The Stages of a Terraria Player 

The reason why many people "quit" before getting the achievement timber is because there wasn't any achievements in the game until 1.3

I personally went from terraria classic mode to the next play through being calamity infernum mode 💀

As a really cool no-life with 2000+ hours among all consoles (1332 hours on PC no mods, 303 hours on TModloader, countless more on PlayStation 3 and 4) who is currently taking a break from Terraria, I can certify that one of the only reasons I came here was to flex how much I don't go outside and also reassure you that yes, my experience with Terraria was absolutely nothing like the video. Also this video is awesome and I hope everyone's experience is like this instead of having to put up with terrible Terraria console controls D:

Actually started in expert mode as a newbie and instantly just amassed hours on it everyday. I was already obsessed with Minecraft before hand and this game just made everything better. I kind of thought of it as BETTER Minecraft by a mile. I never really got overwhelmed because luckily I had some friends to guide me through it.

Stage 7: 2000+ hours (you may have finished the game on multiple platforms since release) Stage 8: 3000+ hours (you may have finished all major mods) Stage 9: 5000+ hours (you 100% played through it during all major updates releases) Stage 10: 7000+ hours (you 100% master mode multiple times with your besties and maybe tried to mod it yourself) Stage 11: 10.000+ hours (you're a master modder.. or you're juste a mad lad) Stage 12: 15.000+ hours (you never played minecraft) Stage 13: 20.000+ hours (you probably never played anything else since 2011) Stage 14: 30.000+ hours (you don't even know other people still exists on Earth) Stage 15: 50.000+ hours (I hope you're rich at this point and win your life by playing the game) Stage 16: 75.000+ hours (you probably didn's saw your family during the last 12 years and 100% every mods in existence) Stage 17: 100.000+ hours (if you're there you probably played since the game's release 23 hours a day, you finished everything there is to do in vanilla and modded) Stage 18: 150.000+ (You're somewhere during 2040+ or you played the game for at least 18 years straight, you may just be a mere soul processing through a computer and you let your physical body behind just to play the game) Stage 19: 300.000+ hours (You became a sentient AI playing on multiples computers trying to world record the game by beating everything that exists within terraria and tmodloader in one run) Stage 20: 500.000+ hours (Your time playing the game became so unealthy that you've gone through a worm hole and a black hole while playing the game) Stage 21: 750.000+ hours (You've gone through a time paradox playing with yourself in a bunker during the next century) Stage 22: 1.000.000+ hours (You either died and played with god until you're mere soul itself died of boredom) Stage 23: 1.500.000+ hours (You've gone through a whole life long coma playing from you subconsciousness and you surpassed the longest life in history by more than half) Stage 24: 2.000.000+ hours (Same as before but you're in an hardcore ALL MODS playthrough and still alive so your reality influxed body can't die either) Stage 42: Infinite+ hours (You are Terraria, the soul born from the ashes and souls of every Terraria players that existed, are living and will eventually breathe one day)

I sorta skipped from stage 3 to 5, since I went from beating the base game on normal to beating calamity on revengeance difficulty. It was definitely a learning curve

I have reached my own personal stage 7 of learning to program specifically to mod the game because my love for it was so great that once I ran out of content (beating major mods, hardcore, all that jazz) I just started making my own, and across all platforms I have around 5000 hours... Good to know I need to touch grass.

I'm an "old school" player by today's standards ig. My steam playtime is 1212 hours, but that isn't really accurate because it doesn't count mobile, which is where I started. It also doesn't really count any tmodloader time. Most of that was in 1.3, where I played Thorium and Calamity back when it was still pretty new. I also played Tremor, if anyone remembers that one! I feel like I've been through a lot of these phases, and I've kinda done both of the "branching paths" phase 6 by now. I now mostly just go on and off, but I also had that extreme 1% time as well.

I actually went outside for the first time today and it was kinda nice actually. I destroyed some trees with my copper axe and did some mining, couldnt really find anything good though... but whatever you do DO NOT TOUCH THE GREEN STUFF - theyre called grass "blades" for a reason...

