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3DS Terraria is BROKEN (in the best way possible)
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- Published on Feb 8, 2026
- Today I try out 3DS Terraria for the very first time! It was absolutely not what I was expecting...
Terraria on the 3DS was left unsupported after mobile and new-gen consoles moved to 1.3. So you can think of it as being stuck in the equivalent of version 1.2.4 on PC, with some differences here and there.
Alongside Ocram and other console-exclusive content, the 3DS also got mobile exclusives as well! Making it the perfect version for me to try out, to both relive the content I started with all those years ago, but also experience mobile exclusive content for the first time!
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/ gungn1r_
20:05
>Checks upload date
>2 years ago
>I forgive, this time
I just got my first 3ds and was just glad the video was only 2 years old lol
immediately clocked the 67 too lmfao
aslo one of his weapon did 67 damages and he pointed it out
you guys are fucked in the head
0:23 why is it framed like a fnaf ending bruh
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The biggest mystery. What’s in the 3DS?
Having over 750 hours in Terraria on the 3DS, I found the infinite heal trick only way after the 700th hour, which is still earlier than finding that you can *make* potions yourself, as I never thought about filling a bottle with water, thus never getting the recipes for potions... I had to wait for PC Terraria for that one.
How and why did you play so much 3ds terraria, insane
I played about 2000 hours in mobile terria pre all the extra stuff (normal game) updates, when crimson was added it was a game changer for replayability @cultistclan6752
@cultistclan6752probably a kid with limited options, I probably did like 300 hours of terraria mobile back in HS
Just wanted to tell you, I played ds as a kid and the drax dosent just spawn in shadow chests, it can spawn in literally any chest. I got it in a surface wood chest.
Two options. 1: He was a kid, and got it and played it then. As a kid, your options for games are pretty slim. You make as much fun as you can out of what little you get.
Or B: He was a Terraria Veteran/Mobile player, and thus wanted a nostalgia high. Because 3DS is forever outdated. Like, pretty sure its the only way to fight Ocram levels of outdated.
"If I still had my 3DS, I would have gladly gotten the game"
Fun fact: In older versions of the 3ds version of terraria, if you got a spear and held down the attack button, the spear would keep extending infinitely toward wherever you were aiming it allowing you to hit things really far away from you.
OOOOH i though that was a feature that they removed for being to op
poke the wall from safety
Wait fr?
There was a glitch on Xbox One that could do the same thing during 1.3, but patched in 1.3.1-4. selecting items with the d bad was broken, allowing items to be rapidly used in combination with the magic mirror, and weapons to shoot other weapons projectiles, vortex beater shooting meowmere cats being my favorite. This worked with spears too, but the other weapons were just way more broken compared to a long spear. Also, heart arrows stun LITERALLY EVERY ENEMY IN THE GAME EXCEPT FOR DUKE FISHRON
In more words, it was like the hit box would never disappear, and also never fully retract, so if you for example started attacking right, then then started attacking left without stopping attacking, an invisible spear hitbox would extend from your right from the first attack you did and from the left from your second attack, and every time your spear did its motion, those attacks would move further away from your character.
Theoretically you could have an invisible surrounding barrier of spear hurtboxes around you but it’d lag your game.
5:49 fun fact about the sharanga: when i updated my old phone to the newer 1.3 mobile version, it was replaced with the hellwing bow.
One oddity I found when I played this version recently, is the clockwork assault rifle is broken, like legitimately it’s broken, instead of being a burst that shoots 3 bullets, it shots like 30 a second, so it actually does like 2x the dps of the megashark.
I remember using the Clockwork rifle throughout my entire hardmode playthrough as a kid because of this. I thought I was remembering things wrong but no it turns out it actually was that good. Thank you for confirming that I'm not crazy.
@Stibly yeah lol it carried me all the way to Golem it was so op
Switch Had that for a bit. The autoswing was busted and it was full auto.
Magic Dagger is really good as a result of this same thing. The Handgun, Phoenix Blaster and Venus Magnum end up being far more usable for the same reason. The Undertaker is still REALLY bad tho.
