Terraria News

Terraria: Journey's Actual End update launches today

So, it turns out Terraria: Journey's End wasn't the, er, end to Terraria's journey after all. The action-adventure game's fourth major expansion dropped in May this year, and was designed - as its name implies - to bring Terraria to "a place where the core game can finally be called 'complete'", as developer Re-Logic explained at the time. However, the studio's now announced a follow-up: "the final content update for Terraria". Oh, and it launches this very day.

Called Terraria 1.4.1 - Journey's Actual End, the content drop's been announced alongside a very brief clip on Re-Logic's YouTube channel. You can take a peep at the whole 16 seconds of action below. "We are pleased to announce that we will be launching Terraria 1.4.1 tomorrow!" the studio says in the description ('tomorrow' being October 13).

"This is expected to be the final content update for Terraria - so you won't want to miss this! Terraria 1.4.1 will include the final NPC, new achievements, lots of balance changes, bug fixes, new vanity, and the long-requested game credits (done Terraria style)!"

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Terraria bosses: how to summon every boss in the game

Who are the Terraria bosses? Bosses in Terraria come in all shapes and sizes, but all of them take a little extra firepower and patience to take down.

Terraria bosses can usually be triggered by reacting with the environment, but can also be summoned using specific items relating to each boss. There are a few different boss types, like pre-hardmode bosses, hardmode bosses, and mini-bosses. Hardmode bosses will only appear in hardmode, and event bosses or mini-bosses, will trigger in certain events and situations. Hardmode bosses will only be available once you've completed the first playthrough and defeated the pre-hardmode bosses.

Defeating Terraria bosses has its benefits, from receiving items, upgrades, equipment, and materials, to also progressing the game and leveling up. Hardmode bosses are a lot, er, harder to take down than the bosses you'll encounter on your first playthrough, so you'll need to really know each bosses weak points and do some prep work before taking on these Terraria bosses.

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Terraria potions: how to make a crafting station

How do you make a crafting station in Terraria and start brewing potions? Although you can find these consumable items in the world hidden in pots, chests, or from enemy drops, it's always useful to keep some handy. To craft your own potions, you'll need to make a crafting station.

Potions in Terraria come in the form of healing or mana recovery, or they can grant special buffs such as decreasing enemy spawn rate or slowing falling speed, especially useful for taking on bosses. There are a few different types of potions - food and drink, recovery, and buffs - which can usually be crafted, found in the world, or bought from an NPC. Flasks are also a type of potion that provide battle effects, such as imbuing your weapon with fire or other elemental damage - these can only be created at an imbuing station.

When you start out in Terraria, having a couple of basic recovery potions is the best way to venture out further into the world, so first you'll want to make a crafting station in Terraria. Here's how.

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The best Terraria armor and accessories for hardmode

Looking for the best Terraria armor and loadout for each class? If you've just cleared out your first wave of Terraria bosses, you're in luck! You now get to do it all over again and defeat their mechanical counterparts in Terraria's hardmode. By now you're climbing through the ranks of resources, shedding your old gear for new shiny armor and accessories, but to take on the hardmode bosses, you'll need to take your loadout to the next level.

So what's the difference with hardmode? This is the point in the game where you can start to define your class, choosing either a summoning, ranged, magic, or melee build based on your prefered playstyle. Your class is defined by the equipment you choose, making your Terraria loadout one of the most important parts of progressing and building up a character capable of taking out the likes of Skeletron Prime, The Destroyer, and The Twins. You'll need to defeat all of these three mechanical bosses before taking on the deadly Plantera, but luckily you'll have the item drops from these bosses to upgrade your gear once again.

But, if you've just entered hardmode and are about to take on the three mechanical bosses and the optional Queen Slime, here are the best Terraria armor, accessories, and weapons for each four classes.

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Terraria house designs: cool ideas for housing your Terraria NPCs

Looking for some cool Terraria house designs? Building a house is one of the first things you'll do in Terraria, and one of the most important steps towards survival. As Terraria operates on a day and night cycle, building a shelter for your first night in Terraria will keep you safe from any wandering foes. As you branch out from your starter shelter, trying your hand at more elaborate Terraria house designs can be a challenging part of one of the best crafting games on PC.

Building more Terraria houses is also very necessary, as they attract NPCs that provide useful skills such as selling items. NPCs will want their own area so as you build more houses, you'll soon have a bustling town full of working villagers. Building homes for all the NPCs to raise Terraria NPC happiness and attracting new ones will require a lot of resources, time, and effort - especially if you want to build individual houses for each NPC. We recommend building an all-in-one housing development to host your new townsfolk, these structures work like a block of flats, so each NPC has an apartment. This will save you a huge amount of time finding and accessing each vendor.

Of course, we want our town to look pretty and although our NPCs will be satisfied with a small space, these Terraria housing designs can give your town an edge that our little NPCs will be proud to call home.

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