Moss is a grass-like plant that grows on Stone Blocks. It comes in 11 / 6 / 5 different colors, and one color can be found throughout each third of a given map (three colors per world), either randomly on cave surfaces or in moss chambers with a matching mossy wall. Mossy stone requires one more hit to break than clean stone. Moss will be destroyed if the Stone Block it is on converts to Ebonstone, Crimstone, or Pearlstone. Moss sprouts fuzz that can be cut like grass weeds.
On the 
PC version, 
Console version, 
Mobile version, and 
tModLoader version, moss can be collected using a Paint Scraper or Spectre Paint Scraper. Only 11.11*1/9 (11.11%) of such moss will drop as an item when using either scraper, the rest will simply disappear as usual.[1] Collected moss can be placed on Stone Blocks and Gray Bricks, or used to craft mossy walls.
Lava Moss is a special variant of moss that can only be found in the lava layers of the Cavern, though if harvested, it can be planted at any level. Despite not being considered one of the glowing mosses, it glows in the dark.
Glowing mosses are special variants of moss that grow in glowing moss biomes in much larger areas than standard moss, and glow in the dark similarly to Lava Moss. There are five variants of glowing moss: Krypton (green), Xenon (blue), Argon (pink), Neon (violet), and Helium (color-changing) Mosses. Only one type of glowing moss can be found in each world, in a total of up to two (small world) / three (medium) / four (large) glowing moss biomes in the Cavern layer, mostly above the lava layers, but not under the spawn area.
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Green Moss Internal Item ID: 4349
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Brown Moss Internal Item ID: 4350
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Red Moss Internal Item ID: 4351
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Blue Moss Internal Item ID: 4352
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Purple Moss Internal Item ID: 4353
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Lava Moss Internal Item ID: 4354
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Krypton Moss Internal Item ID: 4377
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Xenon Moss Internal Item ID: 4378
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Argon Moss Internal Item ID: 4389
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Neon Moss Internal Item ID: 5127
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Helium Moss Internal Item ID: 5128
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Crafting[]
Recipes[]
| Result | Ingredients | Crafting station |
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| Helium Moss |  Shimmer Transmutation | |
| only:Blue Moss |  Work Bench | |
| only:Brown Moss | ||
| only:Green Moss | ||
| only:Purple Moss | ||
| only:Red Moss |
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Notes[]
- Strange Plants are able to grow on moss-covered stone blocks.
- Moss slowly spreads across exposed Stone Blocks and
Gray Bricks at any depth, once planted (including above ground). If the player does not have access to a Paint Scraper to collect moss with, they can grow extra moss by building "bridges" of stone for existing moss to grow across.
Trivia[]
- The tooltip of the glowing mosses, 'A sight to dwell upon and never forget', is a quote by Morris Travers, an English chemist who worked with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon, and krypton.
- The glowing mosses' colors do not accurately match the actual colors that such gases produce in real life when used in a gas-discharge lamp.
- In real life, argon glows purple (unless mercury vapor is added to make blue), neon glows red, helium glows white, and krypton and xenon both glow green.
- The colors of the glowing mosses (including Lava Moss) resemble the Lunar Fragments.
- During a Blood Moon, Krypton Moss changes its color to yellow and Xenon Moss to light pink. Argon Moss's color remains almost the same, however slightly tinted red.
Gallery[]
A small moss chamber featuring Green Moss, which has spread to stone outside of the chamber, and a matching back wall.
A large Krypton Moss cave.
A large naturally generated Xenon Glowing Moss cave in the cavern layer.
A large naturally generated Argon Moss cave.
History[]
- Desktop 1.4.2: Fixed an issue where moss would not always use the proper frame when on servers.
- Desktop 1.4.0.1:
- Renamed Fire Moss to Lava Moss.
- Added Krypton, Xenon, and Argon Moss.
- Mosses have now been given an item form and can be collected with a Paint Scraper.
- Mosses can now be crafted into Moss Walls, and vice versa.
- Moss can now spread and be placed on Gray Bricks.
- All mosses now have official names.
- Staff of Regrowth can no longer place moss on bare stone.
- Desktop 1.3.0.1:
- Added Fire Moss.
- Staff of Regrowth can now place moss on bare stone.
- Desktop 1.2: Introduced.
- Console 1.02: Introduced.
- Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.
- Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Added all features and changes from Desktop 1.4.0.1.
- Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.
- 3DS-Release: Introduced.
