Terraria Boss Order & How To Defeat Them

Terraria is super fun, but the boss order stumps many! Here is a guide on the best Terraria Boss Order along with detailed tutorial.

One of the most interesting aspects of Terraria is the bosses. The game includes a total of 14 bosses that you must defeat in a way that the bosses that are far more difficult than others, come in last. However, the boss’s order can be confusing for a lot of people. Here, we look at the best Terraria Boss Order and how to defeat each boss.

Key Highlights
  • Terraria has over 14 bosses to fight, and each boss is unlocked at different game stages.
  • The bosses that you will find in Terraria will be in order, bosses early on will be easier but will progressively get harder.
  • These are the bosses that you will fight in order with their health:
    • Eye Of Cthulhu (1400 HP)
    • King Slime (2000 HP)
    • Brain Of Cthulhu (3250 HP)
    • Queen Bee (3400 HP)
    • Skeletron (4400 HP)
    • Wall Of Flesh (8000 HP)
    • The Destroyer (80,000 HP)
    • Skeletron Prime (28,000 HP)
    • The Twins (43,000 HP)
    • Plantera (15,000 HP)
    • Golem (25,000 HP)
    • Duke Fishron (60,000 HP)
    • Lunatic Cultist (32,000 HP)
    • Moon Lord (Body: 4500 Hand: 2500 Core: 5000) 
  • Each of these bosses will either automatically spawn after reaching certain conditions or can be summoned.
  • These bosses get very hard as you continue and progressing in terms of armor, weapons, and gear is crucial.
  • All these bosses also have different attack patterns and techniques to deal with.

Terraria Boss Order

With the right weapons and the right execution of skills, these unique bosses can easily be taken down. As equipping better weapons as you progress is the only way you’ll up your mana, the better weapons you hold, the easier it would be for you to defeat bosses. Following is the order in which you should fight the Terraria bosses and a description of how to defeat them.

Complete details of all the bosses: 

Boss NameDamageMax LifeDefenseKB ResistImmune To
The Eye Of Cthulhu (1st Form)15.02800.012.0100%Confused Debuff
The Eye Of Cthulhu (2nd Form)23.01400/28000.0100%Confused Debuff

King Slime
40.02000.010.0100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Eater Of WorldsN/A10050 - 7500N/A100%- Confused Debuff
Brain Of Cthulhu30.01250 - 325014.0100%- Confused Debuff
Queen Bee30 - 223400.08.0100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Skeletron (Hand)20.0600.014.0100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Skeletron (Head)32 - 10004400.00 - 9999 100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
- Penetrated Debuff
- Tentacle Spike melee weapon
- Blood Butchered Sword
Wall Of Flesh50.08000.012.0100%- On Fire Debuff
- Confused Debuff
- Hellfire Debuff
The DestroyerN/A80,000N/A100%- All Debuffs except stunned and bleeding debuffs.
Skeletron Prime47 - 94 28,00024 - 48100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
- Penetrated Debuff
- Tentacle Spike melee weapon
- Blood Butchered Sword
The TwinsN/A43,00010.0100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Plantera (1st Form)50.030,00036.0100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Plantera (2nd Form)70.015,000/30,00010.0100%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
- Acid Venom Debuff
Plantera (Hook)60.04000.024.00%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Plantera (Tentacle)60.01000.020.00%- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
Plantera (Spore)70.01.00.0100%- Confused Debuff
GolemN/A60,000N/AN/A- Poisoned Debuff
- Confused Debuff
- Acid Venom Debuff
- On Fire Debuff
Duke Fishron100 - 20060,00050 -100100%- Confused Debuff
- Stunned Debuff
Lunatic Cultist (Original Form)50.032,00042 / 27100%- All Debuffs except whip debuffs
Lunatic Cultist (Decoy)0.010,00035 / 22100%- All Debuffs
Moon LordDifferent for each attack145,000Different for each part100%- Confused Debuff

The Eye Of Cthulhu

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The Eye of Cthulhu
Form Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
1st form 15 2800 12 100% Confused Debuff
2nd form 23 1400/2800 0 100% Confused Debuff

The Eye Of Cthulhu will be your first boss encounter in the game, and this boss is a big circular-eye look-a-like creature that roams the arena. 

Spawn system

Once you’ve reached 200HP, the probability of the Eye of Cthulhu spawning at night is 33%.

