Biome Chests

Biome Chests

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Statistics

Type	FurnitureStorage
Placeable	(2 wide × 2 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity
Sell	500*5

Sounds

• Internal Tile ID: 21 (19-28)

"Ice Chest" redirects here. For the chest found in Underground Cabins in the Ice biome, see Frozen Chest.

Biome Chests are Hardmode chests found within the Dungeon. Each contains one specific rare, powerful weapon, in addition to other miscellaneous items. While Biome Chests are placed during world creation, they are initially locked and can only be opened with an appropriate Biome Key, which will only become available in Hardmode.

Only five / four     Biome Chests (one of each type) will spawn in a particular world. Each represents a biome found in the current world. There are six / five     types of Biome Chests in total, though a world will only contain one evil biome chest, a Crimson or Corruption variant, depending on which of those biomes the world contains.

In order to open a Biome Chest, the following steps are required to take:

1. Kill Plantera to lift the curse from Biome Keys, allowing the keys to be used. As long as Plantera has not been killed, Biome Keys display the tooltip "It has been cursed by a powerful Jungle creature".
2. Obtain the appropriate Biome Key by killing enemies within their respective biome. On  Old-gen console and 3DS, the keys are crafted using Key Molds dropped by these enemies.
3. Return to the Dungeon and find the appropriate chest for the key that was obtained.

Types

Key	Opens	Contains
Jungle Key	Jungle Chest	Piranha Gun
Corruption Key	Corruption Chest	Scourge of the Corruptor
Crimson Key	Crimson Chest	Vampire Knives
Hallowed Key	Hallowed Chest	Rainbow Gun
Frozen Key	Ice Chest Frozen Chest	Staff of the Frost Hydra
Desert Key	Desert Chest	Desert Tiger Staff

The chests also contain common items depending on the height they were found:

• Surface
• Underground
• Caverns

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Trapped Corruption Chest	Corruption Chest Wire (10)	Heavy Work Bench
Trapped Crimson Chest	Crimson Chest Wire (10)
Trapped Desert Chest	Desert Chest Wire (10)
Trapped Hallowed Chest	Hallowed Chest Wire (10)
Trapped Ice Chest	Ice Chest Wire (10)
Trapped Jungle Chest	Jungle Chest Wire (10)

total: 6 row(s)

Achievement

Big Booty • "Unlock one of the dungeon's large, mysterious chests with a special key."

Open your first Biome Chest.

Tips

• Biome Key drops are extraordinarily rare, with a 1/2500 (0.04%) drop rate. It is likely that thousands of enemies have to be defeated to see one drop. With the right equipment and some time, a Biome Key farm can be set up in the biome to get there sooner.
• It is possible to get both the Corruption Chest and Crimson Chest if the player creates their world with the seed 05162020 which contains both world evils.

Trivia

• The weapons found in each chest are based off of the four classes. The Vampire Knives and Scourge of the Corruptor are melee, Piranha Gun is ranged, Rainbow Gun is magic, and Staff of the Frost Hydra and the Desert Tiger Staff are summoning.
• The Big Booty achievement does not have the Desert Key on it, as the Desert Key was added after the achievement was created.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Sprites updated.
  • Desert Chest introduced.
  • Renamed "Frozen Chest" to "Ice Chest".

• Desktop 1.3.1:
  • Sprites updated.
  • Now used to craft Trapped Biome Chests.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Biome keys are now dropped instead of key molds. Biome Chests can only be opened after Plantera has been defeated.

• Desktop 1.2.1: Biome keys are now crafted with rare Hardmode drops.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.