Crates

Crates are grab bag-type items which can be caught while fishing, containing random loot such as ores, bars, potions, accessories, and other items. In addition, biome-specific crates can contain biome-specific loot. Their content can be unloaded by pressing the button, either on their icon in the inventory or while holding them. Crates can also be placed.
 
Standard crates (Wooden, Iron, and Golden, or in Hardmode, Pearlwood, Mythril, and Titanium) can be caught anywhere, with Wooden/Pearlwood being the most common, and Golden/Titanium being the rarest. In general, rarer crate types contain more valuable loot. Biome Crates can only be caught in their respective biome ( with the exception of the Obsidian/Hellstone Crates), and can contain items otherwise found only in the matching Biome Chests. They are slightly less rare than Golden/Titanium Crates. When fishing in an area with multiple biomes, only one biome crate type can be caught; for example, when a Floating Island is Corrupted and changes to Corruption, Sky Crates can no longer be harvested. See Fishing § Biomes for details on which biomes take precedence over others.
Crates are caught every 1 in 10 catches, on average; with a Crate Potion, the chance is increased to 1 in 4 / 1 in 5 . The kind of crate the player obtains is dependent on their Fishing Power, with higher Fishing Power increasing the probabilities of rarer crates. As an example, fishing with a Fishing Power of 100 in a lake of at least 300 valid water tiles in the Corruption would yield crates with the following probabilities: Golden Crate: ; Corrupt Crate: ; Iron Crate: ; Wooden Crate: . The Crate Potion multiplies these chances by 2.5 / 2 .
== Types ==
Pre-Hardmode type	Hardmode type	Sell	Rarity	Biome 	Catch quality 	Chest
 	 	 	 	Any 	Plentiful 	
 	 	 	 	Any 	Uncommon 	
 	 	 	 	Any 	Very Rare /Extremely Rare 	
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 	 	 	 	Any (caught in )	Plentiful Obsidian Crates and Hellstone Crates are technically a Plentiful catch, but occur only 1 in 5 successful crate catches. This makes the lava crates technically 5× rarer than other crates, but because there are no lava catches in the Plentiful, Common, or Uncommon quality slots, lava crates are not actually much more rare than (and, depending on the player's Fishing Power, they could be much more common than) other crates in their respective environments.	
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== Crafting ==
=== Recipes ===
== Notes ==
* On Xbox, opens crates (instead of the button which is the equivalent to 's right click) as stated in the tooltip for the crates.
* A few exclusive items are found only in crates:
** Sailfish Boots, Tsunami in a Bottle (Wooden, Iron, , ) 
** Falcon Blade, Ginger Beard, Tartar Sauce (Iron, )
** Hardy Saddle (Golden, )
** Scarab Fishing Rod (Oasis, Mirage)
** Hardmode: Anchor ( Pearlwood / Wooden)
** Hardmode: Enchanted Sundial ( Pearlwood, Mythril, Titanium / Wooden, Iron, Golden)
* Crates can drop an ore or bar even if it cannot be obtained naturally in the world, where its alternate ore generated instead. For instance, a Wooden Crate can yield Copper Ore, even if the world is generated with Tin instead of Copper.
** In Hardmode, this applies to the Hardmode metals too, whether or not any Altars have been broken to place ore in the world.
* The tiers of the metals provided rise with the crate tier: Wooden and Iron Crates omit the top tiers, biome crates omit Copper and Tin Bars (but not ores), Golden and Titanium omit the bottom tiers.
** Crates do not contain "advanced" metals such as Meteorite or Chlorophyte.
* Crates always contain at least one item, as empty crates are re-rolled. The Golden Crate, for instance, has a chance of requiring a reroll.
* The Hallowed Crate is unique in that it can only be obtained by fishing in an artificial Hallow in a pre-Hardmode world or by dropping a Divine Crate in Shimmer, as all natural Hallow biomes are Hardmode by definition and will only produce Divine Crates. However, it does not contain any unique drops.
** Floating Islands in Celebrationmk10 worlds have Hallowed grass, therefore Floating Island lakes can yield Hallowed Crates in pre-Hardmode.
== Tips ==
* It can be beneficial to fish for crates during pre-Hardmode, save them for later, and then open them up in Hardmode, in order to get Hardmode ores without breaking any Altars. This has the added benefit of not spawning random Ebonstone/Crimstone or Pearlstone in the world, which is a side effect of breaking Altars.
** Crates fished during pre-Hardmode will no longer drop Hardmode items, even after the Wall of Flesh has been defeated.
* Crates can also supply a few other Hardmode items:
** As stated above, the Anchor and are only found in crates.
** Corrupt or Crimson Crates can contain Cursed Flames or Ichor, respectively, and both can have Souls of Night. 
** Hallowed Crates can drop Crystal Shards and Souls of Light.
* The higher the Fishing Power, the greater the chances for crates. See Fishing Power and Fishing § Tips for information and recommendations about how to increase Fishing Power.
* The chance to catch an Iron or Wooden Crate increases if the player is not in a biome where a biome crate can be caught (i.e., not Corruption/Crimson, Hallow, Dungeon, or Jungle, and below sky level – an example could be the pure caverns). With a Fishing Power of 100 and a lake of at least 300 valid water tiles, Iron Crates are then caught with a chance of (instead of ) and Wooden Crates with a chance of (instead of ).
* For a deep look at the sale value of crate contents in , see Crate values in 1.4. (See Crate values pre-1.4 for pre-1.4 versions.)
== History ==
== References ==