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

The Terra Blade is a Hardmode projectile sword crafted from a True Excalibur and True Night's
Edge. It has the highest base damage of any pre-Plantera weapon. When used, it fires a green
sword-shaped projectile which costs neither mana nor ammunition, deals 25% more damage
than the sword, and can pierce through two enemies, dissipating upon hitting a third enemy or a
wall. The projectile can travel up to 5000 feet (2500 blocks) at a speed of 61 mph.
The Terra Blade becomes available after defeating one (   ) / all (     ) Mechanical
Bosses.
Its best modifier is Legendary.

Contents
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 1Crafting
o 1.1Recipe
o 1.2Crafting tree
 2Notes
 3Achievement
 4Tips
 5Trivia
 6History

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Recipe[edit | edit source]
Result Ingredients Crafting station

 True Night's Edge

Terra Blade
(     )
 True Excalibur
Mythril Anvil
or
Orichalcum Anvil
 True Night's Edge

Terra Blade
(   )  True Excalibur

 Broken Hero Sword

Crafting tree[edit | edit source]

Obsidian
( + )
 Stinger × 12     
Jungle Spores × 12
15   
( Underground Jungle )
( )

( )

Blade of Grass Muramasa

Hallowed Bar × 12

( )
 /

Broken Hero Sword

Excalibur (

    /
  )

/ /

Only needed in
 
True Excalibur True Night's Edge

Terra Blade

Notes[edit | edit source]

 Due to the autoswing, the projectile will only fire on every other swing rather than every
swing. The Terra Blade's projectile can be fired faster by rapidly clicking instead of using
autoswing.
 Modifiers that decrease speed will not fix this, as they will also reduce the rate at which
projectiles can be fired.
 Improvements to the weapon's melee speed increase the velocity and fire rate of the
projectile. It is one of the few projectile melee weapons whose fire rate improves with melee
speed.
 Effects from a Flask will apply to the sword's projectile as well.
 The sword's projectile will graphically disappear upon leaving the player's screen but will be
visible again if they teleport in its direction.

Achievement[edit | edit source]

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

Tips[edit | edit source]

     In order to speed up the process of obtaining a Terra Blade, a Solar Eclipse can be
spawned manually using a Solar Tablet. It is crafted from Solar Tablet Fragments which are
dropped by enemies in the Jungle Temple. Although this biome requires
defeating Plantera to enter, its enemies can frequently be found near the entrance door, and
there are several methods to enter the Jungle Temple pre-Plantera.
 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.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

 Its crafting tree contains a total of eight different usable swords.
 The projectile fired by the Terra Blade is referred to as the "Terra Beam" in death messages.
 The Terra Beam is the only sword shaped melee projectile that deals piercing damage.
The Influx Waver's projectile can also hit multiple enemies, but does so by teleporting from
one enemy to another.
 The Terra Beam’s color changes to yellow in a blood moon.
 The Terra Blade itself bears a certain resemblance to the Night's Edge in terms of shape,
while the projectile appears more similar to the Excalibur, as "forged from the finest blades
of light and dark".
 The sword's projectile, Terra Beam, resembles the True Excalibur's projectile with the color
of the True Night's Edge's projectile.
     Prior to 1.3, it was considered the strongest sword in the game, tied with The
Horseman's Blade.
 Crafting the Terra Blade requires the most raw ingredients of any sword:
 30 (     ) / 40 (   ) Demonite / Crimtane Ore
 12 Jungle Spores
 12 (     ) / 15 (   ) Stingers
 1 Muramasa
 60 Hellstone
 20 Obsidian
 12 Hallowed Bars
 2(     )/3(   ) Broken Hero Swords
History[edit | edit source]
Desktop version

 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.

Switch version

 Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

Mobile version

 Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

version

 3DS-Release: Introduced.
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Ore Swords
Shortswords:

 Copper
 Tin
 Iron
 Lead
 Silver
 Tungsten
 Gold
 Platinum
Broadswords:

 Copper
 Tin
 Iron
 Lead
 Silver
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Tungsten
Gold 
 Platinum
 Light's Bane
 Blood Butcherer
 Fiery Greatsword
Hardmode:

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Cobalt
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Palladium
 Mythril
 Orichalcum
 Adamantite
 Titanium
 Chlorophyte

o Saber
o Claymore

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Pre-Hardmode

 Wooden Sword

o Boreal      
o Palm      
o Mahogany
o Ebonwood
o Shadewood

 Cactus Sword
 Zombie Arm
 Mandible Blade  

Bladed Glove
 Stylish Scissors    
 Candy Cane Sword      
 Bone Sword
 Katana      
 Ice Blade
 Muramasa
 Exotic Scimitar    
 Arkhalis    
  Phaseblade
Starfury
 Purple Clubberfish
 Enchanted Sword
 Bee Keeper
 Blade of Grass
 Falcon Blade
 Night's Edge
Hardmode

 Pearlwood Sword
 Classy Cane    
 Slap Hand    
 Breaker Blade
 Phasesaber
 Ice Sickle
 Cutlass
 Frostbrand
 Excalibur
 Seedler    
 Beam Sword
 Bladetongue    
 Brand of the Inferno  
 Death Sickle
 Fetid Baghnakhs    
 Keybrand
 Psycho Knife    
 Flying Dragon  
 The Horseman's Blade
 Christmas Tree Sword
 True Excalibur
 True Night's Edge
 Terra Blade
 Influx Waver    
 Star Wrath    
 Meowmere    
 Tizona  
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