Cobalt Ore (2024)

Cobalt Ore

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Statistics

• 100%

Type	OreCrafting material
Placeable	✔️ (1 wide×1 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity
Sell	7
Research	100 required

• Internal Item ID: 364
• Internal Tile ID: 107

Cobalt Ore is the lowest tier of Hardmode Ore, and can spawn on the first breaking of an Altar. More will spawn on the 4th, 7th, 10th, etc destroyed Altars, albeit in decreasing amounts. Mining Cobalt Ore requires at least a Molten Pickaxe. It is immune to all types of explosions.

Palladium Ore may generate in place of Cobalt Ore. It is slightly more valuable, and the tools and weapons it crafts have slightly better stats.

Crafting[]

Recipes[]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cobalt Ore	Palladium Ore	Chlorophyte Extractinator Conversion
	Palladium Ore	Shimmer Transmutation

Used in[]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Cobalt Bar	Cobalt Ore3	Furnace
only: Cobalt Brick5	Stone Block5 Cobalt Ore
only: Cobalt Brick	Stone Block Cobalt Ore
Platinum Ore	Cobalt Ore	Shimmer Transmutation

Notes[]

• Cobalt ore spawns at any depth in the Underground and Cavern layers.

Achievements[]

Trivia[]

• Actual Cobalt is a poisonous, magnetic metal (though it is actually a key part of vitamin B12, which is necessary for living beings and has extremely low toxicity). It is named after the Kobold, at that time thought of as a mischievous spirit; this is because smelting its ores were difficult and would often release toxic fumes. Pure cobalt is an element found on the periodic table just after iron, and is actually silver-like in color, however it is never found pure in nature. Its primary historic use was as a pigment used especially in glass or porcelain, as it turns a rich "cobalt blue" when in the compound form of smaltite, made of cobalt, iron, and nickel combined with arsenic. This made cobalt, along with lapis lazuli, one of the few mineral blue pigments, and therefore was an extremely valuable commodity.
• Several Cobalt items in the game are Japanese-themed, namely the Cobalt Naginata, Cobalt Armor and the Cobalt Sword which resembles a katana.
• Cobalt Ore's inventory sprite is the same as the one for Adamantite Ore, except rotated and colored blue.
• Despite being named after (and resembling) the material, the Cobalt Shield cannot be made from ore/bars, as it predates the addition of Cobalt.

See also[]

• Palladium Ore

History[]

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Placed Cobalt has a new texture. The previous placed sprite was

• Desktop 1.2.3: Increased stack limit from 99 to 999.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

• Console-Release: Introduced.

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.

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