Crates

Crates

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Statistics

Type	Grab bagFurniture
Placeable
Tooltip	Right click to open / L2 to open () / LT to open ()/ () ZL to open / Double tap to open /   Use to open
Rarity	0*

• Internal Tile ID: 376

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.

Some kinds of crates can be caught anywhere, while the rest can only be caught when fishing in a certain biome. Wooden Crates, Iron Crates, and Golden Crates (or if in hardmode on the  Desktop version, Pearlwood Crates, Mythril Crates, and Titanium Crates, respectively), can be caught anywhere, with Wooden/Pearlwood being the most common, and Golden/Titanium being the rarest. In general, rarer crate types contain more valuable loot. Biome Crates, which are exclusive to the  Desktop version,  Console version, and  Mobile version, are slightly less rare than Golden Crates and can contain items otherwise found only in the matching biome chests. When fishing in an area with multiple biomes, only one biome crate type can be caught; for example, when a Floating Island is Corrupted and changes to Corruption, Sky Crates can no longer be harvested. See Fishing for details on which biomes take precedence over others.

Crates are caught every 1 in 10 catches, on average; with a Crate Potion, the chance is doubled to 1 in 5. The kind of crate the player obtains is dependent on their Fishing Power, with higher Fishing Power increasing the probabilities of rarer crates. As an example, fishing with a Fishing Power of 100 in a lake of at least 300 valid water tiles in the Corruption would yield crates with the following probabilities: Golden Crate: 1/150 (0.67%); Corrupt Crate: 7/750 (0.93%); Iron Crate: 7/250 (2.8%); Wooden Crate: 7/125 (5.6%). The Crate Potion doubles these chances.

Variants

Pre-Hardmode Type	Hardmode Type	Sell	Rarity	Biome	Catch Quality	Chest
Wooden Crate Internal Item ID: 2334	Pearlwood Crate Internal Item ID: 3979	1000*10	1*	Any	Plentiful	Surface, Underground
Iron Crate Internal Item ID: 2335	Mythril Crate Internal Item ID: 3980	5000*50	2*	Any	Uncommon	none
Golden Crate Internal Item ID: 2336	Titanium Crate Internal Item ID: 3981	20000*2	3*	Any	Very Rare Extremely Rare	none
Jungle Crate Internal Item ID: 3208	Bramble Crate Internal Item ID: 3987	10000*1	2*	Jungle	Rare	Ivy Chest
Sky Crate Internal Item ID: 3206	Azure Crate Internal Item ID: 3985	10000*1	2*	Sky	Rare	Skyware Chest
Corrupt Crate Internal Item ID: 3203	Defiled Crate Internal Item ID: 3982	10000*1	2*	Corruption	Rare	Shadow Orb
Crimson Crate Internal Item ID: 3204	Hematic Crate Internal Item ID: 3983	10000*1	2*	Crimson	Rare	Crimson Heart
Hallowed Crate Internal Item ID: 3207	Divine Crate Internal Item ID: 3986	10000*1	2*	Hallow	Rare	none
Dungeon Crate Internal Item ID: 3205	Stockade Crate Internal Item ID: 3984	10000*1	2*	Dungeon	Rare	Locked Golden Chest
Frozen Crate Internal Item ID: 4405	Boreal Crate Internal Item ID: 4406	10000*1	2*	Snow/ Ice	Rare	Frozen Chest
Oasis Crate Internal Item ID: 4407	Mirage Crate Internal Item ID: 4408	10000*1	2*	Desert	Rare	Sandstone Chest
Obsidian Crate Internal Item ID: 4877	Hellstone Crate Internal Item ID: 4878	10000*1	2*	Any (caught in Lava)	Plentiful	Shadow Chest
Ocean Crate Internal Item ID: 5002	Seaside Crate Internal Item ID: 5003	10000*1	2*	Ocean	Rare	Water Chest

Mutually Exclusive Items

Like all chests, crates use the concept of mutually exclusive items. This means that a single crate will never contain, for example, both an Enchanted Sundial and an Anchor, or an Aglet and a Radar. However, while some calculations made by the game are as simple as making a roll on whether or not to choose a set of items, and then choosing one item in that set, other items work a bit differently. Using a Wooden Crate in pre-Hardmode as an example, the Sailfish Boots are rolled first, and if it is selected, then nothing else in that box on the table will be selected. If it isn't selected, then the game moves on to the Tsunami in a Bottle, and if it isn't selected, then it finally rolls for the Extractinator. Therefore, the chance of getting the Extractinator adds up to be the chance written in the code, multiplied by the chance of NOT getting the other two items (39/40 × 39/40 × 1/50), which drops the chance from 1/50 to about 1/53. Because of this, many of the fractional chances aren't perfectly accurate, as 1/53 is a much easier number to read than 1521/80000, and being perfectly accurate is the purpose of the percentages, not the fractions. There is also a third set of mutual exclusivity, which was introduced in 1.4.0.1. As of this update, ores and bars are mutually exclusive in the 6 non biome-exclusive Crates. The game now makes a roll on whether to drop an ore, and if that isn't the case, then it makes the check on whether to drop a bar. Using Wooden Crates as an example again, this means that the chance of getting a bar is multiplied by the chance of NOT getting an ore (1/8 × 6/7), and so the chance of getting a bar in practice is roughly 1/9. On this wiki, items in both crates and chests that are mutually exclusive with each other are displayed inside the same box.

