28 .
  • Nerfed Medium Perforator's head damage from 35 / 70 / 87 / 100 to 35 / 70 / 84 / 92 .
  • Nerfed Medium Perforator's body damage from 21 / 33 / 37 to 21 / 33 .
  • Nerfed Medium Perforator's tail damage from 14 / 22 / 25 to 14 / 22 .
  • Nerfed Small Perforator's head damage from 30 / 60 / 75 / 86 to 30 / 60 / 72 / 79 .
  • Nerfed Small Perforator's body damage from 18 / 28 / 32 to 18 / 28 .
  • Nerfed Small Perforator's tail damage from 10 / 16 / 18 to 10 / 16 .
  • Nerfed blood geyser and ichor shot damage from 36 / 56 / 70 / 80 to 36 / 56 / 70 / 78 .
  • The Perforator Hive now has a greater acceleration but lower maximum speed.
  • In Revengeance Mode, The Perforator Hive has an even greater acceleration but even lower maximum speed as The Perforators are spawned, which is even more effective while any is alive.
  • All Perforators are now immune to Webbed.
  • Death Mode now causes all Perforators to move at highest speed immediately, instead of gradually speeding up as health lowers.
  • Decreased projectile firing rate in Death Mode.

• 1.4.2.106:
  • Nerfed the Hive's contact damage from 35 / 56 to 30 / 48 , and buffed defense from 0 to 4.
  • Small Perforator changes:
    • Nerfed head's damage from 69 to 60 .
    • Nerfed body's damage from 20 / 28 to 18 / 28 , and defense from 8 to 4.
    • Buffed tail's damage from 14 to 16 , and nerfed defense from 18 to 8.
    • Buffed blood clot damage from 22 / 36 to 30 / 48 .
  • Medium Perforator changes:
    • Nerfed head's damage from 80 to 70 , and buffed defense from 0 to 2.
    • Nerfed body's damage from 25 / 35 to 21 / 33 , and defense from 10 to 6.
    • Changed tail's damage from 15 / 21 to 14 / 22 and nerfed defense from 22 to 10.
    • Buffed blood clot damage from 22 / 36 to 30 / 48 .
  • Large Perforator stat changes:
    • Changed head's damage from 40 / 92 to 45 / 90 , and buffed defense from 0 to 4.
    • Nerfed body's damage from 30 / 42 to 24 / 38 , and defense from 12 to 8.
    • Nerfed tail's damage from 20 to 18, and defense from 25 to 12.
    • Buffed blood clot damage from 22 / 36 to 30 / 48 .

• 1.4.2.105:
  • Increased the Perforator Hive's speed.
  • Blood Geyser projectiles can now pass through tiles after 3 seconds have passed, and no longer pass through tiles at all times in Death Mode.
  • Ichor Shot projectiles now pass through tiles after 3 seconds have passed.

• 1.4.2.102: Decreased the size of The Perforator Hive's burst dusts.

• 1.4.2.101:
  • Buffed The Perforator Hive's health from 2500 / 4000 / 5750 / 8049 to 3750 / 6000 / 8640 / 12,160 , and Boss Rush health from 1,800,000 / 2,880,000 / 3,200,000 to 2,700,000 / 4,320,000 / 4,800,000 .
  • Nerfed the small Perforator's health from 2000 / 2800 to 1250 / 1750 , and Boss Rush health from 600,000 / 840,000 / 1,120,000 to 500,000 / 700,000 / 840,000 .
  • Nerfed the medium Perforator's health from 3000 / 4200 to 2000 / 2800 , and Boss Rush health from 900,000 / 1,260,000 / 1,540,000 to 700,000 / 980,000 / 1,260,000 .
  • Nerfed the large Perforator's health from 3500 / 4900 to 2500 / 3500 , and Boss Rush health from 1,200,000 / 1,680,000 / 2,100,000 to 800,000 / 1,120,000 / 1,400,000 .

• 1.4.2.001:
  • Nerfed the Hive's Boss Rush health from 3,500,000 / 5,600,000 / 6,400,000 to 1,800,000 / 2,880,000 / 3,200,000 .
  • All three Perforators' body and tail segments can no longer be lifestealed off of.
  • The Hive is now immune to Glacial State and Temporal Sadness.

