The Version of Terraria You Shouldn’t Have Seen… (Terraria Beta)

The Version of Terraria You Shouldn’t Have Seen… (Terraria Beta)

Hey everyone my name is james and welcome back to chippy gaming so in january of 2011 aspiring programmer andrew spinks sat down and for the very first time began working on a project the world would later know as terraria or terraria if you’re andrew it’s now january 2021 which now means

It’s been 10 years since terraria began development to celebrate this i wanted to give you a complete playthrough of terraria’s beta which i estimate to be from late march 2011. this has never been shown in its entirety here on youtube and it’s really awesome to look at

Before we get into the gameplay though i do want to give a quick history on this version of terraria and how it actually affected the game’s launch but before we get into it if you enjoyed today’s video be sure to give the video a big fat thumbs up

And why not subscribe to chippy gaming we’re trying to hit 1 million subscribers this year it’s never been done by a terraria channel and with your help i feel like we can do it all right let’s talk about the history so like i mentioned at the start terraria began

Development in january of 2011 and was released only five months later on may 16 2011. what you may know is that terraria wasn’t actually meant to release in may it was meant to have a lot more work put into it but because two separate versions of terraria was actually leaked once the

Distribution deal was settled with steam the game was released early in the may of that year it’s hard to find accurate information on what went down during all of this so take everything i say with a pinch of salt but for those wondering what the two different versions were

The first one is referred to as terraria’s alpha and this was actually leaked a little bit earlier than the beta in this version of the game you could run the game you could play but you wouldn’t be able to save there was only a couple of items in the game

And everything looked completely different when this first version was initially leaked the responses were pretty good by this point people had already seen the terraria reveal trailer and the game looked a lot different than this early alpha build so people just assumed that this was just a mock-up version from way before they

Found out about the game the second version however was met with a lot of skepticism you see when terraria was originally being developed all of the sprites that were shown during the reveal trailer were placeholder sprites actually inspired by final fantasy so what relogic did during this time is they announced the game

And revealed it but then they hired the artist finn bryce to go over all of those assets and replace them with the ones that we know in terraria’s first release so it seems like this beta build of terraria was actually leaked a week before the game was first sold on steam

And was circulated using the website 4chan the issue is because this build was two months old at this point and still featured all of those final fantasy sprites and an incomplete boss roster it seems like the reception to this was pretty bad and the issue is people were then pirating and downloading the

Game that relogic intended to sell only a couple of days later all of this unfortunately forced the developer’s hand and they put the game up for sale on may 16 2011 with the version 1.0 but this isn’t what they imagined for terraria so i’ve always wondered how these versions of terraria were

Originally leaked i assumed that it would be from some kind of disgruntled beta tester but it turns out what might have happened is that people discovered that red was hosting all of the terraria files they needed to download on the official terraria website from what i’ve read from various forum posts from

Around this time it seems like one soul person was able to download terraria let the developers know that their game was able to be downloaded so that was cut off but then they actually circulated that beta version using 4chan the thing i really love about this story is that

This event could have ruined terrarium but the developers were actually dedicated to making terraria what they wanted it to be despite releasing early they still worked on it for the following months and got it up to the 1.1 update which i’ve always assumed to be the point where the developers were just

More than happy to hand off the game for those who don’t know when terraria was released it sold over 200 000 copies in its first week on steam and nearly half a million in the first month it would have been too easy to cash in and step away

But re-logic have never been about that and i’ve always respected it unfortunately this version of terraria and every older version of terraria i’ve shown on this channel and not available to download and i can’t share them with you the reason why these are in my possession is because when i was younger

I wanted to preserve these versions of terraria so that many years down the line terraria historians can have a little glimpse into the game’s history so i’m really glad i did that i also want to say thank you to relogic for being so cool when i show these old versions of

Terraria and thank you so much for 10 years but with the history out the way let’s have a little look at the terraria beta from late march 2011. so my adventure began like any other by creating a character and you can already tell things look a little bit different here

We’re using sprites that are inspired by final fantasy so it kind of looks like the player only has one leg at this point you only had three different hairstyles to choose from and the misc option would actually change the color of your shoes and also the color of your belt in modern terraria

Players don’t have belts all right they deserve really tight fitting jeans what’s also interesting is on the world creation screen it shows you exactly how many megabytes it takes for a small and medium and a large world so the world looks fairly similar to how it does in version 1.0 the guide actually

Looks the same as well however he’s missing a few frames of his animation so when he walks it looks a little bit choppier the game was also missing a lot of different sound effects so you can see that every single thing that in mind in this video actually has the same

Sound effect like i still do to this day the very first thing that i tried to do was set up a house and also get a bow and arrow but what’s different is that i’m able to craft the wooden bow however at this point i’m not able to craft any arrows

