Terraria Map
Stats
| Type | Fishing |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Orange |
| Bait power | 50 |
| Buy price | 50 gold |
| Sell price | 10 gold |
Used in 2 recipes
| Makes | Ingredients | At | |
|---|---|---|---|
 Golden Delight | 1 × Gold Butterfly | Cooking Pot | |
 Gold Butterfly Jar | 1 × Gold Butterfly, 1 × Bottle | By hand |
Meadow collection and fortune conversion
Swinging a Bug Net or Golden Bug Net captures this glittering critter in surface Forest biomes during daytime. It replaces standard butterflies with a 1/400 roll influenced by player luck. The specimen delivers 50% bait power, matching the finest angling rewards. However, selling it to merchants yields 10 gold, supplying early wealth to fund Goblin Tinkerer reforges, weapon ammunition, or urgent housing purchases.
Decorative display versus angling bait
Players who value aesthetics can combine the insect with an empty bottle at a crafting station to assemble a shimmering terrarium. Burning the insect on routine fishing trips squanders valuable coin value, so keeping common butterflies or nightcrawlers for daily casting while saving or liquidating this golden specimen remains the smarter economic choice.
Trivia
- Its glittering golden sheen makes it visible across wide open meadows during sunny daytime hours.
- Sells for 10 gold, matching the highest vendor payout among all catchable critters.