Ambient entities
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Not to be confused with Ambient objects.
Ambient entities are objects that appear and move around in the background, and cannot be interacted with in any way. They are displayed depending on the time of day, biome, weather, and current events. While some can be seen regularly, others are only displayed rarely. Clouds can be considered background entities although they are not affected by biomes. Ambient entities' motion speeds up with time.
List of ambient entities
Entity | Image | Display condition |
---|---|---|
Meteor | ![]() |
Shortly prior to a meteor crash |
Birds | ![]() |
Forest and Hallow during the day |
Wyvern | ![]() |
Hardmode during the day |
Airship | ![]() |
Windy Day |
Air Balloon | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Forest and Hallow during the day |
Balloons | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Party |
Sky Lanterns | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lantern Night |
Falling Slimes | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Slime Rain |
Eye of Cthulhu | ![]() |
Night |
Butterfly swarm | ![]() ![]() |
Forest and Hallow during the day, based on the spawn rate of butterflies that day. |
Lost Kite | ![]() |
Windy Day |
Vulture | ![]() |
Desert during the day |
Bat | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Jungle during the night in large swarms |
Pixie posse | ![]() ![]() |
Hallow |
Seagull | ![]() |
Ocean during the day |
Slime Balloon | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Windy Day in swarms |
Gastropod | ![]() |
Hallow during the night in swarms |
Winged Unicorn | ![]() |
Hallow during the day |
Eater of Souls | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Corruption |
Crimera | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Crimson |
Hellbat | ![]() ![]() |
Underworld in large swarms |
Bone Serpent | ![]() |
Underworld |
Martian Saucers | ![]() ![]() |
Martian Madness |
List of clouds
"Clouds" redirects here. For the placeable block, see Cloud.
Normal clouds
Rare clouds
Every time a cloud is displayed, there is a 1/150 (0.67%) chance it will instead be one of these rare clouds.
Notes
- The meteor ambient entity will only be displayed if the condition for the Meteorite biome to spawn was fulfilled between dusk (7:30 PM) and 11:40 PM, which includes the random chance each night. It will always start falling in the background at 11:40 PM.[1]
- Even if circumstances would prevent meteorite landings (i.e., no new meteorite biome would actually be generated), the meteor ambient entity will still appear when the conditions are fulfilled.
Trivia
- The bats more accurately represent the bats from the Bat Scepter rather than the bat enemy.