How To Get Horseman's Blade Terraria

The Horseman's Blade

Projectile created

• Flaming Jack

  

• Internal Detail ID: 1826
• Internal Projectile ID: 321

The Horseman's Blade swinging animation. Notation how the projectiles habitation onto targets.

The Horseman'southward Bract is a Hardmode, mail-Plantera sword which summons homing pumpkin heads upon striking an enemy. Despite it existence called Horseman'southward Blade, information technology drops from Pumpking, a dominate from the Pumpkin Moon event, not the Headless Horseman. It has a one.56-12.5% ( 1.79 - 14.29%) chance of dropping from the Pumpking.

On the  Desktop version,  Console version, and  Mobile version, information technology likewise has a big aura of energy around the blade when swung, which significantly increases the range at which the weapon can deal impairment to enemies, including coverage behind the actor.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Crafting

Used in

Effect	Ingredients	Crafting station
Zenith	Terra Bract Meowmere Star Wrath Influx Waver The Horseman'southward Blade Seedler Starfury Bee Keeper Enchanted Sword Copper Shortsword	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

full: 1 row(south)

Notes

• The player is unable to turn while swinging the sword, similar to the Excalibur, Night'southward Edge, Keybrand, or Falcon Blade.
• The pumpkins volition practice 100% / 150% the corporeality of impairment of the sword'southward swing and can as well critically striking.
• The sword can be seen in darkness but casts no calorie-free on other objects.
• Pumpkins may spawn and follow Spike Balls, enemy projectiles, and even spring NPCs.
• The pumpkins will non spawn or home in on other players in PvP, but can harm other players if they are already spawned and happen to make contact.
• Wearing full Frost armor or a Fire Gauntlet, or using ane of the many Flasks that generate light on weapon swings volition cause pumpkin projectiles to glow every bit well. This and the homing, wall-ignoring projectiles, make it excellent for exploration or resources gathering once obtained.
• On the Nintendo3DS  version, striking critters will as well cause the pumpkins to spawn.

Tips

• Attacking large segmented enemies such as The Destroyer or Wyverns with the bract will cause many pumpkins to spawn and attack, as each segment tin can be attacked, therefore counting them every bit dissimilar targets.
• Using an automated statue farm, it is possible to kill the statue-spawned enemies with the Horseman's Blade to make pumpkins spawn and set on other foes, which is especially useful while fighting bosses and enemies during the Pumpkin Moon and Frost Moon. When doing this, make sure to utilize the respective banner of the statue enemy, as its buff volition straight apply to the pumpkins. This will double the DPS in Expert Way .
• Because the pumpkins home in on enemies, this weapon is useful in many situations, such as attacking large groups of enemies in the Hardmode Dungeon or during events.
• When comparing to the Terra Blade, the Horseman's Blade's very stiff knockback and homing projectiles compensate for its slower, less-damaging swing.

Trivia

• Information technology is the third strongest sword in the game in the  Old-gen console and 3DS versions, being browbeaten only by the True Night'due south Edge and the Terra Blade.
• The sword seems unusually larger than other swords when placed on a Weapon Rack.
• Modifier prefixes are added in forepart of the "The" in its proper name, which tin can consequence in a grammatically incorrect name such equally "Peachy The Horseman'due south Blade". It shares this trait with all other items that can obtain modifiers and whose names begin with "The". This error is not present in the  Onetime-gen console version.
• In the  Desktop version,  Console version, and  Mobile version, the projectiles tin notwithstanding gather at Moon Lord's hands and head despite them being taken out.
• The pumpkin projectiles are chosen "Flaming Jack" in death messages. "Jack" may exist merely short for "Jack-o'-lantern".
  • Jack-o'-lantern was an official term for lights sometimes actualization near bogs, leading travelers to their deaths. Some other discussion for this phenomenon is called the Will-o'-the-wisp, another item in the game based on this proper name.
• The Horseman's Blade (and the Headless Horseman enemy) is a reference to the Headless Horseman featured in the 1820 gothic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by American author Washington Irving. During the story's climax, the main character is chased by the Headless Horseman who ultimately throws his head at him. The head is afterward revealed to actually have been a pumpkin. The story has since been referenced many times, too as linked to Halloween due to jack-o'-lanterns. In Disney's 1949 motion picture adaptation The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, it appears as a Jack-o'-lantern on fire, which this item likewise might be a reference to.

History

• Desktop 1.iv.iv.6: Stock-still an issue where the projectiles would sometimes decide to target critters, even though they are not meant to practice so.

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Flaming pumpkins are no longer summoned when striking enemies spawned from statues.
  • Flaming pumpkins only deal 100% of the weapon damage instead of 150%.
  • Horseman's Blade now has an area of damaging energy around the blade, dealing damage in a larger, wider area of effect, including improve coverage behind the thespian.
  • Damage increased from 75 to 150.

• Desktop ane.4.0.one:
  • Now used to craft the Zenith.
  • Striking Moment vitrify no longer quintuples the Flaming Jack'south damage.

• Desktop ane.iii.0.three: Fixed not summoning pumpkins against Lunar Events enemies.

• Desktop 1.2.i.1: Tin can at present be reforged.

• Desktop ane.2.one: Introduced.

Source: https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/The_Horseman%27s_Blade

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