Terraria Unknown World

I first played Terraria back in 2013. I had a lot of fun. On my first playthrough it took me a very long time to get anything done. After playing for hours everyday for a week I finally reached the underworld where I died almost instantly. I later tried again but got killed again. I also build a large house with a few NPCs. The only two things I was able to complete during that playthrough was defeat the Goblin Invasion and kill Slime King. The Slime King part took me five tries before I was able to finally beat him. After that I kind of got bored and quit.

In 2020 the Pandemic happened, and everybody had to stay indoors. I decided this was the perfect time to experience some Nostalgia and I downloaded Terraria onto my computer. I had gotten a lot better at gaming since 2013. Within an hour of my playthrough I had already beaten slime king. Within a few days I fully completed the game. I killed Moon Lord, crafted the Zenith, gotten most of the achievements, build multiple bases, got all the NPCs, and I even drained an entire ocean by digging a hole that reached all the way down to the underworld under it. I also visited some secret seeds like Drunk world and the Bee World. Since there was not that much stuff left for me to do apart from all the fishing quests which I really did not want to do I quit.

Eventually two years later in 2022 I returned. This is where stuff gets weird again. I had previously created another world and a second character as I was planning a Crimson World playthrough as my previous playthrough from 2020 was in a Corruption world. But as I said previously, I quit so I did not get that far. The only thing I had done in that world was cut down a few trees and build a small house. I decided that I would complete the game for a second time in that world. I had also heard that Terraria had added a few new features like a new boss. I turn on Terraria and as I went to the world selection screen, I noticed that my world name (which was simply called “Terraria”) was written in red. The world type was “Unknown”, and the date created was three question marks.

My world had gotten corrupted. I knew that creating another world would be easier. The only thing that I did in that world was cut down a few trees and build a small house, but I really wanted it back. I tried playing it, but I crashed. I searched on google on how to fix this. After messing with the files for a few minutes I turned back Terraria on again. The world was still “Unknown”, and the date created was three question marks. I clicked play anyway and this time it didn’t crash. The world loaded in and the second I spawned the Guide just died instantly. This was probably just a weird Glitch. The weird thing was that when NPCs die a message saying “Name the Guide has died” would usually appear but that didn’t happen.

The night was already starting so hid inside my house as my tools were still only copper. Throughout the entire night no enemy spawned. At some point I even went outside and walked around but there was nothing. Not a single zombie or demon eye. When night ended, I was kind of bored. I decided I would go to the dungeon. And explore the surface of my world in the process. I found a few chests but all of them were empty. I broke a few pots, but they dropped nothing. I walked past a desert biome which had same weird landscape. I also found one of those big trees. I went past a snow biome and eventually arrived at the dungeon.

I was expecting to see the Old Man NPC, but he was nowhere to be seen. What was even stranger was that the dungeon had no underground section. Like the place where you would enter the dungeon was just floor.

I was so confused by this I turned off the game and went into Tedit to check the world map. And there it was. It clearly showed on the map that there was no dungeon. I had no idea how this happened, but this world was glitched like crazy. I soon noticed a lot of other anomalies in the world. The Jungle Temple was a lot bigger than it should have been as it basically consumed most of the underground Jungle. The oceans were just gone the biome located next to them just went until the edge of the world. There as a Pyramid which also was a lot bigger than it should have been as it also took up most of the underground desert.

Also, weirdly the underground desert had no caverns it was all just Sandstone. The crimson was missing apart from one crimson chasm which was massive, and it also reached into the ground very deep way deeper than it should be. The ice biome was missing its underground section and there were no floating islands. I also noticed that the underworld was a lot bigger. There was no lava or obsidian houses just one massive, strange structure.

I went to check out the wiki and after searching for a long time I found nothing. There was no explanation on why this was happening. I started giving up on my new playthrough and decided to create another world later maybe.

The only explanation I had for this was maybe that somehow the new update had somehow messed with the world, or I had maybe messed around with the world before as I had already messed around with Tedit in the past. I decided I would visit these strange areas in game. I loaded up Terraria and the world’s name was still in red, and it still said Unknown with the date being three question marks.

The world loaded in.

It was approaching night again. Then the message “You feel an evil presence”. I was confused by this because you need 200 maximum health and more than 10 defense and four town NPCs for the Eye of Cthulhu to spawn. The message was also missing the “watching you” part at the end. I was not prepared for an Eye of Cthulhu boss fight at all, and I knew I would probably die instantly. Finally, the boss health bar showed up, but it had no name it was just a nameless health bar. There was also no music. Then I realized that from my entire playthrough the whole time no music was playing. I waited for the Eye of Cthulhu to show up.

I even checked the map, but it was empty. Like the map was completely empty it was all just black. I waited but nothing showed up. It was complete silence expect for my footsteps. It suddenly switched to day. The health bar was still there.

Then suddenly the Eye of Cthulhu came zooming at me at extreme speeds while the roar sound played effect really really loudly. It completely caught me of guard making me nearly fall out of my chair. Another weird thing was that the Eye of Cthulhu was already in its second stage. I just ignored it because at this point, I was pretty unphased because of how glitched everything was. I finally decided to get moving and explore those weird locations. I decided I would first go to the pyramid. I started digging down and eventually reached it. I digged through the brick and into the inside. The Pyramid was hollow and lit up with a bunch of weird looking torches I had never seen before. expect for a single pot and a massive hole in the center. I broke the pot. The hole being there was strange as I didn’t remember seeing the hole previously on Tedit. I went up to the pot and broke it. A mummy spawned and it knocked me into the hole. I fell for quite a while until a finally landed in a pool of water.

