Ores

Ores are a primary crafting material for most equipment. Ores can be smelted down in a Furnace to create bars, the primary component for tools, weapons, and armor. In addition, mined ores can be placed again for use in building. Ores are usually found strewn about the underground layers of the world, however lower-tier Ores may be found protruding from the Surface. All Ores can be stacked up to 999 in a single inventory slot.

A world will contain only one Ore type from each tier. Tiers with more than one possible type will have a single one chosen at random for each generated world. Refer to the tables below for the possible Ore types that can generate for each tier. Hardmode Ore types are chosen at random when Demon Altars or Crimson Altars are destroyed. The Ore types your world cannot spawn naturally can only be obtained from other worlds, or from an Extractinator or Crates, which sometimes randomly offer these ores, or their Bars, as loot.

Hardmode
After destroying a Demon Altar or Crimson Altar (which requires using a Pwnhammer or Drax), deposits of new Hardmode Ores will spawn, replacing natural world blocks in the underground layer and below. Each destroyed Altar spawns one of six new Ores:


 * 1) First Altar: Cobalt Ore or Palladium Ore
 * 2) Second Altar: Mythril Ore or Orichalcum Ore
 * 3) Third Altar: Adamantite Ore or Titanium Ore


 * Destroying a fourth Altar spawns another round of whichever type spawned for the first Altar (Cobalt or Palladium). A fifth spawns more of whichever type spawned for the second Altar (Mythril or Orichalcum), etc.
 * Destroying more Altars will never spawn Hardmode Ore types beyond the 3 that were randomly assigned to your world during the initial round of destroyed Altars. A world with Cobalt Ore deposits will never spawn Palladium Ore deposits, for example.

Tips

 * Each hardmode ore is chosen at the moment you break the first three altars in the world. You can choose the ores you like by quitting your world without saving (by ending the task or killing the process) after smashing your first altars. It is easier done with a server.

Trivia

 * Every ore available, excluding Demonite, Crimtane, Meteorite, Obsidian, Hellstone, Mythril, Orichalcum, Adamantite, and Chlorophyte are very real elements on the modern Periodic Table of Elements and are found, often deep, in the Earth. Note that Obsidian and Meteorite are real as well, just not elements on the Periodic Table.
 * The Adamantite Ore sprite is a reversed, 90-degrees-rotated and recolored version of the Cobalt Ore sprite.
 * The Demonite Ore sprite is a recolor of Iron Ore.

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