I can’t believe how accurate that was, I have experienced every stage now sitting comfortably sometimes playing it for fun at my 2700+ hours on vanilla and 370+ on modded Edit: that’s not including other devices, hudl, ps3, DS

i have accomplished all of that in a span of around 600 hours it feel good to be reminded about the first time you played a game

Me personally, I have about 720 hours across PS4 and pc modded. This has left me with an insane amount of knowledge and I’ve beaten calamity death mode for every class plus other mods. I’ve got worlds dedicated to builds and other fun activities. Not quite all the achievements (I’ve never gotten round to turning in all the angler quests but I’ve been having fun along the way)

great video! i have 2,800 hours across all devices, and Terraria is one of my favorite games. the 6 stages are pretty accurate and its basically what i went through.

I remember back in 1.1 when me and my brother really got into terraria we didn't even know the wall of flesh existed. We beat all the bosses of pre hardmode and then just kinda did whatever. Then we googled it and found the wall. Made a new world and actually focused on beating it and were amazed by how much more there was. Then 1.2 released shortly after that and we were sucked in for good

Im at the phase were I'm playing mods that's fun, and also didn't know this channel is so small... continue growing.

When I first played Terraria, I was just walking, I was scared by the background of the landscape and therefore I did not go there, the alatri was scared of me and therefore I avoided these places and therefore I was constantly on the surface. I built a house inside the foliage of a huge tree out of glass and ropes and there were no back walls. During those first hours of the game, I did not encounter a single boss, so I was very surprised when I found out that they were in this game. (Even though I saw the twins on the cover of the game). It was version 1.2 or even 1.1, I'm not sure. At this moment I have ~1500 hours.

me playing terraria 5-8 hours a day

Im at stage 7: Terraria has consumed my soul (i have over 20k hours in the game) Thats what playing the game nonstop from launch day looks like... my Soul was taken from my body a long time ago... and i don't have any regrets

I originally played terraria starting at 1.1 then 1.2 came out and I fell in love with it, I did like 3 different playthroughs (vanilla) and 1 with friends. I took a long break, then I decided to try an Expert Mode playthrough with friends recently (as I had used characters from older worlds to do expert mode when it first came out, but since I did it the hard way, I felt way more satisfied even when my laptop crashed on moon lord) The game had so many changes from when I last played. The highest boss I fought had been Plantera, then I briefly got back into the game and beat Moon Lord, but then I had a long hiatus. My friend told me to try out Calamity, and needless to say, I'm enjoying my calamity playthrough. I wish I could tell more people to get into Terraria, but the base game is so inflated now, I'm scared that newcomers will be scared off by the long crafting trees or absurd amount of content!

Right after i finished watching the video an Ad of penguin’s server for terraria popped up lmao Nice video dude.

People who were here before 1.3 v

BRO I AM AT 150+ HOURS AND I'M IN EARLY HARDMODE! :(((((

This is so accurate. And even if we quit the game during the Off and On stage, we all still love the game. There is nothing wrong with it, we just move to another game for a bit, to come back months later, and have the same amount of fun that we did when we first started. Great video by the way. Seems like a lot of effort for all this, so kudos!

seeing that youre supossed to start with classic, im quite proud that i could easily do my first ever world in master mode, it was a lot of suffering and i shouldve though less on that "haha hardest difficulty cuz why not"

2000 hours aint that bad 😢

I sadly have 13k hours almost 14k..... Dont judge me....

Only 250 hours into Terraria, and I went straight from beating classic mode Terraria, to expert calamity, to Infernum

I didnt know how to craft a furnace thats how important the wiki is

Why go outside when terraria has better bosses?

I've been off and on again with Terraria long enough to have racked up somewhere in the range of 5,000 to 6,000 hours, my journey having started in 2015. 3,000 base game hours, 1,000 TModLoader hours and an unknown but definitely large amount of pre-Steam TModLoader hours. Thing is though I haven't really explored the breadth of modded Terraria, I stuck to Calamity like glue for ages only recently doing a couple multiplayer Thorium runs and a solo Stars Above run.

i still like to think about the fact that it technically took me 2000 hours to beat moonlord

I started playing when i was in second grade on my xbox 360, I have around 1.5k total hours on pc and i have 0 clue where my console stats are, but I am proud to say that my 360 has several illegal items on it, inlcuding the Reds set and SDMG on a pre 1.3 version of the game. Edit: I am a Senior now

Bro went from beat a couple bosses to beat the FREAKIBG GAME

Not the suriken and throwing knife preediction I have so many of those lmao

Can't say I agree. I fell in love with building during my first playthrough. Barely finished this playthrough. Building ever since and about 500 hours in.

