Essential Terraria Mods for 2024 

I highly highly recommend Remnants mod, its the best and largest world-generation mod in Terraria

the fact that the music mod for calamity is bigger than the mod itself really shows you how much effort they put into it

As a fellow mod reviewer I highly recommend these content mods after Calamity! - mod of redemption - stars above - homeward journey - secrets of the shadows - polarities

The angler shop is probably my favourite here. I mean the idea of having that currency so you're still having to do the quest fish, so you're essentially changing nothing about the gameplay itself and you're just removing the RNG element, it's like... the perfect mod idea.

You should also try The Stars Above and The Amulet of Many Minions they are fire af

"30 + hours extra", I think when you first play calamity it's way more. Great video non the less and I am so happy I found a new mood to play( the combat changes one)

*I love Fargo's Mutant mod,* not only adds those NPCs that help you A LOT to make farming less tedious, but also adds recipes for instant arenas for Plantera and Wall of Flesh (literal bombs and insta-platforms that you place down and they make the boss arena for you), adds a sundial recipe to skip day and night, and the Abomination NPC has an option to skip events like Solar Eclipses, Blood Moons, etc... REALLY handy whenever you want to do something but a damn event you didn't want spawns.

Another amazing one that wasn’t mentioned in this video is The Stars Above! It’s a really fun one and I’d highly recommend it.

Mods showcased: *Smaller Mods* 0:55 Recipe Browser 1:24 Boss Checklist 1:59 Magic Storage 2:46 Alchemist NPC Lite 3:17 Ore Excavator 3:40 Boss Cursor 4:16 Fargo's Mutant mod 6:17 HERO's mod 6:58 OmniSwing 7:16 Angler Shop 7:53 Which mod is this from *Huge content Mods* 8:44 Thorium mod 9:43 Terraria Overhaul 10:22 Calamity mod P.S: If you're gonna play calamity, remember to also get the "Calamity Music Mod" ! It's a must for the proper calamity experience.

The “New Beginnings” mod is pretty cool, allows you to pick what class your going to play and get a small early game boost for that class. But you can still switch to other classes with no downside. Also watch for Starlight River first release coming soon!

Magic Storage is so hard to live without in vanilla!

Playing calamity is like experiencing terraria again for the first time. It’s the closest thing there is to terraria 2. It’s so good I wouldn’t complain if the entirety of calamity was added to vanilla.

Quick note about using Thorium and Calamity together, while doing so is entirely possible, and indeed supported by the dev teams of both mods, conflicts can still occur. Specifically, Calamity's Sulphurous Sea biome always spawns dungeon side, and Thorium's Aquatic Depths always spawns jungle side. This is a good solution made to avoid conflict between two major biomes. However, Thorium's Lich boss is summoned at an altar in the mod's Graveyard biome, which always spawns behind the dungeon. From what I saw, Thorium's Graveyard, and its Lich altar, are generated BEFORE the Sulphurous Sea. This resulted in my Graveyard being overwritten, and I had no Lich altar in my world, so I had to use another mod to add one to my inventory so I could place one myself. Be mindful of worldgen conflicts, people.

Btw, to anyone looking to play the calamity mod, make sure to get the music mod, the sound track is so good the base mod is literally unplayable without it

For recipe brower i would HIGHLY reccomend binding the "query item" to something like middle click on your mouse, makes it much faster and easier to see recipes for an item instead of placing it in the box

All these look fantastic, especially Thorium! Amazing what the community is able to do :)

Magic storage alone is why it's so hard for me to go back to vanilla terraria

Something that Chippy forgot to mention about Calamity, is that every vanilla boss is changed (at least somewhat), so every boss feels like a completely new experience

I hugely second Magic Storage, makes it so much easier to find items while also being balanced out with the somewhat expensive crafting recipes for better capacity and still needing to take up space to put the storage boxes. Used it in my Calamity playthrough and it was an big help. Looks like Hero's mod os basically a better version of Cheat Sheet, I'll keep that in mind for next time I wanna mess around

Really great video for all the newbies to modding out there! Well done Chippy!

My personal favourite mod is Split mod. Compared to other content mods, it is rather small, but has really nice boss fights and fun items. It also adds a Photography mechanic, which is one of my favourite mechanics as the pictures are pretty cool.

