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Though at this point I feel like I seen all that Terraria has to offer.

Mm... then you've missed some things. Pbat's seen, maybe, 3/5ths of the game's content -- likely 2/5ths or less. He's hit a lot of high points in there, but there's a lot that's still missing -- at least one boss-style encounter (the goblin invasion), 2-3 biomes, and I'd estimate anywhere from 2-4 tiers of items. Plus he didn't really do much in the way of thorough investigation on any of the item tiers he did hit -- we've not seen demonite armor or meteorite weapons, ferex, nor anything that might involve ash or hellstone. We know there's a number of items still unseen from Pbat's angle that can change things around -- the vine grapple, necro armor, and jetboots are just a start. We don't know what kind of special items come from iron, or copper, or gold, just the standard tools and weapons. We haven't seen what happens when a solid game of PvP goes down, nor how the game reacts to large-scale construction, if it does at all. From Pbat alone, we haven't seen much construction at all, really. I don't think he ever even used a platform, much less saw if putting candles, books, etc, in buildings has any effect on the game. Dominic is illuminating that aspect a bit, though.

Above and beyond that, word from the devs is that content above and beyond everything P's seen is streaming in constantly -- from what I understand, they're basically just twiddling their thumbs waiting to get some legalities and infrastructure in place, and Redigit's way of twiddling his thumbs is coding up oodles of new junk to throw around. So content is, even now, expanding.

We have seen enough to get a good feel on how the general game goes about, though, and it doesn't seem that the extra items are going to radically change that -- so in that sense, we've seen at least the structure of what Terraria offers, if not all the particulars yet. I can see how the feeling would come about, yeah, though for me it's just whetted my appetite for the full course

Sadly Blue stated that underground and Dungeon backgrounds need to be pulled down from the top down.

Which is to say it's possible, and 50-60 people with hammers and pickaxes could get it done bloody quick. Assuming that wouldn't melt a server... or the player's rigs.

Apparently you can't build wooden platforms starting at the rock biome (it refuses to attach them to background.) I'm guessing that you can knock out walls in the first sub-layer, but not below that. They're ok with you building a home underground. I think they're not ok with people building a home adjacent to hell.

Yeah, part of me is sad, here. The other part realizes that's still a ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous, amount of space to build in. The entire first sub-layer, and everything above ground? Hell yes. I'd be incorporating the sky islands into the giant building that gets constructed.

Obviously, though, if we can't build a home adjacent to hell, we simply transplant hell to where our home is. The real trick is going to be leading fire imps and bone worms to the upper layers and then keeping them around. I wonder what happens once they lose aggro...

I think it's on everyone's. This is Bay 12 after all.

Aye, but I'd be the freakish deviant who didn't fill it with lava "Freefall tower, for all your excessive suicide needs."

Fluid mechanics are definitely another of those current question marks, hum. Water can apparently be artificially increased to some degree (we see it quite a few times in the LPs, usually when someone digs a hole on the bottom of a pond/puddle/etc.), but I don't think there's any clear indication currently of to what extent that's possible or if there's any self-perpetuation conditions. Water/block producing items would be great, but probably horrifically, hum, unbalanced. You know people would sit on one of the floating islands and just hold the button down until the water/lava level reached them

Flooding the underworld seems entirely too easy, though. There's a massive ocean on one side of the screen, huhuhu...

Still. Would be interesting if there's a way to harvest water or lava, above and beyond those bucket things. I could see groups of
folks de-liquiding a world and then going to some other world and making it rain

Mm... vaguely rough numbers of memory imprint of Terraria, based on what Blue mentioned in P's LP... 4 bytes a block, counting a screen showed ~60x60 blocks (maybe a bit less, but ballpark numbers here.), 164x82 (probably misremembered, but whatever) screen large world, clocks in at somewhere around 200 megs, or at least ~200 million bytes. Maybe throw on another 50-100 million for the not-world info stuff. That's not bad at all.

Only needs at best directx 9c, so CPU drain probably isn't terrible... this bodes well for my aging computer

Oh hey, a direct answer to the modding question...

We have received several questions from our readers concerning the inclusion of mods. Is there any plans in place to allow players to create their own mods or textures?

We completely understand and acknowledge the community outcry for such things. That said, we will definitely endeavor to look into this feature for future updates after the initial release. For now, there is no mod support.

Just noticed this... not much footage, but I cracked up a little. Fly-by~

EDIT: Obviously, this game will eventually need sources of invisibility and see invisibility. The cheap-ish kind, that still shows, say, rocketboot contrails, but hides who and what it is, exactly. Then PvP gains another level of ohohohoboom... and the game gets predators

Re: Modding, there was something early on about no initial support for, say, re-skinning. So no going about changing character sprites or whathaveyou, at least in the immediate beginning. At the same time, though, I vaguely remember the server pop support being changed around by outright file editing, so there's no telling. Iirc, XNA's pretty easy to just muck around wit' yerself. I'll fire a question into the fairly rapidly scrolling IRC channel and see if anything interesting pops out.