User blog comment:22Scadoo/Is there a rift between Minecrafters and Terrarians?/@comment-4301259-20111001004612

There's no doubt that Terraria has taken many ideas from Minecraft, though I still don't think it's a rip off. Every game takes ideas from other games, it's just how it works, and I love both games. If you look at the concept with the mixture of mining/building/exploring/fighting it's pretty much the same, except Terraria has more focus on fighting monsters while Minecraft has more focus on mining. Crafting is also very similar and there are a lot of similar items. That being said, Terraria is 2D, so it has quite a different feel to it, kinda like an arcade game.