Terraria : Beginner's Guide

Guide for beginners who decided to get to know Terraria.
Contains useful information and invaluable advice.

Preface !

Terraria is an awesome game that can be very confusing for beginners. The game doesn’t hold your hand, which is part of the fun. When I was a Terraria newbie, I spent hours reading the Terraria forums to find what I was supposed to do next.

In this guide, I’ll give you pro tips that I’ve learned along the way, as well as teach you everything you need to know about Terraria. Whether you have no clue how to play Terraria or you have been playing for a few hours, there is a wealth of knowledge in here for you.

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Pick The Right Game Mode For You

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Like many RPGs, Terraria lets new players choose game modes before starting a new game. But
Terraria sets itself apart by allowing you to create various worlds with different modes and difficulty levels.

After designing and naming your character, choose among the following modes for your new game:

• Journey: Grants the player the “Creative Mode,” along with a cheat menu with incentives like Godmode and the ability to duplicate items.
  
  
• Classic: Also known as the “Normal Mode.” Cheats are inaccessible, and characters drop coins upon death.
  
  
• Mediumcore: A mode that’s slightly more difficult than Classic. Aside from coins dropping, characters will also drop all carried items upon death.
  
  
• Hardcore: A mode for those that want a true challenge. Permadeath is enabled, which means you only have one life, and the save file disappears upon death.

If you want a casual experience, or perhaps you want to dip your feet in Terraria before going for the difficult modes, you can start with Journey. Then, you can work your way up to Classic, Mediumcore, or even Hardcore.

Create Your Ideal World

After creating your first Terraria character, it’s time to generate a new world. Like making a new character in Terraria, some options exist for you to choose from as you go through the world creation menu.

Some selections are self-explanatory, such as the size of the world you want. In Terraria, you choose to make small, medium, or large worlds.

Next, choose the difficulty of the world that aligns with your preferences. These difficulty levels are:

• Journey: Only accessible for Journey Mode characters
  
• Classic: The “Normal” Terraria world difficulty level
  
• Expert: More difficult than Classic but provides better loot as well
  
• Master: More difficult than Expert, but it has lesser loot for players that want an extra challenge

Note: Don’t confuse world difficulty with character difficulty.

You can also choose the type of evil that lurks in the world you develop. These evils are the Crimson and the Corruption. Aside from their names, these evils typically only differ with the types of monsters and loot you see. Products from crafting recipes using loot from these evil biomes are still fairly similar.

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Say hello to the Guide

The first thing you’ll notice when you load in for the first time is that there’s an NPC walking around called the Guide. At this point, he’s your only friend in this huge world, so you should build a small box around him to keep him safe.

Quickly mine some dirt or stone to get some blocks, and use those to build a temporary shelter for him. NPCs are able to defend themselves a little, but if they die it takes a little while to respawn. The box is just to ensure that he doesn’t get himself killed while you’re on an adventure somewhere. You could always build a full house for the Guide now, but houses have to be specifically designed for an NPC to move in. I’ll cover that later on in this guide.

The Guide’s only function (for now) is to give you hints about where to go, as well as show you how to craft new items. When you speak to him, select the Crafting option, and you’ll be able to place any of your items in his crafting slot. Don’t worry, you can’t actually craft anything here. It simply shows you everything that you can possibly make with the selected item.

This is incredibly useful for when you discover new ores or special items.

Explore The World Immediately

Chop wood, build a hut, and start exploring!

As soon as you log in, you’ll find yourself in the middle of the world’s surface with some basic copper tools. From here, you have a few choices on how to start your game: you can either spend your first 15 minutes building a beautiful house, or you can get your exploration on. While both of these are valid options, there’s one thing that makes building early a bit of a bad choice.

A Terraria day lasts for a full 24 real-life minutes (15-minute day and 9-minute night). This means that while you have a pretty starter base, you’ll be stuck inside that wooden hut for the next 9 minutes. You don’t have anything to fend yourself off from the Zombie and Evil Eye mobs that spawn at night.

