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We will be starting the AMA shortly, but first, our lovely AMA people can introduce themselves if they wish to do so @velvet river @cosmic loom @pure zodiac
Hi, I'm GameRoom and I'm the lead developer for Penguin Games (although there are others who aren't here now)
Hiho, some of you in the server might recognise me from the old activities chat back in the day or have seen me around #terraria-creations before but I'm one of the Server Managers of Penguin Games focusing on Build, Event & Parkour management specifically o/
Hey, I'm Squid, also known as "Not GameRoom" and "Not Toasty" and "Not Jerma." You might know me for being a moderator here, but I'm also a server manager at Penguin Games where I primarily help manage the Discord server and cool projects like our current tournament Capture the Gem League 2!
Cool, looks like the gang is ready to rumble. I'll spin up the ama bot and that will open up the channel for your questions!
Remember, once the channel opens you're free to ask questions, but remember to follow our server rules!
AMA round starting in 30 seconds!
The AMA round has started! Ask away!
im great
What is the craziest thing that happend on the Terraria server?
wanted to ask this since a long time
@velvet river who are you again
Is there plans for ctgl3 next summer or sometime in the future?
koth back when smh
what is ctgl3?
Singularity 2029
Halfway through current round!
oh wow
what is a ama?
Ask me anything iirc
no plans currently
how has your day been
What is penguin games
whats a good sandwich recipe
Are fluffy dragons the best dragons?
what do you do?
What's the best chips?
What is the craziest thing that happend on the Terraria server? reposting cuz noone answered
oh aight
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not sure I want to get into too many specifics but there have been some wacky antics from salty players getting banned
what is your fav animal
WHERE IS ADRIAN AND WHY IS HE NOT HERE
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood???
Round over!
The ban appeals we get can be crazy ngl... lots of copypasta potential
I think there have been multiple fanfictions. I will not share them.
Oh god yeah
😭
BLT always a fire sandwich
Q: What is the craziest thing that happend on the Terraria server?
A: I've been around on the staff team for coming up on 5 years now so I've seen a lot so it's hard to say
Q: Is there plans for ctgl3 next summer or sometime in the future?
A: We just got around to 2 after years of waiting so probably further in the future.... Unless..
Q: koth back when smh
A: One day, maybe. Depends on if the devs are up to it & we can
Q: What is penguin games
Q: Whats a good sandwich recipe
A: An edible one I'd hope, but a grilled cheese with bacon is pretty good though...
A: We're a terraria minigame server with everything ranging from Capture The Gem to Survival & even Parkour 💪
Q: What's the best chips?
A: When it comes to what I've had I'd say BBQ Ruffles are pretty good
Q: what is your fav animal
A: A fox, next would probably be an Otter & idk what else beyond that
Penguin Games is a Terraria minigame server with gamemodes like capture the gem, spleef, pvp, and more
Penguin Games isn't just a server though, it's a cult
😈
sea salt. im a basic bitch
Honestly it's a good question
Missed this one but if you mean on the server specifically, I manage Builds, Events & a lot of gamemodes. The gamemode I focus the most is Parkour though 💪
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Looks like we're ready to go for another round. Same as before we open the channel up for questions for few minutes, so fire your questions away!
AMA round starting in 30 seconds!
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The AMA round has started! Ask away!
Uhhhh
WHERES ADRIAN
Is the game out?
Whats AMA
Why is penguin aaaaaaa
How are you?
What’s your favorite and least favorite minigame
can we get much higher
ama woo
Wheres waldo
how are you doing today
Why do I need to shit rn
wheres joe
is this real
Pizza Hut or Domino's?
Coca cola or pepsi?
what is the servers exact location (joke)
ama means ask me anything
1.4.5

how get fwee bobux?
least favorite color?
terraria
How did you start?
How tough was it to code the minigames
Where is the asparagus
gnersk
is water better than soda?
Do you guys like Hypixel
When will you actually do something with PVE?
is this the real life? is this just fantasy?
how to date
Tf is penguin game
how do i fix the error:
Failed to apply MAPINFO DoomEdNum override "30700 = nmpwaffen": failed to find corresponding actor class...
in Ultimate Doom Builder? I'm trying to edit someone else's enemies.
What is your favourite vegetable?
Does luck affect what you get form crates?
we need this update
Yes
caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Also can you post more than 1 question
Hatsune Miku?
what are you most excited for about 1.4.5?
what is your favorite terraria server
when minecraft 6(på svenska) update?
Whats been one of the hardest weapons/classes to balance on the server?
When is terraria coming out?
Halfway through current round!
is cereal a soup?
still making it dw il release it tmrw
When is cctg tournament coming? ctg sucks cuz it's balanced
unlimited bacon and no games
or unlimited games but no games
no were not
When is the console bug getting fixed?
buff all bosses
what is the chance that 1.4.5 isnt the last update
What the hell is penguin games
What is the teams personal least favorite minigame?
thoughts on other terraria servers? (eternia, rencorner, etc etc)
What is the update about after 14.5?
Favorite Penguin Party minigame?
when new update?
When is mario party terraria collab coming out
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why do i not have kfc in terraria?
Why is survival mode only for voters?
Will PVE mode have content
Round over!
Spleef.
Tank Wars
Tank Wars
Bunneo why are you typing!
Crossplay, as much as a pain in the ass it'll be for us probably...
Q: How are you?
A: I'm alright, I woke up like 30m before this so I'm still a bit dazed 
Q: What’s your favorite and least favorite minigame
A: Parkour is the game I manage so it's my favourite, then least favourite uhh probably just pvp, not the biggest fan of just open pvp like it.
Q: Wheres waldo
A: Did you check between the couch cushions?
Q: Coca cola or pepsi?
A: Neither, I don't like pop
Q: least favorite color?
A: That honestly idk about a least favourite, maybe yellow? I dunno
Q: is water better than soda?
A: Yeah, I don't like pop so yeah ofc
@mellow flare What’s your favorite and least favorite minigame
Favorite: 1HP survival / Least favorite: Races... it's just glorified single player
@burnt rose what is the servers exact location (joke)
Based in East Coast US
@finite ledge How tough was it to code the minigames
It depends on the game but this server has been in development for 8 years, so a lot of work has gone into it. Some gamemodes were coded in a weekend but others like Parkour have a year+ of work put into them
@tribal pumice How did you start?
I started learning coding when I was a young boy, coding games with GameMaker before I learned C# to do TShock modding. I started on the server in 2015 by messaging the current admin and asking them if I could be a developer. They immediately let me in, no questions asked. The standard is higher now though (but if you are good at coding TShock plugins we are accepting new developers)
@hybrid heron is water better than soda?
Yes. Not a fan at all of the taste of soft drinks, and they have an egregious amount of sugar in them. Hydro homies all the way. 🌊
@glass dock When will you actually do something with PVE?
Maybe one day but it's low priority.
@sage night What is your favourite vegetable?
roasted broccoli
Q: Do you guys like Hypixel
A: I've played a bit
Q: what are you most excited for about 1.4.5?
A: Decently, heard it's got some cool features like _
Q: Whats been one of the hardest weapons/classes to balance on the server?
A: I think we all know the answer to this one..... Jungle Man in CTG
Q: When is cctg tournament coming? ctg sucks cuz it's balanced
A: One day, I've had it noted down just CTGL2 is the priority right now
Q: unlimited bacon and no games or unlimited games but no games
A: I assume the end is meant to be no bacon but it's a tough question, sadly if it wasn't for games I wouldn't be here today so, I'm sorry bacon it was nice eating you
Tomorrow, trust me
Q: What is the teams personal least favorite minigame?
A: Spleef probably
Q: thoughts on other terraria servers? (eternia, rencorner, etc etc)
A: Haven't really played any others....
Q: Favorite Penguin Party minigame?
A: As the guy who like, manages & updates all the modes in penguin party (supported by GameRoom's & other developers' code ofc) it's hard to have a favourite but probably Platform Panic or Colour Flash. Revamping Pig Run years ago got the game into a much better state too so that's at least in my top 5.
Q: Why is survival mode only for voters?
A: Adds more incentives for voters besides just some points & perks
Q: Will PVE mode have content
A: Maybe one day, low priority. It has a bit right now I think with some people working on it but it's not like a super supported mode on the server
Q: How did you start?
A: First played Terraria at a friend's birthday party back in Grade 2, here I am over a decade later
Pirated Terraria on mobile in 2014-15, come yesterday I finally bought it on mobile.
We can only wonder...
@calm tangle what are you most excited for about 1.4.5?
I heard rumors that netcode-wise it would be mostly compatible with the current version of the game so I'm happy about that.
@whole cobalt will golem get buffed
Unfortunately we don't control that
@whole cobalt When is the console bug getting fixed?
Not sure what you mean
@ebon glen when new update?
For the server? Soon™️
@grand quail Why is survival mode only for voters?
So that more people vote... being highly ranked on that voting website is pretty important for not becoming irrelevant so unfortunately we have to care about it
DON'T CATWTF ME
I've returned from my sleep so I will be punting Disturbed back to the moon
We're ready for our third round now! Get ready to ask more questions shortly. 
Favorite mythology
What do you think of the game payday 2?
How is the staff team today?
Is there a ctg class that is the most unbalanced? If so, what is it?
any tips on how to be a good staff member on a terraria server? (as a fellow server mod)
WHERE IS ADRIAN HES NERLY DONE WITH HIS TERRARIA BUT ITS HARD SERIES
what is the meaning of life
whats your favorite smash bros character?
what is your opinion on the dutch?
When thrower class for hardmode?
If you still play terraria what is your favorite class? mines american
how do i connect my stardustpods?
Any more updates on crossplay?
Why do boomerangs have the ability to travel through walls in specific scenarios?
What was your favorite subject in school?
Will console ever get modded?
On a scale of 1-10, yes?
breaking bad or better call saul
what is your favourite minor detail about any boss
How do I convince you to play cctg
Can we play terraria togheter?
if you could transport to any dimension, what dimension would you go to?
Halfway through current round!
Public or private transport?
the fuck is a penguin game
Can i play with you and @ebon glen if you do get to play?
when is manhunt getting added as a gamemode
thoughts on projectile hell?