It was intended in this stage of development that you would simply buy them from the merchant so going back to those sound effects you can see that even as i mine this iron ore it sounds like a modern terraria player actually digging up some dirt one thing i really loved seeing and this

Happened to me all throughout my adventure is that the player wasn’t able to suck up items quite nearly as fast as they are today so items would often just kind of spill away from the character and get stuck underground because the player couldn’t absorb them quickly enough one of the things that i

Liked is that the very first cave system that i found actually looks a lot like a cave system you would find in modern terraria i think that’s really cool how the foundations were there right at the very start of development so one thing that was really

Interesting is that in this build of the game mana didn’t exist yet there were no fallen stars there was no mana to be gained but what’s interesting is that every now and again i would kill a slime or an enemy and the game would actually try and heal

My mana i also managed to get some arrows from these parts so it doesn’t really matter what version of terraria i’m playing some things just never changed i realized that when looking at this footage i actually missed the very first live crystal not to worry though

A couple of moments later i found a new life crystal and this is where i had my first pretty big discovery so people that may have watched my 1.0 video will know that to get a life crystal you needed to use a wooden hammer in modern terraria you just use a pickaxe

However the wooden hammer actually didn’t exist at this point in terraria’s development so it turned out that what you have to do was to craft a silver hammer and then actually get that life crystal and it’s interesting because i went back and watched the very first reveal trailer for terrarium

And you can see the player doing this with a silver hammer as well so with a little bit of health i encountered my first skeleton it seemed like these were a little bit faster than what we got in the first release of terrarium however i’m not too sure

If that was maybe just me in a panic but what’s cool is that he actually dropped a hook that i would later turn into a grapple hook but because the player doesn’t say the item above its head it’s funny i didn’t really notice it until like an hour afterwards that i’ve gotten it

So not too long into my adventure i got my very first chest just out in the open and it’s funny because in that 1.0 video i made last year i said that i kind of missed these a little bit and then we actually got them in terraria 1.4

I also managed to find a blue mushroom biome and just like when i was a kid i get so excited about these it doesn’t matter what version of terraria i’m playing when you drop down and you get this new sense of discovery it’s really addictive and it’s one of my favorite parts about

Terraria so since my players inventory was very quickly getting filled up i decided to head back home and start working on my npc tower building a house is the exact same as it is in the first release of terraria but this part’s a little bit different i was very quickly greeted

By the merchant and he looks a little different so from what i’ve read this version of the merchant was actually directly inspired by a character from final fantasy v this was of course before they hired an artist to replace all of the sprites that were inspired by final fantasy

But what’s cool is that he’s selling all of the same items that he sold in the full release so now that i had a merchant i really wanted to check some of the gems that i found while mining i knew at this point gems didn’t have any use so i figured

That they were probably used right at the very start to try and earn the player some money so it turns out that gems sell for quite a lot and it meant that by only selling a couple of them even though they weren’t rare my character was minted meaning that i

Could buy pretty much any item that i wanted to check out but i decided what i would do is actually buy a bunch of arrows since i wasn’t able to craft them i also used this time to smell up a bunch of the oars that i’d found in the world

And i now had enough materials to make a pair of silver greaves the sprite for this is so funny it’s like actually a silver pair of trousers like i actually kind of love it in a weird way later that night i actually discovered the dungeon for the first time and

Although this dungeon looks amazing just like it does in the full release what’s different is the old man now i’ve actually never seen this before i had no idea that there was a placeholder sprite for the old man you can tell that he’s just a merchant with white here

But you can see that with the white hair the white beard and the red coat that’s where the clothier was inspired from so i was so amazed by this i actually drowned right next to him so i got my first terraria death stood next to the original old man

And that felt very appropriate after that i did some more caving and discovered my first accessory so the accessory that i got was actually the hermes boots now i was pretty interested in this because i assume that at this point all of the accessories may have different sprites

Because of the fact that we got from red that the original cloud in the bottle was gonna look like the angel statue but no this looks like hermes boots with the iron i found in the chest i was then able to make a grappling hook now this functions very similar to how

It does in the full release you have to manually throw it out rather than having a shortcut on your keyboard that was introduced later on but what i didn’t know is that the grappling hook was actually intended as a weapon so i realized this when kind

Of flying through the world that i could damage the zombie it became obvious pretty quickly though why they removed this because essentially you would try and use your grappling hook to get out of a bad situation but instead you’d hit the enemy you’re running away from

And you just die of fall damage it was like actually a bit of a nightmare with the idea of bosses in mind i decided it was time to check out the corruption my goal here was to get some rotten chunks and some bile powder so that i could manually spawn in the

Eater of worlds my intention was that the eye of cthulhu may take too long to spawn in so by doing the ear of worlds i could get the dryad i could get the shadow orbs and it would make everything a little bit easier but a big problem actually arose shortly after this