Your best bet is to get around 150-200 wood, build a simple small hut, then find the nearest cave to spelunk.

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Make Use Of Platforms

Remember the ridiculous amount of wood you got at the beginning? It’s time to put them to good use.

There are only a few items that you can craft without a Workbench: torches, bombs, campfires, and the almighty wooden platforms. While you may think that a simple wooden platform isn’t that exciting, it’s one of the few items that even old players can’t live without.

Platforms are your basic stepping blocks when caving. If you’re falling from a height, you can place a platform to break your fall so long as there’s a background wall. Lastly, you can never go wrong with fighting bosses in a platform arena.

You can also “phase” through thin, 1-block walls with platforms. This mechanic will help you get through your future base much easier.

Build Your First House Early

You may have already built a small shelter before, but now it’s time to make a proper house. The basic components of every NPC ready house are as follows:

• A building 10 blocks long by 6 blocks tall
  
• A light source like torches or lanterns
  
• A comfort item like a chair or toilet
  
• A flat surface item like a table or piano

Obviously the house needs walls too. Walls work a little differently in Terraria and confused me when I first started playing. Basically walls are the background blocks of the house. You can craft these at your basic crafting bench, and they can be made out of many materials. You can place things such as torches, trophies, or banners on the walls, so they help you decorate your home easier.

Monsters are unable to spawn in player places walls, so make sure you always have walls on your buildings as well as a light source. To keep enemies from wandering into your home, place doors at every entrance. An event called a Blood Moon can occur, which gives zombies the ability to break open doors. When a Blood Moon happens, simply block off the front doors of your house and go mining in your mine shaft.

Part of the fun of Terraria is that you can be as creative as you want with your house. My houses generally turn out pretty boring, but I’ve seen some amazing examples of what people can build in this game.

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Start Your Own Village

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With your own home finished, it’s time to get some neighbors to move in. Using those NPC house conditions I mentioned before, build 4 or 5 more houses somewhere close by. I prefer to attach them to my house for easy access, but you can put them wherever.

If the spawn conditions have been met, an NPC will spawn and move into the house. An example of this is that the Merchant will spawn when you have a total of 50 silver coins. There are a total of 25 NPCs in Terraria, each having their own unique spawn condition. If you don’t mind spoilers and would like to see how to get all of the NPCs, check out this article we wrote here.

I recommend making a bunch of houses ahead of time so that you’re ready when new NPCs want to move in. You don’t really have to go out of your way to get them to spawn since their requirements are part of your natural progression. Just keep upgrading, exploring, and defeating bosses, and eventually, you’ll have so many NPCs you won’t know what to do with them all.

Choose A Fighting Build And Stick To It

Do you want to hit enemies up close? Perhaps you want to shoot opponents from afar. Alternatively, are you a fan of casting spells or summoning minions?

Ask these questions as you start progressing through your created world in Terraria. Each build in Terraria offers unique pros and cons. These character classes are Melee, Ranged, Magic, and Summoner.

For instance, Melee classes typically have the strongest base damage in the game. But, oftentimes, you need to get close to enemies, which may deplete your health fast if you’re not careful.

On the other hand, the Ranged class can help you hit enemies from afar. That way, you can generally survive longer than a new Melee character. However, Ranged classes are often quite expensive to maintain since you need ammunition to fire ranged weapons.

As for the Magic build, you consume mana to deal elemental damage to opponents. But you also need to maintain your mana pool. Otherwise, you’re leaving your character open to enemy attacks.

Last but not least is the Summoner build. As its name implies, you summon beings called Minions to help you fight enemies. But most summoning weapons are quite difficult to find, making it a challenging character build to start with in Terraria.

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Craft Better Gear

To put it bluntly, the gear you spawn with sucks. The copper shortsword you spawn with feels like fighting with a toothpick, even against early enemies. You need to make yourself a better sword, along with some armor for better protection.

The first thing you want to do is chop down 5 to 10 trees using the ax you spawn with. You’ll craft your first basic upgrades out of wood, which will make your life much easier at the beginning.

