Crates

Crates
Statistics
Type	Grab bag – Furniture
Placeable
Tooltip	Right click to open
Internal Tile ID: 376

Crates are grab bag-type items that 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. They can be right-clicked within the player's inventory to unload their contents. They can also be placed. Each Crate can be stacked up to 99 in a single inventory slot.

If fishing in Water with Fishing Power high enough to prevent junk catches (fishing power of 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 gets is dependent on the Fishing Power, with higher Fishing Power the probabilities of rarer Crates are raised. E.g with a Fishing Power of 100 in a Corrupted Biome the probabilities would be: Golden Crate: 6.57%; Corrupt Crate: 8.90%; Iron Crate: 28.37%; Wooden Crate: 56.16%

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 The Corruption, Sky Crates will no longer be harvested.

The Console and Mobile versions currently have Wooden Crates, Iron Crates and Golden Crates.

Variants

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

Notes

• On Xbox, Right Trigger opens crates (instead of the B button which is the equivalent of the pc's right-click) as stated in the tooltip for the crates.

Tips

• Crates can yield ores (and bars) not otherwise found on the player's world. For instance, a Crate can yield Platinum Ore, even if the world is generated with Gold Ore instead of Platinum.

• Crates collected before Hardmode, but saved to open during Hardmode, can yield Hardmode ores. A wise player can stockpile crates to open later in Hardmode, giving them a big head start in collecting Hardmode ores.
• The Wooden, Iron, and Golden crates (but not biome crates) also offer a chance for the Enchanted Sundial if opened in Hardmode. The "evil" biome crates can also contain Souls of Night and Ichor/Cursed Flames. The Hallowed crates can't be stockpiled before Hardmode, but they do offer Souls of Light and Crystal Shards.
  

  Hint: Less Junk means more crates, so Increase your fishing power as much as you can.
• As soon as you have enough iron, replace your Wood Fishing Pole with a Reinforced Fishing Pole.
• Pick your bait: worms are easy to come by on a rainy day, but a few butterflies and jungle critters are more powerful. Use the best bait you have available. If you have Fallen Stars to spare, you might want to create Enchanted Nightcrawlers.
• Both the Angler and opening crates will provide better bait over time, and will also provide useful potions: As noted above, a Crate Potion doubles the base chance of catching a crate; a Fishing Potion boosts your fishing power (less junk, and higher-tier crates when you get one); a Sonar Potion saves time and bait, by letting you reject anything but crates and interesting fish.
• Eventually, the Angler will also provide equipment that can still further boost your fishing power.

History

• Console 1.07 Holiday Update: Introduced 1.2.4 crates.
• 1.3.0.1:
  • New biome crates introduced: Jungle Crate, Sky Crate, Corrupt Crate, Crimson Crate, Hallowed Crate, and Dungeon Crate.
  • Now placeable.
• 1.2.4: Introduced Wooden Crate, Iron Crate, and Golden Crate.