Working as Designed Palladium Pike and Orichalcum Halberd's names are misnomers

[John Snail]

Steam or GOG

Steam

Single Player/Multiplayer

Both

Operating System

Windows 10

Terraria Version

1.4.1.1

Controls Used

Keyboard/Mouse

Doesn't affect gameplay at all, but the names of Palladium Pike and Orichalcum Halberd don't match their sprites.
The former looks more like a poleaxe, and the latter looks more like a bill.

The fix would be to simply rename them to "Palladium Poleaxe" and "Orichalcum Bill", and change their ItemIDs accordingly (for modders' sakes).

 

[FalloutGuy645]

While I do agree it would make sense for a name change, it’s possible the Terraria team left the names incorrect because that’s how they’ve always been. Changing the names would force a lot of people to think twice should they ever want to look at the weapon from the Wikipedia or of something similar. It’s probably for the best they remain the Palladium Pike and Orichalum Halberd.

 

[John Snail]

While I do agree it would make sense for a name change, it’s possible the Terraria team left the names incorrect because that’s how they’ve always been. Changing the names would force a lot of people to think twice should they ever want to look at the weapon from the Wikipedia or of something similar. It’s probably for the best they remain the Palladium Pike and Orichalum Halberd.

Re-Logic's renamed at least a couple things so they make more sense, such as Orb of Light becoming Shadow Orb in 1.2, and very recently Venom becoming Acid Venom in 1.4.1.

 

[FalloutGuy645]

Re-Logic's renamed at least a couple things so they make more sense, such as Orb of Light becoming Shadow Orb in 1.2, and very recently Venom becoming Acid Venom in 1.4.1.

No kidding? Well that changes my argument. I guess we’ll see what Re-Logic does now.

 

[John Snail]

Bumping because 1.4.4 has been renaming more things and this is a really important issue I think!

 

[Schparks]

I think at this point it's more of a joke than anything.