Soul of Light

Type	Crafting material
Tooltip	'The essence of light creatures'
Rarity
Sell	200*2

For strategies on gathering Souls, see Guide:Harvesting Souls.

Soul of Light is a Hardmode crafting material dropped by most enemies in the Underground Hallow (in the Cavern layer) with a 1/5 (20%) chance. On an Expert mode world, this rate is increased to 9/25 (36%). This includes stray enemies not native to the biome, such as Goblins and other enemies.

Crafting all items on the Desktop version, including a full stack of five Light Discs, excluding the Boss-summoning items and Key of Light, requires 98 Souls of Light (89 on console/mobile). One of each Boss-summoning item and a Key of Light requires an additional 24 Souls of Light (14 for console/mobile), for a total of 122 (103 for console/mobile).

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Used in[edit | edit source]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Crystal Storm ( )	Spell Tome Crystal Shard (20) Soul of Light (15)	Bookcase
Crystal Storm ( )	Spell Tome Crystal Shard (30) Soul of Light (15)	Bookcase
Angel Wings	Feather (10) Soul of Flight (20) Soul of Light (25)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Chik	Wooden Yoyo Crystal Shard (15) Soul of Light (10)
Dao of Pow	Dark Shard Light Shard Soul of Night (7) Soul of Light (7)
Fairy Bell ( )	Bell Pixie Dust (25) Soul of Light (8) Soul of Sight (10)
Fairy Bell ( )	Bell Pixie Dust (80) Soul of Light (12) Soul of Sight (20)
Light Disc	Hallowed Bar (4) Soul of Light (3) Soul of Might (5)
Logic Sensor (Day)	Soul of Light (5) Any Iron Bar Wire
Mechanical Eye	Lens (3) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (6)
Mechanical Skull	Bone (30) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (3) Soul of Night (3)
Meteor Staff	Meteorite Bar (20) Pixie Dust (10) Soul of Light (10)
Neptune's Shell ( )	Soul of Fright (20) Coral (15) Goldfish (15) Shark Fin (5) Soul of Light (5) Soul of Night (5)
Rainbow Rod ( )	Crystal Shard (10) Unicorn Horn (2) Pixie Dust (10) Soul of Light (8) Soul of Sight (15)
Rainbow Rod ( )	Crystal Shard (30) Unicorn Horn (4) Pixie Dust (60) Soul of Light (10) Soul of Sight (20)
Sky Fracture	Magic Missile Light Shard (2) Soul of Light (16)
Suspicious Looking Skull ()	Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar (10) Soul of Night (5) Soul of Light (5)
Suspicious Looking Skull ()	Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar or Titanium Bar (10) Soul of Night (5) Soul of Light (5)
Key of Light	Soul of Light (15)	Work Bench

Tips[edit | edit source]

One of the best ways to farm for Souls of Light is to go to the Underground Hallow, and deep underground where lava spawns frequently, and place a few water candles. The enemies the Underground Hallow spawns do not go through blocks (except for enchanted swords) and are not special in any real way, so they get affected by the lava and drop Souls of Light. This is also great if you need any other item dropped by Underground Hallow enemies.

Notes[edit | edit source]

Although the tooltip says: 'The essence of light creatures', souls of light can be dropped by any enemy as long as they are in the Underground Hallow biome.
Bosses cannot drop Souls of Light besides the Wall of Flesh.
In the Desktop version, Meteor Heads no longer drop souls of light while in the underground Hallow.
On larger worlds, souls of light sometimes may not be dropped in the underground layer, and can only be harvested in the cavern layer.
On the Mobile version, there is a currently unknown chance of souls dropping in the above-ground Hallow.
Souls of light will not drop from statue spawned enemies.
Where the Underground Hallow passes through The Underworld enemies have a chance to drop the soul.