Awesome / Terraria

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• Fallen Stars have a very rare chance of falling on enemies for around 1000 damage. That's pretty good. Now imagine that happening when battling the Eye of Cthulhu.
• The grand finale is one big symbol of just how ridiculously badass Terraria truly is, as it involves destroying the head Cultist, the four Celestial Pillars, and the Moon Lord in that order. Did you just beat the shit out of Cthulhu and steal the ore contained in his body just for the sake of better armor? Yes, yes you did. And yes, we actually mean the man himself, albeit in a broken, incomplete physical vessel that leaves him as barely even a shadow of his true self. But who was able to lay the Priest-King of R'lyeh so low? The Dryads of Terraria, who gave their lives to rip his body to pieces and seal away what parts they could not sunder on the dark side of the moon.
• The lore of Terraria gives the Clothier one; Skeletron is the remains of Cthulhu's skeleton, which was physically ripped out of him, that later gained sentience and possessed the Clothier. Not only did he manage to survive long enough to be freed from the curse, he came out of being possessed by the skeleton of a Lovecraftian abomination with his sanity intact. And kept some of its power for himself, just to add insult to injury. Terrarian humans are clearly made of sterner stuff than we are.
• Another lore example; Werewolves are said to instinctively attack loved ones, and comments from the Zoologist indicate she was no exception; Key factor being was. When she moves in and is turned by the full moon or Blood Moon, she has enough self-control to warn people to stay away from her and remain indoors, not even wrecking furniture like she used to or attacking townsfolk she clearly can't even stand. Even if she remembers none of it and seems blissfully unaware of her ticking time bomb nature, it's clear her mind is far more composed than any other lycanthrope (well... vulpanthrope) in Terraria.
• Screw teamwork. Any time you defeat one of the Hardmode bosses solo, you'll feel like a badass. Especially the first time, when you don't yet have any of the top equipment that require the bosses' souls to craft.
  • Related is if you solo Ocram, the final boss of the console version.
    • Beat Ocram a few times. Get best armor. Make Skeletron Prime pay for being such a tough boss to solo. Then kill Ocram again using this armor just to rub it in.
  • Screw Ocram, Soloing Plantera makes you feel like a complete badass, then, go to the dungeon, Get enough resources to get Spectre Armour and other OP magic items, and Unleash Havoc on all of the bosses at the same time including Plantera and the Golem.
    • Heck, soloing any of the Hardmode bosses is awesome. Particularly if you're taking another attempt at a boss that's beaten you many times before, only now you have that one piece of equipment that turns the tide. The Destroyer keep wiping you out? Well, as it turns out taking down Skeletron Prime first will net you what you need to make yourself a handy flamethrower...
  • Terraria seems to be created in mind of playing with friends, so playing on your own (freely or forcefully) might be some kind of Self-Imposed Challenge.
• Crafting the Terra Blade will give you a sense of accomplishment considering how much effort you need to obtain its constituents. When you do, however, you're rewarded with one of the most powerful weapons in the game.
• Crafting the Zenith. This is the game's true strongest weapon, and it requires several other powerful or rare swords (and the Copper Shortsword) to craft. It will reward you with an insanely powerful, rapid, area-hitting, wall-piercing weapon and perhaps one of the greatest senses of accomplishment in the entire game.
  • The true majesty of Zenith is in its attack animation: it summons up every single one of its component swords to fly around you like a mobile blender. This turns the entire screen into a kill zone that nothing, not even the Moon Lord, can survive in for more than a few seconds. The only challenges left for you once you claim this culmination of your journey are fighting the Dungeon Guardian for kicks, and whatever horrors modded content like Thorium and Calamity can offer.
• Come back to a normal world when you have that top equipment that requires bosses' souls to craft. Now try fighting the Eye of Cthulhu, something that likely gave you a lot of trouble when you first played. The battle will probably be over in less than 10 seconds. That's right. The basic hard-mode mooks are now a little tougher to kill than a body part of Cthulhu. Proving just how ultimately badass you are for conquering the end-game.
