Silver Coin Piles can sometimes be found in the Underground and Caverns in a Campsite, often accompanied by a Campfire and a background object of skeletal remains and in a Pyramid.
In addition to the coins most slimes already drop, coins have a small chance to appear as a bonus drop.Coin Portals have a rare chance to be opened by Pots.Coins have their damage values (from a Coin Gun) listed, and are listed as ammo.On Desktop version, Console version, Mobile version, and Nintendo Switch version, the location will be marked by a coin icon on the minimap, and hovering the cursor over / tapping the icon will show the exact amount of coins the enemy is carrying.Ī player standing next to a coin portal in the underworld. Enemies holding dropped coins emit a sparkle effect based on the color of the best coin they are holding. If said enemy despawns, their location will be saved on the map, and they will respawn in that area. In Expert Mode, enemies can pick up coins dropped by enemies or players.Dying from the player's own projectile after having it reflected by an enemy (such as a Selenian ) will also result in coins being dropped.Forms of accidental death, such as fall damage or Chaos State, will cause coins to drop.This includes accidentally blowing oneself up with explosives.Being killed by a player-wielded weapon will not cause the player to drop any coins in Softcore, even if recently damaged by an enemy.Upon player death in Mediumcore or Hardcore, all coins are dropped, regardless of how the player died.If the player has 10, 5, 8, or 10 will be dropped. For example, if the player possesses 1 in one stack, it will be dropped. Upon a player's death in Classic (Softcore ) difficulty (the default mode), half ( three quarters) ( all) of all of the stacks of coins in a player's inventory are dropped, rounded up to the nearest whole coin.Coins may be spent in NPC transactions directly from the player's banks.
Deposit All does place coins, but if the chest is already full when pressing Deposit All, higher denominations may be destroyed if a stack for that coin does not exist.
Using "Quick Stack" on an open Piggy Bank, Money Trough, Safe or Defender's Forge (collectively, a "bank"), gives special behavior: If there is already at least one coin (of any value) in the bank, all coins in the player's main inventory and coin slots will be moved to the bank.Similarly, a player holding 96 and picking up another 15, will end up with 1 11.For example, if the player picks up 100, they will end up with 1 in their inventory instead.Coins picked up from the environment, or "shift-clicked" from a storage item, will automatically combine into their higher denominations, if possible.Inside the player's inventory, coins have their own special slots, although it is possible to move them into normal inventory slots.