Sea Snail

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Statistics

Type	Aquatic
Environment	Ocean
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	20/40›72/60›108
Max Life	40/80›176/120›264
Defense	10/10›20
KB Resist	0%/10%/20%
Banner	Sea Snail Banner
Immune to

Drops

Coins	60Pre-Hardmode: 150Hardmode: 240

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Purple Mucus
  100%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 220

The Sea Snail is a rare enemy that spawns in the Ocean on either end of the world, usually during the night. Even then the spawn rate is still the lowest of all enemies in the Ocean, one third that of Squids. It slowly crawls along the sea floor.

When killed, it drops Purple Mucus, which is used to craft Purple Dye at a Dye Vat.

On the  PC version,  Console version,  Mobile version, and  tModLoader version, it is one of the few entities that can be detected by the Lifeform Analyzer or its upgrades.

Trivia[]

• It closely resembles the Syrinx aruanus (commonly known as Australian trumpet or false trumpet), the largest extant snail (shelled gastropod) species in the world, and the largest (heaviest) gastropod in the world.
• The Murex sea snail was used to create purple dye, it was so rare that its value was its own weight in gold. This is also why most countries do not have purple in their flags.

The Bestiary entry for the Sea Snail: "This unusually large snail makes its home deep in the ocean. Its mucus can be manufactured into a purple dye."

History[]

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1: Fixed a typo in the Bestiary description ("mucous" to "mucus").

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Can now be detected by the Lifeform Analyzer.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Can now drop its own respective banner.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.