Wire

Wire

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Statistics

Type	MechanismCrafting material
Rarity	00*
Buy	5
Sell	1
Research	100 required

• Internal Item ID: 530

“

Always buy more wire than you need!

— The Mechanic

Different wire colors are used to build independent overlapping circuits. They are placed using different color Wrenches.

Wires connecting Timers to Slime Statues submerged in Lava for harvesting Gel.

Wire is a unique item used to connect mechanisms. Generally a mechanism is connected to a triggering item, like a Pressure Plate, Timer, Switch or Lever. Wires are placed using Wrenches, and are retrieved using the Wire Cutter, both of which can only be obtained from the Mechanic. Wire placed by different colored wrenches will be of different colors, which allows independent wire paths to overlap without interfering with each other.

Wire itself is available for purchase from the Mechanic for 5 each, but can also be obtained from naturally-occurring mechanisms, which exist sparsely Underground, and frequently in the Dungeon and Jungle Temple Traps and Chain Lantern/Switch arrangements.

Wires occupy their own dedicated layer when placed, and so can occupy the same tile space as Furniture, Walls, Blocks, and even deep Lava pools, along with any other object. Wires can be placed in midair, without the need for support. Explosions have no effect on placed Wires.

By default, placed Wires are invisible unless the player holds a Mechanism-related item as the tool in hand, (e.g, a Pressure Plate, Wrench, or even a stack of Wire itself). However, if the player is carrying a Mechanical Lens (or more usually its upgrade The Grand Design) they can not only see Wires at will, but can control the visibility of individual wire colors.

As of 1.4.4 , wires in the Jungle Temple cannot be seen or destroyed until Golem is defeated for the first time. This makes exploring the temple and battling Golem for the first time a much harder task.^Verify

With Wrenches and Wire Cutters, the player's Wire placing and cutting reach is roughly 25 tiles horizontally and vertically. With The Grand Design, the player can place or cut Wire anywhere on the visible screen.

Wires are considered "connected" to triggers and mechanisms when they are placed in the same tile space as those items (when they appear to be "touching"). An exception is Statues, which are considered connected to any wires in their 2x3 tile space, even though some statues do not appear to reach a 3-tile height (see adjacent image).

Wire is considered "ammunition" for wrenches, and can therefore be placed in the Ammo slots of a player's inventory.

