Trivia / Terraria

• Colbert Bump: Terraria was an obscure indie game until the Minecraft devs mentioned it on their blog. Sales shot up to the point that it was higher on Steam's bestseller list than Portal 2 for several days.
• Creator Backlash:
  • In the fallout of the cancellation announcement in 2012, Redigit outright admitted that he never saw Terraria as anything more than "a testing ground" and that his heart was never truly into it. When the fans naturally got pissed by this, he retaliated by refusing to let the new content of the console port be added to the original platform in any way, shape or form. He did change his mind, as shown with 1.2 and later updates and eventually, he removed the prohibition of console items in 2019, allowing them to be modded into the game.
  • The dev team seems to hate it when people cook up ways to AFK bosses and events. Whenever someone figures out a way to do such, expect it to be patched out the very next update, and bosses and events have steadily been getting more and more insane in an attempt to prevent AFK farms. Not that it stops people.
• Creator's Pest: Re-Logic isn't terribly fond of Ocram as a boss, believing that he's neither a good fit for the game nor a particularly interesting boss fight. As such, they removed him from the console version when it was updated to 1.3 and plan to do the same for the mobile version, establishing the Moon Lord as the real True Final Boss. For what it's worth, Ocram at least got a nod in 1.4.4 with the Ocram's Razor item, though Ocram once again appearing as an actual boss in official capacity doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.
• Defictionalization: The Yoyos introduced in 1.3 are based on real yoyos by One Drop, specifically the ones with One Drop's logo written in the tooltips. The Terrarian didn't have one initially until One Drop released it on November 2015. One year later, the in-game yoyo Kraken received the same treatment. In 2019, the Legendary Terrarian was released, preceding the ability to give the Legendary modification to the Terrarian.
• Demand Overload: The 1.4 update's release brought so many people into the forums that it crashed the servers for a few days.
• Development Gag: The different backgrounds of the Celestial Towers' fights, when ordered in a certain way^note Vortex, Nebula, Stardust, Solar, reveal that the moon is getting dangerously close to the world surface. The moon was initially going to be a boss that used the theme of the Celestial Towers.
• Dueling Games: Starbound due to them sharing similar mechanics leading some to proclaim Starbound is just Terraria In Space. It also helps that Chucklefish's founder and Starbound's lead dev, Finn "Tiyuri" Brice used to be Terraria's main sprite artist.
• Dummied Out:
  • When the old-gen console and mobile version was updated to 1.3, Ocram was removed.
  • Several items intended for use in testing various elements of the game. Mostly ludicrously overpowered weapons and armor so they didn't have to worry about enemies.
• Fandom Nod: In Steam's card collection, the Wyvern card has this note: "The reason your floating city is a ghost town". This is a nod to the fact that many players have wanted to build a city near space, but due to the Wyvern's habit of killing almost everything up there and being near impossible to prevent spawning, it would end up killing everything up there.
• Fanwork Ban: Though Re-Logic has openly embraced community modifications, they still have a code of conduct for what can and can't be published:
  • Mods seeking to undo the removal of the original Zapinator (which was given a facelift in terms of functionality and split into two Stat Stick variants in 1.4), the scrapped 1.2 weapons (see What Could Have Been below), the Mysterious Package (broken exclusive item for an obsolete platform), and/or the biome key molds (removed for being unwieldy as a means of acquiring the keys themselves) are strictly prohibited from being distributed through the forums or TModLoader.
  • It used to be prohibited to port the exclusive content from the console versions to the PC version, but the ban was rescinded in 2018.
  • If a mod can't function without bypassing certain security functions or otherwise pirating certain parts of Terraria's systems, they're also banned without explicit permission for obvious legal reasons.
  • Rule 34 content is also banned as a whole.
• He Also Did: Yes, believe it or not, this game was made by the same guy who made Super Mario Bros. X.
