Life Crystal

Life Crystal

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Statistics

Type	PotionCrafting material
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Heals Health	20
Use time	30 (Average)
Tooltip	Permanently increases maximum life by 20
Rarity	02*
Sell	150
Research	10 required

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 29
• Internal Tile ID: 12

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Golden CrateGolden Crate	1	12.5*1/8 (12.5%)
Titanium CrateTitanium Crate	1	11.88*19/160 (11.88%)

Not to be confused with Heart.

A Life Crystal is a consumable item that permanently increases the player's health capacity by 20, adding a red heart to the player's health bar, while also restoring 20 health.

Up to 15 Life Crystals can be used per player, increasing health capacity by 300 (15 hearts). Added to the 100 health new players begin with (5 hearts), a total of 400 health (20 hearts) can be achieved. Additional Life Crystals can no longer be used at that point, and attempting to do so will not consume the item.

Life Crystals can be found naturally placed in any area in the Underground layer and below, though they are fairly uncommon. They cannot be found in The Underworld or the Dungeon, unless on  Old-gen console. They also have a 6.67*1/15 (6.67%) chance of dropping from a Golden or Titanium Crate.

After a world converts to Hardmode, and after the 400 health maximum is reached from consuming Life Crystals, Life Fruits can be used to increase health capacity further, to a maximum of 500 (20 Life Fruits).

Life Crystals used
None: (100 health)
1 used: (120 health)
15 used: (400 health)

Two Life Crystals found in close proximity in a Glowing Mushroom biome.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Heart Lantern	Life Crystal Chain4	By Hand
Life Crystal Boulder	Boulder Life Crystal	Heavy Work Bench and Ecto Mist
Repaired Life Crystal	Life Crystal
Vital Crystal	Life Crystal	Shimmer Transmutation
only: Panic Necklace	Band of Starpower Life Crystal	Tinkerer's Workshop and Ecto Mist

Notes

• The maximum number of Life Crystals that can generate is 100 on a small world, 230 on a medium world, and 403 on a large world. Occasionally, a Life Crystal will fail to generate causing there to be slightly fewer than the maximum number in the world, but the total will not exceed these numbers.
• The Life Crystal is not a healing potion in the traditional sense. It only restores health when used if below 400 maximum health.
• There are certain maximum health thresholds for specific events to occur. See Health § Notes for details.
• As of 1.4.4, the Life Crystal can be placed.

Achievements

Heart Breaker • “Discover and smash your first heart crystal underground.”

Find and break a Life Crystal.

Category: Explorer

Tips

• Life Crystals acquired after reaching 400 health can be sold for coins, or used to craft Heart Lanterns.
• An easy way to find Life Crystals is by using a Spelunker Potion, as they are highlighted by the Spelunker buff, and by holding or throwing a Spelunker Glowstick.
• The Underground Jungle is a good place to look for Life Crystals, due to the large amounts of open space. The Ice biome or a Glowing Mushroom biome may be a less dangerous alternative.
• The Life Crystal allows for the spawning of the Nurse NPC in both Pre-Hardmode, and Hardmode.

Trivia

• Life Crystals can be considered the health counterpart to Mana Crystals.
• Life Crystals are one of the few tiles which still obviously borrow from the Stone Block sprite, even in the final game version. Other blocks which did this, such as Ebonstone/Pearlstone prior to 1.2 or all original ores prior to 1.3.0.1, eventually had their sprites revamped.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1: Now used to craft the Panic Necklace.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now has a 6.67*1/15 (6.67%) chance to be found in Golden Crates and Titanium Crates when fishing.

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2.3:
  • Fixed bug where Life Crystals could spawn in non-solid areas.
  • Life Crystals no longer spawn in the Dungeon or Underworld.

• Desktop 1.2.1.2: Can now be crafted into Heart Lantern.

• Desktop 1.2.0.2: Can no longer spawn on Thin Ice.

• Desktop 1.2: No longer requires a hammer to harvest (requires pickaxe instead).

• Desktop 1.1: Now sells for 150.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Due to the addition of Life Fruits, hearts are now all red; from 220 health and onward, hearts are smaller like the other versions, and gold hearts represent Life Fruit.

• Mobile 1.1.5536: Can now be used up to 400 HP, instead of the former 200 HP. From 220 health and onward, hearts are represented by a gold layer on top of existing hearts (as if the player had used Life Fruits).

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.