Crafting stations
A crafting station allows players to craft various items. Entering the inventory screen displays the "crafting window" in the lower-left, and when the player is standing near one or more crafting stations and possesses the right crafting ingredients, the bar is expanded with additional item choices.
Nearly all crafting stations are furniture. There are 44 crafting stations in total.
Basic
Pre-Hardmode
Station | Description |
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By Hand | Items that appear in the crafting menu even when no crafting station is nearby are considered crafted "by hand". |
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Crafts basic furniture and building materials. Also crafts some early Wooden weapons and armor. |
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Crafts bars from raw mined ore, as well as some building materials, like bricks. Also crafts Glass and some Glass items. The Hellforge is an upgraded version that adds the ability to craft Hellstone Bars and the Obsidian armor. |
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Crafts tools, weapons, armor, and also some furniture and other items. Iron and Lead Anvils are functionally identical. |
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Crafts potions and Vile/Vicious Powder. A Bottle, Pink Vase, Mug, or any Cup variant will function as this crafting station, as long as they are placed, which requires a flat furniture item: a Platform/shelf, Table, Work Bench, Dresser, Piano, Bookcase, or Tinkerer's Workshop. The Alchemy Table is an upgraded version that offers a 1/3 (33.33%) chance of not consuming any particular crafting ingredient. |
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Crafts items that otherwise require water nearby. |
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Crafts additional furniture. Also crafts the Loom crafting station. |
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Crafts Silk from Cobwebs, some armor like Robes and the Flinx Fur Coat, and some Silk vanity items. |
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Crafts food items. The Cauldron is functionally identical, though visually Halloween-themed. |
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Combines accessories together into new accessories with combined functionality. |
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Crafts flasks. |
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Crafts dyes and paints. |
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Crafts statues and several multiplayer, decorative, and alternative items like Trapped Chests, Cracked Dungeon Bricks, the Tall Gate, Gem Locks, and Gemstone Blocks. |
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Crafts some boss-summoning items, as well as the Night's Edge. The Demon and Crimson Altars are functionally identical. These stations are unique in that they are not placed by the player, but instead generate on world creation in Corruption/Crimson areas respectively, as well as sporadically around the border between Surface and Underground. |
Hardmode
Station | Description |
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Upgraded Iron Anvil/Lead Anvil, adding the ability to craft many Hardmode weapons, armor, and other items. |
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Upgraded Hellforge, adding the ability to craft bars out of some of the Hardmode ores (Adamantite Ore, Titanium Ore, and Chlorophyte Ore). Can also craft Crystal Blocks. |
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The Bookcase can be crafted or found pre-Hardmode, but as a crafting station it is only for Hardmode magic weapons. |
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Crafts the Endless Quiver and Endless Musket Pouch, in addition to visual-effect items like animated blocks, Droppers, and Living Fire Blocks. Waterfall Blocks, Lavafall Blocks, and Honeyfall Blocks require their respective liquids to also be nearby. |
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Crafts Shroomite Bars and the Mini Nukes. |
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Crafts a variety of end-game items from Lunar Fragments and Luminite. |
Specialized
These have limited crafting use and only craft a couple of arguably non-essential items.
Station | Description |
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Any Table and Chair placed next to each other functions as a station solely for crafting Watches. Both chair and table need to be within crafting range but do not need to be beside each other. |
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Any Work Bench and Chair placed near to each other functions as a station for crafting Goggles and Sunglasses. Both chair and work bench need to be within crafting range but do not need to be beside each other. |
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Solely crafts Ale. |
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Solely crafts Teacups. |
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Solely crafts Asphalt Blocks. |
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Solely crafts Flesh Blocks and Lesion Blocks. |
Themed furniture
The following crafting stations are used to craft themed versions of various furniture items.
Station | Furniture theme |
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Bone |
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Glass[a] |
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Honey |
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Ice |
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Living Wood |
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Skyware[b] |
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Slime[c] |
Station | Furniture theme |
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Lesion (Corruption) |
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Flesh (Crimson) |
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Steampunk |
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Jungle Temple |
Liquids
A few items require standing near liquids to appear in the crafting menu. Standing next to any Sink type works if the required liquid is water.
Liquid | Description |
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Crafts Bottled Water and Mud Blocks. Also crafts Waterfall Blocks and Rain Clouds when a Crystal Ball and a Sky Mill are nearby, respectively. |
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Crafts Lavafall Blocks when a Crystal Ball is nearby. |
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Crafts Bottled Honey and Flymeal. Also crafts Honeyfall Blocks when a Crystal Ball is nearby. |
Shimmer is not needed for any recipes in the crafting menu, but is used to transmute various items dropped into it; see Other below.
