Greetings Terrarians!

2024 is here at last and we feel like it has the potential to be a huge one in the world of Terraria! Just looking at the existing plans for Terraria development on 1.4.5 and then looking one step beyond that into (hopefully) the world of Crossplay, this year has the potential to be the most impactful year for the game and community since the release of Journey's End. Of course, there is lots to do between where we are today and reaching that potential, but our team is fired up and ready to make it happen. We hope each of you enjoy following along with us this year and here's to making 2024 one of the best years for Terraria yet!

Let's get started, shall we?






What started as a "quick and short" update to add our side of the Terraria x Dead Cells crossover content has morphed into a much larger update that we have been working on for over a year now. The team is currently going over more plans and ideas in regards to what else might make it into 1.4.5, timelines, etc. More on that later. For now, let's take a sneak peek at another of the Tree vs Axe war prizes as well as a bit of slimy goodness!


The Axearang - slice and dice those nasty trees from a safe distance!



Slimevolution? What is this madness?!?

2024 is going to be a great one, we cannot wait to show you more from 1.4.5 in the months to come!

STEAM WORKSHOP NEWS

Click the banner above to check out the Terraria Workshop!

We have finally broken the 100,000 packs/worlds milestone in the Terraria Steam Workshop! You are missing out if you haven't taken the time to check out these amazing creations from the community.




On top of working on the update? Preparing for some really good planning talks to go over what else needs doing for 1.4.5... and what comes next.






Hello everyone!

The tModLoader team and our amazing community of contributors continue to improve tModLoader. On Feb 1st, 2024 the monthly update release of tModLoader will go live. This month's release mainly contains bug fixes.

This month we've improved support for our Apple Silicon friends, improved GoG compatibility & setup on Unix, and added compatibility for a wider array of language packs.

Modders and users should also keep an eye out for our monthly Steam announcement on the 1st where a complete listing of bug fixes and API changes for this month's release will be listed. The in-game news button on the main menu will direct you to the announcement once it is live.

As always, if you are having issues of any sort, definitely don't hesitate to check out our FAQ on github or reach out to us at our Discord.




The TML Steam Workshop has over 6000 mods for you to enjoy! Coupled with the in-game mod browser, the TML Steam Workshop is a great way to explore what modded Terraria has to offer - check it out today by clicking the banner above!




More features, continuing to evolve and grow what TML can do... and getting ready for 1.4.5.

As always, you can keep track the current progress and much more in real time at tModLoader/tModLoader (But note that the completion percentage doesn't mean anything, because issues and PRs don't have weights.)

Developers who are willing to contribute may do so by doing PRs to the tModLoader/tModLoader branch. (See tModLoader/tModLoader)




Here we are, back again with the latest in regards to development on the Console and Mobile side of the house. One of the focus areas of 1.4.5 has wound up being in the QOL space - ways of making things that might be tedious or cumbersome less so. One great example is the collection and storage of dropped items, be they something like fallen stars or even an AFK farming setup. The team has introduced the Hopper for that very purpose. Shall we see it in action?


Picking up your drops and placing them in chests is SO 1.4.4...

Until next time, Console & Mobile friends - thanks for all of your love and support!



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Greetings Terrarians!

Here's the latest and greatest happenings on the Community side of things. Thanks as always for being the most engaged and awesome gaming Community ever!




The Terraria merchandise hub is where you can find all of the latest and greatest Terraria merchandise all year round - with new stuff arriving all of the time! Check out the latest merch drops as well as some classics and pick up that epic Terraria gift for a friend (or yourself!).


Click the banner above to head to http://terraria.org/store now!​







In case you missed the big reveal last week, our good friends at Madrinas have released the latest in our collaboration - Life Fruit Mango Limeade Charged Refresher. Maybe coffee isn't your thing but you are still looking for that energy boost? This should do the trick!

Pick up yours today by clicking the banner above!






Eighty Sixed are back again with yet another stylish pin! The Dryad is trying out a whole new hairstyle and we are kind of digging it.

Pick up yours today by clicking the banner above - and check out the ever-growing portfolio of super stylish Terraria merch over at Eighty Sixed while you are there!



