Guide talk:Making money

Unlimited items (gel, wood, mushrooms) and statue farming

Gel is actually one of the only thing you can have unlimited amount of in Terraria, not the opposite. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.220.110.243 (talk).

You can have unlimited wood and mushrooms as well. I just meant that you can't really farm them, barring magma traps and suchlike. -Cromage 23:37, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

with the new Slime statues and Dart launcher thingummies, you can make quite an efficient farm - put the slime statue on the ground in a pit, line the walls with a few dart launchers, and hook both up to a five second timer. drop down every minute or so to pick up the spoils. more statues equals much more gel. easy, if you can find them. this also works for pirhanas, skeletons, goldfish, jellyfish, and (during a blood moon) bunny rabbits. the statues don't drop coins, but they do drop whatever else the mob would usually drop. Bomb statues are useful for this, too. for more info see Statue Wrincewind. 212.9.124.91 04:36, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

(Note: The above heading was added in an attempt to clean up its place in the discussion page, to allow the ToC to precede it as it should. Esaelon (talk) 00:58, 19 July 2015 (UTC) )

New Layout

The old layout for the selling guide seemed rather slapdash, so I thought I'd try this one out and see what people think. The new layout features different sections on what to buy, what to sell, etc, touching on inventory management and narrowing down to specific farming strategies at the end with profit analyses for each. Pictures would make it better, so anyone out there with some illustrative screenshots should chip in. MasterShizzle 07:47, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

General Tips

Is it really better to sell things you don't have a use for right now? You can simply craft more chests to hold excess items. Games in which this advice is good generally do not give the player any way to increase the limited available storage space, and/or have a lot of class-specific items which other types of characters will never be able to use. Most of the raw items obtained in Terraria have some kind of use (unless we're talking about duplicates of unique items like the Magic Mirror), while most of the decorative ones have to be actively created by the player. - Spinfx 00:26, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

If you're trying to collect one of each item in the game, that's a separate goal than wanting to make a lot of coins. And since you're reading a guide on how to effectively sell items I'd assume that's the goal the player in question has in mind. After all, what can you use that many raw materials for?

Yeah, I guess I had starting players in mind, who don't have much stockpiled yet. I suppose if you already have the best armor and items there's no need to keep the raw materials. - Spinfx 03:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Restoration Potions?

Why is there nothing talking about Restoration Potions? It's far more profitable than making and selling lesser and standard potions, and all you're doing is combining two potions. Healing and Mana pots sell for 2sp, but a Restoration pot sells for 8sp. That's 4sp profit just from combining the two.

Why don't you make a new section explaining the strategy? --Null^Talk 00:51, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Only worth doing if you have spare Lesser Mana/Mana Potions lying around. Buying Lesser Mana Potions is costly and it might be better to save extra Fallen Stars as Star Cannon ammo. darrenalilim 03:53, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Necro Helm (and EoW farming)

I noticed the guide mentions turning cobwebs into silk for a profit of 20 Copper per cobweb. What about crafting Necro Helms that sell for 90 Silver apiece?

Necro Helm (90 Silver resale) = 25 Bones (Valued @ 2 Silver, 50 Copper; 10 Copper ea. base resale) + 40 Cobwebs (Valued @ 8 Silver; 20 Copper ea. via Silk resale) [Combined = 10 Silver initial resale cost/investment]

You get 9x the base resale worth; both materials are abundant. Bones are unlimited as a farmable mob drop (unless you tore down the Dungeon for the bricks and walls). Cobwebs, while technically limited, can be found quite easily in large quantities even on a small world.

It doesn't seem like any other products made from these materials can come close to the equivalent increase of per unit worth.

Also, I'm kinda surprised EoW wasn't pointed out as a slightly more viable farming target compared to EoC due to the fact EoW can be summoned any time. EoC can only be summoned at night, limiting potential income throughput in the long run.