Least favorite biome?
black mirror or inside no. 9
would you want cheese blocks in terraria someday?
Favorite Terraria NPC?
Underground corruption or underground crimson theme?
Do you think demons look nice?
favorite touhou character?
Do you think shimmer was a good addition to terraria
Ice mirror or magic mirror
Just a friendly reminder that these aren't the devs, so asking questions related to the development of Terraria such as updates is probably not the best use of your time 
Will there be dead cells based bosses?
WHERE IS ADRIAN HES NERLY DONE WITH HIS TERRARIA BUT ITS HARD SERIES
What hogwarts house do you think you belong to?
Do you like bullet hell games? i like the chloryphyte bows and arrows for it 😄
Scraggler npc W or L?
Will you add any other npcs?
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What is your favorite geometric shape?
Plantera theme or crabulon theme
pedguin games for minecraft or nah?
why did you make this server?
Favorite moment on the server
is one of the penguin games merch a real life penguin
Is terraria the best game
Round over!
@hybrid shadow Why do boomerangs have the ability to travel through walls in specific scenarios?
That's how they're coded
@pure mulch What was your favorite subject in school?
My high school's media team class produced monthy videos for the school and I enjoyed making silly videos with music, sketch comedy, and so on, all with the production aesthetic of a school project.
@pure mulch Public or private transport?
I am transit-pilled but personally I drive because unfortunately the area I live in doesn't make it easy to do otherwise. I think it would be good if the US invested more in good public transportation.
I mean think about how much of a scam it is that everything is so spaced apart in towns only because each establishment has a parking lot, but it's only because of the parking lots that things are so far apart that you need to drive everywhere. It's solely self-serving!
how do i connect my stardustpods?
you need the penguin games phone for that.
What hogwarts house do you think you belong to?
the non-transphobic one 🏳️⚧️
@tacit ridge pedguin games for minecraft or nah?
Probably not although I think at times people have unofficially hosted Minecraft side servers
@crystal lion why did you make this server?
Nobody here was on the team that originally founded the server. They've all left or are inactive. I joined when it was 6 months to a year old
Underground corruption or underground crimson theme?
underground corruption got me feeling crazy
Q: What do you think of the game payday 2?
A: My friend gifted it to me, haven't played, not sure if my laptop will handle it....
Q: How is the staff team today?
A: I dunno about everyone else but I'm doing fine, still a bit dazed
Q: Is there a ctg class that is the most unbalanced? If so, what is it?
A: JUNGLE MAN.
Q: whats your favorite smash bros character?
A: 
Q: how do i connect my stardustpods?
A: You need to press on all the yellow bits on the stardust in a very specific order to connect to them, might take a while
Yeah, everyone who created the server is dead or presumed missing from the authorities.
Q: What was your favorite subject in school?
A: My HS offers Cooking so for the past few years I've been doing that, but besides that probably English as it's my strongest "academic" subject. Also have an amazing teacher for it too
Q: breaking bad or better call saul
A: Both
Q: Can we play terraria togheter?
A: If you join the server you'll see me around
Q: Public or private transport?
A: Depends on where
Q: when is manhunt getting added as a gamemode
A: I've seen it hosted a few times so maybe one day...
Q: thoughts on projectile hell?
A: It's aight, hopefully will have more variety one day
Is terraria the best game
Depends on who I'm playing with
Idk never heard of that game. Isn't it basically just a 2D Minecraft?
(EDIT) Phew I was worried for a second that I'd trigger an auto-ban by saying this
what is your opinion on the dutch?
hate them (currently living in the Netherlands)
Q: Least favorite biome?
A: Honestly.... Tundra might be, I usually love Snow areas in games but there's just not that much in it for blocks & variety.... All the biomes in Terraria are good though but just Tundra is the worst of the major bunch imo
Q: would you want cheese blocks in terraria someday?
A: I could build the MOON one day then
Q: Underground corruption or underground crimson theme?
A: Uhhhh unsure, both otherworldly underground themes I think underground corruption's is better of those two from what I remember
Q: Do you think shimmer was a good addition to terraria
A: Another liquid that is very sparkly always welcome 
Q: Do you like bullet hell games? i like the chloryphyte bows and arrows for it
A: They're solid
Q: pedguin games for minecraft or nah?
A: One used to exist years ago I think
Yeah you're right...
any tips on how to be a good staff member on a terraria server? (as a fellow server mod)
Don't be stupid. Also racist.
Favorite Terraria NPC?
Clothier the BEST!
Q: Favorite moment on the server
A: There's a lot, but my favourite moments are probably with some of the people I've met on the server who are some of my closest friends, but fun times messing around in games is always great
Q: is one of the penguin games merch a real life penguin
A: I won't speak on this any further.... But maybe we should get some merch one day..
Q: Is terraria the best game
A: Depends on what genre
don't be stupid and also be racist confirmed. Squid is done
What operating system are you using on your PC?
Favorite band
is the riemann hypothesis true
favorite touhou project character?
where is my fav terraria youtuber adrian tell me where is he (hes the best terraria youtuber btw)
What is your favourite game on penguin network
What is your favorite ASCII character?
what is the funniest type of fish
favorite phone brand?
What is your favorite host gamemode
I understand Pedguin stepped away from the server about a year or so back. What was that transition period like? Did you find it difficult to establish new norms?
What film did you enjoy the most?
when's skywars getting readded as a public game
where is my stardust pods
would you want to do the voice for a character of an animated terraria tv show?
where do i find a good place to find cheap GPUs for pc
Is the moonlord spaghetti conspiracy true?
Halfway through current round!
Have you ever been in Germany?
What is your opinion on the jerma allegations @velvet river
Good evening ?
Favorite armor and weapon set
what makes spleef "bad"
Do you like your sandwiched cut in half or diagonally
does skeletron is true or no? 
How was your first Terraria playthrough?
will ctgl2 be epic
What is your opinion on the usage of the word "heck"
is there gonna be a weapon better than the zenith or a zenith for every class?
explain why pineapple pizza is the best type of pizza
who is your best soldier
is minecraft 3d terraria or is terraria 2d minecraft (only 1 right answer)
When was the moment you wanted to give up and just throw everything away and what motivated you to continue and not give up?
favorite anime character overall?
Who are you
What is your favorite kind of sport?
Does Plantera like Pantera?
have you considered getting scavies and eating your crewmembers legs
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fav terraria dev?
Are you guys in love with me? 😌
How many languages do you speak?
have you ever had one of those urges where you really just want to eat a lot of cheese
What is your favorite tetramino
is skele is tron?? 
my legs have these weird red bumps on em and they're really itchy what do i do about it
Round over!
Q: favorite phone brand?
A: SAMSUNG, APPLE USERS COME FIGHT ME RIGHT NOW
Q: what is the funniest type of fish
A: Blobfish
Q: What is your favorite host gamemode
A: Sumo or Build Battle
Q: I understand Pedguin stepped away from the server about a year or so back. What was that transition period like? Did you find it difficult to establish new norms?
A: It did take some time to adjust but we were able to continue management the same (with some hiccups here & there)
Q: when's skywars getting readded as a public game
A: Maybe one day, fits Hunger Games as a side mode imo
Q: where is my stardust pods
A: Send me your order # & I'll make sure it's on it's way
explain why pineapple pizza is the best type of pizza
I'll one up you: Pizza with a fork or knife or pizza with hands
will ctgl2 be epic
Looking it might be 😎😎😎
Do you like your sandwiched cut in half or diagonally
Diagonally is the only solution
@pure mulch What operating system are you using on your PC?
Windows
@twin shuttle I understand Pedguin stepped away from the server about a year or so back. What was that transition period like? Did you find it difficult to establish new norms?
Idk it wasn't too bad but at the same time it's been a few years and there are multiple remnants of the word "pedguin" throughout the code that I never bothered to clean up, so there's that.
@misty nexus when's skywars getting readded as a public game
It's supposed to get merged into Hunger Games and you can yell at staff for the delay. It's been code complete for over a year but nobody has added the maps.
@pure mulch Have you ever been in Germany?
No
@radiant drum what makes spleef "bad"
Skill issue
@frail elk explain why pineapple pizza is the best type of pizza
Sweet, sour, and savory. You get em all.
@pure mulch When was the moment you wanted to give up and just throw everything away and what motivated you to continue and not give up?
Literally just don't.
@pure mulch What is your favorite kind of sport?
Weightlifting and running
Q: would you want to do the voice for a character of an animated terraria tv show?
A: Depends, but most likely no as I'm definitely not a voice actor
Q: Have you ever been in Germany?
A: Haven't left Canada so no, I know there's been a few members on our team in Germany though
Q: Good evening ?
A: Good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are
Q: Favorite armor and weapon set
A: Hard to say, I used to really love Forbidden & Spirit Flame for their designs but they aren't the most practical
Q: what makes spleef "bad"
A: Could be the lack of variety over the years, maybe it'll get some changes in the near future, who knows...
Q: Do you like your sandwiched cut in half or diagonally
A: If you cut it down the middle you're insane & I don't want to talk to you again
Favorite band
Genesis at the moment!!!
Q: How was your first Terraria playthrough?
A: Interesting.... It was back on xbox 360 in Grade 4...
Q: What is your opinion on the usage of the word "heck"
A: Stop swearing
I understand Pedguin stepped away from the server about a year or so back. What was that transition period like? Did you find it difficult to establish new norms?
So. many. times. correcting. people. that. it's. not. Pedguin. it's. Penguin.
Q: explain why pineapple pizza is the best type of pizza
A:
Q: favorite anime character overall?
A: Not much of an anime watcher... Last one I really watched was Parasyte but that was a while ago
Q: Who are you
A: A terraria parkour guy
Q: What is your favorite kind of sport?
A: Not a sports guy
Q: fav terraria dev?
A: Leinfors 😔, he was always pleasant to speak with on my occasions doing so
Q: Are you guys in love with me? 😌
A: Maybe, maybe not, only time will tell
Q: How many languages do you speak?
