Lens

Lens

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Statistics

Type	Crafting material
Rarity
Sell	1

• Internal Item ID: 38

Keep your eye on the prize, buy a lense! [sic]

— The Merchant

A Lens is a common crafting material that has a 33.3% (1/3) chance to drop from Demon Eyes and Wandering Eyes.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Suspicious Looking Eye	Lens (6)	Demon Altar or Crimson Altar
Mechanical Eye	Lens (3) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (6)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Optic Staff	Black Lens Lens (2) Hallowed Bar (12) Soul of Sight (20)
Archery Potion	Bottled Water Daybloom Lens	Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
Goggles ( )	Lens (2)	Work Bench
Goggles (  )	Lens (2)	Work Bench and Chair

total: 6 row(s)

Tips

• A much better way to get money from lenses, rather than simply selling them, is to stockpile them until you have 6, at which point you can craft a Suspicious Looking Eye, kill the Eye of Cthulhu and sell the reward.

See also

• Black Lens

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2.4: Now used in the crafting of Optic Staff.

• Desktop 1.1: Now used in the crafting of Mechanical Eye.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.