1. Meteor Shot

The Meteor Shot is a Pre-Hardmode bullet you can start acquiring after defeating the Brain of Cthulhu or Eater of Worlds. Sometime during your gameplay, you’ll see a Meteor in the background, falling into your world. Start mining them and turn them into Meteor Bars and craft them into bullets.

With a gun, shoot upward. Meteor Shots can bounce off a solid block once. If something comes back, there’s a Floating Island above you.

2. Water Bolt

If you’re lucky, you might get the Water Bolt in a Pre-Hardmode Dungeon in Terraria. This elusive magic weapon disguises itself as many countless books on a Brass Shelf. Using the Water Bolt will fire a ricocheting water-ball projectile, albeit slowly.

We recommend doing the same method as using Meteor Shots. Shoot upward and wait for the Water Bolt’s projectile to come back. Remember that this method is a little slower.

3. Teleportation Potion

By this point, you probably figured out alternative ways to find a Floating Island. But if it’s not the case and you’re in Hardmode already, the Teleportation Potion will do. You can make one by combining Bottled Water, Chaos Fish, and Fireblossom each at an Alchemy Table or Placed Bottle.

If you use a Teleportation Potion while you’re on a Floating Island, there’s a higher chance you’ll be teleported to another one close by. It’s like the potion prefers to take you to similar places!

Note: Bring Magic or Ice Mirror in case things go south (i.e., getting teleported to the Lihzahrd Temple instead).

4. Spectate Mode

This method is simple – generate a Hardcore character, die, transform into Ghost, and fly to seek an Island.

5. Utilize Height

At times, Floating Islands that spawn at lower altitudes provide other ways to find them. Observe an Island’s waterfalls while in flight, and Dungeons and Living Trees expose Island’s base from their heights.

6. Wide Pillar

If you have a stack of Dirt or Sand, you can build a tall pillar straight up to check for Floating Islands. This method is challenging, as you’ll face Harpies (and worse, Wyverns), so consider equipping a Hook if you don’t have Wings!

7. Utilizing Rocket Boots & Ivy Whip

You can build a tall pillar using blocks. Once built, you can ascend high into the sky by using the Rocket Boots and an Ivy Whip for traversing to find floatings Islands.

8. High Game Resolution

One effective method to increase the chances of finding floating islands is by adjusting the game’s resolution settings, specifically to a higher value like 1920×1080, if your hardware supports it. To change it, just access the game’s settings menu, look for the video tab, and find the resolution tab.

9. Utilizing Wings and Spectre Boots

You have the option to construct a Sky Bridge, which is a lengthy structure elevated in the sky, typically consisting of a single layer of blocks or platforms. Once it’s complete, you can utilize your Wings and Spectre Boots to glide through the sky, significantly boosting your mobility as you jump from this sky bridge.

10. Gravitation Buff

If you have enough Gravitation Potions, you can use them to control your descent direction, making it possible to find and explore floating islands with efficiency. This effect remains active for 3 minutes.

11. Magic Missile

In Pre-Hardmode, utilize the Magic Missile to locate floating islands, adjusting based on the map’s dimensions. The missile produces a distinct sound that ceases upon being cast toward a floating island.

12. Musket Balls

In a small world with floating islands (about 400-600 feet high), using Musket Balls should work if you lower the music volume. Shoot the sky while moving, and listen for impacts and vine-breaking. If unsure, shoot from a similar angle and position. Avoid hitting from low altitudes. It’s a cost-effective strategy for anyone with a gun.

13. Ice Blade and Frostbrand

Projectiles can also help you locate Floating Islands. You just need to swing the Ice Blade and Frostbrand projectiles upward into the sky and pay attention. If projectiles hit a block, you’ll hear a shattering sound, helping you locate hidden islands.

14. Flying Carpet

The Flying Carpet is an item that grants you the ability to float for 5 seconds. To find a Floating Island with this, you just need to go to an elevated location on the map. Employ your flight boots to advance, taking breaks to prevent any upward or downward motion. Then, transition to a Flying Varpet to maintain forward movement while staying at the same altitude.

