The One Reason Minecraft Beat Terraria
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2023
- There has been a long debate as to which game is better, but that's not what I'm looking to answer today. Rather, we'll be looking at why Minecraft has been more successful than Terraria.
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Terraria's corruption relies on the limited size worlds and 2d dimension, Imagine trying to remove all the corruption in a infinite world, It would never end!
Actually...I LOVE that idea. Imagine a world as big as Minecraft where the corruption actually SPREADS. Oh the possibilities....
That should be a game. You constantly have to pick up all your supplies and travel further away. That would be a fun gameplay loop for sure.
@@Throarbin Many minecraft mods do this, to varying levels of success. Take a look at thaumcraft, though it's gone through many version changes that are essentially full rewrites and I don't know which has the more polished taint..... That sounds very wrong out of context. The taint is the evil biome.
I will flay you for that idea
I guess you can call sculk minecraft's corruption of sorts, though it only spreads only when a mob dies nearby.
In my opinion, one of the main reasons Minecraft succeeded over Terraria is due to the difference in how accessible and how simple the game is, making Minecraft played by a much younger audience (6 ~ 11 year old kids) due to its simplicity and how easy it is, and terraria is a much more complicated and difficult game, making its self targeted to an older audience. Even I still have to use the wiki from time to time even after 1000 hours
Yeah, that's a point a few people have mentioned and that's definitely a BIG factor as well
Yea, I'm turning 12 in about 3 months.and ive kinda lost interest because its so easy, I like terraria slot because its longer and harder
I meant a lot not slot
Yeah, used to love Minecraft but started leaning towards terraria
But loads of kids play Terraria too?
Terraria's dev team still actually care for their game and community.
True that
"Minecraft is for everyone" actually means "Minecraft is for good boys and girls."
So true
The way mojang has been handling the game these past few years is pretty sad
For a game about expressing yourself with creativity, updates seem so bleak and bland, having so many rules and restrictions on what they can and cant add to the game
Meanwhile over at relogic they just adf goofy stuff for the sake of it
Wanna have an end game toilet that sprays poop everywhere? Got it!
Wanna defeat a multidimensional Demi god with a waffle shooting frying pan? Done and Done!
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TURN INTO A DINOSAUR WITH A LAWN MOWER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
@@benji-menji I'm non binary so that makes sense, I always thought minecraft was kinda boring. All jokes aside yeah I appreciate that relogic actually cares
@@bradenhuss7003 For me, minecraft is a game I wish I can appreciate more. I enjoy it fine, but I haven't found the way I like to play quite yet.
Rambling about opinions here:
The real biggest problem for me is actually them hammering down on the terms and conditions in a negative way. I don't want anyone's name or skin to be compliant to the maker's rules when I am playing with friends or self moderating a server. I'm not even actually doing any of that, I just want people to do whatever they want with the game that's on their drives.
Another big point has to be community and RUclips content. Back when parody videos from captain sparkles and all the other iconic lets plays it sent Minecraft into another dimension of enjoyability. The glory days of Minecraft heavily outshined terraria as if it wasn't competition. That being said Terraria does have a great community but Minecraft simply cultivated it and turned it into an absolute monster to be reckon with and nothing ever came close to touching that same kind of unstableness until Fortnite basically did the same thing. Terraria was the hidden gem whilst Minecraft was the limelight abuser.
Yeah, there's defiantly a lot to be said when it comes to the communities
Bro's onto something
Terraria totally has a great community
The terraria community: empress of light --> mommy of light
like bro wtf
@@SealandIsBestCountryYa that’s us lol
"I'll just tell you I enjoy Terraria more because I have more refined tastes"
Ah yes... A fellow man of culture.
ah yes, indeed
@@Throarbin indeed indeed
Very indeed
indubitably
much indeed
I'll be honest here, I've played Minecraft for years, and only recently started with Terraria, but I love playing it more than Minecraft, mainly because the progress, updates, devs, and community. All things Minecraft has, but to a lesser degree. I still don't know half the crafting recipes Minecraft has, but I know the droprates, crafting trees, and modded content for Terraria.
wow, you dove into Terraria pretty quick by the sounds of it. Glad you've converted to the dark side, bwahahaha
Yeah same thing here, was originally playing Minecraft before trying terraria. And thank God I did because now I love terraria much more than Minecraft
One of us.
Me too, I only started playing Terraria about a year ago and instantly thought it's a way better game.
I still prefer Terraria over Minecraft to this day.
minecraft only have the community thing, they are far away to have the progress, updates or devs from terraria
A huge reason for Minecraft being more popular is because is pretty much made for children (it's still fun) and therefore is not difficult to say the least unlike terraria where there is actual progression and intricate bosses that take time and skill to overcome which is obviously not aimed at kids especially the ones that are younger (10 and below) not to mention the "gore"
Yeah, that's definitely a point I should have talked about more. Minecraft's target audience and general accessibility is a big deal
@@Throarbin Terrarias progression is why I love it and it's one my favorite games, can't imagine it being bad
@@SquidBow And I agree entirely. As I mention at the end of the video, I LOVE it how it is and would never want it to change. I just thought it'd be interesting to consider why Minecraft has performed so well
And don't even forget "pressure plate" and "happy ending"
And this also applies to older people, disabled people and other who don't have the metal capacity to actually overcome any obstacle yet (at least in terraria)
Is like comparing playing cards to any other sport out there
Another good thing about Terraria is that you can suggest things to add into the game (via forums or smth like that) instead of voting in what the devs want to add in
Yeah, that is something I really love about Terraria
Sad truth
add butterflies Mojang!
*opens poll*
Come on...
@@luis-sophus-8227they cancel fireflies because...
