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How To Run Terraria In Windowed Mode

Settings are a set of gameplay options available from the game'due south principal bill of fare, the pause carte du jour (Nintendo 3DS version), or the inventory screen (Desktop versionMobile version).

Contents

  • 1 Desktop version
    • ane.i General
    • 1.2 Interface
    • 1.iii Video
    • 1.4 Volume
    • one.five Cursor
    • 1.vi Controls
    • 1.seven Language
  • 2 3DS version
    • 2.1 Sound options
    • 2.ii Multiplayer options
    • two.3 Gameplay options
  • 3 Other settings
  • four Notes
  • five Trivia
  • 6 History
  • 7 References

Desktop version Desktop version [ ]

General [ ]

Setting Description
Autosave On
- or -
Autosave Off
  • On: Saves your world and character information every 10 minutes in the background during gameplay.
  • Off: Only saves when you click "save and quit" in the Inventory (Esc) screen.
Note that the game volition ever autosave your character upon death regardless of this setting.

Turning Autosave on (default) has the benefit of keeping your progress saved in case of a crash or power outage, without having to worry about saving manually. Some players adopt to leave this choice off, in case a potentially world-altering glitch occurs, or if they would similar to experiment in a earth without altering it, and exist able to go back to its previous country subsequently.

Autopause On
- or -
Autopause Off

For singleplayer just, this setting pauses the game whenever you lot open your inventory or talk to an NPC. This can be useful, as y'all can work with your inventory without worrying nearly beingness attacked or drowning. Even so, with autopause on, you can't place items from directly out of inventory (the item must be in the hotbar and selected), nor can you utilise usable items directly out of inventory. Note that independently from this setting it is—also in singleplayer but—besides possible to interruption the game by whatsoever method which switches out of the Terraria plan, such the Alt-Tab hotkey or the Windows cardinal office.

Map Enabled
- or -
Map Disabled

The Minimap tin be enabled or disabled. If yous cannot open your minimap and this setting is non there, it may be turned off in your CONFIG.JSON file. Inside that file, you will find "mapenabled", make certain information technology is set to true . If it is already set to "truthful", and then your PC may merely not exist able to handle this feature, due to its memory requirements. Disabling the Minimap can provide a performance heave on old hardware, but it is heavily recommended y'all do non because playing with it disabled ways yous cannot use Pylons or Wormhole Potions.

Passwords:
Visible
- or -
Subconscious

When fix to subconscious, password characters entered into the game window, such as those for logging into a multiplayer game, will appear only as asterisks (*).

Quick Wall Supervene upon: [1]
Enabled
- or -
Disabled

When enabled, this setting allows a player to supersede an existing wall with one from their inventory, without the need to directly use a hammer to remove the existing wall. The thespian must have an advisable hammer to remove the wall in their inventory, as well equally the power to remove the wall normally. Groups of naturally generated walls must still be removed from the edge(see Walls for more information.)

Activate Prepare Bonuses: [one]
Upward
- or -
Down

The majority of armor set bonuses are passive, meaning they're always active. Some Armor sets include a bonus that must be activated by double-tapping either ▲ Upwardly or ▼ Downward , depending on the setting institute hither. Notation: Double-tapping ▼ Down may also make yous drop through if you're standing on a platform at the fourth dimension.

Zoom sub-bill of fare[1]
Zoom Allows you to zoom in on your character to run across more than particular, up to 200%. The maximum amount you can zoom out is determined by your resolution.
UI Scale Allows you lot to increase the size of the interface for easier viewing on high resolutions, upwardly to 180% (though the slider goes upwardly to 200%).
  1. 1.0 1.ane 1.2 Bachelor only while in-game.

Interface [ ]

Setting Description
Pickup Text On
- or -
Pickup Text Off

Determines whether or not to show pop-upwards text describing the items you choice up. This can be useful so that you don't need to constantly check your inventory to see what was picked up, although the text annoys some players as it covers up parts of the graphics above your character during gameplay. The Sonar Potion is finer useless when turned off.

Consequence Progress Bar On
- or -
Event Progress Bar Off
- or -
Event Progress Bar Timed
  • On: Shows a progress bar displaying percent of an consequence completed.
  • Off: Hides the progress bar.
  • Timed: Shows the progress bar, but hides itself if no enemies take been defeated in the past few seconds. Reappears when another enemy is defeated.
Placement Preview On
- or -
Placement Preview Off

Determines whether or not to preview placement of article of furniture. This tin assist pinpoint exactly where article of furniture is placed every bit opposed to having to break and supersede it if improperly placed.

