Terraria VS Minecraft: You Won’t Believe What Mike Thinks!

Ah the age old debate which block game is the best in one corner we have Terraria one of the greatest 2D games of all time a true heavyweight of the industry in the other Corner we have Minecraft oh wait I can’t use that name in my titles or videos anymore you know

What it I’m not going to let some multinational leeches spoil my video initially I was going to be sympathetic to Moa and their Crown Jewel but since they want to be a bunch of greedy quits deciding to create a new bogus terms of service any sympathy I may have had has

Evaporated I’m going all in on this one as I was saying this is an age-old debate in the gaming community so old as this debate even Cicero played his part he was Pro Terraria if anyone was asking I even lost friends in school as a result of this argument and no I’m not

Joking this is the old firm of video game rivalries the Carlton V Collingwood if you may each game has its own Knack a style of play and genre which makes it stand out from the crowd or at least that’s what the developers hope inevitably there are games that are

Similar enough to others Minecraft and Terraria are perfect examples of this both are blocky both have survival aspects and both require you to chop down trees and slay zombies today we finally settled this debate which game is the best come on I know you you guys

Aren’t I’ve put the answer in the title already today I will compare the two and show you why I personally prefer Terraria over Minecraft I’ll also elaborate on what I believe Minecraft does better but believe it or not I am fair I guess anyway let’s get on with It the most important element to any game is the progression system how do you level up to face stronger enemies and bosses what weapons and equipment can you obtain and use in your journey to reach the top of the metaphoric Mountain progression doesn’t necessarily determine the difficulty of a game

Rather it can decide one’s interest in the game before you even pick up the controller but enough beating around the bush in this regard the two games could not be more separate when you start a fresh in both games all seems relatively similar you swor in chop down some trees

Build your first house grief some squeaker dingy sh hole of a dirt Hut you get the picture oh my God but once it begin in mining this is where you discover terraria’s biggest strength and consequently Minecraft’s biggest floor in almost every Department Terraria has more than Minecraft ores bars tools

Weapons armors bosses the list goes on in Minecraft there are only six different swords and axes a trident and two different bows how many tools and weapons does Terraria have in prehard mode alone there are 54 sword swords nine yoos six Spears 10 Boomerang seven

FL there’s a lot okay 420 weapons to be precise though the wiki says 573 if you count damaging tools such as pickaxes axes hammers Etc speaking of tools there is a bigger variety of tools in Terraria from your traditional pickaxe and axes to hammers drills chainsaws and even

Lasers that’s not even scratching the surface all Minecraft has are the six different varieties of the same old pickaxe axe shovel and SS sniper I mean hoe furthermore Terraria has a far larger variety of ores and bars that you not only require certain tools to obtain but need to complete certain objectives

To even be able to discover online from your basic copper and Tin all the way up to the final most powerful luminite not only this but the types of ores which generate in your world can be random all the while still allowing you to progress one world might start off

With copper iron silver and gold whereas the other could have tin lead tungsten and platinum then once you hit hard mode you can either get a choice of padium or a chalum and titanium or Cobalt mithral and Adamantite there is some mixing and matching as well the only ores in

Minecraft are coal copper iron gold lapis lazuli red stone diamond and netherite oh and emeralds but villagers like to rip you off so that Almost Doesn’t Count moreover Terraria also has loads of accessories and combinations for set accessories which you can wear in order to boost your stats such as

Mobility damage for certain weapon types numbers of minions Etc look I’ve made my point on this Terraria has a sh ton more than Minecraft but why does it matter couldn’t it be the case of Minecraft having a nice clean compact game while Terraria is just a dumpster

Fire of a hoarder’s house well as I will demonstrate this is about as far from the truth as I am from the United Kingdom not only does Terraria have more than Minecraft the items that are in the game actually contribute to the progression in a way that makes sense

Let’s compare iron armor in Minecraft you could theoretically beat the final boss with a full set of iron armor how about Terraria I challenge you to beat the moon Lord with only iron armor it just can’t be done unless you’re the Terraria equivalent of technoblade considering how easy it is

To get iron armor in Minecraft this fact shows how amature Mojang are in regards to progression in Minecraft the progression almost feels like one big RNG experience start your world chop down some trees build your house go mining be lucky enough to find diamonds for a pickaxe let alone a sustainable