At one point, I wanted to see how quick I could kill the Eye of Cthulu with it, and managed to completely melt it in just a few seconds. Doing so much damage so quickly legitimately crashed the game as soon as it died. I remember the Clockwork Assault Rifle being busted in mobile version back then too, so yeah... interesting times.
20:06 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Oh god .... OH GODD WHY
fml bro DAMMIT
67 isn't funny.
@Brainhorn67 🤣 😅
24:09
Not choosing mage was your undoing. Not only can you get Crystal Storm pre-hardmode, but razorpine’s projectiles were immune to gravity, making Fishron comically easy.
With the spectral armor too, you could tank the entirety of the pumpkin moon event
I remember when I was like 10, I was beating Fishron with heart arrows.
How do you get crystal storm pre hard??
@choc1atech1p77Arch Demons have a chance of spawning in the underworld pre hard mode, and they drop crystal shards along with a rare chance for a crystal storm
@youcantbeatk7006 Heart arrows didnt stun fishron
8:59 the bug happens when you open your inventory and switch items before finishing swinging a sword or firing a weapon, or in your case, accidentally swinging cobweb.
This has me nostalgic not only for old terraria, but also for the ds era of nintendo. The dual screen layout was so useful for so many games. Even if a game didn't want to use it fully, it at least acted as a second monitor with a map or menu always up.
I still miss it
also loved when the games used dual screens creativly
Being able to use the second screen in various games for stuff like inventory or just tracking extra data you'd normally have to open a menu to see was great. Plus depending on what you were doing in games, having the touch screen allowed for more precise control than you'd normally have in PC or console games. It also allowed for a lot of inventive games that'd be a bit awkward to play with more normal controls, like Pokemon Ranger where you had to rapidly circle pokemon with the stylus.
have you seen the patents for the supposed switch 2? its looking like dual screens will be making a return
@rockman7005 I don't think those patents will actually become a final product
It's actually an idea they had toyed with for quite a while. There were GameCube games that could use the Game Boy Advance as a second (and third, fourth, fifth) screen. That was even planned to be a feature with the Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64, but never made it to release.
2:45 terraria skyrim edition
The only issue i had with it was how, after a certain amount of progress, loading a world would crash the game
yeah, a new 3ds is pretty much required for it to be playable
I didn't have that issue, and I played on a 2DS. Shame that that happened.
Man I had a new 3ds and it still did this
Could never fight the Ocram or whatever it was called
@zenithe7 usually just had that issue after beating plantera or golem
@zenithe7Tbh I had same problem on 1.2 mobile version of the game. Everything was great, but killing ocean crashed the game.
Did bro miss the jungle key mold at 20:03
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@ImBluTapDid you Really Have To? We know ur an iPad kid you dont have to stretch it
@Coders-Tutorial sorry man i had to, also i dont think ipad kids watch goats like this one
@ImBluTap To be honestly Fair, thats a good point
@Coders-Tutorial w unc
I like how you're casually healing, just face tanking the destroyer.
That used to be the normal strat before they kept buffing the ol' worm!
That’s how it was on old mobile, very useful as a melee build
20:06 oh god oh god oh god
@lilbsad I had war flashbacks hearing that
and 24:00
It's just a number. Grow up.
@celestialkitsune this dudes fun at parties
67 is a literal Cognito-Hazard
Something funny I remember from my time playing 3DS Terraria is that you can actually use a truffle worm in any body of water and it will spawn Duke Fishron, even if you aren't at the ocean
so like, even a tiny little puddle?
@PizzaIsReallyGood yes, it js required you to press it on a full block of water i think.
Wait really? Welp, time to cheese Fishron then! >:)
26:52 fight got me remembering how fishron didn't de spawn until you died so i was taking it across the map every fight because i never built a bridge over the ocean
Fun fact: fighting multiple queen bees isn't a weird 3DS thing, that's just how terraria works if you find multiple larva, lol. I remember this because of another bug (probably a console one?) where the larvae would instantly break upon loading the world cause of a world gen mistake, summoning multiple queen bees the moment you start playing and killing you at spawn.
Heh, bug
sounds like a skill issue tbh, i could have easily killed them just saying
not a console specific one, just if the worldgen fucks up for any reason whatsoever and the larva breaks like that
i'd assume it's more common on console, though
It’s actually incredibly easy to reproduce this even in 1.4.4 without any bugs. Just make a Not The Bees world and go to the ocean.
