Floating Island



Floating Islands and  are floating structures located generally well above the world's main land mass and can be found all the way up to Space. Their location makes them susceptible to Harpies in pre-Hardmode and Wyverns and in Hardmode. Being at such high altitude, players have reduced gravity when navigating them. Both are similar in size and placement, and both rest atop Cloud and Rain Cloud blocks with background Cloud Walls.

Floating Island
A Floating Island contains a mass of isolated Forest land and a house-like structure. Each world will contain at least one Floating Island, up to a possible nine maximum in large worlds. A Floating Island will usually contain a structure constructed from Sunplate Block, Disc Wall, and Glass Wall. It will always contain exactly one Skyware Chest along with other random Skyware furniture. It will either have three or five background walls in between each window. Each Skyware Chest contains one of 4 rare items (the Fledgling Wings / Lucky Horseshoe, Starfury, or Shiny Red Balloon), has a 1/3 chance of containing a , and contains other typical Surface Chest loot. Unique items are chosen at random, with the restriction that all three unique items must be spawned at least once before truly random unique items spawn on any remaining Islands (if less than three islands are generated, the wings won't be spawned and if only one is generated, it will contain a Shiny Red Balloon).

Floating Lake
Floating Lakes consist of nothing more than a large body of water, suitable for fishing. There will be relatively few of these in a world. Unlike Floating Islands, they have neither Sunplate Block structures nor any of their contents. Several exclusive catches can be found there, like the Damselfish, Sky Crates/Azure Crates and some quest fish including the sky-exclusive Cloudfish.

Floating Lakes can rarely contain Water Chests.

Tips

 * To protect any Floating Islands or Floating Lakes from meteors, place any chest 25 blocks from either edge of the island.
 * Floating Islands can be easy ways to have a biome without threat of spreading uncontrollably.
 * There are numerous methods to locate Floating Islands:
 * Gravitation Potions (or the ) facilitate unrestrained movement in the air, without requiring access to flying accessories.
 * Using a Teleportation Potion on a floating island significantly increases the chance of being teleported to a nearby floating island.
 * This method is most useful for locating subsequent floating islands, once you've already found one.
 * Using a Depth Meter, build a staircase or rope line up to the height where Floating Islands usually spawn. Build a sky bridge to either side until finding an Island. Common blocks like Dirt, Stone, or Hay can be used for the sky bridge.
 * Use a long-range weapon with a ricocheting projectile, such as a gun with Meteor Shots. The projectile's return will signify a landmass above.
 * Floating Islands will catch Fallen Stars. Areas on the surface in which Fallen Stars rarely or never fall may have a Floating Island above.
 * Create a Hardcore character, die, and become a Ghost, and then fly around to look for an Island.
 * Occasionally, Floating Islands spawn low enough to open up other methods of locating them:
 * The waterfalls flowing from the Island may be seen when flying.
 * Dungeons and Living Trees may be high enough to already see the lower part of the Island when standing atop them.
 * The rain from the Floating Islands sometimes form small puddles on the surface, if you see a suspiciously small puddle of water, there's a high chance an island is located above.
 * You can use a Gills Potion and dig a deep hole down filled with water(e.g under a river), either with Pickaxes or bombs. Then use a Inner Tube and go straight down to the bottom of the hole while holding the down arrow. Then let go and let the Inner Tube float you high up.

Trivia

 * Floating Islands were originally made out of Dirt and Stone Blocks. The house was either made of Gold, Silver or Copper Bricks with a single chest inside, causing it to somewhat resemble a Shrine. Grass vines hanging below the island could be used to locate it as projectiles would make noise when destroying them. The chests used to be locked and had to be opened with Golden Keys from the Dungeon.
 * It can contain either three or five disc walls in between each glass wall (window).