Amount for armors and an enchantment table and also when your tools wear down mine obsidian assuming you’ve managed to find diamonds for a pickaxe because obsidian can only be mined with a diamond pickaxe make a nether portal hope that there’s a nether fortress nearby if not you’re hope that the

Nether fortress is enough for there to be blazes spawning grind for blaze rods either find a warped Forest which is relatively rare or go back to the Overworld at night and hope that there are enough Enderman so you can obtain at least 12 ender pearls to create the Eyes

Of Ender hope you don’t lose Too Many Eyes of Ender trying to find a stronghold fight the Ender Dragon hope you have the right enchantments for the fight or for any of the previous steps such as trying to obtain enough diamonds or end ender pearls you get the picture

With Terraria while while much of what you can obtain can be luck based it doesn’t feel like it because you ultimately know where you’re going for the most part here’s an example you want to be able to combine your accessories but in order to do that you need to

Defeat the Cyrax Army so you can find the Cyrax tinkerer how do you get the Army to attack you well you can either meet the criteria as shown and wait for it with a one in three chance per day of the event firing or you can craft the Cyrax battle

Standard which requires you to go to the outer fifth of the world and kill enough Cyrax Scouts to obtain the tattered cloth required while Cyrax Scouts can be annoying to wait for at times there are other things you can do in order to increase your chances you can obtain a water candle

From the dungeon assuming you’ve beaten Skeletron or there’s one at the entrance of the dungeon or you could make a battle potion both increase spawn rates this is just one example there are many others such as the postplant Tera dungeon where you may want to grind for

Weapons such as the shadow beam staff and the tactical shotgun oh that’s another thing Minecraft doesn’t have guns and it pisses me off to no end in Minecraft there is no way to increase spawn rates especially the spawn rates of any mobs you may want to spawn in such as the

Enderman no special potion or events or even placeable items you just have to suck it up and hope to get lucky let’s discuss the bosses oh boy this part is Juicy like a tender ribey steak in Minecraft there’s only two bosses the Ender Dragon and the Wither

These bosses are an absolute pain in the ass to defeat especially the weather they constantly fly around and Destroy Everything once you defeat them what do you get pretty much nothing so much for all that hard work and RNG if you defeat the Wither you get a Nether Star this can be

Used to make a beacon which requires you to make a pyramid of metal blocks these can require between 81 and 2,196 materials to build and what does it give you at most two Buffs which will only be applied at the range of 50 blocks at most and for 17 seconds after

You go out of range do you really expect me to mine over 2,000 diamonds for that and it doesn’t even help with defeating the Ender Dragon because you have to fight it in another dimension and the dragon would probably destroy your beacon if you decided to build one in the end

Which would also take quite a while to build as well Terraria on the other hand has 18 bosses not including event bosses and mini bosses such as ogres and hallowed SL evil mimics these bosses are incredibly fun to fight each with different attack Styles Str strengths and weaknesses Additionally the items

They drop when defeated are vital almost compulsory for you to advance further into the game the eye of cthulu for example drops Demonite or crimon depending on which World evil you choose you can use them to craft bars which in turn you can craft better weapons with

The wall of flesh is a required boss to defeat because it activates hard mode upon defeat it also drops the pone Hammer which is used to smash demon slm and Alters to spawn in the hard mode ORS the mechanical bosses are necessary for progression because they drop special

Souls and hallowed bars for more powerful weapons and armor also defeating all three of the mechanical bosses ensures that you can get plant Terror these are just a few examples but almost every boss helps you advance in the game somehow overall Rel Logic the Terraria developers know far more about

Gameplay progression than Mojang does in fact I’d go as far to say that Mojang doesn’t know a thing about progression a prime example of this is the mobs they added in the most recent ones I can think of are mostly passive or neutral mobs that don’t drop anything useful

Frogs mountain goats polar bears what is the point of adding these in if there isn’t a purpose for them polar bears stick out in my mind the most when I ask this question what purpose is there for interacting with polar bears can you get anything from killing them nope just a

Fish or two absolutely pointless even some of the biome exclusive Hostile Mobs such as the husks or Strays have no real purpose or drop compar this to Terraria where not only are there more and better mobs but they also tend to drop a wider variety of more useful items yes you do