@@ZBREAD. Man I still can't believe they literally did that for *that* reason
@@luis-sophus-8227not to mention the mobs they add are often rare to find (sometimes like the allay) and all these mobs are useless, the ONLY mob with a use that we’ve voted in is the phantom and thats only because its used to repair elytras, otherwise its pointless to find things like the allay or glow squid because they dont do much, and its less efficient to search for an allay to get more loot because you could have gotten more loot if you explored on your own
mojang has made the mobs so useless for the past years, none of these mobs are gamechanging or interesting in any way, yeah they might have a unique gimmick but in the end its kind of useless and they dont add much to the game because they can be hard to find
the mobs they add are appealing to creative builders and people who just like to collect animals or something, otherwise they dont add anything of value to the game, i mean the only mob ive seen that was added “recently” was the glow squid, you know, the animal with 0 practical uses that spawns in a puddle of water and suffocates seconds after you spot it
also in modded minecraft, theres a mod that add in the mobs that were in the mob vote that didnt get voted in, and the only mob that would have been a good addition was seemingly the wildfire, it was actually a part of the game’s progression since it could spawn alongside blazes in the blaze spawner and since it was a basically a stronger blaze with a shield, it made blaze rod grinding actually dangerous and slightly exciting because it was a dangerous mob that you were basically forced to encounter if you wanted to beat the game
I remember being 10 years old when i first learned of Terraria. I didn't have a PC or anything to play it, so naturally i memorized the entire wiki and fantasized playing it for years. It was the first game i ever played and i now have around 6000 hours in Terraria and Tmodloader
How do you manage to play the game so much? I only have 500 or so hours and every time I try to play again I fail to find anything interesting about it anymore.
I mean, I did enjoy it a ton in my first 200 hours, I loved it with all my heart, but it's started to bore me and I don't want to leave it...
@@kapharjr if you are feeling burnt out on terraria, it’s okay to stop playing for a bit.
I’ve gone on and off on the game for 3 years. The first time I tried the game I dropped it before I had a chance to fight a boss.
@@kapharjr modding, challenges, building, etc. there's a ton of things to do in the game and you can always stop playing once you're getting bored with it. we usually get another "final update" that gives us the drive to play it again, see what's new with the modding scene, see what new challenge runs other content creators have done and want to replicate for ourselves. i've recently just been doing infernum difficulty on calamity mod and it felt like it was the first time i've played calamity.
@kazuhiroshou3702 try playing with a certain class, or seed, or difficulty harder than classic
@@kapharjrone word. Legendary mode
It's interesting, I get bored easily in Minecraft BECAUSE there are few set goals. I can put up with Terraria's difficulty and grinding because there's more to reward my patience than just "oh look, I was finally able to build this cool thing".
Yeah, I think that's the case for a lot of people
I play minecraft much more because I enjoy the grind and building. It is satisfying to see a finished build but I think you have to enioy the process.
Someone I can completely agree on!! I cannot play mc for more than an hour due to how bored I get, but terraria I love to keep playing due to the progression. Mc needs set goals, and despite being a builder, I can't find much motivation to keep going in mc.
I played both games for over a decade on top of that.
I've found that for myself at least, when I enjoy the set goals a game has, that I can derive a lot of replayability from adding my own goals and restrictions on top of those provided by the base game. When there is no goal to begin with, I have nothing to branch off of.
for some reason i think i'm better at building in terraria than minecraft
As a long time player of both games, I can say with certainty that Minecraft needs more things to do, doesn't have to be linear proggresion but proggresion in its various systems that have been abandoned like: fishing, minecarts, exploration, and bosses (not after the dragon just random world bosses in their own unique dungeons that you can go to at any time) this would make the game so much better and I believe most players would agree.
The thing about Minecraft is that it has a lot of features... that mean very little
@@leomassafm160 Features like copper or archeology that go nowhere and don't interact with other systems. Like copper is commonly thought about as a material for machines and electronics, including in minecraft modfing, and that's what everyone expects from Minecraft copper, and then Mojang adds a lightning rod (ah yes, lightnings, that happen like never) and telescope and that's all
Mods have to make up the difference, or I feel like a lot of people wouldn't play it for that long anymore.
Frankly, I think what it needs the most is things that are actually meaningful. I’ve had some of the best fun in the game in a modpack that forces you to find new food sources as old ones lose their nutritional value when you overuse them, nerves beds so that you actually need to build a proper base to survive the night, and adds seasons so that you need to prepare for the cold winter (among other things).
I made that modpack in an effort to make the game difficult, but it wasn’t. I didn’t die once. Instead, it made the game very rewarding and satisfying to play, since everything you did actually had a purpose.
In modern Minecraft that just isn’t the case. Why build a nice and safe base when you can just skip the night with a bed? Why find more food sources and build farms for them when a single farm is all you need? Why build a railroad system when the elytra is so much faster anyway?
thats why rlcraft is 100x more interesting. the lvls which are basically useless unless youre enchanting get expanded into a skill tree. devs need to learn from the people that mod their games. the mods exist for a reason, they're filling in gaps the game has. look at the ones that fit the game best and add them.
Terraria is truely a game "about the journey, not the destination." Me and my freind who is relatively new to terraria are having an absolute blast playing it together on expert mode. Terraria is a game shaped by your experienes.
It and minecraft are actually very similar in that regard. I honestly love both games, but recently terraria has edged out for me, just because of the sheer passion and continued love for the community by the devs.
End of the day, both games are valid, and have pros and cons. Its all down to personal preference I suppose.