Furthermore, liquids produce unique blocks when colliding with each other:
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Biomes
- Crafting Snow Clouds requires the player to be in the Snow biome (a Sky Mill is also required).
- Being in a Graveyard is required for crafting various items (other crafting stations are also required, see Ecto Mist for details).
Moon phases
Luminite Bricks transform into different blocks when thrown into Shimmer based on the current moon phase.
Moon phase | Description |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Heavenforge Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Lunar Rust Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Astra Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Dark Celestial Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Mercury Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Star Royale Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Cryocore Brick. |
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Transforms Luminite Brick into Cosmic Ember Brick. |
Other
These do not use the crafting menu but produce items in unique ways.
Station | Description |
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The player holds a Marshmallow on a Stick near the fire to turn it into a Cooked Marshmallow. |
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Silt, Slush, or Desert Fossil blocks are placed on the Extractinator, which causes it to drop coins, random pre-Hardmode ores, gems, and more. |
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A post-mechanical bosses upgrade to the Extractinator. It can produce Hardmode ores when converting Silt, Slush, or Desert Fossils and convert certain materials into other materials. |
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The player can drop various items into an adequately deep pool of Shimmer to transmute them into other items or turn them back into their crafting components. |
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Sitting on a toilet for some time with any of the Well Fed buff is active will remove the buff and produce Poo. |
Produces the respective item when activated. |
Crafting station reach
- The player can reach any crafting station within about 4 tiles to their left or right, 3 tiles below them, or the 3 tiles of their character's height. This gives a total reach of 9 by 6 tiles centered on the player's feet.[1] This is shorter than the player's reach for tools or chests of 11 by 9 tiles centered on the player.
- For a crafting station that occupies multiple tiles, only a single tile of it needs to be within reach.
- The Artisan Loaf(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) can permanently increase the range that the player can access crafting stations by 4 tiles in all directions.
- Unlike the player's item reach, crafting reach cannot be extended by items such as the Architect Gizmo Pack or Extendo Grip.
- The crafting reach of the player is not a whole number. If they press against a wall, they can reach a crafting station 4 tiles away, but they will never be able to reach two crafting stations 4 tiles away on either side. This can be easily tested by locking the player in a 2-tile wide space with crafting stations 4 tiles away on either side of them; they will only be able to reach one crafting station at any given time. Similarly, the player's item reach will extend to 5 tiles if pressed against a wall. Interestingly, the player has to be closer to the wall to extend item reach compared to crafting reach.
Achievements





Basic progression
This list shows the general order a new player will likely need to follow in obtaining the basic crafting stations. This list only covers stations for essential tools and game advancement. Others can be obtained in more varying orders.
- Work Bench: crafted by hand from Wood.
- Furnace: crafted at the Work Bench, from Wood, Stone, and Torches.
- Iron Anvil/Lead Anvil: crafted at the Work Bench from Iron/Lead Bars.
- Sawmill: crafted at the Work Bench from Wood, Iron/Lead Bars, and a Chain.
- Loom: crafted at the Sawmill.
- Hellforge: found in The Underworld, generated with the world inside Ruined Houses.
Hardmode
- Mythril Anvil/Orichalcum Anvil: crafted at the Iron/Lead Anvil from Mythril/Orichalcum Bars.
- Adamantite Forge/Titanium Forge: crafted at Mythril/Orichalcum Anvil from a Hellforge and Adamantite/Titanium Ore.
- Ancient Manipulator: dropped by the Lunatic Cultist.
History
- Desktop 1.4.0.1: Added Decay Chamber.
- Desktop 1.3.0.1:
- Added Alchemy Table and Ancient Manipulator.
- Items can now be crafted from a chest while it is open without having to place its contents in the player inventory beforehand.
- Now shows all possible craftings when the player clicks on the "Crafting window" icon.
- Desktop 1.2.3: Added 8 new crafting stations.
- Desktop 1.2: There are several new crafting stations.
- Desktop-Release: Introduced.
- Console-Release: Introduced.
- Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.
- Mobile-Release: Introduced.
- 3DS-Release: Introduced.
References
- ↑ The Glass Kiln also functions as a plain Furnace.
- ↑ The Sky Mill also crafts Rain Clouds and Snow Clouds.
- ↑ The Solidifier also crafts Slime Blocks (as well as their Frozen and Pink variants), Hardened Sand Blocks and Sandstone Blocks.