Demonite Ore

Demonite Ore

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Statistics

• 55%

Type	OreCrafting material
Placeable	✔️ (1 wide × 1 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Tooltip	'Pulsing with dark energy'
Rarity	01*
Sell	10
Research	100 required

• Internal Item ID: 56
• Internal Tile ID: 22

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Eater of Worlds Eater of Worlds	20–395 / 20–310	100%
Eater of Worlds (Eater of Worlds Body)  Eater of Worlds (Eater of Worlds Body)	2–5	50%
Eater of Worlds (Eater of Worlds Head)  Eater of Worlds (Eater of Worlds Head)	2–5	50%
Eater of Worlds (Eater of Worlds Tail)  Eater of Worlds (Eater of Worlds Tail)	2–5	50%
Eye of Cthulhu Eye of Cthulhu	30-90	100%
Treasure Bag (Eater of Worlds)Treasure Bag (Eater of Worlds)	30–59	100%
Treasure Bag (Eye of Cthulhu)Treasure Bag (Eye of Cthulhu)	30-90	100%

Demonite Ore is a pre-Hardmode ore. It is the Corruption counterpart to the Crimson's Crimtane Ore and will not appear naturally in Crimson worlds. It can be found very rarely in small veins underground in worlds that contain Corruption, however the only usable quantities come from bosses, namely Eater of Worlds, and from the Eye of Cthulhu in worlds naturally containing Corruption. Demonite Ore emits a faint blue glow when placed, similar to Crimtane Ore's faint red glow.

The pickaxe power required to mine Demonite Ore changes with location. When below 0ft in elevation, a Gold Pickaxe or better is needed, otherwise any pickaxe can be used.

Crafting

Recipes

Result Ingredients Crafting station Demonite Ore Crimtane Ore Chlorophyte Extractinator Conversion total: 1 row(s)

Used in

Result Ingredients Crafting station Crimtane Ore Demonite Ore Chlorophyte Extractinator Conversion Deer Thing Flinx Fur (3) Demonite Ore (5) Lens Demon Altar or Crimson Altar    only: Demonite Bar Demonite Ore (3) Furnace   only: Demonite Bar Demonite Ore (4) Demonite Brick (5) Demonite Ore Ebonstone Block (5) total: 5 row(s)

Notes

• Demonite Ore does not spread the Corruption in any way.
• Unlike its Crimson counterpart, Demonite Ore can be found in increased amounts within Corruption cave systems.
• Demonite Ore and its counterpart Crimtane Ore can be mined extremely early-game with Bombs, with this being highly effective with the vein increases of 1.4, easily netting one a powerful sword, bow, axe, yoyo, and fishing rod earlygame.
• Very rarely, Demonite Ore can spawn extremely close to the surface.

Achievements

Ooo! Shiny! • “Mine your first nugget of ore with a pickaxe.”

Mine your first ore.

Tips

• As of 1.4, Demonite Ores have increased value and Demonite Bars have decreased value, such that one makes the same amount of money selling via the ores or the bars. Hence, it is more efficient to sell the ores.

Trivia

• The placed block texture of Demonite Ore seems to represent scales.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.3: Now used to craft the Deer Thing.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Now has higher Metal Detector priority than Gold and Platinum.
  • Now spawns in larger quantities underground.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Changed item texture from to .
  • Changed block texture from to .
  • Now requires 3 Demonite instead of 4 Demonite to craft a bar.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Increased stack limit from 99 to 999.

• Desktop 1.2: Now only dropped by the Eye of Cthulhu if the world has Corruption; otherwise Crimtane Ore is dropped.

• Desktop 1.1: Now gives off purple light on top of the sparkle effect.

• Desktop 1.0.5:
  • Now has a sparkle effect.
  • Can now be found underground, in small veins.
  • Tooltip is now contained in single quotation marks.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.