Another way to summon this boss is to kill demon eyes that fly about at night and collect their lenses( you’ll need about six). Now go to the Demon or Crimson Altar( the natural crafting stations) to craft a suspicious-looking eye.

Once obtained, utilizing this item at night will summon the Eye of Cthulhu.

When it’s about to show up, a message, “You feel an evil presence watching you” shows up. It is not important to defeat the boss to win the game; however, its rewards are what tempt the players to fight it.

Tutorial

The eye of Cthulhu will spend most of its time hovering above you. It will summon its servants that’ll attack you. A good strategy in this situation is to equip a weapon such as a sword. Aim towards its pupil where its servants spawn. After sending its 3 or 4 servants toward you, the eye will attack you, but you can evade these attacks by dodging them.

Hit it with arrows before he disappears after his attack to set it on fire. In the second phase of the fight, this eye will shed its iris to reveal a fanged mouth. The mechanics of this transformed enemy differ slightly. Do not attack it while it charges at you, attack only when it pauses for a few seconds after 3 consecutive attacks.

Tips and Tricks

If you mine a lot, you’ll eventually find a gravitation potion. Using this potion on the surface allows you to control gravity and fly. Look for a floating island to discover a sword called Starfury that can easily defeat this Terraria boss

King Slime

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King Slime
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
40 2000 10 100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

Despite barely qualifying as a boss, King Slime manages to give newcomers a hard time who do not own up-to-the-par gear. Most of its attacks are predictable, And it cannot move through the blocks, giving a visible advantage to the player.

Spawn system

King Slime possesses a unique spawn system.

Under the following conditions, the king slime can be spawned

  • Make a Gold or Platinum crown, and then you should go to at the Demon Altar and combine it with 20 gel.
  • By defeating 75 slimes during a slime rain.
  • King Slime boss also has a great chance of spawning in a slime rain.

Tutorial

King slime attacks by hopping onto the player. Its jump depends on the distance between the player and the slime; if you are too far away from it, it will teleport to you. The more damage it takes, the smaller it gets making it more critical to hit.  King Slime spawns many small blue slimes with a very basic moveset, this Terraria boss can be defecated using weapons like guns.

Tips and tricks

To counter King Slime without taking much damage is to dodge its ability to teleport. This can be done by using a rope placing it on the highest point ( about 35 blocks) above the ground, and climbing it. In this way, you can attack him without him teleporting to you.

Making one or more platforms can also help. Or using the roof of a small room as king slime cannot move into tightly enclosed spaces.

Eater of Worlds /Brain of Cthulhu:

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Eater of Worlds/Brain of Cthulhu
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
N/A 10050 – 7500 N/A 100% – Confused Debuff

This Terraria boss is fairly difficult but holds plenty of rewards and can give you a tough time. When in the terrain of corruption, you’ll fight this boss as Eater of Worlds.  The Brain of Cthulhu is the Eater of the World’s counterpart you’ll face in Crimson Terrain.

Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
30 1250 – 3250 14 100% – Confused Debuff

Spawn System

The Brain of Cthulhu  can be spawned through

  • Smashing three crimson hearts
  • Using a bloody spine

While the Eater of the Worlds can be spawned through

  • Using Worm food in corruption
  • Smashing three shadow orbs

Tutorial

The brain of Cthulhu will be surrounded by at least 20 creepers during the first stage of the boss fight. In this stage, the brain cannot be attacked. The first stage is probably the toughest as well as the boss teleports to your position and behind you along with creepers for extra damage.

Tips and Tricks

For the brain of Cthulhu, it is recommended that you prepare your arena beforehand with lighting and campfires and keep your weapons ready. Also, use sunflowers for extra speed and a reduced enemy spawn rate

A very useful trick to defeat the eater of the world is to break one of the orbs and wait for the meteoroids to land. Mining this meteoroid will give you a space gun and meteoroid armor. You can exploit the space gun’s infinite ammo to annihilate bosses pretty easily in Terraria.

Refer to: Terraria Eater of Worlds Guide

Queen Bee

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Queen Bee
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
30 – 22 3400 8 100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

Queen Bee is important to Destroy in Terraria Boss Order because killing her will summon the witch doctor to your village. After killing her, you can also explore the jungle and the underground.

