Today was an interesting day of playing Terraria.
My generating new worlds to hunt sword shrines finally paid off... In the last world I made, I found the Arkhalis finally. Also returned to my main world with an inventory full of strange plants (5 red, 3 orange, 3 purple, 1 green) and traded them in for dyes. I'm up to 27/33 strange dyes collected. Need the grim dye, living flame dye, reflective obsidian dye, shadow dye, Skiphs's blood, and infernal wisp dyes to complete the full set.
Back in my main world, I was waiting for the day to change over so I could do another fishing quest and I got a blood moon. Went to UFO-hover under my stretch of artificial Hallowed desert while letting my star cells do all the killing (I was using them to keep pests off my back while hunting shrines so I had a necromantic scroll equipped to give me two of them). Along with the blood zombies and dripplers and regular zombies, I was getting buzzed by gastropods, pixies, and unicorns dropping from the Hallowed desert. At the end of the blood moon, I'd gotten another blessed apple and two unicorns-on-a-stick. That's three rare drops in one blood moon. Pretty damn good luck, I'd say.
And then the pirates showed up XD