Shine Potion



The Shine Potion is a buff potion which buffs the player with Shine. The buff makes the player glow for 5 minutes, which is useful for exploring caves or exploring underwater. The buff lasts for 5 minutes, but can be cancelled at any time by right-clicking the icon.

It loses some of its usefulness when you obtain the Shadow Orb or a Mining Helmet, as the materials needed to make the potion could be used for more useful potions. However, unlike the Shadow Orb, the light source comes from the player, which will not fall behind, and unlike the Mining Helmet, you can wear a helmet with more defense. The light source emitted is also much brighter and the range further than the other two, making it slightly more useful.

It should be noted in a version prior to 1.1 when the new lighting engine was implemented the Shine Potion became more useful. The Shadow Orb under the new lighting engine is very dim and small in radius, and with the Mining Helmet disabling armor set bonuses and loss of defense makes the Shine Potion more practical.

Even though it is a consumable potion, only the sand used to make the bottles is non-renewable. Dayblooms are common and easily farmed in pots, and making a glowing mushroom farm somewhere in or near your home base is worthwhile, anyway. (And sand can be found in infinite quantities if you simply excavate deserts and oceans of newly-generated worlds before deleting those worlds again.) Hence, you can make and consume these potions in bulk, and the potion-consumption action has its own hotkey, so you also don't need to take up a hotbar slot as with the Shadow Orb.

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