Talk:Dungeon

Merged into the Environments page
This article, while well written, is so small that I'd say we merge it - along with all the rest of the biome pages - into the overarching Environment page. MarekkPie 15:00, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it's only so small because the Wiki just started to exist - i'm sure in 2 weeks it will be too much text for an overarching Environment page. Bow Artist3 15:09, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Loot research
I think there should be a loot research like the Floating Islands one. It would be nice to know the chances of finding certain items. --Demian 08:56, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That might be a bit of a tall order, given that a boss has to be defeated and there's only one dungeon per world. Not to mention how difficult they are to traverse.  Plus, there are a large number of chests in the dungeon.  So, I'm not sure if any such data would show anything conclusive.  It's also entirely possible that the chests within dungeons have the same loot tables as those found elsewhere. ~Markus 11:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Further, Only three of the 10+ chests I found had unique items. Though, I do see data covering the number of Crystal Hearts and chests found in a dungeon to be of use. ~Markus 11:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Dungeon Spawn bug--Water
In my main world, the dungeon spawned with the entrance door covered to the top with water. The old man must have opened the door a few times as the inner central area is a bit flooded (but still seems doable). Anyone else having this problem?

Looting the Dungeon Without Alerting Skeletron
" As long as you also destroy the dungeon backwalls that are immediately behind you, you will not be considered "in the dungeon." " Unless this changed from the last two updates, I really don't think this is correct. I was doing that with dirt walls behind me and still outside of the walls and he still came after me when I got deep enough.

I only started playing the game at v1.0.5, and as far as I can tell you can't mine the dungeon border bricks. Making my own entrances and getaway tunnels is the first thing I do anywhere so yeah I'm pretty sure the technique mentioned in the article's very first section doesn't work in v1.0.5. - Spinfx 07:56, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Wait, I didn't realize that maybe higher level picks may affect them; I only have a gold pickaxe. If I'm not mistaken the bricks article says Nightmare Pick should be able to mine these. - Spinfx 08:29, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The Nightmare Pickaxe does in fact mine the dungeon border bricks. Also, you can remove the the dungeon wall blocks in order to prevent dungeon monster spawns (such as the annoying Cursed Skull), but from what others have said, this doesn't seem to protect against the Dungeon Guardian spawning.--Kitsune 02:45, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Incorrect list of 'dungeon-unique' items
Definately Enchanted Boomerang and maybe Magic Mirror and Cloud in a Bottle are NOT dungeon-specific. Maybe someone could fix this? -A Random Nitpicky Contributor

I went ahead and fixed this. Sokaron, Treasurehunter

The bones arent a unique drop either, you can also get them from Skeletons underground. Darkwater
 * No, you can't. Skeletons only drop hooks. --GauHelldragon 09:09, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

dungeon/corruption overlap
so i made a new world after 1.0.5. and my dungeon was created with corruption almost directly behind (er, to the right of) it. i jumped down the first chasm, and i saw where the dungeon kinda got cut off... right before the dungeon guardian killed me. i had corruption walls behind me when it happened, i think this might be a bug? haha. i'll have to take a closer look once i kill skeletron.


 * Could you post an image. I don't 100% understand what you mean. --Moxxy 21:14, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

um. well i haven't killed skeletron yet. i'll post one after i do, so i can give you a good look. as soon as i get close enough to see it, the guardian kills me.

ok, so i got a couple good screenies that show it pretty well:



so i think that part of the update was to prevent the "sneaking" of dungeon loot before defeating the boss. guardian now attacks as soon as dungeon tiles (underground) appear on your screen. be very careful in hcm, lol.--Mergatroid 09:40, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

It's just way too dangerous to try to loot the dungeon w/o Skeletron killed
Apparently the new Dungeon Guardian insta-kill both at day and night, goes at the speed of a bullet right to ram into you. And he can spawn even if the ambience music hasn't changed. Apparently he will spawn even if you haven't triggered the dungeon biome outright. I think dungeon tiles trigger the guardian now, even if you are above the ground, I was 5 blocks over the surface, and the skull ramed into me while the night ambiance was still playing

