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Revision as of 02:54, 27 February 2021

Biome backgrounds are images that appear behind objects and blocks in each biome. Each biome has its own set of backgrounds that usually show a landscape of the biome. In a world, each biome is randomly assigned a background from its own set, and can be changed by using a World Globe. Backgrounds can also be overridden using Monoliths. Backgrounds do not affect a biome in any way, except in The Hallow, where the current background affects the style of hallowed trees. Turning off backgrounds in Settings hides them, though ambient entities will still appear.

Surface backgrounds

Forest

  • Updated classic background with evergreens with distant, realistic mountains

    Updated classic background with evergreens with distant, realistic mountains

  • Forest blocking mountains

    Forest blocking mountains

  • Bushy trees blocking a mountain

    Bushy trees blocking a mountain

  • Hilly landscape with evergreens

    Hilly landscape with evergreens

  • Pine trees blocking a hilly landscape

    Pine trees blocking a hilly landscape

  • Tall cliffs with an animated waterfall

    Tall cliffs with an animated waterfall

  • Tall cliffs with trees and grass.

    Tall cliffs with trees and grass.

  • Tall cliffs with evergreens

    Tall cliffs with evergreens

  • Large lake in a forest with a distant house and snowy mountains

    Large lake in a forest with a distant house and snowy mountains

  • Hills with a plateau

    Hills with a plateau

  • Evergreens blocking hills with plateau

    Evergreens blocking hills with plateau

  • Forest blocking plateau hills

    Forest blocking plateau hills

  • Bushy forest blocking plateau hills

    Bushy forest blocking plateau hills

  • Tall pillars with floating islands

    Tall pillars with floating islands

  • Pine forest with mountains in the distance

    Pine forest with mountains in the distance

  • Mountains with a lake

    Mountains with a lake

Desert

  • Classic sand dunes

    Classic sand dunes

  • Sand dunes with animal skeletons

    Sand dunes with animal skeletons

  • Sand dunes with rocks and buttes

    Sand dunes with rocks and buttes

  • Sand dunes with cacti and a few ruins

    Sand dunes with cacti and a few ruins

  • Dry flat desert over a cliff, with a few dead trees and bones

    Dry flat desert over a cliff, with a few dead trees and bones

Infected Desert

  • Corrupt desert

    Corrupt desert

  • Crimson desert

    Crimson desert

  • Hallowed desert

    Hallowed desert

Snow biome

  • Updated classic evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains

    Updated classic evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains

  • Mountains with leafless trees

    Mountains with leafless trees

  • Icy mountains with sparse trees

    Icy mountains with sparse trees

  • Frozen tree forest blocking snowy mountains

    Frozen tree forest blocking snowy mountains

  • Evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains

    Evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains

  • Icy mountains with snowy evergreens

    Icy mountains with snowy evergreens

  • Frozen forest blocking mountains

    Frozen forest blocking mountains

  • Evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains

    Evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains

  • Icy mountains with evergreens

    Icy mountains with evergreens

  • Leafless forest blocking snowy mountains with evergreens

    Leafless forest blocking snowy mountains with evergreens

  • Snowy fields with sparse evergreens.

    Snowy fields with sparse evergreens.

  • Snowy plains with sparse trees.

    Snowy plains with sparse trees.

  • Snowy plains with pine trees, a few piles of Snowballs and a snowman behind a frozen lake

    Snowy plains with pine trees, a few piles of Snowballs and a snowman behind a frozen lake

Jungle

Some Jungle backgrounds are combined with the current forest background.

  • Classic bushy green canopies

    Classic bushy green canopies

  • Grassy field with rich mahogany trees

    Grassy field with rich mahogany trees

  • Thorny hills

    Thorny hills

  • Bonsai-like tree jungle

    Bonsai-like tree jungle

  • Muddy jungle with dark textures over a cliff

    Muddy jungle with dark textures over a cliff

  • Marsh-like field with sparse jungle trees and animated water bodies

    Marsh-like field with sparse jungle trees and animated water bodies

The Corruption

  • Classic corrupt trees without leaves

    Classic corrupt trees without leaves

  • More detailed corrupt trees on darker purple grass

    More detailed corrupt trees on darker purple grass

  • Plains with chasms and thorny, organic-looking structures

    Plains with chasms and thorny, organic-looking structures

  • Large spike structures emerging out of a thorny landscape

    Large spike structures emerging out of a thorny landscape

  • Jagged mountains with a single ebonwood tree and chasm

    Jagged mountains with a single ebonwood tree and chasm

The Crimson

  • Classic background, consisting of crimson trees and a distant giant skull and bones

    Classic background, consisting of crimson trees and a distant giant skull and bones

  • Similar to the previous image, but has a redder grass hue and different trees, skull and bones

    Similar to the previous image, but has a redder grass hue and different trees, skull and bones

  • Red hills with crimson trees and large brown arches

    Red hills with crimson trees and large brown arches

  • Red field with eyeballs and bones

    Red field with eyeballs and bones

  • Blood lake with dragon bones in a crimson field with many trees and more dragon bones.

