Terraria 1.4.5 update buries even more secrets in its challenge seeds

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The Terraria 1.4.5 update is almost ready to reveal its release window, although developer Re-Logic says it’s still “tough to predict timing-wise.” For its Terraria State of the Game post for June, the team instead reveals how the best sandbox game is making its unique challenge seeds both more approachable and more complex.

“Everyone loves world seeds right?” That’s the question posed by Re-Logic’s Ted ‘Loki’ Murphy, who says, “It’s our guess that everyone does – except that a ton of folks who are not immersed in our news posts or the wiki might have no idea they even exist.” That’s a fair concern; Terraria is one of the best-selling games of all time, and while there’s a lot of encouragement to share tips and tricks among the community, many people will just play the game and never look things up.

Even if you do spend time looking up the likes of the best Terraria wings online, you may not be aware of how its secret seeds work. Simply put, by putting specific phrases into the world seed box, you can generate special worlds that have unique characteristics. These range from ‘not the bees,’ which gives you a map overrun with beehives and related items, to ‘no traps,’ which of course massively ramps up how many traps you’ll encounter, because that’s just how Terraria creator Andrew ‘Redigit’ Spinks does things.

Some of the secret seeds included in the Terraria 1.4.4 Labor of Love update are among the wildest yet. There’s ‘don’t dig up,’ which flips the entire order of player progression, starting you in the hellish Underworld and challenging you with reaching the now-deadly surface of the map, high above. There’s also Terraria’s greatest challenge, ‘getfixedboi’ – a map that combines all of the secret seeds into one for