Zenith



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

Using it will cause the Zenith and two other swords used to craft it, 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, and three swords will appear per use. All these swords do the full damage of the weapon. The Zenith has the most complex crafting tree in Terraria, using 18 different base items (10 crafting operations), surpassing both 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 in the game.
 * Use time affects the amount of swords thrown per attack, to make the amount of swords on screen the same no matter how much attack speed you have. This also makes the Zenith sprite appear more frequently than its components due to it being the first sword you throw.
 * Before the release of 1.4, the sword had a placeholder name of "Final Fractal". It was also referred to as the "Summit" by Redigit on the Terraria Discord, and was even considered for the name "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.
 * It is the only item which is crafted with a metal item, a Copper Shortsword, that cannot be substituted for its alternative metal equivalent, a Tin Shortsword.
 * The swords represent the "journey" the player went through, from the first moments to the very end.
 * If an Excalibur crafted before version 1.2 is used in the creation of the Zenith, the number of base items involved expands further to 21, further including Cobalt, Mythril, Adamantite, and Souls of Might, but no longer requiring Hallowed Bars.
 * Furthermore, if a Terra Blade crafted before version 1.3.0.1 is used, then a third Broken Hero Sword is also required.