Lens

Lens

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Statistics

Type	Crafting material
Rarity
Sell	100*1
Research	25 required

Sounds

• Internal Item ID: 38

“

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

— The Merchant

See also: Black Lens

A Lens is a common crafting material that has a 33% (33/100) 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 accumulate them to craft Suspicious Looking Eyes, kill the Eye of Cthulhu, and sell the rewards.
• Later in the game, Mechanical Eyes can be crafted and used similarly, but even in the advanced game, The Twins remain a tougher opponent, and profiting off their drops is a rather more involved process.

Trivia

• In some of his quotes, the Merchant claims to sell lenses, despite not actually selling them.

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.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.