Brief Summary
This video provides a comprehensive guide to Terraria mods, categorising them based on how much they alter the vanilla game experience. It covers everything from small tweaks and additions to total game overhauls, offering recommendations for various player preferences.
- Vanilla-friendly mods enhance the base game without drastically changing it.
- Content mods add new items, bosses, and biomes, expanding the game's scope.
- Overhaul mods introduce new mechanics and systems, transforming the gameplay experience.
Vanilla-Friendly Mods
For those seeking subtle enhancements, Fargo's enemy modifiers add random affixes to enemies, increasing difficulty and occasionally loot drops. Character creation mods like Mr. Plague's Authentic Races allow customisation with D&D-inspired races, each offering unique perks, while the New Beginnings mod lets players choose an origin, providing starter kits or challenge scenarios. Console area and Hurt area mods port content from older console and Chinese versions of Terraria, such as the Okram Lepus boss and Chinese New Year items, updated for modern gameplay.
Building and Biome Mods
Terraria Architect adds a variety of decorative items and blocks for builders. Cristillium, a nostalgic mod from 2016, introduces an underground crystal biome with new enemies and items. For alternative biomes, the Confection and the Depths replace the Hallow and Underworld with completely new environments, including unique items, enemies, and bosses.
Class and Weapon Specific Mods
Mods like Amulet of Many Minions, Archery Overhaul, Mumu's Ultimate Yo-Yo, and Universe of Swords expand specific weapon types. Universe of Swords has been reworked to offer more polished content. For modded classes, the Clicker Class, inspired by Cookie Clicker, deals damage by clicking on enemies with clickers, each having special effects. Orchid adds the Guardian class with a custom resource system, requiring active blocking of enemy attacks. The Bombus APIS mod introduces a Beekeeper class with a honey resource and controllable bees, while the JoJo Stance mod adds stances from the anime, each with unique abilities and equipment.
Content Mods
Avalon, one of the oldest mods, adds items, enemies, a stamina system, and the Contagion biome. Thorium offers unique bosses, structures, and creative items. Storm's Additions and Arsenal Weapon Expansion focus on adding numerous weapons, with varying quality. Vanilla-like expansions include Homeward Journey, featuring over 1,000 new items, 150 NPCs, and 15 bosses, including a biome below the ocean and creative boss fights. Vitality adds over 900 items, 100 enemies, nine bosses, and the Blood Hunter class with a blood lust resource. Spirit Reforge focuses on exploration, adding a new biome, microstructures, wandering NPCs, and content for oceans and caves, primarily for pre-hardmode. Thorium is a massive content mod with new bosses, biomes, three new classes, and more, closely matching the base game's vibe.
Smaller, More Modded Experiences
The MEAC mod reworks the Empress of Light fight, making it harder, and also revamps other bosses and melee weapons. The Gensokyo mod adds 22 unique boss fights inspired by the Touhou series. For Pokémon fans, the Pokémon mod allows Pokémon to fight alongside you, while the Terramon mod aims to replicate the original Pokémon games' experience. Verdant adds a peaceful, atmospheric biome to the underground jungle with a story and quality-of-life items.
World Generation and Larger Content Mods
Remnants completely reworks the Terraria map with structured biomes and improved visuals. The TRAE project rebalances and expands the vanilla game with item reworks and overhauls to mana, defence, and mobility systems. Calamity Fables reimagines the Calamity mod with new boss fights and combat challenges. Mod of Redemption adds lore-based content with high-quality boss fights and environments, featuring elemental weaknesses. The Stars Above mod lets you pick a starfarer, granting unique powers and lore, with high-quality boss fights and the cosmic voyage system. The Spooky mod adds content themed around the spooky season, focusing on environments, a quest system, and new items. Secrets of the Shadows adds new dungeons and structures, while Fractures of Penumbra adds two bosses, 36 weapons, a new biome, and the sanity mechanic. Polarity focuses on mechanically interesting bosses and items, and Ancients Awakened adds two new bosses with post-Moon Lord content. The Enigma adds new boss fights and mini-bosses with impressive visuals and reworks vanilla weapons.
Total Conversion and Unique Mechanic Mods
The Kirby Transformation mod and Elena the Wandering Witch completely transform the player character with unique move sets. Terraria TCG adds a collectible card game within Terraria, where you can challenge NPCs and bosses. The Story of Red Cloud is a massive adventure map with over 40 hours of gameplay, custom bosses, and Dark Souls-inspired mechanics. Trog turns the game into a roguelike inspired by Risk of Rain, with procedurally generated floors and stackable items. Terraria Overhaul reworks visual and gameplay aspects, replacing vanilla mechanics with new systems. Starlight River, while in alpha, offers mind-blowing content. Macrocosm adds post-Moon Lord content, allowing players to build spaceships and explore planets. Path of Terraria turns the game into an RPG with a skill tree, quests, a custom loot system, and a global leaderboard. Game Terraria is a very experimental mod with custom bosses, a golfer class, and challenges in custom dimensions.
Well-Known Content-Heavy Mods
Fargo's Souls mod adds enchantment and soul accessories with long crafting trees and the Eternity Mode challenge. Calamity adds numerous bosses, weapons, biomes, and a new class, extending the game post-Moon Lord. Mod packs are also becoming popular for veteran players.