Bro are you a magician??? What you talked about is literally my whole journey in Terraria

luckily i got over the humbling before I even had anything to feel like a pro about, seeing as my friend told me to do my first playthrough on expert mode

Difficulty progression from beginner to Terraria god: Normal -> Expert -> Master -> FTW/Modded Difficulties/Reveangance/Death -> Extreme Modded Difficulties/Eternity/Infernum/Masochist

I remember first playing at 1.0 and when 1.1 hit it was so awesome, I started to play modded at 1.1 also, (I vividly remember the mood mod wowing me) same with Avalon and others, still play terraria today and having a blast doing calamity Infurnium hardcore mode!

During lockdown in 2020 and 2021, me, my best friend and his brother played terraria to try and speed through the hours. We started a playthrough and finished the moon lord by (this was 1.3 on Xbox) making a massive minecart track and riding it while attacking him repeatedly

It took me like 200+ hours to actually understand the game for some reason (on console) but something magically clicked when I tried out the pc version.

my first ever experience was in master mode and then when i beat the game i went straight to calamity with my friend and we did master mode death mode, now were here in a mix between starlight river, thorium, fargos soul and calamity in master mode death mode. i overall have around 140 hours on the game as of right now and i carried my friend all the way trough when it came to late game (im melee and he was ranger) (my skills came in very handy during the exo-mechs fight)

Your content is so good

It’s insane to me that you were able to get my phase. I’m one of the people in the off and on phase, however my on phases are more like 2 months instead of 3 weeks.

I haven't beaten Terraria classic yet and I have Thorium downloaded! It just feels like it naturally expands the game to make the experience even better! Far more items to experience and a few new bosses to fight. I'm still trying to beat Moon Lord but i'm working on powering up and learning how to beat him. Once I do, i'm coming for Calamity.

Got 560 hours and stopped playing for a while after I finishing vanilla master (had like 450 hours ) with my friends and then played Infernum with 1 of them but he said that he first wants to beat solo Reveangeance so he can understand the game so now I just play Master Eternity-Death pre EoC, post Desert Scourge as a ranger, btw is Masochist mode worth trying?

as a man with 2000 hours this is all true especially the fact that I will never do supreme helper minion

my first playthough was on expert, safe to say i was not ready for it

I need to know the armor all they way on the right in the thumbnail, looks sick

Currently in my first expert mode run, scared of brain of cthulu, any tips? (Other than stacking up on potions an stats buffs)

You only got one thing wrong. I have supreme helper minion

Im 266 hours away from 1k. I used to play terraria a lot, but then the DST crossover happened, and i might have gone to play that for 956 hours. I know pretty much everything about the game, niche trivia included, but my mechanical skill is nowhere near where it should probably be.

I started playing terraria bc my friend had it on his xbox. He was already end game and I never had to play the start or see any bosses, I even thought “hard mode” was like some exclusive mod type thing. When I first played on my 3DS (this was probably 7 years ago atp) I only knew of one weapon that I wanted to get and how to get it, everything else like armor, other weapons, and ESPECIALLY potions I had no idea of how to get. Anyways I still suck and probably have 300 hours in. (at least on steam)

as someone with almost 1700 hours combined on both terraria and tmodloader, theres a stage you missed. Stage 8: what are you even doing anymore (1500+ hrs.) you get so good at doing terraria stuff in terraria that you decide to learn how to do the other funny stuff in the game, like abusing the seed generator to turn the dungeon into a high-rise, or using wiring to kill the goblin tinkerer with one deserts worth of sand blocks, or actually learning how to build cause you saw one community post of someones spooky build while half-asleep and said "i can do better"

i only have collectively 500hrs and ive already beaten calamity multiple times and im now moving on too a modpack with infernum 3 times the siz of the base game

