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

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Terraria (Wiki): Ballista Rod

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 30 Health Points
Rarity: Orange
Knockback: 4.7
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: 5 Defender Medals
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
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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): 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
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Terraria (Wiki): Ice Rod

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 28 Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 20 Gold Coins (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Buy-Value: 50 Gold Coins (desktop, mobile, console) / 1 Platinum Coin (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 9
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 12
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Terraria (Wiki): Elf Melter

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 53 (desktop, mobile, console) / 40 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 0.425
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 25.5 (not affected by ammo)
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Terraria (Wiki): Holy Hand Grenade

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 600 Health Points
Rarity: Lime
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 50
Velocity: 4
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Terraria (Wiki): Cannon

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value:  -1
Rarity: Orange
Sell-Value: 5 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: 25 Gold Coins
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 1
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Terraria (Wiki): Clockwork Assault Rifle

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 17 (desktop, mobile, console) / 19 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Sell-Value: 3 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 7.75
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Terraria (Wiki): Emerald Staff

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 19 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 4.25
Sell-Value: 30 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 32
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 8
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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
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Terraria (Wiki): Razorpine

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 48 (desktop, mobile, console) / 58 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 3.25
Sell-Value: 9 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 8
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 24
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Terraria (Wiki): Water Bolt

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 19 (desktop, mobile, console) / 17 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Green
Knockback: 5
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin & 50 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 17
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 4.5
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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
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Terraria (Wiki): Amber Staff

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 21 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 4.75
Sell-Value: 40 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 28
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 9
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Terraria (Wiki): Bouncy Dynamite

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 250 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Sell-Value: 4 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 40
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 4
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Terraria (Wiki): Crystal Serpent

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 40 Health Points
Rarity: Pink
Knockback: 4.4
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 29
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 13
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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Crystal Serpent

Terraria (Wiki): Flinx Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 8 Health Points
Rarity: Orange
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 50 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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Terraria (Wiki): Pew-matic Horn

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 20 Health Points
Rarity: Green
Knockback: 1
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin & 50 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 14
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Terraria (Wiki): Sanguine Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 35 Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 5 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 36
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10

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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
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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Star Anise

Terraria (Wiki): Ballista Staff

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 156 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 4.7
Sell-Value: 15 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: 60 Defender Medals
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Ballista Staff

Terraria (Wiki): Bat Scepter

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 45 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 3
Sell-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 12
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 10
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Terraria (Wiki): Kaleidoscope

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

  • Strongest whip in all modes.
  • Best for finding caves and ores.
  • High summon tag damage.
  • Decent extra critical hit chance.
  • Great for waves of enemies.

Weaknesses

  • Obtaining can get tricky.
  • Weak knockback.
  • 10% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.

Facts:

General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 180 Health Points
Rarity: Yellow
Knockback: 4
Sell-Value: 5 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 12
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Kaleidoscope

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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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Nebula Arcanum

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
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Shuriken

Terraria (Wiki): Flare Gun

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 2 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 18
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 6
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Flare Gun

Terraria (Wiki): Snowball Launcher

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value:  -1
Rarity: Green
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin
Buy-Value: Not sold
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 1
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Terraria (Wiki): Leather Whip

Pro and Cons:

Strengths

  • One of the two accessible whips early-game.
  • Decent against small groups of enemies.

Weaknesses

  • Weakest damage output versus other whips.
  • 50% damage reduction penalty against multiple enemies.
  • Extremely weak knockback.
  • Terrible against large waves of enemies.

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General Type: Summon Weapon
Damage value: 14 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 1
Sell-Value: 2 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: 10 Gold Coins
Use Time: 30
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 8
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Red Ryder

Facts:

General Type: Ranged Weapon
Damage value: 20 Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 3.75
Sell-Value: 2 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 38
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 8
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Red Ryder

Terraria (Wiki): Weather Pain

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 13 Health Points
Rarity: Green
Knockback: 1
Sell-Value: 1 Gold Coin & 50 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 45
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 1
Special Properties:

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Terraria (Wiki): Unholy 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): Amethyst Staff

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 15 (desktop, mobile, console) / 14 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: White
Knockback: 3.25
Sell-Value: 4 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 37 (desktop, mobile, console) / 40 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 6
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Amethyst Staff

Terraria (Wiki): Bouncy Grenade

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 65 Health Points
Rarity: White
Knockback: 8
Sell-Value: 20 Copper Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 40
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 6.5
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Bouncy Grenade

Terraria (Wiki): Crystal Storm

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 32 (desktop, mobile, console) / 25 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Light Red
Knockback: 5
Sell-Value: 4 Gold Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 7
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 16
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Crystal Storm

Terraria (Wiki): Flower of Fire

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 48 (desktop, mobile, console) / 44 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Orange
Knockback: 5.5
Sell-Value: 2 Gold Coins & 50 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 16 (desktop, mobile, console) / 20 (3DS, old-gen consoles)
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 7.5 (desktop, mobile, console) / 6 (3DS, old-gen consoles)

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Flower of Fire

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
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Medusa Head

Terraria (Wiki): Sapphire Staff

Facts:

General Type: Magic Weapon
Damage value: 18 (desktop, mobile, console) / 17 (3DS, old-gen consoles) Health Points
Rarity: Blue
Knockback: 4
Sell-Value: 20 Silver Coins
Buy-Value: Not sold
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 34
Required Research: 1
Velocity: 7.5
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Sapphire Staff

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): 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): 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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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Bomb

Terraria (Wiki): Throwing Knife

Facts:

General Type: Consumable Item
Damage value: 12 Health Points
Rarity: White
Knockback: 2
Sell-Value: 10 Copper Coins
Buy-Value: 50 Copper Coins
Critical Size: 4%
Use Time: 15
Required Research: 99
Velocity: 10
Special Properties:

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Detailed Post — Terraria (Wiki): Throwing Knife

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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