Spawn system

Queen bees can be spawned under the following conditions

  • Go to the jungle biome and find a beehive. Go inside and break the larva. This will summon the queen bee
  • Using abomination in the jungle or underground jungle

Tutorial

The Queen bee can poison you if you touch it or its stingers. Like many other bosses, the queen bee also has minions called bees. When it attacks you, you should do a double jump or dodge its attacks upward. The poisoned debuff lasts longer from touching the queen bee as compared to being hit by one of its stingers.

In this situation, use the honey pool from the beehive to regenerate health.

Tips and tricks

Using a space gun here would be very useful as well. Honeypools for health regeneration is quite helpful here too.

Read Terraria Queen Bee Detailed Guide Here.

Skeletron

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Skeletron
Part Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
Skeleton Hand 20 600 14 100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

Skeletron Head – 32

– 1000 (during the day)

4400 – 0 (while spinning)

– 9999 (during the day)

100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

– Penetrated Debuff

– Tentacle Spike melee weapon

– Blood Butchered Sword

The boss ‘Skeletron’ protects and guards an underground labyrinth known as the dungeon. This boss is the old man you’ll find outside the dungeon. This old man is cursed, and defeating the skeleton will break his curse. This hellish boss is difficult to fight, and dodging its attacks can be quite a nightmare. The boss’s structure Is a skull with 2 arms. 

Spawn system

Skeletron can be summoned by doing the following

  • Talking to an old man near the dungeon entrance at night
  • Killing a clothier who is an NPC vendor by using a clothier’s voodoo doll. This must be done at night

Tutorial

To defeat this boss, you must destroy its skull. It attacks using its arms and is capable of swinging them at different times and directions. This is what makes Skeletron’s attacks hard to dodge.

Use weapons that’ll help you damage its arms as well as skull. Arms being weaker, can detach quite easily.

Skeletron’s deadliest move is undoubtedly its spinning attack, which fixes its arms in an up and position. Dodge its attacks; otherwise, if you get caught in its combo attacks, you’ll lose a lot of health.

Tips and tricks

Spiky balls obtained from the goblin army can prove to be useful during this fight. Spread them out on the arena where you fight Skeletron. They will keep damaging it while you fight.

Wall of Flesh

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Wall of Flesh
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
50 8000 12 100% – On Fire Debuff

– Confused Debuff

– Hellfire Debuff

The Wall of Flesh is the last boss you’ll encounter before entering the hard mode. This wall, the size of your screen, uses lasers and a mouth to attack you.

Spawn Mechanism

Head to the lava in the Underworld and throw the Voodoo doll in steaming lava while the thing still lives. The easiest method to acquire the voodoo doll in Terraria is by defeating a Voodoo demon.

Tutorial

Staying in front of the boss will give you an edge while fighting this boss in the game. This will gradually move toward you. Keep a distance from it, but don’t get too far as it might pull you towards it, and you can get damaged from hazards such as lava. Use your lava charm here, just in case.

Another enemy you’ll face while fighting this wall is the leeches. The wall’s mouth releases these leeches. They’ll drop a heart when they die. Make sure you collect them, as they’ll help you fight the wall. Use your melee weapons to kill them.

As the wall gets more and more damaged, it’ll start to move faster, and the damage by lasers will increase.

Tips and tricks

A strategic way to defeat this boss is to get the Obsidian potion and a Feather fall potion to move deftly across the arena. You can also build a bridge across the underworld to give you swift mobility.

Another strategy is to use Hellstone to produce a Phoenix blaster and use meteor bullets with it to produce maximum damage.

Also, check out: Terraria Potions

The Destroyer

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The Destroyer
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
N/A 80,000 N/A 100% – All Debuffs except stunned and bleeding debuffs.

The mechanical version of Eater of Worlds,  this is the first boss you’ll face in the hard mode. It is necessary to beat this boss in order to unlock plantera.

Spawn system

  • Smash a demon or a crimson altar
  • Use a mechanical worm at night

Tutorial

It digs underground and will attack you from beneath. The head will give you the most damage. Each segment would attack you by firing lasers. Its attacks are difficult to dodge due to its lasers being shot at different trajectories. It also spawns many probes that have the ability to move through blocks.

It has a probability of 33% dropping a heart when killed. Try dodging upwards while fighting this boss because if it manages to get above you, it’ll give you little to no space to dodge its probes.

Tips and tricks

A good way to defeat this boss is by obtaining Daedalus Storm bow. This can be done by summoning a hallowed mimic and defeating him. Pairing this with Jester arrows will give you a very powerful weapon. Fly around the arena with wings while shooting the destroyer. This way, you’ll be able to get more hits across without dealing much damage.

