Crates

Type	Grab bag • Furniture
Placeable
Tooltip	Right click to open

Crates are grab bag-type items which can be hooked while fishing, containing random loot such as ores, bars, potions, accessories, and other items. In addition, biome-specific crates can contain biome-specific loot. Their content can be unloaded by using ⚷ Open / Activate. They can also be placed.

If fishing in water with a Fishing Power of at least 50 and the line does not break, there is a 10% chance to harvest crates normally and 20% when fishing with a Crate Potion.

The kind of crate the player obtains is dependent on the Fishing Power, with higher Fishing Power increasing the probabilities of rarer crates. As an example, fishing with a Fishing Power of 100 in The Corruption would yield crates with the following probabilities: Golden Crate: 6.57%; Corrupt Crate: 8.90%; Iron Crate: 28.37%; Wooden Crate: 56.16% ^[1]

Rarer crate types contain more valuable loot, and the biome crates can have items otherwise found only in the matching biome chests. When fishing in an area with multiple biomes, the crate priority is, from highest to lowest, Corruption > Crimson > Hallowed > Dungeon > Jungle > Sky. For example, when a Floating Island is Corrupted and changes to Corruption, Sky Crates will no longer be harvested.

The Old-gen console version, Mobile version, and 3DS version currently only have Wooden Crates, Iron Crates and Golden Crates.

Variants[edit | edit source]

Type	Value	Biome
Wooden Crate Internal Item ID: 2334	1000*10	Any
Iron Crate Internal Item ID: 2335	5000*50	Any
Jungle Crate Internal Item ID: 3208	10000*1	Jungle
Sky Crate Internal Item ID: 3206	10000*1	Sky
Corrupt Crate Internal Item ID: 3203	10000*1	Corruption
Crimson Crate Internal Item ID: 3204	10000*1	Crimson
Hallowed Crate Internal Item ID: 3207	10000*1	Hallow
Dungeon Crate Internal Item ID: 3205	10000*1	Dungeon
Golden Crate Internal Item ID: 2336	20000*2	Any

Notes[edit | edit source]

On Xbox, Left Trigger opens crates (instead of the button which is the equivalent to Desktop's right click) as stated in the tooltip for the crates.
Only Wooden Crates will contain ores, though any crate can have bars.
The metals supplied will be (on average) evenly split between both alternative metals in each pair, regardless of which ore generated in the world. This applies to both ore or bar forms. For instance, a Wooden Crate can yield Platinum Ore, even if the world is generated with Gold Ore instead of Platinum.
- In Hardmode, this applies to the Hardmode metals too, even if no Altars have been broken at all.
Crates do not contain the "advanced" metals such as Meteorite or Chlorophyte.

Tips[edit | edit source]

Crates collected before Hardmode, but saved to open during Hardmode, will yield Hardmode ores and bars. Stockpiling them while fishing is a lot safer and can give players a big head start when entering Hardmode.
- This also applies to other Hardmode-exclusive items such as the Enchanted Sundial .
The higher the Fishing Power, the greater the chances for crates. See Fishing Power and Fishing § Tips for information and recommendations about how to increase Fishing Power.