Upcoming features

This page is about features that have been announced by official game developers. Please remember that none of this is guaranteed to be included in the game.

Some of the following information hasn't been explicitly announced yet, and are only listed upon assumption of information released by the developers (i.e. screenshots). Some names are conjectural, and therefore may not be the final name upon release. References with a dotted underline will indicate where the information is exactly sourced from within the reference when hovered over with the cursor.

Christmas update
With some festive content. Planned around the 15th December.

Unspecified version
The following changes have been mentioned by the game developers, but haven't been specified to be included in a particular version.

New additions and changes

 * Danger of town destruction due to invasions.
 * Pure PvP servers with team based objectives, including newly generated worlds with an automatically created tower on each side of the map, with players fighting each other on a CTF game mode.
 * Adding sloped/inclined tiles to make the world smoother.
 * New harder world types:
 * Alien planets
 * Alternate dimensions
 * Evil worlds
 * Enemy factions that will move into your world, and build their own city.
 * More events:
 * Volcanoes
 * Earthquakes
 * More/improved invasions
 * Weather:
 * Seasons
 * Snow
 * Floods
 * Farming and stamina system that gives a bonus to player stats.
 * Implementation of Steam features.
 * Multiplayer improvements.
 * NPCs which can give quests to provide more content.
 * New items:
 * Reinforced Door
 * Stone Door
 * Portcullis
 * Campfire
 * Flag
 * Fishing Pole
 * Bushes to provide more flora to the world.
 * Stalagmites and stalactites in caves.
 * New furniture:
 * padded chair
 * 3 variants of doors
 * urn
 * weather vane
 * telescope
 * wall-mounted fish
 * window
 * window with curtains
 * bell
 * wooden statue
 * small painting
 * cuckoo clock
 * mirror
 * wardrobe
 * larger painting
 * A new ingame item that comes with the collectors edition copy of terraria.
 * Possibly a new boss. Appears to spawn in the ocean. (Cthulhu?)