True Copper Shortsword

Aether transmutation and homing shortsword spirals

True Copper Shortsword is obtained by submerging Zenith into liquid Shimmer inside the Aether biome. Once transmuted, this blade adopts the exact flight physics of Zenith, projecting a swirling vortex of flying copper blades directly toward the cursor. The thrown projectiles pass freely through solid blocks and walls, seeking nearby hostile creatures within a four-hundred-pixel radius without requiring clear line of sight. Delivering 190 base melee damage with 6.5 knockback and an innate 14% critical chance, it turns the game's humblest starting weapon aesthetic into an endgame weapon.

Celestial novelty status and melee performance

While Zenith cycles through sprites of ten different progression swords, True Copper Shortsword fires exclusively identical copper shortsword sprites along its elliptical curves. Because it shares Zenith's target-tracking code and block-penetrating capabilities, it easily dispatches invasion swarms and event bosses through barricades. Players seeking maximum combat efficiency will typically stick to Zenith due to its higher base power, but True Copper Shortsword offers an amusing alternative for players wanting thematic flair. The Legendary prefix provides the highest possible increases to speed, damage, and critical strike potential.

Trivia

• Submerging Zenith in Shimmer produces this weapon instead of decrafting Zenith into its constituent swords.
• The weapon uses the Copper Shortsword sprite index within the game's internal final fractal helper routines.