Terraria State of the Game - February 2021

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Greetings Terrarians!

We don't know about you, but February brought lots of cold weather (and not a small amount of snow and ice) our way. :islime: Hopefully you have been able to stay warm and safe. While the weather may be chilly, the action on the Terraria development side is continuing to heat up. On the PC side, the team is doing a lot of polish work for the upcoming Steam Workshop/1.4.2 update - and things are really starting to come together. Meanwhile, our partners over at DR Studios are making fantastic strides on what is arguably the toughest task for Console 1.4: UI & Controls! Rounding it all out, we have some cool new Terraria merch and community tidbits to share. So, come in from the cold and let's sit around the fire and talk some Terraria!




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STATE OF THE GAME - TABLE OF CONTENTS

PC NEWS

TMODLOADER NEWS


CONSOLE/SWITCH NEWS

MOBILE NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS



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PC - RE-LOGIC


STEAM WORKSHOP SUPPORT FOR TEXTURE PACKS AND WORLD SHARING STILL IN DEVELOPMENT

First things first, we do not yet have an exact timing for Workshop support. We will say that things feel like they are getting really close, and most of the team's time now on this update is focused on the polish/finishing touches area along with the usual bugfixes. We expect to be able to provide at least some general launch timing/window very soon.

One thing to keep in mind is that we are planning to have and maintain a "Developer's Choice" tag/section on our Steam Workshop. We will periodically review new submissions in each Pack Category as well as Maps and elevate our favorites to this list.

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For that reason and more, we would again encourage everyone to check out what is already on-offer in regards to Texture Packs and Worlds here on TCF - both for ideas and to see what might hopefully be available on Workshop in the near future! :guidesmile:


TERRARIA TEXTURE PACKS ON TCF

TERRARIA WORLDS ON TCF


As a reminder, Steam Workshop for the core Terraria game will not support Terraria Mods - as for all things Terraria Mods, that remains firmly in the realm of tModLoader and the team behind that! :guidecool:


Want to see more? Ok fine... feast your eyes on the in-game Workshop menu (still being tweaked, so subject to change!)


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But wait! There's more! Our art team has been working on some of their own Texture Packs on the side - so that we can have some fun new offerings for everyone on day one! Want to see a sneak peek at some of the changes? Of course you do!


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New Enemy textures and animations, courtesy of @Lazure

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Aesthetic changes to bosses, blocks, biomes and more from @Jimmarn

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Learning activities such as we mentioned last month in regards to expanding our coding and art talents remain ongoing in parallel. Whatever path we choose for the future, these skills will only help Re-Logic take things to the next level!


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Be sure that you are up-to-date with the latest and greatest on this front via the Hotfix Changelog... and keep your bug reports coming via the handy bug report button below!


Terraria: Journey's End - Hotfix Changelog



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GOOGLE ACCOUNT/STADIA UPDATE

As you may have noticed, we had a ton of issues to kick off the year stemming from the locking-down of Redigit's entire Google account in early January. After a month of pushing (and with the immense support of our fans), Google finally reached out and was able to provide a lot of transparency around the situation and to restore access to all of our accounts. Due to the hard work the Stadia team has put in - as well as our partners at 505 Games - we have decided that we will allow the upcoming launch Terraria on Google Stadia to proceed. The Terraria Stadia build is based on the DR Studios 1.4.0.5 (latest) build, and is currently at Google for certification review.


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Thanks again, Terrarians - we are as always blown away by your support!


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TMODLOADER NEWS - TML TEAM




The tModLoader Team remains hard at work on getting TML up to the 1.4 era.

Hopefully, it will not be too much longer!

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TMODLOADER ISSUES/BUGS

The Re-Logic team does not directly develop TML, so bugs with TML are best reported via the links below.

tModLoader - Play Terraria with Mods!

https://tmodloader.net/discord


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PlayStation 4, XBOX ONE, Nintendo Switch - DR STUDIOS

XBOX & PLAYSTATION

Greetings once again, everyone! The DR Studios team has been hard at work in the lab with a big time focus on User Interface and Controls of late. Outside of obviously bringing all of the content from Journey's End over (already done!), providing a UI and Control experience that is equal parts optimal for Consoles AND customizable to the extent that we are able/allowed is one of the most critical and challenging parts of the process of getting 1.4 in your hands. This requires a lot of iteration to capture the various ways people might want to play - allowing for evolution of the experience while keeping an eye on maintaining familiarity for those that prefer things to stay closer to the status quo. This is a large part of the reason around why we still cannot give you an exact "date" for release yet - for this part of the project (as well as a couple others), we need to let it take the time it does to get it feeling just right.



