Soul of Night

Type	Crafting material
Tooltip	'The essence of dark creatures'
Rarity
Sell	2

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

Soul of Night is a Hardmode crafting material dropped by most enemies killed in the Underground Corruption or Underground Crimson at Caverns layer, with a 1/5 (20%) chance. In an Expert mode map, 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, excluding the Boss-summoning items and Key of Night, requires 70 Souls of Night (79 on console/mobile). One of each Boss-summoning item and a Key of Night requires an additional 24 Souls of Night (14 for console/mobile), for a total of 94 (93 for console/mobile).

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Used in[edit | edit source]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cursed Flames ( )	Spell Tome Cursed Flame (20) Soul of Night (15)	Bookcase
Cursed Flames ( )	Spell Tome Cursed Flame (30) Soul of Night (15)
Golden Shower ( )	Spell Tome Ichor (20) Soul of Night (15)
Golden Shower ( )	Spell Tome Ichor (30) Soul of Night (15)
Dao of Pow	Dark Shard Light Shard Soul of Night (7) Soul of Light (7)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Demon Wings	Feather (10) Soul of Flight (20) Soul of Night (25)
Logic Sensor (Night)	Soul of Night (5) Any Iron Bar Wire
Magical Harp ( )	Harp Crystal Shard (20) Soul of Night (8) Soul of Sight (15)
Magical Harp ( )	Harp Crystal Shard (25) Soul of Night (12) Soul of Sight (20)
Mechanical Skull	Bone (30) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (3) Soul of Night (3)
Mechanical Worm	Rotten Chunk (6) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Night (6)
Mechanical Worm	Vertebrae (6) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Night (6)
Neptune's Shell ( )	Soul of Fright (20) Coral (15) Goldfish (15) Shark Fin (5) Soul of Light (5) Soul of Night (5)
Onyx Blaster	Shotgun Dark Shard (2) Soul of Night (10)
Spirit Flame	Desert Spirit Lamp Forbidden Fragment (2) Soul of Night (12)
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 Night	Soul of Night (15)	Work Bench

Notes[edit | edit source]

On larger worlds, souls of night sometimes may not be dropped in the underground layer, and can only be harvested in the cavern layer.
Although the tooltip says: 'The essence of dark creatures', Souls of Night can be dropped by enemies that are not native to the Underground Corruption or Crimson.
Enemies spawned by a statue will not drop souls even if the statue is in the Underground Crimson/Corruption. Spawned Bunnies and Goldfish that are turned into their corrupt counterpart (due to Vile Powder or a Blood Moon) will not drop souls either.
Bosses cannot drop Souls of Night, similar to Souls of Light.
In the Desktop version and Console version, Meteor Heads will no longer drop souls, even when killed in the Underground Corruption/Crimson.
On the iOS version, there is a currently unknown chance of souls dropping in the above-ground Corruption/Crimson.