Ankh Shield

The Ankh Shield is a Hardmode accessory crafted from an Obsidian Shield and an Ankh Charm at a Tinkerer's Workshop. It provides immunity to knockback and 10 different debuffs. It additionally provides 4 defense.

The Ankh Shield is the combination of 11 different individual accessories: Bezoar, Vitamins, Cobalt Shield, Obsidian Skull, Nazar, Blindfold, Trifold Map, Fast Clock, Megaphone, Armor Polish, and Adhesive Bandage. This makes it the most compact accessory in the game and it currently entails the most complex crafting tree in Terraria. See Guide:Ankh Shield for a layout.

Debuffs blocked
Ankh Shield provides immunity from all of these debuffs:

Trivia

 * Of the accessories, the Ankh Shield and the Celestial Stone gives the second most base defense, being bested only by the Paladin's Shield which has 6 base defense (However, you may take more damage if playing multiplayer, if you have low armor).
 * The Ankh Shield can remove all but two of the punishment debuffs applied to someone wearing a developer item such as Red's Wings.
 * There are ten debuffs that can occur that this cannot block; Blackout, Ichor, Cursed Inferno, Chilled, Frozen, Frostburn, Potion Sickness, Venom, Tipsy, and On Fire!.
 * Ankh was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that meant "life", this character is depicted in the shield.
 * The Ankh Shield can be obtained before defeating Plantera, and can help in the fight.

History

 * 1.2 (console version): Introduced.