History VideoGame / Terraria

* BossBattle: Terraria currently has four of them.

*** It is fast no longer, unfortunately. Receiving a (albeit much needed) nerf in 1.0.6. It no longer fires rapidly. And you must click for each and every star. That being said, it still is rather powerful, dealing a whopping 60 average damage. Then it got unerfed in 1.1, where it's firing speed was brought back to normal.

* LordBritishPostulate: This used to exist in full force with the Guide. A common hobby of people was bringing lava to him and trapping him in a pit with the stuff, watching him burn to death. Now, however, He's just as mortal as the other [=NPCs=], especially if you have a [[spoiler:Guide voodoo doll, which lets you attack and kill him. It even [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything kills him if destroyed by other means.]] ]]

* {{BFS}}: The Blade of Grass and the Phaseblades, which are double your height and still maybe a little bit longer. The Fiery Greatsword is slightly larger, and ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin made of fire]]''. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword Night's Edge]], which is made of (among other things) the Blade of Grass and the Fiery Greatsword, as well. Muramasa is comparatively smaller, but still around the height of the player.

*** It is fast no longer, unfortunately. Receiving a (albeit much needed) nerf in 1.0.6. It no longer fires rapidly. And you must click for each and every star. That being said, it still is rather powerful, dealing a whopping 60 average damage.

* ChainsawGood: According to the trailers, in 1.1 you will be able to use a chainsaw, both for cutting trees and for cutting people.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: The Wall of Flesh, a Type A version.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The Wall of Flesh.

''[[http://www.terraria.org/ Terraria]]'' (pronounced similar to "Terrarium") is a very detailed 2D WideOpenSandbox indie game, created by Andrew "Redigit" Spinks and Jeremy "Blue" Guerrette. It was made available on {{Steam}} on May 16, 2011. The game is currently in beta, and version 1.1 will come out near the end of 2011.

* PlanetHeck: Dig too far down and you'll end up in the Underworld, filled with lava that will more than likely kill you instantly, powerful monsters, and ore you can't even mine without hurting yourself unless you have a special accessory.

* SchizoTech: In the same game that shows players running around in metal armor, swinging swords and fighting goblins, you also have [[{{Magitek}} mana-powered laser guns]] and the jet pack-like Rocket Boots.

*** Depending on the fan your talking to the Bunny Hood is either [[DonnieDarko Frank's mask]] or [[LegendOfZelda Link's.]]

* UndergroundLevel: Everything between the over world, which is a GreenHillZone, and the bottom of the map, which is a LethalLavaLand, is this. Well, except for the Underground Jungle.
** As well as the dungeon.
* {{Unobtainium}}: Now in three distinct flavors, you have Demonite which is only dropped by boss monsters, Meteorites which only appear after you destroy a Shadow Orb, and Hellstone, which you can only find in the underworld.
** In 1.0.5, a new world spawns with a little demonite ore spread sporadically around it.

** Then in the Underground Jungle you have Hornets which can spawn in swarms of up to 6. Did we mention they have 100 health and can deal 40 damage per hit? If you go into the Underground Jungle on multiplayer, expect that spawn rate to go much higher.
** Also have fun in the Underworld where Imps never stop spawning, throwing fireballs [[DepthPerplexion through walls]] at you while teleporting all over the place. Then come the [[DemonicSpider bone serpents]]. The next patch is reportedly going to ease up on the spawn rate down here.
*** And it has. While there are still tons of stuff spawning, it's usually the easily killed Hell Bats and Lava Slimes as opposed to the annoying Imps and Bone Serpents, which spawn more rarely most of the time.

** There's also a potion that allows you to breathe underwater for 2 minutes, in exchange for drowning when you try to breath normal air.

** It's likely at some point in the game that you'll gain the ability to summon an orb of pure light to follow you and help light the way...behind you. It has the acceleration and top speed of a unicycle being ridden by a drunken blind man with an inner ear infection, meaning if you move faster than base walking speed by any means, you'll be getting a nice view at wherever you were two seconds ago.
** The Rocket Boots are very slow, and even with the MP cost reduction from the Meteor Armor set, they still drain your MP fairly quickly. There's very little you can accomplish with them that you can't do just as well with the Cloud in a Bottle and Ivy Whip.
*** [[AwesomeYetPractical Unless you equip a Red Balloon and double the speed...]]
*** And then they changed how it worked entirely. It no longer consumes mana, but it only lasts about two seconds. It does recharge immediately if you land or grapple onto a wall which makes it much more useful in most situations. It also makes it viable to use the Rocket Boots if you don't have full maximum mana.

** If you enter at night before killing Skeletron, you could have still fought off the heads he summons with the aid of end-game equipment and lots of potions. Attempting to go down before fighting Skeletron will spawn a monster called "The Dungeon Master," throwing Skeletron heads at an insane pace. This makes going down a dungeon pre-skeletron a little harder.
*** This has been changed in the most recent version of the game, as players were getting too good at killing Skeletron without, well, killing Skeletron. The dungeon defenders are no longer Skeletron heads. Instead, now there's a Dungeon Guardian that has 9999 hit points ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill and hits you for 9000 points of damage.]]''

* {{BFS}}: The Blade of Grass and the Phaseblades, which are double your height and still maybe a little bit longer. The Fiery Greatsword is slightly larger, and ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin made of fire]]''. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword Night's Edge]], which is made of (among other things) the Blade of Grass and the Fiery Greatsword, as well.

