Enchanted Sword (item)

The Enchanted Sword is a melee weapon found by breaking a background item (appears as the hilt of a sword protruding from rock) found at the Cavern level. When used it will both perform a sword swing and fire a projectile at the current cursor location. Both the sword swing and the projectile do damage and generate light, making this a useful weapon for exploration. The Beam Sword seems to be a stronger version of this weapon.

Whoso Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Rightwise King Born of all Terraria. -Drilling4mana, Reddit User

There are 2 different background objects that look similar but only one of them will drop the sword.

 File:Echanted sword hilt.jpg|The correct hilt as it appears in the underground layers. File:fake sword hilt.jpg|A fake sword hilt as it appears in the underground layers. 

Trivia

 * The sword may be a reference to The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as in those games the Master Sword could fire beams, was pulled from a pedestal, and there was even a series of fake swords en route to the real one.


 * The idea of a sword being stuck into stone is a reference to the story of The Sword and The Stone, in which King Arthur was the only person who was able to pull a sword from its resting place in a stone. A sword named after Excalibur itself, the sword given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, is also present in the game.


 * The sprite for enchanted sword appears to be a reshaped version of Enchanted Boomerang