• 1.4.1.003:
  • Increased The Perforator Hive minimum coin drop amount from 5 to 6 .
  • Increased the distance that The Perforator Hive hovers above the player.

• 1.4.1.001:
  • Buffed The Perforator Hive's Boss Rush health from 2,400,000 / 3,840,000 / 4,800,000 to 3,500,000 / 5,600,000 / 6,400,000 .
  • Buffed Boss Rush damage modifier from 4.75x to 5x.
  • The Perforator Hive's Blood Geysers and the Perforators' Blood Clots now inflict Burning Blood for 2 seconds instead of 3.33.
  • The Perforator Hive's Ichor Shots now inflict Ichor for 3 seconds instead of 3.33.
  • The Perforators' heads and tails now inflict Bleeding in all difficulty modes instead of just Expert Mode and higher.
  • Increased Burning Blood duration from the small Perforator's head from 2 seconds to 3.
  • Increased Burning Blood duration from the medium Perforator's head from 3.33 seconds to 4.
  • Increased Burning Blood duration from the large Perforator's head from 4 seconds to 5.
  • Decreased Horror duration from all three Perforators' heads from 5 seconds to 3.
  • The Perforators' body segments can now inflict Burning Blood and Bleeding.
  • The Perforators' tails can now inflict Burning Blood.

• 1.4.0.001:
  • Now have gores.
  • Lowered fire rate of the worm's projectiles.
  • Resprited Medium Perforator's Tail and Perforator Hive's Blood Geyser and Ichor Shots.

• 1.3.4.101:
  • Buffed The Perforator Hive health from 2500 / 4000 / 5000 / 7000 to 2500 / 4000 / 5750 / 8049 .
  • The Perforator Hive no longer has 15% damage reduction.
  • The Perforator Hive now drops 10-21 Ichor in Hardmode in Normal Mode.

• 1.3.4.001:
  • Nerfed The Perforator Hive's health from 2800 / 4480 / 6400 / 15,200 to 2500 / 4000 / 5000 / 7000 .
  • Nerfed the small Perforator's health from 2500 / 3500 to 2000 / 2800 .
  • Nerfed the medium Perforator's health from 3500 / 4900 to 3000 / 4200 .
  • Nerfed the large Perforator's health from 4500 / 6300 to 3500 / 4900 .
  • The Perforator Hive now only becomes invincible when the large Perforator is alive.
  • The Perforator Hive now plays a sound and creates a small, harmless dust burst whenever it shoots a volley of projectiles.
  • Slightly increased the speed of all three Perforators.
  • The Perforator Hive now drops 15-31 Ichor in Hardmode in Expert Mode.

• 1.3.3.001:
  • Decreased small Perforator's segment count from 12 to 8.
  • Decreased medium Perforator's segment count from 22 / 8 to 12 / 7 .
  • Decreased large Perforator's segment count from 32 / 12 to 17 / 9 .
  • The Perforator Hive now has a 50% chance to shoot a volley of ichor shots instead of blood geysers.
  • Tweaked movement of all three Perforators.
  • Resprited it and map icon.

• 1.3.2.001:
  • Nerfed blood geyser damage from 44 / 60 / 63 / 90 to 32 / 48 / 50 / 72 .
  • The small worm can now fire blood geyser projectiles.
  • Now spawns Aerialite Ore when defeated.

• 1.3.1.001: Fixed a bug where the Perforator worms wouldn't spawn above a certain height during the fight.

• 1.3.0.001:
  • Perforator Hive is no longer immune to Frostburn, Cursed Inferno, On Fire!, Poisoned, Brimstone Flames, Holy Flames, Plague, Glacial State, or Temporal Sadness.
  • Adjusted the Y velocity of the Perforator Hive's Blood Geyser projectiles.
  • Blood clot projectiles no longer create dust when destroyed.

• 1.2.4.201: The individual Perforators no longer count as bosses, only the Hive does.

• 1.2.4.101:
  • Buffed the Hive's health in Death Mode from 10,400 to 15,200 .
  • The small Perforator now loses 7 segments in Death Mode.
  • The medium Perforator now loses 14 segments in Death Mode.
  • The large Perforator now loses 20 segments in Death Mode.
  • Now uses Blood Coagulant as its theme.

