Soul of Night

Soul of Night

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Statistics

Type	Crafting material
Tooltip	'The essence of dark creatures'
Rarity
Sell	200*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%) / 9/25 (36%) chance. This also includes enemies not native to the biome such as Granite Elementals.

Crafting all items, excluding the boss-summoning items and Key of Night  , requires 97   / 75 / 70 / 89   Souls of Night. One of each boss-summoning item and a Key of Night require an additional 24    / 14   Souls of Night.

Crafting

Used in

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)
	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

total: 18 row(s)

Notes

• An easy way to farm these is to go to the Underground Corruption/Crimson and summon King Slime using the Slime Crown. All of the Blue Slimes he summons have a chance to drop Souls of Night (this method will also work for the Soul of Light).
• 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 reads "'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.
• On the  Desktop version,  Console version, and  Mobile version, Meteor Heads will no longer drop souls, even when killed in the Underground Corruption/Crimson.

See also

• Soul of Light

History

 Desktop version

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

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Drop rate increased from 1 in 7 (14.29%) to 1 in 5 (20%).
  • Stack limit increased from 250 to 999.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Made changes from PS4's 1.0.750.0 update. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: ()
  • Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.0.1.
  • Drop rate increased for Expert mode worlds.

• Console 1.02:
  • Drop rate increased from 1 in 7 to 1 in 5.
  • Stack limit increased from 250 to 999.

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced with changes up to Desktop 1.3.0.1.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7:
  • Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.0.1.
  • Drop rate increased for Expert mode worlds.

• Mobile 1.26508:
  • Drop rate increased from 1 in 7 to 1 in 5.
  • Stack limit increased from 250 to 999.

• Mobile 1.1.5536: Made obtainable.

• Mobile 1.1.8: Introduced, but unobtainable.

 DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced with changes up to Desktop 1.2.