Terraria – How to Kill the Plantera (Boss Guide)

This is a guide to help you defeat Plantera. It will give you a list of recommended items.

Basics

Note: Credit goes to OpticFibers

For the basics, you’re going to need to have beaten the Mechanical Bosses so that you can have a plantera bulb spawn. Secondly, you’ll have needed to get an Orchalcum/Mithril anvil, a Titanium/Adamantite forge, (You need a hellforge to make that), And a bit of a hardmode ore (Enough to make armor, Orchalcum and Titanium are recommended).

What to Have

You should have a stack of healing potions, and access to your quick heal button. A mana flower and Mana potions would be recommended as well, if you’re going for a Mage or summoner playthrough, or you have a lot of magic weapons. It would be good if you fought the solar eclipse, and got excalibur and night’s edge.

• Melee weapon: Terra blade (True night’s edge {night’s edge+broken hero sword}+True excalibur {Excalibur+Boken hero sword})
• Ranged weapon: Megashark+Endless musket pouch
• Magic weapon: magic dagger
• Summon minion: Deadly sphere staff
• Sentry summon: queen spider staff

How to Defeat Mechanical Bosses Easier

Destroyer – long flat platform – height 50 blocks / 100 feet above ground – test it so it wont spawn sky dragons, height is depending on your world. Destroyer will spawn and will 95% of the fight won’t be able to reach you – he needs blocks to dig through and there will be nothing for him to latch on between ground and platform. Sometimes it will reach platform ,, but won’t be able to maneur too long

Skeletron / Eyes – same platform but two teleports on either sides, 3 seconds time for teleport. Teleports are placed in small honey baths. Campfire, heart lantern, statues nearby. Use heart reach potion to grab hearts when you tp. Obviously, you need at least one heart statue near one teleport (ideally both teleports should be covered). You will just constantly dodge boss with teleporting

Weapons – strongest repeater available in both cases. Usually destroyer is easier so titanium will do. The latter two – use hallowed repeater. I used all melee armor and defence-tinkered accessories, but you may pick differently.

Do not use Ichor / cursed arrows against destroyer as he is one of the entities that is immune to these debuffs, so you can preserve these arrows for enemies who will be receiving full effects from it.