History Terraria / TropesIToR

* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: (Some assembly required.)

* RegionalBonus: The UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 port of ''Terraria'' was published in Japan by Chunsoft, and if you watch closely during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5M_xKFs_E this trailer]] you can spot the player wearing [[Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} Monokuma]] and VideoGame/ShirenTheWanderer costumes.

** People have used the housing query feature, normally used to determine if a structure is suitable housing to look for caves. When the text changes from "this is a solid block!" to "this housing is missing a wall", the player will know that they have stumbled upon a cave.

** Kind of the entire point of [[MinionMaster Summoning weapons]].

** The Reaver Shark and Crate Stockpiling allowed players to essentially skip a huge portion of the game, so they were nerfed in Journey's End to prevent this- Crate Stockpiling by splitting Crates into Pre-Hardmode and Hardmode variants, and the Reaver Shark by reducing its Pickaxe Power to 59, making it unable to mine Hellstone. To quote the changelog written by the devs on the two subjects...

** NonIndicativeDifficulty: Expert mode is usually seen as the best option for purely casual playthroughs, even in contrast to objectively easier Normal mode. The reason for this is that some of exclusive boss drops on this difficulty are very powerful for the stages they become available at, and others can stay useful throughout the rest of the game, if you know how to use them accordingly.

* NotCompletelyUseless: Once the player gets a Lucky Horseshoe, any kind of wings, or the Cosmic Car Key, all of which prevent falling damage, the Featherfall Potion would seem obsolete. However, the [[TakenForGranite Stoned]] debuff inflicted by Medusa turns off falling damage immunity -- except that granted by the Featherfall Potion.

* PlungerDetonator: The world generation in 1.3 now spawns most explosive blocks connected to an ''{{incredibly obvious|Bomb}}'' one, to the relief of many players. You'd have to either [[SchmuckBait activate them yourself]] or land on top of them in order to blow yourself up.

* MeaningfulName: Retinazer is an [[MagicalEye eye]] that shoots [[EyeBeams lazers]]. Skeletron Prime is a [[{{Transformers}} robot]] version of Skeletron. The Minishark is a shark-shaped minigun. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

** Diving gear and breathing reeds greatly retards the rate of oxygen depletion, while the charms that grant you transformation into merfolk eliminate the bar entirely.
** The [[ArtificialGill Gills Potion]] allows you to breathe underwater. The Obsidian Skin potion also allows you to breath under ''lava'' (along with its lava immunity effect) as of 1.2.

** The Blade of Grass is a fantastic replacement for just about any sword made from the common ores. It only takes a trip to the jungle (albeit a dangerous one for underequipped, new characters) and killing enough hornets for their stingers, as well as the naturally spawning jungle spores. [[hottip:*:[--Compared to the Light's Bane/Blood Butcherer which requires killing a boss to reliably acquire materials for construction, the Muramasa, which requires killing a boss AND looting a key to open a chest which contains one (while surviving the much more dangerous environment), and the Fiery Greatsword, which requires a Hellstone-capable pick and the ability to survive the inherent risks of a lava environment--].]]

** Phaseblades and Phasesabers as well as any weapon on fire such as the Fiery Greatsword or Molten Hamaxe can be used to light up dark caves while exploring. Combined with the Mythril armor which shines for several seconds AFTER a light source is cast on it lets you ditch the otherwise necessary illumination tools while mining.

* NightmareFace: There's a reason why the [[http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Face_Monster Face Monster]] is named that way. Doesn't help that it's found in one of the creepiest biomes in the game.

** [[http://terraria.gamepedia.com/The_Grand_Design The Grand Design]] is the ultimate wiring tool. However, while it was intended for wiring first, one of its ingredients is the Mechanical Lens, and so simply having it in your inventory lets you spot already placed wires. As such, it's worth having this thing on you while spelunking underground since it allows you to easily trivialize traps, and is especially useful in the trap heavy Jungle Temple. What's more, prior to 1.3.5, the Grand Design emitted light upon use, which led to people using it to find caves and for prospecting.

** The power creep in Terraria can be best exemplified through what was once the game's true InfinityPlusOneSword; the [[https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Terra_Blade Terra Blade]]. Creating through an [[ChainOfDeals extremely long crafting]] [[https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/terraria_gamepedia/a/a0/Terra_Blade_Crafting_Chart.png?version=49566e767b25457100cafbd18a06b17f sequence spanning the entire game]], the Terra Blade had extremely high DPS, a projectile attack and didn't cost any mana for it. An extremely useful weapon and very powerful at the time it was introduced... Then [[https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Influx_Waver the Influx Waver]] was introduced. Higher base power, a projectile attack that hits enemies ''twice'' and it has around the same swing speed as the Terra Blade, ''without'' the need to go through the ChainOfDeals to get it. All it takes is farming a boss from an event to get it... An event that opens up ''around the same time'' one would be able to craft the Terra Blade, effectively rending the Terra Blade useless! It got so bad that 1.4.4 had to do a complete rework of its functionality to finally avert this.

* PsychoKnifeNut: There's the Psycho mob from the Solar Eclipse event, confirmed by the devs to be a reference to ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''. He uses a knife to attack and drops the [[http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Psycho_Knife Psycho Knife]], which stealths you when wielded and gives a massive damage boost in the process.

** The [[http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Headless_Horseman Headless Horseman]], an enemy in the Pumpkin Moon event who appears riding a black horse and wearing a pumpkin as a head. It has a chance to drop a Jack-O-Lantern mask, so that you can wear a pumpkin in your head too.
** There's also [[http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Pumpking Pumpking]], one of the two mini-bosses during the Pumpkin Moon event. He appears as a giant, floating wraith wearing only a cloak and a pumpkin as his head, that rotates alternating among three different faces.

* OptionalBoss: Many bosses are not required to progress the game. %% The Dungeon Guardian, Empress of Light, and Duke Fishron are filed under the Superboss subtrope.

* NothingIsScarier: After defeating the second-to-last group of bosses in the game the message "Impending doom approaches" appears on screen, and everything starts going dark. All remaining monsters flee, and the music, which in Terraria never stops even in the creepiest of occasions, grinds to a halt, leaving you with an empty, silent screen periodically darkening and flickering. This goes on for about a minute until [[spoiler:the Moon Lord appears]].
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou:
** You can stop fall damage with certain accessories (Lucky Horseshoe, Obsidian Horseshoe, and any Wings), using a grappling hook to hook onto a wall before you land, using the Rocket Boots to slow your fall, double-jumping before landing, or [[SoftWater landing in water]] or cobwebs. If you ''do'' take fall damage, it can be [[DisneyVillainDeath severe]].
** Oddly, if you time it right you can grapple onto the ground and [[ArtisticLicensePhysics pull yourself down faster to negate the lethal falling damage]].
* NotTheIntendedUse: The Pigronata was added as part of the 5th anniversary update among many other party-related items like the party center or balloons. It was intended to be used as a party piñata, with the player being able to break it, getting several items in the process: usually just coins, sometimes party bullets and flasks of party, and rarely bacon. However, after the 1.4 rebalance of food, bacon happens to be one of the best food items in the game. Since all other good food items require a rare drop from enemies, the Pigronata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFEleDjUlY is used]] to farm bacon without having to kill lots of enemies.