Brightest Pet

[Crab Cake]

I hate having to hold a torch or something when I'm mineing or building so I was wodering, what is the brightest pet on PC?

[MageFyre]

the Wisp in a Bottle, it drops in post-Plantera dungeon off of fire bones, 0.01% chance?

[Crab Cake]

thx

[Mickmane]

There's a wisp in a bottle that's not actually a pet but a third companion (besides pet and minion) that you can run around with. It gives off light.

http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Wisp

The only two actual pets that provide light (according to wiki) are Baby Truffle and Cursed Sapling.

http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Pets

I don't remember how bright the Truffle is, but Cursed Sapling is useful because it's got the habit to circle round discovering unexplored areas. Like this:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229873502

[Unicarn]

The sapling is better.

[Zemecon]

I dunno. I prefer the Wisp-in-a-Bottle because it always stays in-front of your character. That, and all you need is the buff; you can call it once and then put the item itself away so that other characters can use it.

[Rellik66]

Both the sapling and the wisp can be used at the same time.

[Torchfire]

There are 3 light giving "companion" spells in Terraria:

1. Shadow Orb - Obtained by breaking shadow orbs in a corrupted world. Provides a small amount of purple light and is the only pre-hardmode light spell in the game. Very useful before obtaining a better one.
2. Fairy Bell - Obtained by crafting hardmode ingredients (a bell, pixie dust, souls of Sight and Light). Provides a good amount of coloured light that is different every time it's summoned.
3. Whisp in a Bottle - Obtained as a rare drop in a post-Plantera Dungeon. Provides a high amount of white light and can be somewhat controlled by using movement keys. Very useful.

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

Buy a mining helmet from the merchant?
Pause the game, and switch to armored helmets when in need.

[Mickmane]

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

Buy a mining helmet from the merchant?
Pause the game, and switch to armored helmets when in need.

To then stand in the dark? ;P

I just put torches into the enviroment (digging out 1 block, putting torch inside, safe from sudden water) before I had the Wisp. (Also visible in my earlier screenshot.)

I'm still doing that sometimes.

Btw, torches can be placed with that auto-pick appropriate item (you can define the key for that somewhere in the settings, I don't remember original one), so you don't need any torches in your hotbar.

[BonBon]

Torches are cheap they're quick to place and the merchant sells them to you. You're better off uses torches or you can just use the: F9 key in game to change the light settings to make light sources brighter.

[HIMU]

The Whisp in a bottle