Zenith



The Zenith is a Hardmode, post-Moon Lord melee weapon that is crafted using a variety of swords obtained throughout the game's progression. The Zenith possesses autoswing and can hit enemies through blocks.

Using it will cause the sprites of its component swords to fly towards enemies within a 20-block radius of the cursor and circle back in large arcing motions. This attack will pass through solid blocks, and three swords will appear per use at default melee speed. All of the sword sprites deal the full damage of the weapon. The Zenith has the most complex crafting tree in Terraria, using 14 different base items (10 crafting operations), surpassing both the Cell Phone which uses 13 items and the Ankh Shield which uses 11.

Trivia



 * Despite being nearly identical to its copper counterpart, the Tin Shortsword cannot be used to craft the Zenith. This is presumably due to the Copper Shortsword's role as the very first sword every player will encounter (with the exception of Journey mode characters).
 * Zenith is defined as "the time at which something is most powerful or successful."
 * Before the release of 1.4, the sword had various placeholder and scrapped names, including "Final Fractal" and "Summit".
 * 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.
 * The Terragrim can also be seen in its animation, despite it not being an ingredient.
 * In a small hotfix after 1.4, the Bee Keeper was added to the crafting recipe for the Zenith after being in its animation at 1.4’s release.
 * The following swords are seen in the Zenith's attack animation: Copper Shortsword, Light's Bane, Muramasa, Terragrim, Blood Butcherer, Starfury, Enchanted Sword (item), Bee Keeper, Blade of Grass, Fiery Greatsword, Night's Edge, Excalibur, True Excalibur, The Horseman's Blade, True Night's Edge, Seedler, Terra Blade, Influx Waver, Star Wrath, Meowmere, and Zenith.