Butterfly

"Butterfly, flutter by."

- Wilson

Butterflies are harmless insects commonly found in Grasslands. They spawn from Flowers and Evil Flowers and will slowly flutter around the map, often landing on other flowers when they come across them. At dusk they will return to a nearby flower to hide. Butterflies usually drop Butterfly Wings when killed (98% chance), and occasionally drop Butter instead (2% chance). They take one blast from the Ice Staff to be frozen. They are considered innocent creatures and killing one adds 1 point to the player's naughtiness level, which can cause Krampus to appear. Note: Killing a stack of butterflies only counts as 1 naughtiness level, so it is a good idea to use a Bug Net to farm them. If you need health, killing butterflies is a good idea, because of butterfly wings and butter.

Butterfly Wings restore 8 9.375  if eaten, and also can be used to cook a Butter Muffin in the Crock Pot.

Butterflies do not spawn in Winter.

Hunting
When being approached, Butterflies fly away. Therefore, they are quite difficult to catch.

The best time to attack them is when they stop to land on flowers. This means hunting in an area with lots of flowers will provide many more opportunities to hit them; they will be on the plant for a few seconds, giving you the opportunity to attack and kill them. Butterflies also sometimes flutter around in place and can be easily hit. Walking close to a flower seems to spawn a Butterfly more frequently.

Being insects, Butterflies can be caught in a Bug Net, the only weapon/tool that has the range to hit a moving Butterfly. You can click on the moving butterfly at a distance or approach it manually and press spacebar to automatically chase and catch it.

When captured they become an item in inventory which stacks to 20.

Usage
Butterflies can be used to plant new Flowers by right-clicking them on the ground. Planting Flowers is useful for creating butterfly farms, or for providing Bees with Flowers to produce Honey faster. Maxwell himself says "It's a flying Flower." Or, you can just kill them while in your inventory to produce the butterfly wings or butter, but it will raise your naughtiness level.

Bugs

 * When two butterflies spawn from the same flower when you attack one the other will also be killed, but will not drop anything.