Crates

Crates are grab bag-type items that can be hooked while Fishing, containing random loot such as Ores, Bars, Potions, Accessories, and other items. In addition, biome-specific crates can contain biome-specific loot. They can be right-clicked within the player's inventory to unload their contents. They can also be placed. Each Crate can be stacked up to 99 in a single inventory slot.

If fishing in Water with Fishing Power high enough to prevent junk catches (fishing power of 50) and the line does not break there is a 10% chance to harvest crates normally and 20% when fishing with a Crate Potion.

The kind of crate the player gets is dependent on the Fishing Power, with higher Fishing Power the probabilities of rarer Crates are raised. E.g with a Fishing Power of 100 in a Corrupted Biome the probabilities would be: Golden Crate: 6.57%; Corrupt Crate: 8.90%; Iron Crate: 28.37%; Wooden Crate: 56.16%

Rarer crate types contain more valuable loot, and the biome crates can have items otherwise found only in the matching biome chests. When fishing in an area with multiple biomes, the crate priority is, from highest to lowest, Corruption > Crimson > Hallowed > Dungeon > Jungle > Sky. For example, when a Floating Island is corrupted and changes to The Corruption, Sky Crates will no longer be harvested.

The currently only have Wooden Crates, Iron Crates and Golden Crates.

Variants
See Crates for additional information.

Tips

 * Only Wooden crates will contain ores, though any crate can have bars.
 * The metals supplied will be (on average) evenly split between both alternate metals in each pair, regardless of which ore generated in the world. This applies to both ore or bar forms. For instance, a Wooden Crate can yield Platinum Ore, even if the world is generated with Gold Ore instead of Platinum.
 * In Hardmode, this goes for the Hardmode metals too, even if you haven't broken any Altars.
 * However, Crates do not contain the "advanced" metals such as Meteorite or Chlorophyte.
 * Crates collected before Hardmode, but saved to open during Hardmode, will yield Hardmode ores and bars. Stockpiling them while fishing is a lot safer can give you a big head start when entering Hardmode.
 * The Wooden, Iron, and Golden crates will also offer a chance for the Enchanted Sundial if opened in Hardmode.
 * The "evil" biome crates can also contain Souls of Night and Ichor/Cursed Flames. (The Hallowed crates can't be stockpiled before Hardmode, but they do offer Souls of Light and Crystal Shards.)
 * Less junk means more crates, so increase your fishing power as much as you can.
 * Over time, you can make, find, or buy better fishing rods. If you have Iron Bars to spare, you can replace your Wood Fishing Pole with a Reinforced Fishing Pole.
 * Use the best Bait you have available. Worms are easy to come by on a rainy day, and can easily be upgraded to Enchanted Nightcrawlers.  Only a few Butterflies and Jungle critters are more powerful bait than worms, let alone Nightcrawlers (check the tooltips).  If you're desperate enough for good bait to pass up a  prize, you can use a Golden Butterfly, Worm, or Cricket if you find one.
 * That said, when you fish (time of day, moon phase, weather) can matter as much as or more than rods or bait.
 * Over time, both the Angler and the crates you catch will provide better bait, useful potions, and special equipment.

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