Pre-Alpha

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This prototype of Terraria is the earliest of the two prototypes leaked on 4chan and the earliest known build of Terraria overall. Judging by the 1.0 release notes, this version appears to be version 0.1.

Differences#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: A post about this build mentions a giant chasm at the edge of the map, but the game always crashes before you can reach the world border in the available build. Can this be seen somehow?

There are only 26 items in this build.

UI#

• There is no "Save and Quit" button, the player must close the window to exit.
• The hotbar and inventory slots are a square-shaped stone outline, similar to Minecraft.
• The hotbar slots are hollow when the inventory is closed.
• The armor slots and hearts are placed closer to the inventory.
• There are no accessory slots.
• There is no hover text on the items.
• There is no pickup text.
• There are no damage or health numbers.
• There are no labels.
• The text has no outlines but already has the glowing effect.
• Crafting requirements can display incorrectly.
• Pressing Left Alt, or Right Alt + Enter will toggle fullscreen mode.

Graphics#

• There are no clouds.
• The cursor is gray and does not glow.
• The player's graphics are similar to the April 26, 2011 build but with all of the details baked into the textures.

Audio#

• There is no music.

World Generation#

• Extremely basic and crude, only featuring the Underground and Forest biomes.
• No walls are placed in the world.
• The only sprites that exist are trees, grass, and mushrooms.

Gameplay#

• The game starts directly in a randomly generated world.
• The player is named "Some n00b".
• The player is given one of two random hair styles.
• The player has 10 defense by default.
• The starting tools are a Copper Pickaxe, Copper Axe and Copper Hammer.
• The player starts with the 4 clothing items exclusive to this build.
• The player will drop all items that are not equipped or in the hotbar upon death.
• There is no fall damage.
• Nothing relating to mana exists in this build.
• The only NPCs present are slimes in the green, blue, red, yellow and purple varieties.
  • They spawn randomly near the player in all biomes.
  • The code that handles their neutral behavior has not been coded yet, so they are always hostile.
  • They will spawn during nighttime.
• Damage is calculated differently in this build.
  • Only 10% of defense is used to reduce incoming damage rather than 50%.
  • There is no check that prevents damage from being less than 1.
• Wood can only be used for crafting; it cannot be placed.
• The default spawn rate is the same as the final release (700), unlike the April 26, 2011 build.
• The player can close doors while standing in between them.
• Moving too close to the world edges will crash the game.
• There is no healing cooldown.
• Grass seeds do not exist in this build.
• Fallen stars do not exist in this build.
• Enemies do not despawn when offscreen.
• This is the only known build to have the following 4 clothing items.

Item ID	Sprite	Item Name	Defense
15		Green Tunic	2
16		Gray Tunic	2
17		White Pants	1
18		Blue Pants	1

Crafting Recipes#

All crafting recipes are done by hand in this build.

Notes:

• The last field of each table indicates the total output of the recipe.
• A red line between two ingredients means either one can be used, not that both need to be used.

Hidden Features#

• The game contains a "dumbAI" boolean that overrides the AI of all enemies with AI Style 0 (No AI).
• There is a "godMode" boolean that makes you immune to all damage.
• There is a "debugMode" boolean that enables the following features:
  • The camera is now controlled by the arrow keys.
  • You can hold down Right Click and then Left Click to spawn a Yellow Slime at the cursor.
  • Holding right click will place torches along a valid block surface.
• The game contains a "maxPlayers" variable that is set to 16 despite multiplayer being absent.

Miscellaneous#

• "Terraria: Dig Peon, Dig!" is the only available window title.
• The executable uses an Xbox 360 controller as its icon rather than a forest tree.

Pre-Alpha	Apr. 26, 2011 onward

• The game's assembly attributes have placeholder information, including what appears to be an early name for the game.