Weapons are essential items used for combat against enemies, bosses, and even other players during PvP games. They typically deal more damage than their tool counterparts. 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 weapons classes, each suited to particular play styles or specific tasks.
Melee weapons
Pre-Hardmode Swords
Swords are melee weapons which can be divided into 2 basic categories: Shortswords, and Broadswords. Shortswords have a very limited range and attack with a horizontal stabbing motion instead of an arc. Broadswords are swung overhead, which makes it easier to defeat flying and jumping enemies than shortswords.
Hardmode Swords
- ↑ The Phasesaber can only be crafted in Hardmode on the PC version, Console version, and Nintendo version, but can be crafted pre-Hardmode on the Mobile version.
Pre-Hardmode Yoyos
Yoyos are melee weapons that are flail-like, and when thrown, seek after the player's cursor.
Wooden Yoyo |
Rally |
Malaise |
Artery |
Amazon |
Code 1 |
Valor |
Cascade |
Hardmode Yoyos
Format:C |
Gradient |
Chik |
Hel-Fire |
Amarok |
Code 2 |
Yelets |
Red's Throw |
Valkyrie Yoyo |
Kraken |
The Eye of Cthulhu |
Terrarian |
Pre-Hardmode Spears
Spears are melee weapons that have decent range (somewhat better than swords), but attack using a stabbing motion (like a shortsword, except that spears can be aimed). Spears also have a good chance of hitting targets more than once, especially large enemies.
Spear | Trident | The Rotted Fork |
Swordfish | Dark Lance |
Hardmode Spears
Cobalt Naginata | Palladium Pike | Mythril Halberd |
Orichalcum Halberd | Adamantite Glaive | Titanium Trident |
Gungnir | Ghastly Glaive |
Chlorophyte Partisan |
Tonbogiri |
Mushroom Spear | Obsidian Swordfish |
North Pole |
Pre-Hardmode Boomerangs
Boomerangs are melee weapons that come back to the player after being thrown. Their damage is listed as melee likely because they're physically thrown and use no ammo.
Wooden Boomerang | Enchanted Boomerang | Fruitcake Chakram |
Bloody Machete | Ice Boomerang | Thorn Chakram |
Flamarang |
Hardmode Boomerangs
Flying Knife |
Light Disc | Bananarang |
Possessed Hatchet | Paladin's Hammer |
Pre-Hardmode 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.
Chain Knife | Ball O' Hurt | The Meatball |
Blue Moon | Sunfury |
Hardmode Flails
Anchor | KO Cannon | Chain Guillotines |
Dao of Pow | Flower Pow | Flairon |
Golem Fist | Solar Eruption |
Hardmode Other
These are Hardmode melee weapons that possess unique means of attack. Most also launch projectiles.
Shadowflame Knife |
Sleepy Octopod |
Scourge of the Corruptor |
Vampire Knives | Sky Dragon's Fury |
Daybreak |
Ranged weapons
Pre-Hardmode Bows
Bows are ranged weapons that fire arrows as ammunition. Although several Bows deal no knockback, the arrows do (with the exception of the Bone Arrow and Heart Arrow).
Hardmode Bows
Pearlwood Bow | Marrow | Ice Bow |
Phantom Phoenix |
Aerial Bane |
Tsunami |
Pulse Bow |
Shadowflame Bow |
Daedalus Stormbow |
Phantasm |
Repeaters (Hardmode)
Cobalt Repeater | Palladium Repeater | Mythril Repeater |
Orichalcum Repeater | Adamantite Repeater | Titanium Repeater |
Hallowed Repeater | Vulcan Repeater |
Chlorophyte Shotbow |
Stake Launcher |
Pre-Hardmode Guns
Red Ryder |
Minishark | Flintlock Pistol |
Musket | The Undertaker | Revolver |
Boomstick | Handgun | Phoenix Blaster |
Egg Cannon |
Hardmode Guns
Clockwork Assault Rifle | Gatligator |
Shotgun |
Onyx Blaster |
Coin Gun | Uzi |
Megashark | Venus Magnum | Tactical Shotgun |
Sniper Rifle | Candy Corn Rifle | Chain Gun |
Xenopopper |
Vortex Beater |
S.D.M.G. |
Launchers (Hardmode Only)
Grenade Launcher | Proximity Mine Launcher | Rocket Launcher |
Nail Gun |
Stynger | Jack 'O Lantern Launcher |
Snowman Cannon | Electrosphere Launcher |
Celebration |
Pre-Hardmode Others
Note: Water Gun and Slime Gun are pure vanity weapons. They cause purely aestethical debuffs but don't do any damage or knockback and cannot be placed on a Weapon Rack.