The next thing you NEED to do is get rid of that awful shortsword. Shortswords are used by literally poking the enemy, whereas a broadsword is swung from above your head, dealing more damage and knockback. Craft a workbench using your crafting menu, which will allow you to make many more items.

With the workbench crafted, place it down wherever you’d like. Standing close by to it will automatically unlock all of the new crafting recipes you have. Go ahead and craft a wooden broadsword and a set of wooden armor, and you’ll be all set to head out into the wilderness.

Craft Or Find the Grappling Hook

As much as it’s fun to descend into the deepest depths of your world in Terraria, you don’t want your character to have difficulty returning to the surface.

So, you should craft a Grappling Hook as fast as you can. At this point, you have two options to obtain that tool: crafting or hunting enemies.

If you choose the former, you can craft a basic grappling hook by making a chain from iron bars. Take note you can also create iron bars from iron ores, which should be fairly easy to find underground. But if you want to hunt for a grappling hook, some zombie-type enemies have low chances of dropping hooks.

Tip: Use items like Recall Potions to return to your spawn point quickly. But take note these items are consumable, and you may run out of stock if you’re not careful.

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Survey the land

The world in Terraria are randomly generated, so it’s always wise to check out what the surrounding area looks like. Head in whichever direction you’d like, and see what you find. When you run into an area that’s purple or red, it’s wise to turn back. All world spawn with one of two evil biomes, which the purple is called the Corruption and the red is called the Crimson.

Both of those areas have some really great loot to find, but you definitely need more gear if you want to survive. Obtaining the loot requires going deep underground, and you won’t be able to get out without the right accessories. We’ll save these areas for later.

Next, you might find some desert or snow biomes. Inside the desert, there is a large hole in the ground, which you should create a bridge over and come back later. Desert biomes also have a chance to contain a pyramid, which is buried underground. Find the entrance as quickly as you can, because these pyramids contain some awesome gear that’ll help you immensely.

Snow biomes are easier to survive in but have annoying ice to watch out for. If you go underground in a snowy area, pools of water will be covered with a sheet of ice, and falling through that could be deadly.

If you manage to make it to either a large dungeon or a jungle biome, you’re pretty close to the end of the world. Dungeons always spawn on the opposite side as jungles, so if you find one you know which way they both are. Also, attempting to explore the dungeon at this point will get you insta-killed by Dungeon Guardians, so don’t even try going too deep into it.

At the ends of the world, there are ocean biomes, which may have a couple of chests at the bottom. Your best bet now is to use a Recall Potion, or a Magic Mirror if you’re lucky enough to have found one. If you haven’t found one of these yet, then either traverse back or take the plunge into the ocean. You may be able to loot a chest before you die, so it’s worth a shot.

A really good tip to know is that exiting to the menu and reloading the world will automatically put you back at your spawn point. You’ll only have to do this when you’re out of Recall Potions, or if you haven’t found a magic mirror yet. Those can be found in underground cabins, which we’ll talk about later.

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Go Deeper Into Nearby Caves

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While you were scouting out the world, you probably saw some interesting looking caves along the way. Pick whatever cave you’d like and start spelunking! Make sure you have plenty of torches along the way, as well as a bunch of wooden platforms.

Caves will have small brown pots in them that drop items when you break them. These items can be things such as torches, glowsticks, throwing weapons, or potions. Smash every pot you see, and you’ll have quite a few items to help you explore. Loot any chests you see as well, as they’ll give you some decent starting gear.

Eventually, you’ll get go deep enough to reach the underground layer. This is different from the surface layer in that it has harder enemies, as well as better loot. This is evidenced by a change in background, as well as a change in the music. At this layer and below, underground cabins may be found, which hold a chest with all sorts of loot in it.

There are a few things that you’ll definitely want to find in an underground cabin. The first is a Magic Mirror, which allows you to instantly travel back to your spawn point. The second is a pair of Herme’s Boots, which allows you to run much faster than normal. A Cloud in a Bottle is another awesome movement accessory that gives you the ability to double jump.

