Cactus Tools

Cactus is a tier of tools on par with wooden tools, intended to be used within the deserts. While cactus tools are less durable than wooden tools, they come with the added benefit of a pricking effect on enemies.

Attributes
Cactus tools are crafted from cactus planks.

Cactus tools are on par with wooden tools in almost every way, acting as their desert equivalent. Cactus tools however are less durable than wooden tools. However, cactus tools come with the ability to prick enemies. The pricking effect given will only last for half a second (10 ticks), dealing only a half heart more damage. The pricking effect will also only happen on unarmoured foes, and zombies are not affected by pricking.

Trivia

 * Before 1.1, cactus tools had to be crafted using "cactus sticks". Cactus sticks were removed due to being unnecessary, however the handle of cactus tools still bares resemblence to cactus sticks.
 * Cactus tools are based off of the way cacti is handled in Terraria, as hinted in older descriptions of Addtlcraft.