Sports

Sports are a group of activities that can be played in terraria using certain in game items, such as golf. Most sports items are bought from npcs, but large gems and beach balls (on the old gen consoles and 3ds versions) are crafted and found in water chests respectively.Fishing poles can be bought, crafted and rewarded by the angler.

Golf
Golf is a sport that is mainly supported by the Golfer NPC. The main items used in golf are as follows: Different clubs serve different purposes: The wedge is used to get the ball out of hazards such as sand, as it has high vertical loft. The gold iron is used for general medium to short range shots, as it has decent vertical loft and power. The drivers are amazing at long range shots as they have massive power and little loft. The final type of club is the putter, which is used for very short range shots. A golf cup is used as a goal for aiming the ball and a golf tee is used for placing it. See golf for more details.

Beach ball
Beach ball is a sport about Keeping the ball in the air by hitting it with yourself, a weapon (except the starlight) or a water/slime gun. Score is kept count by the game, and if the ball lands after it has been hit up 10 or more times, the chat will announce ‘The beach ball was hit (number of times) times before touching the ground!’

American football
Football is a sport about either throwing the ball in between two large poles or running to the enemy teams edge of the field and putting the ball on the ground to score points in a limited amount of time. Receiving any amount of damage will automatically make you drop the football, so dodging is key. The ball is bought from the merchant.

Capture the gem
Capture the gem is a unique sport in that it is a variant of another sport, capture the flag. Two teams (with pvp on) race to each other’s base/spawn point and try to take each other’s gem from a gem lock, while also trying to stop the opposition from doing so. Sometimes players will get ‘preparation time’ in which they gather resources to build defences around their gem. Another thing that players usually get are classes, in which players get certain gear and weapons, usually the classes are in game damage classes and subclasses (e.g. gunner, melee, sentry). Capture the gem can be played in one of two ways, a timed fight with score points based on how many gems each team has taken and captured, or whichever team captures a gem first. The sport uses large gems as the capture targets, as they always drop on death, even with a soft core character. They are crafted with 15 of the corresponding gem.

Fishing
Fishing is a sport that isn’t as competitive as other sports, but it can easily be turned into a competition or tournament (e.g fishing for a certain fish, certain crate loot etc). Fishing requires a fishing pole and bait. Bait can be caught with a bug net, rewarded by the angler, or looted from crates. Fishing poles can be bought, rewarded by the angler, crafted, or looted from chests. Albeit the specific catch still being fairly random,the fish caught depends on your fishing power, which can be influenced by a number of factors, including weather and time. Fishing can also be a good way to get good loot, as it has many useful catches, including crates.