History VideoGame / TheThoriumMod

* BonusBoss: None of the bosses introduced in the mod are actually required for progression (besides [[FinalBoss The Primordials]]), but fighting them is generally worth it for better gear.

* SinisterScythe: Scythes serve as the WeaponOfChoice for the Healer class, dealing constant damage in a circle around them. The Lich boss also uses a large scythe dubbed the Soul Render (which is obtainable as a melee weapon after killing him).

* AbilityDepletionPenalty: If the exhaustion meter for infinite throwing weapons fills up then the damage from those particular weapons are severely weakened and although continuing to throw won't reset the duration of the debuff, you will have to wait for it to expire, after which the meter is reset.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Each of the base gems, as well as ones added in Thorium, can be crafted into [[RingOfPower ring accessories boosting specific stats by small amounts,]] or earlygame magic weapons that inflict different debuffs. Each of them can be respectively combined into a single ring or weapon which combines and enhances all of their attributes and remain useful for a significant chunk of the game.

** A Rain Stone can found in chests in the Aquatic Depths, and can be used to instantly make it start or stop raining.

* ChestMonster: ''Thorium'' adds the Coin Bag flavor to ''Terraria''. They're not nearly as problematic as the actual Mimics, however, and they ''run away'' when you get close. It also adds three new variety of the standard chest mimics for the Underground Mushroom, Underworld, and Aquatic Depths biomes. There's even a mimic pet that can be bought from the Tracker.

* AdaptationExpansion: The Throwing damage type, barely utilized in Terraria proper to the point where it was removed from the game entirely in patch 1.4, is expanded into its own class in Thorium. The chief gimmick is {{Ninja}}-esque "Techniques" fueled by dealing Throwing damage, allowing a wide range of mutually exclusive secondary powers like throwing daggers, combat decoys, or teleportation.

** A Rain Stone can found in chests in the Abyssal Depths, and can be used to instantly make it start or stop raining.

* AWinnerIsYou: Taking down the Primordials will permanently give you the Reality Bearer buff, which does nothing except show a fancy golden crown over your head.
* BenevolentMonsters: The Globee is a rare enemy found within the Aquatic Depths biome. It swims directly towards the player when they are submerged in water, but, unlike most enemies, don't deal any contact damage. As these emit a fair amount of light, their entire purpose seems to be to aid the player's vision
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Borean Strider, a giant icy spider. When it's killed, a few new types of giant spiders begin to appear in the spider nests.
* BossInMookClothing: Patch Werk and the Corspe Bloom, minibosses that spawn naturally in their home environments. Notably, neither of them respawn after being killed.

* ChestMonster: ''Thorium'' adds the Coin Bag flavor to Terraria. They're not nearly as problematic as the actual Mimics, however, and they ''run away'' when you get close. It also adds three new variety of the standard chest mimics for the Underground Mushroom, Underworld, and Abyssal Depths biomes. There's even a mimic pet that can be bought from the Tracker.
** Life Crystal Mimics play the trope straighter, as they appear to be Life Crystals, but will attack you.

* DamageOverTime: The Shade Master armor's set bonus uses an odd variation of it, 50% of the damage you take is staggered over the next ten seconds, allowing you to tank massive damage with the caveat of it catching up to you later.

* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Three uncommon enemies in the Underground, Gilded Bat, Gilded Worg and Gilded Slime, are completely golden and emit such a strong light to completely illuminate the immediate area they're in. They also drop Gold Bars and Ores regardless if your world has Gold or Platinum in it, making them a good source of the stuff, and they also happen to be one of the targets for the Tracker's hunts.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: While pretty much anything made from the materials dropped by the FinalBoss is this, special mention must go to the weapons that share the appropriate title of [[GameBreaker "Reality Breaker"]] (Quasar's Flare, Terrarian's Last Knife, Northern Light, and Black Midi). In addition, the Primordials' expert drops (Mjolnir and the Bow of Light) easily fall into this category.

