Zenith



The Zenith is a Hardmode, post-Moon Lord, auto swinging, block piercing melee weapon that can be crafted using a variety of swords from across the game progression.

Using it will cause the Zenith and one of its component swords (including the components of the Terra Blade) to boomerang towards enemies within a 20-block radius of the cursor and back in large arcing motions. This attack will pass through solid blocks. Two swords will appear per use, the first of which will always be the Zenith itself, and the other being a sword from the Zenith's crafting tree. The Zenith has the most complex crafting tree in Terraria, using 14 different base items (10 crafting operations), narrowly beating the Cell Phone which uses 13 items and the Ankh Shield which uses 11.

Trivia

 * A zenith is the highest point of a celestial body relative to the observer, in other words when it is directly overhead.
 * "Zenith" can also mean the point where something is at its most powerful or successful, alluding to the method of obtaining the weapon.
 * It has the most complex and largest crafting tree of any sword in the game, with a total of 14 different swords, beating the Terra Blade, which is one of its ingredients.
 * The Zenith's incredible damage and DPS makes it compete against the Last Prism for the highest overall DPS in the game.
 * Before the release of 1.4, the sword had a place holder name of “Final Fractal”, it was also referred to as the "Summit" by Redigit on the Terraria Discord, and was even debated on being named “Journey’s End”.
 * Both the "True" and normal variants of the Excalibur and Night's Edge can appear when the Zenith is swung, along with all of the component swords of the Night's Edge, including the Light's Bane and Blood Butcherer, regardless of which was used in crafting. Curiously the Bee Keeper and Terragrim can also appear, despite not being anywhere in the Zenith's crafting tree.
 * The Zenith requires a Copper Shortsword which is supposed to show the player how far they've come to acquire the Zenith, since upon creating a new character, the character spawns with a Copper Shortsword. This also means that it is the only item which requires a Copper item that can't be made with a Tin equivalent.
 * Therefore, when starting a new world, it is wise to keep the Copper Shortsword instead of trashing it if one wishes to craft the Zenith.