Soul of Night

Soul of Night

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Statistics

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

• Internal Item ID: 521

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 ~2/5 (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

Used in

All versions

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Dao of Pow	Soul of Light (7) Soul of Night (7) Dark Shard Light Shard	Mythril Anvil    or Orichalcum Anvil
Demon Wings	Soul of Night (25) Soul of Flight (20) Feather (10)
Mechanical Skull	Bone (30) Iron Bar or Lead Bar (5) Soul of Light (3) Soul of Night (3)
Mechanical Worm	Rotten Chunk (6) Iron Bar or Lead Bar (5) Soul of Night (6)
Mechanical Worm	Vertebrae (6) Iron Bar or Lead Bar (5) Soul of Night (6)

Desktop version and Console version

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cursed Flames	Cursed Flame (20) Soul of Night (15) Spell Tome	Bookcase
Golden Shower	Ichor (20) Soul of Night (15) Spell Tome
Onyx Blaster	Shotgun Dark Shard (2) Soul of Night (10)	Mythril Anvil    or Orichalcum Anvil
Spirit Flame	Forbidden Fragment (2) Soul of Night (12) Desert Spirit Lamp
Magical Harp	Crystal Shard (20) Soul of Sight (15) Soul of Night (8) Harp
Logic Sensor (Night)	Soul of Night (5) Iron Bar or Lead Bar Wire
Key of Night	Soul of Night (15)	Work Bench

Old-gen console version, Mobile version, and 3DS version

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cursed Flames	Cursed Flame (30) Soul of Night (15) Spell Tome	Bookcase
Golden Shower	Ichor (30) Soul of Night (15) Spell Tome
Suspicious Looking Skull	Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar or Titanium Bar (10) Soul of Light (5) Soul of Night (5)	Mythril Anvil    or Orichalcum Anvil
Magical Harp	Crystal Shard (25) Soul of Sight (20) Soul of Night (12) Harp
Neptune's Shell	Soul of Fright (20) Coral (15) Goldfish (15) Shark Fin (5) Soul of Light (5) Soul of Night (5)

Notes

• 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 Soul of Night, similar to Soul of Light.
• In the  Desktop version and  Console version, Meteor Heads will no longer drop souls, even when killed in the Underground Corruption.
• On the iOS version, there is a currently unknown chance of souls dropping in the above-ground Corruption/Crimson.

See also

• Soul of Light

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Sprite updated.
  • Drop rate is increased for Expert mode worlds.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Drop rate increased from 1 in 7 (~14%) to 1 in 5 (20%).
  • Stack limit increased from 250 to 999.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.