Lens

Lens

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Statistics

Type	Crafting material
Rarity	00*
Sell	1
Research	25 required

• Internal Item ID: 38

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Demon Eye Demon Eye	1	33%
Wandering Eye Wandering Eye	1	33%

“

Keep your eye on the prize, buy a lens!

— The Merchant

A Lens is a common crafting material that has a 33.33*1/3 (33.33%) chance to drop from Demon Eyes and Wandering Eyes.

Crafting

Used in

Result Ingredients Crafting station Deer Thing Flinx Fur (3) Lens Crimtane Ore (5) Demon Altar or Crimson Altar Flinx Fur (3) Lens Demonite Ore (5) Suspicious Looking Eye Lens (6) Mechanical Eye Lens (3) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (6) Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil Optic Staff Black Lens Lens (2) Hallowed Bar (12) Soul of Sight (20) Archery Potion Bottled Water Daybloom Lens Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table Goggles () Lens (2) Work Bench Goggles (     ) Lens (2) Work Bench and Chair total: 8 row(s)

Tips

• A much better way to get money from lenses, rather than simply selling them, is to accumulate them to craft Suspicious Looking Eyes, kill the Eye of Cthulhu, and sell the rewards.
• Later in the game, Mechanical Eyes can be crafted and used similarly, but even in the advanced game, The Twins remain a tougher opponent, and profiting off their drops is a rather more involved process.

Trivia

• In some of his quotes, the Merchant claims to sell lenses, despite not actually selling them.

See also

• Black Lens

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.3: Now used in the crafting of Deer Thing.

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Now used in the crafting of Optic Staff.

• Desktop 1.1: Now used in the crafting of Mechanical Eye.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.