Ham Bat

Type	Weapon
Damage	57 (Melee)
Knockback	6.5 (Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 (Very fast)
Tooltip	Grows more powerful the better fed you are; Defeating enemies temporarily improves healing; 'TIS A WEAPON O' PIG BUTT!'
Rarity
Sell	1
Research	1 required
Buff	Hearty Meal
Buff tooltip	Increased Life Regeneration
Chance	100% (when killing an enemy)
Duration	7 seconds
Use

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

Buff	Base damage
No food buff	57
Well Fed	59
Plenty Satisfied	62
Exquisitely Stuffed	65

Ham Bat (demo) — A player using the Ham Bat against a Target Dummy, consuming an Apple Pie to demonstrate its ability.

The Ham Bat is an early-Hardmode melee weapon that has a 4*1/25 (4%) chance to drop from Pigrons. On The Constant seed, the drop chance is increased to 10*1/10 (10%). Killing an enemy with the Ham Bat grants the Hearty Meal buff, which increases the player's health regeneration by 3 per second.^[1] This lasts for 7 seconds, but can be canceled at any time by selecting the icon and canceling it in the equipment menu () or by double-tapping the buff icon (). Hearty Meal will not stack upon killing another enemy; the duration instead resets.

The Ham Bat's damage is slightly increased if a food buff is active;^[2] see the table on the right.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Trivia[]

The tooltip is a reference to Wilba's examination quote for the Ham Bat in Don't Starve: Hamlet.
The icon of the Hearty Meal buff is the same as that of Life Drain's buff.

Tips[]

Destroying a Chaos Ball, Burning Sphere, Water Sphere, and Vile Spit can give the Hearty Meal buff, making it useful during a Goblin Army, fighting the Eater of Worlds in Expert Mode, fighting Corruptors, fighting Dark Casters in the Dungeon, or fighting Fire Imps in The Underworld.

History[]

PC version

Desktop 1.4.3.2:
- Killing enemies will now grant the Hearty Meal buff, briefly increasing health regeneration.
- Increased damage from 50 to 57.
- Increased size by 20%.

Desktop 1.4.3: Introduced.

References[]

↑ Information taken from the PC 1.4.3.2 source code, method UpdateLifeRegen() in Terraria.Player.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current PC version is 1.4.4.9.
↑ Information taken from the PC 1.4.3 source code, method ItemCheck_MeleeHitNPCs() in Terraria.Player.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current PC version is 1.4.4.9.

[sourcecode_1-1] Information taken from the PC 1.4.3.2 source code, method UpdateLifeRegen() in Terraria.Player.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current PC version is 1.4.4.9.

[sourcecode_2-2] Information taken from the PC 1.4.3 source code, method ItemCheck_MeleeHitNPCs() in Terraria.Player.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current PC version is 1.4.4.9.

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Buff	Hearty Meal
Buff tooltip	Increased Life Regeneration
Chance	100% (when killing an enemy)
Duration	7 seconds