• 1.2.4.002:
  • Increased the max time it takes for the Perforator Hive to shoot volleys of projectiles.
  • Buffed blood geyser damage from 30 / 48 / 50 / 67 to 44 / 60 / 63 / 84 .
  • Worms now strictly spawn at every 30% of the Hive's health lost.
  • Worms no longer spawn directly from the Hive, and now spawn offscreen.
  • Worms' distance before flying decreased.
  • Fixed a bug where Perforator worms would sometimes attach heads to each other.

• 1.2.3.005: The Perforator Hive now rapidly shoots blood geysers in Death Mode that go through tiles.

• 1.2.3.002:
  • The Perforator Hive now gets 10,400 health in Death Mode.
  • The Perforator Hive's blood geysers no longer collide with tiles in Death Mode.

• 1.2.1.001: Fixed The Perforator Hive being unable to despawn properly.

• 1.2.0.002: Merged its Boss Checklist entry with The Hive Mind's.

• 1.2.0.001:
  • The Perforator Hive now gets 6400 health in Revengeance Mode.
  • The Perforator Hive now has 15% damage reduction.
  • All three Perforator's heads now inflict Horror for 5 seconds in Revengeance Mode.
  • Now has a 2% chance to drop Laudanum or Stress Pills in Revengeance Mode.
  • Fixed all of the Perforators' body and tail segments not counting as bosses.

• 1.1.7.961: Blood Geyser projectiles now produce less dust.

• 1.1.7.901:
  • Nerfed The Perforator Hive's health from 5000 / 6000 to 2800 / 4480 , and contact damage from 55 / 66 to 35 / 56 .
    • Buffed Blood Geyser damage from 44 to 48 .
    • Can now drop Aorta, Blood Bath, Blood Clot Staff, Bloody Rupture, Eviscerator, Sausage Maker, Tooth Balls, and Vein Burster in Normal Mode.
    • Can now only spawn up to 5 Perforator Minis at a time.
    • Increased Blood Sample drop count from 15-24 to 30-40 , Crimtane Bar drop count from 5-6 to 9-14 , and Vertebrae drop count from 7-8 to 10-20 .
    • Increased Tooth Ball drop count from 50-74 to 50-75 .
    • Increased the chances for all weapons to drop.
  • Small Perforator changes:
    • Buffed health from 2750 to 3500
    • Changed head's damage from 53 / 58 to 30 / 68 .
    • Nerfed body's damage from 33 / 36 to 20 / 28 .
    • Nerfed tail's damage from 19 / 20 to 10 / 14 .
    • Nerfed Blood Clot projectile damage from 26 to 22.
    • Lowered segment count from 22 to 12.
    • No longer enrages outside of the Crimson.
  • Medium Perforator changes:
    • Nerfed health from 4500 / 4950 to 3500 / 4900 .
    • Changed head's damage from 65 / 71 to 35 / 80 .
    • Nerfed body's damage from 40 / 44 to 25 / 35 .
    • Nerfed tail's damage from 25 / 27 to 15 / 21 .
    • Nerfed Blood Clot projectile damage from 28 / 40 to 22 / 36 .
    • Lowered segment count from 32 to 22.
    • No longer enrages outside of the Crimson.
  • Large Perforator changes:
    • Nerfed health from 7000 / 7700 to 4500 / 6300 .
    • Changed head's damage from 80 / 88 to 40 / 92 .
    • Nerfed body's damage from 52 / 57 to 30 / 42 .
    • Nerfed tail's damage from 35 / 38 to 20 / 28 .
    • Nerfed Blood Clot projectile damage from 30 / 44 to 22 / 36 .
    • Lowered segment count from 42 to 32.
    • Head now produces less dust when killed.
  • Perforator Mini changes:
    • Buffed health from 100 / 120 to 100 / 140 .
    • Buffed head's damage from 22 to 28 .
    • Buffed body's damage from 12 to 15 .
    • Buffed tail's damage from 5 to 7 .

• 1.1.7.801: Perforator worms no longer drop any coins, only their Hive does.

• 1.1.7.701: The Perforator Hive now becomes invincible instead of despawning if the player leaves The Crimson.