20:05 i flinched like an abused child 💔
Same, had to double check he actually said that
🥴🫴🫴
24:10
its like sleeper agent activation
Get out of my head
I've been telling people that the 3DS version is very fun and I'm glad that someone is showing the good side of the 3DS version
Pre 1.3 pocket edition is a crack dream.
I loved every second of it.
@General_C"pocket edition" is so funny to me idk why 😂😂
Ye
@General_Cyou talking about Minecraft there dude😂
@General_C it really was awesome
20:05 he predicted 2025 🥶
the reason for the drax being in shadow chests is that back when mobile released, there was a wall of flesh but there was no hardmode, so they sprinkled some hardmode things throughout the game, then i guess they forgot to remove it once hardmode actually got added
Also ocram was a thing before all the 1.2 content including plantera and golem, he's a final boss in a post mechs way
I swear I remember seeing a terraria all bosses video that was around the time before planetra & golem even existed, and since it wasn’t on consoles there was no ocram either it just ended with Skeletron Prime
i got two of them in one play through on my ipad
good old days
i too remember that mobile version when there wasn't any hardmode but Wall of Flesh still existed for some reason. If you compare it to the PC version, it was basically mixing some things from 1.1 (like WoF) while staying pre-1.1. Maybe some exclusive content existed but I don't remember any of it :|
I tried searching for this version on a wiki few years ago but couldnt find any match, so i just called it a day
edit: nvm just found it, ver. 1.1.92 on Google Play (Android) or older. On IOS it's 1.1.935 or older
yeah Ocram was the final boss pre-plantera, pre-life fruit, pre-chlorophyte etc. I remember fighting him pre-plantera and then afterwards (on Ps4) and it was night and day difference. we still used dragon armor until we got beetle
me getting dragon helmet randomly from a chest when it used to be a jungle armor resprite
So I wasn't going crazy, I remember getting the Drax pre hard mode in the jungle under the temple. I also got life fruits before the mech bosses, vampire knifes were OP along with spectral armour (the hood that gains HP for dealing damage) the damage I delt was crazy making me invincible
Edit: first played terraria on my iPad and I still have the original version with my world and can still fight Ocram
I had nights edge and a drax as my best weapons and could never beat wall of flesh bc I was too dogshit at the game
Spectral armor is probably the most broken set in the 3ds version. With a bubble gun, you can just stand still with 10+ bosses in either of the moon events and be perfectly fine.
@TheyFrNamedMeBen welcome to the club
Same I’m pretty sure on console I got drax before hard mode bosses. I also wondered why I would craft any other pic after I got it
@TheyFrNamedMeBeni was the exact same
20:01 He got a jungle key mold and didn't pick it up
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he said 6 7 at 20:06
@vainfm👀
@vainfmcan you please shut up?
@vainfmhes on the past, he doesn’t know that yet
I had roughly 850 hours in 3DS Terraria. Those of us who grew up on this game were truly blessed.
we truly are terraria's most experienced veterans
as a 3DS veteran, i agree. wish my 3ds was still with me today.
I remember trying to beat the eye because I didn't know any other boss existed
It took me 50 hours to beat skeletron as a kid on mobile, probably had around 500 hours on it total, loved it so much
had this while in High School, while dealing a nasty bullying problem at least I could come to Terraria and kick around a few Eyes of Cthulhu
20:07 everybody thought the same, i thought, u tought, everybody from this time thinked the same
Terraria Mobile is what I grew up on. Seeing the Drax in the shadow chests gave me so much nostalgia, I remember being a little kid and getting that drill and just tearing up the world
same
the best part of mobile is how due to some added stuff from later updates like duke fishron, pumpkin moon and frost moon it would be a tremendous challenge (duke fishron is downright a superboss, the events are brutal since even with the best items you'll be shredded if not careful, mostly on frost moon, ocram felt like a cakewalk in comparison)
@Emel7thDragonAnd the heart arrows on a shotbow just solos about everything, miss those times
Good times! I remember telling my friends about getting a drax pre hard mode and nobody believed me! (They all played console) I loved playing mobile Terraria and still do every now and then
@Emel7thDragonyea fr, back then i fought fishron w vampire knifes and died multiple times bcuz my phone kinda buggy
20:25 omg the nostalgia wave of the 3ds menu just hit
I think the reason only Adamantite can be used to craft the summon is that there was a point where it was the only hard mode tier 3 ore that existed and the developers probably forgot to add titanium as an alternate for that one case
Yeah Palladium, Orichalcum, and Titanium were all added in 1.2, and Ocram was added way before then and never updated.
