Playing Terraria 1.0.6 in 2024 to kill time until 1.4.5

Playing Terraria 1.0.6 in 2024 to kill time until 1.4.5

As part of an April fools joke this year Rel logic released the Terraria underlook Edition on Steam a re-release of Terraria 1.0.6 point1 from August 2011 as many of you know I’ve wanted Rel logic to re-release old builds of the game for quite a few years now and I do

Hope that this paves the way for future re-releases as well with version 1.1 1.2 even 1.3 which is now 9 years old and today I want to show you my journey through this version of the game and share my experience playing such an old version of Terraria in 2024 but I also

Want to answer the question is there any reason to play this version of the game that isn’t simply Nostalgia back in 2020 I played through that original version of Terraria and for me I don’t hold a lot of nostalgia right now so what motivates me to make it to the very end

Of this version of the game well that’s what I want to talk about out ah here we are sweet Nostalgia version 1.0.6 point1 as with every Terraria eventure it begins by making a character and as always I have to pick hairfree and set all the numbers to 255 now I

Opted for a medium world even though back in the day I always played with a small world but it’s because classic Terraria doesn’t like to give you many chests I play a lot of Terraria so it’s hard to get nostalgic but nothing beats the feeling of generating a new world

And seeing giant trees that are so tall they can’t even be displayed on screen I love these trees one thing I noticed which I didn’t remember is that items don’t tend to go directly to your hot bar instead they end up in your inventory to start my adventure I wanted

To work on building a couple of homes so that we can get some NPCs I think if you take the time to play this build of Terraria the first thing you’ll notice is how hard it is to actually build anything because you can’t place out of

Inventory all you do is throw items on the floor it’s a constant headache to a console player this is what it’s like when a PC player picks up a controller for the first time to play Terraria it just doesn’t feel right after building a house I decided to go exploring and to

The left of the world is actually our corruption so I decided maybe we’re off right one thing I found interesting is the Slime bobbing on top of the water when we played 1.0 I discovered that slimes would actually sink to the bottom so I was very grateful that they Bob

Around otherwise we would have died here after surviving the greatest battle in terraria’s history I headed to the right and I was lucky enough to find a natural cave now I know of course that worlds can generate in a variety of different shapes in 1.4.4 but I do love the Nostalgia of a

Cave entrance that’s carved into a a Giant Mountain it looks so cool now this version of Terraria has a fair bit more content than the version that launched only 3 months prior so that’s why I was taking the time to grab cobwebs and also Clay blocks because in this version of

Terraria you do have a couple of vanity items and you can also grow herbs and make potions I do find it Charming that in this version of the game I spend as much time as possible Gathering ores and that’s because if you do want a set of

Armor they have some very steep crafting recipes now I would say I am a Terraria veteran a Terraria Master some would say so I want to show you this absolute big brain maneuver here my plan is to place some wood over this red slime so that I

Can get around it well no I’m just going to you know throw it out into the water that’s fine I’ll just uh bash it to death with a pickaxe instead and because of the lighting being much darker I couldn’t tell how far up I was so I was

Like you know what I’ll ride the water down and that way I won’t take fall damage yeah really big drop there James uh I’m really glad you did that well done now it wouldn’t be old school Terraria without just a random pillar of sand underground why did Terraria

Generate like this and I do like that whether it’s classic or it’s modern the very first weapon you’ve got to make is a wooden bow so that you can shoot enemies from a distance nothing changes another thing I didn’t remember is how Vivid it looks when an enemy is on fire

It really caught me off guard but I actually think it’s quite cool so back on the surface it was time to do some crafting now I feel like we can all agree the main reason to play this version of Terraria is the furnace spray this version in particular added the

Sawmill and a bunch of new furniture so I wanted to give that a go now I’ll be completely honest this is the first time I’ve ever noticed that barrels a cheap ER to make than chests I guess it doesn’t really matter in modern Terraria because you can find chests anywhere but

In classic Terraria only requiring one bit of iron instead of two Game Changer I also thought I’d work on a second home and I wanted to get fancy with it so I placed down a dresser and quickly realized that in this version of the game you can’t do anything with dresses

I did not remember that back in the caves then I found my first chest and and inside was a shine potion and a blowpipe I’d also found a spuna potion as well and I want to quickly say I quite like how potions are handled in this version of the game in this version

Of the game potions are not given to the player as frequently as they are in modern Terraria so they really feel like very short temporary upgrades to the player one thing that’s funny about playing old Terraria as a modern player is I do things I just never did back