Still have some mobs whose primary purpose is to be a pain in the neck but most of them have decent drops even if they are rare a prime example of this is the zombie in Minecraft all zombies drop a rotten flesh an iron bar or two maybe their armor and some carrots and

Potatoes if you’re lucky terrarian zombies drop shackles which can add an additional one defense and can be combined to create other accessories such as the magic cuffs and the celestial cuffs they can also drop a zombie arm which can be useful for early game weapons gel for torches and even

Arrows and a SL slime staff while we talked about mobs I briefly mentioned the concept of biome exclusive mobs this is yet another field where Terraria excels and Minecraft fails miserably Minecraft has more biomes this is a fact but do these biomes really add anything unique to the game yes you can obtain

Different types of wood from most of the biomes but that’s pretty much it there’s no real biome exclusive Mobs with maybe one or two exceptions no biome exclusive exive loot no biome exclusive bosses Etc it all feels like it’s just in the game for aesthetic purposes there seems to be

No real progression purpose for some of the biomes Terraria on the other hand could not have made each biome feel more different and while the level of requirements for each biome varies they all still serve a purpose and have a wide variety of different mobs guess what another comparison

Yay anywh who the most standard example in the two games is the jungle biome Minecraft’s jungle biome is Bland consisting only of a bunch of tall trees the occasional small rock Temple some pumpkins and cocoa beans the only biome exclusive mobs are ocelots parrots and pandas which are all passive and drop

Nothing as well Terraria jungle while Bland looking on the surface has a whole another dimension underground there is a whole Suite of jungle exclusive host Hostile Mobs that drop vastly useful items the prime example are hornets who drop Stingers which can be used to craft the blade of grass jungle armor and much

Much more underground there are many different structures cave systems huge beeh highes and a massive Lazard Temple there are two biome exclusive bosses not one but two and the cherry on top the jungle inara has an awesome soundtrack that I wish I could play in the Minecraft jungle it’s night and day

Absolute night and day this may be an unpopular opinion but I think Terraria has better graphics than Minecraft I know Terraria is 2D while Minecraft is 3D but graphical elements are far more complicated than that but before I delve into this I just wanted to quickly say that Graphics

Don’t always determine how good a game is they merely help a person to ease into a game undertale is the perfect example good game decent story but my God the graphics are absolute anyway let’s observe the color composition of Minecraft’s blocks and animals is simplistic with no gradients

Shine or anything like that there are some minor block animations for blocks such as water and beacons but not much else NPCs don’t have blinking eyes or Shadows or anything like that there’s also no wind blowing animations for Le and flags Terraria has ores that sparkle more realistic water physics more

Elaborately designed NPCs and mobs animated items such as the souls and a better color composition in my opinion nighttime is also darker without lights which is better in my opinion because it actually provides consequences for not preparing properly this might be a controversial thing what I’m about to

Say next but I believe that Minecraft needs to have Shader mods just to make it look as good as Terraria with all that said can I really say that Terraria is for certain a better game than Minecraft to be honest I’m not so sure you may be screaming at the monitor

Saying you just made a whole video stating Terraria is better but hear me out these games aren’t as similar as one might think the only similarity is the fact that they’re both block games Terraria is a better game game by this I mean it has a better progression system

Set bosses weapons armor events accessories Etc but Minecraft is a better sandbox experience in Terraria the world types you get are almost exactly the same the experiences you have are always so similar the path you take is the same but with Minecraft you can just relax and build and in a way

This adds a unique element of replayability to Minecraft the fun doesn’t just stop the second you beat the Ender Dragon the fun stops the second you decide it stops you can build almost anything from a small cottage on the top of a mountain to a metropolitan

City filled with NPCs to trade with you can even build moving aircraft and actual working computers if you have the wherewith about you Minecraft is that game that you come home to from A Hard Day’s work just to build add to your map and potentially expand your village and

In-game wealth it’s a game for creatives who want to relax comparing Minecraft to Terraria is almost like comparing apples to oranges so to summarize yes I believe Terraria is a better game than Minecraft but only because it’s the type of game I like I like being able to progress in

The way Terraria allows you to I like gradually becoming more powerful as you play along I like searching thoroughly in order to find a simple aglet but I’m also not a very good architect does that mean Minecraft is a bad game No in fact I love it almost as much as Terraria I

Just prefer the Latter