20:06
AAAAAAAAAGH
we are so dead
The zapinator required no mana on the 3ds so i used it alongside the spectre armor and never died. Also the lunar event music occasionally played and it scared the crap out of me.
lunar? 3ds stopped on 1.2 and the lunar events were added in 1.3
@Gesamtkunstwerk1_1they decided to add 1.3 music for some reason
@SpoiledMilk727 oh ok
This was the terraria i grew up with, i miss it very much tbh
"I made a quick farm for turtle shells and also got an Uzi."
Most normal Terraria sentence.
I played this on Xbox as a kid with all my brothers on split screen. It was epic. We beat the wall of flesh with a diamond staff, a musket, and two minisharks. All I remember as far as mechs go is prime wouldn’t despawn and we just killed it in day rage mode. We struggled with plantera for a week until we discovered chlorophyte. Then we fought golem easily and finally fought ocram. It was honestly the best time I’ve ever played terraria and I miss it so much.
My brother and I would do the same stuff, this brought back memories
@violator_ for real. Tbh that, Mario kart on the wii, and 360 Minecraft are my favorite times playing video games. Just because I did it with my brothers
😊
Palladium, Myrthril and Titanium are my favorite 3
This is my favorite version of Terraria! I remember sharing pictures of my character having negative defense back on Miiverse at the time.
How did you get negative defense?
@Jedericdotzip iirc, it had something to do with the ichor debuff. I think the way me (and a lot of other people did it) was to get hit by ichor (or any debuff that reduces your defense), then go to the inventory and remove your armor (if you take your armor off first you’ll just die). Pretty fun oversight, although not too terribly useful.
3:11 wow the old man looks like chippy
Stun arrows are op in this version of the game. My siblings used to play it and I remember hearing them talking about farming for stun arrows to make plantera super easy because it COULD NOT MOVE AT ALL under constant fire of stun arrows
That turkey boss is so funny
10:30 this actually happened to me on a recent master mode hardcore run I did, was fighting queen bee with a mage setup, main weapon I used was gray zapinator, but then one of the lasers went through the walls at 100km per hour and managed to, somehow, hit another larva that, god knows where it was LOL (I lived btw, decent arena, buff potions and farming for a bezoar op)
i was playing expert mode hardcore and quit out after accidentally summoning queen bee and nearly dying, even though i was pretty much ready to fight the wall. potions and not getting stuck in honey really make the difference
Did you survive both of them?
@eyeronthegamer I did say I lived, dodging is not so bad with a slime mount + amphibian boots with a double jump + shield of cthulhu, even if it's 2 bee queens
There was only 1 really close call in that run, and funnily enough that bee queen mess wasn't even close to killing the run;
In a solar eclipse I was kind of low health (less than 200, psychos deal more than that) and a psycho backstabbed me while I was focusing on a mothron, but the brain of confusion dodged that hit, saving the run from certain death (I thought that'd be interesting! Fully expecting the "no one asked" lmao)
@kiwi_est I apologize for not reading it. Whoa, congratulations! And yes, slime mount is very good against Queen Bee while dodging because of its faster gravity acceleration compared to regular (the slime mount falls faster than the player)
Youre SUPER skilled at this game, congrats
My old modded 3ds xl started acting weird and not reading extended memory games recently so I bought a “new” version xl and modded it. Recently I started playing a bunch of 3ds remasters on switch before I realized I was just missing my 3ds. I was 18 when the first ds hit the markets so I spent my 20s playing DS and 3DS. I still love the way they feel when you hold them. The games for DS and 3DS are just so good. Playing through b2/w2 and US/UM, Terraria, world ends with you, Rune Factory 4… just so so good.
