Terraria: 8 Tips For Farming Crates (2024)

If you've been playing Terraria for a while now, the nerf to the Reaver Shark's pickaxe power, dropping from 100 to 59, was a sad day; no more early-game Hellstone ore. Despite this, fishing remains a valuable and viable strategy to getting useful resources, weapons, tools, and gear.

While there are plenty of cool items to get from a fishing rod alone, like the Scaly Truffle, Bottomless Lava Bucket, or Bladetongue, your main focus should be on crates, especially if you've made it to Hardmode, since the loot pools are so large, valuable, and change depending on your world stage.

8 Strive For The Best Fishing Rod Possible

This is an obvious tip, but it applies nonetheless because the higher your fishing power, the greater chance you'll have of getting a crate, which on average, tends to be a ten percent chance every time you cast your line into the water.

While the best fishing rods are locked behind the Angler NPCs quests, you can still buy the Sitting Duck's Fishing Pole, which has a respectable 40 percent fishing power, from the Traveling Merchant for 35 gold if he has it in stock.

7 Do Those Dang Fishing Quests

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Did you know the Angler quests offer more than just a 0.4 percent chance of getting the Golden Fishing Rod? If you're having trouble getting more crates, grind some fishing quests to get gear and accessories that boost fishing power or offer other benefits, such as:

• The Angler Hat, Angler Vest, and Angler Pants.
• The Fishing Bobber, bait preserving Tackle Box, and Angler Earring.

There are, of course, other rewards that the Angler can give you, but these are the staple items and accessories you should prioritize first.

6 Fish In Larger Bodies Of Water

While there's a surprising number of factors that contribute to your overall fishing power, one important thing to remember is to choose bodies of water that are large enough, at least 300 tiles large to be specific, to avoid any unnecessary penalties.

The smaller the body of water you're fishing in, the higher the penalty gets for your fishing power. If you're getting little to no crates, or even worse, little to no fish over a significant period of time, try a different fishing spot, or create your own.

5 If Possible, Fish In The Default Forest Biome

Unless the Eye of Cthulhu decides to make a surprise visit, or a particularly tough world event comes out of nowhere, the regular forest biome that everyone spawns in tends to be the safest, so you might as well fish there for an optimal, uninterrupted experience.

Though, this tip doesn't apply if you're looking for any biome-specific items, like the Inner Tube or the Lavaproof Fishing Hook, which would require you to fish in the ocean or a lake of lava, respectively. In these instances, solid blocks are your friends.

4 When You Fish Matters

Another variable that affects your fishing power is simply when you decide to go fishing. For the highest bonus possible, you can fish between the in-game times of either 4:30 to 6:00 am, or 6:00 to 7:30 pm for a 20 percent boost to fishing power.

Also, if you notice there's a full moon out or it's raining, that's a good time to get fishing, since these events add ten and 20 percent bonuses to fishing power respectively. It helps, of course, to have accessories that provide world information, like weather conditions, time, and moon phases.

3 Use Chum Buckets If You Have Them

If you've just survived a Blood Moon event, you might notice you've picked up some Chum Buckets, consumable items dropped at a 50 percent chance by all kinds of enemies, like Hemogoblin Sharks, Blood Eels, Zombie Mermen, Dreadnautilus, and more.

Make sure you hang on to any Chum Buckets you get, since they can be used to increase your fishing power on any body of water. Just make sure you don't use more than three at a time, since the bonus stops there, providing 20 extra fishing power.

2 Open Your Crates In Hardmode

While it's certainly not a sin to open any of the crates you've fished up in pre-Hardmode, it's oftentimes worth it to be patient and open any crates you've accumulated after defeating the Wall of Flesh, since Hardmode inevitably changes loot pools and tables.

To give an example, the difference between opening a crate in pre-Hardmode versus Hardmode could be the difference between getting a few Silver or Gold Bars, or getting Mythril or Orichalcum Bars. Heck, you might even be lucky enough to get an Enchanted Sundial if you're patient.

1 Drink Crate Potions

The number one thing you can do to guarantee more crates, more often, is by making and drinking Crate Potions as much as possible. To put things into perspective, a Crate Potion increases your average chance of fishing up a crate from 10 percent to 25 percent.

While this potion does require a lot of ingredients, like Amber, Shiverthorn, Waterleaf, and Moonglow, the buff it grants lasts four minutes, which is plenty of time to get at least a few crates. While Amber is more of a pain, at least the rest of the ingredients can be farmed.