Terraria 1.4.5.6 patch notes

Released March 9, 2026 · update · summarized from Re-Logic's changelog

Version 1.4.5.6 adds a few small content pieces, such as a new hairstyle and two Music Boxes, and makes some placement and shop improvements. Most of the patch is bug fixes, including several crashes and exploits. Players will first notice the new placement options and previews.

New Content and Quality of Life

• A new hairstyle is available in character selection.
• Music Box (Rainbow Boulder) and Music Box (Silence) have been added.
• Bottles, Books, Clay Pots, and Candles can now be placed on Metal Bars.
• Gems and Holiday Lights now show a placement preview.
• The up/down keys now change the placement orientation of Explosives.
• Digtoise can now be placed with Rubblemaker (Medium).
• Defender Medals now animate when used in shops.
• The Angler's chat window shows a notification near the quest button only when a quest is available.
• The Russian font is improved, and the Russian and Chinese localizations are updated using community feedback.

Balance

• Soaring Insignia's unlimited flight now works with the Velociraptor mount.
• Gastropods and Eyezors no longer shoot at faraway players.
• Enemies spawned from statues no longer pick up coins in higher difficulties.

Performance and Stability

• Tile rendering is faster in areas with many poorly lit blocks.
• Random calculations are faster, especially during world generation.
• Newly appearing anchored kites are more stable.
• Magic Conch is more likely to find a valid teleport point in Skyblock worlds when the player builds in the ocean biome.
• Rare crashes were fixed when loading a world and when using Drill Containment in multiplayer.
• A crash related to jousting was fixed.
• Villagers no longer cause lag when stinky.

Exploit Fixes

• Several unspecified exploits were fixed, including two duplication exploits and one involving placable items.
• An exploit involving dungeon enemies in drunk worlds was fixed.
• An exploit involving Foxparks was fixed.
• Some secret seed interactions were fixed.

World Seeds and World Generation

• Fireblossoms now mature properly on Remix worlds in certain cases.
• The Gnomes spawning area on Remix world seeds is larger.
• Truffle now spawns in certain secret seed worlds.
• An extremely rare case that removed special world seeds when saving and quitting in singleplayer was fixed.
• Celestial pillars no longer leave world bounds.

Items, Combat and Gameplay Fixes

• Quick stack to nearby chests now respects full stacks and different prefixes.
• Counterweights in vanity slots can no longer be used while the Yoyo glove is equipped.
• The Spikes debuff can now be dodged when the direct contact was dodged.
• Dodged lava damage no longer inflicts On Fire!.
• Players no longer respawn with lower health than intended in certain cases.
• Evil trees above Evil Jungle Grass now drop Evil wood.
• Small Jungle plants placed by Rubblemaker no longer break from contact with water.
• Certain placements no longer block seeds from being put on planter boxes.
• Toybreaker bricks no longer break toys when their block is actuated.
• Teleportation Potion no longer sometimes picks a destination outside the world.
• Water is now cleared correctly in some cases of liquids merging.
• The horizontal player block range is even again and matches v1.4.4.9.
• Dangersense Potion now detects blocks added in 1.4.5.
• Stylist now sells Money Hair Dye to players with too many platinum coins.
• Certain Wizard dialogues now show the world's name properly.
• Quickmount no longer grapples minecart tracks that cannot be reached.

Visual and Appearance Fixes

• Welding Mask sits better with most face masks.
• Overlapped mask appearances are hidden with certain helmets.
• Players' legs no longer disappear with certain item combinations.
• One hairstyle no longer has its facial hair cut off.
• Certain dresses look correct when sitting, and certain coats use the right dye values.
• Large Gems look correct above transformed players.
• Orange Phase weapons no longer have swapped visuals in their thrown states.
• Waterfalls are no longer wrongly colored by hidden echo coated walls.
• Pumpking's hands no longer slowly ascend to space in certain cases.
• Vines now show correctly in Camera captures.
• Lens flare no longer appears underground in certain cases.
• The visual effect when walking on sand was fixed.
• Eyebrella raindrops no longer accumulate when the game isn't focused.
• Nailgun Nails now show correctly on enemies in multiplayer.
• Certain items no longer look broken in chat.
• Villagers no longer jitter when reaching to a ceiling using a slope.

UI and Text Fixes

• Hovering over chat and some texts no longer stops continuous item use.
• The gamepad craft toggle button no longer overlaps an item slot when a bank is open.
• Pressing Enter in the in-game settings menu no longer opens chat.
• Placement preview no longer sometimes shows items as wrongly unavailable.
• Defender Medal text now animates.
• The flavor text on the Detonator and Book tooltips was fixed.
• Chlorophyte Visor's tooltip now shows 16% damage instead of 12%.
• Faeling's interface hover hitbox was fixed.
• Drill Containment Unit now faces the right way on Mannequins.

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