How to Favorite Your Items in Terraria

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Favoriting your items in Terraria will make your job much easier because doing so will mean they remain in your inventory when you automatically transfer items such as weapons and tools from your inventory to a chest. It also means that if your inventory is full of junk, you won’t accidentally destroy your favorite items using Quick Thrown or Quick Trash options. So, let’s explain how to favorite your items in Terraria.

Favorite Items in Terraria Explained

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Given that each platform has different controls, the process is slightly different for each. Let’s break it down.

PC

On the computer, you should use the ALT + Left Mouse Click combination to favorite your items.

First, open your inventory.
Then hold down the ALT key, and Left-Click on the item you want to favorite.
You can tell that you have favorited the item by its changing frame.

Console

There is no item favoriting mechanic in the Xbox, and PlayStation versions of Terraria. But instead, you can assign any item you want to Hotkey. To do this, you can follow the steps below.

PlayStation:

After opening your inventory, press the Triangle key.
Then select the item you want to add to the Terraria Hotkey.
After that, select where you want to put this item on the D-Pad.

Xbox:

Open your inventory, and press the Y button.
Select your item, just like on PlayStation, and choose where you want to assign it.

Nintendo Switch:

Mobile

This feature is not yet available for the mobile version of Terraria.

Best Items to Favorite in Terraria

Here are the main items you’ll want to favorite in Terraria:

Weapons
Tools
Torches
Potions
Other Useful Items

Since you’ll need weapons, tools, and especially potions often in Terraria, it’s a smart idea to favorite them. Apart from the above, you should favorite useful items like Magic Mirror or Cell Phone that you will always want to keep with you.