58 Fun Facts About Terraria

Which Terraria tool teleports players straight back to their spawn point?

Magic Mirror: unlike a Recall Potion it is never used up, so one mirror found in a cave chest can take you home for the rest of the game.

Which real-world sport did Terraria's 1.4 update let players take up?

Golf: players build their own courses from tees and cups, and the Golfer, rescued in the Underground Desert, sells more gear as their score climbs.

Terraria's Old One's Army event, with waves storming an Eternia Crystal, came from a crossover with which game?

Dungeon Defenders 2: in return, that game added Terraria's Dryad as a new playable hero class.

Why was Terraria released earlier than planned?

A beta build had leaked: so the game was all but rushed out, and a patch fixing launch bugs followed the very next day.

Which framework was Terraria built on?

Microsoft XNA: Microsoft stopped supporting it in 2013, and in 2023 Re-Logic pledged sponsorship money to FNA, a free community rebuild of XNA.

Who composed most of Terraria's music?

Scott Lloyd Shelly: he later wrote fresh tracks for the 1.4.5 update, finally giving bosses such as Queen Bee and Skeletron new themes.

About how many copies had Terraria sold by May 2026?

About 70 million: that puts it among the best-selling games ever, even though Re-Logic has never charged for its major updates or used microtransactions.

During a Terraria Blood Moon, what can ordinary zombies do that they normally can't?

Open doors: players wall off their doorways with a solid block, because simply going indoors won't keep them safe that night.

Why did Terraria creator Andrew Spinks halt new content updates in February 2012?

To spend time with his family: he and his wife were expecting another boy, though he returned to the game in 2013 with fresh updates.

What was Terraria's fourth major update, 1.4, called?

Journey's End: Re-Logic declared it the game's final major update, then kept shipping big updates for years afterwards.

What decides whether a Terraria town NPC is happy?

Where they live and who's nearby: a happy NPC sells for less and pays more for your loot, while an NPC in a bad mood charges extra.

What was Terraria's 1.4.4 update called?

Labor of Love: Re-Logic named it in honour of the Steam award fans voted Terraria in January 2022 for years of continued support.

Which two games supplied crossover content for Terraria's 1.4.5 update?

Palworld and Dead Cells: the swaps went both ways, with Palworld adding Terraria's Terra Blade and Dead Cells adding its Starfury sword.

What was Terraria's 'Undeluxe Edition', released on Steam on April Fools' Day 2024?

Its original 2011 version: fans can still launch that 1.0 release from the game's Steam properties menu, and a May branch later brought back update 1.1 too.

Which mod loader received official Re-Logic support as free Steam DLC in 2020?

Re-Logic even hired a Minecraft modder to work on it in 2022.

How do Terraria players get a town cat or dog?

Use a pet license: the Zoologist sells them, and unlike other town NPCs, a town pet may share a house with another NPC.

Besides a table, door and light source, which item completes a basic Terraria house for NPCs?

A chair: NPCs can even move into natural structures, such as floating island buildings, once players put a light inside.

Why did Re-Logic cancel Terraria: Otherworld in 2018?

Unhappy with its progress: Re-Logic said outsourcing even part of such a key game had been a mistake, and that future games would be made in-house.

What did Andrew Spinks want Terraria 2 to have?

Infinite worlds: he felt locked in by the original's design, and wanted players free to travel anywhere instead of being stuck in one world.

Which Japanese company brought Terraria's PS3 and Vita versions to Japan?

Spike Chunsoft: it added exclusive crossover outfits to that edition, including one of Monokuma from its own Danganronpa series.

Which Dutch studio ported Terraria to mobile in 2013?

It optimised the game for touchscreens and integrated Facebook.

Why did Andrew Spinks briefly cancel Terraria's Stadia version in February 2021?

Google locked his account: after three weeks with no explanation he called off the port, but Google restored access and Terraria reached Stadia that March.

Where has Terraria's studio hired most of its team from?

Its fan community: lead developer Yorai Omer, for one, was a well-known Terraria modder before Re-Logic hired him in 2014.

In which US state is Re-Logic based?

Indiana: the small studio there vowed in 2019 that none of its games would ever be Epic Games Store exclusives, refusing to 'sell our souls'.

What do sunflowers planted near a Terraria base do for players?

Make fewer enemies spawn: their Happy! buff cuts critter spawns too, so players gathering bait are better off pulling up the sunflowers around them.

Which Terraria world difficulty, added in the 1.4 update, sits above Expert?

Master: it tops Expert with even tougher foes, and every boss beaten there drops a relic, a shiny golden statue of that boss.

What are Terraria's four main character classes?

Melee, ranged, magic, summoner: your equipment decides your class, so you can switch any time just by changing weapons and armour.

Defeating which Terraria boss permanently switches a world into Hardmode?

The Wall of Flesh: it always drops the Pwnhammer, whose blows on the world's altars scatter new Hardmode ores underground.

How do Terraria players summon the boss that unlocks Hardmode?

A Guide Voodoo Doll in lava: it must burn in the Underworld while the Guide is alive, and destroying the doll kills him too.

