Platforms
Type | |
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Placeable | ✔️ (1 wide × 1 high) |
Use time | 10 (Very fast) |
Max stack | 9999 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) / 99 (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) |
Rarity | ![]() |
Research | 200 required |
- Internal Tile ID: 19
Platforms are a special type of block that can be walked on, but also allow movement through the space they occupy. The player normally stands and walks on platforms as if they were ordinary blocks, and they can move down through a platform by pressing the ▼ Down key while standing on one. Players can also walk or jump horizontally through the space occupied by platforms, only treating the platform as "solid" when landing on them from above.
Walking enemies can similarly walk on or pass through platforms. Flying enemies like bats will fly up through them, but not down. Other enemies, including Harpies, ignore them entirely. NPCs will always climb up platforms.
Weapons and their projectiles will travel through platforms. Liquids flow through platforms, and lava will destroy all platforms upon contact, with the exception of Obsidian, Stone and Ash Wood Platforms. Gravity-affected blocks like Sand will be supported by platforms.
Because of the high mobility provided by platforms, they can be used in a variety of ways: as a bridge across gaps that players can descend through without destroying, for roof access that keeps some enemies from getting through, or to create a fighting area above most enemies that players can fire down through while keeping out of reach. Also, since Piggy Banks, Chests, crafting stations and most other furniture can be placed on them like on ordinary blocks (exceptions include gems and Crystal Shards), they can be used as a shelving to pack furniture into a confined space without restricting player movement.
Positioning platforms
A platform has four distinct positions, which can be cycled through by hitting it with a hammer, similarly to an ordinary block:
- In the default or "top" position, it occupies the top half of a block space. Only in this position can furniture be placed on top of it. This includes a Bottle (or similar), which will count as a Placed Bottle for crafting potions.
- After one hammer blow, it will change to the slanted stairs form, facing right. It may also show "struts" beneath the slanted part depending on adjacent blocks, but this is purely visual.
- A second hammer blow will switch it to stairs facing left.
- A third hammer blow will move it to its "bottom" position, horizontal but lowered to the bottom half of the block. (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) Only in this position, banners (and some other hanging items) can be attached beneath them. However, Chandeliers or Lanterns will not attach there.
A fourth hammer blow will cycle the platform back to its default position. Only one platform can occupy a single block tile, so there cannot be top and bottom platforms in the same tile.
Stairs
Stairs can face either direction, regardless of what side of a block they are on. Walking up stairs in the direction they face will raise the player as expected, but walking towards stairs facing away from the player will not have any effect. As with normal platforms, pressing ▼ Down will cause stairs to be ignored. Nothing can be placed on stairs. Smart Cursor can be used to place stairs without having to hammer the platforms into the correct state.
Crafting
Recipes
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Used in
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On the Nintendo version, platforms are crafted from only one block of their respective type.
Noncraftable platforms
Team Platforms are sold by the Traveling Merchant. Golden Platforms are dropped during the Pirate Invasion. All other noncraftable platforms are found in the Dungeon.
Platform | Notes | |
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Dungeon ShelfInternal Item ID: 1418 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Wood ShelfInternal Item ID: 1389 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Metal ShelfInternal Item ID: 1387 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Brass ShelfInternal Item ID: 1388 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Blue Brick PlatformInternal Item ID: 1384 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Pink Brick PlatformInternal Item ID: 1385 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Green Brick PlatformInternal Item ID: 1386 | Found in the Dungeon. (Noncraftable on (Old-gen console and 3DS versions)) |
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Red Team Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3622 | Sold by the Traveling Merchant. |
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Green Team Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3638 | Sold by the Traveling Merchant. |
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Blue Team Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3639 | Sold by the Traveling Merchant. |
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Yellow Team Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3640 | Sold by the Traveling Merchant. |
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Pink Team Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3641 | Sold by the Traveling Merchant. |
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White Team Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3642 | Sold by the Traveling Merchant. |
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Golden Platform(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)Internal Item ID: 3904 | Dropped by Pirates. |
Notes
- Nearly all platform variants are functionally identical, and are differentiated only by their appearance and their crafting recipes. Obsidian, Stone and Ash Wood Platforms are an exception, in that they do not break upon contact with lava the way most platforms do, although they will still disintegrate if dropped or thrown into it.
