Fly Downwards

Fly Downwards is a projectile modifier that causes spells to fly directly downwards shortly after casting. The modifier locks the trajectory of the projectile, making it impossible for it to move in any other direction.

Tips

• Can be used with Horizontal Path to lock a projectile in place, preventing it from moving at all.
• This makes Giga Disc Projectile and Omega Disk Projectile more safe to use when activated with a trigger at range, as the disc will crash into the ground if it misses instead of coming back towards you.
• When the projectile starts to fly downward (after about a third of a second), it does so at twice its speed beforehand. Stacking more of the modifier will increase the speed exponentially, up to a projectile-specific speed cap (with few exceptions). (If a sufficiently large speed modification is applied within a single frame, the speed will be set to zero or "not a number" (NaN) rather than the normal speed cap for that projectile.)
• Additionally multiplies the speed multiplier for the current shot by 1.2, without applying the typical cap of 20x or 0x on this speed multiplier. For a limited number of projectiles where 20x does not reach the built-in speed cap of the projectile, this enables reaching that speed cap immediately without the 2x speed multiplications when the turn downward takes effect or use of modifiers like Accelerating Shot.
• Tentacle physics do not have a speed cap, unlike other projectiles, allowing for placement of spells in far-off chunks using its timer variant and these speed multiplications.
• With enough modifiers applied to Circle of Fervour or similar spells, or to Expiration Triggers holding them as payloads, these circles will be deployed at NaN ("not a number") coordinates due to reaching "infinite" speed. Fields at these locations behave strangely, applying some or all of their built-in effects and modifiers to all enemies or even other entities, without a limit on the range.
• Divide By 2 Divide By 10 Fly downwards Summon Rock will cause the rock to rapidly alternate between two positions and delete or absorb liquids it encounters.

See Also

• Fly Upwards

Gallery

Firebomb being made to Fly Upwards, simply imagine it going down instead.

Locking the Firebomb in place using Horizontal Path and Fly Upwards.

The trajectory-confining spells are imperfect at resisting gravity and acceleration, as seen with Firebolt here.

History

• Apr 8 2024:
  • Changed the spawn probabilities on tiers 1, 3, and 5 from 0.4 to 0.3, 0.45, and 0.3 respectively.
  • Changed cast delay from -0.05s to -0.13s.
  • Changed speed modifier from x1 to x1.2.

• Oct 11 2019: Added to the game.

 

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Other

• Wand and Spell Tiers
• Spell Information Table
• Modding:Spell IDs
• Unlockable spells