But hypixel skyblock exists on Minecraft that automatically makes it the best game ever
@@CaptionGatorouted yourself as a child award
@@GameyRaccoon sorry but your saying I'm a child because you lack the patience required to enjoy hypixel skyblock? Not my problem tbh if your attention span is 0.2 seconds. Honestly these 5 Yr olds on this platform acting all tough is getting annoying
@@CaptionGator heh i haven't slept in two days
Just to be totally clear, I LOVE Terraria and how it is and would NEVER ask it to change. This video is just meant to consider why the general public likes Minecraft more since, after all, it has more sales and is a more popular game.
while progression is the reason why players leave their worlds forever once they beat the game, in my opinion, it's not the reason why it's less successful than Minecraft, but instead is the Minecraft's success in RUclips as a content creation machine, way better than terraria is, in Minecraft the world is a blank canvas that the players can draw anything they want on it for many to look at and enjoy, terraria has the content already built in to it for only the player himself to enjoy. of course they can show it to their friends schoolmates or even in a RUclips video, but they are most likely not gonna understand the efforts put into that stuff or even appreciate it unless they already played the games, which doesn't help to attract new players unlike Minecraft where you don't need to have ever played the game to appreciate a good building or a redstone machine thus attracting them to the game. another point is that terraria only gets harder and harder to replay as repeating the same tasks of obtaining the same gear, building NPC housing, fighting the same bosses, running into the same events is really boring leading burn out of the game, while in Minecraft, you are the writer of your story and each story is unique and grands the feeling of achievement and pride. i really liked playing terraria, and over 7 years, i still enjoy Minecraft, and have only explored a drop of a sea of possibilities to explore
I suggest you to pin this
Tbh i like much more Terraria's progression and rpg elements than building for hours in Minecraft
minecraft has slowly been gaining more rpg elements over the years. piglins, the deep dark, trial chambers, village raids, and other such things have really improved the immersion/rpg-ness of the game
Just play hypixel skyblock islts the best game
Another reason for Minecrafts popularity over Terraria is accessibility. When getting into Terraria it can be extremely overwhelming. The more straight lined progression means that there are certain things you are required to do, however the game provides very little guidance on what to do. Minecraft just lets you do whatever you want and does not require you to do anything.
"the game provides very little guidance on what to do"
Guide: "I am here to give you advice on what to do next. It is recommended that you talk with me anytime you get stuck."
@@plantszaza9002 hi,this is the official terraria wiki,I'm also here to help,my library includes on everything that you need to know, entire guides on every single boss and even separate libraries for everything you need to know about any mod you would like to check out
Whenever you get stuck,or need any type of advice,our loving community is here to help you.
Lmao nobody tell him about early Minecraft
i don’t think you’ve played minecraft back in the day, on top of that terraria has linear progress yes but it’s sooo much to do it’s not just a straight forward line. and this is without mods.
@@luis-sophus-8227 the only problem early Minecraft had compared to modern one is that you had to google relatively intuitive crafting recipes, it's not that hard.
And considering the amount of tools and armor the game has, it's quite easy to figure out what's better for you and what you can work your way towards.
Meanwhile in Terraria if I don't wanna spend 2 hours researching the wiki and different weapons/tools/armor sets, I'll have no clue what items are good and what goals I have in the first place.
Sure, the guide NPC gives you some nudges in the right direction, but that's not nearly enough.
Minecraft thrives way more in online multiplayer as well. I've never loved vanilla Minecraft but different mini games on online servers like bedwars and stuff were a blast.
Personally one of the strongest points of Terraria (something that Vinesauce Vinny noticed), is the addictive and fluid progression system.
No matter what you do, there is most of the time something that lies ahead of it.
Diving into the depths for ore? Well, how about these relics, statues, traps, enemy drops, rare foes and items, dye plants/ fungi, mini-biomes that you can find?
Exploring the Surface? You shall meet new habitats with new wood materials, plants, and new creatures and dangers, but you must brave these areas in order to find more beyond them.
Maybe these lands could give you new ideas for building too?
Going to the side of the depths? Well, get ready for a rude awakening to unseen depths of biomes that seemed fairly tame on the surface, but will rip out your spine if you ever drop your guard and expect a easy time like on it's surface.
And yet, these areas hold unique treasures, even the seemingly empty Desert itself.
It WILL put you through the wringer.
Going even further down? Well, you will be greeted by the Underworld and it's residents with the most hostile of welcome.
Explore all you want, but it will make you feel like there is something that you missed elsewhere..
And then there's the NPCs that add, and clarify parts of progression.
Many things that you do will have a impact on most of these people.
Even someone as missable and ignorable as the Angler, will have you revisiting many places that you have seen before, and you will find things that you never obtained in your first travel through.
Even the Pilon system gives incentive to build in places that are out of your comfort zone.
And if you're inclined, the NPC Happiness system will have you considering each person's personalities and relationships.
But you will be rewarded for it.
So many elements, even smaller things like seemingly unneeded items and accessories, tie in with something later, i.e: fusing weapons and accessories on occasion.
And the Guide is there to help more than we may first think..
Hell, this doesn't even bring up the variety of special events that can happen in your world! Rain, slime rain, blood moons, solar eclipses, sand storms, blizzards, parties, goblin/pirate/alien invasions, lantern nights following the defeat of a boss for the first time, and even ones summoned by the player like the Frost/Pumpkin Moon or Torch God! Meanwhile, Minecraft has...rain
Terraria and Minecraft aren't even slightly the same game. They are so different that it's weird to compare them as people do
I started playing Minecraft a decade ago and have played it quite a lot, but I'll admit I've never "completed" the game. Every time I started a new survival world I would just get bored halfway through or even after just building a house. Most of my time playing the game was spent on creative mode or servers. This video has finally made me realize why I never enjoyed Minecraft survival mode all that much. Meanwhile, I only recently started playing Terraria for the first time and it's seriously a blast. The progression in this game just feels so nice. It feels less like 2D Minecraft and more like a metroidvania at times, and the boss battles become bullet hell. I'm having way more fun than I've ever had playing survival Minecraft.
The thing is, Minecraft is a true sandbox. With no actual goal or progression in place, no way to play is right or wrong. Just because you enjoyed creative and servers, doesn't mean you didn't enjoy Minecraft as a game.
@@TheFuckingKrayz I never said I didn't enjoy Minecraft as a whole, just survival mode.
