Main article: Guide:Game progression
For a more detailed walk through of the game, see Guide:Walkthrough.
Terraria is a huge world which reveals its content to the players in discrete chunks. Unlocking additional parts of the game is often described as Game Progression.
This guide is a graph that summarizes the bulk of the game as chunks with dependency lines indicating mandatory steps to unlock them. Depending on the difficulty of the challenge, players may also have an implicit need to finish other (lateral) parts of the game before proceeding.
The boxes below are color-coded depending on whether they contain a Biome, (lesser) Boss, or other entity, with occasional additional emphasizing of crucial steps in bold.
Forest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Island | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cavern Dig for Ore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ocean | Jungle ( Ivy Whip ) | Desert | Corruption / Crimson Smash Shadow Orbs / Crimson Hearts | Pickaxe with at least 50% Pickaxe power | Life Crystals Nurse(Healing) | Glowing Mushroom biome | Marble Cave | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Angler | Bee Hive | Skeletron | Eater of Worlds / Brain of Cthulhu | Slime Rain × 8 | Blood Moon
Req. Health: 140 × 7 | Goblin Army
Req. Health: 200 × 10 | Eye of Cthulhu
Req. Health: 200 × 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Queen Bee | Dungeon | Pickaxe with at least 65% Pickaxe power | King Slime | Goblin Tinkerer Reforging | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Witch Doctor | Mechanic Wiring | The Underworld Hellstone gear | Meteorite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wall of Flesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||