Crafting materials

For more details on item drop rates, see drops
See also the associated category for a full list

Thorium adds many new tiers of crafting materials that are spread throughout the game. These new Tiers aim to aid progression, add variety and fill in niches that were not as explored in the Base game.

Several other miscellaneous crafting materials also exist to further increase variety, such as customization materials which allow the changing of armor set appearance.

Main Materials

These materials can be obtained through crafting, enemy drops or mined blocks. These crafting materials can generally be used to craft a "set" of tools, weapons and/or armor, each with a special theme and properties common among the items crafted from the same material.

Pre-Hardmode

Material		Availability	Obtained from	Amount
	Living Leaf	Always available	Mining Leaf Blocks	1
	Icy Shard	Always available	Most Snow biome enemies	1
	Thorium Bar	Always available	4   @   after Eye of Cthulhu is defeated, before any Mechanical Boss is defeated	1 1-2 (Strange Crate before Hardmode) 1-3 (Strange Crate after Hardmode)
File:Danger Shard.png	Danger Shard	Always available		3-5
	Petal	Always available		1-3
	Aquaite Bar	Always available	5   @   after Queen Jellyfish is defeated, before entering Hardmode	1 1-3
File:Magma Bar.png	Magma Bar	Always available	4 File:Magma Ore.png   @	1
	Sandstone Ingot	The Grand Thunder Bird is defeated	The Grand Thunder Bird	16-20 22-26
	Yew Wood	During Goblin Invasion	All Goblins except Goblin Summoners	4-8
	Granite Energy Core	Skeletron is defeated	Granite biome enemies	1-2
	Bronze Alloy Fragments	Skeletron is defeated	Marble biome enemies	1-2
	Spirit Droplet	Skeletron is defeated	1   @   /	1-2 5
	Darksteel Ingot	Skeletron is defeated	+   @	1

Hardmode

Material		Availability	Obtained from	Amount
File:Molten Residue.png	Molten Residue	Wall of Flesh is defeated	Underworld enemies in Hardmode	1
	Cerulean Morel	Wall of Flesh is defeated	Glowing Mushroom biome enemies in Hardmode	1
	Pharaoh's Breath	Wall of Flesh is defeated	Desert and Underground Desert enemies in Hardmode	1-2
	Bio Matter	Wall of Flesh is defeated	Most Hardmode Underground Jungle enemies in Hardmode	1
	Abyssal Chitin	Wall of Flesh is defeated		1-2 1 (Lesser Feeding Frenzy)
	Hallowed Charm	Wall of Flesh is defeated	3 + 1   @   / after entering Hardmode, before Plantera is defeated	3 2-3
	Geode	Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil	1 + 5 ( or )   @   / or 1 + 4 ( or )   @   / or 1 + 3 (File:Onyx.png or )   @   / or 1 + 2 ( or )   @   / after entering Hardmode, before Plantera is defeated	3 3 3 3 2-3
	Green Dragon Scale	Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil	3 + 1 + 1   @   / after entering Hardmode, before Plantera is defeated	3 2-3
	Unfathomable Flesh	Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil	3 + 1 + 1   @   / after entering Hardmode, before Plantera is defeated	3 2-3
	Lodestone Ingot	Fallen Beholder is defeated	4   @	1
	Valadium Ingot	Fallen Beholder is defeated	4   @	1
	Strange Plating	At least one Mechanical Boss is defeated	All Mechanical Bosses	12
	Life-Powered Energy Cell	At least one Mechanical Boss is defeated	All Mechanical Bosses	2-3
	Cursed Cloth	Lich is defeated	Lich	20-25 45
	Titanic Bar	All 3 Mechanical Bosses are defeated	2 + 1 + 1   @   after Plantera is defeated	2 2-3
	Bloom Weave	Plantera is defeated	Plantera	30
	Solar Pebble	Plantera is defeated	File:Lihzahrd Pot Mimic.png	1-3 5
File:Harbinger Catalyst.png	Harbinger Catalyst	Plantera is defeated	1 + 1 + 1 + 3   @   after Plantera is defeated	2 2-3
File:Berserker Shard.png	Berserker Shard	Plantera is defeated	1 + 1 File:Magma Bar.png + 1 + 1 File:Molten Residue.png   @   after Plantera is defeated	2 2-3
	Dread Soul	Plantera is defeated	1 + 1 + 1   @   after Plantera is defeated	1 2-3
	Demon Blood Shard	Plantera is defeated	1 + 1 + 1   @   after Plantera is defeated	1 2-3
	Illumite Ingot	Plantera is defeated	4   @	1
	Dark Matter	Plantera is defeated	Most Hardmode Dungeon enemies	1-3 2-3 (Bone Lee)
	Holy Knight's Alloy	Plantera is defeated		3-5
	Permafrost	Plantera is defeated		5-15
	Terrarium Core	Lunatic Cultist is defeated	1 of each vanilla Bar (except , , or ) +   @	1
	White Dwarf Fragment	Lunatic Cultist is defeated	All Celestial Towers	3-15 5-22
	Celestial Fragment	Lunatic Cultist is defeated	All Celestial Towers	3-15 5-22
	Shooting Star Fragment	Lunatic Cultist is defeated	All Celestial Towers	3-15 5-22
	Inferno Essence	The Primordials is defeated	The Primordials	16 20
	Ocean Essence	The Primordials is defeated	The Primordials	16 20
	Death Essence	The Primordials is defeated	The Primordials	16 20

Other Materials

These materials do not have a specific set of equipment, and are used to craft a variety of assorted items.

Pre-Hardmode

Material		Availability	Obtained from	Amount
	Arcane Dust	Always available	1   @   after Eye of Cthulhu is defeated, before entering Hardmode	5 5-8
	Cloth	Always available	4   @	1
	Blank Painting	Always available	10 + 4   @	1
File:Band.png	Band	Always available	1 /   @   /	1
	Talon	Always available		1-2
	Blood	Always available		1
	Depth Scales	Always available		1-2
	Marine Kelp	Always available	Grows naturally in Aquatic Depths Grown using Extractinating	1 1-3 (Depth Chest)
	Unholy Shards	During Blood Moon	All enemies during a Blood Moon	2-4
	Purified Shards	Blood Moon has occurred	2   @	1
	Blank Technique Scroll	The Grand Thunder Bird is defeated	Sold by	1
	Malignant Thread	Eye of Cthulhu is defeated	Sold by after finishing Casting a Shadow	1
	Strange Alien Tech	Shadow Orb / Crimson Heart is smashed		1

Hardmode

Material		Availability	Obtained from	Amount
	Bundle of Benign Balloons	Wall of Flesh is defeated	Sold by	1
	Void Heart	Fallen Beholder is defeated	Sold by	1
	Broken Hero Fragment	All 3 Mechanical Bosses are defeated		2-5
	Concentrated Thorium	Plantera is defeated	1 + 1   @   /	5
	Dormant Hammer	The Primordials is defeated		1