I'm at almost 2500 hours and the most modded I've played was back in 2012 when they announced the 1.2 update. I got so hyped for it that I finally bought the game on steam (before that a friend gave it to me on his USB) and I installed the Avalon mod, and played that all the way through. Since then the only mods I've really touched are the accessory item mod (just cuz being OP is fun) and a skyblock mod pack by Freedbot. And speaking of skyblock, I've spent the last 300 or so hours just playing various skyblock maps and doing a bunch of glitch hunting trying to find the absolute minimum required to beat the game (spoilers: it can be beaten without the starting tools and with nothing in the world but a single leaf block). Glitch hunting is my life right now, in the past like 10 days I've gotten 81 hours in the game doing basically nothing else. Btw if anyone here is a fellow glitch hunter I'm interested to join new communities and learn new stuff! (can't promise I'll share all my secrets though, heh)

man, all these comments motivated me to share my own playtime: it‘s currently sitting at 555h only mobile (I don’t own a pc 😭). I have beaten Classic three times (first character has 140h), expert, master and legendary once, with legendary (only) taking 69h. I‘m currently doing an expert summoner run, since i have only been playing melee so far. Recently got one of my friends to buy the game (on steam) and maybe we‘ll be able to play together in the next decade or so when crossplay finally gets released. (For those wondering, I am playing on an 11 inch iPad and have played since May 2020)

I have 200 hours, expert mode as my default, beaten ever boss (and their enraged forms,) and on top of all that, I am part of the 2% to 100% the game. I still struggle with classic mode calamity.

I got around 300 hours on vanilla and 200-300 on tmod. I haven't touched calamity but I did play thorium, however I really think it's only good for the classes it's adding rather than the vanilla classes, cuz most stuff that it adds for them kinda sucks compared to what vanilla has for them. Orchid is also a very good mod that adds a few new classes as well and actually has some good additions for vanilla classes too. But I like mods that add new content and moda that aim to improve vanilla classes. My favourite is probably spear overhaul cuz it makes spears fun and viable, which is kinda cool considering how underwhelming spears are in vanilla.

1100+ hours, main character ~200h, still prehardmode (taking it slow), all fishing quests done, so far 2 big bases, all vanity collected, all armour collected, so far all melee weapons collected, corruption cleared fully with purification powder, tunnels dug out ready for hard mode lined with wood and rails (7 hellevators, 10 horizontal tunnels all 6 blocks wide). havent borrowed anything form other worlds either

Since my friend is a masochist, our first full playthrough was on Master Mode, he wanted Expert Medium Core at first but we failed miserably so we had to stick with regular Master Mode

Stage 7 also exsists, and there are 2 patos there. There is calamity infernum, and fargo eternity mod. There are the people who dosent Even know the Word grass, or Even outside, since their while life is dying to bosses.

Sadly im in this stage 6 where the only thing making me not play is the fact that playing alone now seems too repetitive, but im always happy to start a new playtrought

nice video dud keep goin

I started my terraria journey in calamity master mode death mode. The deaths and the no forgiveness really helped me improve a lot faster

For me, I got the game on a Friday, once I started playing it I basically only stopped to sleep/eat for that entire weekend. I was obsessed with the game and probably got 100 hours in the first week. My passion stayed until around 200 hours when I played GFB, as soon as I got that garbage seed done I barely touched the game anymore. I'm now at 500 hours and can't play without getting bored in a couple minutes

+4500 here, 7 Legend Mode playthroughs (One as each class, rest were ranger cuz I love ranger). 14 Calamity Playthroughs, 7 were revengeance (3 expert, 4 master), 3 were death, 1 was malice due to an addon mod re adding it and the others were infernum. All Calamity playthroughs that were death or higher were ranger others was just whatever class I felt like playing (Other than one infernum which is melee). I have no life

Funny thing... I skipped all the first stages and went straight to Infernum calamity lol

ok so what this video taught me that whatever other people do takes me 2x wtf im still transitioning between humbling experience and mastering the base game with almost 400 hours

Stage 3ds: you started when you found a game that looks kind of like mario, you probably have 0 idea wtf is going on.

