Is Terraria a rip-off of Minecraft?

[hwp141]

So, I was playing Minecraft at 8:47 PM (I barely ever do now after i got Terraria.) Then out of nowhere this guy calls me a hacker after beating him in a fight. I then say no wonder i don't play minecraft anymore (Probably because so many people start flamewars in servers.) Then he was like Seriously Terraria? Then I was like yes, Terraria. Then he said (imagine him doing this in a very critical voice) " Terraria is a rip-off of Minecraft." I then got in a huge argument (by which he was actually fighting dirty in this flame.) He said "Everything in Terraria is an EXACT rip-off of Minecraft.
Crafting= Minecraft
Armour= Minecraft
Building= Minecraft (He also said Terraria wasn't innovated)
Then I say, there are a lot of games that craft, have different armour, and you can build, so why do you pick on TERRARIA out of all those games. So this raises the question I have today: Is Terraria a rip-off of Minecraft (He said it's a fact it is but I say it's an opinion) Also, have a nice day, night, or evening whereever you are in the world!!!

[Geroyuni]

Originally posted by EnablingUrchin4:

You don't need to teach me how command blocks work trust me, I was in hypixels build team and I did about 99% of the command blocks (aka made the unique weapons/monsters/events)

But were talking about core things

Originally posted by EnablingUrchin4:

non modded, non cheated, and not modified in any way

you shouldn't have to make X long scripts to make the game fun...

I didn't teach you pretty much anything about command block, just their character limits, and no one said you need to make long scripts.

(Also, a command block is a COMMAND block and not a script block. Even thought you do some datatag stuff, that's still a command and not script)

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by Gerottinho:

Originally posted by o0Elise:

Since when was the same item but a different color considered a different item? That's a new and foreign idea to me.

It has different data so it is considered a kind of "different item". A enchanted diamond sword for example, even by having the same style and name, is a different item because it has different data/code that creates it.

That would also apply on Terraria.

except that each item in terraria is not just a palette swap. they all have their own design and look and stats.
yeah, the blocks are all palette swaps of each other, but each block has it's own individual properties.

a red diamond sword with 20 attack power, a blue diamond sword with 20 attack power, a green diamond sword with 20 attack power...yeah thats 3 items but it's essentially the same item.

i admit, terraria also does this with most of the hooks, the phaseblades, the phasesabers, some of the armors were originally just palette swaps of other armors.

i also confess, i find it difficult to believe that terraria has 3000+ unique items, i have collected almost every item in the game and there's no way i have 3000 different items in my stash.


so yeah this argument is actually against terraria, the game i know and love,

i guess they probably ARE counting every modifier and possible dye color as a separate item. so a mythic magnet sphere spell and a celestial magnet sphere spell are both considered separate items?

I don't think you can call tin armor dyed sky blue and tin armor dyed yellow graident to be 2 separate items, because dying it is not turning it into a different item, the dyes are unique items all in of themselve that are equipped in a separate inventory slot.

[big demon energy]

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

i also confess, i find it difficult to believe that terraria has 3000+ unique items, i have collected almost every item in the game and there's no way i have 3000 different items in my stash.

it does have 3000+ items as of 1.3 (the update thats coming very soon) (and no we are not counting all the modifiers/dyes) and all of which are fairly unique, sure copper and tin armor are exactly the same, but I guess thats the case with gold and chain armor in minecraft?, but over all Terraria wins in core items for a number of reasons

[nul]

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

except that each item in terraria is not just a palette swap. they all have their own design and look and stats.
yeah, the blocks are all palette swaps of each other, but each block has it's own individual properties.

a red diamond sword with 20 attack power, a blue diamond sword with 20 attack power, a green diamond sword with 20 attack power...yeah thats 3 items but it's essentially the same item.

i admit, terraria also does this with most of the hooks, the phaseblades, the phasesabers, some of the armors were originally just palette swaps of other armors.

i also confess, i find it difficult to believe that terraria has 3000+ unique items, i have collected almost every item in the game and there's no way i have 3000 different items in my stash.


so yeah this argument is actually against terraria, the game i know and love,

i guess they probably ARE counting every modifier and possible dye color as a separate item. so a mythic magnet sphere spell and a celestial magnet sphere spell are both considered separate items?

I don't think you can call tin armor dyed sky blue and tin armor dyed yellow graident to be 2 separate items, because dying it is not turning it into a different item, the dyes are unique items all in of themselve that are equipped in a separate inventory slot.