Highlight New Items On
- or -
Highlight New Items Off

Determines whether newly picked up items are highlighted in the inventory. This aids in quickly locating acquired items and disappears when a highlighted particular is moused over or the inventory is airtight.

Tile Filigree On
- or -
Tile Grid Off

Shows a five block broad filigree around the cursor if the player is not moving to identify blocks more than precisely.

Gamepad Instructions On
- or -
Gamepad Instructions Off

Shows on screen how to perform unlike actions using a gamepad.

Video [ ]

Setting Description
Get Fullscreen
- or -
Become Windowed
Toggles betwixt full-screen and windowed modes.
Resolution sub-menu
Fullscreen Resolution Sets the resolution used for full-screen fashion. Affects windowed way when switched back, though the window'due south size will still change its resolution. College resolution makes the game look smoother but tin slow performance. Annotation that although resolution can bear upon the "zoom" from your character (that is, increment the game screen boundaries), it can only do then within the limit of your figurer's maximum screen resolution.[1] That is, screens with loftier max resolution can produce a much greater zoom than screens with lower max resolution, even if it may crave tertiary-party software to make Terraria accept abnormally loftier resolution values (example: RomTerraria, image).
Borderless Windows:
Enabled
- or -
Disabled
Sets the window resolution to the native desktop equally well every bit removing the title bar and window frame. This setting tin exist useful when using and switching between multiple monitors. This setting is not visible during gameplay and can only be changed from the main card.
Parallax Changes how much the background biome images scrolls in relation to the role player'southward movements. Higher numbers make the background move more, producing a more apparent 3D depth consequence. Lower numbers make the background more than stationary.
Frame Skip On
- or -
Frame Skip Subtle
- or -
Frame Skip Off
Frame Skip skips unnecessary frames to improve performance and reduce Desynchronization issues in multiplayer.[2]
  • On: Enables a default frameskip function provided by XNA, the programming environs that Terraria is developed in.
  • Subtle: Redigit'southward revised custom frameskip, developed betwixt version 1.3 and one.iii.one for monitors and computers capable of more than than 60 frames per 2nd (FPS).
  • Off: Redigit'southward first custom frameskip that has existed since Terraria'due south original beta version.
Lighting Changes the lighting mode.
Multicore Lighting Sets the number of threads used to render lighting effects. Gear up this to the number of cores your CPU has for optimal functioning (or twice the number of cores for CPUs with SMT (simultaneous multi-threading), besides called hyper-threading for Intel CPUs. Yous can search http://ark.intel.com for Intel processors, or https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications for AMD processors, to run into if your CPU has hyper-threading available). Setting this to a higher number than the number of bachelor CPU cores could negatively impact operation.
Quality Switches betwixt low, medium, high, or motorcar lighting quality. Higher qualities will look better merely may dull operation on some computers. Auto continually adapts the quality setting based on your computer's performance (FPS, or "framerate") during gameplay. (The Lighting setting higher up only defines the type of lighting, this Quality setting determines bodily rendering quality.)
Background On
- or -
Background Off
Switches the biome backgrounds on or off (eg. groundwork trees). Switching these off can improve performance on slower computers.
Blood and Gore On
- or -
Claret and Gore Off

Toggles blood and gore effects. When disabled, entities "bleed" puffs of smoke. This includes things that create blood particles every bit office of their animation, such as Demon Optics and Skeletron. Skeletal and mechanical entities volition still burst into body parts when killed. Players may turn Blood and Gore off so the screen isn't littered with enemy pieces, making the game more clean. Information technology may as well exist suitable to disable this setting when involving a younger audience, equally some mature dialogue will besides be removed.

Miner's Wobble

Toggles the block effect where when a block isn't fully broken, it grows and shrinks in size for a quarter of a second. See Trivia.

Effects sub-card
Storm Furnishings:
Enabled
- or -
Disabled

Toggles the background furnishings seen during Snowstorms and Sandstorms.

Oestrus Distortion
Enabled
- or -
Disabled

Toggles oestrus distortion furnishings seen in the Underworld and Desert.