“please go outside” the outside having swarms of crop termites, venomous snakes, fire ants, yellow jackets, red wasps, and the sun which flash bangs my eyes since i was born with blue eyes:

I started terraria back around 2012(?) and only what last year, year before last, Finally reached 1000 hours? I got the game as it looked interesting, idr much about my first time playing, but I stuck with it for my entire life and now at least do a play-through once a year. I enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, every second of it.

I currently have 107 hours in the game and i beat it on classic mode the first time, and recently i just finished it on expert mode. It was because im way better at the game than i was in classic mode, i knew what accessories i needed etc, but my first classic experience was way harder than the expert mode after. No bosses took me more than 5 tries, didnt really have trouble with anything. So right now im thinking about playing calamity, since the base game doesnt feel that challenging (+ i wanna be cool too)

3,960+ hours on terraria. half of that was from jurney worlds just relearning the game again (i got the game in 1.1, then quit at 1.2 but got back into it at 1.4) and im so glad i got back into it

i can't believe someone just told my whole 750+ hour journey without flaw

i went in terraria blind as a 10 year old and since i didnt even know bosses existed by the time EoC spawned i was so prepared he couldnt even damage me

Steam says I have ~400 hours in Vanilla Terraria, and ~330 hours in tModLoader, and that's just the past year or two. I've been playing Terraria since 2013, so I likely have ~2000 hours total, though I've only actually gotten decently good at the game in the last 700 of which, where I was playing in Expert mode. I think my favorite playthrough so far was the True Melee playthrough I recently finished. It opened my eyes to the beauty of Tank builds. Though if I remember correctly, in my first successful boss fight in my Terraria career (I've fought and died to Skeletron multiple times before this), I defeated Eye of Cthulhu with a Trident, no buffs, 200 HP (the highest I could get in that version), and whatever armor I happened to have on me

i have no life because i have Supreme Helper Minion complete and yet i still get fish for that damn kid

I haven’t played in forever. Decided to randomly play again and beat master mode in 25 hours!

I am planning on getting around 200-400+ hours because i love the game alot Especially calamity (lost my first calamity playthrough world because of corruption/cant join it anymore)

When i started my first actual playthrough, i had to use map editor to increase the difficulty from classic to expert and later to master. Basically 1 playthrough 170 hours, over 60 of that in pre-hardmode Got most of achievements (except some like getting all npcs, 200 fishing quests, etc) The thing is i had a good amount of knowledge before actually starting playing + had beaten MGR on revengeance S rank everywhere (this rank usually requires you to get no dmg in a fight) Terraria isn't even my main game lmao. I have literally 3.3k hours on Hypixel Skyblock (an MMORPG made using Minecraft) Epic no life flex

my first world that i ever played on in terraria was on master mode and i tried to make it even harder for myself by not using things like wiki to learn things. i did look up some basics though like how to beat the game (how to spawn all the bosses) that way i actually finish the game. when i got to around mid game i pretty much mastered the game just like any other. it took me roughly 150 hours to finish my first world. then my 2nd world was Calamity Infernum mode, i'm still trying to finish it as i recently got back to the game, it's pretty fun (cries inside while saying it's pretty fun). i will try to finish it in less than 150 hours

as someone with over 2500 hours in terraria, 1. i will not go outside and 2. about 1000 of those hours were pre 1.3 and another 500 pre 1.4 so i can neither confirm nor deny this video is accurate

My first 2 playthroughs were with my friend im expert mode while playing melee and ranger once in both worlds. After that we both played master mode solo. Now we are on modded and its fun (currently 150h)

for 20 minutes i was so confused put some wood platforms earlier and then watched a video on what to do

Once I beat classic, I instantly went from master mode drunk world. Currently pre-plantera rn. Might do For The Worthy next

as a person with 1600 hours, 100% achievments and played a little too much calamity, i can wholeheartedly agree, the off and on whenever i see a good new mod is insane tho. good stage list or whatever its called 👍

yeah I went through all 6 stages and still enjoy the game a lot and I'm currently playing thorium for real and with friends. also I didn't play calamity until I was sure I was ready so now all bosses in death mode are a joke to me. I started playing modded in 2019 after getting a decent pc with overhaul then metroid then calamity and now thorium