A: Just English, I know barely any french but that's just from learning it in school, not an active speaker bcs I'm not from Q*ebec
Q: have you ever had one of those urges where you really just want to eat a lot of cheese
A: I love cheese, it's great
Q: is skele is tron?? 
A: I think so yeah
fav terraria dev?
Red for me. Guy is chill in DMs.
Q: What operating system are you using on your PC?
A: Windows
Q: favorite touhou project character?
A: Never heard or seen that...
Q: where is my fav terraria youtuber adrian tell me where is he
A: Haven't really heard of them that much.....
Q: What is your favourite game on penguin network
A: If you mean on the server, parkour
Q: What film did you enjoy the most?
A: John Carpenter's "The Thing" is really good
Thank you so much Penguin Games for taking the time to be here today, and thank you everyone for coming out here to participate in this event. 
We are working on the AMA document and it will be available shortly.
If you want to help in future events like this one, Event Coordinator applications are always open! Feel free to send a ticket to @steel horizon for more info~
Any closing notes from you guys?
I do it all for the fans 😎
I'm always around if you want me to come around & do another AMA someday.. But I'll pop around this server occasionally, you can probably find me in #terraria-creations. If not here you will definitely find me over at Penguin Games.
I do it for the clout & fame 😎
Also if you haven't ever tried our server you should totally check it out. penguingames.fun on a new softcore character; try it today. This video is a bit old but it summarizes things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_STmoOcXcw
In today's Terraria 1.4 video we're checking out the Terraria Pedguin Minigame server to see how it's adapted to Terraria 1.4 and what minigames it has to offer.
Check out the Pedguin minigame server here:
pedguin.com:7777
https://twitter.com/pedguinserver
also check out ped because he's a champ https://www.twitch.tv/pedguin
ChippysCouch/Chi...
I forgot to say but you're a terrible person I can't believe you are the other active person on our Twitter... Even considering fork & knife is TERRIBLE
WHAT
...anyway yeah our ip on multiplayer Terraria is penguingames.fun, port 7777, so do check us out!
Btw... did you know we're hosting a massive tournament? https://www.penguingames.fun/blog/2023-06-02/ctgl2-announcement/
Signups close this June 30th, but there is still some room left!
Also check out parkour sometime, you'll probably find me there 💪
But for now:
Thanks thanks Terraria Terraria 😛 Don't tell Red about my origin story
👁️
so uh... you guys come here often
There was a bit of a delay but the AMA doc is now finished! Again, thanks to everyone who showed up, questioners and guests alike. 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jt3dK0VJTd8Kjr2VuzkjCTHAZWp4hUD-vNHhTmJOG5I/edit
Penguin Games AMA 25 June 2023 Round 1 @just_toasty Q: What is the craziest thing that happend on the Terraria server? A: I've been around on the staff team for coming up on 5 years now so I've seen a lot so it's hard to say Q: Is there plans for ctgl3 next summer or sometime in the future? A:...
Like always, here is the list of all the past AMAs with links to the associated docs 🙏
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13u_E_KSs0DihCaCb78P0N7w08NGHLcCXDdBuT0_tsg4/edit
AMAs
Date (MM/DD/YYYY),AMA Person,Link
3/19/2019,ChippyGaming,https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLGxMFR07Cjj8eCG6Wox81h2ttWtY--98ooe7Qn7MnM/edit
5/1/2019,TerrariaHelp,
Greetings everyone! 
Today we have the pleasure to have some members of DR Studios as our guests for today's AMA! 
DR Studios is the team of wonderful people behind the mobile and console versions of Terraria. Now our guests can introduce themselves if they wish to! 
hello 👋
Hello!
Hey there!
hiya
Ah it says to introduce ourselves
I'm Matt, and I mainly handle Quality Assurance on the team! Lots of bug testing, feedback, making sure things work well and the like 🙂
i'm Rory, and head up the team as Game Director ☺️
I'm Roboarms, the Associate Producer, but that invoices having hands in all the pies, testing, pixel art, implementing easy things in engine, and about a dozen little bits.
Im Jan, im a programmer on the mobile / console versions of Terraria
Alright, looks like everyone is here!
We'll open up the channel shortly, get your questions ready!
Feel free to ask anything, but remember to follow our server rules!
how is crossplay development going, or are you waiting for re-logic to release 1.4.5 on all platforms before starting the process?
Favorite boss?
are you all ever going to implement mods into console?
whos idea was ocram and why was he only for mobile?
thank you guys for your amazing work on these versions of terraria, any news on crossplay? (already been asked, so instead, corruption or crimson?)
Are beans cool?
What's an average day like working at DR?
How'd you find DR and what made you want to join the team?
What's your proudest achievement when working on Terraria?
and how are you all doing today lol
why dont we just make the ultimate console and only make terraria for that
are you ever going to reimplement Ocram or old-gen content?
Strongest boss (except moonlord)?
Whats your favorite terraria class?
Are the orcas critters or some other entity? Can we catch them in bug nets? And they arent console exclusive this time, right?
Will 1.4.5 be the final final update?
How is the team doing?
hamburger?
Have any of you done any modded playthroughs? If so, how did they go and what were they?
How many pets do you guys have?
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is it possible for an ETA on 1.4.5?
Are there any unfound easter eggs like the fire flower in the bottom right corner of the 3DS version worlds? If no, are there any plans to add some?
did you have to forcibly lower the difficulty of the game at all at any point or has it always been 1:1 with pc terraria?
What other games do your studio work on, and what do you do for those games?
What’s your favorite game?
is it possible to add new bosses after Moon-Lord past the final version?
What was the biggest challenge in terms of gameplay "playability" when porting a game like terraria that mainly focus on mouse/keyboard inputs to consoles?
Nescre, whats the weirdest bug youve found?
nescre please tell these people why i use so many jump buttons so they stop thinking im weird for it…….
How did you all come up with your names?
Favorite secret seed?
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how did you come up with the name dr studios?
favorite town npc? 😋
Nescre what is your pfp lol
Favorite Terraria pet?
what is your favorite enemy in the game?
like please i swear im not weird……
is it possible to talk to Red and the other team at relogic?
opinions on 3d terraria (minecraft)?
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We were founded as Deep Red Games back in 1997 and then restructured as DR Studios in 2007. DR stands for Deep Red 😄
Crossplay is currently in development, were trying to get the first phase of this working atm, whilst trying to keep up with RL on the release of 1.4.5. The release of this might be after the 1.4.5 release though
This is before our time! What i do know is its called ocram because its Marco backwards, the designer from the previous team, but since it wasn't part of PC, and we're 1:1 pc content its gone now!
Corndog.
Empress of light
@marble tangle Favorite boss?
Duke Fishron is probably my favourite! I always fight him early in my playthroughs
@hasty falcon how is crossplay development going, or are you waiting for re-logic to release 1.4.5 on all platforms before starting the process?
Crossplay is going well! More news surrounding that will likely be shared in future SOTG posts, but at the moment there are no ETAs to share.
@lofty stag are you ever going to reimplement Ocram or old-gen content?
ocramshouse.png (no plans to)
@shy bronze How'd you find DR and what made you want to join the team?
I was invited on after the mobile 1.3 beta that happened back in 2019! I joined it because I wanted to help improve on the game.
@mental agate Nescre, whats the weirdest bug youve found?
There used to be a bug a while back where you could apply worldgen to other worlds. This would completely change biomes, rip holes in the world, make giant walls and do all sorts of other things. I uploaded a video of it years back: https://youtu.be/UBoA98m10-o
@robust oriole did you have to forcibly lower the difficulty of the game at all at any point or has it always been 1:1 with pc terraria?
Ever since our version, difficulty has always been 1:1.
nescre please tell these people why i use so many jump buttons so they stop thinking im weird for it…….
Bigger button!
@marble tangle Whats your favorite terraria class?
I tend to switch around a lot depending on what progression state I'm in, as well as what items I find. I tend to use mage a lot once I obtain spectre armor, and prior to this it's usually a mix of melee / ranged. Sometimes I use summoner for fun too!
@shy bronze Nescre what is your pfp lol
Smiley face one of my teachers put on a worksheet of mine when I was in grade 9. Thought it looked funny so I ran with it
Background: if you have one of those console online memberships, other players are able to send you invites to their game. What is interesting about these invites is not the concept of multiplayer, but rather what happens when you accept one - doing so will take you out of the menu you were in and straight to the player select screen.
This is w...
Also just realizing this takes up way too much space, so going to start doing what these guys are doing
It's pretty cool. I come to the 505 Games office a few days a week and then work remotely from home. The team keeps in touch all day via Slack and we have regular playtests, planning and design sessions. Proudest achievement for me would be the launch of v1.3.0.7 on mobile
I would like to, but restrictions with platform holders and making the mods work with the console adjustments would be a headache
Hamburger.
I've always liked Santa Claus the most - there was something special about him just randomly turning up one day when I was a kid, along with all the christmas event stuff that accompanied it
I'm doing great! end of my day so i'm just about to put my toddler to sleep. I get to make and play terraria all day so can't complain! 
we do have contact with the RL team, to aid us with keeping up with the development of 1.4.5
I got up to hardmode in calamity one time - in general though, I tend to stay away from mods, as they're not on mobile / console
It's going really well. We have it all up and running with PC, mobile and console able to play on your local network and remotely over the internet. We're doing extensive testing and polish while we work on 1.4.5 alongside RL. There are many strict requirements for this to launch on console. We can't say when it will launch just yet...
Melee All The Way
sorry, we can't say other than we're keeping up with RL on the changes so PC, mobile and console are in sync
I used to come up with random words that sounded right in the english language, but weren't actual words. Nescre was one that I thought sounded good as a username, so it stuck
unlikely. it would have to appear on PC for us to bring to mobile and console too. this is to make crossplay possible
Daytime empress! Learning her patterns took longer than I'd care to admit.
We really wanted it to feel and look as much as possible like pc but still be intuitive to play. It's a very hard balance to get right!
