Souls

Souls are Hardmode crafting materials dropped by enemies. Unlike other enemy drops, Souls are not affected by gravity, and thus remain floating in midair at the point where the enemy was killed. For large enemies and Bosses, this is usually the enemy's head, regardless of where the final strike occurred.

All enemies can drop Soul of Night or Soul of Light, depending only on the biome they are in when killed.

Trivia

 * All of the Soul of... names rhyme with each other (-ight).
 * In the 1.3 trailer, the Soul of Light used its old texture.
 * Souls of Blight are the only souls without an animation, due to them being inaccessible in 1.3.0.1, the update that made soul animations.
 * There is only one soul that says the name of the enemy that drops it, The Destroyer with Souls of Might. (The tooltip is: ‘The essence of The Destroyer’)

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