Abigail's Flower (2024)

Desktop/Console/Mobile-Only Content: This information applies only to the Desktop, Console, and Mobile versions of Terraria.

Abigail's Flower

Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	6 (Summon)
Knockback	2 (Very weak)
Placeable	✔️
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons a friendly ghost to fight for you 'It's hauntingly beautiful.'
Rarity
Sell	50 SC
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Abigail(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Buff tooltip	Abigail will fight to protect you

Projectiles created

Abigail
Abigail (counter)

Sounds

Use
Abigail's attack
Abigail's cry
Abigail upgraded

Internal Item ID: 5114 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Internal Tile ID: 624
Internal Buff ID: 335 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Internal Projectile ID: 963, 970

The three stages of Abigail's head flower.

Abigail floating toward and proceeding to attack a Blue Slime. Note the passive damage dealt to the Target Dummy.

Abigail's Flower is a pre-Hardmode summon weapon that summons the Abigail minion. Abigail attacks by floating to enemies and flashing a light on them, similar to the Medusa Head. Like other minions, the summoned Abigail is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, cancels the buff, or leaves the world. When idle, the summon will still do damage towards entities.

Abigail's Flower is special in that if used more than once, multiple Abigails do not spawn – instead, the spawned Abigail becomes stronger and faster for each additional summon. Like the Stardust Dragon and the Desert Tiger, Abigail has a visual indicator for the number of times she is summoned, as the flower on her head will change shape and develop a redder hue for each stage.

Abigail's Flower can be uncommonly found as a plant growing on grass near a placed Tombstone, regardless of world progression. Its spawn chance is increased in The Constant secret world seed. The flower breaks in one hit when mined, and makes a grassy sound when doing so.

Its best modifiers are Mythical, Furious, or Godly. Due to its low base damage, all damage-improving modifiers +10% or greater improve its damage by the same amount. A Ruthless Abigail's Flower has no lasting advantage over one with other modifiers, as it deals less knockback.

1 Notes
2 Tips
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 History
6 References

Notes

Abigail's base damage starts at 6 and will increase each time she is summoned thereafter. It will increase by 3–4 damage (55% of the base damage) in pre-Hardmode and by 7–8 damage (130% of the base damage) in Hardmode.^[1] For example, using Abigail's Flower five times will cause Abigail to deal 19 damage in pre-Hardmode and 37 damage in Hardmode.
Abigail also increases in movement speed, acceleration, and max number of enemies she can damage at once with each summon.^[2]
In regular worlds, Abigail's Flower can only grow on the surface layer and above. In don't dig up and get fixed boi worlds, it can grow at any layer.^[3]
The Abigail's Flower grows on most types of grass (see below) that is no more than 10 tiles away (horizontally and vertically) from any type of Tombstone, and can replace existing plants.^[4] It cannot grow within a 240×240-tile rectangle centered on another Abigail's Flower^[5] (i.e., multiple flowers need at least 120 tiles horizontally or vertically between them).

Grass
Corrupt grass
Mushroom grass
Hallowed grass
Crimson grass
Mowed grass(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Mowed Hallowed grass(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Ash grass(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Tips

It may help to make a large area of Tombstones evenly spaced out in large areas while trying to obtain this item, as it will have more potential locations to grow.
It is best to be used with another item that can counter an enemy's movement, as Abigail cannot move while attacking.
Despite being a pre-Hardmode summon weapon, Abigail's Flower can work well in Hardmode, and can be a good substitute for Hardmode summon items, particularly due to the fact that it gains additional damage per summon in Hardmode. This is especially noticeable when paired with the Firecracker.

Trivia

Despite being a plant, Abigail's Flower cannot be grown by walking over grass blocks with Flower Boots equipped, like other plants.
The flavor text of the item is a reference to Wilson's examination quote for Abigail's Flower in Don't Starve Together.
Abigail's Flower is tied with the Blade Staff for the lowest base damage of any summon weapon.
Abigail's Flower and the Terraprisma are the only minion-summoning weapons that do not have the word staff in their name.
Abigail will occasionally make the sound of a laughing Pipspook, an entity in Don't Starve Together.
- This also makes Abigail the only summoned minion who has idle sound effects.

History

Desktop version

Desktop 1.4.4.5: Can now grow on Mushroom and Ash grass.

Desktop 1.4.4:
- Now breaks in one hit when mined, and makes a grassy sound when doing so.
- Can no longer grow on Jungle grass.

Desktop 1.4.3.2:
- Increased base speed by 33%.
- Decreased speed growth per minion from 1.5 to 1.4 (ends at exactly the same value at 11-minion).
- Improved base acceleration by 10%.
- Decreased acceleration growth from 2 to 1.75 (maxes out at the same minion count).
- Fixed (again) Abigail's Flower growth not appearing on servers, requiring players to log in again to see it.

Desktop 1.4.3.1:
- Increased spawnrate by 33%.
- Abigail can now only hit up to 3 enemies at once per "attack". This cap increases with additional summons.
- Fixed an issue where Abigail's Flower would not visually sync on servers when it grew (rendering it invisible until the player rejoined).

Desktop 1.4.3: Introduced.

Console version

Console 1.4.3.2.0: Introduced with changes from Desktop 1.4.3.1 to 1.4.3.2.

Nintendo Switch version

Switch 1.4.3.2.0: Introduced with changes from Desktop 1.4.3.1 to 1.4.3.2.

Mobile version

Mobile 1.4.3.2.0: Introduced with changes from Desktop 1.4.3.1 to 1.4.3.2.

References

↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.3.2 source code, method Damage() in Terraria.Projectile.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current Desktop version is 1.4.4.9.
↑ https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/dst-equipment-might-need-a-huge-buff
↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method UpdateWorld() in Terraria.WorldGen.cs.
↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, methods HasValidGroundForAbigailsFlowerBelowSpot() in Terraria.WorldGen.cs, TryGrowingAbigailsFlower() in Terraria.WorldGen.cs, and PlaceTile() in Terraria.WorldGen.cs.
↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.4.4.9 source code, method NoNearbyAbigailsFlower() in Terraria.WorldGen.cs.