Terraria 1.4.5 patch notes

Released January 27, 2026 · major update · summarized from Re-Logic's changelog

Version 1.4.5 adds a Skyblock seed, combinable special seeds, more than 650 new items and a rebuilt crafting window with chest crafting. It also changes many weapons, villagers, drops and shop prices, and fixes a very large number of bugs. The crafting menu, new seed options and Dead Cells and Palworld crossover items stand out first.

Seeds

• The new Skyblock seed starts you on a small floating island.
• Special seeds can now be combined, and a new seed selection window in world creation lets you enable them.
• Secret seeds were added.
• Not The Bees! places fewer Larvae and no longer replaces gem blocks with Crispy Honey.
• For The Worthy's passive mining boost now also applies to block swap.
• On Don't Dig Up worlds, pre-Hardmode Mimics have a 5% chance to drop Flare Guns and Extractinators, and Ocean Biome Crates are less common.

New Items and Crossovers

• The update adds 650+ new items, including 9 whips, over 60 hairstyles, 22 furniture sets and 20 paintings.
• Dead Cells crossover content adds five weapons, a buff station, a vanity set, an accessory, a loyal pet and a new way to display items.
• Palworld crossover content adds 5 pals and a vanity outfit.
• Four new transformation mounts and two new Pylons were added.
• New tools include the Mitey Titey for decorative stalagmites and -tites and the Portable Kiln for decorative pots.
• The Scrying Orb lets you spectate other players, and slain players can haunt others.
• Kites and critters can be placed as persistent background objects, and Mannequins can hold items and mounts.
• The Rubblemaker can now place more items, such as Life Fruits, Jungle Rose and the Terragrim.

Crafting and Quality of Life

• Items can now be crafted from nearby chests, and this can be toggled.
• The crafting window was overhauled with a search bar and filter tabs, and right-clicking a crafting station shows only what it can craft.
• Almost every item can now stack to 9999, including prefixed weapons and equipment.
• A Similar Stack to Nearby Chests mode is available by right-clicking the Quick Stack button.
• Minions are automatically resummoned on respawn.
• The housing query gives visual feedback, and houses no longer need a solid non-platform block.
• A Banner Menu now stores new banners instead of putting them in your inventory.
• Boss bags now show on the minimap.
• The /bossdamage chat command shows damage dealt by each player in recent boss fights.

Melee Weapon Changes

• Phaseblades, Phasesabers, Keybrand, Mandible Blade and Stylish Scissors can be thrown by releasing the attack button mid-swing.
• Ale Tosser is now a melee weapon, with damage raised from 20 to 32 and a ~70% chance to not consume Ale.
• Classy Cane damage rises from 16 to 40, and hits make enemies drop a small amount of copper coins.
• Paladin's Hammer damage rises from 90 to 100 and it now applies Broken Armor, reducing defense by 20.
• Flairon gains a flail mode, switched by right-clicking, and the original is renamed Flairoon.
• Anchor and Golem Fist now cause explosions, and Anchor pierces enemies.
• Storm Spear range rises by 66.67%.
• Hel-Fire damage drops from 41 to 39 but its range rises by 20%.

Ranged, Magic and Summon Changes

• Shroomite Helmets now boost ammo as well as weapons, with their bonus lowered from 15% to 12%.
• Magic Quiver now applies its damage bonus to arrows as well as bows.
• Chain Gun damage rises from 31 to 38 and its ammo-save chance from 50% to ~67%.
• Candy Corn Rifle damage rises from 44 to 60 and Jack 'O Lantern Launcher from 65 to 85.
• Revolver loses its base crit chance but ramps up speed and crit if fired as it comes off cooldown, and its buy price is 15 Gold.
• Space Gun and Laser Rifle projectiles grow with distance, and Laser Rifle costs no mana with the Meteor Set.
• Summon weapons no longer have mana costs and get new Summon prefixes.
• Different whip tags no longer stack, and whips now swing in varying arcs.

Equipment and Buffs

• Dead Man's Sweater now grants 4 defense and halves trap damage and trap debuff duration.
• Paladin's Shield shows its range, procs only every 0.67 seconds and no longer triggers on instant-kill effects.
• Info accessories now work in vanity slots.
• Mounts can fully negate fall damage; Slimy Saddle adds 10 blocks of safe falling and Pogo Stick adds 20.
• Kites grant the High Spirits buff and deploy automatically after more than 3 minutes of AFK.
• Bottled Water heals 30 and Eggnog and Bottled Water have shorter Potion Sickness.

Bosses and Enemies

• Pylons can now be used during boss fights and invasions.
• Shimmer invincibility no longer applies to bosses, invasion enemies or the Torch God.
• Pirate Deadeye, Crossbower and Captain are weaker, and the Captain's cannonball charge time rises from 1 to 3 seconds.
• Flying Dutchman and Martian Saucer Expert+ health scaling falls from 100% to 85%.
• New boss music was added for eight bosses.
• Moss Zombie, Pufferfish and Orca were added.
• Rock Golem Golem Head drop chance rises from 10% to ~33.33%.

Villagers

• Villagers can arrive without a free house, one per day, and leave at nightfall if still homeless.
• Guide defense rises from 15 to 30, and Cyborg health rises from 250 to 500.
• Party Girl now needs 20 villagers to move in, up from 14.
• Defeating a boss gives each villager a 1.5% attack speed bonus, and King Slime, Deerclops and Duke Fishron now also give them stat bonuses.
• Villagers avoid Stinky players.

World and Wiring

• Lightning can strike during storms, and Slime Rain can be started by shimmering a Slime Crown.
• Worlds support up to 32,000 signs, up from 1,000.
• Windy days and rain only occur when a player has used at least one Life Crystal.
• Chests pick up nearby dropped items on a wire signal, and Extractinators process items from chests up to two blocks away.
• Cannons are now fired with torches or wire signals instead of ammo.
• Tombstone ghosts spawn less often, at 12.5% in Classic and 25% in Expert.

Drops, Recipes and Shops

• Prismatic Dye drops from the Empress of Light in a stack of 3.
• Obsidian and Hellstone Crates have a 5% chance to contain Hellforges.
• Cursed, Ichor and Crystal Darts, Spider Armor and the Spider Staffs now need a Mythril/Orichalcum Anvil.
• Endless Quiver and Endless Musket Pouch now cost 9999 ammo.
• Loom recipes can be crafted at Living Looms, and water recipes at Fountains.
• Pylons are sold regardless of villager happiness, though at least 2 other villagers must be nearby.
• The Dryad sells all Planter Boxes without boss requirements, and the Goblin Tinkerer sells the Rubblemaker pre-Hardmode.
• Katana costs 5 Gold, down from 10.

UI, Visuals, Audio and Localization

• Villager Portraits, sunrise and sunset visuals and Snow biome auroras were added.
• Character creation lets you choose your hurt sound, and worlds and players sort by most recently used.
• Gamepad support adds PlayStation and Nintendo Switch icons.
• Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations were added.
• Heavy Work Bench is now Heavy Assembler, and Crimson Bunny Kite is now Vicious Bunny Kite.
• Folder-based resource packs reload instantly while the game runs.

Bug Fixes

• Many crashes were fixed, including multiplayer crashes involving furniture, Pylons, villagers and the Flying Dutchman.
• Fixes cover boss problems such as Skeletron Prime's Laser, Deerclops getting stuck falling, and Pumpking vanishing mid-fight.
• World generation fixes include boulder traps, honey patches outside the Jungle and Living Wood chests.
• Dedicated server fixes cover the language, autocreate and -world options.
• A great many visual, audio, camera mode, UI and tooltip issues were also corrected.

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