Here is a quick glimpse at where things are as of today - again, not final at all, lots of back and forth to do... but we felt comfortable enough with where we stand to show you the WIP version. We will be checking out your feedback (and obviously a picture doesn't really do justice to how a UI "feels" in your hands), so be sure to share. :guidesmile:


Also keep in mind that this is an ALPHA version of Terraria 1.4 on Console. Lots of things - such as the final UI, etc - are still subject to change. So don't get too hung up on anything!


We are drawing ever closer to Journey's End on Consoles - hang with us just a bit longer. Trust us, we cannot wait to be able to share what the timing might be just as soon as we can.

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NINTENDO SWITCH


Of course the UI and controls development is not isolated only to Xbox and PlayStation. Switch players can expect to see these improvements coming their way as well during the Journey's End release - we are doing our very best to work on all three platforms at the same time, in order to minimize any delay in the launch between XB/PS and Nintendo Switch. That is not to say they will necessarily be simultaneous, but working in parallel means we can cut way down on any possible delays.




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MOBILE - DR STUDIOS

Hello everyone!

As with last month, things are mostly quiet on the Terraria Mobile front as the DR team is focused elsewhere for the time being. The team is still documenting bugs for future fixes, however, so keep those coming in (see below). We expect to be able to run headlong into more fixes and 1.4.1, etc. once we get Console 1.4 closed out.



What? You are still here looking for more? Ok, fine then... have it your way. Check out this fancy new water.



It truly remains an honor to be able to work on Terraria - on behalf of our entire team, thank you for your support, patience, passion, and kind words. We have so much planned for 2021 across the board, it's going to be a wild ride!

Greetings Terrarians!

Here's the latest and greatest happenings on the Community side of things. Thanks as always for being the most engaged and awesome gaming Community ever!


TERRARIA MERCHANDISE UPDATES

PEWDIEPIE x TERRARIA MERCH COLLABORATION


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In case you missed it earlier this week, we officially revealed a crossover merchandise partnership between Terraria and streamer/content creator extraordinaire, PewDiePie! From No Legs Gang clothing to the amazing PewdLord figurine, these are some unique offerings that you will not want to miss if you are a fan of either or both!

Check out the PewDiePie x Terraria collection - as well as all of the ever-expanding collection of Terraria merchandise - over at Terraria.shop, or click the banner above to go straight to the crossover collection!

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TERRARIA 10TH ANNIVERSARY PLANNING


We created a new 10th-anniversary-planning channel in the Terraria Community Team server. Stop by and share your opinion of what we should include in the anniversary festivities for next year. We would love to hear your feedback on how to make Terraria’s 10th anniversary a truly unforgettable occasion. Furthermore, we are forming a Terraria Anniversary Party Committee made up of passionate community members eager to take the celebration to the next level.

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You can join the Terraria Community Team server here: Join the Terraria Community Team Discord Server!


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We Have another Winner - Grand Prize Claimed on Terraria Discord Server!


Congratulations DuneX22 on being an epic Terrarian!

Let us put our hands together and give a massive round of applause to DuneX22#5256 for winning the grand prize available in the official Terraria Discord server prize shop. DuneX22 earned 2.5 million prize points and used all of them to unlock The Winner role and some incredible prizes including signed merchandise, free games, Terraria collectibles, and much more.

As many of you know, the official Terraria Discord server has its very own prize shop with some epic swag. 24/7 you can log into our Discord server and participate in events, trivia, epic battles, and other fun activities to win prizes. Come stop by the official Terraria Discord server and participate in our fun activities and let us see if you have what it takes to top our activities Leader Board.

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Until next time, Terrarians - we hope you have an amazing month, and we look forward to bringing you the latest and greatest next time!

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Texture packs looking very Terraria: Otherworld-y. Looking forward to seeing what the community cooks up with the Steam Workshop!
 

Greetings Terrarians!

We don't know about you, but February brought lots of cold weather (and not a small amount of snow and ice) our way. :islime: Hopefully you have been able to stay warm and safe. While the weather may be chilly, the action on the Terraria development side is continuing to heat up. On the PC side, the team is doing a lot of polish work for the upcoming Steam Workshop/1.4.2 update - and things are really starting to come together. Meanwhile, our partners over at DR Studios are making fantastic strides on what is arguably the toughest task for Console 1.4: UI & Controls! Rounding it all out, we have some cool new Terraria merch and community tidbits to share. So, come in from the cold and let's sit around the fire and talk some Terraria!




index.php

STATE OF THE GAME - TABLE OF CONTENTS

PC NEWS

TMODLOADER NEWS


CONSOLE/SWITCH NEWS

MOBILE NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS



index.php


PC - RE-LOGIC


STEAM WORKSHOP SUPPORT FOR TEXTURE PACKS AND WORLD SHARING STILL IN DEVELOPMENT

First things first, we do not yet have an exact timing for Workshop support. We will say that things feel like they are getting really close, and most of the team's time now on this update is focused on the polish/finishing touches area along with the usual bugfixes. We expect to be able to provide at least some general launch timing/window very soon.

