Matter Staff

Matter Staff
Primary: Foreground, Secondary: Background.
Category	staff
Tier	5
Primary	Special: Gravity Siphon (F)
Alt	Special: Gravity Siphon (R)
Rarity	rare
Price	4320
Stack size	1
Two-handed?	Yes
Tags	weapon staff gravity
ID	gravitystaff

Unlocked by Dense Alloy Equipment (Armor and Weapons tree).

Matter Staff is a high-tech alternate mining tool. It mines the blocks by targeting them with a controllable flying orb (which follows your cursor for up to 20 seconds, and then disappears).

Left-click creates an orb that can mine foreground blocks, right-click - background blocks.

It mines in a circular area with radius 3 (5x5 square without 3 blocks in each corner) and inflicts many 5 block damage ticks per second. Weak blocks like Dirt will be mined almost instantly.

Other mechanics

• The orb can "grab" the monsters and drag them around, but won't do any damage to them. That won't cause them to aggro on the player.
• The orb doesn't affect the player.
• The orb doesn't interact with liquids.
• The orb can move items that are lying on the ground (including the blocks that you just mined).
• Matter Staff can be used at significant distance from the blocks that you are mining (far exceeding Mining Laser or Master Manipulator by this parameter).

See also

• Gravity Wand - orb that can move the player, but doesn't interact with blocks.

How to obtain

Assembly Line

8x Dense Alloy 2x Unknown Technology 2x Quantum Fluid

1x Matter Staff

Mining tools (they remove blocks from the ground, and then give these blocks to you)
Direct well-controlled mining	Matter Manipulator (and its upgrades: Morphite, Quantum, Precursor, Master) Pickaxe (and its variant Drill)
Very fast erratic mining	Mining Laser
Explosives that mine blocks (without losing the blocks)	Crude Bomb · Powder Keg · Throwing Dynamite · Blasting Dynamite · C4 Plastic Explosive
Long-distance mining tools	Quarry · Blastcap Launcher · Matter Staff · Boom Cannon
Ore detectors	Precision Ore Detector · Multi-ore Detector · Cave Detector · Ore Drone I · Ore Drone II · Ore Drone III · Mining Drone
Mech arms for mining	Mining Cannons (I, II, III), mech Drills (Iron, Tungsten, Zerchesium, Diamond, Densinium)