Terraria Online

My beginnings with Terraria were very awkward. I was introduced to it by my older brother. When I first saw him playing it, I thought, “Wow, this looks rather boring.” However, my brother is extremely annoying and tends to talk about the video games he plays all the time. After a while, I started to become interested. I kept hearing talk of an “Eater of Worlds” and “corruption”, and these piqued my curiosity. So, in the end, my little brother and I bought Terraria. My little brother was the first to play it, so I had to wait my turn.

Unknowingly, we had bought it on the exact date of the 1.0.6 release.
I decided to make my player rather conservative, choosing the standard hair style, hair color, and skin; and giving him a red shirt, black pants, and black boots. Following my brothers’ advice, the first thing I did was find wood to build a work bench and house. It was rather annoying finding all that wood, but it paid off. Soon I had a quaint, little house, and a Guide, who would later be named Jake.
I wanted to get stronger, so I started looking for materials. I eventually found some veins of copper and silver, and was able to craft armor, weapons, and gathering equipment. After that, I moved further away from the safety of my house.

That’s when I discovered The Corruption. At first look, it wasn’t that bad; I had seen purple grass in other games. That was until I saw my first Eater. Their big pincers looked menacing. Thankfully, I was easily able to defeat them with my Silver Sword.
I can hardly believe how far Terraria and I have come. When I began, I never imagined I would become so powerful and respected in the community. I’m so proud of both of us and I hope that feeling of pride will continue far into the future.
darkstarzx2 Profile

Ahh, my first time in Terraria was glorious, and not filled with many noob mistakes. I had been previously watching a couple Let's Plays and Walkthroughs on it, but I tried to keep the game spoiler free for myself. Not that the spoilers I had gotten made the game any worse, it was a beautiful game full of tongue in cheek references, right from the get go I knew the game took itself less seriously than most big developer games, and I liked it. Ohh, and don't get me started on the cute little graphic style, and the slimes, instantly becoming my most loved and hated enemy in the game. I adventured and explored, I fought and mined like any good Terrarian.

My house upgrading from a little wooden bow in the middle of no where, into a massive fortress adorned with gold and silver, tall towers stretching high into the sky, or so I thought, it still was no more than a little stone bow with a couple furnishings here and there. It was not the grandeur of a great Minecraft Castle, or the beauty of a Terrarian tree house, but damn me if it didn’t feel like a second home. Also the NPCs were a welcome touch to the game, it feel as if you actually progressed in the game, not just spent your time in a 2D lego simulator.

And the feeling of alpha male status when you finally create your fist set of sliver armour, and understand why people say this is the best indie title of a couple years. The amount of epic just escalated with finally taking down the Eye of Cthulhu and then the Eater of Worlds, shadow armour, mining the meteorite without an obsidian skull, and blowing myself up a couple times in the process. Then finally the Skeletron, defeat after defeat, until finally I taste sweet victory, the loot of the dungeon and finally endgame items. Only to then wipe clean my character, delete the world and start a new one. A new adventure was calling for Lucama.
Lucama221 Profile

Upon first glance it would seem I had stepped into a pixelated world made entirely for the purpose of giving someone who has a fear of squares a panic attack, but even after the options screen had crashed my game twice and my hand – longing for the use of the arrow keys - was uncontrollably smashing the WASD buttons in hope of some form of movement in a direction other than a slimy death I was confident that there was something this game was hiding from me.

With some getting used to I finally managed to brutally pummel down a tree with my axe whilst simultaneously massacring the onslaughts of enemies, and to my surprise (despite the horrendous controls) I was actually enjoying myself. So, being a natural Minecraftian, I smashed together a house just as the moon was setting and I could see monsters coming thick and fast off in the distance. Trouble is, I needed some adventure. Regardless of the fact that I would most likely be eaten alive I headed out into the darkness, sword at the ready. As I drew closer I lifted the sword above my head and all of a sudden I felt invincible; nothing was going to stop me now –

Bluescreen.

*Silence for 5 seconds*

“FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”
Ruari's Profile

A long time ago, in a galaxy far...oh wait wrong story. I discovered Terraria when I started watching OMFGcata and Totalhalibut on youtube. It looked like they were having a lot of fun with it, and me having a passion for sidescrollers decided to buy it. After waiting about three days time for my dad to actually get around to buying the game, I played it and started building with wood and stone and bawling with slimes and zombies. as i started finding better minerals i started to upgrade my home. What was first a simple wood and stone structure has evolved into charizar...er...a complex fortress made of gleaming silver bricks, and thats just my house. my friends have spectacular homes as well, courtesy of yours truly.

One castle is a paragon of darkness hidden deeply in the corruption. Another is a castle surrounded on all sides by lava in the unwritten eleventh level of hell. Lastly, there is the white tower, a lovely castle perched on top of a sky island that pierces the very heavens. Today, i look back upon all I have created, and am pleased with my own craftsmanship. I wish I could relive it all again for the first time.
kingicarus Profile

*Bam*
I spawned on a small platform made off grass. A platform made of squares. The green and small squares. The first moving thing is not Brad - My epic guide. It is a slime... Wait what is that!?
A BUNNY!? So cute... WHAT WHAT?!
The bunny did just explode. The stupid blobby green thing crushed it.
I had to avenge the death of my friend Fred - The bunny. So i clicked one of my random keys and got the Axe equipped. I ran to the place my good pal just got burned to death... Not burn to death but... However. I started to click everywhere on my screen in panic to get that perfect hit. Paul - the slime called for reinforcement. His friends John and mat joined. I fell down to a hole.
In the small little room i got trapped. The three friends ate me up. Me and Fred was reunited again, on the respawn.
Then I deleted my map and created a new map. Then I started my Let's play with no experience at all.

I always hear the blobby sound in my dreams and then i see the blood flying everywhere.
theBDSnake Profile

My Terraria story is fairly simple. A friend of mine from school gifted to me on Steam as a birthday present, and I was glad to have it since I'd seen Let's-Plays and tutorials of it from some of my YouTube subscriptions. I'd seen some of the amazing work people had done in it, and wanted to play too. I fired it up immediately, created the character I use to this day, and had my first chat with the Guide. I fell in love instantly. Not with the Guide, mind you, but the game. I was a Minecraft player at the time, but after just a half hour of Terraria I dropped Minecraft like a bad habit and haven't looked back since. The music was peppy, but dangerous at times. The art style was eye-catching and enjoyable. The game mechanics were perfect, and I actually felt like I was progressing instead of just spinning my wheels.

Every new exploration felt like a step forward. I wanted to keep going forward. I wanted to keep going forward so much, in fact, that by the time I had finished my first session I had gone from a peasant in rags (but with very snappy hair) to running around in full Shadow Armor. I was so enthralled with Terraria, that I hadn't even noticed I had played for so long that first night I got it until I looked out my window and saw the sun! Terraria to me perfectly encapsulates the spirit of adventure. The fun of seeing new things, having close scrapes, finding new resources, making things, and then walking a little further down the path and starting the whole process anew.

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