The Version of Terraria You Shouldn't Have Seen... (Terraria Beta) 

Imagine it's January 2011... Minecraft is in Beta 1.2 and just added Squids, the song smashing the music charts is Fireworks by Katy Perry, Pewdiepie has fewer than 2000 subscribers, and Jacksepticeye/Markiplier haven't ever posted a video! then BOOM the development of Terraria begins! It's now been 10 years so to celebrate we're taking a look at the Terraria Beta that was leaked and forced the game to release after only 5 months of development ~affiliate ad, use code SMALLCHIPPY to save 15% at www.terraria.shop :P

Not only has he got the entire Re-Logic RU-vid channel ready to go at a moments notice, but he has every single Terraria version just in case. Madlad

I didn't know that the Devs were forced to release Terraria because of the people Pirating.

The weirdest thing is that the zombie texture hasn’t changed

A funny thing to me about all this, is my initial reaction when I found Terraria in the PSN shop all those years ago was to note that the default character looked like Bartz from Final Fantasy 5, this grabbed my attention enough that I got the demo and then bought the full game shortly after. Was one of my favorite games ever since.

I still can't believe Terraria has been out for so long

I didn’t start playing until 2013 but it is insane looking back how much it has changed

Notice how the Old Man has red eyes, indicating his cursed state I love it

Chippy: "terrawria or terraria if your andrew" me: i guess im andrew

7:24 You may be used to the blue numbers meaning mana, but in the game's early history, health healing numbers were blue, and mana was purple. I'm fairly sure this remained until about 1.0.6 . You can verify this by pausing the footage when an enemy dies and find that they're dropping hearts, and your health does in fact increase by 20.

the furnace sprite makes me feel so old.

Instead of modern I kept hearing modded and I was so confused

So having just played through the beta, you missed a lot of stuff. You can in fact craft mana crystals, and there are demon altars (I found two in my second world). You can also summon the Eye of Cthulhu and Eater of Worlds by crafting their summoning items there. The dungeon is complete. The Goblin Army is also complete, beta sprites and all. Smashing Shadow Orbs doesn't spawn in the Eater, and the only events that occur naturally are the blood moon and goblin invasion. You also didn't show the underground jungle, which is also in the game. Farming enemies there will net you the Ivy whip, Blade of Grass and Thorn Chakram. If you want to beat Skeletron in this version, try the Flamarang (weaker) or Thorn Chakram (stronger). Having a brief look through the game files, there's not a Hellforge yet. You might also want to try crafting the Necro armor; it has a cool beta sprite. The Dryad will also move in once you beat a boss, sometimes more than once. I think this deserves another playthrough.

If you showed me this and didn’t tell me it was terraria beta I would have thought it was a bootleg

Chippy: The minishark seems to be the strongest weapon in this version. Arms dealer: i see you're eyeballing the minishark-

The old terraria actually has more of the modern terraria features than I thought

Fun fact for those who didn't know: The merchant was based on Galuf from FF5 and, at the time, the dryad was mostly based off of Rydia from FF4

As a recent Terraria fan, this feels so different from what I'm used to. It seems super cool!

God I wish I could discover Terraria again. I remember I started in 1.2.4, being really confused about what to do. Naturally, I decided to explore, that is, until I saw that the grass was red where I was heading. Thinking it was a new area, I thought to myself that I shouldn't proceed further. Not a second passed after that thought, and I heard a scream, I was terrified and ran away, but not before seeing what it was from, a Face Monster. Running as fast as I could, I scrambled to block the way so it wouldn't catch up to me, and blocked the entrance of a cliff with wooden blocks. I was hoping the monster would just go away because I was out of reach, and I thought it did when it turned back, so I broke the messy barricade I made, only to be surprised by the monster coming back. Panicking, I tried to block the way again, but ended up blocking myself, when the Face Monster reached me, I didn't even try to fight back, I lost all composure, and the Face Monster signed what I think was my first ever death in Terraria. After that, I struggled to kill it with my Copper Shortsword and a couple of Shurikens I think? I can't remember exactly, but I know that I didn't touch Terraria for a few days after that, until a friend created a world so we could play the game together. Now I have more than 2000 hours of total gametime, finished a couple of worlds alongside friends, but we have yet to finish one since Journey's End's release, and I STILL haven't finished a world by my own self...

