Forest



Forests are a biome that comprise the majority of the surface world and are typically where the player initially spawns and will spend a majority of their time. The global landscape of a forest includes lots of grass, plenty of trees, several lakes ranging in size from small to large, occasional hills that can reveal cave entrances, and often contain a Living Wood Tree that sometimes has an underground room.

The Forest changes noticeably in the outer thirds of the world. Goblin Scouts, which are fairly uncommon and drop Tattered Cloth, begin to spawn. The King Slime boss also has a very rare chance to spawn and can easily surprise and overwhelm an unsuspecting player. Enchanted Sword Shrines, though they can be found in any biome with Dirt and Stone, are almost always found in the outer-thirds of the world in the Forest. Breaking the real sword has a chance of dropping the Enchanted Sword and a  chance of dropping the Terragrim  / Arkhalis, all very formidable early-game weapons.



Tips

 * Regular Forests can be erased by the spread of Corruption, Crimson, and The Hallow. Converted forests can be restored to their pure form by using Purification Powder purchased from the Dryad or its stronger Hardmode equivalent, the Clentaminator, with Green Solution purchased from the Steampunker.
 * Enchanted Sword Shrines can be easily found as their 1-block wide shafts usually reach up to the surface, and the player can easily mine down to get to the actual shrine, in which case they'll have a 100% /   chance of containing a real sword.

Trivia

 * As of 1.4.0.5, the forest has the most of music tracks, having five including those from Terraria: Otherworld.
 * The Forest is the most popular biome for NPC housing.
 * Only two NPCs dislike it and 4 NPCs like it. In pure numbers this is better than every other biome. The Hallow is the only biome that comes close to this number.
 * The amount of money saved by putting all your NPCs in the Forest (ignoring other NPC preferences) is around 5% relative to that of the Snow, which has qualitative advantages in NPC happiness over the Forest.

History
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