One thing to keep in mind is that we are planning to have and maintain a "Developer's Choice" tag/section on our Steam Workshop. We will periodically review new submissions in each Pack Category as well as Maps and elevate our favorites to this list.

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For that reason and more, we would again encourage everyone to check out what is already on-offer in regards to Texture Packs and Worlds here on TCF - both for ideas and to see what might hopefully be available on Workshop in the near future! :guidesmile:


TERRARIA TEXTURE PACKS ON TCF

TERRARIA WORLDS ON TCF


As a reminder, Steam Workshop for the core Terraria game will not support Terraria Mods - as for all things Terraria Mods, that remains firmly in the realm of tModLoader and the team behind that! :guidecool:


Want to see more? Ok fine... feast your eyes on the in-game Workshop menu (still being tweaked, so subject to change!)


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But wait! There's more! Our art team has been working on some of their own Texture Packs on the side - so that we can have some fun new offerings for everyone on day one! Want to see a sneak peek at some of the changes? Of course you do!


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New Enemy textures and animations, courtesy of @Lazure

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Aesthetic changes to bosses, blocks, biomes and more from @Jimmarn

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Learning activities such as we mentioned last month in regards to expanding our coding and art talents remain ongoing in parallel. Whatever path we choose for the future, these skills will only help Re-Logic take things to the next level!


index.php


Be sure that you are up-to-date with the latest and greatest on this front via the Hotfix Changelog... and keep your bug reports coming via the handy bug report button below!


Terraria: Journey's End - Hotfix Changelog



index.php


GOOGLE ACCOUNT/STADIA UPDATE

As you may have noticed, we had a ton of issues to kick off the year stemming from the locking-down of Redigit's entire Google account in early January. After a month of pushing (and with the immense support of our fans), Google finally reached out and was able to provide a lot of transparency around the situation and to restore access to all of our accounts. Due to the hard work the Stadia team has put in - as well as our partners at 505 Games - we have decided that we will allow the upcoming launch Terraria on Google Stadia to proceed. The Terraria Stadia build is based on the DR Studios 1.4.0.5 (latest) build, and is currently at Google for certification review.


index.php


Thanks again, Terrarians - we are as always blown away by your support!


Back to Table of Contents
index.php



TMODLOADER NEWS - TML TEAM




The tModLoader Team remains hard at work on getting TML up to the 1.4 era.

Hopefully, it will not be too much longer!

index.php


TMODLOADER ISSUES/BUGS

The Re-Logic team does not directly develop TML, so bugs with TML are best reported via the links below.

tModLoader - Play Terraria with Mods!

https://tmodloader.net/discord


Back to Table of Contents
index.php


PlayStation 4, XBOX ONE, Nintendo Switch - DR STUDIOS

XBOX & PLAYSTATION

Greetings once again, everyone! The DR Studios team has been hard at work in the lab with a big time focus on User Interface and Controls of late. Outside of obviously bringing all of the content from Journey's End over (already done!), providing a UI and Control experience that is equal parts optimal for Consoles AND customizable to the extent that we are able/allowed is one of the most critical and challenging parts of the process of getting 1.4 in your hands. This requires a lot of iteration to capture the various ways people might want to play - allowing for evolution of the experience while keeping an eye on maintaining familiarity for those that prefer things to stay closer to the status quo. This is a large part of the reason around why we still cannot give you an exact "date" for release yet - for this part of the project (as well as a couple others), we need to let it take the time it does to get it feeling just right.



Here is a quick glimpse at where things are as of today - again, not final at all, lots of back and forth to do... but we felt comfortable enough with where we stand to show you the WIP version. We will be checking out your feedback (and obviously a picture doesn't really do justice to how a UI "feels" in your hands), so be sure to share. :guidesmile:


Also keep in mind that this is an ALPHA version of Terraria 1.4 on Console. Lots of things - such as the final UI, etc - are still subject to change. So don't get too hung up on anything!


We are drawing ever closer to Journey's End on Consoles - hang with us just a bit longer. Trust us, we cannot wait to be able to share what the timing might be just as soon as we can.

index.php


NINTENDO SWITCH


Of course the UI and controls development is not isolated only to Xbox and PlayStation. Switch players can expect to see these improvements coming their way as well during the Journey's End release - we are doing our very best to work on all three platforms at the same time, in order to minimize any delay in the launch between XB/PS and Nintendo Switch. That is not to say they will necessarily be simultaneous, but working in parallel means we can cut way down on any possible delays.




Back to Table of Contents
index.php




MOBILE - DR STUDIOS

Hello everyone!

