Lead Ore

Lead Ore

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Statistics

Type	OreCrafting material
Placeable	✔️ (1 wide × 1 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity	00*
Sell	150
Research	100 required

• Internal Item ID: 700
• Internal Tile ID: 167

Lead Ore is an early-game ore that generates upon world creation on the surface, as well as in the Underground and Cavern layers. Its primary use is in crafting Lead Bars, which can then be used to craft the Lead tier of tools, weapons, and armor, as well as Buckets, Chains, and several other items. The equivalent of Lead Ore is Iron Ore, which will sometimes replace Lead in a world. Lead Ore has a small chance to appear as a bonus drop from Slimes.

As Lead Bars are required to craft a Lead Anvil, Lead Ore must usually be obtained before any tools, weapons, or armor can be crafted from bars. While this can be circumvented by purchasing an Iron Anvil from the Merchant, that is generally inefficient, as it is not difficult to find 15 Lead Ore early on in the game.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Lead Ore	Silver Ore	Shimmer Transmutation

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Iron Ore	Lead Ore	Chlorophyte Extractinator Conversion
Lead Bar	Lead Ore3	Furnace
Lead Brick 5	Stone Block5 Lead Ore
Ironskin Potion	Bottled Water Daybloom Lead Ore	Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
Iron Ore	Lead Ore	Shimmer Transmutation

Achievements

Ooo! Shiny! • “Mine your first nugget of ore with a pickaxe.”

Mine your first ore.

Category: Explorer

Notes

• It won't generate if you play in a world with The Constant seed.

Trivia

• Lead Ore and Iron Ore are the only ores that do not have corresponding chandeliers. On the  Old-gen console version,  Windows Phone version,  Old Chinese version, Nintendo 3DS version, and  tModLoader 1.3-Legacy version, they are also the only ores that do not have corresponding bricks.
• Real lead is very soft and malleable, generally making it infeasible for crafting tools. The use of lead in Terraria more closely resembles real-life steel. Real life lead is also poisonous (See lead-poisoning).

See also

• Iron Ore

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now used to craft Lead Bricks.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Changed item texture from to .
  • Changed block texture from to .

• Desktop 1.2.3: Increased stack limit from 99 to 999.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.