Excalibur
Weapon · WeaponMelee1★[Tides of Terraria] A holy blade lit with golden light, and every swing throws shockwaves out around the wielder.
Excalibur is 36th of 79 melee weapons by attack, at 396 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
At 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 16,200 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Excalibur Crafting Recipe
Hallowed Bar×45Crafting it takes 45 materials across 1 type.
Where to Find Excalibur
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is treasure chests in the Yakushima at 1.4% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Excalibur
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 360 to 540, a 1.5x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
Schematics That Unlock Excalibur
Excalibur is not learned from the Technology tree — you need a schematic for it. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is treasure chests in the Yakushima, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Excalibur schematic works out at roughly 1775 containers against the 9091 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Excalibur Schematic 1 | 1★ | Yakushima treasure chests — best 1.4% (grade 1) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Terra Blade at 425 attack; step down and it is Sword at 396. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