- Team Platforms can be broken by lava; however, they cannot be destroyed due to their rarity.
- Meteorite Platforms' bright spots show up when exposed to any amount of light. This can make them visible even in the darkness surrounding a light source.
- Echo Platforms are completely invisible when placed and cannot be seen by the player unless they have Spectre Goggles equipped or are near an Echo Chamber.
- Hooks can attach to platforms. While grappling to a platform on the
Old-gen console version and Nintendo
version, it is impossible to grapple to anything else, regardless of the direction the hook is fired in. On the
Desktop version,
Console version, and
Mobile version, the hook will ignore all platforms covered by the player's body.
- The player will fall through platforms while in a Minecart.
- Wraiths cannot fly up using platforms but are able to hover on top of them.
- On
Desktop version,
Console version, and
Mobile versions, the dungeon, wood, brass, and metal shelves can be crafted at the Bone Welder with Ecto Mist.
Tips


- Stairs are a key part of many advanced movement techniques, such as hoiks, NPC-proof doors, elevators, or enemy traps.
- Similarly to ordinary blocks, it is possible to remove every second platform in a row of platforms without movement disadvantages, as the player is two tiles wide and will not fall through.
- Echo Coating is cheaper than Echo Platforms and has an almost identical invisibility effect.
History
- Desktop 1.4.4:
- Can now intersect with Ropes.
- Banners, Lanterns and other hanging Furniture items can now be placed on unhammered platforms and all other platform hammer configurations.
- Added recipes for all the Dungeon worldgen platforms.
- Ash Wood, Balloon, Echo and Reef Platforms added.
- Stack size increased from 999 to 9999.
- Desktop 1.4.1: Stone Platforms are now immune to lava.
- Desktop 1.4.0.4: Fixed an issue where if the entire top of the world was covered with platforms, it would prevent meteors from spawning.
- Desktop 1.4.0.1: Spider, Lesion, Sandstone, Stone, Bamboo, Nebula, Solar, Stardust, and Vortex Platforms added.
- Desktop 1.3.5: Crystal, Golden, Lihzahrd, Flesh, Frozen and Dynasty Platforms added.
- Desktop 1.3.2: Martian Platform item sprite updated.
- Desktop 1.3.1:
- Team Platforms added.
- Crystal, Golden, Lihzahrd, Flesh, Frozen and Dynasty Platforms added, but unimplemented.
- Desktop 1.3.0.1:
- Added Granite, Marble, Meteorite, and Martian Platforms.
- Stack size increased from 99 to 999.
- Doubled output of crafting and made reverse crafting possible.
- Added recipe for Obsidian and Bone Platforms.
- Can now place torches on platforms.
- Desktop 1.2.4.1: Cactus Platform added.
- Desktop 1.2.4: Palm Wood, Mushroom, Boreal Wood, Slime, Steampunk, Skyware, Living Wood and Honey Platforms added.
- Desktop 1.2.3: Added Stairs created from sloping Platforms.
- Desktop 1.2.1.2: You can now correctly step up all types of platforms.
- Desktop 1.2.1: Pumpkin and Spooky Platforms added.
- Desktop 1.2.0.3: Glass Platform added.
- Desktop 1.2.0.2: Dungeon platform item icons will now display the right color.
- Desktop 1.2: Pearlwood, Ebonwood, Shadewood, Dungeon Shelf, Metal Shelf, Brass Shelf, Wood Shelf, Pink Brick, Green Brick, and Blue Brick Platforms added.
- Desktop 1.0.1: Torches now work correctly when being placed on Wood Platforms.
- Desktop-Release: Introduced with the Wood Platform.
- Furniture items
- Consumable items
- Recipes table with unexpected total number of rows
- Craftable items
- Sky Mill
- By Hand
- Bone Welder and Ecto Mist
- Living Loom
- Work Bench
- Steampunk Boiler
- Honey Dispenser
- Block items
- Crafting material items
- Plunder items
- Desktop content
- Console content
- Old-gen console content
- Mobile content
- 3DS content
- Vendor items
- Drop items