I also find farming Rotten Chunks and Vile Mushrooms far easier and faster than Lenses. Rotten Chunks and Vile Mushrooms can be easily acquired using a Corrupt Grass (Vile Mushroom/natural Deathweed) farm and an EoS farm (or you can just frequent your local Corruption biome regularly). Demon Eye farming, like EoC, is limited to night time while the ingredients for Worm Food can be farmed with 24/7 availability. The only real limitation to EoW farming is the fact it can only be summoned in the Corruption. If you're farming him for cash, you probably have an area set up for it though. (Be it in a natural or artificial Corruption biome). My EoC/EoW arena area doubles as an EoS and Vile Mushroom farm, actually. (The roof is my EoS and shroom farms.) However, I will admit I lucked out a bit on the initial layout on one of my worlds that made that set-up quite viable near the initial spawn point. Still required a bit of landscaping on my part. Oh, it also serves a Devourer farm for Worm Teeth (for Unholy Arrow production.)

Partial rewrite

This article is somewhat bloated with repeated info and untrue statements (as of 1.1). I'll try to restructure it so that the the different methods are written similarly, and the most important details can be immediately seen from the text. - 91.153.29.155 15:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Removing the Music Box section

Methods that exploit bugs shouldn't be on this list. Including the music box method is the same as adding the method were you just copy your map or download a map with lots of money on it. Keep this list bug free please. --Moxxy 23:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Chests farming glitch/exploit

I think this exploit can make dropped items disappear. I was trying this glitch when I accidentaly pressed T when it was selecting my Muramasa. I checked my inventory to see if I picked it up again and it wasn't there. I stopped the glitch and can't find it anywhere ever since. Restarting doesn't help. This never happened to me before I tried the glitch.

Dungeon Farming

Someone should add a section on dungeon farming to the page, I'd say. Make a small world, run to the dungeon, kill Skeletron (who drops 6 gold iirc), run in and loot chests for quite a bit of gold (most accessories sell for a gold each, as do some of the weapons). Also a good way to find statues if you plan on making a farm. I don't think I've ever seen a dungeon with less than two statues. Moses 06:30, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Lens are better than Goggles

Why are Goggles even on the list? They sell for the same cost as their ingredients - Lenses sell for 1 Silver each, the Goggles made from two Lenses for 2 Silver. Crafting isn't always the best option, you don't have to combine things just to sell them. Goggles are terrible to sell anyway because you have to craft them one by one and then cart them to an NPC, when Lenses stack to 99 - There is absolutely no reason to craft Goggles if you're simply looking to make money from Lenses. It should be replaced with simply 10 Lenses on the chart.

Glitch 2 doesn't work

Either that or I'm not reading it properly. tested with 100 copper coins and 100 silver coins.

Bug - Gold Chest Duplication

I saw it on a video on Youtube, and I thought I would try it out myself. If you place a wired switch up to an active block, then place a Gold Chest over the active block (with an item inside; if you try activating it without an item, the chest will be moved), it will spawn a Gold Chest for every activation of the switch, sometimes multiple times over. By making an area of three chests on the same level as you, and three above you, all wired to the same switch (or even a crab engine), you will quickly gain a full inventory of Gold Chests. In less than an hour, you can easily make well over twenty platinum.

Yes, it's a bug, and it's wrong to exploit bugs. But once you've beaten all of the challenges that Hardmode has to offer, there's really nothing else better to do than buy enough wire and explosives to wire your entire world to explode and start over.

And, yes. Some people DO just want to watch the world burn, thank you.

In any case, here is a crude drawing of the setup I use for this.

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CC - Gold Chest D - Dirt Block A - Active Stone (Wired) W - Wire {running between switch and lower boxes) S - Switch (attached to dirt block, hanging from dirt block above) X - Nothing (open air; used to emphasize what isn't there, but this mechanism can be built into or against anything) - Cyrilgar 08:19, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

The point is: if you want money you can also just use an inventory editor. This guide is for people who prefer to do it the fair way. --Icke 06:32, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

This is quite true. However, without using any of the editors or mods, I believe this is the easiest and quickest way to duplicate items for purpose of making money in game without having to close the client. And just because it's taking advantage of a glitch doesn't mean it isn't fair. There have been updates since 1.1, but the bug hasn't been taken out. I'm not saying that it SHOULD be there, but while it is still part of the game mechanics, why not take advantage of it while you can? -- Cyrilgar 08:16, 16 May 2012 [UTC]

I don't see why we can't include an "exploits" section. It is a way to make money. Some people may want to know the cheap way to make money instead of the legitimate ways, and I see no reason we can't provide that information. My favourite for duplicating money (and items) is to put stuff in a chest, make a copy of the world, and send your character in to collect it. The items remain in the chest in your true world, and your character has them too. I only use this if my server eats something like the Mechanical Worm without summoning, but it is a way people could double their money in one go. Also, exponential returns if you do it right (linear returns if you're lazy). --timrem 03:55, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Skeleton now drops more

