Weapons & Equip Make the Tin Shortsword create a joke First Fractal

[Rain Traffic]

Nobody crafts a Tin Shortsword, so why not make an endgame joke item with it? It would be crafted with all the major Zenith components, except for the Copper Shortsword, which is replaced with a Tin variant. This would make a fake First Fractal which looks like the real thing with the tooltip 'WORK IN PROGRESS' in reference of the First Fractal being worked on then discontinued. The attack would be the sword killing you with similar effects to the real First Fractal and it has the death message 'Player worked for Terraria News'

 

[Rain Traffic]

No, definitely not.
Far too expensive for a "joke" item, which also kills you.
Some new player trying out hardcore might not be aware of this item. They craft it, then boom, waste of time and effort.
There's no tangible point or reason for this to be added and personally I don't think it should be considered

If it didn't kill you and was far less expensive I'd be more open to it, but being an alt to the Zenith with one different crafting material, except it's worthless and it kills you, is not a good idea, plain and simple.

Terra Toilet and Fart Kart, however I may think of not allowing it to be crafted in Hard-core worlds unless it is a FTW of GFB world in hardcore and maybe being a vanity item instead that creates cool effects that glitch out and do nothing.

 

[Big Sammich]

I'm with Ignis. A joke item that does nothing but harm the player is not a good joke item. Not to mention that the joke is only gettable to people who actually know what the First Fractal is. For those players, this would just be a fake-out weapon that they think is an alternative to the Zenith (which it also should definitely not be).

 

[Aceplante]

No, definitely not.
Far too expensive for a "joke" item, which also kills you.
Some new player trying out hardcore might not be aware of this item. They craft it, then boom, waste of time and effort.
There's no tangible point or reason for this to be added and personally I don't think it should be considered

If it didn't kill you and was far less expensive I'd be more open to it, but being an alt to the Zenith with one different crafting material, except it's worthless and it kills you, is not a good idea, plain and simple.

I also suggested an item that kills you, "Poison berry" Food Item, but in reading your comment I realized I failed to consider hardcore players... Does that mean there should not be any items able to kill you like that? I mean the reds potion exists, but that is an odd case.

I have come to the conclusion it is okay, in SOME cases. The difference between my suggestion and this one is that elderberries are a real thing that many know are poisonous, this sword of course, is not. Another important factor is game stage. My berries would likely be found growing on blueberry-like bushes in the corruption, and if you eat a berry from the corruption, you deserve it. Still, this is fairly early game so even if the player loses a hardcore character, you can learn from it for your next playthrough. This sword on the other hand is super endgame and THEN kills you after all the work to get there? So yea completely agree with your points here.

 

[The Rope God🌳]

You can just shimmer it.