Waves Quality Increases and decreases moving ridge effects seen on the surface and under the water, just this setting has no upshot under Retro or Trippy lighting.
  • Off - H2o as it was prior to ane.3.4.
  • Low - Passive water distortion; nothing really interacts with information technology.
  • Medium - Players and most NPCs create ripples as they laissez passer through water. (Along with other things like the drops of water from the ceiling)
  • High - Projectiles as well create ripples and ripples can bounce off walls.[iii]

Volume [ ]

Type Description
Sound

Various sounds like those from using items/weapons, splashing from liquids, using the interface, killing enemies/players,etc. Turn off if you do not like also much noise from fighting events or PvP servers.

Music

The official Terraria music.

Ambience

Occasional background sounds like bubbles lava, Rain/Blizzard/Sandstorm, NPC ambient sounds such as Bird chirping, waterfalls, etc.

Cursor [ ]

Type Description
Cursor Color

Opens a GUI assuasive the player to cull the color of the cursor.

Border Color

Opens a GUI allowing the player to cull the colour of the cursor's border.

Smart Cursor Mode:
Toggle
- or -
Concord

Changes the fashion that the Smart Cursor is activated.

  • Toggle: Smart Cursor is activated when the mapped primal (Left Ctrl by default) is pressed once, and deactivated by pressing once again.
  • Hold: Smart Cursor is only active when the mapped cardinal is held down.
Smart Cursor Priority:
Pickaxe -> Axe
- or -
Axe -> Pickaxe

Changes the target priority when property a pickaxe with smart cursor mode.

  • Pickaxe -> Axe: The cursor will always target the nearest tree regardless of pointing direction. It volition simply target blocks if no tree is reachable.
  • Axe -> Pickaxe: The cursor volition target the block in pointing direction. If no block is reachable information technology will target the nearest tree.
Smart Block Placement:
Filling
- or -
To Cursor
  • Filling: Blocks are placed from the position of the cursor towards the role player when Smart Cursor is enabled.
  • To Cursor: Blocks are placed from the players current position towards the cursors position when Smart Cursor is enabled.
Lock On Priority:
Clearest Line
- or -
Target Closest
  • Clearest Line: Enemies are chosen based on line of sight. Enemies obstructed from the players reach by solid objects volition accept a lower priority. This setting is useful in the Dungeon and other areas with many obstructions. This setting sometimes results in the furthest enemy beingness targeted.
  • Target Closest: The enemy closest to the player will be targeted regardless of intervening tiles. This setting is useful in flat open areas.

Controls [ ]

Function Description
Activate Gear up Bonuses:
Up
- or -
Down

When set to upwards, Forbidden armor and Vortex armor ready bonus abilities are triggered by double-borer ▲ Upward instead of ▼ Downwardly .

Quick Wall Replace:
Enabled
- or -
Disabled

When enabled, this setting allows a role player to replace an existing wall with one from their inventory, without the need to directly employ a hammer to remove the existing wall. The player must take an appropriate hammer to remove the wall in their inventory, as well as the ability to remove the wall normally. Groups of naturally generated walls must even so be removed from the edge(see Walls for more information.)

Left Shift Quick Trash:
Enabled
- or -
Disabled

Allows the player to rapidly send items to the trash past holding left shift and left clicking the item from the inventory menu. Caution should exist exercised to prevent the deletion of important items. If this option is disabled, left command clicking is used instead.

Keybindings

Allows you lot to modify the bindings for the different game controls, both for Keyboard and Mouse or Controller. See game controls for a detailed explanation.

Language [ ]

You can choose the language to play the game in.

Linguistic communication

English

Deutsch (German)

Italiano (Italian)

Français (French)

Español (Spanish)

Pусский (Russian)

简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)

Português brasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese)

Polski (Polish)

Nintendo 3DS version 3DS version [ ]

Sound options [ ]

Setting Clarification
Audio Effects
On or Off
Toggles game sounds. On past default.
Music
On or Off
Toggles music. On past default.

Multiplayer options [ ]

This sub-menu is only attainable while in a Multiplayer game.

Setting Description
Broadcast status
On or Off
Allows the game to be discovered by other 3DS systems. Can only be inverse past the session host. Off by default.
PvP
On or Off
Off by default.
Team
None, Red, Green, Blue or Yellowish
Controls which team the histrion is on. Set to "None" by default.

