Ores

Ores are primary crafting materials. They must generally be crafted into Bars at a Furnace before being used in crafting recipes, though some recipes rarely require raw Ores. Bars are used to craft tools, weapons, and armor. Raw Ores can be also be placed as building material.

Ores are found in veins in various layers underground and below, and some low-tier Ores are also found at the Surface or within Floating Islands. They are mined with a Pickaxe and can be stacked up to 999 in a single inventory slot. Ready-made Bars can also be found randomly as loot in Chests and Crates.

A world will contain only one Ore type from each tier. Tiers with more than one possible type will have a single one chosen at random for each generated world. Refer to the tables below for the possible Ore types that can generate for each tier. Hardmode Ore types are chosen at random when Demon Altars or Crimson Altars are destroyed. The Ore types your world cannot spawn naturally can only be obtained from other worlds, or from an Extractinator or Crates, which sometimes randomly offer these ores, or their Bars, as loot.

Hardmode
Spawning the first three tiers of Hardmode Ore requires destroying Demon Altars or Crimson Altars. This requires a Hammer with 80% hammer power or higher, eg. the Pwnhammer. Each destroyed Altar spawns deposits of one of six new Hardmode Ores, replacing natural world blocks in the underground layer and below:


 * 1) First Altar: Cobalt Ore or Palladium Ore
 * 2) Second Altar: Mythril Ore or Orichalcum Ore
 * 3) Third Altar: Adamantite Ore or Titanium Ore


 * Destroying a fourth Altar spawns another round of whichever type spawned for the first Altar (Cobalt or Palladium). A fifth spawns more of whichever type spawned for the second Altar (Mythril or Orichalcum), etc.
 * Destroying more Altars will never spawn Hardmode Ore types beyond the 3 that were randomly assigned to your world during the initial round of destroyed Altars. A world with Cobalt Ore deposits will never spawn Palladium Ore deposits, for example.
 * Chlorophyte Ore spawns on its own once Hardmode is triggered, and is not affected by destroyed Altars.

Tips

 * Each hardmode ore is chosen at the moment you break the first three altars in the world. You can choose the ores you like by quitting your world without saving (by ending the task or killing the process) after smashing your first altars. It is easier done with a server.

Trivia

 * Many ore's item sprites are simply a recolored version of a different ore's sprite.
 * Demonite Ore sprite is a recolor of Iron Ore.
 * Meteorite is a recolor of Gold Ore.
 * Obsidian is a recolor of Copper ore.
 * Hellstone is a recolor of Silver ore.
 * Adamantite Ore is a reversed, 90-degrees-rotated and recolored version of Cobalt Ore.
 * Most of them in placed form also appear to be a modified stone texture.

History

 * Added Chlorophyte Ore

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