Which is the final boss of Terraria on desktop, console and mobile?

The Moon Lord: players must destroy the eyes on both his hands and his head before his core opens up to attack.

Which Terraria boss, fought at the Dungeon after Golem falls, releases the Celestial Pillars?

Lunatic Cultist: players summon it by killing the cultists gathered at the Dungeon's entrance.

Which item summons Terraria's Eye of Cthulhu at night?

A Suspicious Looking Eye: players have to win before sunrise, because an Eye of Cthulhu still alive at dawn simply leaves.

How do Terraria players summon Skeletron?

Cursing the Old Man at night: he waits at the Dungeon entrance, and until Skeletron falls, Dungeon Guardians almost always kill players who venture deeper.

Terraria's Plantera can be fought only after defeating which group?

The three mechanical bosses: once all are beaten, Plantera's Bulbs start growing in the Underground Jungle, and breaking one summons her.

What does Terraria's Plantera drop that unlocks the door to a jungle stronghold?

A Temple Key: the stronghold's bricks shrug off explosives and ordinary pickaxes, so that locked door is the only real way in.

Which item summons Terraria's Golem at its altar?

A Lihzahrd Power Cell: dig the altar out with a Picksaw and it can be placed anywhere, letting players summon Golem wherever they like.

Terraria's Duke Fishron is summoned by fishing in the Ocean with what bait?

A Truffle Worm: the rare critter lives in underground mushroom caves and burrows away when players get close, so it must be caught quickly.

Killing which critter summons Terraria's Empress of Light?

A Prismatic Lacewing: it flutters out only between dusk and midnight after Plantera's defeat, and players can net one to release and kill later.

What happens to Terraria's Empress of Light if players fight her during the day?

She enrages: her attacks become deadly, yet players who deal all their damage by day are rewarded with the Terraprisma.

Killing enough slimes during a Slime Rain summons which Terraria boss?

King Slime: beating him brings the whole Slime Rain event to an end.

Terraria's Queen Bee spawns when you break what inside a Bee Hive?

A Larva: breaking one wakes the queen, and beating her lets the Witch Doctor move into town.

Which Terraria event punishes players for crowding too many light sources together underground?

The Torch God: survive its barrage and it grants Torch God's Favor, which makes torches match the biome they are placed in.

Which crossover boss was added in Terraria's 1.4.3 update?

Deerclops: unlike other bosses outside events, it doesn't vanish after killing a player, so it can linger near where they respawn.

Thrown into Shimmer, what does Terraria's Zenith sword turn into?

A True Copper Shortsword: the Zenith's recipe includes a Copper Shortsword, the humble first sword most players start the game with.

Which evil biome can a Terraria world generate instead of the Corruption?

The Crimson: if it spreads too close to a house, the NPC living there may move out and wander until a new house is available.

Which Terraria biome, with cyan grass and a rainbow sky, first appears as a diagonal stripe when Hardmode begins?

The Hallow: that stripe runs from the surface to the bottom of the world, converting tiles in its path, and the biome then keeps spreading.

What colour is the grass in Terraria's Corruption biome?

Purple: thorny bushes sprout from it, and land the Corruption takes over eventually adopts its music, background and water colour.

Besides offering tips, what does Terraria's Guide, usually the first NPC players meet, do?

Shows crafting recipes: he arrives with the world itself, but if he is killed, players must build a proper house before he returns.

Which Terraria seed merges many special seeds?

get fixed boi: players even start those worlds down in the Underworld instead of on the surface.

Which outlet's list of the top 10 indie games of 2011 placed Terraria third?

Gamasutra: it said Minecraft's success spawned many block-building clones in 2011, and Terraria was the one that got it right.

What does reforging an item at Terraria's Goblin Tinkerer do?

Gives it a random new modifier: the roll can leave the item worse than before, and each try costs a third of its value.

Which Terraria sky enemy drops Souls of Flight, the material behind many Hardmode wings?

Wyvern: these long white dragons appear only high in the sky, and their souls drop where the head dies, so they can be hard to spot.

Which company published Terraria's console and mobile versions?

505 Games: the console edition it published added a proper tutorial, which reviewers welcomed since the PC original had none.

Which studio ported Terraria to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?

The Xbox 360 version arrived on Xbox Live Arcade on 27 March 2013; Pipeworks later handled the console version of update 1.3.

Which survival game swapped crossover content with Terraria in a November 2021 update?

Don't Starve Together: Klei's matching update gave that game an Eye of Terror boss modelled on Terraria's Eye of Cthulhu.

In which Terraria mini-biome is the pearly liquid Shimmer found?

The Aether: players who sink their heads into its Shimmer drift down through solid blocks until they reach an open space.

Which older platformer did critic Christian Donlan see mixed with Minecraft in Terraria?

Spelunky: Donlan wrote that Terraria takes digging and building from Minecraft, while Spelunky shows in its quicker route to weapons and bosses.

Kotaku said Terraria's 2D graphics would look at home on which 16-bit console?

Super Nintendo: Kotaku's preview weighed it against Super Metroid and Minecraft, then admitted neither comparison did it justice.