Guide:Crafting a Shellphone

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The Shellphone, like other notable compound items (such as the Ankh Shield and Terra Blade), is an extremely powerful and helpful item to have on hand, which combines the function of Cell Phone, Magic Conch, and Demon Conch. Like a real-life cell phone, it can tell you the weather, the time, and where you are, among other things. What's more, it can teleport you to four different locations, including the world's spawn point, Ocean, Underworld, and player's spawn point set via Bed. Its usefulness however comes with a cost: its construction is highly time-consuming and some components are extremely difficult to find. This page will guide you on how to craft this item.

Basic diagram

Items needed

Magic Mirror or Ice Mirror

  • Magic MirrorMagic Mirror: An extremely easy item to obtain, as it simply requires finding an Underground Cabin with a chest, and it can be crafted as well. You must acquire 32 of either Gold Ore or Platinum Ore (only one type, as they cannot be mixed), 20 of Sand, and 3 Diamonds. Melt the ores into bars and the sand into Glass, and then assemble a Magic Mirror.
  • Ice MirrorIce Mirror: Found under mainly the same conditions, except as secondary loot in Ice Chests.

GPS components

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
GPSGPS(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop

Fish Finder components

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
Fish FinderFish Finder(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop

All ingredients are obtained from the Angler. You will initially have a 1/30 (3.33%) chance of obtaining each of these items upon completing one of the Angler's quests, although the chance will go up as you complete more quests. An Enchanted SundialEnchanted Sundial, BedBed, or Journey Mode (if applicable) will prove useful, allowing you to fast-forward time to the next day once you have completed the current day's quest.

If the Aether biome is located, any duplicate of Fish Finder components can be Shimmered to get the other accessories. This means that a second copy of an accessory is still useful and should not be discarded.

R.E.K. 3000 components

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
R.E.K. 3000R.E.K. 3000(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop

Goblin Tech components

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
Goblin TechGoblin Tech(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop

Craft the PDA

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
PDAPDA(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • GPSGPS(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)
  • Fish FinderFish Finder(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Goblin TechGoblin Tech(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • R.E.K. 3000R.E.K. 3000(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop
  • Note that the PDA can be used separate from the Magic/Ice Mirror. However, crafting the Cell Phone will help you in many cases.

Craft the Cell Phone

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
Cell PhoneCell Phone(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop
  • PDAPDA(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Ice MirrorIce Mirror(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
  • Note that this is no longer an accessory and as such cannot be equipped nor receive modifiers.

Craft the Shellphone

ResultIngredientsCrafting station
ShellphoneShellphone(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Tinkerer's WorkshopTinkerer's Workshop

Farming and Tips on getting the Shellphone

To obtain these items, it may help to farm them. Make sure you have spare money to buy items from the Traveling Merchant.

All Items

  • The Enchanted Sundial can be used to skip a day, allowing you to reset the Angler's quest and make the Travelling Merchant to spawn more often. You can also sleep in a Bed to make the time pass faster.
    • In Journey Mode, the time can be sped up or even skipped as well.
  • Place Water Candles and use a Battle Potion to increase the spawn rate of the enemies.
  • Place the right Torches and a Gnome to increase Luck so to increase the drop chance. You may also use a Ladybug and a Luck Potion.
  • Do loads of fishing. Fishing will give you fish to craft potions that can help you.
  • Defeat Skeletron in order to access the Dungeon enemies and drop the Tally Counter.
  • Exploring caves a lot helps get many of the items needed, as many of the items are obtained from underground enemies.

GPS

Fish Finder

  • Do fish quests for the Angler every day, as the Fish Finder can be acquired randomly by completing quests for the Angler. The quests from the Angler reset at 4:30 AM.
  • After finding an ingredient, keep it in your inventory or portable storage to avoid obtaining a duplicate of said ingredient.
    • If you forget to do so, you may still throw duplicates into shimmer to turn them into one of the other ingredients.
  • Consider getting multiple copies of a quest fish in order to almost instantaneously complete a quest if that quest fish is asked for again.
  • There is no realistic way to farm the Fish Finder aside from getting loads of quest fish and offering them to the Angler when he asks for one.
  • Journey Mode makes this trivial since you can research quest fish and speed up/skip time.

R.E.K 3000

  • Tally Counter: Enter a pre-Hardmode Dungeon with decent weapons, and start hunting.
  • Radar: If no surface chests are found with it, or your world was generated before 1.3, you can find it in Wooden Crates. Use Fishing Potions, Crate Potions, and Sonar Potions to increase your chances. You can also create new worlds and use them to packmule items including the Radar.
  • Lifeform Analyzer: Buy from Traveling Merchant (see above for tips).

Goblin Tech

  • Stopwatch: Buy from Traveling Merchant (see above for tips).
  • DPS Meter: Buy from Traveling Merchant (see above for tips).
  • Metal Detector: Create a long tunnel in an Ice biome. Run from end to end of the tunnel until a Lost Girl/Nymph spawns. A Lifeform Analyzer can also be used to find them more easily.
    • Farm the Nymph in Expert Mode, as it will drop the Metal Detector no matter what.