Do some items just not spawn in a world?

[GrimRocket]

So after finally dropping a death scythe spell book, I decided to dig through the underground ice biome in hopes of finding some ice skates. Ice chest after ice chest, and I've come up with more enchanted ice boomerangs than I'd ever need, but no skates. Am I just having bad luck or so some things just not spawn in worlds?

[kevinshow]

You won't necessarily get every chest item in every world (or even the case for the statues, you can't get every statue in every world...or at least you have to look very hard for all statues).

It's a case of making several worlds to explore and have fun in. The bonus is that as your character gets stronger and better, exploring new worlds in pre-hard-mode should go very fast.

[Celator]

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Chest items are decided on a per-chest basis, based on a percentage chance that each item will be in a given chest. The only exception is the floating island chests, which will try to spawn one each of their unique items before spawning duplicates (though this does not guarantee all of those items will spawn, since you may not have that many floating islands). As a result, if no chest in the world triggers that percentage chance of having a particular item, you simply won't be able to get that item in that world. You'll have to make another world and try again.

[GrimRocket]

Originally posted by navorskatie:

You won't necessarily get every chest item in every world (or even the case for the statues, you can't get every statue in every world...or at least you have to look very hard for all statues).

It's a case of making several worlds to explore and have fun in. The bonus is that as your character gets stronger and better, exploring new worlds in pre-hard-mode should go very fast.

Well that's simple enough. But what do you mean about a character getting stronger? Isn't that just based on your equipment?

I'm kind of a Terraria noob, still working on the ins and outs of the game before I try another world so mind the questions if they sound dumb.

[Celator]

Originally posted by Leather-Skull:

But what do you mean about a character getting stronger? Isn't that just based on your equipment?

Yes. As you get better equipment, your character gets stronger.