The Dread

The Dread is a dangerous surface biome with a spooky "dark and fiery" theme comparable to the Underworld. It might be generated in a world, far away from the player's spawn. It is a counterpart to The Crimson biome, its red gory theme, and the Corruption, and its purple corrupt theme. A new world will only have one of the three, chosen at random during world creation, each with a 33% chance of occurring.

Grass and trees in The Dread are dark grey and barren, large holes dot the landscape, forming treacherous caverns for well-armed explorers. Stone is replaced with Doomstone, a stone substitute similar to Ebonstone and its equivalents.

The Dread's counterpart of the Crimtane and Shadow ores is Dreadium

The Dread contains many dangerous enemies, (exactly 2 enemies), being the Dread Spirit and the Dread Blob

Dread Spirits behave identically to Eaters of Souls, with 45 HP and dealing 25 damage on contact Dread Blobs act like Cursed Skull enemies with 60 HP, passing through blocks to circle the player, and occasionally attacking for 28 damage Dreadballs are the equivalents to Shadow Orbs and Crimson Hearts, producing loot and summoning the mighty Dreadmaster upon breaking the third.

Dreadballs will drop the following loot: Doomstone can be refined into Doombrick, and Dreadium can be made into Dreadium Bars or Dreadbrick
 * DreadbringerDread Bringer.png early game machine-gun
 * Stalker Pendant                                                                                                                                                        Enemies hit with melee glow for 10 seconds
 * Dreadball(Light Pet)                                                                                                                                                 A equivalent of the Shadow Orb
 * Dread Staff                                                                                                                                                               Fires embers rapidly at a high velocity
 * Doom Shortsword                                                                                                                                                      A shortsword with high damage