Another item to watch out for is called an Extractinator. This allows you to take useless blocks like slush and turn them into valuable resources. You can quite literally turn garbage into gold with it, so definitely grab one to put in your house.

One quick tip is to keep all the chests you find in the cabins. You’ll soon find that you don’t have enough inventory space to store all of your items, so it’s helpful to take the gold chests you find. I like the gold ones simply because they look cooler than wooden ones, but you can grab whichever you’d like.

Mine For Gear Upgrades

While you’re underground, take advantage of all the ores you see around you. Iron/lead is a great resource to mine since many recipes require it. I don’t recommend making iron armor, because farming for it is a waste of time.

Silver/tungsten and gold/platinum are great resources to find as well. Try to get enough gold to craft yourself a gold or platinum pickaxe, which is strong enough to mine meteorite. Once you have that, your best bet is to try to go as deep as you can, because the better ores become more frequent the further underground you go.

Loot every underground cabin you see, and try to get as many coins as possible. Another great place to go is a spider nest, which sometimes contains a chest with a great starter grappling hook.

Speaking of grappling hooks, try to mine 15 of any gemstone to craft yourself a gem hook. These hooks allow you to grab onto walls and pull yourself to higher places, giving you greater mobility. Diamond hooks have the best range, any of the gem hooks will do for now.

After you feel like you’ve found enough treasure, head back to the surface to stow some of it away. Also, make sure that you don’t have too much money on you at one time because you drop your coins on death.

Hunt Down a Strong Armor Set

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Wearing nothing but the clothes on your character’s back will only get you so far in Terraria. Eventually, you’ll run into enemies that deal significant damage. Wearing armor can help mitigate health loss if you get hit by your opponents.

You can start with perhaps the most basic armor you can craft in the game – the Wood Armor. You can craft each piece of this armor set with a sufficient amount of wood.

As you traverse the world’s underground realms, you’ll soon discover that wearing the Wood Armor is no longer effective. You’ll know when the time to upgrade your armor arrives if you’re having difficulty surviving from only a few enemy attacks.

So, as a new player, you can upgrade from the Wood Armor with the Gold or Platinum Armor. The latter can be a good choice if you don’t want to spend Gold.

Open Chests and Keep Them

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Perhaps you played other RPGs wherein you open chests and leave the case where you found it. However, treasure chests also play another important role in Terraria – storing your items.

Remember, inventory management is a huge mechanic in this game. You’ll find yourself running out of storage space fast frequently. But you can store excess items in treasure chests.

If you find a chest during your underground excursions, equip your pickaxe and strike the case after looting its treasure. Use your pickaxe on the chest, and you should be able to pick it up.

Place the chest in your house or town. That way, it becomes an extra storage space for your extra items. Alternatively, you can craft chests using workbenches. However, the game has a surplus of these chests, and you might want to use those resources to craft other items.

Break 2 Shadow Orbs / Crimson Hearts

When you feel like you have enough houses built, wait for the Demolitionist to spawn. His requirement is to have a bomb in your inventory during the way, which is simple to do. When he spawns, buy 20 to 30 bombs and get ready for an adventure!

Hopefully, you’ve upgraded your armor and weapons by now, because you’re headed to the Corruption or Crimson, depending on which spawned in your world. The Corruption has several chasms that lead to nothing, so try to find the one that goes the furthest.

No matter which biome you have, there will be a large underground area that you have to stay alive in. You’ll see these glowing objects called either Shadow Orbs or Crimson Hearts, and you need to break these for a couple of reasons.

When you break them, they drop a useful item for you. Also, breaking 2 will cause a meteorite to land in your world, which you can mine for some awesome gear. Whatever you do, DO NOT BREAK A THIRD ORB. If you do, you’ll automatically spawn the boss of that area, so wait until you’re prepared.

The easiest way to access these is to turn your bombs into sticky bombs using slime, and blasting your way to it. Just be careful not to destroy an extra one, unless you’re ready to fight a large boss.