What I can say is that they'll be on all platforms - I'll have to avoid specifics beyond that though
xenomorph + cyberpunk
what can i say, it was the 90s
I got a kick out of for the worthy - easily the most deaths out of any other playthrough, but that was part of the fun for me. Skyblock has also been a lot of fun
trying to keep all the PC interactions possible with a more limited number of simultaneous inputs and smaller screen size.
our goal when taking over v1.3.0.7 was to make sure we were 1:1 compatible with PC. so yeah, we made sure it played as closely as possible. the touch UI was a challenge and where we focused most of our design efforts
A content creator from the early 2010s said the word robot arms funny and I liked it, but it was taken on some platform so I removed the t and it sounds cool?
it's only me who works on other games, and unfortunately i can't announce any of them at the moment
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In your time being able to work on Terraria, what would be your favorite thing you've worked on in development?
I really wanna ask something big but I can't think of anything so....
Any new secrets in 1.4.5 that we don't know of? looks suspiciously over glasses
Oh! And also what was y'alls favourite thing in terraria?
do u have any controversial food takes?
chilli dogs or hot dogs?
funniest item in terraria?
what was the worst boss to code?
What is your favorite powerup in any game ever?
favorite pokemon?
1.4.5?
How hard was it to code the meowmare?
Red Baby or Green Baby?
Hi DR Studios Devs, Terraria Parkour guy here. Do you like platformers?
Do you eat rocks?
I don't have questions, I just wanted to say that the mobile port is awesome
Have any of y'all traveled? What's the coolest place you've been to?
best girl in terraria?
Are there any secrets in terraria the community has yet to discover?
light mode or dark mode?
Favorite Anime
Ask anything? like completely?
Prefered Ranger weapon, Guns / Bows / Explosives?
cats or dogs
What was the hardest thing to code?
best npc in terraria
When 3ds update
Do you all see yourself working on future versions of terraria or Terraria 2? Any of your own ideas or easter eggs youd want to work on in the future?
do you like golf?
all of you keep saying previous dev team, who were they and why/how did you take over development of terraria mobile?
oatmeal raisin cookies or white chocolate macadamia nut cookies? no other options
Can you nerf the Angler achievements?
Will the new whip dropped from moonlord have any special effects other than faster swing speed?
What pet peeves do you have with terraria that you want to fix
i dont smell, right?
what's your favorite color :)
best wii game?
What's your favourite part about working on the game? Also love your pfp zeno!
Will there be more town slimes?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Favorite class, and favorite weapon for that class
Favourite Dev set?
will lepus ever come back to the game?
What thing in terraria did you guys not want to add the most but still added
What was the biggest pain in the ass to code during the mobile 1.3 port
Favorite armour in terms of design?
inspiration to make the Terraria game?
please tell us why spider smells
If you don't have dev armor yet, what would you imagine it looking like?
What does the porting process for updates look like?
Please can you get the rights to put some great things of the 3DS or old console version on the pc version, like the bosses, there were so cool!
how many lines of code terraria has
When did you think the game was going to be over? As in, were there any moments where you thought you were gonna help make the last update for terraria?
Why make a new game when you could keep releasing banger updates?
Most hated enemy in terraria?
was there anything that when you saw it on pc/console, you were absolutely dreading coding into mobile?
what is your favorite fruit?
Here's one
Re-Logic develops Terraria, and DR Studio ports to Console. What exactly does DR Studios do for Terraria that Re-Logic doesn't? Like what does "porting" actually entail here?
What was the most chaotic moment you've have ever witnessed during development?
Are there any plans on improving mobile controls layout? I know some people are already used to the current re-sizing of buttons (via templates) but it would be really nice if people on mobile devices could freely resize their buttons with a slider or something like that
i second this
Also, thoughts on Ocram, and why was the boss removed?
Why?
Will the new update release for all platforms at the same day?
out of every console exclusive or mobile exclusive pet which one do you like the most?
How is your day? Also what is your favorite aspect of the game (npcs, items, bosses)?
Favourite dye?
what do you think is the most unbalanced item and how would you like to balance it
There are a lot of Terraria clients/mods for mobile that can be used in multiplayer crossplay servers. Is there a plan in place to ensure exploits aren't as prevalent in the future of mobile Terraria?
If you had any ideas for your own boss to be added to the game, what would you make?
What has been your favorite part of the game to work with?
What do you guys have to say for aspiring developers just starting their journey in making their first games?
what enemy do you hate the most?
if you could overhaul any boss entirely, what would it be?
If you could have infinite watermelons or infinite canteloupes which one would you choose?
the weirdest terraria idea that was considered?
How do you feel about people saying that mobile version of Terraria has the most awkward controls ever? Do you think they are right? :0
favourite terraria ost song ?
Is there a possibility that you guys might add a new boss or might Re-Add Ocram and is there a chance of a built in mod thingy for console being added
Can I have a tank?
If you had to rate the bosses on huggablity from 1-10 what would be your scores?
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What is your single favorite item in Terraria?
Can I also have a tank?
Favourite block?
Can I have a tank too?
what is your favourite shortsword
will there be a catperson transformation accesory?
Which NPC took the longest to make
What's your favourite song(s) in the OST?
When will I be able to stack barrels? 😎
what thread count are your bed sheets
Nah. I don’t thibk I’ll be asking a question.
Have a good day
I do
do you enjoy being a developer for this game?
What's your total playtime of all platforms combined?
if you had to make a DLC, and remove a boss from the current game to make it said DLC boss, which boss would you choose?
Will you guys ever add Any bosses or things to do Post ML?
How many hairs do you have on your head (joke question please answer jokingly)
Please add a new toilet in the game! 
what was the most fun time/thing you've had while developing the game?
what about a guide voodoo doll pet?
You spelt boulder wrong
counting rn
Will mods ever come to console/mobile like a built in mod engine
do you like potatoes
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on a scale of one to ten, how content are you with the game in it's current state?
What is your favourite ant species?
Will you ever add like a built in wiki to the game maybe to the guide npc or smn (kinda stupid question ik)
what is your favourite toilet
What’s your favorite mobile exclusive boss before it was removed?
no one wants terraria 2, keep updating terraria
Please give me a high-five!!!!
What’s your favorite animal in terraria
Favourite structure?
thank you for the game, sincerely <3
what is your opinion on the bouncy boulder?
Opinions on rolling cacti?
Thanks for the childhood memories :)
What is y'all's fav bosses
thoughts on this play guys (this is an ama so this counts as “anything” right….)
Round over!
Too many, I need a haircut badly
lots and RL keeps adding more 🙂
I really enjoy working on quality of life things! Anything which revamps the way people play always gets me excited
we didnt code the bosses, that work was all done by RL and we are just trying to get them all working as well as we can on the various platforms
dark mode
Nothing new that I can share at the moment, but SOTG is always a good source for spoilers!
I would say my favourite thing in Terraria is the Rune Wizard. I remember spending hours looking for him on mobile, only to realize he didn't exist yet in the 1.1 version. Now we have parity!
because he has a nose?
Raw garlic on everything savoury
I'm a sucker for mario's fire flower, first powerup I ever saw as a kid
I enjoy them, but I've never played many outside of what you'd expect - mario, donkey kong country returns, etc
i think it was Codeglue, Engine and Pipeworks. we picked up the mobile port back in 2018 and focused on reimagining the PC version from scratch. the project came to DR from our parent company 505 Games. once we launched the update and then added controller support we were then handed the console version to bring up to the latest version too
Corndog.
I think I watched death note once when I was a kid and enjoyed it, other than that I don't watch any
maybe 🙂
Dart rifle / pistol all the way - it's super good at the point you get it in the game, and it's what I use against fishron pre-mech
always UI for me. we have a flexible UI system much of which has made it into game settings. we would do daily playtests, suggest changes and iterate until it felt just right on as many device sizes as possible. we're still making changes today and i look forward to refining the touch and controller experience for years to come
Two words: journey mode
yes ☺️
Ludicolo for no particular reason
Traveling is great! I was recently in the US visiting my family last week, but i think my favourite place i've been was Amsterdam right before the Panini.
there have been various discussions about improvements to the touch controls, hopefully some of these will make it though into the 1.4.5 release
At the moment there's not much we can share on new weapons - any announcements surrounding these are likely to turn up in SOTGs
Super Paper Mario was lots of fun growing up
we have ideas and plans to improve for the future. as part of being compatible with PC we had to include all the same feature set available to mouse and keyboard input. we keep adding more customisation features to the settings and would like to take a fresh look at the default controls some time too
Love getting to work on quality of life / UI - the problem solving exercise of translating PC menus to mobile / console is always a fun one
What do you mean? Is it an African or European Swallow?
Probably Mage / Nebula Arcanum respectively. Lot of fun memories with that class
Same boat as Ocram - unlikely to unless it were to be added to PC as well
Loki's is probably my favourite because of the dye
Spectre 100%!
echo
In remix I find all the surface crimson / corruption enemies to be a nightmare
I really enjoyed getting to revamp the Xbox Achievement art, and doing the pixel art for the console exclusive achievements. Just to see little bits of art i make makes me really proud.
As sad as I'd be about it, dart rifle / pistol probably need nerfs :(
No more exclusives in the interest of crossplay - but back then, I always liked the old lady pet. One time it blew up and took out half my house, never figured out why
Not a concrete idea, but I always thought it would be cool if you stumbled across a room that had a boss already waiting inside
Infinite watermelons. They're so versatile
Know which feedback to take and how to action it - that balancing act can be very tricky, but other perspectives are always helpful. That and community building
Personally I have a lot of fun with customizing them, as there are a lot of option in that menu. That said, there are some ideas we have for improving the initial experience that might make their way into 1.4.5
we take the c# code from RL for the PC game and then make adjustments to it to run through an XNA emulation layer we have for Unity, making adjustments to make the fit in memory and run as well as we can on the various platforms. We also have to make adjustments to make the UI work for the various screen sizes and input methodologies
Probably either underground snow, surface hallow, nighttime space, or the alt title screen music
Absolutely - it's been a lot of fun being able to improve upon the game over time
Probably 10k at this point - hard to count. My PC hours are at around 2,000 alone
Anything but carpenter ants because they got into one of my university flats. Thankfully I'm out of that place now
The best thing to do is just make things! they don't have to be good, having a bunch of little experiments on Itch.io is a great way to start, and dont be precious about it. And do jams if you can! literally just make the thing 
Ocram was always fun to fight, but at the same time I understand why they were removed - don't really fit into the game as well anymore
Probably orcas now that they're in 😛
I can understand why some people would say so, trying to get the right balance between being able to perform all the PC interactions on a small touchscreen device is hard. Hopefully we can improve the options people have to customise and simplify their input controls in the not so distant future.