Because i soon realized that this world didn’t have demonolas and no other world i checked had them either so this meant it was actually impossible to spawn in the eater of worlds now a clear plan is you would wait around for the eye of gefulum

And then what you would do is you would use the dryad to sell you some powder and then you would do the shadow orbs and spawn the ear of worlds in that way uh turns out that the eye of cthulhu won’t actually spawn in either this version of terraria which i didn’t know

Is actually locked so that you won’t do the boss fight which we’ll soon learn about skeletron one question i did have going into this because i realized pretty quickly that this version doesn’t have mana is how does the water bolt work and also how does it look

So i returned to the dungeon once more in a pursuit to get one unfortunately i didn’t find one so i moved on to my next question which was does this version of terraria have the jump scare and how does that work and it turns out that yeah it does it

Has the jump scare with an instant death but we come back here later and there’s actually a way to cheat it so for this video i ended up exploring five different worlds in pursuit of a demon although and this shadow orb right here was the only one that i could find

That was glitched so by destroying the shadow orb what it allowed the world to do is to spawn in a meteorite and also give us the arm stealer which was absolutely great for me because i did want to see what does the arm stealer look like and how does meteorite even work

Shortly after that the nurse ended up moving in to my npc village and it was really cool to see that the nurse actually looks identical to how she does today like the guide though she’s missing a few frames of animation so she walks around a little differently shortly after that

We got the arrival of the arm stealer we’re going to be checking them out in a little bit and i was also able to find the meteorite what’s interesting is that the meteorite actually works a lot like it does today if a player steps on it without an obsidian school they do burn

And meter right heads spawn around it the meteorite heads look and act a little bit differently than they do today they seem a little bit more aggressive and also a little bit more bouncing but i’m going to be coming back to this later on to try and see if we

Can figure out a way to mine it at this point with the realization that i can’t summon in the eater of worlds and i don’t meet the criteria for the eye of cthulhu or the criteria that i know to be in the full release i decided what i would do

Is i would use a little bit of my talents with modern terraria and just simply take out skeletron now taking out skeletron is not too hard in this version obviously it’s very much like the same fight that we have now it’s a little bit more floaty though however there’s a very big problem

His defense is so high that you can only deal one damage every single time you hit the boss now my theory is that this was actually done so that the testers at the time wouldn’t go into the dungeon maybe the dungeon wasn’t complete yet it looks a

Little uncomplete when we go there later on but i realized very quickly that we would not be taking down skeletron but it did have an idea in mind so what i decided to do was actually bail on the fight and go back home and actually speak to our new arms dealer

So immediately you can see that the arm stealer looks a little different than how he does today but what i did like is that the first dialogue option he gave me was about the nurse so he’s like the nurse since day one all right his pylon makes complete sense so what i decided

To do was use some of the money that i’d got from the gems and purchase a mini shark this is probably the best weapon in terraria at this point in the game so i decided that if i had the mini shark and thousands and thousands and thousands of

Bullets with the amount of time you have to do the fight i should be able to take down skeletron so i went to work at buying just thousands of bullets so going into the second fight i felt pretty confident that i was gonna be able to do this

Especially with the fact that i knew i wasn’t gonna die to the fight and i had enough bullets i knew that as long as i was accurate enough i should be able to take down its 3 000 health that’s not the case at all um what actually ended up happening is it turned

Daytime and it seems like in this version of terraria daytime skeletron will still instantly kill you now if you’ve ever wondered what the original silver chess piece looks like wonder no more because this is what it looks like i love these classic sprites so with the idea

Of meeting the eye of cthulhu criteria in mind i decided to go exploring again and i actually did this on a new world and i immediately found an accessory which i wasn’t really hoping to find so i ended up finding the cloud in a bottle but what i was really hoping

Is that what we would actually find is the angel statue cloud in a bottle like i mentioned earlier red did say that the angel statue was originally gonna be the cloud in a bottle so i had my fingers crossed that in this version we might actually find it

After that i also realized that you can mine obsidian in this version with whatever pickaxe you have you can also place blocks on lava and it completely deletes it from the world which is cool and then shortly after that i unlocked a memory in my brain that i forgot that i’d even had

Which is these prototype fire rims that were shown in the original terraria reveal trailer back in april 2011 so not only do they look different their attacks also work different too so they fire the same fireballs that they do normally at you but you can actually repel them and

They’ll bounce away kind of like an enemy in mario they also have a really high defense and take a long time to kill and what’s even better is they will die in lava which obviously makes no sense and doesn’t happen anymore so i managed to work my way into hell

And i was pretty excited about this because i really wanted to check out what molten armor looked at this stage in development however it never really panned out that way so i found out that you can mine hellstone using any pickaxe available to you and it doesn’t drop lava when broken