Harvest the Meteorite

Since you’ve broken these orbs, a meteorite will fall into your world once night hits. You probably have a bunch of bombs leftover from your previous journey, so you can use those to mine it faster.

The game doesn’t tell you where the meteor landed, so it’s up to you to find out. If you can’t find it on your map, you’ll just have to run left or right until you find it. It’s unmistakable when you find one, as the music changes and enemies called Meteor Heads start to spawn.

I recommend building a bridge over the entire thing, and throwing your sticky bombs directly onto it. Another thing I should probably mention is that you literally start on fire if you stand on meteorite. Simply use bombs to destroy most of it, then finish it off with your gold or platinum pickaxe.

Once you have every piece, go make yourself a set of Space Armor, along with a Space Gun. This set allows you to have unlimited ammo for the Space Gun, so they’re great to use together.

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Fight Bosses Early

The way to progress in Terraria is to fight bosses, with many bosses gatekeeping new content along your journies. This bossing is the only way for you to eventually challenge the Lunatic Cultist, which, in turn, allows you to fight the Moon Lord.

Defeating the Wall of Flesh will give you access to Hardmode. In Hardmode, the enemies in your world deal more damage than before. However, you can also gain better loot from your opponents than before you challenged this boss.

Here’s a list of bosses that you should fight in Terraria, starting with the relatively weakest of the bunch:

• King Slime
  
• The Eye of Cthulhu
  
• Brain of Cthulhu or Eater of Worlds
  
• Skeletron
  
• Queen Bee
  
• Wall of Flesh
  
• The Twins
  
• The Destroyer
  
• Skeletron Prime
  
• Plantera
  
• Golem
  
• Empress of Light
  
• Lunatic Cultist
  
• Moon Lord

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Explore the Dungeon

With your new gun and armor, it’s time to finally explore the dungeon. You’ve probably seen the old man in front of the dungeon by now, and now you’re going to have to fight him! Well, maybe not him exactly, but you must fight his master that possesses him.

I’m not going to spoil anything here, but beating him grants you access to the dungeon. The annoying skulls inside it finally stop killing you on site. When you get down there, you’ll realize that the enemies are quite difficult. You need to locate an unlocked wooden chest that contains one gold key, and that key is used to unlock an even better chest.

All the keys are the same, but they are one use only. In order to get all the loot from the dungeon, you must find as many keys as there are locked chests. Enemies can drop keys sometimes, so you’re not stuck if you don’t find extra ones in chests.

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Reforge Your Weapons

At some point, you’ll be invaded by a Goblin Army. Beating them will cause an NPC called the Goblin Tinkerer to spawn tied up underground. He will randomly spawn as you explore, so spend some time underground and you’ll find him.

If you have an empty house when you free him, he’ll move in. He provides a great service called reforging, which changes the modifier of your weapons. For example, if your weapon says “slow” in from of it, you probably want to reforge it to make it faster. Some modifiers are better than others, so keep trying until you get a good one. Be warned though, reforging can drain your money faster than anything else in the game.

Grenades Are The Best Early Weapon

If you’ve picked up a bomb and have an empty house in your world, a Demolitionist will soon move in. This orange-bearded NPC will sell you some Grenades for a very cheap price. If your world already has a Demolitionist at this point, don’t hesitate to buy yourself a few hundred grenades.

This weapon, if used correctly, can kill every pre-hardmode boss, even the Wall of Flesh. Alternatively, after beating the Queen Bee, you can upgrade these into Beenades, which can shred Skeletron so fast you’ll forget you’re even fighting him.

While grenades are effective in the early game, they will be outclassed by hardmode weapons later on.

Portable Crafting Stations

It’s very frustrating to find that you’re missing things that you need for your exploration. It’s more frustrating to find out later that you had the things to make it but don’t have the crafting station to make it from.

This is one of the mildly infuriating things that happen in Terraria, but there’s a simple and foolproof solution for it. Always bring a spare workstation with you.

