Music Boxes

    Desktop/Console/Old-gen console/Mobile-Only Content: This information applies only to the Desktop, Console, Old-gen console, and Mobile versions of Terraria.

Music Box

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Statistics

Type	Accessory • Furniture
Tooltip	Has a chance to record songs
Rarity
Buy	100000*10
Sell	20000*2

Sounds

• Internal Item ID: 576   

Placed Music Boxes in their active and inactive states. Click the image to view a summary of each row.

The Music Box is a Hardmode accessory that is purchased from the Wizard for 10 . When the Music Box is equipped in an accessory slot, it will record the currently playing game music, after a randomized delay. This includes tracks being played by other Music Boxes. Once recorded, it will change into one of the music boxes listed below.

A recorded Music Box can be played back in one of two ways:

• Equipping it as an accessory
• Placing it as furniture and activating it, either by right-click or with wires.

On the  3DS version, the Music Box was made unobtainable because it was unstable.

Recorded Music Boxes

Item	Area	Links	Listen
Music Box (Overworld Day)    Internal Item ID: 562	During day in the Forest (when Alt Overworld Day is not playing)	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Alt Overworld Day)   Internal Item ID: 1600	During day in the Forest (when Overworld Day is not playing)	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Night)   Internal Item ID: 564	During Night on Surface in the Forest and Hallow	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Rain)    Internal Item ID: 1601	During raining in a Forest Biome	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Snow)   Internal Item ID: 1596  (  )	Snow Biome	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Snow)   Internal Item ID: 1894 / 5028  ()	Underground Snow	YouTube
Music Box (Ice)   Internal Item ID: 1602  (  )	Underground Snow	YouTube
Music Box (Ice)    ()	Snow Biome	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Desert)   Internal Item ID: 1603	Desert	YouTube
Music Box (Ocean)   Internal Item ID: 1604	Ocean	Bandcamp   , YouTube   , YouTube
Music Box (Space)   Internal Item ID: 1597	Space	Bandcamp   , YouTube   , YouTube
Music Box (Underground)   Internal Item ID: 566	Underground, Caverns	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Alt Underground)   Internal Item ID: 1964	Alternative to Underground music	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Mushrooms)   Internal Item ID: 1610	Mushroom Biome	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Jungle)   Internal Item ID: 568	Jungle, Underground Jungle	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Corruption)   Internal Item ID: 569	The Corruption	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Underground Corruption)   Internal Item ID: 570	Underground Corruption	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Crimson)   Internal Item ID: 1598	The Crimson	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Underground Crimson)   Internal Item ID: 2742	Underground Crimson	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (The Hallow)   Internal Item ID: 571	The Hallow	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Underground Hallow)   Internal Item ID: 573	Underground Hallow	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Hell)   Internal Item ID: 3237	The Underworld	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Dungeon)   Internal Item ID: 1605	Dungeon	Bandcamp, Youtube
Music Box (Temple)   Internal Item ID: 1608	Jungle Temple	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Boss 1)   Internal Item ID: 567	King Slime, Eye of Cthulhu   , Eater of Worlds, Skeletron, Skeletron Prime, Duke Fishron, Goblin Invasion	Bandcamp
Music Box (Boss 2)   Internal Item ID: 572	Wall of Flesh, The Twins	Bandcamp
Music Box (Boss 3)   Internal Item ID: 574	The Destroyer, Frost Legion, Brain of Cthulhu	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Boss 4)   Internal Item ID: 1599  (  )	Golem, Lunatic Cultist	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Boss 4)   Internal Item ID: 1892 / 5026  ()	Queen Bee, Eye of Cthulhu, Ocram	YouTube
Music Box (Boss 5)   Internal Item ID: 1607  (  )	Queen Bee	YouTube
Music Box (Boss 5)   Internal Item ID: 1607  ()	Golem, Pirate Invasion	YouTube
Music Box (Plantera)   Internal Item ID: 1606	Plantera	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Eerie)   Internal Item ID: 563	Meteorite, Blood Moon, The Underworld	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Eclipse)   Internal Item ID: 1609	Solar Eclipse	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Goblin Invasion)   Internal Item ID: 3371	Goblin Invasion Event	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Pirate Invasion)   Internal Item ID: 3236	Pirate Invasion Event	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Martian Madness)   Internal Item ID: 3235	Martian Madness Event	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Pumpkin Moon)   Internal Item ID: 1963	Pumpkin Moon Event	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Frost Moon)   Internal Item ID: 1965	Frost Moon Event	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (The Towers)   Internal Item ID: 3370	Lunar Events	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Lunar Boss)   Internal Item ID: 3044	Moon Lord	Bandcamp, YouTube
Music Box (Sandstorm) Internal Item ID: 3796	During a sandstorm in a Desert	YouTube
Music Box (Old One's Army)  Internal Item ID: 3869	Old One's Army Event	YouTube
Music Box (Title)   Internal Item ID: 565	Crafting	Bandcamp   , YouTube   , YouTube
Music Box (Tutorial) Internal Item ID: 1891 / 5025	Crafting	YouTube