15. Water Puddles

Mysterious puddles on the ground might mean there’s a Floating Island above you. It happens in places where water acts strangely. These islands create more water than they can hold, so some spills over the edges and form puddles below.

16. Fairies

The Pink Fairy, Green Fairy, and Blue Fairy are creatures that aim to guide you toward valuable treasures. If you see a fairy on the ground, it could fly up to the sky and lead you to an island with a treasure chest. So always keep an eye out for this!

17. Cute Fishron or UFO Mount

An excellent way to find floating islands is by riding a Cute Fishron or UFO Mount. You get these mounts by defeating Duke Fishron in Expert Mode or a Martian Saucer. Then, fly in the sky and look for one Floating Island. Stay at that height while flying around the world to find more islands.

Keep in mind that this could be your final resort for finding these islands, as you’ll still need to face one of the challenging Hardmode Bosses.

What is a Floating Island?

Floating Islands are structures made of Dirt Blocks and Rain Clouds that float high above the world and can even be found in space. These structures can be vulnerable to certain enemies in Terraria, such as Harpies in Pre-Hardmode, and Wyverns and Arch Wyverns in Hardmode.

A Floating Island consists of a structure made using Sunplate Blocks, Disc Walls, and Glass Walls. Invariably, it’ll hold just a single Skyware Chest and various Skyware furnishings randomly placed. The arrangement will feature three or five background walls placed between each window.

In world creation, they appear randomly in the top sixth of the map and become infected by evil biomes if affected by transformation during Hardmode. However, non-corrupted ones can become a suitable residence for NPCs by adding a light source.

Floating Island Loot and Drops

A Floating Island in Terraria contains a structure consisting of Sunplate Blocks, Disc Walls, and Glass Walls. Within it, there’s a Skyware Chest, various Skyware furniture pieces, and items dropped by Harpies and Wyverns.

Skyware Chest	Possible Loot
	Weapon	Accessories	Paintings	Crafting Station
	Starfury	Celestial Magnet	Blessing from the Heavens	Sky Mill
		Fledgling Wings	Constellation
		Lucky Horseshoe	Eye of the Sun
		Shiny Red Balloon	High Pitch
			Love is in the Trash Slot
			See The World For What It Is

Monster	Possible Drops
Harpy	Chicken Nugget
	Feather
	Giant Harpy Feather
	Harpy Banner
Wyvern	Soul of Flight
	Wyvern Banner
	Wyvern Kite (on Windy Days)
Arch Wyvern	Soul of Flight
	Arch Wyvern Banner
	Shadow Key

Fishing

Floating Lakes are bodies of water lacking the Sunplate Block structures and their contents. It’ll only appear when all of the Floating Islands in Terraria have spawned. Therefore, if there’s at least one lake in the world, you can expect 3/5/6 Floating Islands to be present, depending on whether the world is Small/Medium/and Large.

It’s a rare occurrence to find Water Chests within Floating Lakes. It’s also perfect for fishing in Terraria. Occasionally, Floating Lakes may be positioned too close to the ground to be suitable for sky fishing, resulting in surface fishing catches instead. This occurrence is more probable in Large worlds.

These are fishes you can get from Sky Fishing:

• Damselfish
• Sky Crates (Pre-Hardmode-exclusive)
• Azure Crates (Hardmode-exclusive)

These are fishes you can get from Angler’s Quest:

• Cloudfish
• Harpyfish
• Angelfish
• Wyverntail (Hardmode)

Favorite Items Explained

Favorite items in Terraria are distinguishable by their blue serrated border surrounding the item’s icon. Once it’s marked, quick selling, trashing, and stacking are blocked, allowing you to have better control over your inventory management. However, you can still manually discard and sell the ones you’ve selected. 

