Zenith



The Zenith is a Hardmode, post-Moon Lord melee weapon crafted using a variety of swords obtained throughout the game's progression. The Zenith possesses autoswing, can hit enemies through blocks, will attack the area around the cursor, no matter where it is located on the screen and will automatically attack enemies that aren't targeted with cursor while using the Zenith. For the auto targeting to work the cursor has to be in 25 tile radius from the target. It can even hit off-screen enemies when manually aimed.

When used, the sword sprites of its component swords fly towards enemies within a 20-tile radius of the cursor, and circle back in quick, frenzied arcs. These pass through solid blocks, and three swords will appear per use (at base melee speed). Each sword sprite deals the weapon's full damage.

The Zenith has the most complex crafting tree in Terraria, consisting of 14 different base items (over the course of 10 crafting operations), surpassing both the Cell Phone (13 items) and Ankh Shield (11 items).

Crafting tree


Tips

 * The Zenith has the potential to reach more than 70,000 on a single target with the right armor, accessories, modifiers, buffs and correct positioning.
 * Against segmented worm enemies like The Destroyer, it can even surpass 120,000.
 * In a regular combat situation, most players will see the Zenith dealing around 20,000 to 30,000.
 * The Zenith can defeat the Moon Lord on Master Mode (0 combined HP) in about 11 seconds.
 * The Zenith is arguably the game's strongest weapon, making it ideal for any type of fight.

Trivia

 * Zenith is defined as "the time at which something is most powerful or successful."
 * Before the release of 1.4, the sword had various placeholders and scrapped names, including "Final Fractal" and "Summit". The precursor design of the Zenith exists as an unobtainable weapon, the First Fractal, which resembles an upgraded Terra Blade.
 * The Zenith projectiles will always include both the Light's Bane and Blood Butcherer, no matter which one was used.
 * The Zenith's projectiles include the Terragrim, despite not being in its crafting tree. 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.
 * This is a list of all swords displayed in the Zenith's attack animation: Copper Shortsword, Light's Bane, Muramasa, Terragrim, Blood Butcherer, Starfury, Enchanted Sword, Bee Keeper, Blade of Grass, Fiery Greatsword, Night's Edge, True Night's Edge, Excalibur, True Excalibur, The Horseman's Blade, Seedler, Terra Blade, Influx Waver, Star Wrath, Meowmere, and the Zenith itself.
 * Each sword generates a different swing color: