Terraria 1.4.5 update lets you sling mud and befriend a developer

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Terraria 1.4.5 will let you befriend an adorable fairy pet with a deep-rooted hatred for trees, inspired by one of the game’s lead developers and its creator’s partner. The arrival of the Terraria State of the Game for September 2023 gives us some more spoilers for the next big update, and there’s a new weapon and building tool coming that’ll let you disrespect your opponents and make a real mess of the place.

The Terraria 1.4.5 update is progressing well, Developer Re-Logic reports in its monthly State of the Game blog for September 2023. “Another fantastic month of development has passed by,” it says, “and the team is really feeling great about what we have in store for 1.4.5.” It notes that some of the new Terraria music coming to the sandbox game has come in, saying, “it still needs a bit of work, but we are really digging it!”

We get a couple of Terraria 1.4.5 spoilers as the team is mostly heads-down working on the next update. The first of these comes courtesy of the great Terraria forum civil war that took place in July between the game’s creator, Andrew ‘Redigit’ Spinks, and his partner and Re-Logic vice president, Whitney ‘Cenx’ Spinks.

As part of the agreed peace treaty between ‘Team Tree’ and ‘Team Axe,’ Redigit promised a fairy pet with an axe, and we’ve now been given a glimpse of exactly what it looks like. The resulting ‘Cen-Axe’ fairy is an adorable flying miniature representation of Cenx’s green-haired, purple-suited avatar. Honestly, I can’t think of anything more adorable than a game’s creator immortalizing his wife and long-time development companion in an in-game fairy form.

The Cen-Axe fairy “is a menace to any trees that might cross her path,” and can be seen taking her signature weapon to any