Step-by-Step Guide on How to Favorite Items in Terraria

You can use four devices to play Terraria, but not all have this feature. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to activate this perk and other alternatives you can use for Inventory management if unavailable. See the list below to learn more.

Available

• PC

Unavailable

• Nintendo Switch
• PlayStation
• Xbox
• Mobile

PC 

The Favorite feature is incredibly easy to use in the game’s PC version. You only need to remember a few Hotkeys, and you’re good to go. See the steps below to activate it:

• Step 1: Press‘ Esc‘ to open the Inventory
• Step 2: Hover your cursor on the selected item 
• Step 3: Press down the ‚Alt‘ tab
• Step 4: ‚Left-click‘ item

Consoles

If you’re using the PlayStation and Xbox, you won’t be able to Favorite your items. Instead, bind the item to your D-pad too. To learn how to do this, follow the steps below:

Play Station 

• Step 1: Press down the ‚Triangle Key‘ to access the Inventory
• Step 2: Choose an Item
• Step 3: Add it to the ‚Terraria Hotkey‘
• Step 4: Place the item on the ‚D-Pad‘ by pressing on the assigned direction.

Xbox 

• Step 1: Press down the ‚Y button‘ to open the Inventory
• Step 2: Select an item  
• Step 3: Assign an item on any Direction button in the D-pad

Nintendo Switch 

The Nintendo Switch doesn’t have the Favorite feature, but here’s an alternative. You can use the Radial Hotbar to place your favored resources, weapons, or accessories in your Inventory. Read the steps below:

• Step 1: Hold the ‚Left Bumper‘ of your device to access your Buffing items  
• Step 2: Hold the ‚Right Bumper‘ to open the Hotbar
• Step 3: Point and Highlight the selected item with the ‚Analog Stick‘
• Step 4: Release the Analog Stick to equip

Mobile 

Sadly, this feature remains unavailable on iOS, Amazon, and Android devices. In the meantime, wait for future announcements because they might release this feature in the following updates. 

Is Terraria cross-platform?

Terraria is cross-platform between iOS and Android devices.

But here’s the thing – while you can play it on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android, cross-play is a bit limited. Unfortunately, party time is exclusive to mobile players.

Terraria cross-platform on Xbox & PlayStation

Cross-platform play might be a no-go on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC. But don’t fret just yet! You can team up with other players on the same console.

For instance, PS5 and PS4 players can join forces like mobile gamers. So, while we can’t party across all platforms, let’s make the most of what we’ve got!

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How to Activate the Console Command

Unlike other games, you won’t have to jump through hoops to activate the feature. 

Be it with friends or randoms in multiplayer, you can boss the game by typing in some cool commands. Just pop a forward slash before your text, and you’re good to go!

Console Commands on PC

When you fire up your new Terraria server, there are some super cool commands you can play around with to tweak those rules and settings just the way you like them!

Terraria Console Commands

Console Command	Action
help	Displays a command list
playing	Displays a list of players currently in the session. You can achieve the same result by typing /playing in chat.
clear	Clears the console window
exit	Store data and turn off the server
exit-nosave	Shuts down the server without saving
save	Saves the game
kick	Removes someone from the session
ban	Prevents a person from accessing the server
password	Displays the server password
password	Changes the server password
version	Displays the version number
time	Displays the current game time
port	Shows the listening port
maxplayers	Displays the maximum number of players allowed
say	Sends a yellow text message from the server name to every player.
motd	Shows the message of the day
motd	Changes the message of the day
dawn	Sets the time to 4:30 AM
noon	Sets the time to 12:00 PM
dusk	Sets the time to 7:30 PM
midnight	Sets the time to 12:00 AM
settle	Settles all water in the game world

WHAT MATERIALS CAN YOU USE TO MAKE A HOUSE?

In Terraria, Houses are vital for NPCs as their spawning points where they each get to have one. You can construct homes using Wood, Stone, and other material you can find to create walls and furniture. However, to prevent enemies from spawning within your home, you must avoid using Unsafe Walls, such as those made from Dirt and walls converted by the Biome spread.

