I don't know how to get a solar eclipse to happen. If there is a glitch to do it I would like to know how to do the glitch. How do I make a solar eclipse?

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In the PC version of Terraria, the only way to manually start a solar eclipse is by crafting and using a solar tablet. This item is only available on PC, so unfortunately for mobile you are not able to intentionally start a solar eclipse. You'll have to wait until one happens naturally. They only start to happen (with a 5% chance each day) after beating at least one mechanical boss.

A page can be found here suggesting different ways to make this happen, and this is not an OFFICIAL GUIDE more of a discussion page which people seem to beleive work for example:

Slightly increased the chance for an eclipse to happen, but they will now only happen after killing a Mechanical Boss So does that mean that each time there's a solar eclipse, you have to kill another mechanical boss to get the next eclipse? Or just that killing a single mechanical boss enables any number of eclipses? -- KhymChanur (talk) 02:48, 10 October 2013 (UTC) its a boolean, if player has killed a mech boss, then eclipsi will happen. 67.233.98.29 03:07, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

On mobile (I'm on mine) a solar eclipse only happens by chance at night, so you don't have to kill any mechanical bosses...

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On mobile after night there is a small chance a solar eclipse will replace the day if you’ve beaten a mechanical boss I may be wrong it may be all three mechanicl bosses.