Flare Gun | Snowball Cannon | Blowpipe |
Blowgun | Sandgun | Star Cannon |
Harpoon | Water Gun |
Slime Gun |
Paintball Gun |
Hardmode Others
Toxikarp |
Dart Pistol |
Dart Rifle |
Flamethrower | Piranha Gun | Elf Melter |
Magic weapons
Pre-Hardmode Wands
Wand of Sparking |
Amethyst Staff | Topaz Staff |
Sapphire Staff | Emerald Staff | Ruby Staff |
Diamond Staff | Amber Staff |
Vilethorn |
Crimson Rod | Magic Missile | Aqua Scepter |
Flamelash | Flower of Fire |
Hardmode Wands
Pre-Hardmode Magic Guns
Space Gun | Bee Gun | Roman candle |
Hardmode Magic Guns
Laser Rifle | Leaf Blower | Razorpine |
Heat Ray | Bubble Gun | Rainbow Gun |
Wasp Gun | Laser Machinegun |
Charged Blaster Cannon |
Zapinator |
Pre-Hardmode Spell Tomes
Water Bolt | Book of Skulls | Demon Scythe |
Hardmode Spell Tomes
Cursed Flames | Golden Shower | Crystal Storm |
Magnet Sphere | Razorblade Typhoon | Lunar Flare |
Hardmode Others
Magic Dagger | Magical Harp | Medusa Head |
Unholy Trident | Shadowflame Hex Doll |
Sky Fracture |
Spirit Flame |
Crystal Serpent |
Toxic Flask |
Nebula Arcanum |
Nebula Blaze |
Last Prism |
Summon weapons
Pre-Hardmode Summon weapons
Slime Staff | Hornet Staff |
Imp Staff |
Hardmode Summon weapons
Optic Staff |
Pirate Staff |
Deadly Sphere Staff |
Pygmy Staff | Raven Staff | Spider Staff |
Tempest Staff | Xeno Staff |
Stardust Cell Staff |
Stardust Dragon Staff |
Pre-Hardmode Sentry Summon ()
Lightning Aura Rod |
Flameburst Rod |
Explosive Trap Rod |
Ballista Rod |
Hardmode Sentry Summon
Thrown weapons
Pre-Hardmode Throwing Weapons
Shuriken | Throwing Knife | Poisoned Knife |
Snowball | Ale Tosser |
Spiky Ball |
Bone | Bone Glove |
Rotten Egg |
Star Anise |
Molotov Cocktail |
Frost Daggerfish |
Javelin |
Bone Javelin |
Bone Throwing Knife |
Grenades
Grenade | Sticky Grenade |
Bouncy Grenade |
Beenade | Happy Grenade |
Other weapons
Pre-Hardmode Placeable Weapons
Snowball Launcher |
Hardmode Placeable Weapons
Cannon | Bunny Cannon | Land Mine |
Pre-Hardmode Combat Tools
War Axe of the Night | Blood Lust Cluster | Flesh Grinder |
The Breaker | Rockfish |
Hardmode Combat Tools
Hammush | Cobalt Waraxe | Mythril Waraxe |
Adamantite Waraxe | Palladium Waraxe | Orichalcum Waraxe |
Titanium Waraxe | Chlorophyte Greataxe | Chlorophyte Warhammer |
Shroomite Digging Claw |
The Axe | Butcher's Chainsaw |
Explosives
Bomb | Sticky Bomb | Bouncy Bomb |
Dynamite | Sticky Dynamite |
Bouncy Dynamite |
Bomb Fish |
Explosives | Holy Hand Grenade |
Other Weapons
Holy Water | Unholy Water | Blood Water |
Unobtainable Weapons
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Firecracker |
Unimplemented Weapons
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Boring Bow |
Etherian Javelin |
Removed Weapons
Zapinator | Scythe | Soul Scythe |
Icemourne |
Notes
- In total, there are 389 weapons: 149 melee weapons (80 Swords, 18 Spears, 11 Boomerangs, 13 Flails, 20 Yoyos, 7 Others); 91 ranged weapons (30 Bows, 10 Repeaters, 26 Guns, 9 Explosives, 16 Others); 68 magic weapons (32 Wands, 13 Magic Guns, 9 Spell Tomes, 14 Others); 29 summoning weapons (13 General, 16 Sentry); 20 throwing weapons (15 Thrown Items, 5 Grenades); and 32 other weapons (4 Placeable, 16 Combat Tools, 9 Explosives, 3 Others).
- If an enemy is under the effect of a constant-damaging or piercing attack, it will cause a 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.
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