Cell Phone

     

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Cell Phone

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Statistics

Type	ToolCrafting material
Use time	90 (Snail)
Tooltip	Displays everything Allows you to return home at will
Rarity	07*
Sell	8
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 3124

For an extensive guide to crafting this item, see Guide:Crafting a Cell Phone.

The Cell Phone is a post-Skeletron informational item that displays fishing power, weather, moon phase, elevation, distance from the center of the world, time, nearest valuable environment item, movement speed, current DPS, total kills of the last enemy attacked, rare creatures nearby and total number of nearby enemies. It can also teleport the player home, similar to a Magic Mirror. The Cell Phone has one of the most complex crafting trees in Terraria, using 12 base items (and 6 crafting operations), beaten by the Zenith, which uses 15, and the Shellphone which uses 14, followed by the Ankh Shield, which uses 12. Note this does not include ore smelting or the crafting of the chains.

Unlike most other informational items (e.g. its constituent parts), the Cell Phone does not double as an accessory, and cannot be equipped in accessory slots. It instead functions solely from the player's ordinary inventory slots, which puts it into the tool category.

While the inventory screen is open, Cell Phone information is hidden. Instead, an icon is displayed for each information type, each of which can be clicked to toggle their display on or off.

In multiplayer, information from the Cell Phone will be shared with other nearby players on the same team.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cell Phone	PDA Magic Mirror	Tinkerer's Workshop
	PDA Ice Mirror

Crafting tree

Platinum Bar × 10

Chain

Gold Bar × 10

Radar ( )

DPS Meter ( )

Fisherman's Pocket Guide ( )

&

&

Platinum Watch

or

Gold Watch

Tally Counter ( )

Stopwatch ( )

Weather Radio ( )

Depth Meter ( Also craftable in )

Compass ( Also dropped by in )

Lifeform Analyzer ( )

Metal Detector ( )

Sextant ( )

GPS

R.E.K. 3000

Goblin Tech

Fish Finder

Magic Mirror ( )

or

Ice Mirror ( )

PDA

Cell Phone

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Shellphone	Cell Phone Magic Conch Demon Conch	Tinkerer's Workshop

Notes

Example information displayed by a Cell Phone.

• The Cell Phone is the end result of combining 13 individual items: its original constituent items are the Compass, Depth Meter, DPS Meter, Fisherman's Pocket Guide, Gold or Platinum Watch (both of which are made of 10 Bars and a Chain), Lifeform Analyzer, Magic Mirror or Ice Mirror, Metal Detector, Radar, Sextant, Stopwatch, Tally Counter, and Weather Radio.

Achievement

Black Mirror • “Obtain the Cell Phone. You'll never leave home without it again.”

Obtain the Cell Phone.

Category: Collector

Tips

• Though the Cell Phone is a very versatile and powerful item, obtaining it will often take a huge amount of patience. Some of the required accessories, such as the Metal Detector and the Angler's quest items, may be very time-consuming to come across. However, some ingredients are also relatively common and are found easily.
• Getting the Metal Detector is easier in Expert or Master Mode as Nymphs have a 100% chance to drop them.

Trivia

• The Cell Phone's nature as a single "catch-all" device parallels the multi-functionality of real modern smartphones, which have largely rendered once-common appliances like watches, compasses, timers, radios, and atlases obsolete in most cases. The usage of a mirror in the recipe could likewise be a reference how a smartphone's selfie camera may be used as a mirror. The mirror could also be because of the mirror-like touchscreen, which is vastly different from the older model phones which used buttons, or the "home" button found on many cell phones, due to the mirror being used to take the player "home."
  • It does not seem to be based on any particular real-life smartphone models.
• The Cell Phone is one of four non-accessories that is crafted at a Tinkerer's Workshop, the others being the Boulder () / Ultrabright Helmet, Multicolor Wrench and The Grand Design.
• Although it is a powerful item and has a rarity of 07*, the Cell Phone can actually be acquired pre-Hardmode, as all ingredients can be obtained prior to defeating the Wall of Flesh.
• The Cell Phone, sharing the Magic/Ice Mirror's use time, is one of the few items qualifying with "snail" speed.
• This item used to have the most complicated crafting tree of 13 items, but is now beaten by the Shellphone with 15, and the Zenith, which has 16.
• The Cell Phone's inherited function of teleporting the user to their spawn point may be a reference to the game Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, in which a cell phone item is similarly used to warp back to the main hub of the game.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Introduced.