This is such a throwback man. I remember playing terraria the first week it came out, my brother had bought it and let me play it and I instantly fell In love with it. It’s so amazing to see how far the game has come

Whoa Terraria Journey's Beginning update

James: (casually says the CREATOR OF THE GAME is saying the name wrong)

I've been playing for 8 years now and the game doesn't get boring for me, mainly because of mods but even in vanilla, there's SO much to do, one of the best games of all time

Wow, Terraria has such an interesting history!

"or terr-AIR-ia if you're andrew." but i thought i was Drigonis.

I bet the developer didnt expect this to blow up to the game it is today

shoutout to anyone who doscovered terraria from the man, our boy, PaperbatVG

Terraria: this edible ain’t shi- Terraria:

I just remembered that I thought chippy said “terraria and fusius”

Can we give props for all of those furniture sprites? They bring back all the great memories!

chippy: "you can see that everything i mine has the same sound" my brain: * automatically corrects the sound* me: wait what? it doesn't sound the same me: *paying attention* OH WOW.

I got my old iPad and found that I had terraria and man it looks weird but dang my IPad hasn’t been updated since it broke from something. But it still works :D

THIS is what it was like on my moms kindle. Brings back so many memories.

I was 9 years old and playing Pokemon LeafGreen when all of this happened

The final fantasy characters that the sprits were made after were bartz and galuf from final fantasy 5

I wasn't subscribed a week ago when this was released so it took me a little while to find it through my recommended. I'm so happy someone finally did a video on the Beta. I remember briefly playing either the Beta or Alpha (honestly can't remember) before buying the game, like, 9 years ago. Also glad that you mentioned the FF5 sprites because they're one of my favourite parts of this version and I don't think anyone on RU-vid has really talked about them. I honestly wasn't huge on your content many years back when I first saw it, but I definitely dropped a sub for this one.

The Character customization feature in this feature is very.... interesting........

I still cant believe that the thing that inspired me to get terraria was a dodgy terraria rip off on scratch. But im glad it did 😁

Wow, I remember playing 1.0. Crazy how much it’s changed. Great video!

I've been subbed for a while now, and I just want to say that I am a huge fan of your content. even though I haven't been playing very long or anything, I've always stuck around to watch your legendary map playthroughs and news uploads. Keep being legendary, and I know you'll hit 1 mil soon! - a grateful fan

I can't believe Terraria is going to be 10 years old this year. I bought the game on the exact day that 1.0.3 came out. Even now I still hold a lot of nostalgia for the pre-1.1 era of Terraria.

The original merchant looks good

When he said “terraria if your Andrew” scared the living fuck out of me because my name is literally Andrew

i remember the original build being used for mobile devices, i remember playing it as a child, this gave me major nostalgia

What I want in the last update (hoping there will be another one) is that there is an option to play all fo the old versions of Terraria kinda like Minecraft!!

Wow, that merchant is straight-up Galuf from Final Fantasy 5 haha. It's a good thing they changed it. Square Enix would have gone lawsuit crazy had they seen that lol.

I had no idea about this games' history until many years after the fact. Chippy, I think I found and subbed to you like 5 or 6 years ago and you're an amazing Terraria resource. I look forward to one day earning your couch.

The reason skeletron is so strong is because they used his head for the guardian. If you look at the moment you got killed by the guardian, it has the name and health of skeletron

"Playing Terraria Beta to pass time until 1.5"

11:32 the ultimate triple hit boomerang I like when that happens it’s cool

Just found this channel from 1.4 tips and tricks. Good stuff bro

I still remember how I launched Terraria for the first time in 2014. It was a beginning of something really beautiful that I enjoy even in these horrible days. I just simply can't forget my first world where I built houses that looked like a German bunker. The feel of a new undiscovered game was also there and I enjoyed progressing through unknown world towards hardmode which I didn't even know that it existed. It just feels so nice to have a look back at the good ol' days. Thank you for this video, Chippy.

8:26 “my first skeleun”

Man , this game literally grew with me, i played way back in 2011.. I am 20 now (almost 21) i can't believe its been almost 10 years. This game is a masterpiece.

Dude this brings back memories. No good memories, but memories. I know why I quit back then but I remember seeing a lot of what you've shown. Never got to hell tho and ofc seeing the guardian for the first time I entered the dungeon was super weird. I stuck with minecraft at that time and only recently picked up terraria again. This game is something else and exploring it now vs back when it came out is a night and day difference. I have so much fun now and it's a completely different game. I'm glad it took the more combat focused route and not ended up as another minecraft clone.