Duke Fishron and Empress by a long shot, due to how pattern-oriented they are
watermelons!
probably bloodbath dye - I only use it on one single accessory slot, but it looks really neat in small quantities
I think for me it's probably the exploration. Terraria has a very unique way of showing itself to the player if you set arbitrary goals (go to the end of the world, bottom of the world, etc.), and it makes that sense of discovery all the more powerful when you stumble across something huge. Coming across things like the shimmer, hallow and the like for the first time is never something you'll get to re-experience
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Has the team realized that the settings menu are too complex for kids
If you could equip any terraria accessory in real life--besides wings and hooks-- which would it be and why?
Is there a chance of mods coming to console
opinion on the dragon quest franchise
Favourite and Least Favourite part of a terraria playthrough?
Roboarms: is there anything you think needs a new pixel sprite? Why?
whats your fav cat breed?
Three sets of coordinates for x=5+y
opinion on corruption spread?
What types of bosses do you think might come to the game like any dragon type bosses like Betsy or maybe a massive flying squid/kraken
Why is the fps halved in iphones? (for terraria)
Favorite Weather?
Is there any chance of DR Studios porting the iPad/iOS Terraria app to the macOS App Store because of how unoptimized Steam's version of Terraria is on macOS?
How’d you discover Terraria? What made you pick up the game for the first time?
whats ur fav season and why
First Video Game Console?
if you ever had to live a year again you liked the most, what year would be it and why?
favoruite Summoner Summon?
Any chances of a post moon lord boss or any post moon lord progression being added to the game?
are there any refrences to games/media you would want in the game and why
Old furnace texture or new? round furnace ftw
Best classless weapon
whats ur fav video game besides terraria
Would you rather have unlimited bacon, or games, UNLIMITED games
Halfway through current round!
can i have a cookie
FUCK i was about to ask this
is mayonnaise an instrument?
What was the most hardest boss you've ever fought personally?
will terraria ever stop updating?
If you were given the chance to add any new item to Terraria, what would it be?
Bacon or Ham
if you could add some kind of reference to you in the game what would it be?
What mount is the best going off of aesthetics? I like the reindeer bells mount
What do you like to do the most outside of your job?
we've heard of terraria 2, what about terraria 3?
When will the final final final final final final final final final update release? (Probs never lol)
Favourite controller ever?
if you have played a challenge in vanilla before, what was the most fun but stressing one youve done? 
Terra blade 2.0 or solar eruption?
What language do personally find funny?
favourite quality of life feature?
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which class is the best in ur opinion
Is solar eruption more like a whip or a melee weapon
Have you guys turned any bugs into features or something of the like? Any other weird specific bug moments?
Fav pizza topping?
Any chances of a new item with super long crafting tree being added?
going off the bacon question:
would u rather have unlimited bacon but no games, or games, UNLIMITED games, but no games?
Round over!
Cross necklace, because then I could lightly scratch my arm to survive skydiving without a parachute
My favourite part is probably the start of hardmode. Least favourite would probably be plantera onwards, since it feels a bit too boss-rushy. That said, I still have a lot of fun throughout!
This is the first time we've heard about an fps issue on iOS, we'd need a bunch more details, would you be able to raise a ticket on the Terraria Forums? What does your settings say your fps is set to, what iphone do you have and what ios version, that sort of thing. we'd love to get this fixed for you!
Himalayans, first cat I ever owned
I wish it didn't spread into my pylons, but other than that I think it's a fun challenge once you get access to clentaminator
I'd probably like to fix some of the icons i made at the start of the project! i'm not a pro pixeler so i leave it to the RL professionals for the real game content =^)
Thunderstorm because of the music that plays
there is a possibility of some form of modding to appear at some point further down the line.
Gardening! I am trying to revamp my garden and grow some veg, and at some point i'd like to get a couple runner ducks 🦆
When I was 12, my best friend at the time kept telling me to get into this cool phone game called Terraria, and I mostly looked the other way. What finally made me try it out was when he showed me the flamelash and said "Look, you can control fireballs in this game!". Rest is history
Been getting into running quite a bit lately, trying to improve on my 5K time (~27mins). I'm also a bit like Roboarms in that I've been trying to get into gardening - bought some ghost pepper seeds and am hoping to turn them into hot sauce!
My touch controls should not exist but they do and I'm thankful for it
Nintendo DS back when I was 6
Probably desert tiger staff. If you combine it with firecracker you can get 1000+ damage per hit, so if I ever get a desert key I usually run summoner after plantera
They are very complex, but we feel that having more options is better than fewer. its not off the table in quality of life updates to continue to make improvements so the game easier to navigate and understand the options.
Depends on the place, but I find usually italian sausage (as long as it's on there with other meats like pepperoni)
why not Terraria 5?
My legendary zenith playthrough was probably the most challenging one I've done, but I had a lot of fun with it regardless
I'd say ranger probably remains the most useful throughout the majority of the game, but post-ML melee takes the crown
Talk to Relogic! if they make it, we implement it 
Before the final final final final final final final final update
Anything is an instrument with the right amount of grit
I've always had a soft spot for turkish van cats, but my cats are rescues.
Brain of cthulhu in legendary FTW before it got nerfed. I spent over 3 days trying to kill that thing and kept getting telefragged
Torn between winter and summer. Summer would be my favourite if it weren't for the wasps, winter would be my favourite if it weren't for the car window scraping
Probably bacon, because back bacon is basically ham
Probably the first year of my baby's life because i honestly dont remember it and i'd like to see it again. Sleep deprovision though, not so much
I've always thought something with monster hunter would be really cool
TTYD is a lot of fun - looking forward to the remake coming out in... I guess 6 hours?
Back before I was on the team, I remember really wishing that I had access to more controls customization. Eventually they released an update which implemented this, and it's remained one of my favourite accessibility features ever since. We've even expanded on it since then, allowing for placing buttons in more places, as well as granting the user more UI scale options for fitting more in.
Pineapple
Artichoke
Things like hoiking have turned into features on PC, but there's not much to speak of on the mobile-exclusive front.
As far as weird moments go, I remember when I first got hired that there was a crash occuring when entering graveyards. Initially had no clue why, but I eventually put the pieces together when I downgraded and realized that instant-crash worlds had graveyard spawns - was fixed shortly after
For those of us in the audience not in the know, what’s a TTYD
Thousand year door, paper mario game
That's all folks! We're done for today, thanks everyone for coming in, and thanks to DR Studios for taking the time to be with us!
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Thanks again to everyone for coming! Here is the AMA document with every Q&A from today! 
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5/1/2019,TerrariaHelp,
Good morning Terrarians!
Today we are joined by @shrewd dagger and @worldly yacht of Paper Fort Games, the team behind the upcoming Terraria Board Game!
We're sure you must have loads of questions for them, however to start us off, we're going to have them introduce themselves and give us a few words before we jump straight in. Let's get to it, shall we?
Hello! I'm Chris, lead developer at Paper Fort; I co-designed the game and run the Kickstarter page 🙂 Looking forward to hearing your questions!
Hi folks! I'm James, co-designer with Chris, can't wait to get to answering
All right! Before we begin in earnest, be sure that any questions abide by our server's #rules and to be appreciative and considerate of their time, they may not get around to every question every round, but be patient and wait for your answer to come when it may. With that being said, let's begin!
which boss is the most unbalanced, and in what way would you like to balance it
Can you describe the main objectives or win conditions of the board game?
will you ever be expanding to more bosses?
How does the board game even work?
Will the tabletop game have any impact on the digital game's lore?
how do you go about making a board game in the first place? as in, what is the process you have to go through to do such a thing (assuming you already have the funds to do so)
Will there ever be a Hardmode DLC?
Can you give us an overview of the different types of player actions or turns?
whats the main goal of board game, win agaist friend, or just like in game, farm enough to slay moon lord?
Are you planning to attend other board game conventions within europe, perhaps one of the big ones like the SPIEL?
will the board game be available in stores or only online?
where does the name "paper fort games" come from?
How long does an average game session last?
At what percentage do you think the board game progress is currently at?
Would you consider making a potential way to play against your friends in the game? Perhaps as a race to complete the objectives?
Will there be bunnies to kill?
about how many players are recommended to play this game?
where can buy?
is collecting items/crafting part of the gameplay loop?
How does the game handle resource management and crafting?
Hi Chris and James! I love how the game is looking, you guys have done a great job! Just curious, I know you guys are making the coin dial system but will there be platinum coins similar to the physical gold temp coins you were using in the gameplay video? In case you reach the max amount of gold coins, or do you think that maxing out the gold will not happen? Thank you all so much and keep up the great work!
Can you craft toilets?
Are there any plans for a digital version of the board game in the future?
Does the board game have any story for the players to follow?
what is your favorite terraria monster
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Would there be a version of the game pushed to Tabletop Sim, or an offical online version?
Hi, it Will be available on tabletop simulator?
What feedback have you received from playtesters so far?
What was it like working with the Terraria Devs to come up with the concept for the board game?
Are you going to have pictures of the storage system down the road (after the kickstarter concluded) so we could perhaps have an idea how everything will be stored? The amount of game material is quite a lot and I am quite worried about how I can store everything properly 😅
Would potential future content be added as an expansion, or as a separate release?
Is there any hardmode stuff
If there is one thing you would want you add what would it be?
How does the board game capture the exploration and adventure elements of Terraria?
is the gameplay of the board game actually related to terraria or is it just terraria themed?
main question, how do you even play this board game? I think many peoples want to know
how big is the board game going to be? (physical size)
What are some general things not asked here yet that u would like to address?
are there upcoming plans for DLC? or will that happen once more people have shown interest
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Will there be expansion packs?
What has been the most exciting part of developing the Terraria board game?
What is your favourite board game that you keep on returning to?
