What is the purple glowing thing in Terraria?

They are Demon Altars which are not monsters - hence you cannot get the tooltip by hovering over them. You use them to craft some 'boss' summoning materials Slime Crown, Suspicious Looking Eye and Worm Food, as well as creating the stronger pre-hard mode weapon Night's Edge.
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Why can't I break demon altars in Terraria?

The only way to destroy a Demon Altar is to use a Pwnhammer or a stronger hammer within a Hardmode world.
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How do you use a demon altar?

The crimson/demon altar is a crafting station. You can use it to create early-game boss summoning items and the Night's Edge. You use it like any other crafting station - simply stand next to it, open your inventory and click whatever item you need to craft.
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How do you make a Pwnhammer?

The Pwnhammer is the only hallowed tool that cannot be crafted.
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What does Pwnhammer do?

The Pwnhammer is a Hardmode hammer that is able to destroy Demon Altars and Crimson Altars with a few hits, blessing the world with one of the six Hardmode ores. It is always dropped by the Wall of Flesh.
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How many demon altars should I break Terraria?

Destroying 12 altars will roughly double the ore provided by the first three; tripling that original allotment would require destroying 33 altars.
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Should I destroy all demon altars?

No, it's not. Destroying more will slightly increase the amount of ore. the spreading of corruption can be easily handle with items.
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How do you break a Crimson heart?

A world with Crimson features several Crimson Hearts, and destroying at least three of them (in a single world) is usually a crucial step in game advancement. This can be done using any hammer or explosives. Crimson Hearts release a fair amount of their own flickering light, similar to Crimson Altars.
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How do you stop evil spread in Terraria?

Using a block of lava is enough to stop the spread of surface crimson, as it will burn any grass, but this is not confirmed in corruption biomes, and is a good early Hardmode. The Hallow can stop your world evil, and NPCs will live in it, but it is very dangerous for early hardmode players.
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Who does the Dryad like?

For example, the Dryad likes living in the jungle biome, but she won't feel quite as happy in the desert. She also likes living with the Truffle, Princess, and Witch Doctor, dislikes living with the Angler, and hates living with the Golfer.
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What happens if your world is 100 corrupt?

There are no unique responses for completely Corrupt or Hallowed worlds, only for certain ratios: If the world is completely pure (no Corruption or Hallow), the Dryad will say: "You have done an amazing job!"
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What does screams echo around you mean in Terraria?

That means if you break another orb the eater of worlds or brain of Cthulhu will spawn.
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What happens if you destroy all Crimson hearts?

Also, how do you destroy EVERY PIECE OF CRIMSON? Just to be clear, destroying Altars and Hearts/Orbs does little to stop the spread of corruption. They spread as long as there are corruptible tiles within 4 tile range from any corrupted elements including corrupted vines and Ebonstone.
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What is the rarest ore in Terraria?

No matter how many altars are destroyed, ore rarity remains set with Cobalt/Palladium being the most common, followed by Mythril/Orichalcum, then Adamantite/Titanium as the rarest.
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What happens if you break all the shadow orbs?

Destroying any number of Shadow Orbs between dawn and midnight will only allow one 50% chance of a meteorite falling the following midnight. Once a Shadow Orb is destroyed, the Traveling Merchant has a chance to sell the Revolver.
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Should I break more than 3 altars Terraria?

In addition to what Dragonlord said, smashing more altars has diminishing returns. Each smashed altar creates less and less ore. If you're concerned about the spread of Corruption / Crimson / Hallow, create a new throwaway world. Smash as many altars on the new world as you like and harvest the ore from there.
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Is the hallow good in Terraria?

Based on the source code, the Dryad considers the Hallow to be "good", as opposed to the Corruption or Crimson, which she considers "bad." However, she does not consider the world to be "pure" until all three are eradicated.
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What does the Eater of Worlds drop?

The Eater of Worlds, like all worms, is immune to lava. Fighting the Eater of Worlds is the only way to obtain Shadow Scales, and it is one of the only ways to obtain usable quantities of Demonite Ore. Individual segments drop some of these when killed, with a larger bonus drop upon defeating the entire entity.
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How do you summon the brain of Cthulhu?

The Brain of Cthulhu is a pre-Hardmode, Crimson-themed boss resembling a large, flying brain. It can be summoned when 3 Crimson Hearts are destroyed in a Crimson world, or when a player uses a Bloody Spine anywhere in the Crimson or Underground Crimson biome.
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Are dryads evil?

Description. Dryads are evil tree spirits. According to legend, they are tree nymphs (female deities), although they have indistinctly appeared both in male and female forms throughout the series.
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