As a world-renowned pixel game featuring survival themes, the gameplay mechanics of Terraria might be way too complex for new players. Therefore, we would like to introduce to you some suggestions for your reference so that you could get used to the game more quickly. To start with, when starting the game, the game will ask you to choose a specific world that you want to play in. However, the two-game worlds resemble each other with a superficial difference in visual experience. Next, throughout the game, you should make sure that you have the cure potion with you all the time so you could make a quick recovery whenever and wherever you are. What’s more, you should get familiar with the whole map of the world in the game in advance in case you need to get certain biomes for all kinds of things. It will save you more time in this way. Furthermore, make sure that you smack every chest that has been cleared out by you whenever you find one. This is because it will prevent you from finding the same treasure chest next time while it has already been emptied by you. In addition, you should keep creating houses for NPCs so that you could access them once they move in. The room for them doesn’t require too many elements so start to build those houses now. Lastly, throughout the gameplay, you may find many items like weapons and accessories that might seem useless to you at the first glance. However, you should keep at least one of them in the chest for later use. The accumulation of those items could build into more advanced tools. In sum, players who want to win the game should activate their motivation and employ a variety of strategies.

Terraria is a vast open world gaming platform with extensive and flexible gameplay. Although this sounds exciting and tremendously entertaining to play, this game can also be quite overwhelming for new players who just step into the open field in Terraria. Given its grandiose open world feature, there is no fixed rule or sequence to play this game. However, there are a number of things new players should prioritize on their checklist. To do those things first can help players kick a smoother start in Terraria without feeling lost on track.

The first thing to do is to make sure the game is set on an easy difficulty level. Since Terraria is quite challenging and hard to get a hang of, it is highly recommended that new players start from the easy mode which can still be hard in its own right. The advantage of doing this is to limit the loss of in-game failure or death. Instead of losing all their game assets and items, easy mode only claims the coins in case of death. Besides, in this mode, the world scale is much smaller, which makes it newbie-friendly in terms of gathering resources and useful tools.

Another top task is to start building. In order to build houses, players need to use their initial tools to chop off trees and mine stones underground. With the most basic resources—wood and stone, players need to build at least two or three housing structures that are close to one another. In doing so, players can have a shelter from zombie attacks. And they also have some storage space for the materials they gather.

Once the basic building projects are taking place, players can start to explore a bit more. Apart from the visible spaces on the ground, players can also try to explore the dark hidden corners underneath. Those places are usually where rare items can be found. In order to get to those places, players need plenty of light sources(torches) to guide their way. Therefore, they should also start to kill slimes and build their basic torches early in the game.

Building, gathering and exploration are the three elementary yet central tasks in Terraria, and players can focus on these elements when they are not sure about what to do at the early stage of the game.

In the game, we rely on the very responsive control of the game. Here, I would like to provide you with some useful tips to help you grow rapidly in the game. The most important thing in the game is to get tools along the way and upgrade our tools step by step and level by level. At first, we will see that we already have a very mini gadget. We can use it to cut down trees blocked on the way and collect resources to build our base. At the same time, because there will be danger on the road and we have to fight with enemies, we need to get some weapons, which can be obtained from the surface chest. Among the resources, I think the more important one should be mobile accessories, because they can help us to move underground more easily and quickly. As time goes by, we can keep accumulating money, which we can use to buy what we need, and we should buy a very powerful weapon in the early stage. But not the more weapons, the better. Some players may collect many of the same weapons, but in fact it is unwise. We can sell those duplicate weapons or relatively weak weapons, so that our resource collection will become more efficient. Similarly, we can also learn to make some marks in the game, so that we will not get dazzled and can clearly know which places we have explored in the process of playing, and then we can avoid these places next time. There will also be some activities in different seasons and festivals of the game. We can also log in to the game on the day of these festivals or events to get some special equipment, some discounts and so on.

In Terraria, players will not be forced to choose where they must go or what they must do. We can set our own goals in the game and finish them according to our own plans. We have many roles in the game, for example, we can be builders, fighter or collector. Here, I can provide players with some simple and easy-to-operate skills necessary for beginners. At the beginning, we can see many NPCs. If we go to communicate with them, they will also give us some necessary skills to tell us which stage we are at. As novices, one of our main things to do during the day is to find some equipment that we can use. At night, we can use these tools that we found to help us build a house, because we also need to find a house to live in at night during the game. Some players may be confused and don't know how to build a house. We can cut down some trees with our own axes, for example. These trees can help us make a lot of necessary furniture, weapons, etc. If we make weapons, we can also let them upgrade constantly during the game. You also need to constantly develop your own surrounding environment, and then sometimes you will see some treasure chests when you are on the road. These treasure chests can help you get some useful resources. Sometimes you will encounter some special weathers in the game. Sometimes you will see rain, so if it rains, you need to use some umbrellas. At night, we should not only be busy building our houses, but also defend against some enemies that only appear at night. Some enemies may fly or chase you. There are some zombies and so on. So we should be especially careful at night.