How long will a game typically take
is it a roleplaying game?
Is it like a monopoly style game or would i be something completely different?
Can people make add-ons and like have a collaboration (like a calamity addon to the game)
are there murderable bunnies
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Alright, now James and Chris will take their time answering questions and we will be right back after theyre done!
There are 4 chains of 10 objectives objectives (dig/ fight /explore /build) that get progressively harder; at the start of the game you choose how many chains to attempt within 7 days/ nights and before you run out of respawns (tombstone tokens). Players will recognise lots of the objectives from videogame achievements but we've thrown a few of our own in there too 🙂
We currently have King Slime, Queen Bee, EoC, BoC, EoW and WoF; in future we'd love to add Skeletron + hardmode boss content 🙂
That's a big question to answer here; you can check out the KS page for a rundown though 🙂
We've made The Wall Of Flesh the end-game boss in Terraria: The Board Game, they will quite literally devour your world if you don't slay them in time. With starting or midgame equipment you will be wiped! The balance in the board game comes from having to explore your world, crafting and finding amazing gear to get ready for the fight! In the videogame, we feel like a lot of the OP bosses are post hardmode- so we're fairly blessed at the moment at not needing to dev them!
It shouldn't! We've tried to keep it true to the videogame lore 🙂
We'd love to do Hardmode content in the future (but we had to draw the line somehere for this game and WoF felt like a natural breakpoint!)
Sure! Players will use some simple deckbuilding to generate a hand of action points. As Terraria is sandbox, we really wanted to make game that doesn't dictate what you should do with your cards, so you can use the AP generated to move around the world of biome tiles, or convert AP to dig/ chop / attack using your equipment (which can all be upgraded)
I always start with "feel", I start with anything from "the feeling of baking the perfect pie" to "the feeling of exploring a world" and try to map mechanics over that feeling that maintain the mystery, the excitement and a sense of timing that match that feeling. So exploration wants to feel like 1) you can find the unexpected 2) it's fun to discover new things 3) it wants to be as easy as walking off the screen. With Terraria: The Board Game, we knew we wanted to create your world on the tabletop using a simple, bouncy mechanic- so having well sorted but hidden Biome Tiles was going to be the key. Over the course of the game you will see over 60 of these tiles- but their placement is snappy and simple and keeps exploration fresh.
Yes, we'll be at SPIEL this year, and other conventions in the US over the next year too 🙂
We liked the idea of a fort feeling welcoming and safe, but the fact it's made of paper seemed a little silly, which we enjoyed (and it's appropriate for board games which are mainly paper!)
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There is a retail edition, it cuts NO main gameplay content but is being manufactured at a more economy friendly level and cuts things like the Boss Miniatures (replaced with card). It'll be out AFTER the KS editions have shipped in all main territories via local stores, online retail and via our website.
We don't have plans for PVP at this point, but perhaps something for down the line!
No bunnies to kill, but loads critters will be featured on the biome tiles as easter eggs/ background interest
Terraria: The Board Game plays at 1 to 4 players. It will play well at any of these player counts but the experience may feel slightly different. I'm going to abstract it that Solo (1 player) will feel like a very intimate personal experience, as you explore a vast world alone, but 4 players is going to feel frantic and fun as you rapidly dig and fight and build across a shared world
Absolutely! You will chop trees, mine ores and using crafting stations to progress down a simplified "tech tree" of equipment alongside delving underground for chests with awesome biome-specific loot to find
Thanks Luke! We're sticking with dials for now (having a max number of coins you can hold actually helps incentivise players to spend and buy fun cards)
Once you've collected a resource, it's kept on your player board until spent. Crafted items use these resources and you will take the relevant equipment card and remove the resources from your board.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperfortgames/terraria-the-board-game
Link to the Kickstarter!
No toilets right now! But they are clearly popular in the AMA so I've made a note 😛
No; we want you to be able to craft your own stories and memorable moments as you play
Lot's of people have asked about Tabletop Simulator, at the moment we don't have any plans for it- but as board game software gets better it might be something we go to Re-Logic and look to explore
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Enemy-wise for me it's gotta be Orca ! If we're talking bosses, WoF gets my vote just because of that name. Never thought I'd be saying Wall of Flesh so many times to strangers at conventions...
The most exciting thing we keep hearing is 'this feels like Terraria'; for me that's the highest compliment we could receive. Playtesters seem to really like the choice the game gives (i.e. you can approach objectives how you like) and the ability to plan (and fail) together too
Honestly we could not have asked for a more supportive team, Re-Logic have been fantastic- direct with what they want to see, what we should change etc. Although the Re-Logic team's success is absolutely vast with Terraria, they've given us so much care and attention, we haven't felt like the little guys once- and that's a testament to how much care they have for the IP and how they are as people beyond "the work"
Yes! They're being made by GameTrayz so we have no doubt they'll be great, and we're hoping to show some of them before the campaign ends (fingers crossed!)
Not in this game (WoF is the endpoint), but we have plans for future!
Fishing? 🎣
We would be looking to build on the current board game system with expansions that add in Hardmode content. It's hard to say exactly how the followup product would look- but you will absolutely be able to use the core system from this release
We were very keen to make a Terraria Board Game, not just a game with a Terraria theme, so the gameplay is absolutely Terraria-related!
the world is of a fixed size, 5 "core" biomes across (each with 3 Biome tiles) and 5 Biome Tiles deep. This is roughly 107cm and 70cm deep with your player boards and the world "hud" too
Defeating Wall Of Flesh! Or completing the Objective Chains (Dig, Fight, Explore, Build themed objectives going from easy to hard to achieve)
For me, it's Quacks of Quedlinburg; it's so easy to pick up and for people who don't play many board games it really shows what they can do that is unexpected! Check it out 🙂
I would recommend Skyteam at the moment for anyone who wants to play a 2 player game, my partner and I can't stop playing it (you land a plane cooperatively without being able to talk about the strat!)
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Not at all like Monopoly (the only similarities are some dice rolling and it has cards!)
What's your favorite mechanic that you've put into the board game?
Have you guys played terraria before?
Can we get add-ons and collaborations with mods like calamity, thorium, ect
Why did you choose the artstyle the way you did? Did you consider using the pixelated art of the videogame?
What is the most enjoyable aspect of the terraria board game for you?
Do you guys plan on making some more gameplay videos in the future? I'd love to see you all fight the Eye of Cthulhu
Will we get to see the rulebook before the kickstarter ends? 🙂
will this board game include bonus items such as weapons, armor or mobs, or even bars and ores? Besides ones that in game currently. And also how even you got the idea of collaborating with Terraria, did you just liked the game from 1st look, or any others ways that made you have a mind and a motivation to collaborate with Terraria Dev team
Do you have anything new to terraria
If any, how many hours do you have in Terraria?
How difficult is the game
Halfway through current round!
Will there be different ways to generate the world? For example there's a secret seed called "Don't dig up" that changes alot of things about world gen with the biggest one being you spawn in the underworld and that the surface is completely corrupted among other things.
How complex are the rules and mechanics for new players to learn
Is the game fully finished or are there still some things to be worked on
When is the next update?
What do think hard mode will be like
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How long does the game take to set up before playing
How much fun was it to work on the project so far?
favourite snack?
Will the success delay the release date a lot?
As end, have a nice day and amotivation, BYE 🙂
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I'm short of money now, can I back $1 and months later change to a hell version?
Will there be any DLC related to increasing the total number of different tiles? I mean tiles of different biomes (for Desert, Corruption, Distortion, Jungle these are additional tiles on the first layer - surface, - + tiles for the third and fourth layers), and for Hell, respectively.
With the current number of tiles, the game looks great and varied, but since when the world is fully revealed you use all 86 tiles, it turns out that in future sessions you will already know how many resources are in each biome. And increasing the number would help diversify the game even more)
And thank you for your hard work, Chris and James!
Round over!
One of the most fun things (and something that players seem to really enjoy) are the transparent armor set cards that get placed over your character card once crafted. These provide permanent buffs that bolster you attacks, give you extra action points to spend without relying on your deck, etc) Plus it's just fun to dress your character up!
If Re-Logic and the mod teams will allow it, we'd love to explore mod crossovers in the future!
Yes! Part of the process with Re-Logic was demonstrating we were real fans of the game and had a good track record playing the game. 'Some' videogame board game adaptions are made as a product, by designers with only a passing interest in the IP, this is something Re-Logic really wanted to avoid. I probably have twice the hours of Chris in the actual game, and Chris has now got so many hours in the Wiki it has its own playtime
As we were moving into the analog world, we wanted to reflect that in the artstyle too. It also gave us a great opportunity to re-imagine weapons, items, armor sets etc in the new art style; here are some examples!
For me it's definitely seeing a more explored world- there are so many combinations of how the world can come out- then you add tunnels and bases and blowing things up with bombs and suddenly your world isn't just a playing space, it's a visible story
We'd love to do some videos focusing on different bosses!
Hi Mpcs, the rulebook is currently on the page- and it will be updated again this week based on feedback from backers
There won't be any content that aren't in the videogame, but we've made sure to include a ton of Re-Logic and fan favourite weapons and equipment.
It takes some time to learn, but you can learn as you play, and once you know how to, the things you're doing each round are pretty simple! It's all about what you want to do at that point
We've always loved the Re-Logic team's ethos and after a personal brainstorming session of favourite video game designs I figured that I had the shell of a design the team might appreciate. I took it to Loki and after some feedback, we were trusted with bringing this project to life
So, each time you play the world will be different; there are no 'seeds' but the way world gen works, there's a lot of variability. Making a system for a 'procedurally generated' world in cardboard was a huge challenge; creating a 'Dont Dig Up' world might just break me!
There's still some development work to be done around boss battles, a couple of the end-game objectives and final balancing of some cards, but this will be our immediate focus straight after the campaign, both in house and with our external playtesting team
Hi Seri, between Terraria, Dawn Of War and Rome Total War I totally demolished my chances at getting a first whilst at uni (kinda weird that now I'm working in board games after being told that gaming wasn't the best use of time)- so many many hours. Chris was a fan too - and has a fantastic eye for detail - so it made sense for us to work on this game together
For the videogame or the boardgame? 😆
We're aiming for 10 minutes setup, you start with a lovely little world and go from there with a basic set of Copper gear and starting action cards
We've got some early ideas of how we would tackle Hardmode; especially the spread of Corruption and Crimson, and we've left design space in the battle system and crafting system so you'll feel the same transition from powerful to weak again, needing to build up your character in hardmode.
