Carl's Terraria Guide


for PC 1.3, Xbox, PS3, PS4, Vita and Mobile

Terraria: Monster Spawn Rates

Crafting Water Candles and Battle Potions to Raise Spawns

A Water Candle placed on a table in the Dungeon Water Candles are found naturally in the Dungeon. Console and Mobile users can take them from there to raise spawn rates elsewhere, while PC players in 1.3 are able to craft them.

Two items can increase monster spawn rates and increase the amount of possible enemies on screen while also raising the odds that they will spawn - the battle potion and water candle. Since these are both related and stackable to allow for double spawn cap and increase spawn rates by 2/3, they deserve to be in the same guide. Note that both of these count as a debuff and the increased spawns only work while you're under the effects of that debuff.

Here's how you craft them in order to be able to farm monsters for drops much faster than normal, whether to help you farm a rare item or simply materials and money. Console/Mobile have to take Water Candles from the Dungeon to use them, but can craft the Battle Potion. To go a bit further, I'll also describe how to make the Peace Candle (PC-Only) to place in areas where you do not want increased spawns, but would rather reduce them - such as for fishing or while working on a building project.

Water Candle

These are the blue candles found in the Dungeon, and one reason it has such a high spawn rate for enemies. Removing them from tables will allow you to collect them, but on PC it's better to craft your own since you'd be nerfing your own dungeon. Still, it is a way to acquire water candles pre-Hardmode and you can replace them. To craft Water Candles requires the game be in Hard Mode so that you can buy a Crystal Ball for 10 Gold from the Wizard NPC. He is found anywhere in the Cavern layer and requires you to untie him for him to move into your world.

The crystal ball bought from the Wizard NPC The crystal ball is just above water, which lets you use both crafting stations at once - a requirement for making the Water Candle.

The Crystal Ball needs to have water nearby to make a Water Candle. You can make a small one-block cell to drop water in using a bucket (made with iron/lead), then place a block on top to seal it and rest the Crystal Ball there (you can make more stuff by making extra cells of honey/lava and centering the crystal ball on the central cell. See the example picture above for how to do this. Just take the bucket to water and you can craft a 'water bucket' to drop the water in the dip.

You may be able to get around this by picking up the crystal ball with a pickaxe and taking it to a flat surface along a body of water, but I have not tested it. It should work, however!

Now for the materials for crafting the actual Water Candle:

Water Candles must be placed on a flat surface like a work bench. You can make these on the fly so long as you have wood, so it's easy to get them placed in any Biome to enjoy increased spawn rates. Now on to the Battle Potion:

Crafting Battle Potions

Raising spawn rates allows for more profitable Blood Moons and Solar Eclipses Water Candles and Battle Potions can increase spawn rates at all times of day and in any biome. While they don't work for Pumpkin Moon and other Invasions, they do work on Blood Moons and Solar Eclipses.

Battle Potions have the same effect as Water Candles, and even stack with them. Thankfully, Console/Mobile players are able to craft them. Refer to my page on how to make potions if you do not have a station yet. Battle Potions require the following materials:

Battle Potions last 7 minutes, so you may want a few if you are farming a hard-to-get item.

Peace Candles

These can only be made in Terraria 1.3 (currently PC-only). You will need 2 gold or platinum bars, along with a pink torch. Pink torches are only made from Pink Gel, and that is a rare thing to acquire. You must encounter Pinky, a rare slime that spawns in the forest biome or underground. If you are lucky and get a slime rain, you should participate and slaughter as many slimes as possible so that one might spawn. This is a challenge for a new player and results in an achievement. He has a very small chance of dropping a Slime Staff - way better than any normal slime - but it's still very unlikely. Thankfully, he'll usually drop about 30 of the pink gel and you can make 3 torches each - meaning you could have 90 Peace Candles from one Pinky kill. The above water candle and battle potion may even help you to acquire it.

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