Wire Tools
Tool	Use
Wire Cutter	Removes placed Wire.
Actuation Rod	Toggles Actuators on and off.
Red Wrench	Places red wire.
Green Wrench	Places green wire.
Blue Wrench	Places blue wire.
Yellow Wrench	Places yellow wire.
Multicolor Wrench	Places and removes any color wire.
The Grand Design	Places and removes all wire colors, as well as actuators.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Active Stone Block	Stone Block Wire	By Hand
Explosives	Dynamite3 Wire
Inactive Stone Block	Stone Wall4 Wire
Echo Chamber	Echo Block20 Wire6 Gray Brick10	Heavy Work Bench
Trapped Ash Wood Chest	Ash Wood Chest Wire10
Trapped Balloon Chest	Balloon Chest Wire10
Trapped Bamboo Chest	Bamboo Chest Wire10
Trapped Blue Dungeon Chest	Blue Dungeon Chest Wire10
Trapped Bone Chest	Bone Chest Wire10
Trapped Boreal Wood Chest	Boreal Wood Chest Wire10
Trapped Cactus Chest	Cactus Chest Wire10
Trapped Chest	Chest Wire10
Trapped Corruption Chest	Corruption Chest Wire10
Trapped Crimson Chest	Crimson Chest Wire10
Trapped Crystal Chest	Crystal Chest Wire10
Trapped Desert Chest	Desert Chest Wire10
Trapped Dynasty Chest	Dynasty Chest Wire10
Trapped Ebonwood Chest	Ebonwood Chest Wire10
Trapped Flesh Chest	Flesh Chest Wire10
Trapped Frozen Chest	Frozen Chest Wire10
Trapped Glass Chest	Glass Chest Wire10
Trapped Gold Chest	Gold Chest Wire10
Trapped Golden Chest	Golden Chest Wire10
Trapped Golf Chest	Golf Chest Wire10
Trapped Granite Chest	Granite Chest Wire10
Trapped Green Dungeon Chest	Green Dungeon Chest Wire10
Trapped Hallowed Chest	Hallowed Chest Wire10
Trapped Honey Chest	Honey Chest Wire10
Trapped Ice Chest	Ice Chest Wire10
Trapped Ivy Chest	Ivy Chest Wire10
Trapped Jungle Chest	Jungle Chest Wire10
Trapped Lesion Chest	Lesion Chest Wire10
Trapped Lihzahrd Chest	Lihzahrd Chest Wire10
Trapped Living Wood Chest	Living Wood Chest Wire10
Trapped Marble Chest	Marble Chest Wire10
Trapped Martian Chest	Martian Chest Wire10
Trapped Meteorite Chest	Meteorite Chest Wire10
Trapped Mushroom Chest	Mushroom Chest Wire10
Trapped Nebula Chest	Nebula Chest Wire10
Trapped Obsidian Chest	Obsidian Chest Wire10
Trapped Palm Wood Chest	Palm Wood Chest Wire10
Trapped Pearlwood Chest	Pearlwood Chest Wire10
Trapped Pink Dungeon Chest	Pink Dungeon Chest Wire10
Trapped Pumpkin Chest	Pumpkin Chest Wire10
Trapped Reef Chest	Reef Chest Wire10
Trapped Rich Mahogany Chest	Rich Mahogany Chest Wire10
Trapped Sandstone Chest	Sandstone Chest Wire10
Trapped Shadewood Chest	Shadewood Chest Wire10
Trapped Shadow Chest	Shadow Chest Wire10
Trapped Skyware Chest	Skyware Chest Wire10
Trapped Slime Chest	Slime Chest Wire10
Trapped Solar Chest	Solar Chest Wire10
Trapped Spider Chest	Spider Chest Wire10
Trapped Spooky Chest	Spooky Chest Wire10
Trapped Stardust Chest	Stardust Chest Wire10
Trapped Steampunk Chest	Steampunk Chest Wire10
Trapped Vortex Chest	Vortex Chest Wire10
Trapped Water Chest	Water Chest Wire10
Trapped Web Covered Chest	Web Covered Chest Wire10
1 Second Timer	Platinum Watch Wire	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
	Gold Watch Wire
3 Second Timer	Silver Watch Wire
	Tungsten Watch Wire
5 Second Timer	Copper Watch Wire
	Tin Watch Wire
Actuation Rod	Actuator50 Any Iron Bar10 Wire10
Announcement Box	Sign Any Iron Bar4 Wire4
Inlet Pump	Any Iron Bar10 Wire2
Outlet Pump	Any Iron Bar10 Wire2
Video Visage	Glass10 Wire10	Loom
Liquid Sensor (Any)	Cog5 Magic Water Dropper Magic Lava Dropper Magic Honey Dropper Wire	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Liquid Sensor (Honey)	Cog5 Magic Honey Dropper Wire
Liquid Sensor (Lava)	Cog5 Magic Lava Dropper Wire
Liquid Sensor (Water)	Cog5 Magic Water Dropper Wire
Logic Sensor (Day)	Soul of Light5 Any Iron Bar Wire
Logic Sensor (Night)	Soul of Night5 Any Iron Bar Wire
Logic Sensor (Player Above)	Soul of Sight Any Iron Bar Wire
Cyan Weighted Pressure Plate	Any Pressure Plate Any Iron Bar2 Wire	Tinkerer's Workshop
Orange Weighted Pressure Plate	Any Pressure Plate Any Iron Bar2 Wire
Pink Weighted Pressure Plate	Any Pressure Plate Any Iron Bar2 Wire
Purple Weighted Pressure Plate	Any Pressure Plate Any Iron Bar2 Wire
only: The Grand Design	Multicolor Wrench Mechanical Lens Mechanical Ruler Wire60
only: The Grand Design	Multicolor Wrench Mechanical Lens Ruler Wire60

Achievement

Engineer • “You have placed 100 wires!”

Place 100 wires.

See also

• Guide:Wiring

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1: Now used to craft the Video Visage.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Trapped Golf, Spider, Lesion, Sandstone, Bamboo, Nebula, Solar, Stardust, and Vortex Chests added.

• Desktop 1.3.1: Now used to craft The Grand Design, Actuation Rod, Announcement Box, Trapped Chests, Sensors and Weighted Pressure Plates.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Sprite updated. Old sprite was

• Desktop 1.2.4:
  • Levers can now power multiple wires.
  • Dropped wires now stack themselves.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Wire length-limit removed.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Stack limit was raised from 250 to 999.
  • Wire length-limit increased from 1000 to 2000.
  • Different colors of wire can be placed with different colored Wrenches.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.08:
  • Wire length-limit removed.
  • Dropped wires now stack themselves.
  • Levers can now power multiple wires.

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.