Enchanted Sword Shrine (2024)

The Enchanted Sword Shrine is a terrain feature that generates as a small cave below the surface. It has a 1/3 (33.33%) chance to generate with a 1-tile wide shaft leading into the top of the cave. The cave's background is made of Flower Walls and features a small hill with pools of water on either side. Atop the hill rests a sword in stone as a background object, which, when destroyed, has a 1/50 (2%) chance to drop a Terragrim and an Enchanted Sword otherwise.

The Enchanted Sword Shrine generates in the surface or underground layers in the outer two-thirds of the map, in dirt or stone terrain. Multiple shrines may generate in a world, with larger worlds having a slightly increased chance to generate more, although not guaranteed to generate any.

Generation chance

The world will attempt to generate 1 to 2 shrines in small worlds, 1 to 3 shrines in medium worlds, and 2 to 4 shrines in large worlds, with each shrine having a 1/2 (50%) chance of being placed. The following tables represent the odds of having a certain amount of shrines generate in a world, depending on its size.

Notes

• Although practically guaranteed in normal gameplay, the shaft can only generate with a height of up to 1000 tiles.
• The shrine will only rarely spawn below the surface layer and will only ever reach a maximum of 100 tiles in the underground layer.
• While Enchanted Sword Shrines only generate on the Desktop version, Console version, and Mobile version, Enchanted Swords can still appear scattered throughout the world in all versions.
• 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 tiles 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.
  • If generated under an overhang on the surface, the shaft will cut through midair.

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, Zenith, Flying Dragon, Flamelash, or numerous explosives.
  • Some enemy projectiles can also reveal the shaft, e.g. those fired from the Goblin Sorcerer.
  • Additionally, some mount provides a short burst of light particles when summoned, and if timed correctly, activating/deactivating a mount just before landing can send the light particles downwards 5–7 tiles.
  • Some light pets that move when the player presses a direction (such as the Wisp pet, shown in the gallery below) can be used to find the shafts by holding ▼ Down.
  • The Clentaminator can also be used to provide light, though players should be careful not to spread biomes in locations they did not want.
• The background object will generate an item upon its destruction. Therefore, the player can force-close the game to reload a previous save and continue doing this until the desired item is obtained.
• World Seeds with Enchanted Sword Shrines found before the current version of Terraria will not be guaranteed to contain a shrine in the same location despite the rest of the world being the same. If looking online for a seed that contains a shrine make sure that the seed was not discovered in a past update.

Gallery

• Map view of a shrine.

• Finding the vertical shaft using a light pet.

• An Enchanted Sword Shrine on the surface, without a shaft.

• An Enchanted Sword Shrine next to the bottom of a Living Tree.

  See Also

  tModLoader - An in-depth tier list of all of the enchantments in Fargo's Soul mod

• A view of the Enchanted Sword Shrine.

History

• Desktop 1.4.1: Made twice more likely to generate in a world.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Arkhalis drop replaced with the Terragrim.
  • The background object will always be the enchanted sword in stone and drop a sword.
  • A fixed number of shrines is no longer guaranteed per world.
  • Cave shaft opening is no longer guaranteed and reduced to 33% chance to generate.
  • Shrines can no longer generate on top of containers and can no longer have other structures generate on top of them.

• 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.

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