As of 1.2, Skeletons, including ones spawned by statues, may drop Skulls, Ancient Helmets and Bone Swords. Since the Ancient Gold Helmet in particular sells for 50 silver, this improves expected revenue quite a bit. [AGH is 1/8th as likely to drop as Hook, but 25 times as valuable. Thus AGH drops add over three times as much value as Hook drops over time.] --77.251.225.223 20:03, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Splitting guide

There's a note about the guide regarding layout. Why not just split the article up into different articles, each detail money making schemes according to method: Crafting, Boss Farming, etc. The main article could cover just the basic ideas, outlines of the different methods, and then just link to each relevant sub-article. Each sub-article could provide more detailed info without being quite as cluttered as the current article is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.118.151.252

Suggestions

The last section (misc. tips) is now completely redundant & should be removed entirely. Who thought it was a good idea to link that subsection to the same page on which it resides?! Recursive fail.. Also, why not remove the "tips" that no longer work or were fixed for being exploits? This page is long enough. I do like the "Making 10/30" sections added here. Much more professional-looking! Great idea.

Profitability

For some time, I have been considering making a list of the most profitable ways of turning various items into coins. There are many items' pages which have this information, but it is not at all in a central location and it does not appear to be updated with any consistency -- which would admittedly be quite difficult as much of the time someone may not know a page has the information to be updated!

If exhaustive, such a page could be quite long and, I suspect, may need to be broken up by the Materials of different types (ores, blocks, critters, weapons, accessories, etc.) in order to keep some sanity as to its length and the ability for it to be maintained. That may be a good idea even if the information is limited merely to most profitable item and sell-value (or perhaps a handful of such when the best items require multiple input Materials), yet limiting it in such a way would not be quite so bad.

One thing that might make the process far more intuitive to maintain would be if there was a way to pull sell-values of items to the recipe on the Materials' pages, though at the moment there appears to be no such place for that (with the exception of what has been done on, for example, the Chandelier page). Though I suspect it is not possible to automate, I am certainly no wiki expert, and so I ask, first, is there a practical means for such limited transclusion?

Second and more important: Would those with more authority with respect to the maintenance of this wiki approve or frown upon such an addition? Esaelon (talk) 00:58, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Unnecessary Section

Should the Cheating section even be there? LordofEditing (talk) 07:51, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Neither, some people like it being there, some people dislike it being there. Anyways, it's there own risk to do it, or not. We might demolished that section if its too unnecessary. Just wait for people's and admin's surmisal. I think. --IosKent (Talk Page - Contribs) 08:18, 24 July 2016 (UTC)--

It's allowed in guides, but generally not on any of the main wiki pages. – Ferretwings ^(talk) 08:24, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Well, ok, my observation was a little bit off topic. LOL :D...... --IosKent (Talk Page - Contribs) 08:29, 24 July 2016 (UTC)--

Better way to make money

As of 1.3, there seems to be a better way to make money than the jelly fish statue, and is still a viable AFK farm. Granite Golem Statues still drop their respective drops when killed by lava. The night vision helm sells for 2 gold, and is a 3.3 percent drop normally, and most likely a 0.8 percent drop, due to it's drops being reduced as it was added in 1.3. However, to make up for this, you can make something profitable over the ample granite blocks you get, Granite Lanterns. These sell for 1 silver, and only take .3 wood, .3 gel and 3 granite blocks. If you decide to attack them additionally, every 50 kills you can get a banner to sell for 5 silver (hopefully you have a banner hanging already to improve your damage output). Try out a farm using 1 or 2 statues. They are pretty strong, and could defend themselves which might lower the total earnings per hour. Thanks. Pazon123 (talk) 00:40, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Anybody can add to the guide ;) Feel free to add a section. You could perhaps name the section AFK farming the Granite Golem (or something similar). – Ferretwings ^(talk) 06:27, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Crafting Template broken?