HOUSE FRAME AND INTERNAL AREA

A House Frame is made up of solid tiles that completely enclose the home’s interior using non-actuated solid blocks or platforms and its doors. On the other hand, the Internal Area is composed of connected tiles in each direction. 

While constructing your home’s frame and internal area, make sure that there are no holes in your walls, as this can allow enemies to get in. Lastly, to make your house in Terraria gets validated, it must have at least 60 tiles but less than 750 in total.

FURNITURE

After building the Frame and Internal Area, it’s time to add Furniture to spruce up the place and make it a livable space for NPCs. Each house requires at least one valid Entry, Comfort, Flat surface item, and Light Source. See the table below for the types of furniture in Terraria: 

Entry Items	Comfort Items	Light Sources	Flat Surface Items
Doors	Bar Stool	Candelabras	Alchemy Table
Platforms	Beds	Candles	Bathtubs
Tall Gate	Benches	Chandeliers	Bewitching Table
Trap Door	Chairs	Christmas Lights	Bookcases
	Chippy’s Couch	Fireplace	Dressers
	Picnic Table	Hanging Brazier	Pianos
	Sofas	Heart Lantern	Picnic Table
	Throne	Jack ‘O Lantern	Tables
	Toilets	Jellyfish Jars	War Table
		Lamp Post	Work Benches
		Lamps
		Lanterns
		Lavafly in a Bottle
		Peace Candle
		Shadow Candle
		Skull Lantern
		Souls in a Bottle
		Tiki Torch
		Torches

Evil Score

Before building a house, remember not to place it inside or near an evil biome because it’ll increase your Evil score and render it invalid. This is because NPCs in Terraria can’t live in Corrupted or Crimsoned Areas. 

To calculate the Evil Score, you must add up your Corruption and Crimson Tile Score, then subtract them from the Hallowed Tile and Sunflower scores. After that, if you get -50 points, your house will be Valid for Housing. However, if you get +50 points, it’s considered Invalid and a status message will pop up that it’s Corrupted. Lastly, if you get 300 points, your house is Not Valid for Housing.

Check out the table below for the tiles within the area and their effect on the Evil score:

Tiles
+1 point per tile	-1 point per tile	– 40 points each
Corrupt grass	Hallowed grass	Sunflower
Ebonstone Block	Pearlstone Block
Purple Ice Block	Pink Ice Block
Ebonsand Block	Pearlsand Block
Ebonsandstone Block	Pearlsandstone Block
Hardened Ebonsand Block	Hardened Pearlsand Block
Corruption thorny bushes	Short Hallowed plants
Corruption Plants	Tall Hallowed plants
Vile Mushroom
Crimson grass
Crimstone Block
Red Ice Block
Crimsand Block
Crimsandstone Block
Hardened Crimsand Block
Crimson thorny bushes

Home Tile Score

For a house to be valid in Terraria, there must be at least one Home Tile where the NPC can stand. Moreover, this rectangular area is neither a Platform nor a bubble, allowing characters to pass freely. 

There are two parts to calculating your Home Tile Score; for the first one, you’re going to subtract -5 points per tile occupied by objects, subtract -20 points for each tile occupied by a closed Tall gate or door, and subtract -20 points for each tile occupied by an Open Tall Gate and hinge of an Open Door. Then, add +5 points for each unactuated tile.

You can proceed to the second calculation if you score over 0. If you get a score below 0, the tile will be invalid, and you can’t move on to the next part of the Home Tile Score computation. 

For the second part of the calculation, subtract -15 points for each solid tile around the valid Home Tile. You’ll also deduct -30 points per regular chest, including Locked Chests, except for Trap Chests per tile that it occupies within the surrounding area of a valid home tile. Lastly, if you assign a second NPC to an occupied house, their distance must be less than three tiles away from the home tile of the existing NPC to get a score of 1. 

