Breakable Background
Sword Sprites |
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| Fake (left), real (right) |
An Enchanted Sword Shrine is a terrain feature that generates as a small cave below the surface layer. There is a chance that it will have a 1 block shaft leading down to the top of the cave. The cave's background is made of Flower Walls and it features a small hill with pools of water on either side. Atop the hill rests a breakable background sword sprite.
Although the shrines are not guaranteed to be generated in a world, the shrine will always contain a real sword sprite. Real sword sprites have a 9/10 chance of dropping the Enchanted Sword and a 1/10 chance of dropping the Terragrim / Arkhalis.
They generate at least 20% of the map width away from the world's center in the surface or underground layer, below any biome that has a surface layer made of dirt and stone.
Enchanted sword shrines are now much more rare and worlds aren't guaranteed to generate one.
Notes
- Enchanted Sword Shrines may generate in uncommon ways at times:
- The shaft can go all the way to the surface, making it very easy to notice. It can even go to the top of a Living Tree.
- The shrine itself can occasionally spawn on the surface, without a shaft.
- In rare cases, the top of the shaft spawns more than 10 blocks under the ground.
- The shrine itself can generate partially or completely Corrupted/Crimson. However, at least part of the shaft will always be dirt and uncorrupted grass.
- A Minecart track can go through a shrine, causing the sword to disappear.
- If generated under an overhang on the surface, the shaft will cut through midair.
- While Enchanted Sword Shrines are currently only on the
PC version, Console version, Mobile version, Old Chinese version, tModLoader version, and tModLoader 1.3-Legacy version, Enchanted Swords can still appear scattered throughout the world in all versions.
Tips
- The shaft can be revealed by light particles that fall downwards through blocks. There are many weapons which spawn projectiles of this kind, for instance, the Dark Lance, Starfury, Jester's Arrow, Meteor Staff, Solar Eruption, or Flying Dragon. Some enemy projectiles can also reveal the shaft, e.g. those fired from the Goblin Sorcerer.
Gallery
Map view of a shrine.
Finding the vertical shaft using a light pet.
An Enchanted Sword Shrine on the surface, without a shaft.
- Enchanted Sword Shrine Rope Shaft.gif
Vertical shaft cutting through a Living Tree.
An Enchanted Sword Shrine next to the bottom of a Living Tree.
History
- Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now has a chance to drop the Terragrim instead of Arkhalis, whereas the sword is now only obtainable in treasure bags. Not every world is guaranteed to have a sword shrine, but they always spawn with a real sword.
- Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.
- Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()
- Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()
- Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.
- Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.
- Chasm
- Enchanted Sword Shrine
- Floating Island
- Jungle Shrine
- Living Tree
- Pyramid
- Ruined House
- Underground Cabin