    Blood lake with dragon bones in a crimson field with many trees and more dragon bones.

  • Jagged, dark red rocky landscape with stone arches.

    Jagged, dark red rocky landscape with stone arches.

The Hallow

Every Hallow background has a rainbow in it.

  • Updated classic Hallow evergreen forest

    Updated classic Hallow evergreen forest

  • Hallowed trees of several colors

    Hallowed trees of several colors

  • Hallow field with a magenta river, a few hallowed trees, an extra rainbow and distant pink and blue crystals

    Hallow field with a magenta river, a few hallowed trees, an extra rainbow and distant pink and blue crystals

  • Plateaus with sparse hallow trees

    Plateaus with sparse hallow trees

  • Hills with rocky formations, evergreen-like rainbow trees and crystals

    Hills with rocky formations, evergreen-like rainbow trees and crystals

Ocean

  • Classic distant mountains

    Classic distant mountains

  • Distant sandy islands with palm trees and moʻai

    Distant sandy islands with palm trees and moʻai

  • Distant sandy islands without moʻai

    Distant sandy islands without moʻai

  • Distant islets and sea stacks

    Distant islets and sea stacks

  • Distant alternative islands

    Distant alternative islands

  • Distant mountains with mesas. Has different water color.

    Distant mountains with mesas. Has different water color.

Glowing Mushroom biome

Glowing Mushroom backgrounds are combined with the current forest background.

  • Classic Glowing Mushrooms

    Classic Glowing Mushrooms

  • Smaller mushrooms towering in groups

    Smaller mushrooms towering in groups

  • Open mushroom field with a lake in the background

    Open mushroom field with a lake in the background

  • Smaller mushrooms on a hilly landscape. Has a different grass color

    Smaller mushrooms on a hilly landscape. Has a different grass color

Underground backgrounds

These backgrounds consist of only one layer, unlike surface backgrounds, and cannot be changed with World Globes.

Underground

  • Old rocky dirt background used before 1.2

    Old rocky dirt background used before 1.2

  • Rough dirt pattern with rocks

    Rough dirt pattern with rocks

  • Rough dirt pattern without rocks

    Rough dirt pattern without rocks

  • Bumpy dirt pattern with larger rocks

    Bumpy dirt pattern with larger rocks

  • Crumbling dirt wall with rocks

    Crumbling dirt wall with rocks

  • Crumbling dirt wall without rocks

    Crumbling dirt wall without rocks

  • Circular dirt wall

    Circular dirt wall

  • Circular dirt wall with grass seeds

    Circular dirt wall with grass seeds

  • Cracked dirt wall revealing stone behind it

    Cracked dirt wall revealing stone behind it

Cavern

  • Old rocky stone background used before 1.2

    Old rocky stone background used before 1.2

  • Smooth stone wall with rocks

    Smooth stone wall with rocks

  • Smooth stone wall without rocks

    Smooth stone wall without rocks

  • Stone wall covered in larger rocks

    Stone wall covered in larger rocks

  • Stone wall covered in medium sized rocks

    Stone wall covered in medium sized rocks

  • Crumbling stone wall

    Crumbling stone wall

  • Rocky stone wall

    Rocky stone wall

  • Rocky stone wall with orange moss

    Rocky stone wall with orange moss

  • Cracked stone wall, matching pattern revealed by matching underground layer background

    Cracked stone wall, matching pattern revealed by matching underground layer background

Pre-underworld

  • Old underworld background used before 1.2, features very thin lava flow

    Old underworld background used before 1.2, features very thin lava flow

  • Twisting lava flow

    Twisting lava flow

  • Thin lava flow with skulls in the rocks

    Thin lava flow with skulls in the rocks

  • Very thick lava flow around large rocks

    Very thick lava flow around large rocks

Glowing Mushroom biome

  • Small glowing mushrooms illuminating a rocky background

    Small glowing mushrooms illuminating a rocky background

  • Large glowing mushrooms illuminating a rocky background

    Large glowing mushrooms illuminating a rocky background

Ice biome (Underground)

  • Multiple thin layers of ice stacked on top of each other

    Multiple thin layers of ice stacked on top of each other

  • Smooth wall of ice

    Smooth wall of ice

  • Bumpy ice wall

    Bumpy ice wall

  • irregular ice layers stacked on top of each other

    irregular ice layers stacked on top of each other

Ice biome (Cavern)