I remember me and my brother had a blast playing terraria like 5-6 years ago (maybe 7) we only beat the eye. We had like 20-30 hours just goofing around. Too bad it got corrupted 😢

I remember the first time I played expert mode. Back when 1.3 first came out. My heard was verging on shooting out of my chest when I was fighting the expert mode eye for the first time too. My heart rate hasn't been as high since. I now have over 2000 hours of playtime under my belt so Im pretty much a veteran haha

400hours in rn, just completed my first Master mode world. I was trying to do a summoner playthrough on MM once 1.4 came out but I got gatekept by Duke and MoonLord which made me quit from rage, this time I told that once I complete I'll go over to modding since I seen so much gameplay but I want to get every achievement first.

My first playthrough didn't die until my first mining trip those dang nymphs

When i first started terraria i made a ok house and beat a few bosses and got meteorite armor but after that i got bored that was in 2022 now in 2023 i deleted my old world and try to do better in a new world made a better house i have iron armor witch is not the best and a star fury sword but i have not beat any of the bosses yet so i was mid game gave up started a new world now i try to play more learning about the game and watching videos like this terraria is in my top 10 games to play.

I’m a terrarin even though I’ve never experienced mods because I’m on mobile I still feel like I accomplished something in the game I have the zenith for solar armor, void the moon lord a bunch of times it’s kind of boring sometimes, but there is map mods which I do use, but I never use skin launch because they do not have a new weapons

Mind if I ask what vanity and dyes are you using in the 1000+ hours pic?

I have just a little over 500 hours into the game. When I baught it I convinced 2 friends to buy it soon after. We wanted to complete the game together and I set a rule to myself to not go further then where we are in our multiplayer world. Only problem I do play a lot more and on our multiplayer world we made it to just before the wall of flesh. Then we all took a giant break from playing together. I still liked the game. I played on master mode and I got like 4 playtroughs just did everything untill the WoF. Then one time we hung out again but it was like 7 months since we last did (we only played multiplayer if we where irl together, so thats why it took so long. They live in a different city and every other time we met I didnt had my laptop or they didnt etc etc.) anyways we started a new world on Master difficulty (also because a new update that added shimmer, and I wanted to switch our multiplayer world to master) we played very mutch and we hung out like a few times a month with fun sleep overs and great gaming sessions. We made it to the mech bosses on our miltiplayer servers. I still try to hold on to not progress further then the mech bosses. I think I know like 90% pre hardmode and I have good skills. Like movement and I know what I am doing. I have played basically 500 hours pre hardmode but now hardmode is so much fun. I know so little yet so much. I cant wait till we beat the game all together for the first time. I do know whats coming because I have watched guides and lets plays etc etc. just never done it. Where as my 2 friends have 0 clue. I cant wait for the next session and one of my friends is going to find the planterra bulb. She likes to collect flowers. I know whats going to happen but they dont haha (even tho I have never faught it)

I started playing in 1.1 in Jan 2013, now have 2200+ hours in the game, have yet to beat expert or master mode singleplayer, and have not played modded (only dabbled for maybe 20hrs max). That’s the power of beating the game singleplayer and multiplayer every new major update since 2013, getting bored on multiple expert and master worlds, and forcing myself to finally beat Master Mode before I try modded. Also shows how great the base game is; $10 for 2200 hours of playtime is like popping a penny in an arcade machine and getting to play it for a full day.

I personally am on 1k hours currently but honestly I´ve beaten the game once on master mode, once calamity death mode and currently doing calamity infernum on master mode - there were some playthroughs that I just quit bcs they were boring but mostly there were two that got to somewhere around 40hours + and that was playing with a friend and then realising that we both enjoy the game more when playing solo

As a person with ~500-600 hours on terraria, I have never actually played classic mode properly. My first playthrough was on Expert. Then I went to Master. Then I went to modded PSA I had completed every achievement just over a month after buying the game

I have 2150 hours, all achievements and have completed for the worthy master infernum calamity mode lmao