Something dire seems to have happened to the crafting template, or one of its sub-templates -- all the rows are prefixed by a redlink to "File:Y". Can someone more familiar with the templates here figure this out? --MentalMouse42 (talk) 01:39, 6 September 2017 (UTC) ETA: Figured it out: The "image=y" argument seems to have been used as if it was a Boolean "yes use an image", but in fact it is replacing the result image with the file named by its argument. I have deleted the offending arguments. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 01:50, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Statue farming numbers -- are those up-to-date for 1.3?

The "Statue Farming" section has been there since I came to the wiki, but it has occurred to me that the list of statue yields looks like it describes the more generous pre-1.3 statues with catchable critters. I particularly note the values for bunny, crab and bird statues, which have no drops except banners now! The comments about ectoplasm underline that the text is outdated. If these values still apply to the non-desktop platforms, perhaps they should be flagged for those platforms. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 01:19, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Ore drops from Brain of Cthulhu...

I totaled up the listed drops for the Creepers and the Brain itself, I'm just not sure I believe the results. They certainly don't match the previous writer's, but I don't think they were counting the Creepers. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 02:24, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

ETA: A bit of experimentation suggests it's actually closer than I thought, the average might not be quite that high, but it's hard to tell because its so variable. I also note that the BoC does drop coins, which isn't listed in its infobox. Can anyone find its official coin-drop value? --MentalMouse42 (talk) 03:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

About the "Making 1 gold coin" section....

I don't think it's useful or necessary. Most choices require a lot of materials that even if they are pretty renewable, adquiring lots of them just to make money just sounds annoying; the time spent gathering for example 2000 wood for the 200 weapon racks could be just spent killing a couple Eyes of Cthulhu or mining a couple ores. The items that are actually profitable and easy to mass produce are already mentioned on the Crafting section anyways, so i don't really see the point to it.

Thank you for the feedback.

A small preface: the guides in general are currently in a state of disrepair: they contain a lot of outdated and low quality information that we have to check and clean to make them pretty again. That said, I have yet to finish to cleanup this page, so i've yet to finish to check the rest of the page (i've only checked the first sections). With that said (just checked this specific section so that i could answer your question), I do agree that this section is about selling stuff that aren't very time-efficient (unlike Fishing and Boss hunting). You're free to edit any page and remove any bad infos that are within this page. In fact, you can delete some inefficient methods that this section (and guide, if you have free time) lists. By the way, when you're making comments in talk pages, remember to put 4 "~" before submitting. -- Murrayzero (talk) 21:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Dynasty Wood Lantern Section

So either the wiki auto recalculated the values of things? Or someone did a really confusing job of half-editing the Dynasty Wood Lantern section. Like, they put the old gen content tag on it correctly, but then changed all the values to 1.4 costs? That shouldn't be done. If it's being left for posterity for old gen content, then leave the old gen values there! --Kittenykat27263 (talk) 13:59, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

The wiki auto-recalculated, so our spiffy templates turned on us. I've fixed it up. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 15:41, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! :) --Kittenykat27263 (talk) 22:18, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Heart/Star generation got more selective?

I've found that in the current Desktop, not all statue spawns will produce hearts (at least) regardless of whether they are killed by traps or lava. So far testing with lava only, I've found:

• Produces hearts: crab, slime, Wall Creeper
• Does not: Jellyfish, Piranha, Blood Zombie, Skeleton, Bone Zombie, Hoplite, Goblin, Undead Viking, Corrupt, Eyeball, Armed Zombie

(editing) --MentalMouse42 (talk) 22:35, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

queen bee farming

I generally find a quick way of earning money is generating a small not the bees world and summoning the queen bee multiple times in order to gain money (5 gold each time). I think it is a quick and simple way of earning money quick as long as you have the appropriate gear. Also, the magic conch helps a lot as there are always pods to summon the queen bee at the beach so it would be easy to find where to summon her. And can be done with not much setup.

Doodlytime (talk) 18:58, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Cheating

The Cheating section has been moved here, to meet the general standards of guides and this wiki. Remember, ways to utilize bugs and/or glitches should not be included in this wiki. CarenStrid. (talk) 16:40, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

⚠ The entries below feature methods to obtain money by non-conventional standards. They are all ways of cheating, and may as such not be accepted by certain players. As they can easily ruin the gameplay (no matter how tempting unlimited money may seem) they should mainly be utilized by players for testing purposes, preferably on single-player worlds to avoid ruining the game for other players. They may also include the possibility of damaging your game and/or computer - use at your own risk! ⚠

General note

In addition to the above concerns, none of these are guaranteed to work in any current version; at least some of them have definitely been patched for 1.4.

