Terraria’s biggest mods are now playable on its latest update

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Terraria is already jam-packed with stuff, but the best Terraria mods transform one of the very best sandbox games into even deeper, richer experiences with new items, enemies, bosses, and more. If you’re someone who’s scoured every last drop out of the latest massive Terraria update, you’ll be pleased to hear that many of its top mods have just made the jump to version 1.4.4, bringing them up to speed with the modern game ahead of the Terraria 1.4.5 update.

While it was almost a year ago that the huge Terraria 1.4.4 update Labor of Love released (I’m crumbling into dust at this realization), its mods have been predominantly tied to the 1.4 edition of the game since then, meaning that they miss out on a lot of the coolest additions from Re-Logic’s last major patch.

Of course, many of them add so much stuff that if you’re playing them you probably won’t notice too much that these things are gone, but with some pretty handy quality-of-life tools and some really cool additions in Labor of Love such as the new Terraria Shimmer biome and its eponymous gunge, seeing what the teams behind its most substantial mod packs have crafted around 1.4.4 is a very exciting prospect.

With the news in July’s Terraria State of the Game that tModLoader support for 1.4.4 is live as of August 1, the mod manager supported by Re-Logic now allows all of its creators to step up to the latest edition, and many of them were clearly ready for exactly this moment.

First up is Terraria Starlight River, a personal favorite of mine that wraps in all manner of new items and enemy encounters, including some dramatic multi-stage boss fights and some really cool tools including a Terraria Death Star cannon for you to build. Enemies get enhanced AI with