As a rule of thumb, it’s a good idea to bring a Workbench, Anvil, and Furnace along with you on your journey. Don’t worry about losing them, but be sure to pick them up when you’re done. This is especially good since Terraria doesn’t cause you to lose items on death by default unless you’re one of those Mediumcore players. This is a great Terraria beginner tip for players who hate traveling back and forth.

Some people will argue, though, that there aren’t enough inventory spaces for you to do this. And that’s why our next tip is…

Extra Storage Saves Lives

If you ever feel that your regular inventory space is not enough, you can buy a Piggy Bank from the Merchant NPC for extra storage. Just plop it down on a table, the floor, or better yet, a platform, and you’ll be able to get a full chest’s worth of inventory space from a single item. Better yet, the items stay in even after you break them to pick them up!

Getting a Piggy Bank early is a good way to master inventory management in Terraria. They’re your lesser, cheaper alternative to Void Bags which you’ll get later on after beating your first evil boss.

Another notable feature of the Piggy Bank is that it’s character-bound, similar to how an Ender Chest works. This means putting down a Piggy Bank in your base and carrying one with you will result in having the same inventory for both.

Farm Dayblooms

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After engaging in combat and exploration, you’ll come across random potions scattered throughout the world. Some of these tonics and brews grant special abilities, such as increased jumping or glowing. While Terraria offers numerous potions, two stand out: Ironskin and Regeneration Potions.

These two potions are your basic staple when it comes to surviving your boss battles. They are easy to find in chests, but just exploring for them is not a sustainable solution.

That’s where your Dayblooms come in. These small flowers are abundant in the wild, but you’ll only find around 3-4 in any given forest biome. Picking up this flower results in getting seeds, which means you can farm them in your base.

Setting up a small farm of Daybloom is a good starting point as both the Ironskin and Regeneration potions share a Daybloom in their recipe

Recall Potions vs. Magic Mirror

Spelunking can oftentimes lead to the discovery of Gold Chests. These chests contain accessories and items that are much better than your surface wood chests.

One of the items you can get from these is the Magic Mirror, which lets you teleport back to your spawn point a few seconds after using it.

This is an excellent item to have as it can serve as an alternative to Recall Potions which you can find in pots deep underground. But there’s one good reason why Recall Potions are sometimes a better choice than the infinite Magic Mirror.

While the Magic Mirror lets you teleport for an indefinite amount, the Recall Potion does not have a “wait time.” This means you can get out of sticky situations much better than when using a Magic Mirror.

While we’re on the topic of Gold Chests, here are a few more things you should keep an eye out for when looting them.

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Create a Hellevator

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With all your brand new gear, it’s time for you to craft a Hellevator, essentially an elevator to the underworld. This is a continuation of the mineshaft you started earlier, and will make getting to the bottom of the world much easier.

Keep mining until you come to water or lava, and in that case it’s best to try to drain the liquid to another source. Mine any obsidian you find and turn it into an Obsidian Skull, which allows you to walk on hot substances like Meteorite and Hellstone. Once you reach the underworld, you know that your Hellevator is complete.

Look for floating islands

There are several islands in the sky that have some good gear on them. One item, in particular, called the Lucky Horseshoe, is an item that completely removes all fall damage. You absolutely need this, so I’ll tell you how to get one.

Potions called Gravitation Potions will allow you to reverse gravity, which is perfect for flying around the air. Get enough of these and you’ll find the islands in no time!

Another method I use is to create Meteor Shot for a gun, and walk left or right while firing it straight up. Meteor Shot bounces, so if it bounces back then you know there’s an island.

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Basic Movement Accessories

Movement is integral to your survival in Terraria. Moving at a snail’s pace is sure to get you killed when fighting quick bosses like Skeletron or the Queen Bee. This is one of the reasons why setting out early to find loot underground is a great idea.

Keep an eye out for the Hermes Boots and Cloud in a Bottle, often found in Gold Chests. These accessories are valuable at this stage. Additionally, look for gem clusters and Skeleton enemies, as they’re important for crafting your first Hook. Fifteen gems can create a Gem Hook, while a Hook drop from a Skeleton and a chain is all you need for a generic Grappling Hook.