Skeletron Prime

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All hail Skeletron Prime
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
N/A 80,000 N/A 100% – All Debuffs except stunned and bleeding debuffs.

Unlike many others in Terraria Boss Order – This boss is even harder than the destroyer, and while playing Terraria on hard mode, expect to get attacked by this boss out of nowhere. The creepiest and probably the hit marker points of the Skelton Prime boss are its four limbs: prime vice, prime saw, prime cannon, and prime laser.

However, you can deal the highest amount of damage to the most exposed and easy-to-hit part of this boss; the head. The interesting point here is that if you focus entirely on the boss’s head and kill it before attacking the rest of the four limbs, you will get to beat the boss and not worry about the four arms, as they kind of die on their own.

Tutorial

Every arm possesses a unique attack pattern. The Prime Saw is the least aggressive but does great damage. Prime Vice has less damage but will attack you more than Prime Saw. Meanwhile, Prime Laser hovers above you, shooting lasers. However, when enraged, this limb tends to be the most aggressive and difficult to destroy.

Prime cannon shoots bombs that explode when impacting a solid block. This arm is fairly less threatening than others.

The head floats above the player at all times and, just like Skeletron, also has a spinning attack in which the rate of attack of other limbs doubles as well.

Tips and tricks

It is best to destroy its arms first, leaving its head vulnerable.

Using a golden shower will also help.

The Twins

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The Twins
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
N/A 43,000 10 100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

They are like the eyes of Cthulhus but combined. These deal the most damage out of the three mechanical bosses and are very difficult to destroy.

Spawn System

  • Smash a demon or a crimson altar. However, this applies to the trio of mechanical bosses. If the twins are the only ones left, they’ll be the ones to spawn.
  • Use a mechanical eye at night.

Tutorial

Both these eyes must be defeated separately. One of these eyes is called Retinazer. It has a red iris and shoots a laser. The other is Spazmatism, which has a green iris and fires cursed flames.

Retinazer does less damage than Spazmatism but has a higher accuracy rate.

Retinazer’s lasers become difficult to dodge as the fight goes on. It is recommended that you defeat Spazmatism first due to the greater amount of damage it deals.

Tips and tricks

A magic weapon that uses curses like a Megashark with Cursed bullets, can damage twins and be quite beneficial in defeating them.

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Plantera

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Plantera
Form/Parts Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
1st form 50 30,000 36 100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

2nd form 70 15,000/30,000 10 100% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

– Acid Venom Debuff

Plantera’s Hook 60 4000 24 0% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

Plantera’s Tentacle 60 1000 20 0% – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

Spore 70 1 0 100% – Confused Debuff

The boss ‘Plantera’ appears once you’ve defeated all three mechanical bosses, i.e., The destroyer, Skeletron Prime, and the twins.

Summon system

This boss can only be summoned by breaking Plantera’s bulb found in the jungle biome.

Tutorial

You can easily dodge this boss’s attacks if you have speed-boosting equipment. Don’t stop moving; use the arena to your benefit by preparing the space as more long and narrow.

On 50 percent health, the boss’s petals wither, and a green maw appears. At this stage, the planter is on max speed and defense.

Try to kill its tentacles by shooting it continuously and dodging their attacks.

It will attack you using seeds, thornbills, hooks, and spores. It will also release its minions, known as biters.

Tips and tricks

Make the area extensive and light it up using torches

Throw spiky balls all over the place to cause extra damage.

Weapons like guns with meteor bullets and bows are helpful in this fight.

Golem

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Golem
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
N/A 60,000 N/A N/A – Poisoned Debuff

– Confused Debuff

– Acid Venom Debuff

– On Fire Debuff

In Lizard Temple, you can fight a boss known as Golem

It is a very powerful boss with a high HP and a variety of attacks, but you can dodge its attacks easily due to it not being very mobile.

Spawn system

Using the Lizahrd power cell at the Lizahrd altar can summon this boss. To get into the temple, you’ll need the temple key that Plantera drops, so fight it first.

Tutorial

Try to focus on its head and damage it using weapons like guns. The head will spit two fireballs that’ll move around the arena. Dodging the fireballs is important. It is a stage. Once at 50 percent, it will start using eye lasers as well. Destroying the head will reveal its TRUE form, and all the remaining limbs will attack you with increased damage.