Which it used to do in the full release i did find though that you can make an obsidian school that was pretty interesting i would have figured that that would be in this version of the game however i wasn’t able to find a way to melt the hellstone now modern

Terraria you would use a hellforge but in this version of the game they didn’t seem to generate so i ended up using my grappling hook and i scoured the whole of hell looking for one of these furnaces but unfortunately they never popped up and i wasn’t able to make it

Using a regular furnace so i think at this point this was just a part of the game that simply wasn’t finished yet so after fully exploring helm i decided i would head back home and start working on some more homes for my npcs i wanted to see if there was maybe the

Slim chance that we would get an npc that nobody has ever seen before maybe one that was cut from the game and it turns out yeah i did get a new npc one that you really wouldn’t expect it was the guide that’s right you hate the guide don’t

Worry about it classic terraria can give you two of them yeah this was just a glitch but oh my god did it crack me up so now that i had the obsidian skull i decided hey i’ll go and check out the meteorite at this point i’d also made a golden

Pickaxe and it turns out that i can now mine the meteorite i will say trying to mine this meteorite with the original meteor heads is pretty annoying but i found that i could get a good little balance by just flicking backwards and forwards what’s also interesting is that meteorite will not actually work

With bombs and i find this interesting as well because they changed this in terraria 1.4 so it almost seems like weirdly terraria is falling into its original fade but yeah i grabbed a bunch of meteorite because i was pretty excited to see what meteorite armor would look like at this point in

Development how would a space gun work with no manner well it turns out none of that was yet to be introduced so i was able to actually craft up the meteorite bars however what you could make was mind-blowing you could make the molten fury so this is the hell bone that we all

Know and love the one that converts arrows into flaming arrows so it seems like because the hellstone wasn’t completed in this build this weapon was assigned to meteorite maybe for testing purposes but hey it actually works i got a bunch of arrows i tried it out and look at that flaming

Arrows well done so with my new clown in a bottle i decided i would try skeletron one final time since i was able to dodge a lot more of its attacks it meant i could spend less time healing and more time working on the fight however with only 389 health remaining

I was swiped out of the sky i really do feel like this was intentionally made to be impossible so what i decided to do at this point was to wait around for the eye of cthulhu i left my terraria recording for five hours with an alarm set every 24 minutes

So that what i could do is show up at the start of every night and see if the eye of cthulhu had spawned in unfortunately not but one night i got a little bit bored and i headed to the dungeon i noticed that the old man was no longer

There so i thought oh maybe i’m safe maybe the game thinks i killed skeletron not really bought this still technically worked and we could see what the dungeon looked like at this stage of development however i do feel like it was intentional that the testers

Were not meant to come to this part of the game so after five hours of waiting around i realized that the eye of cthulhu was never gonna spawn i feel like boss fights were just maybe not done at this point so i wanted to confirm that so i ended up using

Cheat engine now players would use this back in the day to speed up time i was never one of those players so this was my first time actually experiencing it and what i did here is i left the game running for an hour so i ended up getting to see about

I don’t know 100 to 200 different night cycles but unfortunately no eye of cthulhu was seen i would have really loved to see the triad but i did manage to go into the game files and actually have a little look at what she would have looked like

She also looks a little bit different but it’s cool to see that she has her signature green hair still one of the things i wanted to do after this is get a nice little picture in the dungeon so i made a new world checked out the dungeon

And i actually managed to find at the top of it a water bowl now you can see that this looks immediately different to what we have today and unfortunately because there’s no mana we were not able to see what the projectiles were however with that it felt like i tested

Everything that i’d wanted to test so i thought that that would be the end of my terraria beta adventure so that about does it for today’s video guys thank you so much if you made it to the end this was a hell of a lot of fun

To record and to learn about terraria has the most interesting history to me and i can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since this game began development this game’s been such a large part of my life for the past 10 years and i imagine for a lot of you

It’s the exact same thing so we’ll meet up in 10 more years and i’ll see you when i’m 33 alright have a great day everyone i’ll see in the next one peace You

In today’s video, we’re doing a deep dive into the history of Terraria’s developments from January 2011 – May 16th, 2011 which say the game be leaked twice and forced to release to the public early. This version of Terraria is the foundation of the 1.0 from May 2011 which slowly developed in Terraria 1.4.1 over the next 9 years.

This version of Terraria (the leaked beta) is not available to the public and was never intended to be so I will not be sharing it. I wanted to share this footage as I feel like the Beta Version of Terraria and the history behind it is an important moment in Gaming History. In March 2011 Minecraft was only in Beta 1.4 and was still rocking the original Logo (fun fact)

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🌳 About Terraria: Terraria is a 2D action-adventure sandbox video game developed by Re-Logic. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows in May 2011, and has since been released for various consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. Gameplay of Terraria features exploration, crafting, building, and combat with a variety of creatures in a procedurally generated 2D world.

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