Then like I wanted some more so I used a bomb and I blew it up but when I was 14 playing this because I played so much Minecraft I thought bombs would destroy the items that you blew up so I never used them back in the day after that I

Found our first gold chest and it was brilliant a band of regen a summon for the eye of culu spala potions as well perfect the next chest I looted had a cloud in a bottle and also some more spal potions genuinely I don’t think my look can get any better oh wait never

Mind angel statue yeah it doesn’t do anything I even tried to place this down forgetting the fact that quite literally it doesn’t do anything the last time I played classic Terraria red actually revealed why the angel statue was added in the first place and it was something

Like it spent a long time spriting it so he didn’t want to not put it in the game I just love that like that’s a Terraria fact now I wanted to know that for years I also found my first life Crystal and at this point I was having such a great

Time like I didn’t even really think about the fact I was playing old Terraria I just love exploring new worlds back on the surface then I wanted to take a look at some crafting recipes and one thing that was Notorious about this version jungle armor is so grindy

To make so yeah we won’t be making that today now I was taking a look at what you you can make with rubies when I noticed something very interesting another thing which I did not remember you can make a gold crown in this version but you can’t make the slimy

Crown so at this point there is no way to manually spawn King Slime and on the far right of the world I found our dungeon and the Nostalgia is very real although I did notice that it does look a little different than the design they used in the launch edition of the game

Now even though it wasn’t time for Skeletron I wanted to get on it by building an arena just so when it came time to it we were all prepared I also thought I’d check out the ocean now I don’t mean to rinse Terraria I am very

Sorry but this is the exact same as it is now so back at spawn I decided to build four more rooms without realizing that by adding four more rooms to the four we already had we actually have more rooms than NPCs in this version next up it was time to EXP explore the

Corruption and it’s cool to see that only a couple months after launch the corruption feels like a completely different biome the enemies feel better balanced the chasms are not as much of a nightmare and you also have the underground Chasm yeah that wasn’t in the launch version in this version of

The game you can’t use bombs to break ebonstone but you can use Dynamite so that was a quick way to break a shadow warb if you didn’t have purification powder with a musket in hand and bullets from the arm stealer I I thought it was also time to check out the jungle at

This point the surface jungle had been in the game for about 2 months but because it didn’t have a lot of enemies I noticed that to make it the harder biome the enemies just spawn way more I did find it interesting that the path to the underground jungle was more like a

Cave entrance whereas today it’s more like a big drop in the jungle I found some Gravitation potions which I was quite excited to try out but my adventure there didn’t last long yeah the jungle absolutely wrecked me this was the first death so far gravitation potions The Nostalgia I didn’t know I

Needed because instead of like flipping the world you just walk on the sky it I don’t know it’s so charming and I will say a sky island without cloud block also looks really cool the chest inside does require a gold key and I will say I actually think this might be bad

Back in the caves then I found a set of homies boots and with a cloud in a bottle hom boots in a band of regen this is as about as powerful as you can be in this version and since I was down there I thought I would take a quick trip to

Hell now here’s something I really did not remember guide Voodoo dolls were in the game before the Wall of Flesh I have no idea how I forgot that but I was looking at it like wait what version am I actually playing here here it was time for the eye of culu and since

1.0.5 added Buffs I thought I may as well make some just in case they rebalanced the eye of culu for this build made it super difficult to compensate but they didn’t need to buff the eye of culu because the biggest danger was actually myself as you know I

Played a lot of Terraria so I went into this fight very confident with my grenades in hand kind of forgetting the fact that if you throw a grenade right in front of you it can can almost kill you well you know it can kill you so unironically I have to do the nurse

Cheese to survive this fight this is classic Terraria but we did end up winning the fight and because I had a couple extra summons I did a little farming as well now before we did the Eater of Worlds I wanted to gather the meteorite that landed in my corruption

Mainly because of one item which I never bothered to craft back in the day phase blades are getting a huge rework in the next update so I wanted to see what they’re like in classic Terraria and you know what I actually think they’re kind of cool we also randomly got a blood

Moon and the first thing I noticed is just how many vicious bunnies there are like what happened to these in modern Terraria where’d they go so for the Eater of Worlds I decided to kick it old school and fight it on the surface and I opted for grenades now it was around

This point as I was playing I started to think about how far Terraria had come I thought about editing this video showing this fight and then cutting to Legendary mode Eater of Worlds Terraria 1.4.5 how stunning that would look but even though modern Terraria looks so

Much better and it plays better as well you can’t deny classic Terraria got so much right like this feels like an eer of Worlds fight after the fight was done I wanted to do a refight but do it underground because I remember remember when I played this version of the game I

