Terra Blade

  

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On the differences of this information with Old-gen console and 3DS is at Legacy:Terra Blade.

Terra Blade

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Statistics

Type	WeaponCrafting material
Damage	85 (Melee)
Knockback	6.5 (Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	18 (Very fast)
Velocity	12
Rarity	08*
Sell	20 GC
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

• Terra Blade
  
• Terra Beam
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 757
• Internal Projectile ID: 984, 985

For an extensive guide to crafting this item, see Guide:Crafting a Terra Blade.

The Terra Blade is a Hardmode projectile sword which becomes available after defeating Plantera.

The Terra Blade fires a wide green slash wave projectile with each swing. It also has a large aura of energy around the blade when swung, which significantly increases the range at which the weapon can deal damage to enemies, including coverage behind the player. The projectile deals 100% base damage at first and pierces an infinite amount of targets before applying a 25% damage penalty for each target it pierces. The projectile will disappear after 1.5 seconds, upon hitting a solid block, or when its damage falls to 0 after piercing. If the blade, its aura, or its projectile strikes an enemy, a green flash is created.

It is later used to craft the Zenith, which is the strongest melee weapon in the game.

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
Terra Blade	True Night's Edge True Excalibur Broken Hero Sword	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

Crafting tree

Obsidian × 20 ( + )

Hellstone × 60 ( Underworld )

Demonite Ore × 30 ( )

Crimtane Ore × 30 ( )

Stinger × 12 ( )

Jungle Spores × 15 ( Underground Jungle )

Hallowed Bar × 12 ( )

Chlorophyte Ore × 120 ( Underground Jungle in Hardmode )

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Hellstone Bar × 20

Demonite Bar × 10

Crimtane Bar × 10

Vine × 3 ( )

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Excalibur

Chlorophyte Bar × 24

Muramasa

Volcano

Light's Bane

or

Blood Butcherer

Blade of Grass

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Night's Edge

Soul of Sight × 20 ( )

Soul of Might × 20 ( )

Soul of Fright × 20 ( )

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True Excalibur

Broken Hero Sword ( (25% / 43.75%) )

True Night's Edge

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Terra Blade

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Zenith(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	Terra Blade Meowmere(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Star Wrath(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Influx Waver(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) The Horseman's Blade Seedler(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Starfury Bee Keeper Enchanted Sword Copper Shortsword	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

Notes

The Terra Blade in use.

• Effects from a flask will apply to the sword's projectile as well.
• The Terra Blade only receives 75% of melee speed bonuses.
• It will always knock enemies away from the player, regardless of the direction it is swung.

Achievements

Sword of the Hero • “Obtain a Terra Blade, forged from the finest blades of light and darkness.”

Obtain a Terra Blade. (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Category: Collector

Tips

• Due to the fast speed and high damage of the beams, it is very effective to use the Terra Blade more as a projectile weapon than an actual sword. Even without the sword itself, it can still do massive amounts of damage at long ranges without the use of bullets or mana.
• Because the Terra Blade shoots a projectile that can penetrate through enemies, this melee weapon is highly beneficial when fighting against hordes of enemies or for events such as the Pirate Invasion or Martian Madness.
• When seeking to craft the Terra Blade, it is recommended to gradually get all the materials needed as the player progress through the game instead of having to scramble and collect everything when all materials are available.
• Because this weapon has a high rate of fire, damage output, and fires piercing projectiles, it can prove rather effective in the Old One's Army event. Standing right in front of the crystal and shooting projectiles horizontally can easily deal with all the ground enemies, while the constantly-swinging sword will make it harder for the Etherian Wyverns to land an attack.

Trivia

• Crafting the Terra Blade requires obtaining a total of eight different usable swords.
• The color of the Terra Beam's projectiles changes to yellow during a Blood Moon due to its inherent red filtering effects.
• The Terra Blade's functionality is a combination of both of its ingredient weapons, as can be seen by the piercing projectiles that resemble that of the True Night's Edge and the extended melee slash attacks that resemble that of the True Excalibur.
• The Terra Blade itself also bears a certain resemblance to the Night's Edge in terms of shape, featuring a curved blade with holes in its side.
• Crafting the Terra Blade requires:
  • 30 Demonite / Crimtane Ore
  • 15 Jungle Spores
  • 12 Stingers
  • 3 Vines
  • 1 Muramasa
  • 60 Hellstone
  • 20 Obsidian
  • 20 Souls of Sight
  • 20 Souls of Might
  • 20 Souls of Fright
  • 12 Hallowed Bars
  • 120 Chlorophyte Ore
  • 1 Broken Hero Sword
• The Terra Blade appears in the video game Dungeon Defenders 2 as a weapon.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4.8: Reduced the benefits from melee speed stat bonuses by 25%.

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Damage reduced from 115 to 85.
  • Use time increased from 14 to 18.
  • Terra Blade now has an area of damaging energy around the blade, dealing damage in a larger, wider area of effect, including better coverage behind the player.
  • Instead of a projectile sword beam fired on a cooldown, Terra Blade now fires a medium-long range, rapidly moving slash of green energy with every swing.

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Damage increased from 95 to 115.
  • Use time decreased from 16 to 14.
  • Projectile damage increased from 1.25× to 1.5× of the base damage.
  • Once again requires a Broken Hero Sword to craft.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now used to craft the Zenith.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Now makes a new sound when swung.
  • No longer directly requires a Broken Hero Sword to craft.
  • Damage increased from 88 to 95.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Now autoswings.

• Desktop 1.2.3:
  • Damage increased from 80 to 88.
  • Increased projectile fire rate.
  • Removed mana sound when swung.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.