Terraria on the 3DS was my childhood, I have so much nostalgia for this version of terraria, I used the health potion exploit to beat the destroyer, that really brought back some memories, I remember being super excited about reforging my true nights edge to legendary, good memories!
I REALLY enjoyed the 3DS version of the game. Great memories playing with my sister
He missed a jungle key mold when he was farming for admantite
20:06 AAAAHHHHHHHH
Damn seeing the water tornado do 223 damage is insane 😂
20:08 did bro just miss the jungle key mold
This is the Terraria I played for 2-3 years. My brother and I spent most of that time thinking the zombie arm was the best weapon in the game. Also took us way too long to figure out the lock-on thing.
20:07 AHHHHHH
I used to play 3ds Terraria a ton as a kid, and I remember how i encountered a strange bug where not only did the hallowed chest spawned in the portion of the dungeon before the cavern layer (so the dungeon guardians couldn't kill me), it was also unlocked for some reason? So i was able to sequence break and get the rainbow gun in pre hardmode and absolutely shred everything
13:48 I could've sworn hell back then used the meteorite music back then, but that might be because I played old terraria both on a tablet and my 3ds lol. (Also, I'm pretty sure you could get the crystal storm prehardmode then too)
20:05 gungjr 67 in 2023
20:03 imagine you miss a jungle mold, just imagine
I would love to see him take on the Christmas and Halloween events, those are truely the hardest thing the game has to offer along with Fishron
terraria 3ds was my first experience with the game, really nostalgic icl
20:05 bro predicted the future 💔🥀
I remember playing Terraria with my little bro and beating ocram for the first time. We loved the dragon armor and I remember the souls of blight. I would love to be able to relive those memories.
19:36 Sand is overpowered.
I forgot about holy water grenade in 1.2 😭 i miss itt
You can also find the Drax in pre-Hardmode in any chest at hell layer in the 3DS version, including wooden chests at the bottom of the caverns.
That's the fx from Worms for the holy hand grenade 😂
the "*NPC Name* would like to settle down" text is so nostalgic for me oml
Watching this video just had nostalgia hit me like a truck. I remember first playing terraria on a kindle about 12 years ago. It was a great time
11:49 My man didn’t know he disrespected lepus, the only boss that was definitely purely removed for being too hard.
I beatem with the harpoon though.
The version I used to play on my phone had a very small amounts of clarify in the jungle
I don’t remember having trouble with lepus on android and iOS versions. I remember grinding them out like crazy and just getting a bunch of gold. I never battled Turkor though
I remember he used to drop tons of souls of might and greater healing potions, great to farm lmao.
I think every mobile player had the experience of accidentally summoning Lepus early on because you can get the summon item really easily if you start in Easter, and having your world completely ruined infinitely spawning evil bunnies and a nigh unkillable boss. I actually had to abandon my first world, grab whatever items I could, and jump ship to a new one.
ah yes the horn o plenty
This reminds me of when I would binge the StampyLongHead Terraria series in 2017
That’s how I got the drax when I was a kid 😂 5:29
The memories of trying for *weeks* to beat the Eye of Cthulu, being genuinely afraid of trying but thinking I could finally beat it on Christmas day with my golden armour and bow, only to essentially stand still for the entire fight and miss like 80% of my shots - I thought he moved a lot back then, now I can somewhat reliably hit him while he's charging in expert mode lol - while not even being able to tank the hits and subsequently dying... Man, I was really bad at the game back then 😅. Eventually managed to make it all the way into hardmode but only beat the Twins before dropping the game altogether iirc. This video gave me so much nostalgia I might even revisit it to finally kick Golem's butt and beat it once and for all. I think I'll have a better chance than 10-year old me, but the controls sadly won't have changed lmao.
20:02 Also kinda painful seeing him ignore the jungle key mold, but he didn't need it so I guess it doesn't matter lol.
One of the features that got me hooked in 3DS Terraria was the recipe upgrade. That “you’ve unlocked a new recipe” always got me thrilled to see what new things I could craft and combine.
