While there’s so much you need to accomplish after first jumping intoTerraria, one of the most important tools you need to craft first is a bed. Not only does it provide a boost in health generation, but you can pass the time faster while sleeping. More importantly, it creates a spawn point.
This guide shows you how to make a bed using wood. But the process takes time. Not only do you need to gather resources — one of which can beextremelytime-consuming — but you need to buildfive crafting stationsin a specific order. Only then can you finally build a basic bed.
At the end of this guide, we list all the different beds you’re able to make, the ingredients you need, and their required crafting station.
What you need
Here are yourbasicingredients. You’ll either use them as is or smelted in the furnace to create another ingredient. Each part of this guide will tell you exactly how much you need.
General ingredients:
Crafting stations (in order):
Note:If you don’t have the ingredients needed to create an item, you won’t see it shown in the Crafting Menu until you do.
A note about cobwebs
Cobwebs will be your hardest ingredients to find. They’re located deep down in caves, spider caves, tunnels, and underground rooms and mines. We found this batch in an underground room, which wasn’t much. We didn’t stumble across a motherlode until we dug deep, deep underground, and dropped into a cavern loaded with cobwebs.
How to open the Crafting Menu
The Crafting Menu is part of the Inventory interface. To open it, press the following key or button:
Part 1: Create a Work Bench
First, you need this item to craft most everything else required to build your bed. The screenshot above shows that Bird Head simply placed it on the ground and then started building a house around it.
Ingredients:
Step 1:Open your Inventory and Crafting Menu.
Step 2: Select the Work Bench in the Crafting Menu.
Step 2:Place your Work Bench anywhere.
Part 2: Create a torch
You’ll need this item to explore caves and create your next crafting station, the Furnace.
Step 1:Approach the Work Bench
Step 2:Open your Inventory and Crafting Menu.
Step 3:Scroll through the Crafting Menu until you find the torch.
Step 4:Drag the resulting three torches into your inventory.
Part 3: Create a Furnace
You’ll need this crafting station, shown to the left of Bird Head, to smelt iron ore and create the anvil.
Step 1:Approach the Work Bench.
Step 3:Select the Furnace in the Crafting Menu.
Step 4:Place your Furnace anywhere.
Part 4: Create an anvil
You need this crafting station, shown to the right of Bird Head, to create chains, which is one of the ingredients to create a Sawmill.
Step 1:Approach the Furnace.
Step 3:Select the iron bar in the Crafting Menu and drag it into your inventory.
Step 4:Repeat these steps until you have five iron bars.
Step 4:The anvil is now available. Select it and place it on the ground.
Part 5: Create a Sawmill
Finally. We’re getting closer to our bed. The Sawmill, shown to the right of Bird Head, will be the crafting table we use to make the bed once we craft silk.
Step 3:Select the Sawmill in the Crafting Menu.
Step 4:Place your Sawmill anywhere.
Part 6: Create a Loom
Shown to the left of Bird Head, the Loom is your last crafting station of the day. Really. We promise.
Step 1:Approach the Sawmill.
Step 3:Select the Loom in the Crafting Menu
Step 4:Place your Loom anywhere.
Part 7: Create silk
Time to make your silk sheets!
Step 1:Approach the Loom.
Step 3:Select the silk material in the Crafting Menu
Step 4:Drag the silk into your inventory.
Step 5:Repeat these steps four more times to craft all five silks.
Part 8: Create your bed
Finally! Now you can move on to craft a basic bed!
If you’re aiming to create something unusual, like a Bone Bed, we provide information at the end listing each bed and their main ingredient. Simply replace the wood for the main ingredient — you’ll still need the five silk.
Ingredients
Step 3:Select the bed in the Crafting Menu
Step 4:Place your bed anywhere.
Bed types – Sawmill only
All bed types listed below use the Sawmill and require five silk each in addition to the main ingredient. Shown above is the Mushroom Bed in our mushroom house we created just for our little blue guy, Bird Head.
Bed types – Crafting Table only
Although you can craft these beds in the Sawmill, this method is only available on console and mobile.
Bed types – other crafting stations
There are other bed types you can create, but they require different crafting stations not presented in this guide. Shown above is the Living Wood Bed we created using the Living Loom crafting station we found while making this guide.