It's been a dream- see above, but Re-Logic have been a super team, both supportive and passionate, and I think after playing a game for so long in my teens / 20s, it's been super uncanny working on the board game
Monster lasagna, irl too
IRL; chocolate caramel hobnob, in-game; marshmallow on a stick!
Absolutely! (but not months later; 6 -8 weeks) You can join us at the £1 level and then upgrade your pledge later 🙂
That's a great question- I think if we hadn't been so careful with limiting the Kickstarter to pre-hardmode I would have said yes- but as so much of the game's core is already developed, we think June 2025 is really achievable. Manufacturing is amazing, whether you're printing 2000 copies or 20,000, these giant factories don't slow down. The main thing with manufacturers is that we nail the production quality, and we won't go to production until we are happy and Re-Logic are happy.
Future games will for sure (e.g. Hardmode); technically you could memorise what's on all 86 tiles, but chesty loot and enemy spawning is variable, so you'll never be quite able to predict what's going to happen! Appreciate the kind words!
We'd like to thank you guys for coming out and joining us and for asking such lovely questions! As we begin to wind down and bring this ama to a close, we'd like to give @shrewd dagger and @worldly yacht a moment for any closing messages while we get the ama doc finalized for you all! 
Thanks Antheria and the rest of the Terraria Mod Team for hosting and making this AMA possible! It's been a pleasure. Thank you Terrarians for your questions!
Thanks so much for all coming out and asking great questions. Thanks to the mod team too! It's an honor to have the chance to bring this game to the tabletop and we really appreciate you getting involved 🙂 You can find more about the game on the KS page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperfortgames/terraria-the-board-game Cheers!
The AMA document is complete! https://docs.google.com/document/d/107pIyoekqEnHWiURWYVnE1p52rQ-Td2EzGiE6wyHf-8/edit?usp=sharing
You can find the documents for previous AMAs in the spreadsheet in our pinned messages 
Thank you all for joining us today and we hope to see you all again! 
Round 1 Chris (@paperfortchris)Q: Can you describe the main objectives or win conditions of the board game?A: There are 4 chains of 10 objectives (dig/ fight /explore /build) that get progressively harder; at the start of the game you choose how many chains to attempt within 7 days/ nights and...
Greetings Terrarians!
Today we have the pleasure to be joined by some of the members of the amazing Starlight River Mod Dev team! 
We'll shortly start with the questions, but first we're going to give them a moment to introduce themselves and give us a few words if they'd like to! 
Hey everyone, I'm ScalarVector, I'm the one of the main programmers on Starlight River! I've been with the project since it's started about 5 years ago and I'll hopefully be able to answer some of the more technical questions about the mod, or anything else really!
HI I'M LUNATIX!! (@lunagotmadtix) , I've been mainly an animator for the SLR project, but I have done plenty of spriting, concept art, and came up with concepts like how enemies in the Glassweaver Gauntlet use combo moves! I'm super excited to answer questions today!!! 😈
hi all, i'm Mina! i lead SLR alongside Scalar and Sabi, covering some of the less technical side of things like game design, sound design, project management, community stuff, etc :D!! hopefully I can answer some of more design/community-oriented questions today. excited to get things started!
Hellloooo every1 I'm IbanPlay, I just mostly do concept art for SLR uhh I was the one who designed the magmite so I'm really the mastermind behind the mod's appeal if you think about it
hi im mr SkippZz! 😊 😇 I'm a programmer for hit mod Starlight River ™️ I mainly code weapons and enemies, notable entries include the Angry Crescent NPC, along with weapons such as Radcula's Rapier, Impact SMG, Echochain Whip, Haunted Dagger and more (wip stuff too :3) !! super excited for this AMA :DD 😍
Hi everyone, I'm TripleFate, I'm one of the programmers on Starlight River. I've worked mostly on multiplayer features and shader VFX
hi hello! im Sabi (@Aluminium4foil), the lead artist of the mod, ive done a ton of the item and general sprites you see in the mod, cant wait to start answering questions!!
hi char I'm cynik, I'm an artist for the mod
. I've done some items/mount/block sprites 🧠
Hi im Andy, one of the programmers little known mod starlight river! Ive worked on various things like the several of the starwood items, the watering can, crops and some other stuff like vfx and shaders.
So many talented people 
I'll be opening the channel shortly, get your questions ready!!
will there be post moonlord content?
you play deepwoken?
what would be the first step in learning to make terraria mods? i want to learn coding and feel like making mods would help a lot i just don't know where to start
grubby
, sluggy
, or buggy
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i've personally never played starlight river (i like to wait for finished products), but i've been wondering for everyone here in the dev team... what continued to drive you on working to make such an awesome looking mod
Whats been your favorite part of working on the mod so far? Thanks for what you've all done as well!!
Whats your opinion on the Earthbound/MOTHER Series?
how long have yall been working on the mod for?
What previous mods have you worked on before starlight?
May I please see the Thinker sprite? >:)
do you like pizza?
how did you guys get into coding for terraria mods? Any other mods you've worked on?
around how much expected bosses will there be in the entire mod (if you know) / will there be post moonlord content
its going to be a new class?
favorite Xenith sword
whats your favorite thing you have worked on in the mod?
favorite weapon in the modpack?
I remember you guys really wanted calamity compat, is that still the case?
Faeflame as an ability in TTRPGs would appear as a burst of fire that causes anything it reaches to become illuminated. Of this original inspiration, I wonder how the Starlight ability of the same name might differ?
What do you plan to do about the constant threat of the BTFA cluster?
Are you planning on remastering most/all vanilla bosses in Terraria?
What is the road map for this mod :3
Favorite boss you guys are working on?
Any other games that give you inspiration for the work you do for the mod?
On that note, if it is a complete detachment from the original source, would there potentially be anything similar in concept in the mod's future?
is there any estimate release dates right now?
Do you plan on adding a reference to the MOTHER Series at some point?
At what point do you plan to take a look at some of the more cheesier weapons (druidic manabond + mana potions + starwood scepter) to not only nerf, but also reward players for using the cheese method
Why in some mods (probably in this one too) the character have a holding animation for some items when the hand is freely rotates instead of using the pre-existing animation frames for the hand?
What would you say is your original form of inspiration for making the mod in the first place?
what is an addition that went through the most design/gameplay changes?
was there an idea to make a starbound reference anywhere in the mod?
will there be a sort of separate difficulty system like in calamity, or will you stick to normal terraria difficulties (and if there is a separate system will there be major ai changes depending on the difficulties)
Thoughts on this mod’s Multiplayer compatibility?
I know how to code in several languages though I mostly use C and C++, and I want to help with perhaps bugfixes if I can on the mod, but I don't know how terraria mods are structured, is there some documentation for the mod's code somewhere? I'll need to learn a bit about terraria modding but I'm sure I could help in time
(I did use c# for some unity projects and aspx though so I'm not new to it)
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Do you plan on adding new classes in the near/ far future
What is something that a fan requested and actually got put into the mod?
how did you come up with the name? (mod name that is)
what was the hardest roadblock yall faced? and how did you manage to defeat it
favorite terraria bow for each person
Might I suggest Stellaris as a source of inspiration for something in the future of the mod? Perhaps related to the precursors of the game? :o
favorite game?
favorite light pet / pet / summon for each person (armors count)
least favorite NPC (Besides the trash child)
as a lead programmer did you expect such success or popularity for this mod? did you try and strive for this mod or to make it this level of popular/successful?
this
What other terraria mods inspired you to create starlight river?
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Are there any plans to release all the music?
fargo's or alchnpclite?
final question, have you thought about ever giving up?
What was your favorite weapon to animate?
what are your favorite mods of all time
What was the most unexpected challenge
What is your favourite monster energy drink flavour
Is there a specific final goal for you guys in regards to the mod?
Is it true skippz is a spy for the btfa cluster?
favorite accessory?
They have an official YT channel with the music
what is your favorite thing of Starlight River?
do you like golf
hardest part about developing the mod?
Round over!
I binged Wii golf
Thanks everyone! The dev team will now go through and answer your wonderful questions!
Definately a good place to start, personally for me I've found having a project to work on has been hugely helpful in learning, but its a good idea to go into it with managed expectations. I've worked on like 3 or 4 mods
that noone has ever seen or heard of before this!
This was a feature that was added in 1.4, alot of the stuff like petting the town pets in vanilla use this!
i just joined the tModLoader discord server and kinda went from there, theres a lot of resources to learn both modding and C# (please learn C# before triyng to mod :DDDD), the community can be really helpful just don't get discouraged it can be overwhelming in the beginning
we currently dont have any tracked multiplayer bugs, so it should be pretty good! if you find any, make sure to submit them to our issue tracker and we'll address them asap
We dont have any plans for this, but we do plan on continuing our trend of making master mode AI for our bosses thats comically difficult :P
Probably the visual effects of some of the biomes like the moonstone area, or the auroracle arena background. I also really like the vitric desert as a whole, and the food making system.
the dev environment is really cool and makes it pretty fun to work on the mod overall, plus generally being able to contribute to such a cool project helps with motivation
The project is open source! Feel free to open a pull request on our github repo: https://github.com/ProjectStarlight/StarlightRiver
the white one and Pacific punch
fargo
it's unlikely, but nothing's fully off the table. if we had to, we'd probably try to instead change things in vanilla's own classes, as they basically already cover almost every gameplay niche
I'm a big fan of the challenge shrines. I think they're a really cool thing to run into while exploring and getting loot
The first thing i did when joining the team was complain that Ceiros's design was bad and then doing better art for it. The final design comes from Nomis but the original concept art served as a base for it and it was a great change from the original nondescript sandball it was before. Big win for designheads
100% not. The mod was originally started as a joke about 5 years ago, believe it or not, in the terraria pixel art server. Over time it just kind of slowly grew and became something we put alot of work into. The scope and ideas have changed dramatically since then as well, we have a cutting room floor that would probably terrify alot of people to see
just over 2 years, I first contributed to the project on July 14th, 2022
definitely the big redesign spree that went into making the assets look more in-style with vanilla!
