Butterfly Dust

Butterfly Dust

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Statistics

Type	Crafting material
Rarity	05*
Sell	250
Research	1 required

• Internal Item ID: 1611

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Moth Moth	1	50%

Butterfly Dust is a rare Hardmode crafting material used solely to craft Butterfly Wings. It has a 50*1/2 (50%) chance of being dropped by Moths in the Underground Jungle.

On the  PC version,  Console version,  Mobile version, and  tModLoader version, at least one Mechanical Boss must be defeated before it will drop.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Butterfly Wings	Soul of Flight20 Butterfly Dust	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

Tips

• Selling the Butterfly Wings instead of the individual components will be more profitable. The wings sell for 8, whereas the components sell for a collective 290. •

Trivia

• Unlike most other drops from rare enemies, the Butterfly Dust does not increase its drop rate in a higher difficulty.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now only drops after player has defeated at least one Mechanical Boss.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.