Just was about to get into moded this was needed thank you

A mod i would suggest to go alongside the calamity mod is “calamity’s vanities” Its a smallish mod that adds a ton of calamity mod based vanity stuff to terraria; Pets, mounts, furniture, stuff like that. It doesnt do a whole lot, but it makes the calamity mod experience just that much more interesting

I'd recommend "No pylon restrictions" it's a mod that lets you buy any pylons and place them anywhere, a little bit cheaty but it makes keeping track of your arenas a lot easier. The mod also has settings if you want it to be less cheaty.

A note to people thinking of trying magic storage, if you already have recipe browser there will be some conflicts with some of the recipe browser features. Also about Fargo's mutant mod, most of the "insta" building items are very Very destructive to the point they can ruin your world by deleting some important structure that are in a few big mods when you just place some platforms, so I would highly recommend you not use it with large mods if you have never use Fargo's mutant mod before, since it might just ruin your playthrough.

Calamity is by far my favorite mod of all time and I recently went back to make a new playthrough on it. This actually ended up leading to one of my favorite worlds I've ever had and 2 more class specific playthroughs. I need to do my final class playthroigh (which will be ranger) but then I'm going to make a trophy room with my sets of gear from the end of each playthrough

A very tiny mod that I haven’t seen anyone use before is called platform helper. It basically just lets you set a keybind that lets you place five platforms or blocks at a time letting you just be able to run forward and place platforms removing a ton of hassle

I would recommend the Vanilla Calamity Music Mod, it adds so much to the Calamity Mod experience and immerses you so much deeper into the world.

Very solid recommendations, and yeah Calamity is awesome! it's insane how many cool things they've been able to add to Terraria

We want more terraria playthroughs(modded or not) on Chippy's couch!Love relaxing and hearing your stories

I would also include the 0.8 beta for mod of redemption in this list as well. it adds in a ton of unique weapons for each class (well, summoner does get a bit neglected, but what content mod doesn't neglect summoner?), an alingment system, the abandonned lab mini biome, and several bosses throughout progression, including some post moon lord ones.

About the angler shop mod, Calamity revamps the angler rewards so that by 30 quests done you're guaranteed to have everything you need so if you're playing calamity there's no need for it (unless you still want to completely avoid fishing at all costs haha)

I would definitly also recommend Story of Red Cloud, it is now revamped and ready to play :)

CHIPPY WHERE ARE THE CHAPTERS

thank you so much for putting the list of mods in the description!!

A new alternative to heros mod has been released called dragons lens. Takes a bit longer to load but I recommend trying it out to see which one you prefer.

You can also do angler quest counter showing the numbers of quest you do!

I can't wait for when tModLoader updates to 1.4.4, there's so many changes that it made that I miss in my Calamity playthrough right now

I can't wait for Elements Awoken to be ported, same with The Spirits Mod, great mods with good biomes, music, and bosses

Ok thank you for reccomends! I will try em out next day.

One mod I would add si the Item magnet plus, as someone who doesn't like to go side to side collecting every single drop lying around this is a must have

When talking about the smaller content mods i really reccomend luiafk (theres a remake of it on the 1.4 workshop) for those of you that dont know its a convenience mod that (along other things) allows you to craft items that you would find in chests around the world or drop from certain enemies and make it easier for late game recipes that you might be missing an item or two for

I'd recommend to keep an eye on the Split mod. It hasnt been ported to 1.4 yet, but it was one of my favorite content mods in 1.3 and theyre going to be porting it over... "soon"

I wish we had more mods with the sheer amount of content as the Calamity mod, because I really want that feeling of just playing through a mod for the first time again

For Hero’s Mod or CheatSheet, there is a new mod made by a dev from Starlight River that is a good replacement by combining both utilities. The Mod is called Dragon Lens mod and I think it’s worth checking out.

Thanks for the vid I’ve tried modded but there’s always something missing and all the QOL smaller mods really help out

7:07 when he said there's autofire setting in 1.4.4 I was so confused I didn't know that was a new setting. I can't believe it's been 2 months and I didn't even know. I can finally stop complaining when I shoot bows in pre hard mode 😂.

i would also recommend Split mod for people who have beaten Calamity, or Spirit mod for beginners

if you're playing with alot of npcs, a must have is Celsus, it's an npc list like the boss checklist mod

First time playing modded and I decided to play Death mode immediately lol hoping it goes well. Im not too good at the game but i really want to be invested and feel satisified with my first playthrough, exploring everything possible. Currently just before WoF right now, making preparations and looking forward to the fight/hardmode with like 30~ hours in PHM

Other mods that I would highly recommend are the auto trash mod, fish farming mod, shop expanding mod, and map sharing mod for qol changes and starlight, redemption, and spirit for bigger mods

Cant wait to see a multiplayer playthrough of one these mods.

