BIOME KEY MOLDS

[radical tourism]

It's literally impossible for me to get a crimson key mold. I've beaten 2 mechanical bosses so far... when can you recieve them?

[joefitts63]

You can't. The key molds no longer spawn. You just get the biome key. That's what the update notes said, anyway.

[Borch TrzyKawki]

you cant open biome chests before killing planterra, but if you want biome keys fight a lot of invasions or events, i like to farm on pirates, becuse theyre afkable, with some lava and you standing below it, dont worry items with rarity greater than white will not be destroyed by lava.

[radical tourism]

NO no no, WHen can you get the keys, like, after beating plantera, After beating the WOFfle...

[Pythios]

As soon as you kill WoF and enter hard mode. Any HM mob can drop it in their respective biome.

[Roarak]

I mean the Biome Keys are a 1/2500 drop chance in normal mode...it's kinda stupid to expect to find one without grinding for it (No offense). Seriously though, best thing to do is build an ocean farm to get lots of pirate maps and then fight constant pirate invasions in the biome your looking to get the key for.

[radical tourism]

That's kinda smart WTFohitsyou. Yes, I've been grinding for 3 days. XD

[Roarak]

Originally posted by Cheeziest_Curl:

That's kinda smart WTFohitsyou. Yes, I've been grinding for 3 days. XD

It wasn't my idea but it's what I use, on my old world before 1.3 I had too many crimson key molds cause my arena was in the crimson so I'd always end up fighting the pirates there.

[Roarak]

And for the record the key you'll get is dependant on what biome your in, not what biome the mob itself is from. If you kill a pixie in the corruption it has a chance to drop a corrupt key not a hallow key, which is why the invasions are great for finding them.

[prpl_mage]

What other people have said.
The keys start dropping in hard mode when you have defeated the wall of flesh. Statue monsters cannot drop keys but event monsters can. They cannot be used until you have defeated plantera though. The corruption key I found in my expert world had the tooltip "an evil force in the jungle is blocking this" or something. but they can be found before Plantera's demise.

Cycle through some events in your desired area and hope for the best. Water candles and battle potions increases spawn rates. but the normal spawn rate (non-event) spawn very few monsters.

[radical tourism]

Originally posted by WTFohitsyou:

Originally posted by Cheeziest_Curl:

That's kinda smart WTFohitsyou. Yes, I've been grinding for 3 days. XD

It wasn't my idea but it's what I use, on my old world before 1.3 I had too many crimson key molds cause my arena was in the crimson so I'd always end up fighting the pirates there.

Too many? I haven't gotten one singular crimson key, which is what I'm after! You are a lucky individual

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by Cheeziest_Curl:

Originally posted by WTFohitsyou:

It wasn't my idea but it's what I use, on my old world before 1.3 I had too many crimson key molds cause my arena was in the crimson so I'd always end up fighting the pirates there.

Too many? I haven't gotten one singular crimson key, which is what I'm after! You are a lucky individual

It's the same for everyone.

In my first world I had my arena in the snow, ended up with 9 key molds for the snow biome chest key.

[js51472]

I wish they would improve the odds of getting a key. 1 in 2500 makes it seems impossible, and that's just for one out of 5 keys.

[skippleshd]

If you afk farm anything you'll get some. There are plenty of afk guides on youtube, its all pretty simple. I have like 3 of every biome key spare. They just happen.