Crafting glitch

(This may only work on console by now.) If you craft a stack of copper, silver, or gold coins using a silver, gold, or platinum coin, the crafting menu allows you to craft it back into a single coin. As it turns out, if you take at least one coin from the stack while the rest are in your inventory, put the coin in a storage item such as a chest, safe, or piggy bank, then press deposit all or quick stack on the storage item, the option to craft the original coin still exists as long as you do not exit the inventory screen. You can then craft this coin without it taking away any coins as long as you do not have a separate stack of the lesser coins in your inventory or in the storage item. This gives you a new second coin for free. This glitch does not, however, allow many duplicates to be made at once. If you attempt to do this by making multiple stacks of coins and depositing all of them, the game will not let you craft the original coin as many times as you had stacks. Instead, once you use the option once, the game seemingly realizes that there are no stacks of coins to use to craft a new original coin, therefore the option disappears. Despite this limit, this method still allows for quite quick duping of coins and is one of the few options that does not require another player, joining a server, or editing files.

  Player duplication

This trick is known to have been patched in 1.4.

When a character (or world) is created, it is saved as a file on your computer/device. This means that it can be copied like any other file. The default directory for such files are C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Players for Windows and Files>On My iPad>Terraria>Players for iOS, though this may change with other OSs. Characters are stored as .plr files; a character called "Manbearpig" will be saved as "Manbearpig.plr". If this file is copied (into "Manbearpig2.plr", for example) the in-game character selection menu will feature two characters named "Manbearpig". (Note that there is no need to copy "Manbearpig.plr.bak". Also note that the order of the .plr files in the Players-folder is representative for the in-game character list.) Any character that has items stored in portable storage, such as a Safe or Piggy Bank will also have an associated folder with the same name as the character (e.g., a folder named "Manbearpig"). If the character's folder is also copied, the player will be able to duplicate items in portable storage.

The copy will feature all items held and worn by the original (and the accompanying folder will contain all items kept in portable storage), allowing the player to duplicate money and items by repeatedly copying Manbearpig.plr (and Manbearpig folder) and deposit the copies' inventories in a storage item in-game. Creating money like this makes it increase exponentially: if you start with 1 CC and copy it 31 times, you will have a little more than 999 PC (1*2=2 (one copy) → 2³⁰=1073741824 copper coins = 1073 platinum coins).

Copied character files can afterwards be deleted with no issues arising, though you may wish to also delete each copy's respective .plr.bak file and folder (keeping obsolete .bak files and folders will not impact the game, but it may cause yourself some confusion later). Though arguably being somewhat cumbersome, this method is convenient as it requires no third-party software.

Read-only world file

Set your world to "read-only" while you have all your coins in a chest, then load the world. Take the coins, and exit. Set "read-only" off and play again. The coins you took while the world was "read-only" will be in the chest, and you can take them out. If you had, say, about 50 gold, you could get a platinum, and, if you do it again, you can get 2 platinum. And you can do this method whenever needed to get coins back.

  Item servers

Certain servers are dedicated to distributing free items and coins, placed in automatically-refilling chests. These items and coins can be taken freely. Some servers also grant you access to free command of every item in the game.

TShock server

Instead of using the dedicated server software that ships with Terraria, you can set up a more powerful and advanced server up with TShock. As an admin, you can give yourself free items through Item IDs.

World Edit Tools

World edit tools, like TEdit or some other tool, is easy to add or manipulate coins.

  Terrasavr Inventory Editor

Using inventory editors such as Terrasavr can be a way to get money for experimental purposes.

Soft duplication method

You need: 4 Bars of any kind, 2 item frames, a work bench, and 1 chest. You also have to host a multiplayer server. (Because being in single player mode doesn’t work for this method). (Potentially patched please check)

Place the 4 bars down in a square, place the chest on them, destroy the bottom 2 bars. Put the work bench where you just destroyed the bars, mine the chest and replace it with an item frame. Then mine the right side of the work bench, the item frame should be floating. Place the other item frame below the first item frame. Click the first item frame with a item you have at least 2 of. It should duplicate like this: 2 coins, 4 coins, 8 coins, 16 coins. (Also can be used on items other than coins. Breaks when you leave meaning you have to build it up each time you join.