Notes

•   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.
• A few exclusive items are found only in crates:
  • Sailfish Boots, Tsunami in a Bottle (Wooden, Iron, Pearlwood , Mythril ) (however, both are similar to other items found in chests)
  • Falcon Blade, Ginger Beard, Tartar Sauce (Iron, Mythril )
  • Hardy Saddle (Golden, Titanium )
  • Hardmode: Anchor (: Pearlwood /  : Wooden)
  • Hardmode: Enchanted Sundial (: Pearlwood, Mythril, Titanium /  : Wooden, Iron, Golden)
• For pre-Hardmode metals, and separately for Hardmode metals, all metals possible to a given crate type will appear with equal chances and numbers. This applies to both ore and bar forms.
  • This also applies to the alternate metals in each pair, regardless of which ore generated in the world. For instance, a Wooden Crate can yield Copper Ore, even if the world is generated with Tin instead of Copper.
  • In Hardmode, this applies to the Hardmode metals too, whether or not any Altars have been broken to place ore in the world.
  • The tiers of the metals provided rise with the crate tier: Wooden and Iron crates omit the top tiers, biome crates omit Copper and Tin Bars (but not ores), Golden and Titanium omit the bottom tiers.
  • Crates do not contain "advanced" metals such as Meteorite or Chlorophyte.
• Crates always contain at least one item, as empty crates are re-rolled. The Golden Crate, for instance, has a 2.44% chance of requiring a reroll.
• There is a pre-Hardmode version of the Divine Crate even though the Hallow is a Hardmode biome. The Hallowed Crate doesn't drop any unique items when compared to every other Biome Crate, so its only practical uses are for decoration and to satisfy completionists.

Tips

• On the  Console version,  Old-gen console version,  Mobile version, and  3DS version, it can be beneficial to fish for crates during pre-Hardmode, save them for later, and then open them up in Hardmode, in order to get Hardmode ores without breaking any Altars. This has the added benefit of not spawning random Ebonstone/Crimstone or Pearlstone in the world, which can be a side effect of breaking Altars.
  • On the  Desktop version, crates fished during pre-Hardmode will no longer drop Hardmode items, even after the Wall of Flesh has been defeated.
• Crates can also supply a few other Hardmode items:
  • As stated above, the Anchor and Enchanted Sundial are only found in crates.
  • Corrupt or Crimson Crates can contain Cursed Flames or Ichor, respectively, and both can have Souls of Night.
  • Hallowed Crates can drop Crystal Shards and Souls of Light.
• 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.
• The chance to catch a Iron or Wooden Crate increases if the player is not in a biome where a biome chest can be caught (i.e., not Corruption/Crimson, Hallow, Dungeon, or Jungle, and below sky level – an example could be the pure caverns). With a Fishing Power of 100 and a lake of at least 300 valid water tiles, Iron Crates are then caught with a chance of 7/225 (3.1%; instead of 7/250 or 2.8%) and Wooden Crates with a chance of 14/225 (6.2%; instead of 7/125 or 5.6%).
• For a deep look at the sale value of crate contents, see here.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.5: Fixed a bug where several new items in Fishing Crates (mostly pets) weren't dropping in Multiplayer.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • New biome crates introduced: Ocean, Desert, Snow, and Underworld Crates.
  • All fishing crates now come in pre-Wall of Flesh and post-Wall of Flesh variants. Pre-Wall of Flesh variants do not contain Hardmode Ores.
  • Wood, Iron, and Gold Crates now drop better quality ore depending on which level of crate it is.
  • Many drop chances and amounts adjusted.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • New biome crates introduced: Jungle, Sky, Corrupt, Crimson, Hallowed, and Dungeon Crates.
  • Now placeable.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Introduced Wooden, Iron, and Golden Crates.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Made changes from PS4's 1.0.750.0 update. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: ()
  • New biome crates introduced: Jungle, Sky, Corrupt, Crimson, Hallowed, and Dungeon Crates.
  • Now placeable.

• Console 1.07: Introduced Wooden, Iron, and Golden Crates.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7:
  • New biome crates introduced: Jungle, Sky, Corrupt, Crimson, Hallowed, and Dungeon Crates.
  • Now placeable.

• Mobile 1.2.11212: Introduced Wooden, Iron, and Golden Crates.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced Wooden, Iron, and Golden Crates.