As Stardew Valley fans continue to wait patiently for the previously announced 1.7 update, creator Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) has dropped a couple small, vague, yet exciting hints about what said mysterious update might entail: a new farm type, and "more character/social stuff."
I mean, the original release had Skeletron as the final boss, which is not even the last one before hardmode now.
So 7 or 8 bosses, wings, “classes” (specialized equipment) including summoner with wasn’t a thing at all, new weapon types like yoyos, expert mode, several biomes, many events and mini games, town building, NPCs, modding support…
As far as I know, terraria only supports resource packs, changing textures, sounds, text, that kinda stuff, right? tModLoader is a community project made by fans, and the game devs’ contributions to that are in the domain of being receptive, supporting it being on steam, and potentially answering questions or making small changes to facilitate mods.
But on the topic of changes, can’t forget how they added new content and put it behind a new difficulty, and then ended up doing that again. And then they added a special seed that has new content that bumps up the difficulty another level.
Fyi, the next “last” update is expected to drop mid to late January (though it’s been delayed multiple years at this point). If that’s something you’d want to wait for.
In this particular update, they’ve said that it will not be the last. But yeah, January is highly likely.
It feels so bad how long it has been delayed. As you say, its been years now. But that’s not because it keeps getting delayed over and over. It’s only really been postponed once. The original release date was dropped because they decided to increase the scope, and then their feature-creep seemed to get out of hand. But I think that by far the biggest reason for the delay is the death of one of their team members. In that small tight-knit team it has caused a lasting malaise and loss of focus; understandably so, I think.
In any case, I’m looking forward to that update. Terraria is a great game.
Fwiw, my note about the delay wasn’t a complaint, just a setting of expectations. I think it’s amazing that they’re still doing this much support, essentially for free, for so long. I’ll take it whenever they manage to get it out. Super grateful for the whole team.
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Terraria is going to keep adding versions until they jump to 2.0
To be honest, compared to 1.0, is almost a different game
Not looking for a full changelog or anything but what would you say have been some of the most significant changes over the years?
I mean, the original release had Skeletron as the final boss, which is not even the last one before hardmode now.
So 7 or 8 bosses, wings, “classes” (specialized equipment) including summoner with wasn’t a thing at all, new weapon types like yoyos, expert mode, several biomes, many events and mini games, town building, NPCs, modding support…
As far as I know, terraria only supports resource packs, changing textures, sounds, text, that kinda stuff, right? tModLoader is a community project made by fans, and the game devs’ contributions to that are in the domain of being receptive, supporting it being on steam, and potentially answering questions or making small changes to facilitate mods.
But on the topic of changes, can’t forget how they added new content and put it behind a new difficulty, and then ended up doing that again. And then they added a special seed that has new content that bumps up the difficulty another level.
Ahh ok I’ve played since most of those were added but not the mini games or towns. Might have to give it another play this winter
Fyi, the next “last” update is expected to drop mid to late January (though it’s been delayed multiple years at this point). If that’s something you’d want to wait for.
In this particular update, they’ve said that it will not be the last. But yeah, January is highly likely.
It feels so bad how long it has been delayed. As you say, its been years now. But that’s not because it keeps getting delayed over and over. It’s only really been postponed once. The original release date was dropped because they decided to increase the scope, and then their feature-creep seemed to get out of hand. But I think that by far the biggest reason for the delay is the death of one of their team members. In that small tight-knit team it has caused a lasting malaise and loss of focus; understandably so, I think.
In any case, I’m looking forward to that update. Terraria is a great game.
I hadn’t heard about the death. That’s awful :(
Fwiw, my note about the delay wasn’t a complaint, just a setting of expectations. I think it’s amazing that they’re still doing this much support, essentially for free, for so long. I’ll take it whenever they manage to get it out. Super grateful for the whole team.
Hey, thanks for the heads up. I will definitely wait until then