1.3 Crimson Key meteor head farm.

[Merez]

Does it still work? I've hit hard mode and all of sudden the meteor heads in my crimson biome Do Not drop anything aside from the occasional ancient armor and banners. they dont drop money or mana stars. I'm starting to think they might have been patched to not drop the crimson key in hardmode

[Bamblok]

I'm pretty sure it still works. Remember, keys are a 1 in 2500 chance.

Or did they increase the chance... lemme check... yeah, 1 in 2500. So don't give up if they don't drop anything.

[Bob of Mage]

They patched that out a few verisons ago.

[Merez]

ahh ok so metor heads in the crimsom biome in hardmode will not drop the key?
is there any guide on a good farm from crimson biome in 1.3? its pretty hard to build anything up there atm haha

[Bob of Mage]

I would make a pirate farm near the ocean and turn it crimson. You can easily leave it afk for a bit (go read a book or something) and you will get more maps by itself. You just need a lava pit and you're done.

NOTE: I have not tried this in 1.3 so I don't know if the new mini-boss would have any effect on this. If that is the case go for some other invasion farm since they will bring in huge numbers of foes quickly.

[Goul]

Yeah they patched it from the 1.2.? update. And now keys are drop, you don't need to craft her with the mold and the jungle key. But I don't know how can you get this key, I will seek.

[Syuurei]

Well i think the best way to gain the crimson key will be farm with traps (if you have access to the jungle temple; anyway you should have if u want to open crimson chest ;p). Make a big area underground with about 164 blocks wide and fill it with lava (mobs won't spawn and worthless items and gold (unfortunately will burn)) and make a some platform for mobs to spawn (2 layers), actuate them both that they will drop items to lava (key will remain) and above the platform add traps (spear traps will be the best). Ofc you need to stand about 40 blocks above platform so mobs can spawn. I think that should work.

[Chronos]

Or get summoner gear make a save spot with a heart statue + a timer so it keeps popping and let your minions clean up everything. works good for soul of light / darkness farm and keys.

[Acevy]

this is how I get my keys http://gyazo.com/790a14b856b09a795faf88d82e32ceca

[Merez]

wicked farm Arxzos thanks for the design plan aswell haha and thanks everyone else for the info. I was just recently farming souls of light and got a hallowed key drop from them! sept im in expert mode and still need to kill plantera XD gonna be a while with that!

[Danté]

TL;DR doesn't expert mode have an increased drop rate? I'd try that if I was you.

[ウィッチ（？）]

I'm in Expert mode made small arena dedicated to Crimson key (slime statue + natural mob spawn, clear them with army of minions - dragon + cell + UFO combo)
Run for about several hours but haven't seen a single key yet.. Getting Hallow key was easy (even have several in base chest room) when I try to get Rod of Discord, but seems like Crimson key is darn harder to get one. Or just plain unlucky..

[Bob of Mage]

Originally posted by Opfer_GV:

I'm in Expert mode made small arena dedicated to Crimson key (slime statue + natural mob spawn, clear them with army of minions - dragon + cell + UFO combo)
Run for about several hours but haven't seen a single key yet.. Getting Hallow key was easy (even have several in base chest room) when I try to get Rod of Discord, but seems like Crimson key is darn harder to get one. Or just plain unlucky..

I'm pretty sure statue mobs can't drop keys.

[Bamblok]

Originally posted by Bob of Mage:

Originally posted by Opfer_GV:

I'm in Expert mode made small arena dedicated to Crimson key (slime statue + natural mob spawn, clear them with army of minions - dragon + cell + UFO combo)
Run for about several hours but haven't seen a single key yet.. Getting Hallow key was easy (even have several in base chest room) when I try to get Rod of Discord, but seems like Crimson key is darn harder to get one. Or just plain unlucky..

I'm pretty sure statue mobs can't drop keys.

I dunno. I looked on the wiki and it didn't say anything about it.

Since Meteor Heads can't drop keys, or souls, or anything in hardmode, I'm gonna assume that statues can't either.

(I hope they can, though.)

[Dovahkiin570]

Originally posted by Arxzos:

this is how I get my keys http://gyazo.com/790a14b856b09a795faf88d82e32ceca

Can you tell me the dimensions of the blocks

[Acevy]

Originally posted by Dovahkiin570 | Trade.tf:

Originally posted by Arxzos:

this is how I get my keys http://gyazo.com/790a14b856b09a795faf88d82e32ceca

Can you tell me the dimensions of the blocks

for the biomes or what