Minecraft really feels incomplete, with many systems that kinda go nowhere
@@airworks7809 I agree with that. The Devs, especially in the later updates constantly add features that are a bit, or a lot, half baked with the promise that as updates come, they are going to get fleshed out. And while it sometimes true, they just keep on adding half baked or unnecessary features so it gets harder and harder to catch on
@@TheFuckingKrayz Dont Starve also does not have a main goal and it's much more well designed than Minecraft.
The only pretty cool thing in Minecraft is the redstone system
Calling terraria unsuccessful is kinda stupid and clickbaity imo. terraria is a trenendous success, minecraft may have sold more copies, but that dosen't take away from the fact that terraria still has millions of players who serious love the game.
i like terraria for one single reason.
1. No more bad updates.
2. Final final final final final final update
Relogic be like:
The most definitely absolutely last grand final end update in the game
*6 month later:* largest minor update in the Galaxy
i think another reason minecraft might be more popular it's because it's easier to get started
yeah. you dont need to be very good at the game to enjoy it. you can just build a house, set up a farm, or do whatever simple things you want pretty easy. it means you can get hours of gameplay in the game without even making any significant progress at all.
At least nowadays, the devteam’s actions speak volumes more than the game itself:
- Mojang accounts have been purged as of 19/09/2023, rendering many players’ accounts gone.
- Terraria won Labour of Love in Steam’s Game Awards in 2022 and they responded by dropping arguably their second largest update as thanks
microsoft warned about this for 3 years, unless you've been in a coma, you deserved it.
"You deserved to lose the game you paid for because you didn't make a Microsoft account"
No, Mojang being anti consumer is not a fault of said consumers.@@anon1963
@@Espartanica bro 3 year warning it was legit everywhere even when you log in it was impossible to miss it
@@mono-bao 3 year warning before doing something anti consumer doesn't mean said thing wasn't anti consumer. It was just anti consumer, with a warning in advance
@@Espartanica fair point but either way a lot of people still stayed even after the account purge
The main difference is that in Minecraft you kill the boss with swords and bows while in terraria you kill the boss by using a alien space laser that you obtained from a flying saucer while riding the unicorn that you found and tamed in a rainbow biome that was created after you went to hell, killed unholy monsters and a giant wall of flesh.
I think minecraft is more popular because its 3D, I think if they added a proper progression system like Terraria where its not forced The game would become alot more popular as a whole. Just like how people dont even kill the ender dragon in minecraft in terraria some people dont go into hard mode.
That's true, I have heard that there are people who don't even really bother progressing in Terraria
@@Throarbin Lmao literally me, I was like 100 hours in my world never bothered to enter hardmode
@@luis-sophus-8227lol took me like 150 hours in my world to decide to enter hardmode
you arent forced to progress in minecraft either. once you get iron (the third tools/first armour you get) you dont really need to level up unless you choose to take on the harder areas of the game.
In recent years I feel like Terraria has been succeeding more than Minecraft. Although it may not overtake Minecraft in sales, I have always felt Terraria is the better game. For one Terraria's creators feel more human and interact really well with the community, while Mojang has felt more and more corporate and seems to be trying to catch up to what the community wants. Terraria with each update has felt like they keep polishing a great gem. With Minecraft you could get a hit or miss update, that you may play for a week. I really enjoy playing Minecraft and relaxing in a game that has no progression, but after short while it gets really stale, with Terraria it takes a longer time to get stale thanks to not only its progression but I believe its limited world size. Although Id love to see an infinite Terraria world I would only play it once because I would hate having to explore that size of world every time I finish the game. I much prefer the small, medium and large world sizes that I know I can for sure explore in its entirety instead of an infinite world, I probably won't go much further than the first beach biome already generated. I can understand why people would like Minecraft more, its a way easier game to get into with no knowledge of how to play a survival game and that's fine, I love it the same way. But I think Terraria definitely succeeds over Minecraft, every day of the week.
That all being said it is obviously not gonna stop me from playing both games. Sometimes I'll feel like I want to play Minecraft and sometimes I'll feel I will want to play Terraria. Both games are amazing in their own right and I will continue to play both probably till the end of time.
Re-Logic and Mojang are so very different and I'm going to have to make a video or something that mentions that. Re-Logic is just so much more human
im not reading all of that
@@ishowbox8279 then why did you comment?
@@ishowbox8279 i still genuinely do not understand people like this
He's too young to read guys, calm down :)
At least the games mutually respected each other by having the message to go play each other
But the community (at least before) was the complete opposite it was all Terraria is just 2d Minecraft
I meant the games startup messages saying "also try terraria/Minecraft"
I always felt like Terraria is a survival boss-fight game with some sandbox features, whereas Minecraft is a sandbox with some survival-game features.
Both are awesome, but if we're talking about a game, Terraria is much more developed as such.
Funny fact though, you can build a real-life computer in both
if you add real life logical signal sending mechanisms to something, knowledge of logic gates are the only limit
Would be better if minecraft were atleast a little fun
Something to be said abt terraria and its worlds is that u can actually use the same character from one world to another, and bring over stuff across both worlds. You cant rlly do this in minecraft. So, in a way u could say terraria actually has an infinite world, and its something terraria does better than minecraft.
Interconnected worlds, the multiverse man!
Minecraft beat Terraria because kids are braindead.
Wow, that was hard to figure out.
Terraria has devs listen to the community and add TONS of new content, even after the game was supposed to be done. Minecraft’s devs add like two new blocks and a new mob every year.
Terraria’s devs are just plain better, Minecraft has kinda become a corporation.
Making a new update for is very difficult, a lot of famous mod creators work at mojang and they've said that there's a lot back and fourth when trying to add a new feature to minecraft.
its because terraria players support the TONS of features added. Minecraft can start to feel unlike itself if many items/features are added at once. Also, the minecraft fanbase have a history of death threats and other such things whenever Mojang adds something/doesnt add something and it angers them. Mojang have to be very careful when adding/announcing features as to not get serious backlash from toxic players.