Tips and tricks

Poison bullets with a heavy damaging gun can cause a lot of damage. And prove to be very useful in this fight.

You may want to refer to: Terraria Golem Boss Guide

Duke Fishron

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Duke Fishron
Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
100 – 200 60,000 50 -100 100% – Confused Debuff

– Stunned Debuff

This is one of the final bosses in Terraria and is considered to be one of the most difficult bosses of the game.

Spawn system

Duke Fishron can be summoned using a Fishing Pole with a Truffle Worm that is found in the mushroom biome, as Bait in the Ocean.

Tutorial

Duke, in its first form, charges its flurry and attacks you five times with a short break between each attack. After charging, it’ll produce two attacks. The first attack fires around 20 Detonating bubbles

In its second attack, it will create two Sharknados on either side of it that’ll send its minions called Sharkrons toward the player.

When below 50 percent, his eyes gain a glow, and he stops moving for a second

In this stage, his speed increases, and the damage rate goes up. But he becomes more vulnerable as his defense goes down.

Tips and tricks

Getting a unicorn mount and making a bridge over the whole ocean can be very helpful.

Sharknados can be avoided by using fast wings or a mount summoning item like a Cosmic car key to help you stay above them.

Lunatic Cultist

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Lunatic Cultist
Form Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
Original Form 50 32,000 42 / 27 100% – All Debuffs except whip debuffs
Decoy 0 10,000 35 / 22 100% – All Debuffs

This is the second last boss in Terraria Boss Order. Defeating the Lunatic Cultist would summon the Celestial towers.

Spawn system

Killing the 4 cultists that spawn in front of the massive Golden sphere would summon the Lunatic Cultist.

Tutorial

This boss has three primary attacks

A ball of ice that rotates while shooting shards.

Three fireballs that would explode upon contact.

A stationary orb that has the ability to summon deadly lightning.

When in a vulnerable state upon being damaged enough, a fourth attack occurs, in which the Lunatic Cultist summons two ancient light projectiles that can be destroyed.

After a series of attacks, the cultist would now produce multiple copies of himself that are not mobile.

After this, a Phantasm Dragon will spawn and if it is already present, an Ancient Vision will spawn. The clones of lunatic cultists would keep on spawning the more you attack them. A good way to spot the fake ones is to fight this boss in the night as the fake ones would glow.

Tips and tricks

A good way to destroy this boss is to get chlorophyte bullets.

Keep in mind the Lunar events will start right after you defeat this boss, so be sure you’re fully prepared.

Moon Lord

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Moon Lord
Form/Part Damage Max Life Defense KB Resist Immune To
Full Form Different for each attack 145,000 Different for each part 100% – Confused Debuff
Moon Lord Head – 0 ~ contact

– 150 ~ Phantasmal Deathray

– 60 ~ Phantasmal Bolt

45,000 50 100% – Confused Debuff
Moon Lord’s Hand – 0 ~ contact

– 0 ~ contact with open eye socket

– 80 ~ Phantasmal Sphere

– 60 ~ Phantasmal Eye

– 60 ~ Phantasmal Bolt

25,000 40 100% – Confused Debuff
Moon Lord’s Core 0 50,000 70 100% – Confused Debuff

The final and the most difficult boss of Terraria is the Moon Lord.

Spawn system

You’ll face this boss once you’ve destroyed the 4 Celestial towers.

Tutorial

The moon lord has eyes on its hands and forehead, you can only attack them and most of its main attacks come from here as well. The eyes on its hands shoot phantasmal spheres and spawn phantasmal eyes,  alternating between them.

Its forehead shoots the phantasmal deathray. The eyes only take damage once they’re open or active. When you’ve defeated an eye it comes off and is now the True Eye of Cthulhu. The empty eye sockets now have fangs that are only damaged upon contact.

Sometimes, a tongue can also spawn from its mouth, trying to lick the player and cause the Moon Bite debuff.

By far, the deadliest attack that the Moon Lord produces is the Phantasmal Deathray. Dodging it must be a priority.

After you defeat all 3 of the boss’s eyes, you must face the hardest part of this boss, its core.

Tips and Tricks

A good gun with Chlorophyte bullets along with good armor, is necessary for maximum attack power and strong defense against Moon Lord’s attacks. Another strategy is to build a flying mount to land a good amount of damage without taking much damage from his attacks.

While you are here, you might want to check out: Terraria Crafting: Complete Guide on Crafting.

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