Would only ever do it on the surface I don’t think it was until after 1.1 I started to fight the Eater of Worlds underground so I wanted to like take it off my bucket list with the resources I got I crafted Shadow Armor and it was then time to fight Skeletron one thing

That caught me off guard though is that the old man had some text before you could initiate the fight I’ll be real after playing so much Terraria and never taking the time to look at the text T I actually forgot that his text is meant

To give you a bit of a guiding hand on when to actually fight Skeletron like he was telling me I was way too weak at this point Skeletron was the final boss in the game and I do Wonder in Red’s mind was that always the case obviously

We got 1.1 not long after this update but where did it end in Red’s mind I don’t know and I’d love to know the answer to that to make it a final boss Skeletron has quite a bit of health so I got to work on taking out each one of

His hands and then even skeleton’s head just on its own it has so much health now when I played the original version of Terraria in 2020 I decided that this fight would be the conclusion of my video but I figured with this version we had a different end goal in mind and

That was the knight’s Edge if you didn’t play the game before 1.1 let me explain getting the knight’s Edge was like a badge of honor this was our zeni but I will say the did kind of catch me off guard it was a lot harder than I

Remembered and this is how we got the second death of our adventure but thanks to a golden key we could now loot the floating island and we got a lucky horseshoe and that’s why earlier I was saying that locking floating islands until after Skeletron actually feels

Better I feel like an item like this is so powerful that you have to earn it a little more than how we get it today going back to the dungeon though I only had my eyes on the m Massa and after that it was time to go back down to Hell

And start working on getting some hellstone now in this version of the game not only does hellstone turn into lava you also need quite a lot of it if you want to make a fiery great sord and I think that’s why the Nights Edge felt so special because not only did you have

To Brave the dungeon you also have to Brave hell for about 23 minutes when I got back home I got the biggest wave of nostalgia from seeing the original origal design of the cloth air and after diving back down into the caves for some obsidian and some buckets of lava I was

Like oh I’m going to get the red hat and I’m going to look like my iconic character but once again I completely forgot that when you wear the red hat in this version you cannot see your beard it is so ugly after all that though we had enough hellstone to make the fiery

Great sword also why did the name change for this sword I don’t here like but why like why’ they change it and with the fiery great sword I could finally survive in the jungle and get enough materials to make the blade of grass which is uh quite costly compared to

What it is today and with all that I could complete my challenge by crafting the knight’s Edge which is actually better than I remember it it kills things in like one or two hits now I did want to show the King Slime and the Goblin Army but after an hour of waiting

Around I never got either so yeah I’m glad they added spawners for both of those and even though I was only planning to play a little bit that day 7 hours went by now I went into this video to answer the question is there a reason

To play this version of the game other than Nostalgia and I think there is don’t worry though I’m not crazy I’m not about to tell you that a single part of this version of the game is any better than modern Terraria it simply isn’t Terraria only gets better with it

Updates I’m not like mad but I do think you should play this version of the game to get a deeper appreciation of the very best version of Terraria at its most simplest form dig fight explore build that is all this version is this would be the final version of the game before

Red pulled an absolute wild card and developed Terraria 1.1 a version of the game that says okay everything you’ve done so far well you’re now powerless and the world is and you have to work your way through it once again the way Terraria is currently played you generate a world and you

Spend the first half of the game exploring that world and then in the second half of the game you re-explore the same world but with different enemies and different weapons and whatnot and I should stress I’ve played 3,000 hours of this game so quite clearly I love this part of the game as

Well but replaying this version of the game really emphasized to me that if there was real justification to make a Terraria 2 I feel like this version of the game obviously with some quality of life changes should be the foundation and then wherever you spin off from here

Would be what Terraria 2 would be I don’t know why my mind took me to that place while playing this version of the game truly I’m not a game developer it’s not something I’ve ever really thought of before but I think it comes down to the fact that I was just wowed once

Again and I think I might have had had a similar experience when I played through 1.0 back in 2020 the very core of Terraria is just so good it’s so obvious why this game was a success and I do think if you decide to play this version

Of Terraria for yourself you will also gain a deeper appreciation for the very core of the game but you will be wanting to play Terraria 1.4.4 afterwards but that’s about it thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you in the next one peace

This year Re-Logic released the Terraria Undeluxe Edition which finally gives players a legal way to play classic Terraria 1.0.6 in 2024. In this video I want to share my journey through this version and answer the question ‘is it just nostalgia?’

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