I havent beaten wall of flesh and im 50 hours in 💀. I've been wasting time doing fishing quest for the ultimate fishing build. I also made the cellphone and terraspark boots LOL
just use beenades and you be fine
It's simply because Terraria are more complex. And i found some people too lazy to find out what's behind that complexity
I don't really mind that Mojang puts out smaller updates, the occasional big update is nice but like you said stuff like progression for Minecraft would make it bloated. I think the MC modding community is a great place to look for progression based gameplay, one of my favorites is a modpack called Vault Hunters, in my opinion its very balance in terms of progression (mostly, its still in alpha for now, still has a lot of content though) while still giving you that freedom Minecraft is know for, I recommend it for people who want that sort of experience.
this actually resolves a weird feeling ive had with terraria for a long time. im more of a minecraft person, so for the long time that i did play terraria, i focused on percieving it more like 2d minecraft. eventually, i hadnt even beaten all the bosses or anything, but that level of progression wasnt really meaningful for me. i just felt like i had already finished the game. i would play the game again, but mentally i already finished it so i just dont want to play it anymore.
I feel like marketing is also a big factor here. Even when it started, Minecraft was actively publicised, and now it has a leg in almost all media.
Terraria, in the other hand, was leaked unfinished, took some time to recover and made some adds. Now it has a comic and some other merch, but its all mostly for fans.
At this point i wouldnt be surprised if Minecrafts marketing team was much bigger than Re-Logic in its entirety.
Microsoft DID buy Minecraft for billions of dollars so they gotta make their money back somehow.
(Minecoins and spinoffs)
Minecrafts goal is to survive, explore and create
Terrarias goal is to become an absolute beast, and destroy everything in your way.
Was honestly expecting the video to not acknowledge the fact that these two games are VERY different, even if they seem similar.
But you definitely know whatcha talking about.
Probs to you.
In one your a god of destruction in the other your a god of creation
2 Big Differences.
Minecraft: Doesn't listens to fans anymore
Terraria: listens to fans still
for the past three years, Mojang have only added stuff that the community asks for/is involved in. also, they do a mob vote/biome vote every year so everyone can have a say in what gets into the game.
@@Ethan_Cubed counter argument: nobody likes the mob vote
I’ve never enjoyed the idea of Minecraft because I like difficulty and progression… and yet the main thing I do in Terraria is building haha. The building in Terraria may be limited in size, but so much deeper in its diversity of materials. While Minecraft can have impressively large builds, they’ll never surpass the intricacy that Khaios or Tommy Tsunami can do.
That and I’ve never seen anyone use the entire map to build something, so size isn’t even a limiting factor in building.
Because of this, I strongly believe Terraria is the better game for both progression and doing whatever you want (like building). Exploration of randomly generated content might be the only thing Minecraft does betterz
Hm, never considered that point of view when it comes to building. Kinda funny that's your favorite thing in Terraria. But yeah, pretty sure Minecraft has Terraria beat with exploration.
Minecraft's building is limited because the devs themselves don't fully squish its potential. Terraria makes up for the 2Dnes with thousands of building items
minecraft end game: oh look at this i have shiny purple black armor that gives me full defense bars and a purple black swords that can 1-2 shot everything! and i just built this very cool thing
terraria end game: ww2 but with interdimensional weapons and armor that gives you 100+defense
I played both Minecraft and Terraria on multiplayer with friends and have to say they’re equally good, though Minecraft is probably better suited for that. However I found Terraria with friends a very fun experience - grinding for bosses together, long conversations and then trying to somehow defeat the bosses. We even celebrated New Years in Terraria with fireworks :)
One my favorite things in both Minecraft and Terraria is how much they reference and/or compliment each other. They both have splash texts saying “Also Try Terraria/Minecraft” depending on which game you’re playing, the Wither was confirmed by Jeb to have drawn inspiration from Terraria’s summoning mechanics, and Terraria has a seasonal Creeper costume you can obtain. That’s of the top of my head I’m sure there’s probably some more.
Another big problem is the that they are starting to demand that players play by their rules despite claiming that they are making the game for everyone.
They are working on removing names without adding a display name system and banning skins because they don't follow their guidelines. If those changes go through, then all the respect I have for them will dwindle fast. Minecraft is a game for everyone to use to its full potential. Nude skins have their place and don't belong everywhere. Offensive names are a problem and shouldn't be used as IDs. But these rules aren't for everyone so forcing everyone to follow them on every server is a huge problem for freedom and the free web. All they need to do is let players have server by server display names and only have skin limits on appropriate servers.
Yeah, we'll have to see what happens with those restrictions they're adding since there are some rules that have never really been enforced
Why would a game designed for younger audiences allow nude skins on their game at all. It’s also a reputation-downer when a game is allowing such user content on their platform
@@kratelox7383 They wouldn't. The problem is that they are enforcing these rules everywhere that they don't belong. Various people would rather use minecraft in other ways that deserve to be appreciated or at least just left alone. If minecraft is really for everyone, then why are they trying to sabotage all these different forms of expression, even on privately owned servers? They have all the right to enforce those rules on their own servers and prevent other servers from appearing in any official server browser if they break the rules, but they have no business limiting servers that are ran on privately own hardware and software copies. (I believe our software is our own even if eula and contracts say otherwise. They are too long and a waste of time when it comes to gaming.)
The thing is they don't moderate the game, everything has to get reported by a player. Most servers use plugins that disable the report button.
Minecraft is a building game
Terraria is an adventure game
Terraria 🤝 Minecraft
It's kinda cool how both games recommend each other!
Great video Mr. Bin. I’d have to agree with your opinion that terraria is the superior game.
absolutely
2D game about finding loot and killing cool bosses and 3D game about building some cool stuff.
