Terraria is recognizing a huge milestone with a Celebratory World Seed and a big update. Terraria first launched on May 16, 2011, on PC, making the indie action-adventure ten years old.
Re-Logic's extremely popular 2D procedurally generated sandbox is one of the most successful indie-developed titles of all time. In fact, Terraria recently hit 35 million units sold, a massive number for a game created by such a small team. Ten years later, the game is still very much going strong, and the team is celebrating with update 1.4.2.3.
Re-Logic has just released a blog update for its newest update of Terraria. The team is thanking fans for the ten years of amazing support with a Terraria Tenth Anniversary Celebration. Fans are used to taking on difficult challenges in Terraria, and even this birthday surprise has a mystery to uncover.
Re-Logic is giving fans a special new World Seed, but to access it players will need to discover the name and enter it into the World Seed field in the World Creation Menu. Re-Logic is not providing the name of the new World Seed, however, so the community needs to work together to reveal this.
The specifics of the 1.4.2.3 update for Terraria are based on the World Seed access and bug fixes. Re-Logic added a Celebratory Seed, corrected the damage on Frost Armor's set, fixed a rendering issue for Vulkan and Metal on FNA builds, fixed a missing tooltip in Queen Slime's treasure bag, addressed exploits, and more. There was also a complaint about King Slime's spiked minions having the ability to pick up money and despawn it, and this was also addressed.
Update 1.4.3.2 does not have any new content in it. Re-Logic made a cheeky comment in the blog about that being the case because it promised that 1.4.2's update was the last content update ever for the game. However, the Terraria 1.4.1 update also was promised to be the last, so time will tell if more is on the way or not.
Although there are some games like Terraria, the success and longevity of this experience has helped set it apart. The game started out as a PC release, but it eventually made its way to many platforms. It can be compared to Minecraft, but even the 2D nature of the game makes it simple to pick up. Meanwhile, the game's depth is impressive, as it likely would not have the legs to last ten years if that were not the case.
Terraria is out now on PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
Source: Steam