** Falling stars themselves are capable of dealing HEAVY damage on impact. HilarityEnsues if you're lucky enough to be fighting the Devourer of Worlds and it's moving near-vertically upwards.
* DemBones: The list of skeletal enemies in the game goes as follows: the Skeleton, the much tougher Angry Bones, the Dark Caster, Tim, the Dead Miner, the flying Burning Skull, the burrowing Bone Serpent, and Skeletron, who's the game's toughest boss. You spend a ''lot'' of time battling skeletons in this game.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: You can, of course, build one. The Dungeon itself also qualifies.

* EpicFlail: There are three large morning star style weapons in the game.

** Getting 200 health with out fighting The Eye of Cthulhu can trigger an event where the Eye can summon itself. If you force summon him after you get the event flag but before he shows up, two Eyes can show up.

* HealingPotion: Two varieties that you can brew yourself at a alchemy station. You can also buy the lesser healing potion or find it in chests and the dungeon, but you have to craft higher end healing potions. You also can craft mana potions or find them around the world.

* ImprovisedWeapon: The Staff of Regrowth is usually meant to be a tool for making grass grow quicker. However, it autoswings, and does more damage than the [[InfinityMinusOneSword Muramasa,]] making it a very viable weapon to bash things to death with until you upgrade to Night's Edge, and is far easier to get if luck is on your side. Hammers and axes are not intended as weapons for the most part, but higher end ones can still be effective.
** Unfortunately, this is no longer true, as the Staff of Regrowth got significantly nerfed to the point where a Nightmare Pickaxe outclasses it. You will almost definately have this before you get the staff.
** Buckets of lava can be used in this manner by dumping them on enemies below you.

** There are six unique swords. Starfury, Muramasa, Fiery Greatsword, the Blade of Grass, the Phaseblades, and Night's Edge. Of them, Muramasa is often considered the best by some players because its base damage is not significantly lower then other high level blades. Add in the much higher attack rate and this gives the sword a higher damage per second than other weapons.

** The Flamarang is an Infinity Plus One Throwing Item. Hits almost as hard as the FAR slower-swinging Fiery Greatsword so it has huge [=DPS=], and, [[CaptainObvious unsurprisingly, has a far higher range,]] combined with being a ranged weapon which does not depend on ammunition.

*** And now as of 1.0.6, it has an *average* swing speed. Being able to kill just about everything in your way, and combined with Shadow Armor and Feral Claws, can reach a speed nearly as fast as the Muramasa.

** Amusingly, monsters also explode if they die from poison.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: You can stop fall damage by getting a special accessory or using a grapple hook to hook onto a wall before you land. Double-jumping before landing, or landing in water, also negates fall damage. As does landing in cobwebs. If you ''do'' take fall damage, it can be [[DisneyVillainDeath severe]].

*** This has been changed in the most recent version of the game, as players were getting too good at killing Skeletron without, well, killing Skeletron. The dungeon defenders are no longer Skeletron heads. Instead, now there's a Dungeon Guardian that has 9999 hit points [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill and hits you for 9000 points of damage.]]

*** This has been changed in the most recent version of the game, as players were getting too good at killing Skeletron without, well, killing Skeletron. The dungeon defenders are no longer Skeletron heads. Instead, now there's a Dungeon Guardian that has 9999 hit points ''and hits you for 9000 points of damage''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The game allows your character to have hair of almost any color.

''[[http://www.terraria.org/ Terraria]]'' (pronounced similar to "Terrarium") is a very detailed 2D WideOpenSandbox indie game, created by Andrew "Redigit" Spinks and Jeremy "Blue" Guerrette. It was made available on {{Steam}} on May 16, 2011. The game is currently in beta, and version 1.0 will come out near the end of 2011.

* InterchangableAntimatterKeys: Present and accounted for in the Dungeon. All the enemies and pots have a chance of dropping keys when killed/broken, and they can unlock Locked Golden Chests in the dungeon and Floating Islands once and are then destroyed. [[SkeletonKey Shadow Keys, on the other hand...]]

** There used to be an even bigger case of this when you could get to the floating islands early on. You could find the indispensable, fall-damage-removing Lucky Horseshoe, the [[DeathFromAbove hideously powerful Starfury]], and can often have enormous amounts of Gold/Silver bars up there, so you could make armour out of it early on. However, this has since been subverted with the latest patch - the chests there can sometimes be locked, requiring a [[InterchangeableAntimatterKey Golden Key]] from the Dungeon. However, there are usually large veins of gold and silver ore on the islands, so even if you don't have the keys, finding them is still an advantage.

* SkeletonKey: The Shadow Key is this. It's rare - It can only be found in the near engame Dungeon, but once you have just one, it'll be all you need to unlock every Shadow Chest in the game. [[InterchangableAntimatterKeys Golden Keys, on the other hand...]]

* RuleOfAwesome: [[MoreDakka The]] [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks Minishark]]. ''Half shark, half gun, all awesome.''

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: The Clothier, an old man who arrives at your house after you defeat Skeletron, is Skeletron's true form.]]
** But he mentions a curse when you speak to him, and skeletron is his "master."

''[[http://www.terraria.org/ Terraria]]'' (pronounced similar to "Terrarium") is a very detailed 2D WideOpenSandbox indie game, created by Andrew "Redigit" Spinks and Jeremy "Blue" Guerrette. It was made available on {{Steam}} on May 16, 2011. The game is currently in beta, and version 1.1 will come out near the end of 2011.

''[[http://www.terraria.org/ Terraria]]'' (pronounced similar to "Terrarium") is a very detailed 2D WideOpenSandbox indie game, created by Andrew "Redigit" Spinks and Jeremy "Blue" Guerrette. It was made available on {{Steam}} on May 16, 2011.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the possible responses if you're at full HitPoints and ask the Nurse for healing is "I don't give [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean happy endings]]."