You were spot on bro...Most Minecraft players like me play the game for it's simplicity heck one of it's most played versions has seemingly no content or sense of prgression...for a lot us we just get intimidated by the complex and large array of things to do in Terraria
16:15 He saved his friends life, his friend created floating sand in return.
I do have a few things to say regarding this topic:
Minecraft has servers. Pretty much all of them aren't modded and are made using command blocks. These offer a way bigger array of things to do and are in my opinion a big reason why Minecraft is still popular and grew to this popularity in the first place. Also the best servers are on java, and since I mentioned java I have to say that it is quite different from bedrock, the most notable change for me being the fighting mechanics on the newer versions (for anyone that doesn't know axes do more damage than swords, but are slower, however they can also break shields so you can't just sit there and block everything, you also can't just spam with a weapon).
You also mentioned that there aren't a lot of things to get good at in MC, and with that I disagree. Don't get me wrong, Terraria is my favourite game of all time and Minecraft is probably around 10th, but I think that there is a good amount of things to "git gud" in Minecraft: building, speedrunning, redstone and fighting which is especially hard to master on java when doing pvp. However these are all basically things that you can get good at in Terraria.
Creativity is a must when it comes to playing Minecraft consistently and for a long time. Some people really like grinding 10 hours to get blocks to build something impressive because the felling of seeing a charming and towering build that you made is what they want.
I'm not getting into the modded stuff but both games become greater when good mods are installed.
Look, I have spent so long playing Terraria (mainly long playthroughs) across 4 different devices that I don't have to go on the wiki except only when I want to take a look at some really nerdy stuff like luck. I don't want to say that Minecraft is better, just that most people that make a video on the "Terraria is/isn't better than Minecraft" topic don't know both the games to their core, they might not know their communities, their devs etc. but you took a lot of little details into consideration and I really apreciate that. As you said at one point, both the games went off their separate directions and I don't think it's this easy to fairly compare them. It's just personal preference.
Minecraft is far better than Terraria because of one simple reason: simplicity. When you first look at a Terraria gameplay, you see someone flying everywhere laser guns and doing all these fast-paced activity compared to when you first look at a Minecraft gameplay, you can easily understand what's happening and process it.
Minecraft late game: my tools changed color
Terraria late game: I. AM. GOD.
well yeah. minecraft is more about cosmetic items and cutomisation rather than actual power scaling.
but at least Minecraft and terraria dont hate eachother
It doesn't matter which game is better Minecraft and Terraria always save me from boredom
i think both games are equal in pros and cons. Minecraft is a infinite sandbox game, Terraria is a open world fantasy game
Minecraft’s 3D aspect supports most my creative side, whilst Terraria supports my gaming and researching side.
I like both games alot, they are both very nostalgic for me. Both have calming soundtracks.
for me i cannot play minecraft without it being modded its literally almost unplayable without those performance and QOL fixing mojang's game
I personally think that we should not compare these 2 games. They are both unique and different, Minecraft DID NOT inspire Terraria, and Terraria DID NOT inspire Minecraft. I play both games, I like Minecraft because I build and do whatever I want, but on the other hand, Terraria is fun because you can fight all these bosses and things. Both are fun, some may like MInecraft and some may like Terraria.
Minecraft Won The Battle. But We All Know Terraria Won The War.
terraria is definitely not failing
One thing I'd just like to mention rral quick is the multiplayer aspect. In terraria, it is UNBELIEVABLY easy to set up and start playing with your friends in a matter of minutes. With minecraft you either have to pay your way there, or SUFFER through a free server. They didn't want to make multiplayer easy, in a game MANY people play for the multiplayer adpect!
Before watching, i paused and tried to guess your answer. My answer is Terraria is such a deep game. Where a 5 year old can play minecraft and be satisfied.
Basically Minecraft is perfect for creative people hungry of openworld, while Terraria is perfect for people who seeks a good sandbox with balanced progression.
One of the few videos that manage to understand exactly what it is that makes Minecraft so widely appealing. That freedom. The ability to only be limited to your imagination. That is what sets Minecraft apart.
It reminds me of Yahtzee Croshaw's review of Minecraft and how he described it as a responsible adult that makes you make and earn your goals so you learn to appreciate what you accomplish more.
That's the same thing that makes Terraria popular, most RPGS are like a 3d world where you can only mine certain objects. Well Terraria you can't mine the evil stone for part of your journey- but that's besides the point
I can never quite understand people on Minecraft keeping going after beating the end dragon on Minecraft, after that and maybe killing the wither or something, after a little bit I always just start getting bored because I feel there’s nothing to work towards, no new goal to achieve. That’s why these days I mostly only play Minecraft modded
Minecraft is enjoyed more in servers (in the long run)
Minecraft’s more about building than killing things, but I agree. Without mods building things is actually kinda meaningless in vanilla Minecraft.
don't forget about the warden arguably the most challenging boss
Terraria has more enemies and weapons because it is technically created fighting oriented while Minecraft us creative and survival oriented.
Just my thoughts though. I love both.
This video is so good because most other people who would make this video are only minecraft players
...or only terraria player.
I geniunely think that both games are good. One thing that terraria strives in is the diverse amount of content that the updates had provided us over the past few years. It is very limited due to the world sizes we are given to choose.
With Minecraft it strives in the simplicity of the updates. Sure the amount of items are small and more on the decorative side, biomes are very vast and big in a "limitless" world.
There are some flaws and some good things either game has done, I just find them equal on different levels
Yeah, plenty of people would say that and it's awesome that plenty of people can enjoy them equally!
Tho I agree with the idea that the lack of a linear progression makes minecraft gameplay more durable, I would also consider the factors that minecraft's current popularity it's thanks to the popularity it had many m a n y years ago among content creators that grew alongside the game and made it so the game stayed with in the public consciousness over the long run, cause it was That Game that everyone remembers.