The pot I broke also gave me a few torches. I got out of the water and took out the torches so I could see. I started going down deeper. I took out the map which was all black expect for the spot I was in. From what I could tell I was close to the underworld. Then out of nowhere another loud roar sound effect played. Nothing happened for a while until what I can only describe as a mix between Plantera, and the wall of flesh came charging at me and killed me instantly.

I instantly respawned. There was no death message. The thing that had killed me looked very weird. It was a large circular mouth filled with several rows of sharp teeth. Several tentacles like that of Plantera popped out of it but they were made from flesh. I turned off the game and again to the internet to find an explanation for what I just saw.

But I found nothing.

I turned Terraria back on again. After going into the pyramid and jumping down the hole again I found myself at my previous spot. The same thing happened with the weird Fleshy Plantera monster attacking me killing me instantly. I turned off the game again. I went into Tedit and game myself a Zenith. I then turned the game back on again and I did the same thing with walking into the pyramid and down the hole. When the monster attacked me again, I killed it almost instantly with my Zenith. A message saying, “You should not have done that” popped up. I kept going downwards and I finally ended up in the underworld. I slowly made my way down towards the massive obsidian structure.

Then I went in. I walked through the corridors and many rooms. It’s kind of just looked like a bunch of obsidian houses clumped together into one massive obsidian house. Then suddenly I heard the roar again and the flesh monster attacked me again. I quickly killed it before it could get me and the message “You should not have done that” appeared again, I eventually walked into a large room which contained was a single large obsidian pillar poking out of a pool of lava. The pillar had a chest on top of it. I went up to it and opened it. Inside was a jungle temple key. I would be startled or confused but I had seen so much weird stuff at this point I no longer cared at all. I got out of the structure, and I started making my way out of the underworld again. Then for the third time the monster appeared and again I killed it and again the message appeared. But this time it said, “Why did you do it?”. Them multiple flesh monsters spawned. Their mouths were wide open, and their rows of teeth were spinning like cement mixers. They were all moving way too fast form me to react, and I died.

I respawned almost instantly like last time. As I was ready to make my way towards the Jungle so I could visit the Jungle template a message popped up. It said, “The Apocalypse has Begun!” and for the first time in my entire playthrough in this world music started playing. It sounded like heavy metal music but there was something off about it. I could hear a voice that sounded like a voice of an old man singing in gibberish towards the tune. The event bar appeared which was simply titled “the Apocalypse”. A bunch of enemies started spawning. They had no names and no health bars. The all looked a lot different from a standard Terraria NPC because of their textures. They texture quality was high like how Moon Lord is textured.

There were around five enemies from what I recall. There were the first enemies I had seen for a long time. There was this weird fish humanoid with tree roots coming out of his mouth and he was holding a spear, there was a squid with massive with wings and it would fly around and shoot acid blobs, there was another humanoid which looked crab human thing, there was a thorny fish-thing with spider legs that would quickly crawl towards me, and finally there was a massive black worm creature with its head replaces by a bunch of spikes. I quickly killed most of them with my Zenith. They didn’t drop any loot at all expect for at the end where a few enemies dropped pieces “Doggone Armor”. After the event ended, I put the Doggone Armor on. The Doggone Armor was just pharaoh armor but retextured to be all white. It gave a defense of 98.

As the event had ended, I continued with me journey towards the Jungle temple. I went into the Jungle, and I soon noticed there were no trees or vines, or flowers, or plants, or anything the ground was just barren grass. I started digging down and eventually reached the Jungle temple. I found the door and tried the key but the message saying, “To enter you must defeat the Crimson Beast first”.

At this point I was too tried so I turned off the game.

I came back the next day. I turned on the game and loaded the world. I then began moving towards the crimson chasms. After walking for a while, I finally arrived. I went downwards into the chasms. After walking down, the fleshy corridors for a while I finally reached the main chamber. The crimson hearts were all just out of their chambers randomly located. I realized I had no tools for breaking them and was about to go back util they all broke at the same time by themselves. A loud sound could be heard which sounded like a rumbling sound kind of like a stomach. A boss health bar showed up and the Crimson Beast appeared. It was just a ball of flesh that was dripping ooze. I killed it instantly with my Zenith and then the screen flashed red.

Nothing happened and the Crimson Beast did not drop anything, so I just left and went back to the Jungle. I went up to the door of the Jungle temple once again and used the key. This time it worked. I walked in. The corridors of the Jungle temple were barren. There were no traps just completely barren. Because of how large the temple was it took me quite a while until I reached the main room.

The main room was very big. The only thing in the entire room was a weird machine. I clicked it and it disappeared. Another boss health bar showed up. I quickly placed multiple torches down and prepare for another quick boss battle. The boss eventually showed up. It was literally just a pitch-black circle. I hit it with my Zenith but then I realized its health was high. My Zenith was barley doing any damage to it. The battle took a long time. I did not take any damage as the Black Circle never attacked me. I eventually killed it and it broke apart into pieces form multiple other bosses. A loud scream played.

Then I just stood there. I mostly stopped playing after that. I came back a few days later to test some stuff out. I tested multiple other worlds and they were all unaffected. I even created a world with the same seed, and it was perfectly normal. I tried spawning other bosses in the world like slime king or queen be but all of them resulted in the weird Eye of Cthulhu just spawning instead and instantly killing me. I tried editing the world’s landscape, but it would always crash.

Then one day I logged onto steam to see that terraria were stuck on 100% updating. I could not turn it on. I restarted my computer and I logged out of steam and back in multiple times, but nothing worked. It eventually fixed itself but when I turned Terraria on, I noticed that the strange world was gone.

I have not played Terraria since.

Then Shrek punished my innocent virgin cheeks but that's a topic for another story