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How to Get the Beam Sword in Terraria – Weapon Guide

In this weapon guide, we explain how you can get the rare Beam Sword, a Hardmode melee weapon in Terraria.

The Beam Sword is a Hardmode melee weapon in Terraria with basic swinging attacks and a beam attack that fires a projectile that deals the same amount of damage that a melee hit would inflict. While it is a great weapon to use in battle, obtaining it is somewhat daunting as it is a rare weapon will a significantly lower drop rate. 

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In this guide, we will share details on how you can get the Beam Sword in Terraria and the odds of that happening. 

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How to get the Beam Sword in Terraria

In Terraria, the Beam Sword is an item found as loot. You can get it by defeating Armored Skeletons found in the Caverns—one of the enormous layers in the game that starts from below the Underground and extends to the Underworld layer. 

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The most challenging part of obtaining the Beam Sword in Terraria is its stringent drop rate: there is a mere 0.67% chance of getting a Beam Sword from a defeated Armored Skeleton. 

This means you must defeat around 150 Armored Skeletons in Terraria to obtain the Beam Sword. That will cost you not only a hefty amount of resources but also a lot of time. 

But if you really need the Beam Sword in Terraria, you have to grind the Armored Skeleton mobs, as there is no alternate way of obtaining the said weapon at the moment. 

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That concludes our guide on how to get Beam Sword in Terraria.

Terraria is an action-adventure sandbox game currently available on PS4, Xbox, Android, PC, iOS, and Nintendo Switch. For more on Terraria, check out our dedicated guides section. 

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Hritwik Raj
Hritwik is a guides writer who has been writing about video games for almost a decade. He is a Computer Science graduate who has always been into gaming. Most of the time, you will find him covering News and Guides for various publications. And when he is not working, you will find him fighting with his friends about how good of a gamer he is. His favorite games include Fallout 76, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Souls series, Genshin Impact, and The Last of Us.