TERRARIA - THE BOARD GAME DESIGNER DIARY


Here we are again with the latest "Designer Diary" entry from the lead designer for Terraria: the Board Game - Chris Kingsnorth. Let's see what he and the Paper Fort team have been up to over the last month!
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Hello Terrarians!

Chris here, game developer at Paper Fort Games; I’m back with the first Terraria: The Board Game designer diary of 2024. This month, I’m going to be talking about our Kickstarter launch date and showcasing some of our WIP artwork for the game!

If you want to sign up for launch info but don’t want to read the diary, just visit Get Ready for ⛏ Terraria: The Board Game!. Otherwise, let’s get stuck in!


Kickstarter Launch Date: May 2024


Our original aim for the board game KS campaign was March 2024. However, just like the Re-Logic team, we’re committed to ensuring that our games are as good as they can possibly be, which means spending as much time on them as they need. With this in mind, we’ve re-evaluated our timeline and are shifting the date of our Kickstarter campaign to May 2024. This allows us to add more content, carry out additional playtesting and plan extra community-focused activities to run during the campaign.
It also gives us the ability to share more of the game’s artwork with you; read on for some such artwork and an explanation of how we go about reimagining the world of Terraria for tabletop.



Painting the World of Terraria
When you’re designing a tabletop game, much like the early stages of videogame design, you need a functional prototype, but it’s not always the prettiest. It has to contain all of the necessary elements, but much of the ‘artwork’ is basic. In the example below, you can see three of our Biome Tiles (in this case, forest surface tiles). In the board game, you’ll use these tiles to generate your world, then explore it. At the top of the image, you’ll see my early prototype tiles, with basic shapes and pixel assets borrowed from the videogame.



Once we’re happy with the layout and function of the component, it’s time to pass it over to someone with much more artistic talent than me. In this case, it’s our fantastic artist George Doutsiopoulos. I create a detailed art specification for each component, with reference images (such as pixel sprites from the videogame) and George produces some basic sketches of the asset. We then discuss any changes that need to be made and I make a second art specification with additional information, such as texture and colour palette references.

George then moves on to painting the assets; for me, this is the most exciting part of the process. I always look forward to receiving the painted images and I’m always blown away by what George can create. Even at this stage, the painted tiles (bottom row) look great, but they aren’t finished; we’ll discuss and make changes as required. There will still be finishing touches added once the necessary game icons and other elements have been placed. We are constantly altering and iterating on the artwork for the perfect balance between aesthetics, function and faithfulness to Terraria.

George has been working on some other artwork, including additional layer backgrounds and icons; you’ll find some more of these below.



We’re going to be getting lots more artwork back over the next few weeks, and we can’t wait to share it with you!

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Don’t Miss Out!
If you haven’t already, sign up at Get Ready for ⛏ Terraria: The Board Game! and be sure to click through to the Kickstarter ‘notify me’ page. We’d be very grateful if you could share the link with fellow Terrarians via social media; you’re always welcome to tag us in using @paperfortgames.
You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

See you next month!

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Sign up for the latest and greatest news on Terraria: the Board Game via the link below:
TERRARIA: THE BOARD GAME NEWS SIGN-UP LINK

In case you missed the big reveal, be sure to take a minute to read our post about Terraria - The Board Game, which contains details about timing, how it will be sold, and more!

TERRARIA - THE BOARD GAME DETAILS




The Terraria community is filled with incredible fan media. We love to browse Terraria associated social pages and check out the creative minds sharing wonderful creations. We wanted to spotlight some of the trending media that caught our attention this month. Please let us know if any of the shared media has a different original creator.

(CLICK A GIVEN IMAGE TO HEAD OVER TO THE THREAD WHERE WE SAW IT)

FAN ART & BUILDS

by Mihael


by MihaDaCaterKiller


by Orange


by Kanggereo Defansa


by DoTExclamation


by Samalu Sketch


by rageman


by Mission_Pomelo4022


by Toastie-V


by vincent__dang


by Suweeka


by SnookyZun


by yangtoufu




We Have Another Winner - Grand Prize Claimed on Terraria Discord Server! Congratulations go out to qrop aka Halcyon on being an epic Terrarian!