As with last month, things are mostly quiet on the Terraria Mobile front as the DR team is focused elsewhere for the time being. The team is still documenting bugs for future fixes, however, so keep those coming in (see below). We expect to be able to run headlong into more fixes and 1.4.1, etc. once we get Console 1.4 closed out.



What? You are still here looking for more? Ok, fine then... have it your way. Check out this fancy new water.



It truly remains an honor to be able to work on Terraria - on behalf of our entire team, thank you for your support, patience, passion, and kind words. We have so much planned for 2021 across the board, it's going to be a wild ride!

Greetings Terrarians!

Here's the latest and greatest happenings on the Community side of things. Thanks as always for being the most engaged and awesome gaming Community ever!


TERRARIA MERCHANDISE UPDATES

PEWDIEPIE x TERRARIA MERCH COLLABORATION


View attachment 309567
In case you missed it earlier this week, we officially revealed a crossover merchandise partnership between Terraria and streamer/content creator extraordinaire, PewDiePie! From No Legs Gang clothing to the amazing PewdLord figurine, these are some unique offerings that you will not want to miss if you are a fan of either or both!

Check out the PewDiePie x Terraria collection - as well as all of the ever-expanding collection of Terraria merchandise - over at Terraria.shop, or click the banner above to go straight to the crossover collection!

index.php


TERRARIA 10TH ANNIVERSARY PLANNING


We created a new 10th-anniversary-planning channel in the Terraria Community Team server. Stop by and share your opinion of what we should include in the anniversary festivities for next year. We would love to hear your feedback on how to make Terraria’s 10th anniversary a truly unforgettable occasion. Furthermore, we are forming a Terraria Anniversary Party Committee made up of passionate community members eager to take the celebration to the next level.

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You can join the Terraria Community Team server here: Join the Terraria Community Team Discord Server!


index.php


We Have another Winner - Grand Prize Claimed on Terraria Discord Server!


Congratulations DuneX22 on being an epic Terrarian!

Let us put our hands together and give a massive round of applause to DuneX22#5256 for winning the grand prize available in the official Terraria Discord server prize shop. DuneX22 earned 2.5 million prize points and used all of them to unlock The Winner role and some incredible prizes including signed merchandise, free games, Terraria collectibles, and much more.

As many of you know, the official Terraria Discord server has its very own prize shop with some epic swag. 24/7 you can log into our Discord server and participate in events, trivia, epic battles, and other fun activities to win prizes. Come stop by the official Terraria Discord server and participate in our fun activities and let us see if you have what it takes to top our activities Leader Board.

index.php


Until next time, Terrarians - we hope you have an amazing month, and we look forward to bringing you the latest and greatest next time!

Back to Table of Contents
Ik i mentioned this last year. But for the anniversary you should add a launcher to play previous versions of terraria. Lots of people would love the nostalgia
 
Would you guys ever consider releasing the graphics for T:OW for Terraria (and of course adding new ones to match where necessary)?

I rather liked the screenshots I saw and was kinda hoping we could see it as a texture pack.
 
It's probably the nostalgia speaking, but I'm pretty sure that using Jim's WoF and Eye of Cthulhu texture packs will be a matter of personal preference. They're good, but also very different.

On the other hand, Lazure's Duke Fishron and Ice Queen are almost objectively better than the originals, and I expected them to replace the vanilla sprites rather than being made available as a texture pack.
 
I really hope they add texture pack support to mobile, itd be so cool! Downloading and playing adventure maps and other stuff already works on mobile so i could see texture packs working.

also a neat idea for a special seed would be one that swaps the underworld (hell) and overworld biomes and making the player spawn in the underworld with the swapped biomes
 
essentially just more waiting, then.

i'm gonna avoid watching the video for console 1.4 because, as mentioned, if it's still alpha, there is no reason to concern myself over what it currently looks like.

the thing that is driving me crazy, other than the wait itself... is that this wait isn't the end of it.

cause after 1.4 comes to console... we still need to wait even longer for 1.4.1. :dryadsigh:
 
I have to say that the tags for the texture pack are quite disappointing. That I say because the tags of language are mixed in with the other tags, like as if they were one.
My idea would be the following:
TagsHolds tags that describes the map/texture pack
LanguagesHolds all languages the texture pack can be ported to.
Selecting a language tag may not be really necessary, though, but at least will split the tags from languages.

Ik i mentioned this last year. But for the anniversary you should add a launcher to play previous versions of terraria. Lots of people would love the nostalgia
Well, based on experience reading the modding comunity, Steam still has stored on their servers the older versions of Terraria. But I wonder how they would make It possible to do.
I mean, I don't remember seeing anyone who tried making a tool to download older versions of a game from Steam.
 
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