How do I use a crimson/demon altar in Terraria?
I came across a crimson altar in Terraria, and have spent 26 minutes looking this up with no results: how, in the world, do I use it? I seriously do not understand. And this has been a common theme with this game from the get-go, like the Extractinator with its bizarre place the silt into the machine like you're placing a block interface. It's occurring to me that Terraria is very unintuitive and kind of all over the place with its user interface.
The wiki says the suspicious-looking eye can be crafted with it, but despite all my frantic clicking, I can't get the thing to work. I've tried standing on it, hitting it, clicking every button on the mouse, and throwing the whole stack of lenses on top of the altar with no results.
I hope this doesn't have to do with expert/normal mode. Cause if so, well, why did it even spawn, first of all, but if so, then I wasted an hour beating a dead horse.
To say this is frustrating would be an understatement.
Best Answer
It is simply a crafting station like any other in the game (work bench, anvil, etc.). To use it you just stand near it and open your crafting menu and you'll see the new options available pertaining to the demon altar.
If you don't see any new crafting options available in your crafting menu make sure you're standing close enough to it.
And don't feel dumb, the same thing happened to me the first time I found one!
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What do you do with Crimson altars?
Demon Altars and Crimson Altars are naturally-occurring crafting stations found mainly in and around chasms in The Corruption or The Crimson, and less frequently underground. They are used to craft pre-Hardmode boss-summoning items and the Night's Edge as well as the Void Bag and Vault.How do I move the Crimson Altar?
Demon Altars cannot be moved or placed without maphacking. The only option is to destroy them (with the Pwnhammer or Hamdrax). In the screenshot you provided, it looks like that they took their compact crafting station to the altar, rather than the other way around (like you were hoping to do so).Do demon altars spread Crimson?
Upon smashing a Demon/Crimson altar with the Pwnhammer (Or more powerful tools later on in the game), there is a chance of a single block of your world turning Hallowed or Corrupt/Crimson in a random place, which given enough time, will spread to form new, large areas to deal with.Should I destroy all demon altars?
No, it's not. Destroying more will slightly increase the amount of ore. the spreading of corruption can be easily handle with items.Terraria How To Find A Crimson Altar (2022) | Terraria How To Find A Demon Altar (2022)
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