And also the fact that terraria has a lot of way of easy transportation to cross large portions of the world that makes it so you can get faster to that end game that ends up stalegeting,making so players expend less time with each individual world.
No. Not true my father showed me Minecraft and I liked a lot
This video is confusing. There is nothing that Minecraft does strictly compared to Terraria that is better or a reason for its success. None of the reasoning in the video explains Minecraft's popularity strictly compared to Terraria, it just explains the two games being different. If being "do whatever you want" was the main reason for Minecraft's success then why isn't every other sandbox game remotely near as popular? If having a goal and an "end" is a problem that Terraria is guilty of, then how did Mario Bros NES save the gaming industry? Why is Minecraft one of the most popular speedrun games ever? Didn't Terraria first start out as having no progression and no "end" as well, similar to Minecraft?
The reason Minecraft is more popular than Terraria has absolutely nothing to do with the way Terraria is designed, nothing in Terraria is holding the game back nor is a "big problem". If anything, the way it's designed is the reason for its own tremendous success. It's simply Minecraft being an outlier of a game that makes basically every other game in existence (not just Terraria) seem small and obscure in comparison.
I mean, maybe Minecraft was an "outlier" but couldn't you say that with just about any game or any thing that's massively popular? Lightning in a bottle combined with quality results in unparalleled success. Both games have done massively well and there's plenty of Terraria clones that I've tried that I'd argue had just as much potential, if not more, even if it was never realized. Since they're both already very popular, having that lightning in a bottle with quality, I thought I'd focus on the differences with the games that draw people in since I believe those difference have resulted in the disparity more than a random outlier since they're both already outliers.
you don't like Terraria because you have more refined tastes, you like it because you grew up with it. I grew up with both games, and find them to be close ties, with Minecraft beating it out by just being overall superior, which is a fact that stays undoubtedly true today, especially because of one detail. The Minecraft community is unified, while the Terraria community is not.
Looking how Aether, an mod completely centered around progression and beating bosses, is the most famous Minecraft mod of all time, with lots of demands to add it in the vanilla game, is a very good indicative that there's a very huge demand for progression since the early days of Minecraft.
fun fact: the creator of the mod actually works at mojang
@@AtomicTheCherry Unfortunately all he does is argue with people on Twitter and get buttmad at folks with criticisms
@@Truckahhmf what do you expevt when you get daily death threats from people angry abot them not adding a two-pixel mob to the game.
I wouldn't say that terraria fails given that it's the thirteenth biggest game
Also did anyone notice that the names of his weapons were named after how to train your dragons
Wait, what weapons? Also I love How to Train Your Dragon
@@Throarbin the background footage of minecraft
10:30 small correction, Betsy is a event boss and Dreadnautilus is a miniboss
Also, funnily enough (10:50) the Elder Guardian (on the left) isnt even considered a boss since it doesnt have a boss hp bar. Furthermore, the Warden (peaking from the bottom) is not technically boss and is a monster similar to the dungeon guard who just acts as an impenetrable barrier,
everyone here: a gigachad for playing both and not hating on either
Building in Terraria is actually crazy good. With so much variety in building materials and furniture and the option to paint and hammer blocks builds can look extremely stunning. I've spent my fair share of time just building stuff in the game. I think the building aspect is better than in Minecraft, but it doesn't offer the excitement of picking that perfect location in the world, that beautiful cliffside at an ocean, or a big mountaintop with an amazing view of the surrounding land that really helps the build to feel like it's in a distinct, unique place in the world. In Terraria, a house in the forest biome, no matter how detailed or pretty, is always just gonna feel like a house in a forest biome. Even if the game had more unique landmarks the limited view of the screen wouldn't make building around them that much more worth it.
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Honestly I love Terraria so much more then Minecraft because:
1. Even if Terraria may have more limited build possibilities because it is 2 dimensional, it balances that out with lots of fun combat.
2. Terraria has a large variety of weapons and armor (and blocks! Minecraft has a lot of blocks but Terraria has more) Minecraft has plain sword and bow and plain armor. There is no meteor staff or laser beam or shark minigun or armor made from the stars in Minecraft.
3. Modding in Terraria is so much easier, all you do is load up tmodloader and every mod you could want is there.
4. Terraria has tons more difficulty options and secret seeds and 4 different classes giving it much more replay ability than Minecraft.
I would like to hear your opinion on Minecraft if you think it is better, I won't argue with you about it. You can enjoy whatever game you want.
ender dragon it feels like fighting a zombie in terraria normal mode
Its kinda weird that terraria and minecraft are even compared at all. Theyre both sandbox games yes but Doom and CoD are also both shooters. Terraria is basicly a Sandbox mini RPG, you go out in the world, get stronger and conqoure bigger and bigger foes. Minercraft is a sandbox Survival game (surivival being written very tiny) where you go out into the world and dont try to fight anyone but instead let your creativity flow freely. Yes there are both aspects present in both games but The main focus are two completly different paths of a crossroads.
And if youre wondering, I personally enjoy Minecraft more. Vanilla is so chill and Modded is basicly my introdruction drug into the crack that is Factorio, Satisfactory, DSP and others.
Yeah, the comparison is kinda weird. At the start it made more sense I guess but I guess the two are just linked for some reason
It's probably because they're the two most popular sandbox games ever, so it's natural for people to compare them.
