Souls

Souls are Hardmode crafting materials dropped by enemies. There are a total of 6 / 7 types of souls. The most common ones are the Souls of Light and Night, which are dropped in the Underground Hallow and Underground Corruption/Crimson, respectively. Most of the remaining souls drop from the mechanical bosses.
== Types ==
Soul	Soul 	Drop type 	Source 	Tooltip	Sell
 	Enemy	Wyvern, 	 	 	
 	Biome	Underground Hallow enemies 	 	 	
 	Biome	Underground Corruption or Underground Crimson enemies	 	 	
 	Boss 	The Destroyer, 	 	 	
 	Boss 	The Twins 	 	 	
 	Boss 	Skeletron Prime 	 	 	
 	Boss 	 	The essence of infected creatures	 	
== Notes ==
* For the Souls of Light and Night, note that only the biome (cavern layer Underground Corruption/Crimson or Hallow) determines what soul will be dropped, not the enemy. For instance, an Illuminant Bat in the Underground Hallow will drop Souls of Light, and a Corruptor in the Underground Corruption will drop Souls of Night. All enemies, including enemies that already spawned during pre-Hardmode, can drop Souls of Night or Souls of Light if in the appropriate biome. The only exceptions are enemies spawned by a statue and the King Slime's and Queen Slime's minions.
* Unlike most other enemy drops, souls are not affected by gravity (except the Souls of Blight), and thus remain floating in midair at the location where the enemy was killed. For large enemies and bosses, this is usually the enemy's head, regardless of where the final strike occurred.
== Tips ==
* An easy way to obtain Souls of Night and Light is to go to the Dungeon and spray Red/Purple/Blue Solution with the Clentaminator at different areas, converting the area into the respective biome. Because of the Dungeon's high spawn rate, it is possible to get a large amount of souls fairly quickly.
* Another very effective way to farm Souls of Night and Light is to craft a Slime Crown and summon King Slime in the appropriate underground biome. Each fight often yields over 20 souls from all of the slimes that are spawned. Please note that this does not work on 1.4, as it was patched.
== Trivia ==
* All of the souls' names rhyme with each other ().
* Souls of Blight are the only souls without an animation. This is because they are unavailable on 1.3, the update which introduced animated soul sprites.
* There is only one soul whose tooltip directly states the name of the enemy it is dropped from, the Soul of Might.
** It is also the only soul that is obtainable pre-Hardmode.
== History ==