Terraria Map
Stats
| Type | Fishing |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Blue |
| Bait power | 22 |
| Buy price | 25 silver |
| Sell price | 5 silver |
Used in 1 recipe
| Makes | Ingredients | At | |
|---|---|---|---|
 Maggot Cage | 1 × Terrarium, 1 × Maggot | By hand |
Graveyard scavenging and tombstone excavation
This pale grub crawls across ground tiles in Graveyard mini-biomes, emerging when players break gravestones, tombstones, and decaying ambient surface rubble. Crawling slowly along the earth, it is easily scooped up with any basic Bug Net without risk of fleeing or vanishing into the soil. Placing one inside a glass Terrarium creates an animated Maggot Cage for eerie room decor and gothic houses.
Renewable subterranean bait and farm setups
Carrying 22% bait power, this grub provides dependable fishing bait that rivals ordinary worms without requiring rainstorms or night cycles. Players who build a small Graveyard near their base can repeatedly place and smash gravestones to summon steady waves of maggots on demand. Excess specimens sell for 5 silver at merchants, making cemetery farming both practical and profitable for pre-Hardmode anglers and miners.
Trivia
- Emerges naturally when breaking tombstones or rotting clutter within Graveyards.
- Crawls very slowly along solid tiles, making it easy to catch without sprinting.