Guide:Crafting 101

Crafting is the act of combining one or more materials into a different item, usually at a specific crafting station.

Crafting Basics
The crafting aspect is slightly different across different versions of Terraria. To access the crafting menu, press the key while in-game. This will bring up the heads-up display, showing your Inventory, equipment slots, and other options. The crafting menu is located in the bottom left of your screen, as indicated in the image below. On the, press the button with 3 dots on it to access your full inventory, and on , press △ or Ⓨ. From there, switch tabs on and  to access the crafting interface, and on, switch menus ( / ).

Desktop Version
The items that can be currently crafted will appear in this menu. Your crafting options are determined by the items you have in your inventory, as well as your proximity to various crafting stations. Next, to a selected item's icon in the list, it's Crafting Recipe appears. To navigate this menu, you can click or use the mouse wheel to scroll through items. You can also see all craftable items at once by clicking the hammer icon below the word "Crafting". To select an item (as depicted by a yellow border), simply click on it, and to craft it, click it again. The newly crafted item will attach itself to your cursor, and from there it can be placed in your inventory or dropped by clicking outside of your inventory space. Large numbers of stackable items can be made by right-clicking and holding the icon, and quickly creates and stacks that item until the stack is full, you run out of materials, or simply let go. To exit your inventory, press the key again.

You can occasionally craft an item of exceptional, terrible, or slightly different quality, possessing a good or bad Modifier. This has a 75% chance of happening upon crafting an item, as well as various other factors. There is no way to predict what modifier you will get on an item, and many items cannot get modifiers at all. However, many items can be reforged to gain different modifiers. Generally, the only items that can get modifiers are tools, weapons, armor, and accessories.

Crafting Stations


Many recipes require that you have a crafting station to craft them. The first crafting station available in the Workbench, which can be crafted without any crafting station. To use a crafting station, it must be placed in the world, and you must be standing close enough to it (see image). Items you can craft using the station will then be added to the list of items you can currently craft. It's possible to stand near many crafting stations simultaneously to craft items using stations at once. Additionally, some items, such as the Copper Watch or Waterfall Blocks require that you stand next to multiple different crafting stations to be able to craft them.