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Not to be confused with Ambient objects.

Ambient entities are objects that appear and move around in the background, and cannot be interacted with in any way. They are displayed depending on the time of day, biome, and weather. While some can be seen regularly, others are only displayed rarely. Clouds can be considered background entities although they are not affected by biomes. Ambient entities' motion speeds up with time.

List of ambient entities[]

Entity Image Display condition
Meteor Ambience Meteor Shortly prior to a meteor crash
Birds Ambience BirdsVShape Forest and Hallow during the day
Wyvern Ambience Wyvern Hardmode during the day
Airship Ambience FlyingShip Windy Day
Air Balloon Ambience AirBalloons Large 0 Ambience AirBalloons Large 1 Ambience AirBalloons Large 2 Ambience AirBalloons Large 3 Ambience AirBalloons Large 4
Ambience AirBalloons Small 0 Ambience AirBalloons Small 1 Ambience AirBalloons Small 2 Ambience AirBalloons Small 3 Ambience AirBalloons Small 4
Forest and Hallow during the day
Balloons Extra 71 0
Extra 70 0 Extra 70 1 Extra 70 2
Extra 69 0 Extra 69 1 Extra 69 2
Party
Eye of Cthulhu Ambience EOC Night
Butterfly swarm Ambience ButterflySwarm1 Ambience ButterflySwarm2 Forest and Hallow during the day, based on the spawn rate of butterflies that day.
Lost Kite Ambience LostKite Windy Day
Vulture Ambience Vulture Desert during the day
Bat Ambience Bat1 Ambience Bat2 Ambience Bat3 Jungle during the night in large swarms
Pixie posse Ambience PixiePosse1 Ambience PixiePosse2 Hallow
Seagull Ambience Seagull Ocean during the day
Slime Balloon Ambience SlimeBalloons 0 Ambience SlimeBalloons 1 Ambience SlimeBalloons 2 Ambience SlimeBalloons 3 Ambience SlimeBalloons 4 Ambience SlimeBalloons 5 Ambience SlimeBalloons 6 Windy Day in swarms
Gastropod Ambience Gastropod Hallow during the night in swarms
Winged Unicorn Ambience Pegasus Hallow during the day
Eater of Souls Ambience EOS1 Ambience EOS2 Ambience EOS3 Corruption
Crimera Ambience Crimera1 Ambience Crimera2 Ambience Crimera3 Crimson
Hellbat Ambience HellBat1 Ambience HellBat2 Underworld in large swarms
Bone Serpent Ambience Bone Serpent Underworld
Release Lanterns Extra 134 0 Extra 134 1 Extra 134 2 Lantern Night
Falling Slimes Sky Slime 1 Sky Slime 2 Sky Slime 3 Sky Slime 4 Slime Rain
Martian Saucer Extra 6 Extra 5 Martian Madness

List of clouds[]

"Clouds" redirects here. For the placeable block, see Cloud.

Normal clouds[]

Rare clouds[]

Every time a cloud is displayed, there is a 0.67*1/150 (0.67%) chance it will instead be one of these rare clouds.

Notes[]

  • The Meteor ambient entity will only be displayed if the condition for the meteorite biome to spawn was fulfilled between dusk and 11:40 PM, which includes the random chance each night. It will always start falling in the background at 11:40 PM.[1]
    • Even if circumstances would prevent meteorite landings (i.e., no new meteorite biome would actually be generated), the background meteor will still appear when the conditions are fulfilled.

Trivia[]

  • The bats more accurately represent the bats from the Bat Scepter rather than the bat enemy.

References[]

  1. Information taken from the PC version PC 1.4.0.5 source code, method HandleMeteorFall() in Terraria.Main.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current PC version PC version is 1.4.4.9.
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