Shilaila
Official Terrarian
I’m aware terraria is a fantasy game and not too grounded on reality but I always wondered what would it be like to wear terraria armor in real life. In this post I will be analysing some of terraria’s early game armor.
The miners outfit, on the outside may look fine but it doesn’t provide nearly enough personal protective equipment (PPE) as modern day mining gear such as noise blockers for your ears and respirators. This means that when blasting and drilling down in the caves you would have insufficient oxygen and also be at risk of inhaling dust and other particles so you could get pneumoconiosis ( dusty lung) and probably more ailments seeing that the brown shirt under the overalls is probably made of some cheap but durable fabric like asbestos. Don’t even get me started with the fact that you have to loot it from an undead body in order to obtain it.
I’m going to collectively review boreal, mahogany, palm, and forest wood armor because they’re all made of the hard fibrous material that for the main substance of a tree, wood. The wood would be pliant and lightweight so you would be able to keep your stamina and not be weighed down but for wood armor to actually be practical you would probably need to incorporate some sort of polymer into it. Also the wood armor would be cold so you would probably need to bolster it up with cotton or silk.
Shade wood and ebonwood armor may be a tad bit more stronger than the previous wood types but you gotta remember that you’re wearing armor made from “vegetation” from the vile, carcinogenic, wastelands known as the crimson and corruption. You know the trees in those biomes probably aren’t even plants and are instead living sentient organisms the have pus instead of sap inside them. All I’m saying is do not go up to a dryad while you are decked out in this or else they would probably throw purification powder at you.
Ashwood armor is basically just a debuff as you are covered in ash (path of exile reference) and you are basically walking firewood. The toxic substances in ash also means you will be highly irritated and prone to asthma attacks.
These are grouped together as they are all actually safe enough to wear. The rain armor would be good if you lived by the coast and were a fisherman who wants to have more visibility in storms and bad weather or if you want to look like Greta Thunberg. The snow armor looks cozy and could be used as lighter version of the parka when winter is becoming less cold. The fishing outfit is quite vintage and traditional and it could wick moisture from your skin so that you stay dry during wet days. Not much to say.
Oh boy, cactus armor, ouch. Not only are the pauldrons so bulky you wouldn’t be able to move your neck you would also slowly start shrivelling up because of the heat.
Copper and tin armor wouldn’t be very practical by itself due to it easily becoming corroded and oxidised. The material high electrical conductivity also means it wouldn’t be advised to wear these armors during storms. Though if you were to combine these two armors together you could get bronze armor.
Hey iron armor should be more durable than gold armor and if you wore even a lead chest plate you would probably just get lead poisoning.
Silver armor should be a pushover compared to iron armor, but I guess moh’s scale is different in terraria than irl. Tungsten armor should technically be wear platinum armor is as tungsten has the highest melting point and tensile strength but it is also the heaviest metal.
Gold armor would be only good as a vanity irl and platinum armor would have the same strength as palladium armor but it would be probably as strong as netherite.
You know fossils are just hardened tissue and probably shouldn’t be this stronk and you probably shouldn’t be wearing petrified prehistoric animals irl anyways.
The miners outfit, on the outside may look fine but it doesn’t provide nearly enough personal protective equipment (PPE) as modern day mining gear such as noise blockers for your ears and respirators. This means that when blasting and drilling down in the caves you would have insufficient oxygen and also be at risk of inhaling dust and other particles so you could get pneumoconiosis ( dusty lung) and probably more ailments seeing that the brown shirt under the overalls is probably made of some cheap but durable fabric like asbestos. Don’t even get me started with the fact that you have to loot it from an undead body in order to obtain it.
I’m going to collectively review boreal, mahogany, palm, and forest wood armor because they’re all made of the hard fibrous material that for the main substance of a tree, wood. The wood would be pliant and lightweight so you would be able to keep your stamina and not be weighed down but for wood armor to actually be practical you would probably need to incorporate some sort of polymer into it. Also the wood armor would be cold so you would probably need to bolster it up with cotton or silk.
Shade wood and ebonwood armor may be a tad bit more stronger than the previous wood types but you gotta remember that you’re wearing armor made from “vegetation” from the vile, carcinogenic, wastelands known as the crimson and corruption. You know the trees in those biomes probably aren’t even plants and are instead living sentient organisms the have pus instead of sap inside them. All I’m saying is do not go up to a dryad while you are decked out in this or else they would probably throw purification powder at you.
Ashwood armor is basically just a debuff as you are covered in ash (path of exile reference) and you are basically walking firewood. The toxic substances in ash also means you will be highly irritated and prone to asthma attacks.
These are grouped together as they are all actually safe enough to wear. The rain armor would be good if you lived by the coast and were a fisherman who wants to have more visibility in storms and bad weather or if you want to look like Greta Thunberg. The snow armor looks cozy and could be used as lighter version of the parka when winter is becoming less cold. The fishing outfit is quite vintage and traditional and it could wick moisture from your skin so that you stay dry during wet days. Not much to say.
Oh boy, cactus armor, ouch. Not only are the pauldrons so bulky you wouldn’t be able to move your neck you would also slowly start shrivelling up because of the heat.
Copper and tin armor wouldn’t be very practical by itself due to it easily becoming corroded and oxidised. The material high electrical conductivity also means it wouldn’t be advised to wear these armors during storms. Though if you were to combine these two armors together you could get bronze armor.
Hey iron armor should be more durable than gold armor and if you wore even a lead chest plate you would probably just get lead poisoning.
Silver armor should be a pushover compared to iron armor, but I guess moh’s scale is different in terraria than irl. Tungsten armor should technically be wear platinum armor is as tungsten has the highest melting point and tensile strength but it is also the heaviest metal.
Gold armor would be only good as a vanity irl and platinum armor would have the same strength as palladium armor but it would be probably as strong as netherite.
You know fossils are just hardened tissue and probably shouldn’t be this stronk and you probably shouldn’t be wearing petrified prehistoric animals irl anyways.
and you’ll end up looking like Anakin at the end of Episode 3.
