Terraria: How to make a loom

The loom is a crafting station in Terraria which is essential for creating a lot of different clothes or furniture items in the game. Most notably, you need them to craft silk, which you need to make beds. Beds set your own spawn point in the game, making them critical for ensuring you get to spawn inside your own house you built. Fortunately, looms are easy to make. Here’s how to make a loom in Terraria.

Terraria: Loom crafting recipe

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You will first need the single ingredient in the crafting recipe: 12 of any wood. Yes, that’s it. The more involved part is a loom can only be crafted at a sawmill. For that, you need ten wood, two of any iron bars, and a chain, which is crafted from a single iron bar, so essentially you need three iron bars. With that in your inventory, you can make a sawmill at any work bench and place it down. Now standing next to the sawmill with 12 wood should open up the loom in the crafting menu.

With the loom crafted, you can set it down anywhere and get right to crafting whatever you need. Silk is going to be the basis of most further crafts with the loom. To make a single unit of silk, you need seven cobwebs. If you’ve been exploring for iron down in caves, you’ve probably run into far more than seven cobwebs by now. Once you have a lot of silk crafted, if you’re after beds, threads, sofas, banners, or vanity items, the loom has you covered for the vast majority of them. It’s a spinning wheel that claims to be a loom. It can do whatever fabric related endeavor it sets its mind to.

There is also a rare chance of finding one in an underground cabin, but don’t count on it. It’s far less effort to simply craft it unless you get lucky early on.