Terraria Trivia
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58 free Terraria trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
54 free Terraria trivia questions with answers. Terraria was built in a living room on Microsoft XNA, released early because a beta leaked, and has since sold more than 70 million copies while promising a final update at least three times. This quiz covers the story: Andrew Spinks and Re-Logic, the 2012 pause, Journey's End, Labor of Love, the Undeluxe April Fools' build, the crossovers with Don't Starve, Palworld and Dead Cells, the cancelled Otherworld and the sequel that never quite arrives. Then it heads underground: how to summon the Eye of Cthulhu, Skeletron, Queen Bee, the Wall of Flesh, Plantera, Golem, Duke Fishron, the Empress of Light and the Moon Lord, plus Hardmode, the Corruption versus the Crimson, the Hallow, the Guide, the Zenith and the 35 secret seeds. It suits veterans who have beaten Master mode and newcomers who still fear the Dungeon Guardian. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on Terraria and Re-Logic and against the official Terraria wiki for in-game details, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Free, no signup.
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Q 01Which Terraria tool teleports players straight back to their spawn point?
Magic Mirror
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.
Q 02Which real-world sport did Terraria's 1.4 update let players take up?
Golf
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.
Q 03Terraria's Old One's Army event, with waves storming an Eternia Crystal, came from a crossover with which game?
Dungeon Defenders 2
Dungeon Defenders 2: in return, that game added Terraria's Dryad as a new playable hero class.
Q 04Why was Terraria released earlier than planned?
A beta build had leaked
A beta build had leaked: so the game was all but rushed out, and a patch fixing launch bugs followed the very next day.
Q 05Which framework was Terraria built on?
Microsoft XNA
Microsoft XNA: Microsoft stopped supporting it in 2013, and in 2023 Re-Logic pledged sponsorship money to FNA, a free community rebuild of XNA.
Q 06Who composed most of Terraria's music?
Scott Lloyd Shelly
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.
Q 07About how many copies had Terraria sold by May 2026?
About 70 million
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.
Q 08During a Terraria Blood Moon, what can ordinary zombies do that they normally can't?
Open doors
Open doors: players wall off their doorways with a solid block, because simply going indoors won't keep them safe that night.
Q 09Why did Terraria creator Andrew Spinks halt new content updates in February 2012?
To spend time with his family
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.
Q 10What was Terraria's fourth major update, 1.4, called?
Journey's End
Journey's End: Re-Logic declared it the game's final major update, then kept shipping big updates for years afterwards.
Q 11What decides whether a Terraria town NPC is happy?
Where they live and who's nearby
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.
Q 12What was Terraria's 1.4.4 update called?
Labor of Love
Labor of Love: Re-Logic named it in honour of the Steam award fans voted Terraria in January 2022 for years of continued support.
Q 13Which two games supplied crossover content for Terraria's 1.4.5 update?
Palworld and Dead Cells
Q 21Which Dutch studio ported Terraria to mobile in 2013?
Codeglue
It optimised the game for touchscreens and integrated Facebook.
Q 22Why did Andrew Spinks briefly cancel Terraria's Stadia version in February 2021?
Google locked his account
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.
Q 23Where has Terraria's studio hired most of its team from?
Its fan community
Its fan community: lead developer Yorai Omer, for one, was a well-known Terraria modder before Re-Logic hired him in 2014.
Palworld and Dead Cells: the swaps went both ways, with Palworld adding Terraria's Terra Blade and Dead Cells adding its Starfury sword.
Q 14What was Terraria's 'Undeluxe Edition', released on Steam on April Fools' Day 2024?
Its original 2011 version
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.
Q 15Which mod loader received official Re-Logic support as free Steam DLC in 2020?
tModLoader
Re-Logic even hired a Minecraft modder to work on it in 2022.
Q 16How do Terraria players get a town cat or dog?
Use a pet license
Use a pet license: the Zoologist sells them, and unlike other town NPCs, a town pet may share a house with another NPC.
Q 17Besides a table, door and light source, which item completes a basic Terraria house for NPCs?
A chair
A chair: NPCs can even move into natural structures, such as floating island buildings, once players put a light inside.
Q 18Why did Re-Logic cancel Terraria: Otherworld in 2018?
Unhappy with its progress
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.
Q 19What did Andrew Spinks want Terraria 2 to have?
Infinite worlds
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.
Q 20Which Japanese company brought Terraria's PS3 and Vita versions to Japan?
Spike Chunsoft
Spike Chunsoft: it added exclusive crossover outfits to that edition, including one of Monokuma from its own Danganronpa series.
Q 24In which US state is Re-Logic based?
Indiana
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'.
Q 25What do sunflowers planted near a Terraria base do for players?
Make fewer enemies spawn
Make fewer enemies spawn: their Happy! buff cuts critter spawns too, so players gathering bait are better off pulling up the sunflowers around them.
Q 26Which Terraria world difficulty, added in the 1.4 update, sits above Expert?
Master
Master: it tops Expert with even tougher foes, and every boss beaten there drops a relic, a shiny golden statue of that boss.
Q 27What are Terraria's four main character classes?
Melee, ranged, magic, summoner
Melee, ranged, magic, summoner: your equipment decides your class, so you can switch any time just by changing weapons and armour.
Q 28Defeating which Terraria boss permanently switches a world into Hardmode?
The Wall of Flesh
The Wall of Flesh: it always drops the Pwnhammer, whose blows on the world's altars scatter new Hardmode ores underground.
Q 29How do Terraria players summon the boss that unlocks Hardmode?
A Guide Voodoo Doll in lava
A Guide Voodoo Doll in lava: it must burn in the Underworld while the Guide is alive, and destroying the doll kills him too.
Q 30Which is the final boss of Terraria on desktop, console and mobile?
The Moon Lord
The Moon Lord: players must destroy the eyes on both his hands and his head before his core opens up to attack.