• No Port For You: A port of Terraria for Google Stadia was planned, but in February 8, 2021, Redigit announced that due to repeated issues he has had with many of Google's services (including having his personal and business YouTube, Google, Drive and Gmail accounts locked out for weeks for seemingly no reason), he has canceled the port and that Re-Logic will no longer be supporting Google's platforms moving forward. Existing releases of the game on Android platforms and the like are not affected.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: Six vanity sets made by community members^*Plaguebringer's set, Wandering set, Timeless Traveler's set, Floret Protector set, Capricorn set and the TV Head set were added in the 1.4.1 patch.
  • played with by the texture packs and worlds in the steam workshop, some of which can get the “developer’s choice” branding. Complicated even more because some of these packs were made by developers.
  • before Journey’s End released, re-logic held a contest for a fan remix of the overworld day theme. It can be heard in game by crafting the music box out of Martian conduit plating.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Officially none, but it's one of the few things that cannot be posted to TModLoader.
• Schedule Slip:
  • Terraria 1.4, aka Journey's End, was originally going to be released in 2019, but got pushed to 2020 instead. It was later released on 16 May 2020, Terraria's ninth anniversary.
  • The First Fractal is unused for this reason, as it couldn't be finished in time for the update's release (though function-wise, it's largely complete).
• Teasing Creator:
  • Redigit loves posting teasers of bigger updates, it seems.
  • Redigit was really teasing when he uploaded this video on April 1st, leaving people wondering if it's true or an elaborate April Fools Joke (it turned out to be true).
• Trolling Creator: The “Labor of Love” update added a new special seed called “No Traps” that allegedly removes traps from the generated world. It actually makes them significantly more common and adds in new variants of already existing traps.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: The "Temple Raider" achievement, awarded for entering the Jungle Temple, has a much lower completion percentage than "Lihzahrdian Idol", awarded for defeating Golem (which is impossible without entering the temple first). Lots of people seem to be convinced that this is due to players glitching the game using "hoiks" to enter the Jungle Temple without opening the door, something which is nowhere near as common as those players think. In reality, this is due to "Temple Raider" originally being awarded for mining Lihzahrd bricks, and a later update changing it to the current requirement of opening the temple door, in the process erasing the achievement from anyone who had already completed it. But any time the discrepancy between the two achievements gets mentioned, many players will jump and swear that it's due to "hoiks" despite the Golem fight eventually being patched to be unable to be started without killing Plantera (who drops the key to enter the temple)
• What Could Have Been:
  • The theme used for the Celestial Towers was initially going to be for a singular fight against something only known as a "Lunar Boss." Said Lunar Boss used to be the moon itself descending on the world, but was eventually changed at least twice (once to another boss, and then again to the Celestial Towers.) The backgrounds of the different Towers reflect this stage in development - see Development Gag above.
  • Two Soul Eater weapons and what was supposed to be a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of the Frostmourne, the Icemourne, were implemented in 1.1, but gutted at the last minute due to copyright concerns. An update during 1.2 turned them into normal items, but during that time using them tended to result in unwanted Angel Statues.
  • Granite Elementals used to spawn in numbers, but have since been reduced to one per world at a time. Why so is not known, though Conservation of Ninjutsu could be a possibility.
  • Terraria: Otherworld itself was cancelled as the team considered that its development was excessively time and resource-consuming without much progress. However its soundtrack has made it the main game with the Journey’s End update as an Easter Egg.
  • The Hallow, Jungle, and Underworld were at one point planned to have alternate biomes called Candyland, the Swamp, and Hell (based on Hercules) respectively.
  • The Zenith was originally an upgraded Terra Blade called the First Fractal, where "swinging" the blade would surround a target with countless clones of the user charging at them with different variants of the blade. The First Fractal itself remains in the game's code and works as intended function-wise, but went unused as it wasn't ready to ship with the rest of 1.4.
  • The "get fixed boi" seed was originally going to be called "broke ass game ass", but was changed to avoid encouraging the younger players to say "ass" a lot.

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