Dungeon

Dungeons are enormous late-game buildings found close to the edge of a generated world, spanning many layers deep.

They are filled with treasure chests containing rare and powerful items aswell as unique decoration items (water candles, books, chain lanterns, etc.), all of which are spread evenly, and all of which have the same chance of containing the exclusive dungeon loot.

Dungeons can be made from one of three brick types which are unique to dungeons, and are blue, green or purple. However, any one dungeon will only have one of the three types in a single world. Dungeons also have a unique background wall which, similar to the bricks, come in one of the three colours, and are unique to dungeons. However, the walls and bricks of the dungeon do not always have to be the same colour.

Read more: Dungeon Bricks

The bottom of the Dungeon will sometimes cut into the Underworld, providing a viable way to easily access the Underworld. This can happen on any world size; small, medium, and large; however it is more common for this to happen on smaller worlds.

To gain access to the Dungeon, you must first defeat Skeletron, the guardian boss who is summoned by talking to the Old Man who resides just outside the dungeon near its entrance. If you talk to the Old Man in the day, he'll tell you to wait until night to talk to him. There is a second option to gain acces the dungeon, however; you can also kill the Skeletron Heads that spawn if you haven't yet defeated Skeletron himself. When attempting this method it is advised to make it back to the surface (as the Skeletron heads do not spawn until you have descended some into the dungeon itself) as fast as you can. Because you will need to slay all the heads in one go; the extra space you have at the surface in extremely useful. This method is used to gain access to a dungeon when the old man doesn't respawn after an attempt to kill skeletron. Note that the Skeletron Heads are, in fact, guardians of the dungeon that exist to prevent you from entering it, and thus, they will instantly kill you during the day. Therefore, attempting this during the day is not recommended, due to the likeliness you will get hit is very high. During the night, however, they deal the same ammount of damage as the head of the actual boss.

It is recommended to be at an mid-to-end-game level to access the Dungeon, as enemies in the Dungeon will deal up to 20+ damage even with armor, and efficient navigation requires a grappling hook or movement-enhancing accessories. Some may attempt to make run throughs of the dungeon. This method works best, because enemies will constantly respawn anywhere, thus taking too long in a particular spot will result in less loot being found.

In some cases dungeons can be flooded naturally when the world is created.

Multiple dungeons can be generated, although this is extremely rare. The only way to generate more than one dungeon in a new world is to use a certain mod.

Any chest that is found extremely near the dungeon(you can see it from the chest, it has not been confirmed for it to be like this any further) is actually spawned as a dungeon chest and you will recieve dungeon loot, this is helpful as you can get your hands on powerful weapons without entering the dungeon itself.

Dungeons can be spawned with dirt and other earthly materials on them picture to right. The dungeon's loot is spread evenly throughout the dungeon, meaning loot further down is not neccesarily better.

irror Monsters

 * Skeletron Head (Only if one enters the dungeon without defeating Skeletron first)


 * Angry Bones


 * Burning Skull


 * Dark Caster


 * Skeletron (Guardian Boss and only once at one map)

Loot
Chests may contain, along with normal chest loot:


 * Aqua Scepter


 * Muramasa


 * Rocket Boots (Needs to be confirmed)


 * Magic Missile


 * Blue Moon


 * Cobalt Shield


 * Feral Claws (Needs to be confirmed)


 * Whoopie Cushion (Needs to be confirmed)


 * Water Bolt (Also obtainable by breaking the pale blue book on a shelf. It does not have a regular coloration like the other books).