* InTheHood: Several armor sets added by the mod include a hood, mostly the ones intended to be worn by Healers. The Lich also wears a hood during the first phase of its fight.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: At the beginning of the game, a new player will spawn with a Family Heirloom which provides 1 Defense. It's advised to hold onto this, because you don't get another - and [[spoiler:if you're playing on Expert, it's a vital ingredient to create the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Mjolnir]]]].
* JokeWeapon: The Penguin Wand. Despite requiring an exorbitant amount of Penguin Head grinding and the game claiming its cataclysmic power could bring the Moon Lord to his knees, all it does is fire a decorative firework missile.
** LethalJokeWeapon: However, [[spoiler:if you defeat the Primordials and (somehow) have the patience to grind out 999 Penguin Wands, they can be forged into the True Penguin Wand, which is said to be able to even defeat a reality ending dream eater with its apocalyptic power. Upon use...the weapon instantly transforms all entities in the world into Penguins. Yes, that includes [[HilarityEnsues all bosses]] (including [[UpToEleven endgame bosses from other mods]]). However, transformed enemies will only drop a Penguin's drops instead of their original ones).]]
* LetsGetDangerous: The effect of the Danger Shard armor set, which gets more bonuses the longer you remain in combat.

* MetalSlime: As said above, Coin Bag Mimics are these, as they try to run away from you. Defeat them, and you can aquire a good amount of money.

* NonStandardGameOver: Dying to the [[FinalBoss Dream Eater]] will give you an unique death message.

* Myth/NorseMythology: In case the title didn't give it away, Thorium takes many cues from Norse myth. Besides the mineral Thorium itself (which is a real metal, by the way), the final boss used to be called the Ragnarok, and the ultimate weapon of the mod is the legendary Mjolnir.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: The Lich is a massive, scythe-wielding skeleton that serves as a mid-hardmode boss.
* {{Overheating}}: Infinite use throwing weapons this in the form of an exhaustion meter that fills up. When it does, damage from those weapons will be severely reduced until the debuff wears off. Accessories like the canteen reduce the exhaustion buildup.
* PlagueDoctor: One of the armor sets available for throwers in the Plague Doctor armor, which improves the effectiveness of gas grenades.

** The Hopping Spider is nearly identical in behavior to the Spider from VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}
** Many of the names for the various [=NPC=]s are references, such as the Tracker sometimes being called [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]] or the Chef being named after many famous chefs.
** The Sonar Cannon fires a sound wave projectile that can bounce off projectiles, but hitting yourself with it supercharges your next symphonic attack, just like how the Noise Crush weapon works in [[VideoGame/MegaMan7 Mega Man 7]].
** One pre-hardmode Bard weapon sold by the Chef is... a [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants jar of mayonnaise.]] Its tooltip even says along the lines of 'an age old question finally answered.'
** Nearly all of the items created by donators are references to another intellectual property, including [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Vicious Mockery]] and the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Aeon Staff]]

** Healers are this by default due to...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin healing]] and providing benefits to teammates. [[CombatMedic That doesn't say that they can't fight if needed, however]].

* UnderTheSea: The Aquatic Depths, a biome unique to Thorium which spawns under the Ocean on whatever side the Jungle is.
* VoluntaryShapeShifting: The Transformation items, which go in a player's mount slot and allow the player to transform into a certain animal.

* NonLethalKO: Unlike most bosses, tbe Grand Thunder Bird flies away when defeated rather than being slain outright. Supplementary material suggests it is (or [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was, perhaps]]) meant to play a larger role later in the mod's progression, and it's more interested in testing your abilities than battling to the death.