Here are some mods that have yet to be ported to 1.4 but you should still play -spirit mod : adds bosses and items and ores and its overall very fun -split mod : ditto -joost mod : a personal favourite of mine , adds the joost npc wich adds a new quest system and tons of minibosses and some other miscellaneous stuff -cerebral mod / esper class / defender class: compiles 4 class mods and 2 of wich are finished , complete with armors and potions and accessorries -ancients awakened: a fun challenge with creative bosses and new structures and insane weapons -shadows of abaddon: kinda ditto?

Been going through ever class in calamity with friends, and we always use Magic Storage, Alchemist NPC, IMK Sushi, Fargo's Mutant, Fargo's Best of Both Worlds, and Ore Excavator. Also, Calamity still updates every so often, so it's always fresh and has new things to do

I recommend playing with item randomizer as a fresh play through when you get bored with everything after content mods and all, but only set it to randomize item stats so every item becomes truly unique, great for multiplayer play through as well

Some of the details in these mods are incredible

Calamity inferium mod adds to calamity compeletly awesome boss fights generation and other stuff i recommend to use it after first playthrought

Alchemist NPC was super useful for me when going through Calamity and Stars Above

I highly recommend Spirit mod because of the cool biomes with the nice and serene music surrounding lethal places. The bosses and events are nice and when it gets updated it just feels… indescribable.

I just decided to mod terraria for the first time, great timing on this!

Watched this vid to see new mods to play, and its a great list but imma quickly go grab boss curser, cuz after beating calamity a couple times and using the minimap to know where yharon and DoG are coming from its a must get, so thanks for the suggestion

And if you're a Terraria expert, and did good on calamity mod, Try out the Infernum mode. It acts as a new difficulty, but rn is kinda of a new approach to calamity. Looks super cool and plays out even better.

Always looking for something new. Think ill do the Thorium with the overhaul

I feel like you shouldve mentioned consolaria It recently got ported to 1.4 and readds a bunch of the console and mobile exclusive content such as structures enemies and in the cases like the bosses. Revamps them to fit with modern terrarias standards

A mod I've been wanting to check out is REMNANTS, which is a complete overhaul of the world gen.

i've always seen the angler shop mod in the download menu and i thought it was super cheaty because it just takes the whole point out of fishing, but i never knew it had the special currency setting. i might use it from now on because of that

terraria mods will always have a special place in my heart

I've been doing a playthrough with minimal QOL mods of the Dragon Ball Terraria mod lately and for a fan of the series I couldn't recommend it more. It's a fantastic class mod with multiple forms from the series and even an unofficial (not made by the first mods devs) expansion for Calamity! if you like Dragon Ball then you definitely should try it out.

There's a content mod I really like, in fact it's my personal favourite: Split mod (not to be confused with spirit mod! although that is another cool mod I like). Sadly I don't think it's up for 1.4 yet, but definitely worth a try when it is.

If i ever made a Terraria mod, it would be Themed Around Castlevania, Adding a Entire new class named the Glyph Class which is a class that Starts off with the Confonere which is crafted via a Wood sword & A mana star, some Cv enemies will be there too, and it also adds the Rare Ring that greatly boosts luck, making rare drops a bit more common.

There is a vanilla version of boss cursor, except you need to use the transparent map overlay, if you're using a gun, you can see that you can hit the boss by clicking on it on the map.

out of all the mod pack soundtracks, and there are some good one, the OST for Terraria will always be the GOAT.

Polarities is always a great one, a little smaller than most, but still super fun

I'd also suggest LuiAFK because it makes progression much faster, especially when you just want to fight bosses in something like calamity mod. Currently using it in a revengence run and it's great to not have to grind for each boss progression.

I recommended decadent skills is a mod that add skills for every class (this mod adds rogue too but only with calamity enabled)

For sure don't forget Mod of Redemption and Fargos Souls!

i needed this so much tysm

Making the mods is the hardest thing to do so always appreciate the us, the creators!

The bard class is the best modded thing apart from magic storage but come on magic storage is a must

Another smaller mod I would love to add would be wing slot, I cannot live without this one

Just started calamity a couple of days ago just got in to hard mode so far so good

You should play calamity co-op with captainsparkles once he finishes his expert mode playthrough.

