Shilaila
Official Terrarian
The weather in terraria is quite precarious and random. Waiting for certain weather events such as windy days so you can get kites can be time consuming and boring, the duke fishron mount has a special ability where it can speed up while it is raining but it isn’t very reliable, the weather also causes other events like blizzards and sandstorms, increased fishing luck and rare enemies to spawn but it may not rain often, or maybe you simply just want to have a calm terraria day and stop it from being windy, rainy, or thundering. We have enchanted sun and moon dials to fast forward time so why not also a weatherdial to solve all these weather related problems.
Tooltip: Bend the skies to your will for one day per week
The enchanted weatherdial resembles a stormy metallic grey anemometer with rainy blue coloured cups and a dial in the centre coloured yellow like lightning. It can be obtained as a small percent chance from fishing in the ocean or in space during a thunderstorm. It has a week long cool down and to indicate it is ready to be used by the player to control the weather the blue cups and yellow dial will shine similar to the enchanted sun and moon dial. In the tooltip the “one day” part means 24 in game hours. The weather dial has four different states depending on the weather and the player can toggle between these different states when it is ready to be used. When it is toggled to a certain state (for example dry, wind, rain, or thunder) the weather will only stay in that state unless the dial is toggled to another state, the in game day ( 24 hours) ends, or the weatherdial gets destroyed by someone or something.
Tooltip: Bend the skies to your will for one day per week
The enchanted weatherdial resembles a stormy metallic grey anemometer with rainy blue coloured cups and a dial in the centre coloured yellow like lightning. It can be obtained as a small percent chance from fishing in the ocean or in space during a thunderstorm. It has a week long cool down and to indicate it is ready to be used by the player to control the weather the blue cups and yellow dial will shine similar to the enchanted sun and moon dial. In the tooltip the “one day” part means 24 in game hours. The weather dial has four different states depending on the weather and the player can toggle between these different states when it is ready to be used. When it is toggled to a certain state (for example dry, wind, rain, or thunder) the weather will only stay in that state unless the dial is toggled to another state, the in game day ( 24 hours) ends, or the weatherdial gets destroyed by someone or something.
- In its dry state there will be no wind or rain and the cups will spin at snail speed.
- In its windy state it will become a windy day and all the effects of that event would happen such as NPCs changing their dialog, unique mobs and mob drops, windy day music etc. It will spin at moderate speed in this state.
- In its rainy state it would become cloudier and rain will happen. The rain would also cause a blizzard in the snow biome, and in this state it will spin even faster.
- In its thunderstorm state a thunderstorm would break out and the it will spin at lightning speed. I think being able to control thunderstorms and rain would make boss fights look even more dramatic. Thunderstorms would also increase the chances of a sand storm happening.
Depending on the weather the weatherdial will be stuck in either of these four states but the player is able to use it to toggle between the different weather states and it will stay in that weather state for the day.
*EDIT: Looking back at this post after I posted it a few weeks ago, I don't really feel like it fits terraria that much tbh, and am now not sure about something like this being implemented into the main game.
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