Gameplay options [ ]

Setting Clarification
Salvage reminder
On or Off
Displays an SD bill of fare icon in the top right of the lesser screen if the game has not been saved in the final fifteen minutes. Tapping on the icon will automatically save the game and crusade information technology to disappear. On by default.
Pickup texts
On or Off
Determines whether or non to show pop-upward text describing the items the player picks up. On by default.
Credits Displays the game credits.

Other settings [ ]

  • Config.json settings
  • Camera mode
  • Expert Mode
  • Difficulty

Notes [ ]

  • The Frame Skip setting can alter the output from the DPS Meter.

Trivia [ ]

The "Miner'due south Wobble" Effect in action.

  • Earlier 1.two.three, going to your inventory with autopause on while using a weapon or tool and clicking an particular would get it stuck and brand it drop when y'all leave your inventory (unless you right-clicked outside of your inventory to driblet the item yourself). If this was tried with a consumable item, information technology would be used as such. Healing items acted uniquely to this bug; they would still heal y'all, but would non inflict Potion Sickness. Update ane.2 had somewhat tried to fix it, but could nonetheless be circumvented by using a tool or weapon with continuous use.

History [ ]

  • Desktop ane.4.0.four: Fixed an issue where a lot of non-gore objects were hidden by Blood/Gore settings.
  • Desktop 1.four.0.ane: Animated accessories now no longer breathing when paused.
  • Desktop 1.iii.v: Professionally translated languages introduced.
  • Desktop 1.3.iii.two: Miner's Wobble can at present exist toggled on and off.
  • Desktop one.iii.iii:
    • Fixed sliders in the Gamepad settings not being "locked on" when dragged around.
    • Introduced Miner's Wobble.
  • Desktop one.3.0.four: Stock-still existence unable to leave settings menu under rare and unfortunate circumstances. Fixed parallax non loading correctly.
  • Desktop 1.2.4.i:
    • Made Smart Cursor smarter when placing Minecart Tracks.
    • Fixed a bug where Smart Cursor wall would not ignore doors pillar when open.
    • Fixed issues where pressing "Reset to default" in controls would reset the quick mana cardinal to M rather than J.
    • Fixed bug where glowsticks will not be selected when the mouse is near the actor in a dry area (Auto Select).
  • Desktop 1.two.4:
    • Added Smart Cursor. This can be toggled using control and has an interface option. Smart Cursor makes digging, chopping, placing, and breaking much faster and easier.
    • Changed the Quick Heal to use the all-time fit healing item instead of the kickoff.
  • Desktop 1.two.3.1:
    • Fixed issues where Autopause played bad with Breast renaming (and sign editing a bit).
    • Fixed bug where in-game options Map Control section wasn't blocking input like the regular controls.
  • Desktop 1.ii.3:
    • Added ingame settings menu.
    • There's now options for the ambient sound. Salvage and Exit is now in the settings bill of fare.
    • Added sliders for parallax & volume settings.
    • Game now loads at saved resolution and fifty-fifty remembers if you use maximized window.
    • Multicore Lighting added to options carte.
    • When you hover over text in the interface menu the text now turns yellow.
    • Stock-still bug where Dust would abound massive when you lot paused the game.
    • Fixed issues where guide will tell you to press Escape to open inventory even if you inverse your keys.
    • Fixed bug where special armor visuals don't employ with machine-pause on (robes / werewolf / merform).
    • Fixed exploit with moving items around in car-pause.
  • Desktop 1.2.0.ane: Configuration settings will exist set to default to set problems with loading incorrect configurations from previous versions.
  • Desktop 1.two:
    • Map introduced - "M" has been remapped for the map feature.
    • "J" is at present the default button for mana utilise.
  • Desktop one.1.two:
    • Terraria has been translated to German, Italian, French, and Castilian.
    • Terraria now has support for absolute letters and multiple keyboard layouts.
    • When first run, Terraria will ask which linguistic communication to use. This can be changed in the options menu.
  • Desktop one.0.1:
    • Leaving the settings carte via the back push button should no longer crash.
    • Added a toggle for Frame Skip, which can right some slowdown problems on higher-end computers.
  • Desktop-Release: Introduced.
  • 3DS-Release: Introduced.

References [ ]

  1. world wide web.terrariaonline.com Foums → Help & Back up → Technical Back up → PC → thread:"Zooming out" the view?
  2. http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/pc-one-3-1-1-hotfix.44359
  3. "For anyone worried about performance, at that place's multiple levels of quality (Off, Low, Medium, and High)"

Source: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Settings

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