Stars above really nice mod and super chill

spirit mod is great too although it s still being ported to 1.4, but has some interesting content!

Cant wait for starlight river to come out. It will be so revolutionary.

Fargo's mutant mod adds a ton of banger QoL changes that you can check out in it's mod config menu 💯

honestly, i was bored with terraria for the time being.. but me and a friend decided to do a Terraria calamity mod playthrough full blind. I swear to god, i never had so much fun in terraria like this. I spend 500 hours in that mod, just testing and experiencing the full potential of the mod itself. If you are bored of vanilla terraria, i 100% recommend trying modded Terraria, IT'S SUPER FUN!

If I had to pick one mod I couldn’t live without it would definitely be magic storage. I wish they’d add something similar into vanilla because having to go back to having a ton of chests is the worst feeling and I constantly tell my buddies I miss magic storage lol

i was hoping you'd put overhaul in here can't be a video about terraria mods without calamity too

I'm going to recommend Stars Above when playing with Calamity

There's a more advanced tool(cheat if you think so) mod called DragonLens, it's more complicated and more powerful, with DragonLens you pretty much don't need any other similar mods since it's almost an all purpose in-game editor. But I did mention it's more complicated, so not too recommended for casual/usual players.

doing a playtrough of calamity and infernum + thorium + fargos (+addons) + stars above and my pc is struggling but we re having fun

A better mod that does the same thing as the "which mod is this from?" mod is the "true tooltips" mod. it basically just specifies various values such as use speed (uses/second), hook reach, hook pull speed, etc. It really is a very useful mod all around, but it can make the tooltip windows for certain items (specifically for a couple weapons from Stars Above) take up the ENTIRE screen, so you may want to dink around in the config menu for a while.

This is a old kinda unrelated memory, but one time in 1.3 tmodloader, I was playing with a ton of mods, but the ones important to this memory are lans uncrafting mod, SGA mod, crafting menu, and item checklist. SGA mod has a placeable "crafting station", called the Luminus Alter. Basically, it needed to have unobstructed access to the sky above it, and its crafting recipes depended(mostly) on what moon phase was active, and what items you put in, and crafting with it takes time. Because of how unorthodox the crafting method is, to make it so that the guide(or crafting menu, they work the same) could show the recipes, there's basically these "fake" items like time, moon, a specific moon phase, and solar eclipse, so that the guide/crafting menu could tell you what you need and how long it will take to make it, in the format of a regular crafting recipe. So what I did was get an item that can only be crafted with the Luminus Altar(this was old lans uncrafting mod, you couldn't change items that are part of an any catagory[like any wood or something] into each other yet, and it defaulted to first craft recipe to uncraft it into) and uncraft it. I got the time and moon "fake" items, which is not supposed to ever be possible under any circumstances. What happens because of this is that item checklist doesn't like this, so after later saving and quiting, when I tried to rejoin, it didn't work because item checklist couldn't handle these "fake" items, so for the rest of the play through I was forced to have it off. The funny part is just now I checked Luminus Alter wiki on SGA mod fandom wiki, and I clicked on the "fake" eclipse item, its wiki page said that the item doesn't really exist, and it means that you have to craft it during a solar eclipse. But I by myself, proved this to be wrong in a casual playthrough years ago. And I know its spelled altar, not alter, but I'm just trying to be accurate to the mod.

it would be REALLY great if you could make another video on new larger content mods.

If you guys aren't good with bullet hell (danmaku) games, and you struggle with some of the bosses that rain projectiles upon you like you were playing Touhou, I would also recommend the cheat sheet mod: among others things, it allows to set yourself as fully invincible for as long as you want. I'ved used it to observe the boss' behaviours until I understood the patterns. And then, I'd walk a bit away, disable invincibility, and get back at it. If you're into heart statues, this cheet sheet mod also allows to "absorb" every item dropped everywhere else on the map, this way there aren't rogue dropped hearts everywhere that prevent your heart statues from doing their job in your arena.

Thank you Chippy for coming to save the Captain.

waiting for spirit! and then i will do my thorium-spirit playthrought :D (and split too)

I'm still waiting on baited breath for Starlight River, god it looks so damn good, should probably play through calamity first though so I'm not spoilt

Out of those mods the only 2 i don't have are calamity and overhaul but that's because i'm in a thorium playthrough