I'm interested in getting into playing modded terraria, but I'm wondering how should I use these big content mods:
Tremor, Antiaris, Calamity, Spirit Mod, Thorium, Terraria Overhaul.
Should I use these mods together for most content at once or are they best played seperately?
I'd appreciate what the modder recommends to do.
(I'm not familiar with the modding community or the mods enough to know what to do here, please advise.)
I'm currently doing an expert singleplayer playthrough with Calamity, Spirit, Thorium, and Overhaul after a very long hiatus and having never really played modded content. It's quite enjoyable for my tastes (which are ultra masochistic), though the Calamity content is brutal with Overhaul's changes. The Hive Mind and Slime God bosses will really kick you in the face early on, to say nothing of the hardmode content that goes totally bonkers. If you don't mind a
much slower progression and certain bosses that feel out of order (assuming you go off of the Boss Checklist order), this combo is fantastic. Can't really speak to Tremor or Antiaris.
You're almost definitely going to want to use Magic Storage, by the way. There is just way too much stuff to collect to deal with hundreds of chests all over the place... unless you happen to like that side of things, in which case go crazy
I also recommend (to the point of considering them "must-have"): Recipe Browser and Boss Checklist. Both of those will save you a
ton of wiki searching, and make the game far more self-contained. One slight note: Spirit has two events that are not setup to be part of Boss Checklist at the moment, so make sure you look those up if you want to experience them.
2. calamity and thorium don't go well
Out of curiosity, why don't you think Calamity and Thorium go well together? Granted the bosses are all over the place, but I'm a couple hundred hours into this playthrough and I've found Thorium content to be a decent stopgap between Calamity tiers.
Or do you mean neither of those mods go well with Overhaul itself? In which case: I haven't had much of an issue. I mean, it's
hard as nails with some of Overhaul's changes, but not impossible. You have to get really, really skilled at shmup-style dodging, but that's something that Overhaul is amazing for due to dodgerolls and bunnyhopping. I think the only thing I've found a bit odd to figure out is the grappling hook stuff, since (some/all?) modded hooks use the vanilla physics... but meh, it's kind of nice to have variety.