Terraria Mining Potions

Make Shine, Night Owl, Mining, and Spelunker Potions

Spelunker Potions reveal all treasure - including ore and gems. This, combined with the Shine, Night Owl, and Mining Potions will let you find ore in mass quantities very quickly.

There are four potions that stand out as amazing when you're mining. This tutorial will tell you where to find the ingredients to craft them, and introduce you to other guides that can help a budding alchemist get started: see my guides to How to Make Potions, along with my guide to gardens in Terraria to learn to get the plants and brew them into potions. By making a garden area, you can have an infinite supply of potions. If you already know all that and just need a list of ingredients, this will help. There is a materials checklist to make a stack of ten of each of these potions at the bottom.

In the screenshot above, my character is quite deep - near the bottom of the Cavern layer. Use these potions when you're at least in the Underground so they are not a waste. You'll find more ore the deeper you go, although the challenge increases as well. If you want to know more about mining efficiently, read my Guide to Mining in Terraria: Finding Ore and Distribution by Depth.

Spelunker Potion

The Spelunker Potion is the best of the four here, so it should naturally be listed first. Spelunker Potions reveal everything around - treasures, ore, heart crystals, and treasure chests. When it comes to mining, it's the most useful potion though it works best in combination with the others. The effect lasts 5 minutes, which is similar to the others here. Gather the following ingredients to make one:

• Bottled Water - see the making potions guide linked above.
• Blinkroot - Grows on dirt without grass. Found regularly underground. You can place dirt blocks outside - away from grass - and blinkroot will spawn naturally, you can then put it in a planter to produce them. Try to get it when it's 'on' (glowing) and you'll receive seeds.
• Moonglow - Grows in the Jungle. Blooms at night, which is when you will get seeds to allow you to farm more for your potions.
• Gold or Platinum Ore - Sacrificing just one piece of ore will allow you to gather much more.

Mining Potion (PC-Only)

The Mining Potion allows you 8 minutes of enhanced Mining speed - 25%! Do not even bother using it with a drill, however. Combine this with a Spelunker Potion, and you're in a great situation to collect loads of ore. This one is not nearly as good as a Spelunker, but is definitely worthy of the time needed to gather the ingredients. This does stack with mining armor and is even more effective if you've got a fast pickaxe. If you're short on Blinkroot, save those for more Spelunker Potions!

• Bottled Water
• Blinkroot - see above.
• Antlion Mandible - Head to the desert, where you will find a few varieties of Antlion. The ones that are buried are not guaranteed to drop one, but the larger ones can drop 2-3 of them. The chargers are not to be taken lightly early in the game - their armor and health are far too high.

Shine Potion

The Shine Potion makes your character emit light for 5 minutes, as though you were wearing a mining helmet, but without the loss of defense. This isn't as useful if you do have one of those, but it can keep you safer and is a potion everyone should know how to make for late-night battles. I love them for mining as, although I do light everything up with torches as I explore, it lets me see while my character works without constantly placing them.

• Bottled Water
• Daybloom - Blooms during daytime (Surprise!) on the surface. The most common of all plants.
• Glowing Mushroom - Find these in an underground mushroom biome. Locating one will take some exploration. You can grow your own by taking mushroom grass seeds and planting them in mud blocks. The seeds have a chance to drop when mining the mushrooms. It will then spread to other mud blocks, and the mushrooms will spawn naturally. Expand the area and you can make a very productive farm. You can do this on the surface and even give the Truffle NPC a home.

Night Owl Potion

The Night Owl Potion would not be as useful without a Shine Potion for mining, but it has its own standalone uses for increasing visibility. If you are low on Blinkroot, save it for the other potions. However, when you have an abundance of this important plant, this potion stacks very well with Shine. Night Owl will enhance the light output of any sources for 4 minutes, including your own character's glow with shine on, by letting them see further into dark areas. This can help you spot ore, as you do not need to get up close with a torch to see it. Good stuff!

• Bottled Water
• Daybloom
• Blinkroot

Making a Stack of the Miner's Potions
You can make a stack of 10 each of these with:

• Bottled Water x 40
• Blinkroot x 30
• Daybloom x 20
• Antlion Mandible x 10
• Glowing Mushroom x 10
• Gold or Platinum x 10
• Moonglow x 10

I would also consider the dangersense and/or hunter's potions to be helpful, but wanted to stick with what I normally use when out mining and keep it simple. I hope this helps you get the ore you couldn't find. I'm always open to feedback on my Terraria Guide at [email protected].

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WandaYT says...

The mining potion is on mobile too.

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