Terraria is an adventure game. It features customizable characters, randomly generated worlds, day/night cycles, reformable terrain, and a crafting system that allows the player to "live off the land": Crafting items that are required for survival. The crafting system gives the player the freedom to manipulate their environment by doing anything from digging mines to building towns; it is their prerogative. The game also features online multiplayer.
When you start terraria, you have three items, a pickaxe, an axe, and a sword. The first thing you want to do is mine. There are potions that can help you find and mine ores, collect them in chests and bags of items lying around in caves. After collecting, chop some wood and build a house, work bench, and furnace to turn your ores and items into gear and tools.
Controls To change key bindings, go to the Menu -> Options -> Controls or Map Controls.
You can change most of the controls.
Default Key Action performed W Flip gravity up (Gravitation Potion), make character fall slowly (Featherfall Potion), move Shadow Orb and Wisp in a Bottle upwards. A Move character to the LEFT. S Drop down flat surfaces (Platforms, tables), flip gravity down (Gravitation Potion), fall faster (Featherfall Potion), move Shadow Orb and Wisp in a Bottle downwards. D Move character to the RIGHT. E Use Grappling Hook. Space Jump, double jump (Cloud in a Bottle/Cloud in a Balloon), hold to fly (Rocket Boots/Wings ) or glide (Wings) ESC Opens inventory, crafting, equipment and allows Save & Quit (Single Player) or Disconnect (Multiplayer). ALT+Enter Toggles screen Fullscreen/Windowed mode. Enter Allows for chat (Multiplayer). Numbers 1-0 Select an item in the Hotbar F9 Switch between light modes F10 Toggles visibility of Frames per Second at bottom left of screen. F11 Toggles the visibility of the HUD. F12 Takes a screenshot (Steam). Left Click
H Quick use first Healing Item1
You can change most of the controls.
Default Key Action performed W Flip gravity up (Gravitation Potion), make character fall slowly (Featherfall Potion), move Shadow Orb and Wisp in a Bottle upwards. A Move character to the LEFT. S Drop down flat surfaces (Platforms, tables), flip gravity down (Gravitation Potion), fall faster (Featherfall Potion), move Shadow Orb and Wisp in a Bottle downwards. D Move character to the RIGHT. E Use Grappling Hook. Space Jump, double jump (Cloud in a Bottle/Cloud in a Balloon), hold to fly (Rocket Boots/Wings ) or glide (Wings) ESC Opens inventory, crafting, equipment and allows Save & Quit (Single Player) or Disconnect (Multiplayer). ALT+Enter Toggles screen Fullscreen/Windowed mode. Enter Allows for chat (Multiplayer). Numbers 1-0 Select an item in the Hotbar F9 Switch between light modes F10 Toggles visibility of Frames per Second at bottom left of screen. F11 Toggles the visibility of the HUD. F12 Takes a screenshot (Steam). Left Click
- Use currently equipped tool or item
- Use items from the inventory (If Autopause is turned off)
- Shift+Click to trash, deposit into chest or sell an item.
- Craft/buy items
- Move items around the inventory
- Interact with the scenario (doors, switches, NPCs)
- Drop items from the inventory
- Hold to craft/buy multiple items
- Pick up one item from a stack
- Inventory Closed: Scroll between items in the Hotbar
- Inventory Open: Scroll between available crafting recipes
H Quick use first Healing Item1