Zenith



The Zenith is a Hardmode, post-Moon Lord melee weapon that is crafted using a variety of swords obtained throughout the games 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. All of the sword sprites deal 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



 * 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.
 * 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.