Announcement Box

  Desktop/Console-Only Content: This information applies only to the Desktop and Console versions of Terraria.

Announcement Box

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Statistics

Type	Mechanism – Furniture
Placeable
Dimensions	2 wide × 2 high
Use time	14 Very Fast
Rarity

• Internal Item ID: 3617
• Internal Tile ID: 425

Placed Announcement Boxes.

The Announcement Box is a special sign that, when powered, will announce (in the chat) what was written on the sign.

Formatting

Certain keywords will change the formatting of the text, for example color.

Color

To change the color of inputted text, type [c/FFFFFF:] with your text after the colon and any hexadecimal color code in place of "FFFFFF".

• Example: Inputting [c/66FF66:The blood moon is rising...] will create the output "The blood moon is rising..."
• Also, typing in [c/AB40FF:] will create the color shown when an invasion starts or when a boss is summoned.
• You can use this website, here to choose a Hexadecimal Color for the Announcement Box.

Item

It is possible to showcase an item in chat, similar to how Alt+Click works in normal chat. To show an item type [i/zXX:ID] , where "zXX" is a property of an item, and "ID" is an ID of an item".

• Example: Inputting [i/s24:2] will show a dirt block with item count 24 in chat
• Example: Inputting [i/p81:2786] will show the Legendary Solar Flare Pickaxe in chat

Valid item properties are (XX — a number):

• sXX — items in stack.
• pXX — prefix of an item.

The easiest way of getting an Item code is doing the following: first open the chat, Alt+Click needed item, press Ctrl+A to select all text in the chat, and finally press Ctrl+C to copy it. Then you can paste the code into Announcement Box.

Achievement

You can also write a link to achievement into chat, for this type[a:NAME] , with "NAME" being an Achievement name

• Example: Inputting [a:STAR_POWER] will put a message into chat: "Star Power", you can click on it, to open achievement menu at this achievement's position.

Glyphs

Controller buttons can be displayed using the [g:#] tag, where # corresponds to one of the following functions:

Index	Button	Name
0		A
1		B
2		X
3		Y
4		Back
5		Start
6		Left shoulder button
7		Right shoulder button
8		Left trigger
9		Right trigger
10		Left stick
11		Right stick
12		Undefined stick
13		D-pad right
14		D-pad left
15		D-pad down
16		D-pad up
17		Left stick left
18		Left stick right
19		Left stick up
20		Left stick down
21		Right stick left
22		Right stick right
23		Right stick up
24		Right stick down
25		Left stick wiggling left and right

• Example: The following sequence could be used to display the classic Konami Code:

[g:16][g:16][g:15][g:15][g:14][g:13][g:14][g:13][g:1][g:0][g:5] Note that this outputs literal button glyphs, and the output may not match functions assigned in the player's current control scheme. While minor, this could limit the usefulness in custom world designs.

Crafting

Recipe

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Announcement Box	Sign Any Iron Bar (4) Wire (4)	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The Announcement Box's functionality can be disabled by launching the game with a -disableannouncementbox command line parameter.

Trivia

• The Announcement Box was a suggestion by Master Geass, a user on the Official Terraria Forums. The original post can be found here.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.1372.5: Introduced.