The 440+ Best Weapons in Terraria: Facts & Secrets (2023)

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Terraria (Wiki): Medusa Head

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 40 Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 20
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
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Terraria (Wiki): Uzi

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 30 Health Points
Rarity: Lime
Knockback: 3.5
Sell-Value: 7 Gold Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 1 Gold Coin (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 9
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 13
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Shuriken

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 10 Health Points
Rarity: White
Sell-Value: 3 Copper Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 4 Copper Coins (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Buy-Value: 15 Copper Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 20 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 9
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Terraria (Wiki): Explosive Trap Rod

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 24 Health Points
Rarity: Orange
Knockback: 0.5
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: 5 Defender Medals
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Deadly Sphere Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 40 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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Terraria (Wiki): Toxikarp

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 43 Health Points
Rarity: Pink
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 10
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 8.5
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Laser Rifle

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 29 Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 2.5
Sell-Value: 3 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 85
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Blood Water

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value:  20 Health Points
Rarity: Orange
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 20 Copper Coins
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 9
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Slime Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 8 Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 2 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 28
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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Terraria (Wiki): Cool Whip

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

  • Inflicted debuff offers tremendous damage and crowd control.
  • Cool Flake projectile has armor-penetrating capabilities.
  • Decent for finding caves and ores.

Weaknesses

  • Tricky to obtain.
  • Extremely weak knockback.
  • 30% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 45 Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 1.5
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 8
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Sandgun

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 30 Health Points
Rarity: Green
Knockback: 5
Sell-Value: 20 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 16
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 24 (not affected by ammo)
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Terraria (Wiki): Wand of Frosting

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 15 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Sell-Value: 15 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 14%
Use Time: 26
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 7

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Terraria (Wiki): Beenade

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 12 (desktop, mobile, console) / 14 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: White
Knockback: 1
Sell-Value: 5 Silver Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 2 Silver Coins (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 6
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Terraria (Wiki): Flower of Frost

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 60 (desktop, mobile, console) / 50 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Rarity: Pink
Knockback: 6.5
Sell-Value: 5 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12 (desktop, mobile, console) / 20 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 9 (desktop, mobile, console) / 7 (3DS, old-gen consoles)

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Terraria (Wiki): Sticky Dynamite

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 250 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Sell-Value: 4 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: n/a
Use Time: 40
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 4
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Topaz Staff

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 16 (desktop, mobile, console) / 15 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: White
Knockback: 3.5
Sell-Value: 6 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 36 (desktop, mobile, console) / 38 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 6.5
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Nebula Arcanum

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 70 Health Points
Rarity: Red
Knockback: 5
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 7
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Vortex Beater

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 50 (bullets) / 70 (rockets) Health Points
Rarity: Red
Knockback: 2 (bullets) / 2.5 (rockets)
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 20 (overall) / 5 (bullets)
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 14 (bullets) / 8 (rockets)
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Spiky Ball

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 16 (desktop, mobile, console) / 15 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: White
Knockback: 1
Sell-Value: 16 Copper Coins
Buy-Value: 80 Copper Coins
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 5
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Explosive Trap Cane

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 59 Health Points
Rarity: Pink
Knockback: 0.5
Sell-Value: 5 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: 15 Defender Medals
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Desert Tiger Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 41 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 4
Sell-Value: 20 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 40

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Terraria (Wiki): Candy Corn Rifle

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 44 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 10%
Use Time: 9
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Last Prism

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 100 Health Points
Rarity: Red
Knockback: 0.25
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 10
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 30
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Spider Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 26 (desktop, mobile, console) / 25 (old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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Terraria (Wiki): Dark Harvest

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

  • Buff increases attack speed by 35%/3s.
  • Provides light in dark/night areas.
  • Great with rapidly-attacking minions than slower minions.

Weaknesses

  • Very weak knockback.
  • 10% less damage with each succeeding strike if it hits many targets in one attack.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 100 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 27
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 12

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Terraria (Wiki): Snowball Cannon

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 10 (desktop, mobile, console) / 5 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 1
Sell-Value: 2 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 19
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 11
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Poison Staff

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 43 Health Points
Rarity: Light Purple
Knockback: 5.6
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 13.5

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Terraria (Wiki): Bone Javelin

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 20 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 5
Sell-Value: 10 Copper Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 25
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 10
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Magical Harp

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 42 (desktop, mobile, console) / 32 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Pink
Knockback: 2 (desktop, mobile, console) / 0 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 4.5
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Bomb

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 100 Health Points
Rarity: White
Sell-Value: 60 Copper Coins
Buy-Value: 3 Silver Coins
Use Time: 25
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 5
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Aqua Scepter

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 27 (desktop, mobile, console) / 15 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Green
Knockback: 7 (desktop, mobile, console) / 5 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin & 75 Silver Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 54 Silver Coins (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 16
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 37.5
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Nebula Blaze

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 130 Health Points
Rarity: Red
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 18
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Xenopopper

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 45 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 21
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 24 (not affected by ammo)
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Star Anise

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 14 Health Points
Rarity: White
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 99
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Blizzard Staff

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

  • High damage output.
  • High Velocity.
  • Great weapon for early Hardmode.
  • Great for waves of enemies.

Weaknesses

  • High mana cost.
  • Least effective against smaller enemies (console).

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 58 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 4.5
Sell-Value: 9 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 10
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 20
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Explosive Trap Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 126 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 0.5
Sell-Value: 15 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: 60 Defender Medals
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Finch Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 7 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 4
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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Terraria (Wiki): Coin Gun

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 25 (Copper Coins) / 50 (Silver Coins) / 100 (Gold Coins) / 200 (Platinum Coins) Health Points
Rarity: Light Purple
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 6 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 8
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10 (base) / 1 (Copper Coins) / 2 (Silver Coins) / 3 (Gold Coins) / 4 (Platinum Coins
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Leaf Blower

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 48 (desktop, mobile, console) / 42 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Lime
Knockback: 4 (desktop, mobile, console) / 3 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Sell-Value: 6 Gold Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 7 Gold Coins (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 7 (desktop, mobile, console) / 8 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 11
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Stardust Cell Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 60 Health Points
Rarity: Red
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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Terraria (Wiki): Durendal

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

  • Buff increases attack speed by 25%/3s.
  • Provides light in dark/night areas.
  • Second-highest amount of summon tag damage

Weaknesses

  • Very weak knockback.
  • 20% less damage with each succeeding strike if it hits many targets in one attack.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 55 Health Points
Rarity: Pink
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins & 60 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 28
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 12

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Terraria (Wiki): Star Cannon

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 55 (desktop, mobile, console, old-gen consoles) / 62 (3DS)
Rarity: Green
Knockback: 3 (desktop, mobile, console) / 0 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 14
Special Properties:

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