Homunculus

Homunculus
Every time you leave a Holy Mountain, a helpful homunculus is summoned.
Type	Passive
Categories	Minion
Player Only	yes
Stacking
Stacks	yes
Stacks	yes
Max	10
Max	10
Holy Mountains
Available in HM	yes
Available in HM	yes
Pool Max ⓘ	2
Pool Max ⓘ	2
Reappears After	4
Reappears After	4

Homunculus is a perk that summons a small homunculus follower when you enter any named biome for the first time other than a Holy Mountain.

Stacking

Stacking the perk gives Homunculi extra damage, and increases the maximum count of Homunculi you can have.

Tips

• As with all minion perks, these guys really like to kill enemies, including those you may wish to keep alive (e.g. Parantajahiisi or Haavoittajamestari)
• There is no limit to how many homunculi can follow you at any time. The homunculus attacks with one of 5 different types of projectiles.
• Homunculi will not attack you or each other due to More Hatred perks.
• Homunculi will normally not attack you or each other due to Berserk.
• Homunculi get double the maximum HP of Minä when they first spawn. Reloading the game causes them to lose most of this HP, instead gaining max HP depending on the current depth by this formula: $\color {white}max\_hp=(math.floor(y/512)*0.5)+0.5$ Homunculus with negative HP will become Berserk, will start being able to attack you and each other when berserked, and will lose any active Charmed effect.
• They will attack any non-player creatures and will teleport to you if they are separated.
• They will drown themselves in liquids even if it would be possible to swim to safety.
• They can damage you. Given their tendency to teleport close to you they are a hazard for players with little health or close to dangerous environment.
• Homunculi may directly target you if you Polymorph into a normally hostile enemy, resulting in almost immediate death. Exercise extreme caution around Chaotic Polymorphine.
• Shattering a Greed-Cursed Crystal will disable future homunculi from spawning from currently-held Homunculus perks.

Negative HP Homunculus

Homunculus fails to copy your HP when reloading into the game and uses a formula where they get more HP depending on depth. This formula results in negative HP above y = -512, which means slightly above starting location. This will cause homunculus being unable to die, while also becoming Berserk and attacking you.

The easiest way to deal with this is to move below y = -512 ( go underground ) and reloading the game again. They can also be Charmed, but this status will be cleared whenever reloading above y = -512.

Gallery

A Homunculus follows Minä.