Instant Kills

Instakill
An instant kill (insta) is a special type of attack when your enemy is killed instantly. It can be accomplished using any weapon, including Stick, by using Turret Hat, Bull Helmet, Spike, Musket or any other ranged weapon as well as melee weapons. However, not all instakills need primary or even ranged weapons.

Strategy

 * Use an instakill...
 * ...if your good a PvP
 * ...good at melee weapons and ranged weapons
 * ...want to DESTROY a player
 * ...want to DESTROY a hacker
 * ...want a powerful combo
 * ...want to try something new or different

Types of Instakills

 * POLEARM. The Polearm instakill is simple. Bull helmet and polearm will do 68 damage, paired with a musket or a crossbow will instakill. To do this instakill, quickly put on your bull helmet, hit the enemy with the polearm and quickly switch to musket and shoot them. This may take a couple tries especially if you enemy is a food spammer or has a shield.
 * ADVANCED POLEARM. Once you got hang of the Polearm instakill. You can try the more advanced version by adding the turret hat!
 * First equip the bull helmet and aim at your enemy, press x for convenience to keep your aim at the same angle, scroll down the shop to your already bought turret hat and hover your mouse over it, click and press e at almost the same time, but the clicking comes first because hat switching is slower than e attacking, after pressing e and clicking on equip for turret hat, switch to musket to complete the insta. The turret cannon shot and the musket bullet should stack. In total, this insta does 143 damage (68+25+50) with a normal polearm+bull helmet


 * Circle Of Death. make not seem as a instakill and may fail a couple of times but it's the easiest and a less likely instakill to fail. The circle of death is based of Corrupt X way to kill people. You trap them in a pit trap and circle them with spikes around them. Then break the pit trap. They will likely hit a spike bounce off another and die. Not instantly but it had the same effect.


 * Dual/Triple Musket. For this instakill you will need a musket and 1 or 2 other player . If the two or three of you shoot at the same time, it will do 100 or 150 damage. Using Triple Musket is good against Soldier Helmet users.
 * Double Spike + Crossbow/Hunting Bow/Turret Gear. Place two spikes(must be greater or spinning) next to each other in between a player, then shoot them(if you used Greater, use Repeater Crossbow or above).
 * Katana+Bull Helmet+Spinning Spike. Katana with Bull Helmet will do 60 damage, along with the placing of Spinning spike will do an additional 45 damage, for a total of 105 damage and since a player has a limit of 100 hp this will be a instakill. This can also be done using Great Axe + Bull Helmet + Spinning Spike, or Polearm + Bull Helmet + Greater Spike


 * Short Sword+Bull Helmet+Musket. Short Sword + Bull Helmet = 53 damage, plus the 50 damage of the musket, will deal a total of 103 damage. Hit them with the short sword while wearing the bull helmet then shoot. Quickly do this so the enemy doesn't survive.
 * Bow insta. Farm to age 9 and don't choose any of the bow upgrades. After that find an enemy and point bow them(press e and x), the moment you shoot them, upgrade to crossbow and then to musket. Bow 25 + crossbow 35 + musket 50 = 110 damage. If the enemy wears soldier helmet, equip turret = 135 damages. This insta takes a lot of skills and practice.
 * Katana+Bull Helmet+Great Hammer. Equip bull helmet, hit enemy with katana and switch to great hammer. You can do this by pressing e and 1, 2, 1, 2...If they survive the insta, equip turret gear. You can also do this by using Great Axe + Bull Helmet + Hammer.
 * Dagger+Bull Helmet+Musket. Equip Bull Helmet, hit with dagger, switch to musket, and again switch to dagger. To do this press e and 1, 2, 1, 2...Dagger Bull Helmet 30 + Musket 50 + Dagger Bull Helmet 30 = 110 damages.


 * Trap + Spike Not technically an instakill, but it almost instantly kills any player, and no players can survive it. To do this very easy "insta" you have to have pit traps. Greater spike is recommended, because with great hammer and/or tank gear, your target could escape from the trap before you can preform it. First, trap a player. Then immediately place a spike next to them. If they are on the edge of the trap, it should kill them. If they dont die, shove them onto the spike. However, this is risky because they could insta you while you do it.
 * Age 1 instakill You first put on Bull Helmet and walk toward to enemy, you hit them with tool hammer and quickly switch to Polearm. Tool Hammer 38 damage + Polearm 68 damage = 106 damage.

Hats for Instakills
Doing an insta is better with the turret gear hat due to the 25 health hit damage, but the bull helmet is great too here is the amount of damage each weapon with bull hat does.
 * Tool Hammer will do 38 damage when worn with Bull Helmet (25 damage without)
 * Hand Axe will do 45 damage when worn with Bull Helmet (30 damage without)
 * Great Axe will do 53 damage when worn with Bull Helmet (35 damage without)
 * Short Sword will do 53 damage when worn with the Bull Helmet (35 damage without)


 * Katana will do 60 damage when worn with the Bull Helmet (40 damage without)
 * Great Hammer will do 75 damage to structures when worn with the Bull Helmet (75 damage without)


 * Polearm will do 68 damage when worn with the Bull Helmet (45 damage without)
 * Bat will do 30 damage when worn with the Bull Helmet (20 damage without)
 * Daggers will do 30 damage when worn with the Bull Helmet (20 damage without)
 * Stick will do 2 damage when worn with the Bull Helmet (1 damage without)
 * Structural damage with Bull Helmet stays the same.

Trivia

 * You used to be able to wear the Bull helmet with the angel wings to counteract the drain effects (so you could basically wear it forever) but that was patched in the 0.895 update Increasing the drain of the Bull helmet therefore fixing the exploit