Let us put our hands together and give a massive round of applause to Halcyon for winning the grand prize available in the official Terraria Discord server prize shop. Halcyon earned 2.5 million prize points and used all of them to unlock The Winner role and some incredible prizes including signed merchandise, Terraria collectibles, and much more.

As many of you know, the official Terraria Discord server has its very own prize shop with some epic swag. 24/7 you can log into our Discord server and participate in events, trivia, epic battles, and other fun activities to win prizes. Come stop by the official Terraria Discord server and participate in our fun activities and let us see if you have what it takes to top our activities Leader Board!





Until next time, Terrarians - we hope you have an amazing month, and we look forward to bringing you the latest and greatest next time!

Hello
I have been working on a new game for a month or so now and I am now showing it off.

What comes with Room 13:

- an endless hotel with spot the difference gameplay
- 7 different shaders
- 30 anomalies
-Realistic art style

About:
You are inside an endless hotel but there is a way you can escape. Search in the hallways of the hotel and find the changes within them to reach Room 13.
If you find anomalies, turn around!
If you think the room is normal continue to the exit.
To get to Room 13.
Room 13 is a small walking simulator inspired by the backrooms and liminal spaces.



Steam page link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2785850/Room_13/



What does it mean for Chapter 3 Of The Paper Trials?

this game isn't going to change any of the plans for the game and I just needed a different project to take a break from developing that.
I Have started the development of Chapter 3, and it is still months away from release.

English
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[Sealed Palace - Floor of Water]You can now do some fishing here.
[Qinuyi]New Location: Cave of Dreamers
[Butterfly]Once you have visited the Cave of Dreamers, you can teleport there from Qinuyi.
[Butterfly]Added butterfly support to teleport out from the Cave of Dreamers.
[Cave of Dreamers]Depending on whether you enter the cave during the day or night, you will end up in different locations in the cave. Butterfly Wings also respects this rule.
[Cave of Dreamers]Added to relatively easy puzzles.
[Item]New Medicine: Eloquoria (Cure Silence and Fear. It's now sold in many different hospitals.)

[Marinas]Added a hospital sign on the hospital building.
[Lost in the Sand]If you ally with the Illuminati, when you besiege the Black Pyramid, the Illuminati Quartermaster outside the Black Pyramid now also sells Eloquoria.
[Item]Reduced the price of RPG missiles.
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[Lost in the Sand]Fixed a typo in Chinese localizations. (Thanks to 渺兔's streaming )
简体中文
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【封印宫殿-水之界】你现在可以在这里钓鱼。
【奇努伊】新地点：梦幻洞窟。
【蝴蝶之翼】在你访问过梦幻洞穴后，可以从奇努伊传送进去。
【蝴蝶之翼】加入了传送除梦幻洞穴的支持。
【梦幻洞穴】白天和夜晚进入后出现在洞穴中的地点会不同。蝴蝶之翼传送进去的时候也是。
【梦幻洞穴】加入了两个较为简单的谜题。
【物品】新的药品：埃洛科里亚 （治疗沉默和恐惧。现在在各大医院有售。）

【玛丽娜斯】在医院建筑上加入了医院的标记。
【迷失于沙粒中】在和光照派结盟的路线中，当你围攻黑暗金字塔的时候，在黑暗金字塔外的光照派军需官现在也会贩卖埃洛科里亚。
【物品】降低了RPG火箭弹的价格。
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【迷失于沙粒中】修复了一处在中文文本中的错别字。（感谢渺兔的直播）

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Same arcade score-chasing goodness.
Totally new graphics.

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Sunderer
Hello Auraxians! Welcome back to our monthly developer letter for PlanetSide 2. This month we have been monitoring the feedback of the last development letter and are happy to see that the proposed sunderer changes were generally well received. Also, unsurprisingly, the most controversial change by far was the way the sunderer repair works. For that reason, we felt it was worth diving a little more into here.