  • Ice crystals

    Ice crystals

  • Darker ice wall

    Darker ice wall

  • Bumpy ice wall with extra ice rocks

    Bumpy ice wall with extra ice rocks

  • Smooth wall littered with ice rocks

    Smooth wall littered with ice rocks

Underground Ocean

  • [Default] sand wall with different types of coral

    [Default] sand wall with different types of coral

  • [Corrupt] Ebonsand wall with corrupt coral

    [Corrupt] Ebonsand wall with corrupt coral

  • [Crimson] Crimsand wall with dying and crimson coral

    [Crimson] Crimsand wall with dying and crimson coral

  • [Hallowed] Pearlsand wall with hallowed, crystal-like corals

    [Hallowed] Pearlsand wall with hallowed, crystal-like corals

Underground Jungle (Underground layer)

  • Small vines growing on a dirt background

    Small vines growing on a dirt background

  • Large leaves growing from rocks

    Large leaves growing from rocks

Underground Jungle (Cavern)

  • Rocky wall with small vines spread across

    Rocky wall with small vines spread across

  • Smooth stone wall with leaves growing from it

    Smooth stone wall with leaves growing from it

Underground Corruption

  • Rocky ebonstone wall with green moss growing in the cracks

    Rocky ebonstone wall with green moss growing in the cracks

  • Rocky ebonstone wall with small dots of moss placed around

    Rocky ebonstone wall with small dots of moss placed around

  • Jagged ebonstone wall

    Jagged ebonstone wall

  • Bumpy ebonstone wall

    Bumpy ebonstone wall

  • [Corrupt Ice] Smooth purple ice wall with normal stone rocks, or possibly claws or teeth. There appears to be a frozen eye to the right.

    [Corrupt Ice] Smooth purple ice wall with normal stone rocks, or possibly claws or teeth. There appears to be a frozen eye to the right.

Underground Crimson

  • Blistered crimstone wall

    Blistered crimstone wall

  • Crimstone wall with red moss growing over the rocks

    Crimstone wall with red moss growing over the rocks

  • Alternative moss arrangement

    Alternative moss arrangement

  • Dark crimstone wall

    Dark crimstone wall

  • Gray stone wall with blisters scattered

    Gray stone wall with blisters scattered

  • [Crimson Ice] Smooth red ice wall

    [Crimson Ice] Smooth red ice wall

  • [Crimson Ice] Bumpy red ice wall with Blood Jellies and eyeballs frozen within it

    [Crimson Ice] Bumpy red ice wall with Blood Jellies and eyeballs frozen within it

Underground Hallow

  • Large rocks blocking blue and pink crystals on a purple background

    Large rocks blocking blue and pink crystals on a purple background

  • Diagonal purple crystals. May cause confusion with underground corruption due to purple color

    Diagonal purple crystals. May cause confusion with underground corruption due to purple color

  • Bumpy stone wall with blue and pink crystals growing out of it

    Bumpy stone wall with blue and pink crystals growing out of it

  • [Hallowed Ice] Cracked purple ice wall with blue and pink dots. (May cause confusion with Corrupt ice due to purple color.)

    [Hallowed Ice] Cracked purple ice wall with blue and pink dots. (May cause confusion with Corrupt ice due to purple color.)

  • [Hallowed Ice] Smooth pink ice wall

    [Hallowed Ice] Smooth pink ice wall

  • [Hallowed Ice] Bumpy multicolored ice wall

    [Hallowed Ice] Bumpy multicolored ice wall

  • [Hallowed Ice] Smooth multicolored ice wall

    [Hallowed Ice] Smooth multicolored ice wall

Underworld backgrounds

Unlike the underground backgrounds, these have multiple layers like surface backgrounds do.

  • Original background from 1.3 with large pillars with lava pools

    Original background from 1.3 with large pillars with lava pools

  • Large lava lake with islands and lava falls

    Large lava lake with islands and lava falls

  • Large mountain structures with caves

    Large mountain structures with caves

Trivia

  • The 3rd Hallow surface background features a large animated lake on its 3rd layer which cannot be easily seen in-game.

History

  • Desktop 1.4.0.1:
    • Added 27 new surface backgrounds and updated the graphics of many existing ones.
      • Added 2 new Forest backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Desert backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Snow backgrounds.
      • Added 4 new Jungle backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Corruption backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Crimson backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Hallow backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Ocean backgrounds.
      • Added 3 new Glowing Mushroom backgrounds.
    • Added new normal, corrupt, crimson and hallowed underground layer backgrounds for the Ocean.
    • Added 2 new Underworld backgrounds.
  • Desktop 1.3.0.1: Underworld background now displays with multiple layers, similar to surface backgrounds.
  • Desktop 1.1:
    • Added unique surface backgrounds for the Forest, Desert, Jungle, Ocean, Corruption and Hallow.
      • Prior to the update, only the basic blue background could be seen in every biome.
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