Breathing Reed

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Statistics

Type	WeaponTool
Damage	10 (Melee)
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	27 (Average)
Tooltip	Increases breath time and allows breathing in water
Rarity	01*
Sell	20
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 186

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Ocean CrateOcean Crate	1	22.5*9/40 (22.5%)
Seaside CrateSeaside Crate	1	22.5*9/40 (22.5%)
Water ChestWater Chest	1	22.5*9/40 (22.5%) 23.33*7/30 (23.33%)

Diving equipment

any of the following: Diving Helmet Diving Gear Jellyfish Diving Gear Arctic Diving Gear

The Breathing Reed is an item which aids underwater travel. It can be found in Water Chests and Ocean Crates. On the  PC version,  Console version,  Mobile version, and  tModLoader version, it is also a melee weapon.

For the Breathing Reed to take effect, it must be held, i.e. selected in the hotbar or being attached to the cursor. When held, the reed appears above the player and the rate at which their breath meter depletes as well as the rate at which they lose health while drowning is halved. The reed's tip does not need to be above the surface of the water for this to take effect. Additionally, the breath meter refills as soon as the tip of the reed is outside of water, but not within a block.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Notes[]

• Holding the Breathing Reed prolongs the underwater breath to 46.67 seconds or, if paired with diving equipment, to 3 minutes and 6.67 seconds. In addition, the rate at which health is lost while drowning is reduced to 1/2 or 1/8, respectively.
• Though the Breathing Reed can have modifiers that change its size, this is only applies to combat, and does not increase the depth at which the player's breath meter can refill underwater.
• Holding it while having a Fish Bowl in the armor slot will prevent the player from drowning.

History[]

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Turned into a melee weapon. Still retains its previous functionality, however.

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.0.4: Recovered tooltip.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.1. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.1. ()

• Console-Release: Introduced with mechanics from Desktop 1.0.4.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Added new changes from Desktop 1.3.1 to 1.4.0.1.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced with mechanics from Desktop 1.0.4.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced with mechanics from 1.0.4.