Wings

Wings are Hardmode accessories that allow the player to fly temporarily by pressing and holding the key. Flight time is reset when the player rests on solid objects, including both standing on blocks and using climbing items like Ropes, Hooks, Shoe Spikes, and Climbing Claws. Certain Wing types also allow the player to hover at fixed heights by holding the key during flight, and/or accelerate their ascent speed by holding the  key.

After flight time has been exhausted, a player can continue holding the key to glide. Gliding fall speed can be accelerated by holding the key in addition.

Wings additionally grant immunity from fall damage (except when overridden by the Stoned debuff), rendering fall damage protection items like the Lucky Horseshoe unnecessary.

Flight is much more controlled with Wings than with Rocket Boots, Spectre Boots, etc. alone, and they allow for much greater flight range. Equipping Wings generally replaces jumps entirely with flight, rather than requiring a double-jump to activate. Double-jump accessories like the Cloud in a Bottle will still grant an additional jump, which is used after all flight time.

There are currently 44 wing types in total: 43 are available on, 39 on , 36 on , and 21 on. Flight time and speed can vary by type.

Types
Most craftable wings are crafted at a Mythril Anvil or an Orichalcum Anvil. The four Lunar wings (Solar Wings, Vortex Booster, Nebula Mantle, and Stardust Wings) are instead crafted at the Ancient Manipulator.

All developer wings have a chance to drop from Expert mode Treasure Bags from Hardmode bosses.

Tips

 * If the Jetpack is worn in vanity any other wings can use the fast ascent. This no longer works in 1.4.0.3.
 * Flight time can be reset in midair by using a hook to hit a block then release immediately after, and continue to hold the key. Alternatively, an Ice Rod can be used to lay blocks of ice to land in midair, making it possible to remain in the air indefinitely.
 * The slow-fall effect of Featherfall Potion or an Umbrella will stack with wing glide, allowing for very long glides after flight time has been exhausted.
 * By using the Bundle of Balloons, Frog Leg, Solar Wings, Frostspark Boots, Flying Carpet, and Featherfall Potion, the player can attain a total maximum of about 1400 tiles of flight distance. More can be achieved by using the Umbrella.
 * Using the Soaring Insignia will also grant infinite flight time, regardless of the type of wing used.
 * Some wings are particularly easy to acquire early on in Hardmode:
 * Leaf Wings require nothing more than putting the Witch Doctor in a Jungle biome and paying at night.
 * Harpy Wings require a bit of luck when farming Harpies. Fortunately, Wyverns spawn at the same altitude, so when a Giant Harpy Feather drops, the odds are good that 20 Souls of Flight will already have been collected. The Giant Harpy Feather can also be collected before activating Hardmode.
 * Angel and Demon Wings require 25 of either Souls of Light or Souls of Night. The souls can easily be acquired by staying long enough in Underground Hallow or Underground Corruption/Underground Crimson, since all enemies killed have a chance to drop the respective biome's soul.
 * Fairy Wings require farming the surface Hallow for Pixie Dust. It takes a lot of farming to get the 100 units needed, but the enemies are relatively easy to deal with in early Hardmode.
 * Frozen and Flame Wings are the best wings for all of pre-Golem (apart from the Fishron Wings). Frozen Wings are the easier of the two to obtain; they only require a blizzard and a Snow biome in which to farm Ice Golems. Souls of Flight still must be collected. This is no longer true as of 1.4.0.1, as Frozen Wings are now equivalent to Harpy Wings, Fin Wings, and Fairy Wings. Flame Wings are still better than all pre-Golem wings except the Empress Wings and Fishron Wings.
 * The best order (pre-1.4.0.1) to obtain wings, excluding any "useless" wings, is the following: Leaf, Frozen/Flame, Steampunk (optional), Fishron, then Solar/Stardust (or the Celestial Starboard, if the player is in expert or above).
 * As of 1.4.0.1, the wings have been sorted into tiers with mostly the same strength at each point in the game. Especially strong wings that are an exception to this rule include the Jetpack (best in its class after one mechanical boss), the Hoverboard (easy to obtain after Plantera and capable of extended horizontal movement), and the three wings dropped by bosses: Betsy's Wings, Empress Wings, and Fishron Wings, of which Betsy's Wings have the best horizontal movement and Fishron Wings have the highest maximum height. The Celestial Starboard is the best end-game flight accessory.

Trivia

 * Dyeing Red's Wings in combination with Hermes Boots or any of its upgrades will change the color of the smoke below the player.


 * Prior to, Red's Wings would allow the wearer to fly infinitely and faster than any other wings if the player managed to obtain them through inventory editors.
 * There are 4 wings that are bought from NPCs, but only 3 in any version: The Steampunk Wings, Sparkly Wings , Jetpack, and Leaf Wings.
 * Fledgling Wings are the only wings that are obtainable prior to hardmode.
 * Ghostar's Infinity Eight is very likely a reference to the .Hack// franchise, specifically the .Hack//G.U. games, as their name is a reference to the Infinity Eight in that game, as well as sharing an appearance with the sword-wings of the Avatar Skeith in it's Xth form. This is compounded by its flavor text: "I am right here." which is a phrase repeatedly used throughout the .Hack//G.U. games.
 * The Fairy Wings are one of the only items that require 2 slots of the same item to craft (In this case pixie dust).