History Terraria / TropesIToR

** The Rod of Discord's TeleportSpam was made less absurd by adding a Teleportation Sickness debuff that prevents you from spamming it constantly.

** The [[TeleportSpam Rod of Discord]] was such a massive GameBreaker (being able to teleport spam at no cost) that the 1.2.1.2 update changed it so that attempting to teleport spam made the user CastFromHitPoints. You can still use it to explore or in an emergency, but not at the same rate as before.

* {{Irony}}: The Goblin '''Summoner''' boss's loot includes an item for every class ''except'' the summoner class.

** The angel statues. The tooltip even says "''It doesn't do anything.''" Except for [[spoiler:taking up inventory space. They ''really'' don't do anything.[[note]]though as of 1.4.4, they do gain one use: to throw into some [[MutagenicGoo Shimmer]] to get an Aether Monolith[[/note]]]]

* MolotovCocktail: With some Torches, Ale, Pink Gel, and Silk, you can make these in a pinch. Prior to a damage nerf and a change to the recipe (the old one only required regular gel, easily farmed from ordinary slimes), they were the WeaponOfChoice of many speedrunners looking to kill the Wall of Flesh before the first night ended.

* NothingIsScarier: After defeating the second-to-last group of bosses in the game the message "Impending doom approaches" appears on screen, and everything starts going dark. All remaining monsters flee, and the music, which in Terraria never stops even in the creepiest of occasions, grinds to a halt, leaving you with an empty, silent screen periodically darkening and flickering. This goes on for about a minute until [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the]] [[FinalBoss Moon]] [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lord]] appears]].

** The angel statues. The tooltip even says "''It doesn't do anything.''" Except for [[spoiler:taking up inventory space. They ''really'' don't do anything.]]

* IconicLogo: The green tree, which has several variants for specific biomes as shown in some trailers.

** Summoner builds. Most of their best items are gotten late hardmode, and their early game armor tends to have paper thin defense. Unless you feel like farming for the rarest item in the game, they don't even get their first summon until ''after'' beating the Queen Bee. Once they do get going though, they're quite a force to be reckoned with, with their summons being able to easily tear through most bosses and invasions with little effort. And the InfinityPlusOneSword for the Summoner Class added in in Journey's End, the Terraprisma, is [[UpToEleven one of the most powerful weapons in the entire game.]]

** The Snowman Cannon is a powerful rocket launcher that fires explosive snowmen capable of homing in on enemies. Coupled with terrain destroying rockets, people used it for rapid, if imprecise excavation. And this is taken UpToEleven with the Celebration [=Mk2=]. While intended to obliterate large crowds thanks to its combination of no self-damage, spreading shots and rapid fire rate, people have coupled it with terrain destroying rockets to ''very'' rapidly remove large swathes of terrain.
* NothingIsScarier: After defeating the second-to-last group of bosses in the game the message "Impending doom approaches" appears on screen, and everything starts going dark. All remaining monsters flee, and the music, which in Terraria never stops even in the creepiest of occasions, grinds to a halt, leaving you with a empty, silent screen periodically darkening and flickering. This goes on for about a minute until [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the]] [[FinalBoss Moon]] [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lord]] appears]].

* RandomlyDrops: Some items can only be found as rare drops. Taken UpToEleven with the 1.2 update. Now nearly EVERY enemy has a rare drop! Happy hunting!

** Skeletron Prime has been killed after sunrise--where he gains the same excessive defenses and instant-kill capabilities of the Dungeon Guardian--using similar tactics. Unlike the Guardian, he doesn't drop anything special in the daytime, so this is purely a SelfImposedChallenge.

** Mimics are another example; they spawn randomly and fairly rarely in Hardmode, and drop up to ten gold coins and one of several items. Just like Nymphs, they disguise themselves as normal chests, which means again that you may miss it because it won't attack you until you get very close.

* KnifeNut:
** Throwing Knives are a pretty reliable weapon early in the game. Their more powerful magic counterpart has unlimited ammunition (but consumes mana). 1.2 has the even-more-powerful Vampire Knives which restores health points from dealing damage.
** 1.3 gave [=NPCs=] weapons to defend themselves against enemies. The Merchant uses Throwing Knives, and the Angler has Frost Daggerfish.
** There's also the Psycho mob from the Solar Eclipse event, confirmed by the devs to be a reference to ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''. He uses a knife to attack and drops the [[http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Psycho_Knife Psycho Knife]], which stealths you when wielded and gives a massive damage boost in the process.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Ghouls exist in Hardmode deserts (a homage to their origins in Arabic myths), with variants for Corrupted, Crimson or Hallowed. They have a large mouth and long pointy ears, and they drop the Ancient Cloth when they're killed, which is used to craft the Ancient vanity set.

* LesserOfTwoEvils / NecessaryEvil: Spreading the Hallow, in most cases. The Hallow isn't exactly friendly, but [[NonPlayerCharacter NPC]]s can live in the Hallow and it won't encroach upon the Jungle. In desperate situations, spreading it may be the best way to deal with a particularly bad Corruption/Crimson spread.

* LaserBlade: The Phaseblade is unabashedly a [[StarWars lightsaber]], complete with the classic "vwomm" sound effect. Happily, the gems you use in its construction affect the color of the blade, allowing for white, red, yellow, blue, green, and [[Creator/SamuelLJackson purple]] Phaseblades. Once you hit Hardmode, you can use Crystal Shards to upgrade you Phaseblade into the Phasesaber (42 base attack and Light Knockback).

* InfantImmortality: The Angler and the Princess are the only children in the game. They can both be hurt by monsters or traps like the other townsfolk, but instead of dying bloodily like the others, they vanish in a puff of smoke with the message [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere "[name] has left!"]] when their health runs out.

* OdangoHair: CharacterCustomization options involves two Odango hairstyles (one of them being [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]]'s), as of the 1.3 update the Stylist can also give your character a hairstyle like [[Anime/SailorMoon Chibiusa's]] (thought interestingly not Usagi's hairstyle) for a total of 3.

* NoHeroDiscount: Averted if you have the Discount Card, a rare drop from the pirates. Otherwise played straight. Just saved your [=NPCs=] from a blood moon attack? Rescued them from the dungeon? Great, except they still charge you full price for their wares.

** Some statues when powered will spawn monsters though the monsters spawned from statues do not drop rare items or coins. For example, slimes still drop their regular gel but no money, and the Mimic will not drop its highly useful rare drops at all.