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 dropped by Demon Eyes and Wandering Eyes.

Crafting

Used in

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

Notes

• Despite claiming so, the Merchant does not sell lenses.

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.