Souls

  

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Souls

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Type	Crafting material

Souls are Hardmode crafting materials dropped by enemies. There are a total of 6 types of souls. The most common ones are the Souls of Light and Night, which are dropped by most enemies in the Cavern layer of Underground Hallow and Underground Corruption/Crimson, respectively (see Notes for details). Most of the remaining souls drop from the mechanical bosses.

Types

Soul		Drop type	Source	Tooltip	Sell
	Soul of FlightInternal Item ID: 575	Enemy	Wyvern	'The essence of powerful flying creatures'	2 SC
	Soul of LightInternal Item ID: 520	Biome	Enemies in the Underground Hallow 1/5 (20%) chance	'The essence of light creatures'	2 SC
	Soul of NightInternal Item ID: 521	Biome	Enemies in the Underground Corruption/Crimson 1/5 (20%) chance	'The essence of dark creatures'	2 SC
	Soul of MightInternal Item ID: 548	Boss	The Destroyer	'The essence of the destroyer'	80 SC
	Soul of SightInternal Item ID: 549	Boss	The Twins	'The essence of omniscient watchers'	80 SC
	Soul of FrightInternal Item ID: 547	Boss	Skeletron Prime	'The essence of pure terror'	80 SC

Notes

• An enemy can only drop a Soul of Light or Night under the following circumstances:^[1]
  • The world is in Hardmode.
  • The player is in a Hallow or Corruption/Crimson biome.
  • The enemy is killed in the Cavern layer or in the Underworld.
    • In a Don't dig up or Get fixed boi world, this condition does not apply. The enemy can be killed in any layer in these worlds.
  • The enemy has more than 1 maximum health. This means that spells, Fungi Spores, Spores, etc. cannot drop souls.
  • The enemy drops at least 1 CC. This means that statue-spawned enemies, Meteor Heads, boss minions, etc. cannot drop souls.
  • The enemy is neither a boss, a Slimer with wings, nor any of these slimes:

• Note that only the biome that the player is in (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 killed while the player is in the appropriate biome.
• Unlike most other enemy drops, souls are not affected by gravity, 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 obtain a large number of souls fairly quickly.

Trivia

• All of the souls' names rhyme with each other, bearing the suffix -ight.
• The Soul of Might is the only soul whose tooltip directly states the name of the enemy it is dropped from.
• Yoraiz0r's Spell bears the same visual motif as the other souls, but with two main colors rather than only one.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Stack limit of all souls increased from 999 to 9999.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Updated the sprites of all souls. Previous sprites:

• Desktop 1.2: Stack limit of all souls increased from 250 to 999.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.

References