Souls

Souls

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Type	Crafting material

For info on how to farm souls, see Guide:Harvesting Souls. For the uncommon NPC found in the Underworld, see Tortured Soul.

Souls are Hardmode crafting materials dropped by enemies. There are a total of (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 6 / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 7 types of souls. The most common ones are the Souls of Light and Night, which are dropped in the Cavern layer of Underground Hallow and Underground Corruption/Crimson, respectively. For detailed info about the condition of enemies dropping these souls, see Notes. Most of the remaining souls drop from the mechanical bosses.

Types

Soul		Drop type	Source	Tooltip	Max. stack	Sell
	Soul of FlightInternal Item ID: 575	Enemy	Wyvern, Arch Wyvern(Old-gen console and 3DS versions)	'The essence of powerful flying creatures'	9999	2 SC
	Soul of LightInternal Item ID: 520	Biome	Enemies in the Underground Hallow 1/5 (20%) / 9/25 (36%) chance	'The essence of light creatures'	9999	2 SC
	Soul of NightInternal Item ID: 521	Biome	Enemies in the Underground Corruption/Crimson 1/5 (20%) / 9/25 (36%) chance	'The essence of dark creatures'	9999	2 SC
	Soul of MightInternal Item ID: 548	Boss	The Destroyer, Lepus(3DS version)	'The essence of the destroyer'	9999	80 SC
	Soul of SightInternal Item ID: 549	Boss	The Twins	'The essence of omniscient watchers'	9999	80 SC
	Soul of FrightInternal Item ID: 547	Boss	Skeletron Prime	'The essence of pure terror'	9999	80 SC
	Soul of Blight(Old-gen console and 3DS versions)Internal Item ID: 5017	Boss	Ocram(Old-gen console and 3DS versions)	The essence of infected creatures’ [sic]	999	2 GC

Notes

• The drop conditions of Souls of Light and Night are as following:
  • The world is in Hardmode.
  • The player is in a respective biome in the Cavern layer and below when killing enemies.
    • In a Don't dig up(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) or Get fixed boi(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) world, the player only needs to be in the respective biome.
  • The enemy's health is more than 1 (i.e. not a spell, Fungi Spore, Spore, etc.).
  • The enemy drops at least 1 CC (i.e. Statue-spawned enemies, Meteor Heads during Hardmode, boss minions, etc. will not drop souls).
  • The enemy is not a boss, a Slimer with wings, (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) and certain slimes:

Blue Slime Green Slime Pinky Baby Slime Black Slime Purple Slime Red Slime Yellow Slime Jungle Slime Spiked Slime(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)

• Note that only the biome (Cavern layer Underground Corruption/Crimson or Hallow) determines what soul will be dropped, not the enemy. For instance, an Illuminant Bat in the Underground Corruption will drop Souls of Night, and a Corruptor in the Underground Hallow will drop Souls of Light. All enemies that fulfill conditions mentioned above, including the pre-Hardmode enemies, can drop Souls of Night or Souls of Light if in the appropriate biome.
• Unlike most other enemy drops, souls are not affected by gravity (except the Souls of Blight), and thus remain floating in midair at the location where the enemy was killed. For large enemies and bosses, this is usually the enemy's head, regardless of where the final strike occurred.

Tips

• An easy way to obtain Souls of Night and Light is to go to the Dungeon and spray Red/Purple/Blue Solution with the Clentaminator at different areas, converting the area into the respective biome. Because of the Dungeon's high spawn rate, it is possible to get a large amount of souls fairly quickly.
• (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) Another very effective way to farm Souls of Night and Light is to craft a Slime Crown and summon King Slime in the appropriate Cavern biome. Each fight often yields over 20 souls from all of the slimes that are spawned.

Trivia

Pre-1.3 souls sprites.

• All of the souls' names rhyme with each other, bearing the suffix -ight.
• Souls of Blight are the only souls without an animation. This is because they are unavailable on 1.3, the update which introduced animated soul sprites.
• There is only one soul whose tooltip directly states the name of the enemy it is dropped from, the Soul of Might.
  • (3DS version) It is also the only soul that is obtainable pre-Hardmode.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Slimes summoned by King Slime no longer drop Souls of Night nor Souls of Light in their specific biomes.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Updated the sprites of all souls.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Souls now sell for less.

• Desktop 1.2: Increased the drop rate of souls.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.