Legacy:Terra Blade

Terra Blade

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Statistics

Type	WeaponCrafting material
Damage	88 (Melee)
Knockback	6.5 (Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	16 (Very fast)
Velocity	12
Rarity	08*
Sell	20 GC
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Terra Beam
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 757
• Internal Projectile ID: 132

The Terra Blade is a Hardmode projectile sword which becomes available after defeating one mechanical boss.

The Terra Blade fires a green sword-shaped projectile when swung, which costs neither mana nor ammunition, deals 125% base damage, and can pierce through two enemies, dissipating after hitting a third enemy or a wall. The projectile can travel up to 5000 feet (2500 tiles) at a speed of 61 mph. The fire rate and velocity of the projectile can be increased by melee speed bonuses.

Its best modifier is Legendary. While Light does decrease the base use time by one, the added critical strike chance and the multiplicative damage bonuses of Legendary are better in any practical use case.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station

Crafting tree

Obsidian × 20 ( + )

Hellstone × 60 ( Underworld )

Demonite Ore × 40 ( )

Crimtane Ore × 40 ( )

Jungle Spores × 12 ( Underground Jungle )

Stinger × 15 ( )

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Hellstone Bar × 20

Demonite Bar × 10

Crimtane Bar × 10

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Blade of Grass

Muramasa

Fiery Greatsword

Light's Bane

or

Blood Butcherer

Hallowed Bar × 12 ( )

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Broken Hero Sword ( (0.4%) )

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Excalibur

Night's Edge

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True Excalibur

True Night's Edge

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Terra Blade

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station

Notes

The Terra Blade in use. Notice that its projectile can pierce, unlike the True Night's Edge's.

• The sword's projectile will graphically disappear upon leaving the player's screen but will be visible again if they teleport in its direction.

Trivia

• The Terra Beam is the only sword-shaped melee projectile that is capable of piercing through enemies.
• It is considered the strongest sword in the game, tied with The Horseman's Blade.
• The Terra Blade itself also bears a certain resemblance to the True Excalibur's, being straight and symmetrical.
• Crafting the Terra Blade requires the most raw ingredients of any sword:
  • 40 Demonite / Crimtane Ore
  • 12 Jungle Spores
  • 15 Stingers
  • 1 Muramasa
  • 60 Hellstone
  • 20 Obsidian
  • 12 Hallowed Bars
  • 3 Broken Hero Swords
• It can be considered to be much harder to craft than on  Desktop version,  Console version, and  Mobile version due to needing three Broken Hero Swords and the drop rate being very low (1/250). On the plus side, it can be obtained after defeating one mechanical boss.

History

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.