Cages

Type	Furniture
Placeable	6 wide × 3 high
Use time	15 Very Fast
Rarity

Type	Furniture
Placeable	6 wide × 3 high
Use time	15 Very Fast
Rarity
Sell	10

Cages are placeable decorative furniture items that display Critter. A Critter caught with the Bug Net is combined with the Terrarium to craft a Cage. Cages resemble aquariums with animated Critters inside.

Gold Cages are regular Cages containing Gold Critters. They sell for 10 . Aside from the sell price, they are the same as regular Cages.

Cages exist as background furniture, and nothing can be placed on them, nor can they be placed on top of each other. All Cages measure either 6 tiles wide by 3 high, or 3 tiles wide by 2 high, and are partially transparent. Cages cannot be opened, broken, or un-crafted, so once a Critter is crafted into a Cage, that particular Critter can no longer be released.

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Recipes[edit | edit source]

Regular Critters[edit | edit source]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Bird Cage Internal Item ID: 2166	Terrarium Bird	By Hand
Black Scorpion Cage Internal Item ID: 2187	Terrarium Black Scorpion
Blue Jay Cage Internal Item ID: 2167	Terrarium Blue Jay
Buggy Cage Internal Item ID: 3255	Terrarium Buggy
Bunny Cage Internal Item ID: 2162	Terrarium Bunny
Cardinal Cage Internal Item ID: 2168	Terrarium Cardinal
Duck Cage Internal Item ID: 2165	Terrarium Duck
Enchanted Nightcrawler Cage Internal Item ID: 3254	Terrarium Enchanted Nightcrawler
Frog Cage Internal Item ID: 2190	Terrarium Frog
Glowing Snail Cage Internal Item ID: 2175	Terrarium Glowing Snail
Grasshopper Cage Internal Item ID: 2741	Terrarium Grasshopper
Grubby Cage Internal Item ID: 3256	Terrarium Grubby
Mallard Duck Cage Internal Item ID: 2164	Terrarium Mallard Duck
Mouse Cage Internal Item ID: 2191	Terrarium Mouse
Penguin Cage Internal Item ID: 2206	Terrarium Penguin
Red Squirrel Cage Internal Item ID: 3565	Terrarium Red Squirrel
Scorpion Cage Internal Item ID: 2186	Terrarium Scorpion
Sluggy Cage Internal Item ID: 3257	Terrarium Sluggy
Snail Cage Internal Item ID: 2174	Terrarium Snail
Squirrel Cage Internal Item ID: 2163	Terrarium Squirrel
Worm Cage Internal Item ID: 2207	Terrarium Worm

Gold Critters [edit | edit source]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Gold Bird Cage Internal Item ID: 3070	Terrarium Gold Bird	By Hand
Gold Bunny Cage Internal Item ID: 3071	Terrarium Gold Bunny
Gold Frog Cage Internal Item ID: 3073	Terrarium Gold Frog
Gold Grasshopper Cage Internal Item ID: 3074	Terrarium Gold Grasshopper
Gold Mouse Cage Internal Item ID: 3075	Terrarium Gold Mouse
Gold Squirrel Cage Internal Item ID: 3566	Terrarium Gold Squirrel
Gold Worm Cage Internal Item ID: 3076	Terrarium Gold Worm

Tips[edit | edit source]

Gold animals inside terrariums sell for the same price as without one, so it may be desirable to sell the animal without a terrarium.
Some animals that have a sell price have no value when placed in a terrarium.

Notes[edit | edit source]

Instead of the Terrarium, Butterflies, Fireflies, and Lightning Bugs must be combined with a Bottle to create bottled variants. Bottled Water can be combined with Goldfish to make a Fishbowl, or with fished jellyfish to make Jellyfish Jars. Light-providing insects in bottles can be used as valid light sources for housing.
On the map, when hovered over with the mouse, the Red Squirrel Cage displays the text "Orange Squirrel Cage".

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The Penguin's sprite in the Penguin Cage resembles the Baby Penguin, rather than the Penguin used to craft it. This may be due to resolution constraints, which would make it difficult to draw a proper Penguin inside the cage's borders.
The game's name, Terraria, is a plural form of the word “terrarium”.