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Music Box (Title)   Internal Item ID: 565	Music Box (Overworld Day)    Music Box (Eerie)   Music Box (Night)   Music Box (Underground)   Music Box (Boss 1)   Music Box (Jungle)   Music Box (Corruption)   Music Box (Underground Corruption)   Music Box (The Hallow)   Music Box (Boss 2)   Music Box (Underground Hallow)   Music Box (Boss 3)	Tinkerer's Workshop
Music Box (Tutorial)	Music Box (Desert)   Music Box (Space)   Music Box (Boss 4)   Music Box (Ocean)   Music Box (Snow)

total: 2 row(s)

Notes

• A Music Box will not record if the game's music volume is set to 0.
• A Music Box will always sell for 2 , regardless of whether it has recorded anything.
• Activating a recorded Music Box that has been placed will cause all players in the vicinity to hear its music.
• Music Boxes will record other placed Music Boxes. This is useful if you need multiple music boxes for a large area.
• Music Boxes actual range is relative to your resolution size, further testing is required.
• The Title Music Box is crafted with "Overworld Day." It cannot be crafted with "Alt Overworld Day". It must also be crafted with "Underground," not "Alt Underground".
• The Title Music Box cannot be crafted in Crimson worlds, as the recipe was made before the Crimson was introduced. However, you can use another world that has Corruption in it with the same character.
• While the Title Music Box has to be crafted first, it can be recorded, along with any other Title Music Box.
• Unlike most equipped accessories, an equipped Music Box is not visible on the player.
• A Music Box will not record when equipped in a vanity accessory slot.
• It can take up to 10 minutes for a Music Box to record a song.
• The Music Box is currently not obtainable. Although the Music Box can be added via inventory editors, it is not fully coded (resulting in unexpected appearance), and will disappear upon being equipped, or upon leaving the world.
• Music Boxes can, in fact, be reforged and have modifiers. It is possible (though relatively rare) for a Music Box to get a random modifier after being recorded, but you can alternatively use the Goblin Tinkerer's reforge function.
  • Music Boxes can also receive a random modifier if they had a pre-existing modifier and were placed down and picked back up. This will only work with Music Boxes that had a modifier before being placed and will not work with normal Music Boxes (meaning Music Boxes that did not have a modifier before being placed).
• Despite the  Console version having a 50% chance to play the  3DS version Ocean/Space music, that version of music boxes are unobtainable in the  Console version. If you try to record the old Ocean/Space music, the music box disappears from your accessory slot. However, you can still record the  Desktop version Ocean/Space music.^Verify
  • When playing back the Space Music Box, there is still a 50% chance of playing the old music.

Tips

• Event and boss music may take multiple attempts to record, due to the random time required. Stretching these encounters for maximum time offers a better chance at a successful recording.
• Despite the fact that you need the music to be turned on for recording Music Boxes, you can always turn off the system's volume, which the game can't detect.

Trivia

• The total amount needed to buy one of every music box is 3  90    , or 2  90  , plus the craftable ones 1  20     or 1  70  .
• The Music Box (Tutorial) was initially crafted with console/mobile-exclusive Music Boxes. With the exception of the Music Box (Tutorial) itself, these Music Boxes are no longer exclusive, as of 1.2.
• Prior to 1.3.0.1  , the Music Box (Title) required the most number of items of any item in the game.
• Despite being unrelated to the Pirate Invasion event, the Boss 4 music box resembles the golden furniture dropped by most pirate enemies.
• The Music boxes for the corruption and eerie apart from color, have identical designs. The same is true for the Martian Madness and the Moon Lord.

See also

• Music, a descriptive list of the various Terraria music tracks.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.4: Added Old One's Army music.

• Desktop 1.3.3: Added Sandstorm music.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Sprites updated.
  • Added the following music: Hell, Goblin Invasion, Pirate Invasion, Martian Madness, The Towers, and Lunar Boss.

• Desktop 1.2.4.1: Fixed the bug where the wiring system was not activating Doors, Music Boxes and Fountains properly.

• Desktop 1.2.3:
  • Updated graphics and each music box now has a unique design.
  • Reverting back to randomly having a chance to record music.
  • Music notes now come from music boxes.

• Desktop 1.2.2:
  • Now records music instantly once equipped (previously had a random chance of doing so while equipped).
  • Will no longer turn into an Ankh Charm when trying to record the Pumpkin Moon music.
  • Will no longer duplicate on tables.

• Desktop 1.2.1: You can no longer reforge Music Boxes.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Fixed a bug that caused the music box to record instantly.

• Desktop 1.2.0.2: You can no longer use the music box dupe glitch.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • More music added.
  • Music box/chest duping no longer works.

• Desktop 1.1.1: Fixed a bug with copying of recorded Music Box upon placing on wood platforms.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.