108 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.

Which rare Terraria event fills the surface with horror-film monsters like Frankenstein?

A Solar Eclipse blots out the sun for a whole in-game day, and the darkness lets its monsters spawn in huge numbers even right beside town NPCs.

Which Terraria announcement, made for version 1.4 in 2020, became a running joke among fans?

The final update never arrived: Re-Logic kept shipping new content after 1.4, and its creator admitted that demand made it hard to move on.

In which Terraria character difficulty does dying turn the player into a ghost who can never respawn?

Hardcore characters drop every item they carry when they die, and the character is deleted for good once its ghost leaves the world.

Which Terraria items are crafted into Mana Crystals, each one permanently raising a player's maximum mana?

Fallen Stars vanish at dawn if nobody has picked them up after they drop from the night sky, and they double as ammunition for the Star Cannon.

Gathering several of which objects in one spot turns a patch of a Terraria world into a Graveyard?

Tombstones drop wherever a player dies, so a spot where players keep dying can slowly become a Graveyard with its own enemies and Ecto Mist.

Which huge flying skull kills Terraria players who go too deep before Skeletron is beaten?

The Dungeon Guardian takes just 1 damage from nearly any attack, yet patient players still hunt it for the Bone Key pet it awards.

Which Terraria NPC, a child first found asleep at the Ocean, gives players a new quest each day?

The Angler sells nothing at all; he only hands out rewards for the rare fish he sends players to catch.

Re-Logic and Paper Fort Games turned to Kickstarter to fund a Terraria adaptation in which format?

A board game was announced in 2023, a year after Re-Logic revealed a Terraria graphic novel made with 50 Amp Productions.

Before making Terraria, Andrew Spinks worked on a fan game based on which famous platforming series?

Super Mario inspired the fan project Spinks worked on before he built Terraria out of his living room with a small remote team.

Which Terraria ore arrives in crash sites during play and burns players who touch it unprotected?

Meteorite is never generated when a world is created; a crash site lands later in the game, announced by an on-screen message.

Which Terraria boss appears the moment players smash a third Shadow Orb in a Corruption world?

The Eater of Worlds is a chain of segments with separate life counters, and destroying a middle segment splits it into smaller worms.

Which Terraria mini-boss, appearing late in a Pirate Invasion, is beaten only by destroying its four cannons?

The Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that keeps spawning pirates, and beating it does not end the invasion.

Letting a small flying Probe detect a Terraria player and escape triggers which Hardmode invasion?

Martian Madness can only be triggered once Golem has been defeated, and its UFOs then start flying across the background.

Which Terraria night event, summoned with a Naughty Present, sends Everscream and Santa-NK1 against players?

The Frost Moon needs no real-world holiday season, and the moon itself turns into a snowman's head while the waves last.

Which Terraria layer has a ceiling of Ash Blocks and Ruined Houses holding unique furniture and loot?

The Underworld is the deepest layer of every world, and its Hellstone burns on touch and spills molten rock when mined.

Which Terraria hammer, always dropped by the boss that starts Hardmode, can smash Demon Altars?

The Pwnhammer destroys an altar in a few hits, and each one smashed blesses the world with veins of a Hardmode ore.

Terraria's Hardmode ore Chlorophyte slowly grows out of Mud Blocks in which biome?

Underground Jungle mud starts converting into Chlorophyte once Hardmode begins, but mining it takes a pickaxe with at least 200% pickaxe power.

Which Terraria item, found underground, permanently adds 20 health and a red heart to a player's health bar?

A Life Crystal can be used up to 15 times, lifting a new character from 100 health to 400.

During Terraria's seasonal Halloween event, enemies can drop which item holding a random themed reward?

Goodie Bags drop only during Halloween but can be opened at any time of year, much like the Presents that enemies drop at Christmas.

Which Terraria vendor NPC can only move in once all the other town NPCs are present?

The Princess cannot arrive before Plantera is defeated, because that fight is what lets the Cyborg, one of the NPCs she waits for, move in.

Which Terraria NPC must be freed from cobwebs in a Spider Cave before she will move into town?

The Stylist changes a player's hair style and colour once freed, and sells Hair Dyes that apply dynamic effects to hair.

Throwing Purification Powder on a rare enemy called a Tortured Soul creates which Terraria town NPC?

The Tax Collector then gathers coins from every housed NPC, himself included, and stores them until the player comes to collect.

Which Terraria NPC can tell players what percentage of their world the Corruption has taken over?

The Dryad moves in once an early boss has been beaten, and when enemies come near she shields players with a defence-boosting blessing.

Which Terraria NPC moves in once the Merchant is present and a player's maximum health tops 100?

The Nurse heals players and cures their debuffs for a fee in coins that rises with how much health they are missing.

Where in a Terraria world do Harpies swoop around houses that each hold one Skyware Chest?

Floating Islands sit so high that players feel reduced gravity while exploring them, and every world contains at least one.

Which rare structure, mostly buried under a Terraria Desert, hides a treasure room that may hold a Flying Carpet?