Just to say : Don't even think about getting past the door, or you will have the scare of your life, and that even if you stay above ground --84.100.116.199 20:13, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

citeria for man-made dungeons
original question by DLAJT24, and posted by guest: "DLAJT24: i know the mechanics of a dungeon but what is actualy the 'requirements or 'criteria' for a 'man-made' dungeon, i know it can be made in the upper cave areas and so on, but what criteria must be met to make your own dungeon? does it need at least 1 water candle, etc.? does it need doors to function properly? and does a man-made dungeon summon the skeleron guardians the same way a randomly generated one does? and it says dungeons are made of uncraftable objects, does that mean you cant craft dungeon blocks? (IE dungeon bricks crafted into dungeon brick walls, etc.) *also a dungeon = a max stack of 250, which infact isnt a whole lot to make your own somewhere* --Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.20.242.10 (talk • contribs)

...that's a pretty zealous Dungeon Guardian!
Reporting that you can, in fact, get stomped on by the dungeon guardian even without entering the dungeon itself. I'd been spelunking and ran into the dungeon from the side. Since I was unable to enter (gold pick), I dug up alongside it to see where it went. I've only visited the wiki when I was stuck to maintain surprises, so I knew it was a dungeon, but didn't suspect any other danger. After a good 15+ minutes of following the border upward, the dungeon guardian flew out of nowhere and killed me. I almost had a heart attack, haha. 71.74.64.251 21:58, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Number of Chests
I've recently slogged through my dungeon and destroyed every single chest. I've found exactly 20 and no more after those 20. This is on a medium world. Anyone willing to see how many there are on small/large worlds? 75.36.152.127 05:38, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Attempting to wrap my head around the (invariably obfuscated because of local variables) code makes my head hurt. The number of Dungeon rooms is random, but depends on the world size. For every Dungeon room, 1000 attempts are made to add a chest, but obviously that can fail somehow because we've all seen empty Dungeon rooms before. In any case, providing a definite number isn't possible. --Lunboks 10:32, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Tips and Tricks
Forget it, saw it was at the monster wikis --Chicunsu 10:54, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

I killed Skeletron, but Dungeon Guardians still spawn.
What happened? If I can't enter the dungeon, I'm going to be really pissed.

Jungle and Dungeon
The information on how the jungle and dungeon spawn is wrong; I've found a dungeon in the jungle (It was actually quite cool), I'll fetch pics later.

You shall pass?
I discovered a interesting bug to let yourself into the dungeon without having to kill the skeleton. All you need to do is beat down the door with a hammer and walk right on in. If you don't open the door then nothing will attack you. When I did this it was the middle of the day (was killing some boredom waiting for night) so I don't know if the process is as successful at night and as I have killed the skeleton can no longer try. Just some interesting bug. --user: Pockyninja

Signatures make it much easier to see when you posted. They're made simply with two dashes (--) and four tilde (~) signs. How far down did you go? Did you actually explore deep enough to actually encounter dungeon enemies without being killed by dungeon guardians, or did you just go down a couple flights of stairs and then escape before things went sour? Because dungeon guardians only spawn after passing a certain depth, which is either exactly the same or slightly higher than the point at which dungeon enemies start spawning. If you didn't encounter any dungeon enemies, I don't think you actually bugged it, you probably just didn't go low enough to spawn the guardians. --Adam222 02:36, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

(original poster) I don't remember how far I went but I did kill a few angry skeletons and see a spike ball. I also got some of the loot out of there. Though I was under the impression the guardians spawned as soon as you opened the door without killing the boss. Someone should retest this to check it if I get a chance I will do it myself and post my findings. --user:Pockyninja 7:52, 14 February 2012

I am wondering if it is possible that your dungeon can spawn without all the unique loot in it, or if I just cant find the cobalt sheild. I'm curious about this since I got multiple aqua scepters (2), magic missles (3), and water bolts (3). --Solrex 02:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

I tried to enter a dungeon without killing Skeletron by taking down the door, but it did not work. Probably because I opened the door before to try to get water bolt. This is in a different world than the one where I cannot find the cobalt sheild --Solrex 03:09, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Guide link at top of page
I have noticed that at the top of boss pages etc there is a guide link, please can someone add a link to Guide:Surviving_in_the_Dungeon I do not know how to do it, else I would have done it myself. Matthew Carter (talk) 19:24, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Done :) Equazcion2 (talk) 19:38, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Faction flags?

 * 1.2 Now generates with biome-key locked chests and Faction Flags. which denote what will spawn there in Hardmode.

So what happens if you take down all of the flags before hardmode starts? -- KhymChanur (talk) 07:28, 6 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Oops, "denotes". So removing or moving the flags won't have any effect. -- KhymChanur (talk) 11:11, 6 October 2013 (UTC)