Fun fact: you can kill the dungeon guardian very easily in this version. Simply lure one out and spam heart arrows and he will die in around 10 minutes.
they keep spawning every time you enter lol but you can get that pet drop of him lol
You could also stack it with frost armor, for the effect it gives on arrows actually is the only thing in this version that isn’t affected by its defense
I just realized the holy hand grenade is just from worms 😂
20:03 YOU MISSED A JUNGLE KEY MOLD
i think he avoided it on purpose lol
May we address the elephant in the room?
When it showed that the clother is named eager it went to a brawl stars ad
I remember fighting the turkey boss during thanksgiving on my iPod touch 💀
20:00 Jungle key mold noooooo
5:40 i was a huge mobile player back in the day and i always got the sharanga i really miss that bow
I played this version a TON with my 3 younger siblings through local multiplayer. Some of the best times I've had.
24:14 I'm strokin' my Tonbogiri
There was a glitch on the first versions where if you take the Twins to the top of the map, if they went passed the world limit, they would despawn, so if you "deleted" one of them then took down the other, it would count as defeating both so it made them by far the easist hard mode boss.
18:09 broo the nostalgia just hit
God I remember the pain of Lepus's just multiplying everywhere
Omg the memories, i had this game for my 3ds, and i always wanted minecraft aswell, but the library where i borrowed games never had it..
If someone were to want to do something like this, play it on emulator or on a new 3ds/2ds xl, it removes all the lag issues and the tiny c stick acts like the sniper scope does in the current game!
how the hell did you get terraria to run on citra?! it runs at like 15 fps for me? the only other game I play that lags citra that much is dark moon but that is normal, that game notoriously hard to emulate, also would you be interested in some multiplayer on the 3ds? I have a new 3ds xl with full CFW and have even done a few livestreams on with with bootntr and snickerstream.
@yakkobthelearned I play through a modded 3ds (hshop specifically), idk anything about terraria citra stuff
@yakkobthelearnedI’m up what games do you have
@noot12234 sadly no since I lost the charger for my 3ds, maybe in a few days.
@yakkobthelearned damn, reply if you ever find it
20:00 bro the poor jungle biome key mold
This is the first version of terraria i ever played, and I am just now realizing how many things about the game were broken.
I always thought the old backpack for the inventory was a bear
I loved the key molds, it felt good to have them already so you could get vampire knives way easier
I have so many memories with this version. One of my favorite was getting two frozen key molds in a row while I was looking for ice golems to get the frost set. And in my base, I have a room that I’m trying to fill with all the 3ds exclusive content. When I go in, the frames drop. Must be all the mannequins.
Around 8 years ago, i was really obsessed with terraria but i had no console besides my amazon kindle. only now after watching this video, i realize that kindle terraria was different from normal because it was playing the 3ds version lmao, anyways this video gave me so much nostalgia, thank you so much
Gods I remember lepus and how it just made more of itself and bloody hell I didn't remeber how much it resembled Richard from Gumball
This is fantastic. Was waiting for someone to make a high quality video on this version.
20:02 he just got the jungle key mold too
18:27 Back when I used to play older version Terraria on Mobile/IOS (Cus 3DS shared pretty much the same content), the biome chests never appeared in Dungeon and I always thought that was normal. They only ever appeared in their respective biome for whatever chest they were (e.g Jungle, Corruption, Frozen). The only chests that were ever in Dungeon were locked Gold chests for some unthinkable reason.
If you had the sharanga in mobile, when it updated, it was teplaced with a helwing bow
It's my favorite era of Terraria packed together into a convenient cartridge that I can take anywhere. Peak Terraria.
funny enough the dragon armor could spawn in chests in the xbox 360 version
20:06 BRO WHAT THE HELL, I THOUGHT THIS VIDEO WAS FROM RECENT
Just saying, the reason why the there were specific recipes for the summons, weapons, and armor was because cobalt, mythril, adamantite were the original in the phone and ds versions, the other ores were added later on but the recipes were not updated.
Same here, this year on my birthday 8/18 will mark the time till 1.4 released in 2020 or 9 years
Dude this brings back so much nostalgia because the very first version of terraria I had was this. It feels weird growing up with the least popular version and only a few years ago beginning to play on pc. I was so used to the controls it hurt to play on pc.
Literally me