What’s The Best World Size In Terraria? #terraria
Terraria has three main world sizes: small, medium, and large. Which one is really the most enjoyable for a regular everyday playthrough? Let’s start off with small. This is a surprisingly great option, especially for a shorter playthrough. Resources are denser, so it’s a lot easier to make progress without as much grinding. Overall, though, it is still a little bit underwhelming, so I wouldn’t suggest this, especially to a new player. Large has the complete opposite problem. While there are far more resources across the world, it’s spread out so much more. Large worlds are really only fun with multiple other players and a million hours to grind. The final option is medium, and obviously this is by far the best choice for the average Terraria player. Lots of materials, somewhat spread out, but the world is still typically rich with a lot of useful content.
What’s the best world size in Terraria? Let’s talk about it.
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In all of my years of playing terraria i never even considered choosing world other than large. Hell, i'd even grab a mod for even bigger world size if there is any
Shorter terms:
Small: speedrun
Medium: normal playthrough
Large: friends
I always choose small, unless I am playing Calamity, then medium.
My Minecraft ass used to infinite world always chooses large and it is always too little anyway
I play solo and i ONLY play large
I play solo and I only use large worlds. Way more fun to explore
Large feels like small to me, I need a "titanic" world size
All 3 are great options, but I feel like large is the best option, as it captures the grand scale of terraria I feel isn't in the other sizes. Honestly I wish there was an XL size
Small is great if you want a quicker playthrough for w/e reason, but small worlds get less loot its not uncommon and in cases just missing. Something like a Celestial magnet from the sky islands might just not exist in a small world. The world gen is also a big gamble. Sometimes small worlds just dont generator well. I've made a world once where the Jungle was in the middle of the world at spawn.
Medium for solo large for multiplayer
Small worlds are awful for grinding. You can just flat out lack resources in small worlds. There should be a check to guarantee things spawn in
For me small world are only for lotting and medium/large are my favorite.
I love longer hour progression than shorter as single player so large is the way
Large is my go too world size,
It feels more satisfying exploring it.
Large immediately shoots to the top if you dip into QoL mods.
I found medium worlds are the best for me personally
Always pick large
After getting a miniscule golem arena in both small and medium, i now only play on large
If they made it so large didn't make the world so deep large would be the best.
Large worlds have a lot more ores , chests and all kinds of loot at all . I started my play though in small world because I heard that it's easier and faster progress in small world , it's not true , small world has much less content and a lot of things aren't working there . For example if you want to use gravitation potions tactics to fight the twins , you have slightly less time in small world between landing on ground and borders of space .
To me, anything below large world is too claustrophobic to get anything done, and the only problem of the world size is that… It's way too small. My most requested feature ever since I started playing this game in 2017 had been an XL and even XXL world, ANYTHING that can make terraria exploration feel fresh again.
large is only option i see tho?
Ain't ever heard of small or medium 😅
Small or medium would be fine if you’re alone or just wanna play through it fast.
Large is where it’s at. Half the fun is grinding and finding items.
i always go for small
Large feels too small to me, I wish there was a larger option.
I like large the most but I play calamity a lot and if you don’t go large if feels tight
Nah large is number 1
I started with large, I loved it. All my playthroughs were in large. I tried small worlds, it's too small for me. I love exploring
Nuh uh, small world supremacy. I will never not play on a small world with the exception of multiplayer.
I play modded so having all large worlds is pretty fun, specilly if you want to go all out making a giant arena
My friend makes us play on large worlds when we do a play through and I hate that shi
i like the large world since i like longer games (more hours of gameplay)
I hate small worlds because if I play on a high difficulty, any arena I build will have its top part occupied by harpies and wyverns.
I always play single player and exclusively on large worlds
Maybe I have a problem or something idk XD
LARGE
I used to play on medium worlds, but after playing on large worlds, i found that they work the best for me. I love having some natural areas in the game, i don't want to leave a mark on every inch of the surface
Never played any world exept large in my 600 hours on terraria
I feel like large is the best with a mod like calamity so things arn't all compressed
It really depends on what kind of playthrough you plan on doing. For me I like to do class runs on master here and there, so I always use medium, though if I want a playthrough where I spend a lot of time on it and build things with detail, I use large. For a fast playthrough though or if I just want to try to speedrun the game (I'm dogshit at it) I use small.
The size has never been a problem, I always pick large because it has the most resources