Excalibur

Excalibur

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Statistics

Type	WeaponCrafting material
Damage	72 / 47 (Melee)
Knockback	4.5 (Average)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 (Very fast)
Rarity	05*
Sell	460
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Excalibur
  

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Use

• Internal Item ID: 368
• Internal Projectile ID: 982

The Excalibur attacking a Target Dummy prior to 1.4.4.

Excalibur is a Hardmode sword which is capable of autoswing and can be crafted with Hallowed Bars. When swung, it emits the light particles typical of the Hallowed theme, as well as a massive, damaging golden slash effect, similar in appearance to that of the Terra Blade. It can be upgraded into the True Excalibur.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Excalibur	Hallowed Bar12	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Tizona	Excalibur Soul of Blight15 Adamantite Bar or Titanium Bar15	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
only: True Excalibur	Excalibur Broken Hero Sword
only: True Excalibur	Excalibur Chlorophyte Bar24

Notes

• The player is unable to turn while swinging the Excalibur, similar to the War Axe of the Night and The Breaker.

Tips

• The Excalibur can be swung while walking backwards, which is useful for knocking back enemies during retreat.
• Unmodified Excalibur sells for slightly less than the Hallowed Bars required to make it (460 vs. 480), but since the random modifiers increase a melee weapon price by 11.2% on average, crafting and selling Excaliburs in bulk is still about 6.6% more profitable.
  • A better option is to craft several Excaliburs, sell the good ones as-is, and upgrade the worse ones into True Excaliburs (which is a good use of surplus Broken Hero Swords, as noted on their page).^Verify

Trivia

• Prior to patch 1.2, the Excalibur was the strongest sword in the game.
• Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur from Arthurian legends. While some sources conflate Excalibur with the "Sword In The Stone" by which Arthur proved his kingship, more reliable sources have them as two separate swords. (Excalibur is later given to Arthur by the Lady In The Lake.) In Terraria, the Sword In The Stone is separately represented by the Enchanted Sword item.
• The Enchanted Sword enemy shares the Excalibur's sprite design.
• The Excalibur on the  PC version,  Console version,  Mobile version, and  tModLoader version has better stats than the Tizona, a sword crafted from the Excalibur on the  Old-gen console,  Windows Phone, and 3DS releases (where the Excalibur itself is considerably weaker).

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Damage increased from 57 to 66.
  • Use Time decreased from 25 to 20.

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Damage increased from 47 to 57.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Now requires Hallowed Bars to craft. It is no longer crafted with Cobalt Sword, Mythril Sword, Adamantite Sword and 20 Souls of Might.
  • Now used in the crafting of the True Excalibur.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.