What is the largest possible Terraria player savefile?
What is the largest possible Terraria player savefile?
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:49 Why we only need to focus on a few “variable-size” things in the save file
01:38 What are these “variable-size” datapoints that we need to maximize?
01:46 Part 1a: making the player name as long as possible
02:07 Part 1b: using as much space as possible with Chinese
02:33 Part 2: unlocking all the research
03:28 Part 3: recording two hundred spawnpoints
04:22 Part 4: the secret 59th and 60th inventory slots
05:01 Conclusion and outro
Icons from Freepik and inkubators via Flaticon
Music:
Terraria – Alternate Underground
Terraria – Morning Rain
Terraria – Town Night
Terraria – Aether
What is the largest possible Terraria player savefile?
23 Comments
The file sizes of the .plr files shown in the video will be a few bytes off, since Terraria encrypts its player files. With a 128-bit (32 byte) block size, all player file sizes are rounded up to the nearest 32 bytes.
The final file size was 121,792 bytes, but the decrypted player binary was only 121,777 bytes.
pretty impressive how much data can be stored in such a small file
that would be a mild inconvenience 30 years ago
next is how big the world file can be
now do it with a world :3
Varients 😂
2:14 gotta love the dedication to properly pronouncing foreign words and names
[[Insert your mom joke]]
Interesting video as always! 🙂
What no 1.4.5 does to a man
Honestly, completely useless video, never ever needed to know this, but i absolutely loved it, and thats why ive been a subscriber all this time
didn't know a terraria player could carry such a heavy "data"
What the comments section talking about?
How many player files would fit on a 3 1/4 disk?
I'm curious if Re-Logic will change how save date is stored for researched items specifically because of this video, or if it's such a minor issue that they couldn't be bothered.
interesting, I was expecting map progress (how much of each world a player has explored) to be covered here. Map progress doesn't seem to be stored per world (if you copy a world file directly the copy of the world will have 0 map progress for all characters) so either it is stored per character but doesn't contribute to file size or works differently than I thought.
gurgis
perfect to watch while im trying to convince myself to not play terraria
I love these types of videos, honestly very interesting on topics I’ve just never really considered much
A BLANK word document is HOW BIG???
2:14 Damn your pronunciation is perfect, I am truly amazed
You should do a video on which theoricaly difficulty / world hardest terraria would be , consider world gen and things such as chest loot and pot generation, on top of overhaul structure
As someone who's starting a game dev journey these type of videos are both entertaining and interesting
Bean