I wonder if people are going to complain that you’re playing bedrock edition
I wouldn't doubt it, lol
A problem Minecraft has compared to Terraira is the lack of content in certain aspects of the games, like the desert, you have literally nothing to do in it expect for finding desert temples and getting tons of sand. They need to add more stuff to the desert
So, I also think Minecraft's popularity comes from the creativity based sandbox gameplay, with all the different possibilities, but adding a real progression system wouldn't hurt it that much, sure, the focus may shift a bit, but with Minecraft's step by step updates, I think it would not destroy the other aspect. I think, Terraria needs more sandbox features, because again, it wouldn't destroy the already existing progression, but would a another layer of gameplay, another optional type of experience. Minecraft should have a really good and large progression system, but it shouldn't urge the player to progress in the story, but try to encourage the creativity aspect. So basically, no quest page with an exclemation mark, when you have a quest, and an arrow on your compass, but just an expansion of the already existing progression. Just add a bit more crazy terrain generation, a completely overhauled end, and the whole sulk thing, and boom, you had more gameplay. All of the sandbox options minecraft offers you right now are boring, because they're so extremely time consuming, with no inner motivation to do it. I'm not a builder, map creator, or whatever minecraft wants you to be, all the servers and datapacks are just vanilla+, so I ONLY play with mods, or on the Origin Realms server. I just... minecraft isn't fun anymore, we have already done every interesting thing in it, and there's nothing left to do. I'm no BastiGHG who comes up with, over the time repetetive challenges, to alter the gameplay a tiny bit. I'm missing something groundbreaking. I think Minecraft lives off the frequent updates. If they stopped, it would also slowly fade away. And at this moment, the updates quality is descending quite quickly. I hope Minecraft can rise again, because I love that game, and I want to be able to enjoy it again... thy to all the people who were reading this entire comment, I put all of my emotions and feelings in. Right now, I'm really sad, I will now hear the song Eternal Bros, and then go to sleep. Bye my friendos 😉🥱😴
Ive played Minecraft since around 2014 and got into Terraria just a few years ago and honestly Terraria feels like a breath of fresh air. It feels so alive compared to Minecraft where I need to download ambient addon packs for the game just so I dont fall asleep to the music and silence occasionally broken by a wild farm animal. Not to mention the abundance of weapons, armor, tools, and furniture Terraria has to Minecraft. I'll always love Minecraft but Terraria really brings my inner kid out.
i consider one of the main reasons to be Simplicity vs Complexity. In Minecraft, many argue Beta 1.7.3 (myself included) was even better than modern minecraft for its simplicity. The amount of content that exists in Terraria can be overwhelming, especially to unexperienced players and that could be a turn off from the game
Yeah, that's a point some people have mentioned, simplicity. I hardly mention it at all and should have made another point on it, definitely a big deal
@@Throarbin aka lack of depth
mods in minecraft: girlfriend mod mods in terraria: calamity,infernume
I love how half the people in the comments don’t know what an “opinion” is
I agree. It is progressionn but also simplicity. Terraria doesn't always do a great job at guiding the player to what they're supposed to do especially at the beginning and many people get confused on how to progress. Because minecraft has less of a goal this isn't a problem
I used to play Minecraft for a LONG time but slowly got bored because there’s no real challenge or goals. Then I converted to roblox for a while. Bought terraria 3 days ago and I’m having WAY more fun than I did when I started Minecraft because there’s more to do, the gameplay is more fun (in my opinion) and I feel less limited with how I can fight and grind for items… I stayed up till 4 am grinding for a nights edge… now I have a terra blade
I got nights edge and terra blade on different days I’m not insane yet
Also yea I have died to twins like 4 times for anyone who asks for whatever reason
@@95thWitherKingYet.
It's kinda interesting that when terraria youtubers talk about minecraft, they say the Elder Guardian is a boss. I mean, yeah, technically, but if you ask the average minecraft player to name all the bosses, they would probably only say the ender dragon and the wither
Yeah, when making the video I figured I'd just mention them all because I was sure some people would go "hey these other things are bosses to." There's no winning 😅
You nailed it! If you want a strong progression and a "reason to play" - go play Terraria and let us enjoy our "slow and boring block building" game.
People should stop to compare these games, they are different.
Terraria the best game
I like the idea of Minecraft remaining largely unguided and goalless, open for the player to interpret, but introducing far more things to do that require you to be at certain points in progression, some of which may tie into one another but not all. in an open-ended sandbox, the more variety there is the better, and when it fits, one thing can give you reason to do another, while staying in its general lane of doing as you see fit
yeah it is the reason why minecraft became more popular as in its early days it had no progression
The OG mc players like it as it is simple and open and has no progression
Actually I also like open world games more so my vote goes to minecraft
Althogh I think terraria is also a very good game
6:27 small question: what is the name of that mod the made the enviroment? It looks interesting
Idk
It's Polarities mod, but you can only get the cool looking blue one if you're in version 1.3
Thanks
Personally, I like both games but Minecraft appeals more in a couple different ways. It is a lot more visually appealing. In Minecraft, there are some cases of beautiful scenery that can't be replicated by Terraria's limited pixel. Especially adding shader and texture packs. Also, Terraria can be extremely grindy and constantly needing to find new items in order to keep up with the world enemies and bosses. It kinda feels like a constant stress for getting stronger which I found really fun but I also found it tedious at times which can be the reason why its not made for the mass public. Minecraft is much more calm and just feels like you have way more freedom to do what you want. You can choose to become a PVP warlord, be a master builder, redstone mechanic, or some random hobby like building the biggest farm or mass slaughtering animals. It just feels like even though quantity-wise there are less things to get or do, it feels so much more detailed and niche to try to pursue something in a Minecraft world. Idk that's just my thoughts.
the only reason i like minecraft today is because i loved it as a kid, going to school, and coming home and just letting my imagination run wild, playing alone or with friends and family. Nowadays, I dont have the time to sit and brainstorm a house idea, or play with the boys, i have more important things to do, so a more linear straightforward but still free game like terraria is exactly what i need
Terraria has more awesome themes than Minecraft 🎧💯🔥
Absolutely!
And the fact Terraria is cheaper is just mind boggling.
I think one of the reasons I had so much fun in my master mode FTW world is because it took so much effort doing progress, I just started to build instead. Honestly think the game could use something that would dissuade you from doing too much progress at once, and instead just spend some time building.