The First Major Terraria Update in Forever is Perfect for Your First Playthrough

• Primary Subject: Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger and Boulder
• Key Update: The 1.4.5 "Bigger and Boulder" update adds Dead Cells and Palworld crossovers, a Skyblock seed, and massive quality-of-life overhauls to the 2D sandbox.
• Status: Confirmed
• Last Verified: January 28, 2026
• Quick Answer: Terraria 1.4.5 released January 27, 2026, featuring Dead Cells and Palworld crossovers, a new Skyblock world seed, and a comprehensive crafting and inventory UI overhaul.

Despite an entire decade living under the shadow of Minecraft trees, Terraria is commemorating its 15th anniversary with a big-time update to celebrate with concurrent and returning players in a global pixel party.

The 2D action-adventure sandbox has offered curious gamers a range of activities, including exploration, mining, crafting, and combat across its generated worlds. They can make a home in the land and learn to give back through farming, shelter-building, and resource-gathering mechanics, spending their days.

Credit: Re-Logic

Over the years, the development team has added numerous monsters, bosses, and challenges to keep the adventurous flame alive without altering core gameplay too much. However, their big 1-5 birthday gift has shaken the sandbox in the right direction.

Terraria 1.4.5, the Bigger and Boulder update, was released on January 27th, 2026. It succeeds the quality-of-life and balancing 1.4.4 Labor of Love update, and ends a six-year drought without a major drop since May 2020’s Journey’s End.

Most notably, this update introduces crossovers like Dead Cells, the 2018 Castlevania-inspired title with its Beheaded vanity set, The Flint and Killing Deck weapons, and the Mushroom Boi minion and the controversial PalWorld, returning the favor after their Summer 2025 collaboration.

Credit: Re-Logic

This sets the stage for an influx of new players to hit the terra running to soak in the full 2D survival experience for the first time while rocking Dead Cells gear, meeting their favorite Pals along the way. The fun, however, doesn’t stop there.

Increasing the skill ceiling and levels of difficulty, the Bigger and Boulder 1.4.5 update showcases three years of development in new transformations, weapons, tools, and even music, adding unique theme songs to boss fights for a total of 8 new tracks.

This, combined with the tweaks to atmosphere like biome backgrounds, updated sprites, and Aurora Borealis skies, completely revamps the look and feel of Terraria for longtime fans without compromising fundamentals – I would even say elevating them for an overall more fulfilling playthrough.

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Veterans will also find changes to their inventories and interfaces, allowing players to full-stack matching names, claiming effects in the new Banner menu, auto-spectating mode after defeat, a new crafting interface, and secret world seed management to give knowledgeable users more control over their world – even more hazards to beware.

Credit: Re-Logic

The Bigger and Boulder update includes Boulder Rain, a new in-game event that occurs during thunderstorms that showers players with new boulder types like Rainbow, Magma, Moon, and Poo Boulders – all casually dropped on Boulder day, yay.

Be careful, though, as these can get too close to the player, creating a bond and becoming Boulder Pets or even Boulder Furniture sets, as developers Re-Logic dive hard into the Boulder-themed update, providing many uses to the otherwise useless sprites.

All in all, the list of contents is the perfect excuse to hop in to try the game, whether it’s for a second shot or for the first time. Especially considering Terraria’s difficult sell for their 2D looks, this overhaul adds a new coat of paint that could make the Dead Cells and Palworld communities, even curious bystanders, join the adventure for good.

If you haven’t picked up the 2011 indie darling, this isn’t a good time as any – this is your best window of opportunity to get in on the fun as Terraria mains rejoice in the long-awaited drop and its contents look fun and promising regardless of tenure.

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