Terraria Zenith
Lunatic Cultist

NPC

Lunatic Cultist

  • Boss
  • The Dungeon

Lunatic Cultist is a Terraria NPC. It spawns in this biome: The Dungeon. It drops 5 items: Lunatic Cultist Relic, Ancient Manipulator, Tablet Fragment and 2 more.

Bestiary entry

Rarity:

A fanatical leader hell-bent on bringing about the apocalypse by reviving the great Cthulhu through behind-the-scenes scheming.

Stats by game mode

ClassicExpertMasterLegendary (For the Worthy)
Life32,00048,00061,20081,600
Attack5075112200
Defense42424242
Knockback Taken0% (None)0% (None)0% (None)0% (None)
Coins10252535

The last column is Master mode in a world made with the For the Worthy seed. Its numbers were measured in the game, not computed here.

For one player in a world before Hardmode. Expert and Master scale life, attack, knockback and coins by the game's own multipliers.

Coins: each kill rolls the coins from 80% to 175% of this value, then rarer extra rolls can add more.

2 variants

The game spawns this NPC in several forms that share its name. Each form has its own numbers.

Classic

VariantLifeAttackDefenseKnockback TakenCoins
Variant 1 Size 100%32,00050420% (None)10
Variant 2 Size 100%10,0000350% (None)No coins

Expert

VariantLifeAttackDefenseKnockback TakenCoins
Variant 1 Size 100%48,00075420% (None)25
Variant 2 Size 100%10,0000350% (None)No coins

Master

VariantLifeAttackDefenseKnockback TakenCoins
Variant 1 Size 100%61,200112420% (None)25
Variant 2 Size 100%10,0000350% (None)No coins

How to fight it

How it appears

  • Without an item: Kill the cultists at the Dungeon entrance. The ritual starts after Golem and Skeletron are beaten.

What beating it changes

  • The Lunar Events start: the four celestial pillars rise.

Drops

Classic

ItemOnly fromQuantityChanceKills for 50%Kills for 90%Conditions
Ancient ManipulatorVariant 11100%
Lunatic Cultist MaskVariant 111/7 (14.3%)515
Lunatic Cultist TrophyVariant 111/10 (10%)722Only when the enemy counts as a boss

Expert

ItemOnly fromQuantityChanceKills for 50%Kills for 90%Conditions
Ancient ManipulatorVariant 11100%
Lunatic Cultist MaskVariant 111/7 (14.3%)515
Lunatic Cultist TrophyVariant 111/10 (10%)722Only when the enemy counts as a boss

Master

ItemOnly fromQuantityChanceKills for 50%Kills for 90%Conditions
Ancient ManipulatorVariant 11100%
Lunatic Cultist RelicVariant 11100%
Tablet FragmentVariant 111/4 (25%)39
Lunatic Cultist MaskVariant 111/7 (14.3%)515
Lunatic Cultist TrophyVariant 111/10 (10%)722Only when the enemy counts as a boss

Chance is per kill. Kills for 50% and 90% is how many kills give that chance to see the item at least once.

Also see