Q: how long have yall been working on the mod for?
A: around 4 years now!
Q:grubby :Grubby: , sluggy :Sluggy:, or buggy :Buggy: ?
A: :Grubby:
Q: Whats been your favorite part of working on the mod so far? Thanks for what you've all done as well!!
A: Animating the enemies for the Glassweaver Gauntlet! It took around 6 months, designing many of the combo moves and working closely with former-programmer Graydee was such an awesome experience. Credit to @Sabi for desigining the enemies! i loved bringing them to life 😈
Q: do you like pizza?
A: YES
Q: how did you guys get into coding for terraria mods? Any other mods you've worked on?
A: not a coder! I have worked for around eight mods on and off, off the top of my head they are: Fargo's Souls, Gameterraria, Secrets of the Shadows, Shadows of Abaddon, Endless Escapade, Dayrise, Spirit Mod, and Split!
Q: favorite terraria bow for each person
A: i think phantasm, the ghost arrows are really cool!!
Q: What was your favorite weapon to animate?
A: Funnily enough i haven't really animated many weapons! I think one of my favorite things ive animated in the mod was definitely the Fogbinder
Q: what are your favorite mods of all time
A: Split is def up there, huge respect for adding unique content all thru the game's progression!
Ceiros, the Vitric Desert boss, has been redone like four times. its prior iterations are immortalized in some cool statues in the temple :)
grubby but in my heart i would pick glubby 
at one point we attempted to add a feature that would zoom out the camera to <100%. We got this working in 1.3 after a long time and alot of hacky implementation, but never bothered porting it forward to 1.4 since it was just so unstable and so many changes to the lighting system had been made (Yes, this involved many nasty changes to lighting :P)
ultrakill :)
for around 4-5 years
tied between Broken Glasses and Corpseflower
Working with tiles, especially a brain themed one. It made me a lot more comfortable creating tiles and there's quite a bit of freedom with how 'freeform' tiles can be
grubby 100%
It's really hard to choose just one! Of the ones I've made, the Echochain Whip has to be up there. Pyroclastic Flow is a weapon I didn't make but its super duper awesome!
Screenspace background reflections for the vitric crystals. I think it came out cooler than expected
I don't code for slr but I used to do so code for calamity (alongside art), and really getting into it was as simple as having some light programming experience (wasn't in c# tho, but it helped get the programming logic mindset down), and then looking at different open source mods to understand the way terraria modding works. Having references like that is really helpful for beginners (though of course don't go around just copypasting entire chunks of someone else's code, you won't learn much from that)
we kinda just wanted to make a cool mod! never expected it to be where its at right now, thats for sure. it actually started off as a community project in a pixel art server, where anyone could contribute to the mod. eventually that got pretty disorganized so we restructured things a bit!
gunstrap boots are awesome
𝓳𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓻 (jetwelder)
Probably ceiros, he had atleast 2 fully implemented fights that got scrapped, 3 visual designs that were scrapped, along with having to evlove with changes to the area and biome in general.
probably VFX stuff, very rewarding to make something that looks cool, the glow on moonstone tiles comes to mind. Tiles in general are also fun to work on. Shaders can be quite difficult but are also very satisfying once you finally get them working.
the existing sprites are fine but can be limiting for certain weapon animations :) fun fact its also utilized in vanilla for some items, Stellar Tune is one of those IIRC.
im a big fan of the brain of cthulhu rework ::)
There are no plans for new classes at the moment, we plan on expanding the 4 vanilla classes as they are an umbrella that fits most needs for us :)
probably not, but we will probably change at least a few bosses for the sake of fitting in with SLR more. at the same time we also want to design our future bosses to fit in better with terraria itself, so its a bit of a balancing act :)
Marrow!
the monkeys paw curls ..
NO I HAVE NOTTT !
Probably Cerios, went through many complete redesigns. on the other hand auroracle is still very similar to it's initial version.
Split Mod!
the boc rework is pretty cool, in terms of already existing bosses my favorite is auroracle
sound design has been super fun, so has designing bosses
I think Ceiros was mentioned? He did have a ton of iterations before the current version. There's actually little relics in the Vitric Temple showing off his different forms. BOC rework also is going pretty wild with concepts
grubby
In general we try to whittle away at stuff like balance in hotfixes, our general philosophy is that we try to avoid blatantly overpowered items or 2-item combinations but if players are making elaborate setups and builds we want to encourage that kind of thing
Master Mode has AI specific changes for all of our bosses. Master Mode Ceiros is pain incarnate.
i'd have to say Zenith probably but its a tough call
I started working on SLR late 2021
almost 5 years soon
BROKEN GLASSESSS are sooooo cooooooollllll :DDD no bias here. Gunstrap boots are also dope
i want those combinations! it's not cheese, its just buildcrafting. its a tough challenge to make things useful on their own while still being meaningfully powerful with multi-accessory combinations, but thats a big part of the mods design philosophy
squid fins
NEVER!!! until now.
NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT?
The horsemans blade, was my favorite sword in 1.3
coming up with fun ideas and spriting them its always the best part of it
The moonstone armor's set bonus was a pretty fun one, and one of the mechanics we're working on for the next update has been really neat in terms of visual effects
no because i dont lose
I could see this happening with this one future thing 
besides Starlight River I haven't personally worked on any other mod teams or bigger mods :)
none go drink water
The manabond line is probably my favorite, if I had to pick out one it would be the shocking manabond
Kaleidocrown :)
and also causal mirror or maybe charons obol
gives me heartburn 😭
before I had 3 or 4 projects that never really saw the light of day, and during the process I've put alot of work into StructureHelper which has been instrumental to SLR, and DragonLens which has been a huge help for pretty much all of our developers and alot of others
ULTRA ROSA
ore seeds for 1.3, and one other random content mod that was my first ever mod.
Not really anything specific, we've wanted to build pretty bottom up from the start to prevent creating an inflexible and difficult scope to attack. We really dont actually have many concrete plans beyond pre-hardmode, just a couple of ideas we've thrown around in passing
split mod its pretty awesome
i dont know if the mod really has a 'final' state per say--we just wanna make a cool thing that pays respect to a game we like a lot
Did sprites for Endless Escapade a while back, and I got into Terraria spiriting because I wanted to make Calamity™️ Mod™️ sprites
Calamity but Overhaul has a special place in my heart 🫡
Cower
Cower
🤜 🙂 💥 🤪
For a while after the mod was created it was just called "TPA-Mod" since it started in the terraria pixel art server, at one point we threw it out to everyone working on it at the time for names and voted, nothing really more to it. (Naming the mod resource starlight was actually a decision that occured about a week before release, it was just called stamina and was orange untill then!)
it was 1 or 2 votes away from being called the gaslight mod, I kid you not
we could have had peak :(
There was a little bit of trolling
magic lantern from skeleton merchant, propeller gato from dd2 event, deadly sphere from eclipse event.
alchnpclite.
suspicious looking tentacle / the amber dinosaur one / desert tiger ! was so hype to see desert chest
The biomes and ambience tbh, makes the world more believable and alive. ALSO @whole cobalt asked about a Starbound reference, there are ideas to expand upon caves and their ambience, and it's inspired by Starbound
crimson heart.. / squashling / sanguine bat
probably the cyborg, he dosent fill a very large role in the game and kind of falls into the category of NPCs that are just shops that could have been on another NPC.
im a big fan of the haunted daggers or the man eater :)
desert tiger if ur asking vanilla
The trash child 🤭
magic lantern / shadow mimic / desert tiger
Stylist. they barely exist
✨ i like them all ✨
awesome
cyborg
There was this one big tree that fell over on i-95 as i was coming home to talk about a worm boss. I defeated it by driving really hard until my cybertruck exploded and propelled me over the barrier and into my window
wisp in a bottle/cursed sapling/stardust cell staff
there have been more than a few ideas that have been thwarted simply by the fact that terraria dosent track buff/debuff sources
inviting cloud to slr, defeated him by DESTROYHING HIM 😈
Motivation's honestly a huge challenge for long-term hobby projects like this. It's never possible to keep everyone energetic for long periods of time, so a big part of development has just been getting comfortable with the fact that downtime exists and is natural. We work on stuff whenever we want to, and sometimes we just dont want to--patience ensures there will always be a time we do once more
true
motivation is hard as well as having the free time to work on it with school, job, family, friends etc. not really defeatable unfortunately :(
employment is my enemy
Its been so long I dont quite remember what promted me start modding, my first mod just added various tiles and items that made noise, for 1.3 I also made a greenscreen mod to practice UI design and shaders. There are a few other mods im working on that maybe ill finish someday. Also worked on Everjade doing most of the worldgen.
That's it for the first round!
If you didn't have the chance to send a question do not fret, because round 2 is starting shortly! 
Is there any game that you use for inspiration when working for Starlight River?
How do I join the starlight river team?
If you could add one reference to any video game or piece of media, what would it be?
Favorite wood set (OR building type)
who's your favorite vanilla boss?
What is for each one the favorite class to play in Terraria? (With or without mods)
If you could eat any starlight river enemy what would it be
Are there any plans on changing some of the vanilla enemies to spice up the experience?
May I see the REAL Thinker sprite (I must model him!)
who recorded the infamous whip and nae nae ready clip?
Specialty houses or Instahouses
Any general life advice you guys wanna share?
magmite or coolmite ||I like coolmite not biased, totally didn't code that one||
if you had to permanantly remove a vanilla boss from the game, whcih one would it be?
Do you have ever played D&D?
the real Thinker sprite is the friends we made along the way
I don't know if this is the right place, but is SLR going to update to any major updates in the near future, and if so, when?
what boss you guys are making do you feel is them most challenging? In normal and mastor mode respectively.
why is SLR the best mod ever made (not biased)
any plans to bring back the jungle variants?


Depends on who I'm playing with