I had an extremely rough and sad day, but it is relaxing and calming to watch your videos I watched as a kid, just lets me take a breather. Thank you

Technically, it should be possible to kill skeletron. The minishark has a use speed of 8, so and as such shoots at 450 rpm. a night in terraria lasts for 9 minutes, so 9*450=4050 shots per night. It can be seen in the video that skeletron has 3000 hp, so even if you missed 1/4 of your shots you should be able to defeat him.

And that day, a legend was born...

I really hope to see your channel hit 1mill!

James: No terraria youtuber has ever reached 1 million subscribers Wand of Sparking: X doubt James: Arms Dealer Subtitles: Arm Stealer

Oh! It was *your* couch! I was puzzled at first when I killed Skeletron once...

Been a player since the 1.2 came out. So fun hours with this game, i love it.

its crazy to think that I've played both Minecraft and Terraria since beta/alpha. a decade of playing my 2 favourite games

I too have preserved this version! Such a blast from the past. I found it interesting that you have to make shadow armor at the demon altar.

That was cool. It pretty crazy how much the game evolved in such a short amount of time.

Oh my god, the old furnace design. I haven't that round thing in a while

As someone who is a big final fantasy nerd these old sprites I can see how they were inspired or placeholders from final fantasy it’s really really cool and the galuf merchant is cool

This feels so nostalgic even though I have never played this game before 1.2 I started when 1.2 was out

The health is blue and not a beta for Mana 11:23 (health potion time)

The merchant and old man sprites where nice. I dig the fluffy hair and beard!

If you took a shot every time Chippy said "Terraria" I don't think you'd survive the experience.

It is wild to look back on betas, this became 1.4, like imagine the old Terraria devs seeing the Queen Slime Fight we have now, stuff is just crazy, gotta long betas, stuff is so fun.

Get this man 1 million subs

The sprites look like they are from final fantasy

This is a video I just keep coming back to. I love it

been playing for 8 years and some of your videos are trips down memory lane

I don't know how many times i thought James said 'modded terraria' when he was saying modern (-_-)

When I started playing the strongest weapon was Sunfury, and that only dropped from bone serpents in hell. And I think the best armour in the game was the molten set. So I think the original desktop release.

I have the alpha version and a beta version which looks like the version you have, but I don’t know if it’s the same one as I’ve never been able to get it working properly. I expect it is though. Thank you for telling this story, it’s really cool! I hope I can get my hand on all these versions someday as I love this stuff. *EDIT:* I don’t know if other betas leaked which implies that we have the same beta, but the one I have definitely has the old merchant sprite so I assume they’re the same.

I haven’t played Terraria in a few months, but I just finished SMO recently and couldn’t figure out what to play (aside from ACNH) and now I know what I’ll be playing next

That was a journey and a half. I wish I didn't join Terraria community that late (early 2019) but I still enjoyed every single bit of that version. Fantastic video

I'm so glad I grew up with this: Terraria 1.0 But damn, this is better: Terraria 1.4.1

This was neat. Thanks for keeping it going!

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see that Chippy has the files for Otherworld

It looks sooo different! It makes me feel nostalgic for something i didn't experience..

How 1.4 players see 1.3

chippy i remember from the meme review wat u say but ur hair and ima keep doin it til u get one million subs :D

A lot of the history I never knew. It's really neat to see how far Terraria has progressed.

It’s so cool seeing this

"well I guess I'm Andrew now" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An old RU-vidr named PaperBatVG was actually given access to the beta version of terraria by the devs and recorded a long series of it back in the day.

I remember playing like this on a old iPad back in 2013/14 at which point it was a few updates behind on PC. I remember getting the terra blade a few months or even a year into that playthrough

they should add a special grappling hook that has the damage feature.

As soon as the i clicked on the video i was like oh god

Dude you just brought back soo many memories

I played Final Fantasy 4 _immensely_ when I was a younger, so I KNOW when I'm looking at Final Fantasy character sprites. _And those are Final Fantasy sprites, baby._ Never really thought about it before, but they really did stay on form for the most part.

Woah

Damn I was only 5 years old when they began development EDIT: *i was actually 4 years old I'm just stupid*

The caves looking mostly the same as they did in beta reminds me of Minecraft prior to the latest update.

Finding a mushroom biome normally: *Cool, refreshing, interesting, fun!* Finding a mushroom biome in ftw: “Ugh, not another one. Ah well, free loot.”