Talk:Solar Eclipse

So is anyone else having trouble getting one of these to happen?

- Yeah, I need broken hero sword, but it only happened once in 40 hours of gameplay and I did not looted the sword. Does anyone know a good way to force blood moon or solar eclipse? Dart0711 (talk) 20:05, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

I just had a solar eclipse happen, but I haven't beaten any of the hardmode bosses yet. I did have the Destroyer spawn, but he killed me and de-spawned. So perhaps there's not actually a requirement to have beaten one for it to occur? - +1 I had the twins spawn and pwn me badly, then a solar eclipse happened. Doesn't seem that it's a requirement to have defeated a boss. (talk) 17:02, 5 October 2013 (CST) There are no requirements for this,but try to run around with a water candle,that summons the blood moon sometimes so it also could summon solar stuff 94.134.17.236 17:25, 6 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Water candles summon blood moons now? I doubt that. --74.96.238.15 00:08, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Water candles have no effect on blood moon or eclipse appearances, only on how often monsters spawn. Henix879 (talk) 17:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

It's a random chance like the bloodmoon, I only had one happen and that was after I killed the Golem.

"only happen after killing a Mechanical Boss"
From the 1.2.0.3 changelog:


 * Slightly increased the chance for an eclipse to happen, but they will now only happen after killing a Mechanical Boss

So does that mean that each time there's a solar eclipse, you have to kill another mechanical boss to get the next eclipse? Or just that killing a single mechanical boss enables any number of eclipses? -- KhymChanur (talk) 02:48, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * its a boolean, if player has killed a mech boss, then eclipsi will happen. 67.233.98.29 03:07, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Killing plantera required?
According to this twitter conversation thread, you have to defeat Plantera for a Solar Eclipse to happen, but that information was removed from the page, and I can't find a reference to it anywhere that wasn't derived from those tweets. Does anyone know for sure? -- KhymChanur (talk) 10:14, 13 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Nope. Running 1.2.0.3.1 Didn't defeat boss following night.   Haven't defeated Plantera.  I know Demi said it should in his tweet, but it isn't the case.  --Dyskresiac (talk) 02:57, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Harpies
I had an eclipse happen, and harpies spawned above my base. Granted, it's a sky city at one of the highest natural altitudes on the map, but still well below the harpy spawn altitude. Does the eclipse mechanics trigger a change in harpy spawn locations? (Thankfully, no Wyverns spawned) 68.196.61.47 04:51, 15 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually scratch that, just got ganked by Wyvern inside my base. 68.196.61.47 04:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)