It is easy to understand and sympathize with everyone that does not want the Nanite Proximity Repair System to change. This is how it has always worked and by now one of the only two meaningful roles it has left. When focusing on the latter fact however, it becomes clear why this is a necessary change. The Sunderer has been pigeonholed into only 2 narrow basic roles which could only be capably performed exclusively. That is, to be a competent AMS, the Sunderer requires the deployment shield and that comes at the cost of supporting armor. This means that once someone has elected to take the Nanite Proximity Repair System, they have removed any further meaningful decision making from their play until they fully transition to infantry or reach a vehicle terminal. There is no ability to seamlessly transition into properly supporting the infantry assault that the armor push should have enabled, and all the interesting gameplay decisions that revolve around it.

The important thing to remember is that, even with the cargo module, the Sunderer is still fully capable of supporting mobile armor pushes. The ability to place repair stations quickly on a cooldown is meant to do this, but now a little more consideration is required since there is some level of commitment when the button is pushed. This is a good thing, especially since it allows the Sunderer to have a much wider impact as the Sunderer is not tied to the location where it needs to provide healing, making it much more mobile (and increasing survivability).

It is also important to note that the vehicle is also getting a large set of defensive upgrades that will make it much, much more difficult to destroy. By necessity this requires a separation of the source of healing from the Sunderer. If the healing is strong, then the source of that healing needs to be vulnerable for counterplay. However, if it is very resilient, then the healing cannot be overbearing for the opposing force. Offloading the healing effect to a separate object with its own set of health and defensive stats allows us to tweak these aspects independently. It is like adding an independently targetable "module" to the sunderer so that opponents can degrade its performance without outright killing it, something that is currently lacking in the game.

This hints at a longstanding issue with vehicles in general suffering from "Single Entity Problem" where vehicle capability does not degrade until it is destroyed completely, making them very binary. Presently vehicles are all in, which is where many of the balance issues stem from. But that is a deeper and more complicated issue to be tackled at a point in the future.

Cheating
We are very aware of how much of an issue cheating has become. At the beginning of the year, we specifically dedicated developers to look closely at the issue and work on solutions. There is no one place or technique that hackers use, so we must tackle different problems independently and roll out solutions when we think the time is right.

Unlike other features and changes, we will not be detailing exactly when and how cheating will be addressed. We hope everyone understands why that is not possible. It is unfortunately a Red Queen's race that is never finished and must be constantly worked on quietly so as not to reveal workarounds ahead of time. We can already see that our efforts should bear fruit over time, and we hope that you will notice much less cheating and at greater distant intervals.

On Reverting
Before we end this January development letter, we would like to break down the concept of "reverting changes” and what it means. You may see it mentioned frequently and many times understand why, but it is important to understand exactly what "reverting" something means. Games are large, complex software projects with many elements that are interdependent and are constantly updated. Unless a change is only a patch or two old, it is impossible to "revert" a change in the traditional sense of just finding a single submission and clicking revert.

"Reverting" changes, especially old ones, means reconstructing them from spotty information that is difficult to discover. This is a very time-consuming process that is as, or even more, costly than simply moving forward from where the game is currently. That is not to say the past should be ignored completely. A better way to use past versions of the game is to take more abstract lessons about meaningful gameplay that was lost which positively impacted PlanetSide 2 and reincorporating them in ways that are applicable to its current and future state.

That wraps it up for today’s letter, as always, we thank you for your feedback. You can let us know what your thoughts are about today’s letter here on the steam forums.

-PlanetSide 2 Team

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1. Level 1 adds a skip button, after the first spawn point.
2. Fix the bug that you can't continue the first level due to some reasons

- Fixed some bugs
- Chat now supports Simplified Chinese, Hiragana, Katakana and many more writing systems
Next update with fireworks will belong as a part of Spring Update (somewhere in March or April)
Happy Lunar New Year to all the Chinese people on 10th February!

Flaks are in the air!

AI anti-aircraft gunners have undergone a major upgrade, showcasing improved precision in hitting targets with normal bullets, flak, and other projectiles!

However, to maintain the perfect balance, adjustments are being made to dial down their lethality ever so slightly.

Get ready for an enhanced and nuanced aerial combat adventure in the latest update!