Purple Mucos

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Purple Mucos

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Statistics

Type	Dye – Crafting material
Tooltip	Used to make Purple Dye
Rarity
Sell	20

• Internal Item ID: 1118

The Purple Mucos is a dye material that is dropped by Sea Snails, which only spawn in the Ocean biome. Its sole purpose is to make Purple Dye.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Purple Dye	Purple Mucos	Dye Vat

Notes

• Mucos (as it is spelled in-game) is a misspelling of mucus.
• Though already a liquid, it cannot be used as a dye until you craft Purple Dye with it.

Trivia

• The ancient Phoenicians used murex (a species of snail) to make purple dye, which was often worth its weight in silver.

Tips

• One of the best ways to farm sea snails is by using a Solar Tablet as soon as the sun rises, since during the Solar Eclipse, the enemy spawn rate is highly increased (almost as during a Blood Moon, but the latter can't be manually summoned). The key factor from this method is that Solar Eclipse enemies can't spawn in water, only being able to spawn in the nearby beach or any cave below the sea, and they rarely come to the ocean water. Most of the time, you'll only fight the regular ocean enemies with a increased spawn rate, and only very occasionally encounter a Eclipse enemy.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.