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In Terraria I've managed to equip myself in Silver Armor and all tools are silver or gold. I also have a large stockpile of copper and iron bars. I know I can use some ores for potions, but is there anything useful I can do with the bars besides sell them? If I sell them, would it be better to craft them into items first?

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    Sell it, really there is no use for copper if you reach a certain part. For example Hardmode, I see copper, i think of it as dirt.
    – Baked Potato
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 16:04

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You can use copper to make watches and depth meters. Those stay relevant...until you make a GPS.

I'd say keep 25 bars on-hand, just in case (ease of mind etc etc etc), and sell the rest.

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  • Watches are good for timers, which are good for triggering traps you setup for killing monsters/bosses.
    – AaronLS
    Commented Nov 3, 2013 at 5:12
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A few items and accessories require copper ore and/or iron, but for the most part, copper is of dubious value. (Though usually so plentiful that anything you sell can be easily reacquired, if need be).

Copper ore is the most profitable item (as opposed to making something with it), as are all other ores except for Meteorite Ore (which should be sold as meteorite bars).

So sell with no regrets!

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Crafting the summoning items for hardmode bosses requires 5 copper and 5 iron bars. The other ingredients may be farmed, but the metals cannot. Unless you are absolutely certain you don't want to fight hardmode bosses and reap the substantial rewards, you should hang on to your copper and iron.

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    You can always plunder another world if need be.
    – Raven Dreamer
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 2:33
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    @RavenDreamer or you could just put your copper in a chest. It's not like there's anything to lose by doing so.
    – kotekzot
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 2:52
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    Hell, make a trash bin out of iron if you hate low metals so much and put the copper in it, still going to be faster than scrounging a new world for copper.
    – kotekzot
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 2:57
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    Packrat ALL the things!
    – Raven Dreamer
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 3:00
  • @RavenDreamer if those things give you access to the sort of content you'd usually have to pay a fiver for, packrat the hell out of them.
    – kotekzot
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 3:09
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In addition to what everyone else has said, you can also make two decorative items with copper, which for someone like me, means I need a lot of copper.

You can make copper chandeliers which are fairly cheap, but the biggest expense on my copper is making copper bricks. 1 ore per brick means that I'm farming up a whole lot of copper.

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Hang on to all of the copper all the way through the game. IT can be used for bricks and Chandeliers, which are both nice looking blocks when creating a detailed build. If you're not interested in building, keep the copper until you have killed the Mech bosses and have a watch or gps, after that you won't need it.

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Sell most of it. Once you get gold or molten armour sell all of it.

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  • As mentioned in the other answers, there are uses for copper other than armor, most important of which are the summoning items, the 5 second timer, the depth meter, as well as the flamethrower
    – Private Pansy
    Commented Jun 30, 2013 at 8:39

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