A Pyramid is so rare that most generated worlds contain none at all, and sometimes only its tip pokes above the sand.

Which rare Terraria tool, dropped by Chaos Elementals, instantly teleports the player to the mouse cursor?

The Rod of Discord costs no mana, but using it again within a few seconds takes a slice of the player's health.

Which Terraria gadget shows readouts such as time, weather and depth, and can also teleport the player home?

The Cell Phone has one of the most complex crafting trees in the game, built up from 13 base items.

Which Terraria storage item, sold by the Merchant, keeps its contents tied to the character instead of the world?

A Piggy Bank shows the same 40 slots wherever one is opened, and its contents even travel with a character to a different world.

Which Terraria accessory, found in underground Gold Chests, lets the player make one extra jump in mid-air?

Cloud in a Bottle adds a second jump about three-quarters as long as the first, raising the height a player can reach by 5 blocks.

Which piece of Terraria furniture, placed in a valid house, lets players set a new spawn point?

A bed also lets a character lie down and sleep, which makes time pass five times faster.

Which Terraria tool, sold by the Steampunker, sprays solutions that convert blocks from one biome to another?

The Clentaminator is the fastest way to spread or remove the creeping biomes, and each solution it fires is sold separately as ammunition.

Which Terraria crafting station, made from iron or lead, is used to craft most early weapons and armour?

An anvil of iron or lead covers every tier up to Cobalt and Palladium, after which it must be replaced by a Mythril or Orichalcum one.

Which Terraria debuff stops a player from using another healing item for about a minute?

Potion Sickness normally lasts 60 seconds, though a Philosopher's Stone or a Charm of Myths cuts that time by a quarter.

Which secret Terraria world seed replaces most of the map with Jungle and starts the player there?

Not the bees fills that Jungle with Bee Hives and Honey Blocks, so the whole world feels like one enormous hive.

Which Terraria mod's soundtrack placed ninth on Opera GX's 2024 list of the best game soundtracks?

Calamity made the top ten while the base game's own music missed the list of 100, which Andrew Spinks joked about when congratulating the modders.

By which online handle is Terraria creator and Re-Logic president Andrew Spinks best known?

Redigit is said to come from a word Spinks misheard on The Simpsons; his wife Whitney, the studio's vice president, goes by Cenx.

Terraria's Japanese PlayStation release added a costume of Monokuma, a character from which game series?

Danganronpa's Monokuma became a costume in that release, where most players who tried the PlayStation 3 demo reportedly went on to buy the full game.

Which magazine made a rare exception to re-review Terraria in 2018, lifting its score from 79 to 83?

PC Gamer does not normally re-review games, but judged that Terraria, like League of Legends, had changed too much since launch to leave alone.

Which Terraria boss was created for the old console and mobile versions, then removed from every maintained version?

Ocram was the only source of Souls of Blight, and it was cut because the boss was judged a poor fit for the game.

Which Terraria sword fires green wave projectiles and needs a Broken Hero Sword to craft?

The Terra Blade's projectile hits harder than the sword itself, so it works better as a projectile weapon than as a blade.

Which Terraria sword, crafted using the Muramasa, has the highest base damage of any pre-Hardmode sword?

Night's Edge fuses several earlier swords, the Muramasa among them, at a Demon or Crimson Altar.

Which Terraria sword also turns up as a secret weapon in Stardew Valley's 1.6 update?

The Meowmere hides beneath the Wizard's Tower in Stardew Valley, where enemies slain with it burst into rainbow sparkles.

Which Terraria weapon, bought from the Arms Dealer, fires faster than any other gun available before Hardmode?

The Minishark gives every shot a chance of using no ammunition, which helps because it burns through bullets so quickly.

The Cascade, Amarok and Kraken belong to which type of Terraria weapon that can chase the player's cursor?

Yoyos in the game borrow real designs from the maker One Drop, which went on to release real-world versions of the Kraken and the Terrarian.

Which type of Terraria weapon makes a player's minions attack whichever enemy it strikes?

Whips cannot normally land critical hits, but most of them add bonus damage to minion attacks for three seconds after a strike.

Terraria's endgame gun the S.D.M.G. is named after and modelled on which sea animal?

Dolphin is the D in Space Dolphin Machine Gun, an upgrade of the Megashark with a strong chance of not using up ammunition.

Which common crafting material does Terraria's Flamethrower consume as ammunition instead of bullets?

Gel feeds the Flamethrower one piece per trigger pull, and its flames leave enemies burning with Hellfire for 20 seconds.

Which Terraria sword, found in Skyware Chests, calls a projectile down from the sky at the cursor on every swing?

The Starfury's projectile pierces up to two enemies but deals no knockback, and the sword can only be found, never crafted.

Which weapon prefix is rated the best overall on a Terraria broadsword, beating Godly and Demonic?

Legendary lifts damage, speed, critical chance, size and knockback all at once, while the top prefixes for guns and spell tomes are Unreal and Mythical.