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Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.
Wood woad: A creature resembling big, burly, bestial men made entirely of wood and bark bearing, but without foliage [29] Yellow musk creeper : [ 22 ] A creeping plant that drains the intelligence of its victims, killing them or turning them into "yellow musk zombies " under the plant's control [ 24 ]
Arrows used with compound bows do not differ significantly from those used with recurve bows, being typically either aluminum alloy, carbon fiber, or a composite of the two materials. Wooden arrows are not commonly used on compound bows because of their fragility. Most arrows in use today are of the carbon fiber variety.
A Roman siege engine for throwing arrows and javelins. The name comes from the Greek katapeltes because it could pierce or 'go through' (kata) shields (peltas). The catapulta was made of wood and were placed on stands. Mangonel: 6th Century AD China: A type of trebuchet which uses traction. Springald: 11th century Byzantium
Viburnum rafinesqueanum, the downy arrowwood, is a deciduous medium-sized (typically about 2 meters tall) shrub native to the Eastern United States and Canada from Quebec and Manitoba south to Georgia and west to Oklahoma.
Rhabdomancy is a divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like.. One method of rhabdomancy was setting a number of staffs on end and observing where they fall, to divine the direction one should travel, or to find answers to certain questions.
Japanese bows, arrows, and arrow-stand Yumi bow names Yumi ( 弓 ) is the Japanese term for a bow . As used in English , yumi refers more specifically to traditional Japanese asymmetrical bows, and includes the longer daikyū ( 大弓 ) and the shorter hankyū ( 半弓 ) used in the practice of kyūdō and kyūjutsu , or Japanese archery .
Kabura-ya were arrows which whistled when shot [1] and were used in ritual archery exchanges before formal medieval battles. Like a wind instrument, the sound was created by a specially carved or perforated bulb of deer horn or wood attached to the tip. In English, these are often called "whistling-bulb arrows", "messenger arrows", or "signal ...