NPC

Salamander

Salamander is a Terraria NPC. It spawns in this biome: Caverns. It drops 4 items: Rally, Potato Chips, Depth Meter and 1 more.

Bestiary entry

Rarity:

An unusual amphibious bipedal lizard which inhabits the dark caverns. When threatened, it spews a highly corrosive acid everywhere.

	Classic	Expert	Master	Legendary (For the Worthy)
Life	65	130	195	260
Attack	18	36	54	96
Defense	10	10	10	10
Knockback Taken	45% (Med)	40.5% (Med)	36% (Low)	36% (Low)
Coins	1 20	3	3	4 20

The last column is Master mode in a For the Worthy world.

Numbers are for one player, before Hardmode.

Coins: each kill rolls from 80% to 175% of this value. Rarer extra rolls can add more.

In a Hardmode world

In Expert and Master, Hardmode scales up weak enemies: those whose attack plus defense plus a quarter of life is under 80 (100 after Plantera).

World	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Expert, In Hardmode	142	32	10	40.5% (Med)	2 40
Master, In Hardmode	213	48	10	36% (Low)	2 40
Legendary, In Hardmode	284	85	10	36% (Low)	3 36
Expert, After Plantera	286	64	20	40.5% (Med)	4 80
Master, After Plantera	429	96	20	36% (Low)	4 80
Legendary, After Plantera	572	170	20	36% (Low)	6 72

Variant	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Variant 1 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 2 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 3 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 4 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 5 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 6 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 7 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 8 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20
Variant 9 Size 100%	65	18	10	45% (Med)	1 20

Variant	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Variant 1 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 2 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 3 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 4 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 5 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 6 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 7 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 8 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3
Variant 9 Size 100%	130	36	10	40.5% (Med)	3

Variant	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Variant 1 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 2 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 3 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 4 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 5 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 6 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 7 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 8 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3
Variant 9 Size 100%	195	54	10	36% (Low)	3

	Classic	Expert	Master	Legendary
Touch damage	18	36	54	96

Item	Quantity	Chance	Kills for 50%	Kills for 90%	Conditions
Rally	1	6,241/96,000 (6.5%)	11	35	Rolled only when the roll for Depth Meter (1 in 80) fails. Rolled only when the roll for Compass (1 in 80) fails
Potato Chips	1	1/75 (1.33%)	52	172	Not from enemies spawned by a statue
Depth Meter	1	1/80 (1.25%)	56	184
Compass	1	79/6,400 (1.23%)	56	186	Rolled only when the roll for Depth Meter (1 in 80) fails

Item	Quantity	Chance	Kills for 50%	Kills for 90%	Conditions
Rally	1	6,241/96,000 (6.5%)	11	35	Rolled only when the roll for Depth Meter (1 in 80) fails. Rolled only when the roll for Compass (1 in 80) fails
Potato Chips	1	1/75 (1.33%)	52	172	Not from enemies spawned by a statue
Depth Meter	1	1/80 (1.25%)	56	184
Compass	1	79/6,400 (1.23%)	56	186	Rolled only when the roll for Depth Meter (1 in 80) fails

Item	Quantity	Chance	Kills for 50%	Kills for 90%	Conditions
Rally	1	6,241/96,000 (6.5%)	11	35	Rolled only when the roll for Depth Meter (1 in 80) fails. Rolled only when the roll for Compass (1 in 80) fails
Potato Chips	1	1/75 (1.33%)	52	172	Not from enemies spawned by a statue
Depth Meter	1	1/80 (1.25%)	56	184
Compass	1	79/6,400 (1.23%)	56	186	Rolled only when the roll for Depth Meter (1 in 80) fails

Chance is per kill. Kills for 50% / 90% is how many kills give that chance of at least one drop.