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.

On February 21, 2012, Redigit announced that development has ceased for Terraria, with only bugfixes left to come, however, on 23 January, 2013 , Redigit hinted at a possible update. Since then various spoilers have been released.

Next PC version
Shortly after Redigit hinted at a possible new update for Terraria, various spoilers had been released on the forums, Terraria IRC and his official Twitter account. The following information is mainly based on screenshots and information from the developer and, therefore, might not be completely accurate.

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New additions
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 * New Hook
 * Around 350 new items
 * Bricks in every color
 * Glowing bricks
 * More wire colours
 * More traps (Possibly a flamethrower trap)
 * New chest, door, table and chair type
 * New brick/changed gold brick texture at the sky islands
 * New place/mineable cloud and raining cloud blocks
 * New alchemy plants(or possibly decoration)
 * New ore type(s)(may be Platinum and Tungsten)
 * New mushroom furniture and blocks
 * New cactus furniture and blocks
 * Sandstone bricks and walls
 * New banners
 * A campfire (for burning marshmallows)
 * Icy bricks and walls
 * Landmines
 * A cooking stove
 * A unicorn mount (hobby horse)
 * Possibly a time altering item
 * Possibly each biome tree dropping a different type of wood (Dark blue/grey wood)
 * A new high damage, low fire rate gun (could be a sniper rifle)
 * New mage robes.
 * Beam Sword
 * New bow
 * At least four new guns
 * New pickaxe (coloration similar to adamantite)
 * Clentaminator
 * New vanity sets (pharaoh/eskimo/steampunk/pirate/...) more than 20 new
 * A total of 10-20 new wings
 * Pvp cannons
 * A new light disc type weapon
 * Possibly A snow armor
 * Possibly shields
 * Possibly new Vilethorn like weapon
 * Possibly a cactus armor
 * Possibly a mushroom spear and axe that leaves spinning death shrooms behind it
 * Possibly a mushroom spear and axe that leaves spinning death shrooms behind it
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 * 'Rare' Monster
 * Turtle enemy (drops a scale that does something fun?)
 * An ice spirit?
 * Icy slimes
 * Penguin enemies
 * A viking skeleton
 * 2-4 new bosses
 * Possibly cactus enemies
 * Possibly A new half dragon/half pig mob

New Features
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 * More uses for Gems
 * Better use for Silt
 * Another use for Heart Crystal
 * Another use for Heart Crystal
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 * More pets (Including pet Turtle, pet frog and pet penguin)
 * A new special NPC that sells cannon related stuff (Possibly a special pvp oriented NPC?)
 * Possibly pets that store items for you
 * Possibly Barber NPC
 * Possibly NPCs giving quests
 * Possibly Fireflies at night
 * Possibly Little environmental? mobs/insects
 * Possibly Little environmental? mobs/insects
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 * Moss
 * No space biome
 * Water/lavafalls as decoration
 * Weather effects
 * The option for an extra large world
 * Hallow & Corruption changes
 * More decoration/changed decoration textures
 * Different water color in each biome
 * Giant trees or Possibly a new biome
 * Biome themed pots
 * An Ice/frost biome or changed snow biome with underground
 * Blue/ice themed chests
 * A new snowflower
 * A mushroom biome(with NPC)
 * Possibly fruit trees
 * Possibly pyramids
 * Possibly pyramids
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 * More than 5 character/world limit
 * Revamped Character Menu
 * Mobs have health bars
 * Game mechanism:
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 * PvP Mechanism changed
 * Possibly leveling system
 * Walk up 1 block tiles
 * Half blocks
 * Improved team based gaming
 * No increase of the current maximum health
 * Revamped Hardmode
 * Over 60 aesthetic changes
 * More options for Alchemy (possibly cooldown reduction)
 * New music for the snow biome
 * You will start with mana
 * A bloodmoon like event during the day
 * Possibly Visible accessories
 * Possibly More functional statues (chest)
 * Possibly the ability to dye your pet and armors
 * Possibly Teleporters
 * Possibly Biome changing objects
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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

 * Cthulhu as in-game character.  If that was not a joke.
 * 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
 * Earthquake
 * More/improved invasions
 * Official Modding Support
 * Weather:
 * Seasons
 * 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
 * Whather Vane
 * Telescope
 * Wall Mounted Fish
 * Window
 * Window with Curtains
 * Bell
 * Small Painting
 * Cuckoo Clock
 * Mirror
 * Wardrobe
 * Larger painting