Mana

Mana is the player's magical energy in Terraria. It is used to operate magical accessories and weapons.

You start the game with zero maximum mana, but your total can be increased by collecting Fallen Stars and combining 10 of them into Mana Crystals, which increase your maximum mana by 20 when used.

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Players can regenerate mana in a few ways: letting it naturally fill, consuming certain foods, drinking Mana potions, using Fallen Stars, wearing a Band of Starpower (which increases your maximum mana by 20 as of 1.0.6 ), and by equipping a piece of Meteorite or Jungle Armor. Natural mana regeneration won't begin until about 1 second after use, however items that regenerate mana will do so even while you use mana.

Fallen Stars can also be used as ammo for the Star cannon.

Each Blue Star represents 20 mana. Players can have up to 200 mana, you can use mana boosting armor and accessories to increase your mana up to 400.

Mana's main use is to cast Spells. When you kill an enemy with less than maximum mana there is a small chance that they will drop a miniature Mana Crystal which will regenerate 20 mana. The damage of every spell can be incresed by 15% by the Wizard Hat. There are currently 9 spells available:


 * Flamelash
 * Magic Missile
 * Orb of Light
 * Aqua Scepter
 * Water Bolt
 * Vilethorn
 * Flower of Fire
 * Space Gun
 * Demon Scythe
 * Magic Mirror
 * Dirt Rod
 * Starfury

With the new update, (1.0.6) the mana regain items will no longer regenerate mana. Instead, it expands the mana pool itself. So far, only the Jungle Armor and Band of Starpower will expand your mana pool by twenty points per piece. The natural regeneration rate will also be affected by how much you have remaining and will refill slower when near empty than when near full. Also, if you stand still your mana will regenerate much faster than when you are moving.

In simple terms, if you are out of mana, it won't recharge quickly, whereas if you have used a small bit of it, it will refill rather quickly.

As of update 1.0.6, when mana completely regenerates, the player's Character will have a blue sparkle veil around him/her and will hear a sound.