
The Space Gun is highly useful for defeating the Wall of Flesh as the lasers can penetrate through The Hungry and have a much better chance at hitting the eyes or mouth.The Furious, Taboo, Intense, Ignorant, and Inept modifiers will not have any negative effects on mana while the set bonus of Meteor armor is in effect.Its usefulness soon diminishes after reaching Hardmode, as most enemies are too tough to the extent it becomes ineffective.The Space Gun can pierce two enemies at a time, which makes it quite useful in the pre-Hardmode Dungeon, because of the large quantity of grouped enemies found there.The Zenith appears to have a similar shape as the Copper Shortsword.However, 3DS players start with a Wooden Sword, a mostly better weapon.

Because the Copper Shortsword autoswings on the Nintendo 3DS version, its use is slightly increased.However, a player in this condition can simply make a new sword, which is generally accepted as the best course of action for a new character anyways. Furthermore, a Broken Copper Shortsword is the weapon with the second-lowest damage in the game, as the weapon with the lowest damage is the Broken Wooden Hammer, which deals 1 damage. This reduces its damage to 3, which makes the early game even harder.

It is possible to spawn with a Broken Copper Shortsword.A Tiny Copper Shortsword is the smallest possible sword in the game.The developers seem to have made fun of this idea by including the Copper Shortsword in the recipe of the Zenith, an endgame melee weapon.However, there have been videos where bosses have been defeated with a Copper Shortsword. On videos of people successfully completing challenges in Terraria such as unusual boss fights or speedruns, for example, comments saying "Now do it with a copper shortsword!" are not a rare sight, to make the seemingly impossible challenge even more ridiculous. The uselessness of the Copper Shortsword, even at the beginning of the game which it is supposedly suited for, has earned it "memetic" status within the Terraria community.Journey Mode characters always start with an Iron Shortsword, if a Journey's Mode World spawns with Tin Ore instead of Copper, it is possible to obtain Copper by Fishing.In a world that generates with Tin Ore, fishing or the Chlorophyte Extractinator must be relied on. Always keep at least one Copper Shortsword, as it is required to craft the Zenith.This makes it almost useless against flying or jumping enemies, although its high attack rate makes it somewhat effective against weaker fighter type enemies.
#Terraria armor penetration vs damage windows
Like all shortswords, the Copper Shortsword has a very limited range and attacks with a stabbing motion at any direction on PC, Console, Mobile, and tModLoader, and horizontally in front of the player on Old-gen console, Windows Phone, Old Chinese, 3DS, and tModLoader Legacy, instead of an arc. In Journey Mode, newly created characters will spawn with an Iron Shortsword instead of a Copper Shortsword. On the Windows Phone and 3DS versions, newly created players will spawn with a Wooden Sword instead of a Copper Shortsword. On the PC, Console, Old-gen console, Mobile, Old Chinese, tModLoader, and tModLoader Legacy versions, all newly created non- Journey Mode characters will spawn with a Copper Shortsword in their first inventory slot, and it is possible that it can have a modifier already applied to it.

It has a slightly stronger counterpart, the Tin Shortsword, except in the Nintendo 3DS version, where the Copper Shortsword is equivalent. The Copper Shortsword is the weakest of the shortswords. The Copper Shortsword attacking a Target Dummy.