Here are some tiles not Included in the Home Tile Score computation:

• Herbs at any growing stage
• Mushroom
• Regular grass and Tall grass plants 
• Torches
• Opened Trap Doors

Finally, if you receive a score of 0 or lower, your Home Tile is Invalid, while a score of 0 or higher means it’s valid. 

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE IN TERRARIA

Here’s an easy step-by-step guide on how to make a simple house in Terraria using Wood. Read further to learn how to do it yourself, and we’ll add a variety of small house dimensions you can try!

Step 1:  Gather Materials

The first step is to gather all the materials you’ll need for the following steps. For this guide, we’re using Wood, a beginner-friendly material. However, you can experiment with other materials as the game progresses.

Step 2: Craft House Walls

The second step is to craft your House walls in Terraria using a workbench. Since we’re using Wood, we’ll make enough Wood Walls for the next step. 

Step 3:  Create an Internal Area

The third step is to create the internal area by placing your newly made house walls on flat ground away from Corrupted or Crimsoned areas. Next, we’ll set the Wood walls based on our preferred dimensions, as shown in the picture.  

Step 4: Create a Frame

The fourth step is to create the house’s frame by simply using Wood and using it to encase the Internal area we made earlier. Thus, use it to construct the home’s ceiling, floor, and walls. 

Step 5: Craft and Add Furniture 

The fifth step is to craft one Light source, Entry, Comfort, and Flat surface item at the workbench. Then, add all the newly made furniture inside the house to furnish it and wait for it to be valid housing for a Terraria NPC.

Small House Dimensions

Rectangular houses must have at least one of the following dimensions to meet the minimum size requirement of 60 tiles while not exceeding 750 tiles.

With Ceiling, Floor, and Walls (tiles width x tiles height)	Without Ceiling, floor, and walls(tiles width x tiles height)
5 x 12	3 x 10
6 x 10	4 x 8
7 x 9	5 x 7
8 x 8	6 x 6
9 x 7	7 x 5
10 x 6	8 x 4
12 x 5	10 x 3
15 x 4	15 x 2

NPC HOUSING

After seeing the ‘This is valid housing’ status message, you can finally assign a house for an NPC or wait for one to move in. Here’s a list of NPCs that need and don’t need housing in Terraria:

Need Housing:

• Guide
• Angler 
• Goblin Tinkerer
• Tavernkeep
• Mechanic
• Stylist
• Wizard
• Tax Collector
• Golfer
• Truffle

Note: Truffle NPC requires that its house must have at least 100 tiles of Glowing Mushroom biome blocks surrounding its home.

Don’t Need Housing:

• Old Man
• Traveling Merchant
• Skeleton Merchant

What is a Mechanical Worm

The Mechanical Worm is an item used for summoning the Destroyer in Hardmode, although it still works when brought to a Pre-Hardmode world.

The Mechanical Worm works outside of the Corruption, unlike the Worm Food. However, you can only use the former at nighttime, while the latter can be used anytime. When used by day, the boss won’t appear nor consume the Mechanical Worm. Using it when the Destroyer is already summoned doesn’t do anything.

How to Craft a Mechanical Worm

In Hardmode, if the Destroyer is undefeated, the chances of enemies dropping this item are 0.04%, excluding statue-spawned enemies, Meteor Heads, and Old One’s Army enemies.

Alternatively, combine the following items at a Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum:

• Rotten Chunk (6) / Vertebra (6)
• Iron Bar (5) / Lead Bar (5)
• Soul of Night (6)

Crafting

The Mechanical Worm is a key component in making the Ocram’s Razor – a boss-summoning item that spawns the Mechdusa in Get fixed boi and Don’t dig up world seeds.

Result	Ingredients	Crafting Station
Ocram’s Razor (desktop, mobile, console)	• Mechanical Eye (1) • Mechanical Skull (1) • Mechanical Worm (1)	Mythril Anvil / Orichalcum Anvil