Weapons are essential items used for combat against enemies, bosses, critters, and even other players during PvP games. Some weapons can be crafted at a Work Bench or a Pre-Hardmode/Hardmode Anvil, while others can only be found in Chests, as enemy drops, or purchased from NPCs. Terraria has a wide variety of weapons and weapon classes, each suited to particular play styles or specific tasks.
Most tools can also be used as weapons, despite it not being their primary purpose. Traps, self-defending NPCs , and even lava, although not primarily weapons, can be considered a weapon if somehow used in combat.
Melee weapons
Swords
Swords are melee weapons which can be divided into 2 basic categories: shortswords and broadswords.
Shortswords have very limited range, and they attack with a horizontal stabbing motion instead of an arc. On PC,
Console,
Mobile, and
tModLoader, they act more similarly to spears, being able to stab in more directions. Broadswords are swung overhead, which makes it easier to defeat flying and jumping enemies.
Copper Shortsword
Tin Shortsword
Wooden Sword
Boreal Wood Sword
Copper Broadsword
Iron Shortsword
Palm Wood Sword
Rich Mahogany Sword
Cactus Sword
Lead Shortsword
Silver Shortsword
Tin Broadsword
Ebonwood Sword
Iron Broadsword
Shadewood Sword
Tungsten Shortsword
Gold Shortsword
Lead Broadsword
Silver Broadsword
Ash Wood Sword
Flymeal
Bladed Glove
Tungsten Broadsword
Zombie Arm
Gold Broadsword
Platinum Shortsword
Mandible Blade
Stylish Scissors
Ruler (
only)Platinum Broadsword
Umbrella (
only)Breathing Reed
Gladius
Bone Sword
Bat Bat
Tentacle Spike
Candy Cane Sword
Katana
Ice Blade
Light's Bane
Tragic Umbrella
Muramasa
Exotic Scimitar
Phaseblade
Blood Butcherer
Starfury
Enchanted Sword
Purple Clubberfish
Bee Keeper
Falcon Blade
Blade of Grass
Volcano
Night's Edge
Ash Wood Sword
Pearlwood Sword
Classy Cane
Slap Hand
Cobalt Sword
Palladium Sword
Phasesaber [1]
Ice Sickle
Brand of the Inferno
Mythril Sword
Orichalcum Sword
Breaker Blade
Cutlass
Frostbrand
Adamantite Sword
Beam Sword
Titanium Sword
Fetid Baghnakhs
Bladetongue
Tizona
Ham Bat
Excalibur
True Excalibur
Chlorophyte Saber
Death Sickle
Psycho Knife
Keybrand
Chlorophyte Claymore
The Horseman's Blade
Christmas Tree Sword
True Night's Edge
Seedler
Flying Dragon
Starlight
Terra Blade
Influx Waver
Star Wrath
Meowmere
- ↑ The Phasesaber can only be crafted in Hardmode on the
PC version,
Console version,
Old-gen console version,
Mobile version,
Old Chinese version,
tModLoader version, and
tModLoader 1.3-Legacy version, but can be crafted in pre-Hardmode on the
Windows Phone version and Nintendo
version.
Yoyos
Yoyos are flail-like melee weapons that follow the player's cursor when thrown.
Spears
Spears are melee weapons that have a longer range than most swords, but attack with a stabbing motion. Spears also can hit targets more than once, making them especially useful for dealing with large enemies.
Boomerangs
Boomerangs are melee weapons that return to the player after being thrown. Together with yoyos, they provide the earliest distance attacks that benefit from melee bonuses.
Flails
Flails are melee weapons that consist of an object linked to the player by a chain, which can either be thrown or fired. Thrown flails can be suspended around the player indefinitely, whereas launched flails immediately return to the player.
Other
These are melee weapons that possess unique means of attack. Some also launch projectiles.
Ranged weapons
Bows
Bows are ranged weapons that fire arrows as ammunition. Although several bows deal no knockback, most arrows do.
Repeaters
Repeaters are ranged weapons that fire arrows as ammunition, similar to bows. All repeaters are Hardmode-exclusive.
Guns
Guns are a type of ranged weapon that use bullets as ammo.
Launchers
Launchers are Hardmode-exclusive ranged weapons that fire rockets and similar explosive ammunition.
Consumables
Consumable ranged weapons do not require ammunition and are consumed upon use.
Grenades
Others
Note: The Confetti Gun, Slime Gun, and Water Gun are novelty weapons, causing no damage or knockback. The Confetti Gun is a consumable, and can only be used once. The Slime Gun and Water Gun cause purely aesthetic debuffs and cannot be placed on a Weapon Rack.
Magic weapons
Wands
Wands are magic weapons that are mainly used to deal damage via a projectile attack.
Magic guns
Spell books
Others
Summoning weapons
Minion-summoning weapons
These weapons summon minions to attack enemies.
Sentry-summoning weapons
These weapons summon sentries to attack enemies, though sentries do not move like minions.
Whips
Whips are weapons that when used swing out at certain distances similar to the Solar Eruption.
Other weapons
Placeable weapons
Explosives
Other weapons
Unimplemented weapons
Removed weapons
Notes
- In total, there are 574 unique weapons (and damaging tools).
- If an enemy is under the effect of a piercing attack (including explosions), it will cause brief invulnerability to it, making blows that hit during this interval fail to inflict damage.
- Unlike most games, no matter how far an enemy is from the center of the blast radius, they always receive full damage from an AoE attack.