Proto:Terraria/April 26, 2011 Build

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This early prototype of Terraria is one of two prototypes leaked on 4chan before the game officially released in 2011. It is clearly unfinished, but all the basics are in for the game to give more or less the same experience you get in release.

This prototype along with its earlier build can be downloaded from archive.org.

Gameplay Differences

• There is no splash screen, you load directly onto the main menu.
• There is no copyright information in the bottom right corner.
• The sound will keep playing after clicking out of the window, unlike the final.
• Does not contain Hellstone Brick, Hellstone Brick Wall, or the Hellforge.
• Does not contain beds.
• Does not contain flower pots.
• There is no way to edit the controls, or the parallax.
• The game starts playing boss music if you're near a boss, while the final game includes the boss music for the goblin event.
• Pressing F shows an FPS counter, as opposed to F10 in final.
• Only has 193 items, as compared to release 234.
• One of the lines of help text is changed from "Demonic alters can usually be found in the corruption. You will need to be near them to craft some items." to "Demonic alters are hidden all over the world. You will need to be near them to craft some items." in release.
• Player death text changed from "[Player Name] was slain..." to "You were slain..." in final.
• When creating a world, it gives an estimate for how large the world file will be.
• In the final, the game has two additional checks on the Blood Moon to make sure it only happens if there's a player with over 100 max health, and that it doesn't also spawn the Eye of Cthulhu on the same night.
• Eye of Cthulhu will never randomly spawn at night in this version.
• No jungle chests will generate.
• No "hell houses" in the underworld will generate.

Enemies

• Default spawnrate is 850 instead of 700.
• Pinky and Black Slime are absent.

• Many of the enemies have different stats from this version compared to final.

NPC ID	Name	Early Stats	Release Stats
1	Baby Slime	10 Damage	13 Damage
4	Eye of Cthulhu	10 Defense 4000 Max Life	12 Defense 3000 Max Life
6	Eater of Souls	45 Max Life	40 Max Life
7	Devourer Head	30 Damage 6 Defense 60 Max Life	28 Damage 2 Defense 40 Max Life
8	Devourer Body	20 Damage 8 Defense 100 Max Life	18 Damage 6 Defense 60 Max Life
9	Devourer Tail	15 Damage 12 Defense 130 Max Life	13 Damage 10 Defense 100 Max Life
16	Mother Slime	15 Damage	20 Damage
23	Meteor Head	No Knockback Resist	0.8x Knockback Resist
25	Burning Sphere	8 Max Life No Knockback Resist	1 Max Life 0.0x Knockback Resist
26	Goblin Peon	15 Damage 5 Defense 80 Max Life 0.7x Knockback Resist	12 Damage 4 Defense 60 Max Life 0.8x Knockback Resist
27	Goblin Thief	25 Damage 10 Defense 142 Max Life 0.5x Knockback Resist	20 Damage 6 Defense 80 Max Life 0.7x Knockback Resist
28	Goblin Warrior	30 Damage 15 Defense 150 Max Life 0.3x Knockback Resist	25 Damage 8 Defense 110 Max Life 0.5x Knockback Resist
29	Goblin Sorceror	5 Defense 80 Max Life	2 Defense 40 Max Life
30	Chaos Ball	8 Max Life No Knockback Resist	1 Max Life 0.0x Knockback Resist
32	Dark Caster	5 Defense 80 Max Life	4 Defense 50 Max Life
33	Water Sphere	8 Max Life No Knockback Resist	1 Max Life 0.0x Knockback Resist
34	Burning Skull	15 Defense 70 Max Life	30 Defense 30 Max Life
35	Skeletron Head	30 Defense 3000 Max Life	12 Defense 6000 Max Life
36	Skeletron Hand	35 Defense 1000 Max Life	18 Defense 1200 Max Life
42	Hornet	30 Damage 8 Defense	40 Damage 14 Defense
43	Man Eater	35 Damage 10 Defense	60 Damage 18 Defense

Graphical Differences

• The player has a belt which is removed from the final.
• The Re-Logic and RA Logo are both absent.
• Armor still uses the early animations from the Pre-Alpha phase.

• The cooldown sprite is absent.
• The 6th "chain" vine is absent.

Items

There's a handful of item sprite differences, most of them related to the armor sets, which are just reskins of the "Pants" and "Tunic" from the Pre-Alpha.

Item ID	Item Name	Early	Release
37	Goggles
66	Purification Powder
67	Vile Powder
68	Rotten Chunk
76	Copper Greaves
77	Iron Greaves
78	Silver Greaves
79	Gold Greaves
80	Copper Chainmail
81	Iron Chainmail
82	Silver Chainmail
83	Gold Chainmail
88	Mining Helmet
89	Copper Helmet
90	Iron Helmet
91	Silver Helmet
92	Gold Helmet
100	Shadow Greaves
101	Shadow Scalemail
102	Shadow Helmet
123	Meteor Helmet
124	Meteor Suit
125	Meteor Leggings
149	Book
151	Necro Helmet
152	Necro Breastplate
153	Necro Greaves
165	Water Bolt

Gore

Gore Sprite ID	Early	Release
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
58
59
60
64
65
66

NPCs

• The Nurse is missing two of her lines from when you're below 1/3rd health, and one of her lines from when you're below 2/3rds health. In this version she also has the chance to say "Bend over and grab your ankles.", a line removed from release.
• One of the Dryad's random pre-Skeletron lines was changed from "Have you seen that old man walk around the temp? He doesn't look well at all..." to "Have you seen the old man walking around the dungeon? He doesn't look well at all...". Her only night time line typos "wandering" for "wondering". She is also missing 5 of her random lines.
• The Demolitionist is missing 3 of his random lines.
• Most of the NPCs are clearly unfinished, only utilizing 3-5 frames of animation as opposed to the 14-16 in the release.
• All of the humanoid NPCs are highly modified versions of sprites from Final Fantasy V.

NPC ID	Name	Early Sprite	Release Sprite	Notes
17	Merchant
18	Nurse
19	Arms Dealer
20	Dryad
21	Skeleton
22	Guide
24	Fire Imp			Completely different design, appearing much more humanoid.
26	Goblin Peon
27	Goblin Thief
28	Goblin Warrior
29	Goblin Sorceror
31	Angry Bones			Like the Dark Caster, looks much closer to the 1.0.3 version of the sprite than the release version.
32	Dark Caster
37	Old Man
38	Demolitionist			Interestingly, it seems like the earlier version of the Demolitionist was tweaked and re-used as the Arms Dealer.
42	Hornet

Player

Proto	Final

Tiles

Tile ID	Early Tiles	Release Tiles	Notes
24			Flowers in the corruption were changed to be visibly wilted.
61			An extra flower was added to the jungle tiles.

Music

• This build does not feature the Jungle soundtrack, present in the final release.

Misc

• The game only has three window titles instead of five.
• Female hurt sounds are not present.
• The game has no check to make sure you can't load incompatible world saves.
• The game doesn't keep track of how many Shadow Orbs you've smashed.
• In this version it's slightly more likely for large and small caves to generate with lava.

Debug Mode

This build also includes a very sparse debug mode.

• Holding down left click instantly mines whatever block is being touched.
• Right click teleports you to your cursor.
• The camera is now manually controlled by the arrow keys.
• The cursor now also functions as a small light source.