Borean Strider

Borean StriderHardmode exclusive

Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	Rain – Snow Biome
AI Type	Borean Strider AI
Damage	55 / 110
Max Life	10000 / 15000
Defense	20 / 40
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Borean StriderPoppedHardmode exclusive

Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	Rain – Snow Biome
AI Type	Borean Strider AI
Damage	55 / 110
Max Life	5000 / 7500
Defense	10 / 20
KB Resist	100%
Immune to

Drops

Coins	80000*8

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• One of the following 5 items will be dropped
• Glacial Sting
  20%
• Glacier
  20%
• Borean Fang Staff
  20%
• Freeze Ray
  20%
• The Cryo-Fang
  20%
• Borean Strider Mask
  10%
• Borean Strider Trophy
  10%
• Treasure Bag(Borean Strider)

  • Ice Bound Strider Hide

  100%

"An eight legged menace is prowling the tundra..."

The Borean Strider is a surface snow biome Hardmode boss that spawns during Hardmode Blizzards. It drops one of its five weapons when defeated and has its own associated trophy and mask.

While The Borean Strider is alive, its exclusive Music will play.

Spawn

The Borean Strider can spawn on its own as long as the player is within a Hardmode Blizzard, but can also be summoned with a Strider's Tear. Its presence is indicated with the message "An eight legged menace is prowling the tundra..."

Behavior

The Borean Strider leaps around the battle field much like slimes do, as well as unleashing various frost attacks at the player such as:

• Sending out frosty shockwaves after every hop that chills and damages players.
• Shooting a high velocity icicle attack that has a chance to inflict Frostburn and freezes the player on hit.
• Periodically teleporting above the player to deal contact damage.
• Releasing a crystal wave of icy bursts that deal significant damage and freezes hit players for one second.
• Upon reaching 50% life, the cracking abdomen of the Borean Strider will rupture, spawning a set of Borean Hoppers.
• While below 50% life, the Borean Strider will spawn Borean Hoppers and Borean Mytes in an alternating pattern.

Summons

Image	Name	Condition
	Borean Hopper	After its egg sack has been popped
	Borean Myte

Aftermath

• Upon defeating the Borean Strider for the first time, new enemies will begin to spawn in underground Spider Caves; namely, the Black Widow, the Brown Recluse, the Tarantula, and in Ice biomes the Frost Fang. This is indicated with the message upon its defeat "The Spider Nests in your world tremble in anger..."

• Once defeated, the Cobbler will start selling Ice Skates.

Tips

For an in depth guide on strategies plus equipment and arena recommendations, see Guide:Borean Strider strategies.

Trivia

• The Borean Strider bears resemblance to the artist Endling's Tundrantula and is inspired off of it.
• Despite its spawn message saying "An eight legged menace is prowling the tundra...", its sprite only shows six legs.

History

• 1.4.3.7:
  • All visuals have been updated again.
  • Fight has been updated and phases normalized.
• 1.2.12.1:
  • All visuals have been updated.
  • Upgraded to an early Hardmode boss:
    • All attacks and effects have been overhauled.
    • Now has 2 phases.
    • The Tundra Baby summon is now called Borean Hopper.
    • Now has an additional summon, the Borean Myte .
  • Now has a Treasure Bag that drops the Ice Bound Strider Hide.
  • No longer drops Blizzard MK II.
  • Now has a Boss Mask.
• 1.2.4.0: Introduced.