• The three mechanical bosses can sometimes self-spawn at nightfall ^note There are limits to this, the main one being that only the bosses you haven't beaten yet will get to do this, and their spawning can be cancelled if you spawn in a boss yourself during the minute or so between being notified of a self-spawn, and the boss appearing.. You get some warning and prep-time, but it might not be enough to get all the stuff you need AND get to the area you'd prepared for the fight against that particular boss. However, if you DO manage to fight the boss when they self-spawn, and win, you'll feel like even more of a Crazy-Prepared badass.
• The Mecha Mayhem achievement requires you to beat all three mechanical bosses at the same time. While this can be laughably easy depending on when you choose to do it, it's still badass to take on all three hardmode starting bosses and tear them apart before the night ends.
• With the new 1.3 update the NPCs now all have the ability to fight. This can lead to such awesome scenes as a siege arriving to get positively decimated by even a small town.
  • The Clothier in particular gets a special mention; he performs magic. That's right, the NPC who doesn't sell anything REMOTELY important to game progression can perform magic to fight; and dark magic, at that. Looks like he managed to keep a piece of Skeletron's power for himself.
  • Gather your NPCs together and have them fight a pre-Hardmode boss. You'll notice they are quite effective.
• Managing to get the Skeletron pet, which requires you to defeat the single most powerful non-boss mob in the game, the Nigh-Invulnerable Dungeon Guardian.
• A small Moment of Awesome is had if you're a new player and you make it through to either far side of the world. Even better if you built minecart tracks along the way to get back home easier. You'll feel a little like the first people to build a railroad across America.
• A bug exists in the game when you hammer a slope, called a hoik. On its own it's useful to enter the Temple early on or ignore blowing up Shadow orbs, but when used correctly it's possible to create things like a functioning computer in Terraria.
  • Hoiks also make fighting the Dungeon Guardian very easy, since they propel you faster than even it can fly, allowing you to run circles around it as you hammer it with ranged weapons.
• A good number of bosses are perfectly defeatable with just the damage inflicted by wired traps and fireworks. Find using weapons beneath you? For a challenge, you can legitimately play the role of a combat engineer/trap master, and defeat bosses without swinging a single sword, shooting off any arrows/bullets, or casting spells - With just your wrench/wirecutters, generous amounts of wiring, and some traps, you can indeed kill bosses without ever directly raising a weapon to them.
• With some proper preparation and setup, you can fight your way up to the 15th wave of the Pumpkin Moon and the Frost Moon solo. It makes you really feel like a One-Man Army badass doing so, especially if done with the latter.
• One of the easter eggs added to celebrate both the release of Journey's End and Terraria's 9th anniversary is this - talk to the Party Girl and click on her new Music option, and she'll switch the base soundtrack with the entire soundtrack from the ill-fated Terraria: Otherworld. You can even record them with music boxes! It's really heartwarming to see that it finally got unearthed to the public after all these years, and right in the 9th anniversary of the game!
  • Entering the seed 5162020 (the release date of Journey's End) nets you a "drunk world" where, among other quirks, the Otherworld soundtrack plays by default.
  • Also, you can find the Moon Lord's legs as equippable leggings in the world, showing that, while Redigit may have lied about actually showing his legs in the boss itself, he also technically didn't and still put it in the game.
  • A minor note, but one of the Evil Biomes, as if in response to its rival also being present, has stepped up its game so much that it's actually sucked the life out of a Living Wood Tree (one of the few things that normally hinders the spread of evil), and plowed over the entire top of the Dungeon, forcing the Old Man underground.
• The fact that the developers decided to end development of the game with one of the best moves possible - instating tModLoader as official DLC. Even if they're no longer developing the game, they've settled for the next best option, which is to entrust the game's future to the hands of their dedicated fans, trusting that they'll help the game grow and flourish even without them. To quote an anonymous Youtube comment:
  1.4 is the last update that we'll make. It's your turn.
• In celebration of the game's 10th anniversary, a new secret seed "05162011" (one year after Journey's End) a.k.a. the "Celebrationmk10" seed was implemented. This world is not only dyed in a rainbow of bright party colors, from the cyan sand to bright pink Living Trees, the world is designed to spoil you rotten with gear that comes with the best modifiers they have to offer.