Note:You can also duplicate rare items and sell them.

Another note: Sometimes you might place coins on top of the top item frame, breaking it.

Item Duplication with TerrariaServer

1. Place the item(s) you want to dupe in a chest in a world (can be any world, it wont affect the items in it afterwards) and exit the world, but not the game.

2. Run start-server-steam-private (can be found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria).

start-server-steam-private will open the TerrariaServer console window, but it won't close the console window every time you exit like TerrariaServer.exe does.

3. In the TerrariaServer console window, select the world where you stored the item(s) you wish to dupe.

4. In the Terraria game, join multiplayer game and type localhost in the ip page.

5. Take all the items you want to duplicate using your character (do not exit the world).

6. In the TerrariaServer console window, type exit-nosave (it disconnects your character but doesn't save the world, so your items will still be as it was before you loaded the world).

7. In the Terraria game, go to a world and unload all your duplicated items, and exit the world.

Repeat steps to do it over and over again. This only works if you are the server host, it won't work on anyone else's world.

Magic Mirror Duplication

Note: Doesn't work if you're the host.

Note: Items have a chance of disappearing.

First, in your inventory highlight the coin(s) you want to duplicate. Then, exit out of your inventory. After that has been done, you use the magic mirror and while the screen turns black, you pull up your inventory and pick up the coin(s).

An easier method of duplication if timing is a problem is to turn auto-save off in settings and toss the coins out at spawn, go off the server, re-enter, pick up the coins, and save manually, and repeat until the satisfactory amount is reached.

  Chest duplicating

Note: does not work if you are the host

1. Host a multiplayer server with another device
2. Turn autosave off
3. Put the items you want to duplicate in a chest, then close the game (DO NOT save and exit)
4. Re-join the world, and collect your duplicated items
5. Repeat process as required

What occurs is the items in the chest is saved, but the character's inventory does not update, so the items are duplicated

Exit+Rejoin

Note: To make it easier, be the host.

Note: Does not work with a piggy bank/safe.

1. Put the items you need in a chest, then save the game
2. Turn autosave off.
3. Leave the game without saving.
4. Go back into the world you were in, and take the items and loot from the chest.
5. Exit without saving again.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as needed.

This is expected to duplicate the item, as it will be in the player's inventory and chest at the same time.

Note: No longer works as of the 1.2.4 update.

Exit+Rejoin 2.0

Note: Doesn't work if you're the host.

Note: Requires either online multiplayer or a second controller and account.

Note: Will work with multiple players.

Note: It can be extremely slow.

First, gather the items you want to duplicate, and give them to the other player. Make sure they have autosave off, and they save with the items in their inventory. (WARNING: Doing the previous part the other way around (saving without the items, exiting when you have them) will not duplicate and instead DELETE the items!) Then, have them give you back the items. Next, they have to exit the game without saving, then rejoin. You and them will have the items and their amounts, doubling the amount you both have. And You can use this trick for almost every item.

Depending on what items you duplicating, you can sell them for a lot of money.

Exit+Rejoin 2.1

Note: You will need 2 players.

Place a chest, and turn autosave off. Have a second player join with autosave on. Put the amount of money to be duplicated into any chest, then save the game. After the game finishes saving, have the second player leave the game, then have the host leave WITHOUT SAVING. Then, have both players rejoin. The money would still be in the chest, and in the second player's inventory. Have the second player take the money, leave the game, then have the host leave the game without saving again. Repeat until the wanted amount is reached.

Every after duplicating, put the duplicates in the chest you're using, then save the game, take all the money, & have the second player leave and the host leave without saving. Then have both of them rejoin, and then have the second player put the new duplicates in the chest and then save it. And then take the money. then have the host leave the game. Repeat until the wanted amount is reached.

The money can also be replaced by any item you like to be duplicated.

Chest/World Save Copying

Note: Requires 2 locations to save, works vise-versa (character save copying), and Super tedious.

Like the Desktop versions of Terraria, the world saves and the character inventory saves are separate. To do this, Place a chest, and put the amount of money you want to duplicate into the chest and save both hard drives (you may need to copy it into the 2nd hard drive). Place the items into your character's inventory, and save and exit the game entirely. Go into the system setting and access storage. Copy the world save from the 2nd hard drive into the 1st. Collect duplicated items. Repeat until the wanted amount is reached.