Wait, so because it doesn't have "3000+" unique items (there's 2835 as of 1.2.4), that's suddenly against Terraria? Minecraft at the moment only has 593, and that's including things like each type of sapling, flowing and non flowing lava, dead shrub, piston head, redstone wire, redstone ore, glowing redstone ore, and the regular redstone item itself, all the monster spawning eggs, and all other redundancies. And not to mention all the things they added that were already available as mods, just, to break every mod again with every update.
And item count alone isn't even a proper comparison.
As far as building your character goes, Minecraft is pretty basic. Get diamond armor. Get diamond sword. Enchant till you have the best stuff. Include a bow if you really want, there's no downside to having it.
Terraria is a little more advanced. Sure you can just set your hotbar up with the melee, range,
magic that does the most damage but that's not going to be too effective. Each piece and set of armor has all sorts of different effects, and then pair that up with accessories and their prefixes. This allows you to specialize in certain ways to make certain weapons more effective, rather than being the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Oh and the bosses. I'm not sure about any of the other ones they added, but Ender Dragon with just a bow is as much of a joke as Eye of Cthulu with hardmode gear. And you only need the bow for taking out the crystals anyways. You can easily beat Ender Dragon with just your fists. It'll just take longer.

[Geroyuni]

Originally posted by Lily:

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

except that each item in terraria is not just a palette swap. they all have their own design and look and stats.
yeah, the blocks are all palette swaps of each other, but each block has it's own individual properties.

a red diamond sword with 20 attack power, a blue diamond sword with 20 attack power, a green diamond sword with 20 attack power...yeah thats 3 items but it's essentially the same item.

i admit, terraria also does this with most of the hooks, the phaseblades, the phasesabers, some of the armors were originally just palette swaps of other armors.

i also confess, i find it difficult to believe that terraria has 3000+ unique items, i have collected almost every item in the game and there's no way i have 3000 different items in my stash.


so yeah this argument is actually against terraria, the game i know and love,

i guess they probably ARE counting every modifier and possible dye color as a separate item. so a mythic magnet sphere spell and a celestial magnet sphere spell are both considered separate items?

I don't think you can call tin armor dyed sky blue and tin armor dyed yellow graident to be 2 separate items, because dying it is not turning it into a different item, the dyes are unique items all in of themselve that are equipped in a separate inventory slot.

Wait, so because it doesn't have "3000+" unique items (there's 2835 as of 1.2.4), that's suddenly against Terraria? Minecraft at the moment only has 593, and that's including things like each type of sapling, flowing and non flowing lava, dead shrub, piston head, redstone wire, redstone ore, glowing redstone ore, and the regular redstone item itself, all the monster spawning eggs, and all other redundancies. And not to mention all the things they added that were already available as mods, just, to break every mod again with every update.
And item count alone isn't even a proper comparison.
As far as building your character goes, Minecraft is pretty basic. Get diamond armor. Get diamond sword. Enchant till you have the best stuff. Include a bow if you really want, there's no downside to having it.
Terraria is a little more advanced. Sure you can just set your hotbar up with the melee, range,
magic that does the most damage but that's not going to be too effective. Each piece and set of armor has all sorts of different effects, and then pair that up with accessories and their prefixes. This allows you to specialize in certain ways to make certain weapons more effective, rather than being the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Oh and the bosses. I'm not sure about any of the other ones they added, but Ender Dragon with just a bow is as much of a joke as Eye of Cthulu with hardmode gear. And you only need the bow for taking out the crystals anyways. You can easily beat Ender Dragon with just your fists. It'll just take longer.

Minecraft has actually 730 if you don't count "modified items". And that's not counting even different water states, piston_extension and things like that. And I did count for my self as I posted early, this count is from all items in creative inventory search tab, plus hidden mapmaker features, plus dyed armor parts. Also, all things they added were not modification, a great example of that is the slimeblock which was completely created with help of the zipcrowd team, also all the new command block features, the new barrier block, new world border, and the list goes on. The only thing that I actually think it was a mod is the new doors and stones, because mods from the community always does this kind of repetitive stuff and add blocks and doors of different style.

Minecraft is not that basic, Once you are done with survival, you can start experimenting with other parts of Minecraft such as creative mode. Something that I don't see with Terraria, as I have killed all the bosses and I can't find anything to do there now. And no, you can't beat EnderDragon only with your fists, probably you can, but not easly. You would need peaceful mode so endermans don't annoy you, full diamond and notch apples (aka. 2nd lvl golden apple) and then yea, you could to that. Even thought it would take about 1 or 2 hours to do that and it would be more of a waste of time.