Finding these items early on guarantees a smoother pre-hardmode experience, with the Hermes Boots becoming even more valuable as you progress. Hooks aid in navigation, while boots and bottles enhance mobility.

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Custom Biome Farms

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Some materials only grow in specific biomes. A few notable examples are the Glowing Mushroom, which grows in the Glowing Mushroom biome, and Jungle Spores found in the Underground Jungle.

While it’s simple to find these biomes naturally generated in the wild, you can definitely bring the biome “home” with you.

Destroying the foliage in these biomes will give you Jungle Grass seeds or Mushroom Grass seeds. Planting these seeds in mud will cause them to spread, and enough of them (140 to be exact) will generate their custom respective biome.

This is particularly helpful for farming better healing potions or for growing your own Chlorophyte Ore in Hardmode.

Always Go Fishing

It’s not hard to fish in Terraria. All you need is a decent fishing rod and some bait, and you’ll be getting fish for food, potions, and even crates containing ores and accessories.

Fishing requires at least 75 blocks of connected water (1001 for oceans and 50 for honey) in order to work. Also, casting your line in different biomes results in different types of fish, which can be used for creating buff potions or food buffs.

When you first start, try your best to fish in the Ocean as you can get a chance to grab an early Reaver Shark, which bypasses the need to farm for a pickaxe before going to the Underworld.

Getting crates while fishing is also the best way to get biome-specific accessories, such as the Flying Carpet from Oasis Crates and the Jungle Monument loot from Jungle Crates.

It’s always worthwhile to fish in Terraria, and doing so will reward you with expansive loot.

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Fight the boss of the Underworld

While in the underworld, you may find an item called the Guide Voodoo Doll. This item is used to kill the Guide when you throw it in lava, but doing so will cause the underworld boss to spawn.

I won’t spoil it for you, but he’s a large boss that’ll probably give you some difficulty. Once you beat him, it’s time for the real game to begin! We wrote an article here about what to do when you beat him, so definitely check that out.

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Play Your Way

Playing the game on your own or with friends is entirely up to you. If you get stuck, there are multiple resources, such as the Official Terraria Wiki[terraria.wiki.gg] or the forums, with enough information to get your ball rolling.

These are just basic Terraria beginner tips on how to get started with the game. There’s so much more to learn in your Terraria journey. With over a dozen bosses and thousands of items to discover, there’s not one set way to play the game.

Whether you like building, fighting up close, or casting spells at a distance, Terraria has got you covered. Choose your own path and play your own story as you progress through the wonderful worlds YOU create.

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[pandorales]

Fabulous guide. Many thanks!

[ilikepizza334]

Skull90 you are correct that IS and old queen bee sprite (its the 1.2 sprite to be specific)

[trevorrichter16]

that much just for a shit post to get more awards

[TYP07]

the answer is

[Skull90]

is it just me, or is that queen bee sprite(in the picture w/ all da bosses)old?

[Burgir (evil)]

oh and i forgor fish, bullet hell and forgetable slime but they are not needed to progress

[Burgir (evil)]

hardmode in a couple of sentances: break funny altars, mine 3 tiers of ores, DO NOT make armor of the first 2. get some weapon upgrades (the stormbow) to kill funny beep boop 1, 2, and 3. then, mine clorophyte, (the green stuff.) with a pickaxe axe, or drax if you are mentally insa- then, kill big plant. go invade temple, get big green sword, kill pushover, get ufo mount, kill cultist, kill colored pillars, die, get squidward to spawn, die repeat killing the pillars until you kill squidward. get the zenith, then touch grass (optional)

[TinyPandaPsycho]

You forgot the part where in hardmode and your in the underground mushroom biome you fish with the truffle worm you get and a cool boss gives you 9999 platinum!

[Rimuru]

THANKS :)

[ben.king]

tl:dr to beat game you kill bosses and get strong