Hallowed Mask
Armor · ArmorHead4★[Tides of Terraria] A helmet forged out of Hallowed Bar, filled with divine power. Meowmere, Excalibur, Terra Blade and Legendary Meowmere all hit harder while it's worn.
Hallowed Mask is 25th of 202 head pieces by defense, at 182 against the 650 of Ancient Helm.
Wearing it also carries the effect Hallowed Power: Close Range, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 13 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 86,400 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Hallowed Mask Crafting Recipe
Hallowed Bar×240Crafting it takes 240 materials across 1 type.
Where to Find Hallowed Mask
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is treasure chests in the Yakushima at 0.011% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Hallowed Mask
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 140 to 182, a 1.3x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Hallowed Mask | 140 | 320 | 4500 |
| 1★ | Hallowed Mask | 154 | 352 | 6000 |
| 2★ | Hallowed Mask | 161 | 368 | 7500 |
| 3★ | Hallowed Mask | 168 | 384 | 10500 |
| 4★ | Hallowed Mask (this one) | 182 | 416 | 13500 |
Schematics That Unlock Hallowed Mask
Hallowed Mask is not learned from the Technology tree — you need a schematic for it. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is treasure chests in the Yakushima, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Hallowed Mask schematic works out at roughly 1775 containers against the 9091 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Hallowed Mask Schematic 4 | 4★ | Yakushima treasure chests — best 0.011% (grade 1) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Hallowed Hood matches it exactly at 182 defense — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw defense, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Pal Metal Helm at 195; below it is Hallowed Headgear at 168.
Other head pieces at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
