Sleeping Soundly: The Easiest Bed in Terraria & Your Complete Guide to Cozy Slumber

The easiest bed to acquire in Terraria is undoubtedly the standard bed crafted using 15 wood of any type and 5 silk. It is simple, accessible early in the game, and requires only basic resources readily available to a new player. This bed allows you to set your spawn point and speed up time, making it an essential early-game item.

Crafting Your First Bed: A Step-by-Step Guide

Let’s break down the process of acquiring your first bed into manageable steps:

1. Gather Wood: Chop down trees using an axe. Any type of wood will suffice for the standard bed, so prioritize the easiest trees to access near your starting location.

2. Craft a Workbench: Use 10 wood at your character’s inventory to craft a workbench. Place the workbench down. This is your primary crafting station for many early-game items.

3. Craft a Sawmill: Using the workbench, craft a sawmill. This requires 10 of any wood, 2 iron or lead bars, and 1 chain. Iron/lead ore can be found underground, and smelted into bars with a furnace. Chain is created using iron or lead bars as well. The sawmill is your basic building crafting station.

4. Craft a Loom: Head back to your workbench, with the sawmill placed nearby. Use the sawmill to craft a loom, which requires 12 of any wood. The loom is used to craft cloth items.

5. Gather Cobwebs: Explore the underground caves near the surface, and collect cobwebs. These are abundant and easy to find.

6. Make Silk: Use the loom to craft 5 silk from 35 cobwebs. Each silk requires 7 cobwebs.

7. Craft the Bed: Return to your sawmill and craft the bed using 15 wood and 5 silk.

8. Place the Bed in a Valid Room: The bed needs to be placed inside a valid house/room to function. A valid room requires fully enclosed walls (background tiles), a light source (torch or candle), a flat surface item (table), and a comfort item (chair).

9. Set Your Spawn: Interact with the head of the bed by pressing the interact button (usually the right mouse button) to set your spawn point.

Congratulations! You now have a bed, which can be used to change your spawn point and sleep. Sleeping advances the time forward and gives a boost to health regeneration.

Why Beds Matter in Terraria: More Than Just a Place to Sleep

Beds are more than just decorative furniture in Terraria. They have 3 major functions:

• Setting Your Spawn Point: Most importantly, beds allow you to set your spawn point. This means that when you die, you will respawn at the bed’s location instead of the world spawn point, which is usually far away from where you are exploring.

• Accelerating Time: You can sleep in a bed to speed up time by 5x. This can be useful for skipping the night, which is often more dangerous, or waiting for specific events or NPCs to arrive.

• Meeting Housing Requirements: A bed also counts as a “comfort” item for NPC housing. This is necessary in order to ensure that NPCs stay in a suitable house and continue selling you useful items.

FAQs: Everything You Need to Know About Terraria Beds

1. Why Can’t I Interact with My Bed?

Make sure the bed is placed in a valid room with enclosed walls, a light source, a table, and a chair. The space directly above the head of the bed must also be clear. If the room requirements aren’t met, then you will not be able to interact with the bed.

2. Can I Sleep Through Events Like Blood Moons or Goblin Armies?

No. During certain events like the Blood Moon, Goblin Army, or boss fights, the ability to sleep in a bed is disabled. You must survive or defeat the event before you can sleep.

3. Does the Type of Wood Used to Craft a Bed Matter?

No. Any type of wood can be used to craft the standard bed. You can use regular wood, boreal wood, ebonwood, shadewood, pearlwood, or any other type of wood. The bed will look different depending on the type of wood you use.

4. What Other Materials Can I Use to Make a Bed?

While the standard bed requires wood and silk, other bed variants can be crafted using different materials. These usually become available later in the game and often require materials from specific biomes or bosses.

5. Do Beds Provide Any Combat Benefits?

No. Beds do not provide any direct combat benefits. However, accelerating time can help you prepare for battles by skipping to the right time of day for certain boss spawns or events.

6. Can I Move My Bed After Setting My Spawn Point?

Yes, you can move your bed after setting your spawn point. Your spawn point will remain at the bed’s new location.

7. How Do I Know if a Room is Valid for Housing?

You can check the validity of a room by using the housing query tool. Open your inventory, click the house icon at the top, then click the question mark. Then, click inside the room to determine whether it is valid housing.

8. Can NPCs Use Beds?

No. NPCs do not use beds. However, beds are required as a comfort item within NPC houses to maintain their happiness and ensure they stay in their assigned houses.

9. How Does Sleeping Affect Health Regeneration?

Sleeping in a bed significantly boosts health regeneration, making it a useful way to recover health between battles. This is similar to the effects of chairs and sofas.

10. What Happens if My Bed is Destroyed?

If your bed is destroyed, your spawn point will revert back to the default world spawn point. You will need to place another bed and interact with it to set your spawn point again.

11. Can I Craft a Bed Without a Loom?

No. A loom is required to craft the silk needed for the bed. You cannot craft a bed without a loom, and therefore you cannot craft one without silk.

12. Are There Any Alternatives to Beds for Setting a Spawn Point?

No. Beds are the only item that allows you to set a new spawn point in Terraria.

13. Why Isn’t the Princess NPC Moving In?

The Princess NPC will only spawn once all other town NPCs are present. In order to fulfill this requirement, you must defeat Plantera, which is a Hardmode boss that players must defeat in the Underground Jungle. Only once all other NPCs are present can the Princess NPC spawn.

14. How Fast Does Sleeping Make Time Pass?

Sleeping in a bed accelerates time by five times its normal rate. Therefore, 1 hour of in-game time passes in 12 seconds of real-life time while sleeping.

15. Can I craft a bed with materials like bone, glass, ice blocks, flesh or honey?

No, while it is humorously suggested, the game does not allow you to craft the standard bed using these resources. However, it may be possible with the use of a mod.

Building a Better World, One Bed at a Time

Crafting a bed is one of the first steps you can take in the vast and exciting world of Terraria. It provides comfort, convenience, and safety, all in one simple piece of furniture. So, gather your wood and silk, build your sawmill and loom, and get ready to set your spawn point and explore the world with confidence.

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