Iron Crate

Iron Crate

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Statistics

Type	Grab bagFurnitureCrate
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Tooltip	Right click to open / L2 to open () / LT to open () / Double tap to open / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) Use to open
Rarity	02*
Sell	50 SC
Research	10 required

• Internal Item ID: 2335
• Internal Tile ID: 376 (1)

The Iron Crate is a pre-Hardmode crate that can be obtained by fishing in any biome, at any height. It is the middle tier of standard crate. Its Hardmode counterpart is the Mythril Crate(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions).

Drops

 Desktop version,  Console version, and  Mobile version

Loot

Item	Quantity	Chance
Falcon Blade	1	38/625 (6.08%)
Tartar Sauce		6/125 (4.8%)
Sailfish Boots(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)		133/3125 (4.26%)
Tsunami in a Bottle(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)		4.04%
Ginger Beard(Desktop, Console, Mobile and 3DS versions)		1/25 (4%)
Gold Coin	5–10	1/4 (25%)
Copper Ore	12–21	1/6 (16.67%)
Tin Ore
Iron Ore
Lead Ore
Silver Ore
Tungsten Ore
Copper Bar	4–7	5/24 (20.83%)
Tin Bar
Iron Bar
Lead Bar
Silver Bar
Tungsten Bar
Obsidian Skin Potion	2–4	1/4 (25%)
Spelunker Potion
Hunter Potion
Gravitation Potion
Mining Potion(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)
Heartreach Potion
Calming Potion
Flipper Potion(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)
Healing Potion	5–15	1/2 (50%)
Mana Potion
Journeyman Bait	2–4	1/3 (33.33%)
Master Bait		1/6 (16.67%)

• Only one type of item out of the ores and bars can drop, not both a type of ore and a type of bar. The table above implies otherwise with the ores and the bars being in separate rows, but that is for readability purposes. The chance that a type of ore or bar is dropped is 3/8 (37.5%).
• (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) An Iron Crate will always contain at least one type of item from the first five groups (or any but the last two groups) displayed in the loot table above. This means that at least one type of item from the following list will always drop from an Iron Crate:

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 Old-gen console version and Nintendo 3DS version

Pre-Hardmode

Items	Quantity	Chance
Ginger Beard(Desktop, Console, Mobile and 3DS versions)	1	1/25 (4%)
Tartar Sauce		1/21 (4.76%)
Falcon Blade		1/16 (6.25%)
Copper BarIron BarSilver BarGold BarTin BarLead BarTungsten BarPlatinum Bar	6–14	1/4 (25%)
Obsidian Skin PotionSpelunker PotionHunter PotionGravitation PotionMining Potion(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)Heartreach PotionCalming PotionFlipper Potion(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)	1–3	1/4 (25%)
Healing PotionMana Potion	5–15	1/2 (50%)
Gold Coin	5–10	1/4 (25%)

Hardmode

Items	Quantity	Chance
Ginger Beard(Desktop, Console, Mobile and 3DS versions)	1	1/25 (4%)
Tartar Sauce		1/21 (4.76%)
Falcon Blade		1/16 (6.25%)
Copper BarIron BarSilver BarGold BarTin BarLead BarTungsten BarPlatinum Bar	6–14	1/12 (8.33%)
Cobalt BarMythril BarAdamantite BarPalladium BarOrichalcum BarTitanium Bar	5–13	1/6 (16.67%)
Obsidian Skin PotionSpelunker PotionHunter PotionGravitation PotionMining Potion(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)Heartreach PotionCalming PotionFlipper Potion(Desktop, Console, Old-gen console and Mobile versions)	1–3	1/4 (25%)
Healing PotionMana Potion	5–15	1/2 (50%)
Gold Coin	5–10	1/4 (25%)

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Iron Crate	Mythril Crate(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	Shimmer Transmutation(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

Trivia

• The Falcon Blade, Tartar Sauce, and Ginger Beard can only be obtained by opening Iron and Mythril Crates.
• Iron Crates can be obtained in worlds with Lead Ore.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4:
  • Reduced quantity of dropped ores from 18–29 to 12–21.
  • Reduced quantity of dropped bars from 6–9 to 4–7.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Will no longer drop Hardmode items, even if opened after the Wall of Flesh has been defeated in a world.
  • Loot tables re-adjusted so that Wooden, Iron, and Golden Crates now drop different metals depending on the level of crate.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Now placeable.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Now placeable. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Now placeable. ()

• Console 1.07: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Added features and changes from Desktop 1.4.0.1.

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Now placeable.

• Mobile 1.2.11212: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.