Talk:The Crimson

I'm seeing some red mossy stuff growing on regular stone in my world, but nowhere near the actual crimson locations. Does the crimson spread on stone in easy mode or is this something unrelated?
 * Probably unrelated, red moss our some such. If it were spreading crimson there would be Crimstone instead of regular stone

Sunflowers halting the Crimson?
According to the wiki, it says crimson is halted by sunflowers, I planted sunflowers around my central biome, and all that did was end up with the crimson smashing the sunflowers into pickupable items and spreading anyway. Is this a bug, or is the information regarding it being halted just completely misleading?
 * I may be wrong, and even if I'm correct the wiki doesn't reflect it (guess I better fix it), but I thought Sunflowers could only halt the Corruption/Crimson pre-Hardmode. Is your world in Hardmode? NoseOfCthulhu (talk) 22:29, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

a third biome that spreads
First since the crimson was added it also spread like thee corruption and the hallow also it is possible to stop the spread by basically putting two stick that reach hell/the underworld and the crimson has the strongest armor too.

Crimson grass spreading
Is there an equivalent to the corruption vines that spread corruption grass in crimson worlds? I'm asking because I want to know if I have to fill my 5-tile-gaps with wood or not.

50% Chance is a lie
I have made about a HUNDRED worlds now, and only ONE of them is crimson. Right now i am creating world after world after world, to make a new one with the crimson in it, but i keep getting the corruption thing... What are the real chances to get a crimson world? Or is there a trick to this? Because it is clearly NOT 50%, if there is not a trick, rather 1%, or maybe 10% if i have bad luck, but nowhere near 50%.

Edit: Also, another indicator of what world you got, is the Tree on your map select screen, right next to your world name. If it has purple in it, it's corruption, if it has red in it, it's crimson, no need to get into the game and ask the guide or look for the biome. Someone might want to add this to the page, i can't edit anything, editor shows up white when not on the discussion page, just says "if you make any changes, your ip will be logged" or something like that...
 * The chances are 50%. Source code:


 * There's more of course, but this is the simplest indicator I could point out. rand.next(2) means pick a number at random from 0 or 1, with 0 becoming true and 1 becoming false. That's a 50% chance -- however 50% chance doesn't mean every person will get a Crimson world on 50% of their tries. Random chance does have to result in unbalanced results for some people. You might just happen to be on an extreme end of the bell curve.


 * For editing, you're currently defaulting to the "visual editor" which often glitches; try clicking the "edit source" or "code" button, I forget exactly what it's labeled as. That'll switch to the traditional code editor. Equazcion ( talk ) 13:41, 22 Jul 2015 (UTC)

Plus, there is a difference between experimental probability (your example above) and theoretical probability. 108.186.6.197 05:12, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Mention of Shadow Orbs in Crimson worlds
HELP! I know for a fact that I have Crimson because I went there, but the Guide says that shadow orbs are found around corrupt areas and nothing about the Crimson. If it matters, I'm playing the PS3 version. Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
 * While the console version is supposed to be up to date with 1.2.3, it wasn't until this update that the Guide's dialogue was updated to reflect the addition of the Crimson in 1.2. 505 likely overlooked it in porting in the same way that Re-Logic overlooked it in implementing it. It shouldn't have any effect on gameplay. Gearzein (talk) 21:03, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Considering someone who is new to the game might generate a Crimson world, this article should not be written as if it expects the reader to know how the corruption spreads.

Arguably both biomes should be in the same article so all the relevant information is in one place. Psithief (talk) 12:47, 13 August 2015 (UTC)