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    • So, you've mastered your world, but have run out of things to do. There are still many options for playing with your current world, or making the next game far more challenging.

    Projects

    Building projects

    If you've already built some of these building projects, try upgrading them. However, if you haven't built any in the current world you are playing in, try them now! Feel free to browse the Terraria forums for ideas and inspiration.

    Combat projects

    • If you have defeated every boss in Terraria, try summoning and fighting multiple bosses at once. For example, you can fight all three mechanical bosses at the same time, which is necessary for the Mecha Mayhem achievement.
    • Kill the Dungeon Guardian. Keep in mind that the Dungeon Guardian cannot be spawned again if Skeletron has been defeated.
    • Kill the Empress of Light during the day for the TerraprismaTerraprisma. All damage must be dealt during the day in order for her to drop the item.

    Collection projects

    Art

    Terraria is a sandbox offering vast opportunities for creativity. Reshape your map and create varied structures, ranging from elegant simplicity to intricate complexity, realistic to fantastic, and from the beautiful to the terrifying or hideous. Remember that paint is cheap -- if you like the pattern or texture of a block or wall, but it's the wrong color for your build, change the color! As of version 1.4, Ecto Mist allows you to craft a variety of special walls, as well as a few blocks such as gem-encrusted stone. You can also use the RubblemakerRubblemaker to place ambient objects around your build.

    • NPC Houses: Some simple decorations can quickly turn any house into one that fits the theme of an NPC. Add some Clay PotClay Pots or Flower WallFlower Walls around the house of your DryadDryad, some BottleBottles and a Bed for your NurseNurse, a Crystal BallCrystal Ball for your WizardWizard, an Ammo BoxAmmo Box for your Arms DealerArms Dealer, or some Christmas decorations for Santa ClausSanta Claus. All NPCs have some items that suit their theme, allowing you to build nice houses for all.
    • Castle: One of the most popular constructions in Terraria is a castle. Of course you can build a simple symmetric castle, but this tends to look rather boring. A good way to build a more interesting castle is by building some tower tops of varying sized and varying heights, and then connecting them. For colors the Gray BrickGray Bricks and Red BrickRed Bricks combine well, while some more expensive bricks may look good for the throne room. Use your own imagination to build it the way you like it.
    • Mine: Not only is it handy to have direct access to a large mine, but it looks great too. Using some Wooden BeamWooden Beams, Planked WallPlanked Walls and Torches, you can make a simple and good-looking mine for yourself.
    • Tree House: You can either build your own tree house or edit a Living Tree. Try using the Living Wood WandLiving Wood Wand and the Leaf WandLeaf Wand (or their rich mahogany counterparts) along with other natural-looking blocks and walls for a better look. You can also add some decorations around the branches such as creatures made out of blocks (like bats or birds), or a little hive using the Hive WandHive Wand.
    • Outposts: You can build outposts in different biomes, usually in the style of the biome it is built in. This allows you to easily buy items that NPCs only sell in specific biomes.
    • Themed Houses: There are many furniture sets in Terraria. For example, take a look at all the different Doors that are available. You can make structures using furniture from these sets, such as buildings.
    • Pyramid: Make a giant above-ground pyramid, half-maze and half-trapped to make a worthy burial chamber.
    • Domes: Build large glass domes with a biome inside of every dome.
    • Treasure Chamber: You may not have noticed yet, but you can place Coins, Bars and Gems. This can be used to make a great-looking treasure chamber.
    • Atlantis: You can build cities basically everywhere: underground, in the skies, and also underwater. Underwater is one of the difficult locations to build in, as you tend to drown, you move slower underwater, and it's dark. Furthermore, you probably want to drain the water out of your constructed building, while still allowing you to easily enter it. Luckily, there are solutions to these problems. For building underwater, it is recommended to use Gills PotionGills Potions or a Neptune's ShellNeptune's Shell (or its upgrades), allowing you to breathe permanently underwater. To provide yourself with light, you can use a Light Pet, the waterproof Torches (Cursed, Ichor, or Coral), or GlowstickGlowsticks. To drain the water, you only need Dry BombDry Bombs, a Bottomless Lava, Honey or Shimmer Bucket, or the Super Absorbant SpongeSuper Absorbant Sponge. To allow entrance without buildings being flooded, make an entrance from below using Platforms, or from any other direction using BubbleBubbles.
    • Sky Tower: Build a tower reaching all the way into space.
    • Museum: There are many items to display in Terraria. You can make rooms to display Statues, Paintings, Trophies, Relics, Armors, Banners, Critters, and Weapons, among others.
    • Pixel Art: Using different colored blocks, you can make sprites inside your world. Try making your own character too! If you want your creation to be visible in the dark, try using Gemspark Blocks or painting the blocks with Illuminant CoatingIlluminant Coating.