** LethalJokeWeapon: However, [[spoiler:if you defeat the Primordials and (somehow) have the patience to grind out 999 Penguin Wands, they can be forged into the True Penguin Wand, which is said to be able to even defeat a reality ending dream eater with its apocalyptic power. Upon use...the weapon instantly transforms all entities in the world into Penguins. Yes, that includes [[HilarityEnsues all bosses]] (including [[UpToEleven endgame bosses from other mods]]) However, transformed enemies will only drop a Penguin's drops instead of their original ones).]]

** LethalJokeWeapon: However, [[spoiler:if you defeat the Primordials and (somehow) have the patience to grind out 999 Penguin Wands, they can be forged into the True Penguin Wand, which is said to be able to even defeat a reality ending dream eater with its apocalyptic power. Upon use...the weapon instantly transforms all entities in the world into Penguins. Yes, that includes [[HilarityEnsues all bosses]] (however, transformed enemies will only drop a Penguin's drops instead of their original ones).]]

* AWinnerIsYou: Taking down the Ragnarok will permanently give you the Reality Bearer buff, which does nothing except show a fancy golden crown over your head.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Apparently the arrival of the Ragnarok will cause something akin to this.
* FinalBoss: The Ragnarok serves as the final boss of the mod.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: While pretty much anything made from the materials dropped by the FinalBoss is this, special mention must go to the weapons that share the appropriate title of [[GameBreaker "Reality Breaker"]] (Quasar's Flare, Terrarian's Last Knife, Northern Light, and Black Midi). In addition, Ragnarok's expert drops (Mjolnir and the Bow of Light) easily fall into this category.

** LethalJokeWeapon: However, [[spoiler:if you defeat the Ragnarok and (somehow) have the patience to grind out 999 Penguin Wands, they can be forged into the True Penguin Wand, which is said to be able to even defeat a reality ending dream eater with its apocalyptic power. Upon use...the weapon instantly transforms all entities in the world into Penguins. Yes, that includes [[HilarityEnsues all bosses]] (however, transformed enemies will only drop a Penguin's drops instead of their original ones).]]

* NonStandardGameOver: Dying to the [[FinalBoss Ragnarok]] will give you an unique death message.

* Myth/NorseMythology: In case the title didn't give it away, Thorium takes many cues from Norse myth. Besides the mineral Thorium itself (which is a real metal, by the way), the final boss is called the Ragnarok, and the ultimate weapon of the mod is the legendary Mjolnir.

''The Thorium Mod'' is an expansive GameMod for ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', created by [=DivermanSam=]. It is often considered one of the largest and most in-depth and popular mods that exist for Terraria, and for good reason -- it adds an incredible amount of content, including numerous [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], tons of enemies, two entirely new damage types, and several challenging new bosses.

''The Thorium Mod'' is an expansive GameMod for ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', created by [=DivermanSam=]. It is often considered one of the largest and most in-depth and popular mods that exist for Terraria, and for good reason -- it adds an incredible amount of content, including numerous [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], tons of enemies, two entirely new damage types, and several challenging new bosses, to name a few.

* ChestMonster: ''Thorium'' adds the Coin Bag flavor to Terraria. They're not nearly as problematic as the actual Mimics, however, and they ''run away'' when you get close.

* TokenHeroicOrc: Two of the [=NPC=]]]s added by the mod, the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Confused Zombie]] and the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Weapon Master]], belong to species that are normally hostile to the player.

* BalefulPolymorph: Certain kinds of gear on ''Thorium'' allow you to do this to ''yourself''. It changes your properties and allows you to move through small spaces, among other things.
* BossInMookClothing: Patch Werk and the Corspe Bloom, minibosses that spawn naturally in their home environments. Patch Werk notably gets completely tossed aside for a weaker mob called an Abomination in future Blood Moons.

* MetalSlime: As said above, coin bags are these, as they try to run away from you. Defeat them, and you can aquire a good amount of money.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: The Lich is a massive scythe-wielding skeleton that serves as a mid-hardmode boss.

* SupportPartyMember: Healers are this by default due to...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin healing]] and providing benefits to teammates. That doesn't say that they can't fight if needed, however.