[ImmortalSausages]

Before, i loved playing Minecraft, and i thought Terraria was a cheap 2d knock of of minecraft, I started playing it, and now i want to go back in time, and slap myself, It is NOT a knockoff

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by Lily:

Wait, so because it doesn't have "3000+" unique items (there's 2835 as of 1.2.4), that's suddenly against Terraria? Minecraft at the moment only has 593, and that's including things like each type of sapling, flowing and non flowing lava, dead shrub, piston head, redstone wire, redstone ore, glowing redstone ore, and the regular redstone item itself, all the monster spawning eggs, and all other redundancies. And not to mention all the things they added that were already available as mods, just, to break every mod again with every update.
And item count alone isn't even a proper comparison.
As far as building your character goes, Minecraft is pretty basic. Get diamond armor. Get diamond sword. Enchant till you have the best stuff. Include a bow if you really want, there's no downside to having it.
Terraria is a little more advanced. Sure you can just set your hotbar up with the melee, range,
magic that does the most damage but that's not going to be too effective. Each piece and set of armor has all sorts of different effects, and then pair that up with accessories and their prefixes. This allows you to specialize in certain ways to make certain weapons more effective, rather than being the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Oh and the bosses. I'm not sure about any of the other ones they added, but Ender Dragon with just a bow is as much of a joke as Eye of Cthulu with hardmode gear. And you only need the bow for taking out the crystals anyways. You can easily beat Ender Dragon with just your fists. It'll just take longer.

"against terraria" was a poor choice of words on my part.
I am not "against terraria" i am "for terraria" i never even played minecraft.

i was just calling attention to the fact i am aware that even though i love terraria and i think that it was tons of items, i was contradicting myself by then going to say i don't believe terraria has 3000 items...like they claim they do

[happysadafroguy]

terraria is way better than minecraft because in minecraft its the same old same old but in terraria there is a whole lot more stuff to do like bosses and those folating islands

[Swagnemite779]

christ almighty let this thread die

[big demon energy]

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

"against terraria" was a poor choice of words on my part.
I am not "against terraria" i am "for terraria" i never even played minecraft.

i was just calling attention to the fact i am aware that even though i love terraria and i think that it was tons of items, i was contradicting myself by then going to say i don't believe terraria has 3000 items...like they claim they do

But it does have 3000+ items, here is a list of all items http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Item_IDs

[big demon energy]

Originally posted by Swagnemite:

christ almighty let this thread die

I agree, I'm gonna try to not comment on this thread again so it dies down

[Floor]

So much criticism for Minecraft. In my personal opinion, Minecraft is way better, but Minecraft is also a concept. Black Sabbath basically started metal. Using this guys logic, Metallica, Anthrax, Pantera, Disturbed, DragonForce, Dream Theatre, Hammerfall, Nightwish, ACDC, Guns and Roses, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue... should be sued by Black Sabbath because they elaborated on a concept. Just because something has been done before does not mean it is a rip off.

But why do I like Minecraft better? Well, after reading a few of these comments, I think I should make a few points. To SMEXY SOLDIER. Not really, Minecraft is not just a building game while Terraria is action and exploring. I find that Minecraft survival focuses mainly on just that, survival. In Minecraft, you have to worry about food and what not, creating a time crunch on ya'. Also, Minecraft's mining aspect serves as the backbone to the game, while exploring the overworld yeilds temples, villages, and other neat things to preoccupy yourself with.

I find that a 2d sandbox game isn't a right mix, honestly. Terraria is fun and all, but I get bored easily with Terraria while I only get fusturated, not bored, with Minecraft.

HWP141. You don't need to mod Terraria? I'd disagree. Minecraft is plenty of fun as-is. Of course, certain mods can add to gameplay, but they are not vital to the overall experience of the game. Also, Minecraft seems to be more PvP friendly.

[big demon energy]

how is minecraft more pvp friendly?

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by xX_Yolo_$waggins_Xx 420 (Urchin):

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

"against terraria" was a poor choice of words on my part.
I am not "against terraria" i am "for terraria" i never even played minecraft.

i was just calling attention to the fact i am aware that even though i love terraria and i think that it was tons of items, i was contradicting myself by then going to say i don't believe terraria has 3000 items...like they claim they do

But it does have 3000+ items, here is a list of all items http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Item_IDs

okay...i see it.

but,
i admit i played in version 1.2.1 and i think it only went up to about 2000, and i guess it didn't feel like that many because so many of the items were not worth collecting, like most of the low tier pre-hardmode equipments get thrown away or completely bypassed, and many items are unobtainable without cheating, like the developer's items and some items are "cut" content.

there's like 1000 things i have not seen before, must have been added later.

and some items are console exclusive.

lots of the items are worthless junk items not worth keeping.

so technically even though there are "2748" item IDs, there are still not 3000+ items in the game

but i concede, you are right, there are technically almost 3000 items, which does sound like more than minecraft.


but like I said, i have not played minecraft, it did not interest me. i feel like there is more stuff going on in terraria.

i'm not trying to keep an old thread alive
i only commented on this thread as a joke, comparing both the games to Legos, and yeah maybe Legos are ripoffs of lincoln logs.
building blocks existed as far back as 1693 according to wikipedia, so one can say everything after that was a rip-off...

[Swagnemite779]

oh christ we got a metalhead in here now?

yeah time to unsubscribe, ♥♥♥♥ this