Editing Terraria (section)

==Modding==
Terraria, like Minecraft, has a prominent game modding scene - unlike Minecraft however, modding is officially supported by the developers, with the game's definitive community-made mod loader (tModLoader) becoming backed by them after 1.4 released. Even before then, the modding scene was thriving, though under different loaders (tConfig pre-1.2 and tAPI during the 1.2 era).

/tg/, back in the game's earlier years, would use older community mod loaders to put /tg/-adjacent content into the game, from 40k weapons to classic D&D monsters. Several of these, especially the latter, have been incorporated into more mainstream mods. However, the /tg/ mods themselves were never really maintained and became unusable once updates and new mod loaders rolled out. Couple that with /tg/ moving onto other things, and the game hasn't really seen any /tg/ content save rehashed ideas. The 40k stuff was even moved over entirely to Starbound, a similar game with a more appropriate sci-fi theme made by an ex-Terraria dev and has baked-in mod support via Steam's Workshop.

In terms of the scene today, there are three kinds of mods: the crappy, random mods that flood the new tab, small mods that are just quality of life or minor additions, and large content mods that can completely change the game. The most popular ([[skub|and controversial]]) mod, Calamity, falls into the latter category, overhauling much of the game and providing an alternative storyline to the official one. It's usually the mod people first try when getting into Terraria modding, but it's absolutely NOT for beginners to the game.

Come tModLoader updating to 1.4, a lot, and we mean a ''lot'', of mods got [[Meme|Thanos snapped]] due to either being abandoned, still being in update hell, or developers refusing to update to the newer version for whatever reason. Several popular mods of the 1.3 era got shafted hard, even if they're technically still available in a legacy version kept around for historical purposes. As a result Terraria modding (as of 2022) is in a sort of lull as the big boys finish updating to the newer version and the rising stars of this new era are yet to be determined (though a few, both released and yet to be, are promising).

Any more information would be more /v/'s thing and therefore out of scope.