• 1.1.7.61:
  • Nerfed The Perforator Hive's Blood Geyser damage from 46 / 56 to 30 / 44 .
  • Nerfed the small Perforator's head damage from 68 to 58 , body damage from 42 to 36 , tail damage from 24 to 20 , and Blood Clot projectile damage from 40 / 60 to 30 / 44 .
  • Nerfed the medium Perforator's head damage from 84 to 71 , body damage from 52 to 44 , tail damage from 32 to 27 , and Blood Clot projectile damage from 38 / 52 to 28 / 40 .
  • Nerfed the large Perforator's head damage from 104 to 88 , body damage from 67 to 57 , tail damage from 46 to 39 , and Blood Clot projectile damage from 40 / 60 to 30 / 44 .
  • The Perforator Hive now takes up 10 NPC slots instead of 5.
  • All Perforators no longer drop any coins.
  • Individual Perforators can no longer spawn naturally.

• 1.1.7.56:
  • Nerfed The Perforator Hive's health from 6000 / 7200 to 5000 / 6000 , and Blood Geyser damage from 60 / 68 to 46 / 56 .
  • The Perforators and their Hive now despawn if brought out of the Crimson for too long.
  • Blood Clot projectiles from the Perforators and Blood Geyser projectiles from the Hive now use dust type 235 instead of 5.
  • The Perforator Hive now emits light.

• 1.1.7.55: The Perforator Hive is now invulnerable while the large Perforator is alive.

• 1.1.7.5:
  • The Perforator Hive now spawns a Perforator Mini for every 30 hits instead of 15.
  • No longer spawn if the player is near a Celestial Pillar.
  • Resprited the Perforator Hive's map icon.

• 1.1.7.2:
  • Introduced The Perforator Hive.
  • Buffed small Perforator's Blood Clot damage from 36 to 44 .
  • Buffed medium Perforator's Blood Clot damage from 44 to 52 .
  • Buffed large Perforator's Blood Clot damage from 48 to 60 .
  • The fight now begins with The Perforator Hive instead of all three Perforators at once, with the Hive spawning each of the three Perforators at different amounts of health.
  • The large Perforator no longer has scaling defense in Expert Mode based on which of the other Perforators are still alive.
  • The large Perforator no longer drops the Perforator Trophy, Perforator Mask, and Treasure Bag.
  • The Perforators no longer spawn Perforator Minis.
  • Decreased the small Perforator's Blood Sample drop count from 3-5 to 2-5, Vertebrae drop count from 1-4 to 1-3, and increased Crimtane Bar drop count from 1 to 1-2.
  • Decreased the medium Perforator's Blood Sample drop count from 5-10 to 3-7, and Vertebrae drop count from 2-7 to 2-4.
  • Decreased the large Perforator's Blood Sample drop count from 7-14 to 4-8, Vertebrae drop count from 3-9 to 3-5, and Crimtane Bar drop count from 2-5 to 2-4.

• 1.1.7:
  • Buffed small Perforator's head damage from 40 / 52 to 53 / 68 , body damage from 23 / 29 to 33 / 42 , and tail damage from 9 / 11 to 19 / 24 .
  • Buffed medium Perforator's head damage from 55 / 71 to 65 / 84 , body damage from 31 / 40 to 40 / 52 , and tail damage from 11 / 14 to 25 / 32 .
  • Buffed large Perforator's head damage from 65 / 84 to 80 / 104 , body damage from 42 / 54 to 52 / 67 , and tail damage from 15 / 19 to 35 / 45 .
  • All three Perforators now enrage outside of the Crimson.
  • Decreased all three Perforators' spawnrates.

• 1.1.6.15:
  • All body segments now produce less dust when hit.
  • All heads and tails now produce dust when hit.
  • All segments now produce dust when killed.
  • No longer take 50% damage from projectiles that pierce more than three times in Expert Mode.
  • Now drop Healing Potions.
  • Now referred to in their death messages by size.

• 1.1.6.13: Increased speed of all three Perforators.

• 1.1.6.1: Resprited map icon.

• 1.1.5.094: Can now drop a Perforator Trophy.

• 1.1.5.091: Can now drop a Perforator Mask.

• 1.1.5.081: All body segments should now have equal velocity and rotation formulas.

• 1.1.5.08: Now have greater horizontal mobility.

• 1.1.5.07: Small and Medium Perforator's tails no longer inflict Burning Blood.

• 1.1.5.03: Fixed looping in their code which made them cause extreme lag when spawned.

• 1.1.5: Introduced.