how to install mods in terraria

The base game has a lot to offer, especially with the new and final large content update Journey Mode. But there will always be small tweaks to the game that players wish they could alter. Customization and a unique Terraria experience are always what the community strives for. With the help of talented mod creators, everyone can have just that.

Terraria now supports Steam Workshop, making the Terraria journey you started in 2016 even longer. You can get large texture packs that change every block to that of Minecraft or meet new NPC's with side quests. There are visual changes you can do to your HUD and new soundtracks to apply to your game. Revamp your survival experience today.

Update on April 8, 2021 by Sharnelle Earle: Steam is now giving mod creators another platform to publish on and giving gamers an easier way to install them by having Terraria Steam Workshop support. Using the workshop is the easiest way to apply mods to any Steam game. Terraria first came out around ten years ago yet still has a massive fan base that continues to grow. Thanks to their recent Journey content update and active mod support, this is a game that will never get old. Prepare to spend even more hours in Terraria.

Health Bars And User Interface's

Health bars are just health bars. The simple HUD may not seem bothersome. But having some vanity options here and there never hurts. In your Terraria Settings and Interface options, you can switch your health bar from a fancy to a normal style. But what if there was more than that?

You can now have a retro-styled health and mana bar. Or a dark mode to your inventory. There are other options too, like stat bars that are styled after the Crimson and Corruption biome or ones styled after Luminite crafted items. The creative community is never slacking when it comes to different themes and styles of mods. These are only some to get you started.

Terraria Forum

Retro Health
Crimson and Corruption Health
Star Luminite Fragment Health
Dark Mode UI
Clean UI

Steam Workshop

Black and Purple Health
Low Profile Health
White Border UI
Akari UI

Adventure Maps

There aren't any mods for real quests, but who's to say you can't use your imagination? People are able to share files with other people that allow others to play in the world and avatar that they've created. With this, people can create an entire adventure world in Terraria and share that file with others so they can explore for themselves.

If your favorite part of Terraria is building extravagant things, maybe this should be your next big thing. Create an adventure map for other players to explore and transport to! With the number of hours and talent people put into Terraria building, there's no doubt that there are some hidden gems not being shared with the world.

Creative modders have taken it upon themselves to create adventure worlds like a whole Silent Hill 2 Terraria remake. In this world, you'll walk around as your own James with nothing but a pocket knife aka your copper sword. You'll have to use beds as checkpoints and torches to light the way with multiple endings. Then you have a The Legend Of Zelda map where you can traverse through traps and puzzles while taking on enemies and leveling up, available to play with up to four people. Last but not least, someone has created an Undertale experience. This is less of an adventure map and more of an added character where you can take on Sans as a boss in your game.

Nexus Mods

Silent Hill 2
The Legend Of Zelda
Undertale

Steam Workshop

Dreamscape
Tower Defense Minigame

Minecraft Resource Pack Overhaul

The first successful, large texture overhaul goes to Melster on the Steam Workshop page. With this mod not only does every texture look like a clean vanilla Minecraft, but every NPC looks like a villager.

Melster is constantly adding stand alone add-ons to this Minecraft experience to enhance what the texture pack creates. You can have the music, the sound effects, the enemies and more. Hopefully with enough support there will be one huge mod overhaul with everything Minecraft you could ever need in Terraria. And hopefully other creatives follow suit to replicate more textures from different games.

Steam Workshop

Minecraft Texture Pack
Minecraft Music

Fonts And Music

These smaller modifications to your game will both relax you with music and help you read better with fonts. Terraria's normal font is a childish style that can be hard to read and though the Terraria soundtrack is unique and amazing, what if you could add your other favorite game OST?

A Terraria forum user has posted files for everyone to modify the primary font used in Terraria for every aspect. There are 14 font options for every type of person. From a gothic style, to a clean-cut and easy to read style.

Custom Fonts in Terraria Forums
Custom Fonts in Steam Workshop

Terraria is a very relaxing game. You can just zone out, break blocks, and crack heads. With music OST add-on's from the Steam Workshop, you can listen to Hollow Knight music, JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, and more without putting on a playlist in the background.

Steam Workshop

JoJo's Music
Night In The Woods
Hollow Knight
Doom Eternal

How To Install Mods

Now, how do you even install them to begin with? There are two ways to do this. There is the easy way and the kind of complex way... But it's okay because there is a tutorials-way.

The easiest way to install and use mods is by using what Terraria already gives you. Before Steam Workshop support, Terraria had a texture pack file and menu where all you had to do was download files or extract zip files into this folder. Because workshop support is new, you'll have to reactivate any mods you previously installed this way by opening the game and clicking Workshop > Use Resource Packs. To install Steam mods, all you have to do is go to the Terraria community workshop page on Steam. With Steam, go to Community > Workshop then find Terraria. Search for anything you like and either press the check mark on the box or click the mod, scroll down and press Subscribe. Once subscribed it will be sitting in your in-game Terraria workshop hub waiting to be activated.

You can find mods by using the famous Nexus Mods website where creators will post their own mods with pictures and community reviews. On Nexus Mods there are categories you can sift through or you can search using the search bar. With Nexus Mods you'll have to manually place mod files into the Terraria resource pack files.

Another way is by sifting through the official Terraria forums. This will be harder since there's no search bar and you have to grind through every entry to find what suits you. Normally, you would have to keep clicking different forum titles to find the one for mods, but for convenience, it will be linked here so there is no need. The way to find it from the main page of the Terraria forums is to scroll down to Terraria On PC which will not be in bold, click the bold Player-Created Game Enhancements underneath, then Texture Packs, and then Released. With the forums you will have to manually place mod files into the Terraria resource pack files.

To manually install mod files, download the mod from its respective place, open the Terraria mod file by opening the game and clicking Workshop > Use Resource Packs then hit Open Folder at the bottom right. Extract mod file into this folder.

The other way to install Terraria mods is by using tModLoader, which some mods can only support. This is a separate piece of community-made equipment that will create a larger Texture Pack or Mod option in your Terraria settings. You can install it from Steam by searching the Store for "tModLoader" or download it from the site here. The only catch with this is that other people can't play with you unless they also have tModLoader and you will have to move all your player and world progress to tModLoader files otherwise they won't show and be available.

With the loader downloaded you'll have to extract the zip files into the main Terraria folder. The folder is located here:

This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Steam > steamapps > common > Terraria

The tModLoader will create a mod search engine inside your Terraria game. This way you won't have to install mods and move them into a folder because there will be a new button in your game menu called Mods Browser. There will also be two other new buttons called Mod Sources and Mods. The Mods Browser will allow you to see a wide list of created mods for you to scroll through and pick and choose, with a search bar to boot. All you have to do is enable them in the Mods section in-game.

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