Iridium Bar

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Iridium Bar
A bar of pure iridium.
Information
Source	Furnace Shadow Shaman (0.2%) Shadow Brute (0.2%) Iridium Bat (0.8%) Purple Slime (0.9%)
Sell Price	data-sort-value="1000">1,000g
Crafting
Equipment	Furnace
Processing Time	8h
Ingredients	Iridium Ore (5) Coal (1)

An Iridium Bar is crafted by smelting 5 Iridium Ore and 1 Coal in a Furnace. Purple Slimes in the Skull Cavern or Slime Hutch have a chance to drop Iridium Bars and Ore when slain. Shadow Shaman and Shadow Brutes can also drop an Iridium Bar when slain (0.2% chance). Iridium Bats may drop one as well (0.8% chance). The Traveling Cart may sell an Iridium Bar for data-sort-value="1000"3,000–5,000g. One Iridium Bar can also be received as a gift from Clint at the Feast of the Winter Star. Two to three Iridium Bars may occasionally be found in treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern.

An Iridium Bar can be shipped or sold to Clint at the Blacksmith Shop for data-sort-value="1000">1,000g, or data-sort-value="1500">1,500g with the Blacksmith Profession.

The Desert Trader in the Calico Desert will trade one Warp Totem: Desert Recipe for 10 Iridium Bars.

Tool Upgrades

Iridium Bars are required for the final upgrade of tools.

Image	Name	Cost	Ingredients
	Iridium Hoe	data-sort-value="25000">25,000g	Iridium Bar (5)
	Iridium Pickaxe	data-sort-value="25000">25,000g	Iridium Bar (5)
	Iridium Axe	data-sort-value="25000">25,000g	Iridium Bar (5)
	Iridium Watering Can	data-sort-value="25000">25,000g	Iridium Bar (5)
	Iridium Trash Can	data-sort-value="12500">12,500g	Iridium Bar (5)

Crafting

Image	Name	Description	Ingredients	Recipe Source
	Iridium Sprinkler	Waters the 24 adjacent tiles every morning.	Iridium Bar (1) Gold Bar (1) Battery Pack (1)	Farming Level 9
	Iridium Band	Glows, attracts items, and increases attack damage by 10%.	Iridium Bar (5) Solar Essence (50) Void Essence (50)	Combat Level 9
	Crystalarium	Insert a gem of your choice and it will grow copies.	Iridium Bar (2) Stone (99) Gold Bar (5) Battery Pack (1)	Mining Level 9
	Slime Incubator	Hatches slimes eggs into slimes. Allows you to raise slimes outdoors.	Iridium Bar (2) Slime (100)	Combat Level 8
	Wedding Ring	An old Zuzu City tradition... It's used to ask for another farmer's hand in marriage. Note: Multiplayer only	Iridium Bar (5) Prismatic Shard (1)	Traveling Cart (data-sort-value="500">500g)
	Deluxe Fertilizer (5)	Greatly improves soil quality, increasing your chance to grow quality crops. Mix into tilled soil.	Iridium Bar (1) Sap (40)	Mr. Qi (data-sort-value="20"> 20)
	Hopper	Items placed inside will automatically be loaded into the machine in front of it.	Iridium Bar (1) Hardwood (10) Radioactive Bar (1)	Mr. Qi (data-sort-value="50"> 50)

Buildings

Iridium bars are used in these buildings purchased from the Carpenter's Shop and the Wizard's Tower.

Image	Name	Description	Cost	Size
	Slime Hutch	Raise up to 20 slimes. Fill water troughs and slimes will create slime balls.	data-sort-value="10000">10,000g Stone (500) Refined Quartz (10) Iridium Bar (1)	11x6
	Earth Obelisk	Warps you to the mountains.	data-sort-value="500000">500,000g Iridium Bar (10) Earth Crystal (10)	3x2
	Water Obelisk	Warps you to the beach.	data-sort-value="500000">500,000g Iridium Bar (5) Clam (10) Coral (10)	3x2
	Desert Obelisk	Warps you to the desert.	data-sort-value="1000000">1,000,000g Iridium Bar (20) Coconut (10) Cactus Fruit (10)	3x2
	Island Obelisk	Warps you to Ginger Island.	data-sort-value="1000000">1,000,000g Iridium Bar (10) Dragon Tooth (10) Banana (10)	3x2

Bundles

Iridium Bar may be an option in the remixed Dye Bundle on the Bulletin Board.

Tailoring

An Iridium Bar is used in the spool of the Sewing Machine with Cloth in the feed to create an Iridium Breastplate. It is an iridium dye when used in the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable clothing item in the feed. It can be placed in the purple dye pot at Emily's and Haley's house for use in dyeing.

Quests

• The Wizard requests an Iridium Bar by mail on the 5th of Winter (year 2) in the "Staff of Power" Quest. The reward is data-sort-value="5000">5,000g and 1 Friendship heart.
• 1 Iridium Bar is requested by Lava Eel in a Fish Pond quest to increase the capacity of the pond from 7 to 10.
• Willy's Boat needs 5 Iridium Bars to repair the anchor.

Trivia

• In real life, iridium is a rare silver, brittle metal that can be hazardous in a fine dust and has toxic radioactive isotopes. It is often used to produce hard, durable surfaces for high-precision tools and machine parts. It is the second densest element on the periodic table, being almost twice as dense as lead.

History

• 1.0: Introduced.
• 1.1: Used as a building material to the Water Obelisk and Earth Obelisk.
• 1.3.27: Used as an ingredient to the Wedding Ring recipe.
• 1.4: Used as a building material to the Desert Obelisk. Added Iridium Trash can upgrade. Can now be used in Tailoring. Can be requested in Lava Eel Fish Pond quest.
• 1.5: Used as a building material to the Island Obelisk and as an ingredient to the Deluxe Fertilizer and Hopper recipes.