    Game settings

    The game itself offers several settings which can make things far more convenient or challenging:

    • Expert Mode is an option for world creation. Enemies and bosses become tougher, with more health, new attacks and debuffs and AI improvements. Enemies now collect dropped coins and despawn with them, while you respawn significantly slower. On the flip side, enemy loot increases sharply, and bosses drop Treasure Bags with powerful and vanity items that are only available in Expert mode. If that's not enough of a challenge, Master Mode increases the difficulty even more.
      • Journey Mode is another world difficulty option that allows you to play Terraria in a more creatively-oriented fashion, with access to unique abilities like changing the difficulty, changing the flow of time, changing the enemy spawn rate, and producing Researched items out of thin air. Because of this, Journey worlds are great for newer or more creative players, but can only be entered by Journey characters.
    • Difficulty is an option for character creation. The character's difficulty mode applies no matter what world they enter. There are four options here:
      • Classic (or Softcore) is the default; Classic characters only drop half of their coins when they die.
      • Mediumcore makes characters drop their entire inventory upon death, including equipment, accessories, and ammo.
      • Hardcore characters die permanently, dropping all carried items and becoming a Ghost. In this state, they can fly and pass through walls, but not affect the world in any way. In Multiplayer, ghosts are invisible to other players, but can still use the "chat" system to talk with them. When they exit the world, the character will be deleted; while items in the world (including items dropped at death, stored in chests etc.) are unaffected, any items in portable storage are lost forever.
      • Journey is different from the other difficulties, and makes it so that characters can only enter Journey worlds, but start with extra equipment like Fledgling WingsFledgling Wings and a Grappling HookGrappling Hook.
    • Alongside difficulty settings, secret world seeds are hidden world seeds that generate worlds with unique features. While most of them add some form of difficulty in their own ways, some notable examples include:
      • For the worthy: This seed not only makes small changes to the bosses' AI to make them more challenging, but it increases the world's difficulty by one level, so a Classic Mode world will become an Expert Mode one, and so on. Master Mode worlds turn into special Legendary Mode worlds.
      • Don't dig up: This seed flips the usual order of progression upside down, making you spawn in the Underworld and have to dig up to the "true" surface, which is completely infected with the world evil.
      • Get fixed boi: This is a combination of every secret world seed available, making it by far the most challenging one. It also includes some of its own additions such as Mechdusa, who replaces the mechanical bosses in progression.

    Player versus player

    • Join a PvP server, or host one yourself, and compete against other experienced players.
    • You can play games such as Capture the Gem, or straight up PvP battles. A good and exotic arena can make PvP more interesting.

    Personal challenges

    After enough experience, the game may seem too easy, causing a player to want to add an additional challenge, setting extra rules for themselves. This isn't enforced by the game, but only by their own determination. Some examples are listed here.

    • Only use melee, ranged, magic, or summon weapons. You can use your starter sword until you acquire your weapons of choice if needed.
    • Don't use notable and/or important mechanics or resources, such as:
    • Only use crafted items.
    • Never increase your health past 100 and/or your mana past 20.
    • Play as a Merfolk by permanently equipping a Neptune's Shell and Fish BowlFish Bowl, being unable to breathe air. (Origin)
    • Play a dark elf by never setting foot above ground. (Origin)
    • Reversed Gravity: Use an inventory editor to obtain a Gravity GlobeGravity Globe or a large stack of Gravitation PotionGravitation Potions to permanently reverse the gravity. (Origin)
    • Buckethead: Equip a BucketBucket at the start of the game and never unequip it. (Origin)
    • Bomberman: Mine by only using explosives.
    • Fairy: Cleanse the Corruption/Crimson and spread the Hallow.
    • Dead Island: Turn your entire surface into one big Graveyard.
    • Evil Wasteland: Survive in a world that is completely infected by Corruption or Crimson.
    • Use Journey Mode's ×10 spawn rate throughout your entire playthrough.
    • Cake World: Use a map editor to divide the world into vertical layers of biomes, rather than a horizontal spread. (Origin)

    Cosplay

    Dress up as your favorite character. Cosplay in Terraria contains costumes that pair well with certain weapons. These setups could pose a challenge when dealing with very strong enemies, and are intended mainly for fun (see Guide:Class setups for the more standard class setups). Some examples are listed below.

    Mario
    Plumber's set.png
    Weapons
    Armor/Vanity
    Accessories
    with Yellow DyeYellow Dye to resemble Cape Mario
    Mount

    Scutlix MountScutlix Mount with Green DyeGreen Dye to resemble Yoshi

    Link
    Hero's set.png
    Weapons
    Armor/Vanity
    Accessories
    Pet

    Fairy BellFairy BellFairy BellFairy

    Martian
    Martian Uniform set.png
    Weapons
    Armor/Vanity

    Martian CostumeMartian Costume(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)(vanity)

    Accessories
    Mount

    Cosmic Car KeyUFO Mount(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Scutlix MountScutlix Mount with Green DyeGreen Dye to resemble the ScutlixScutlix

    Madoka
    Pretty Pink set.png
    Weapons
    Armor/Vanity
    Accessories
    Pet

    Bamboo LeafBaby Red Panda(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) with Bright Silver DyeBright Silver Dye(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) to make it look like Kyubey

    Adventure maps

    You can play maps made by other players, or create your own adventure map and share it.

    Mods

    Desktop version
    Desktop-Only Content: This section's information applies only to the Desktop version of Terraria.
    Main article: Mods

    There are various mods available that introduce new items and enemies to Terraria, or alter the game rules. It is generally a good idea to backup your world and characters before installing any mod, as trying to remove a mod afterwards can "break" your world or character files.

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