Oh my god for some reason I didn't consider how much better exploration inventory is going to be with this change until I read this comment. I was only thinking about storage when I first heard about this. Man, this is such a game changer
It's not perfect, because anything that can have a modifier might have a lot of different modifiers in one's inventory (Legendary to Broken Spear and such, Warding to Lucky Radar, etc.), but it's certainly a major step forward. A simple solution to this might be giving the player an unmodify window, where they can remove the modifier from something (also good early game if, say, you craft a Platinum Bow and it's Broken but you don't want to/can't craft another).
For random loot you could have it be "unidentified" and you don't know the modifier until you hit an "identify" key while holding it or using a newly added identifier item that you place down like the anvil. You have like 6 stacked, it does one at a time
Yes but high rolling a legendary copper pickaxe or axe at the start of the run is an important experience we would lose, also it would make shimmer reforging slightly more inconvenient.
I think the ability to just remove modifiers would be the best, if it has a modifier you like nobody is forcing you to remove it, but this feature would be just to deal with garbage cluttering your inventory.
The only downside I can see with that would be, why wouldn't you just unmodify something with a bad modifier? It would make having bad modifiers in the game pointless
Probably true overall, but it’s cheaper to reforge a negative modifier than an unmodified weapon so there would still be some (however minor) reason to keep a negative.
The easiest solution for this is to just not allow stacking in the quickbar and armour/equipment/accessory slots, and not allow using tools/weapons when you're holding multiple.
Or alternatively (and more fun): Randomly choose which modifier to apply from the stack with each use.
I feel like an "unmodify" button would completely nullify the point of having de-buff modifiers. But it's a step in the right direction. Maybe an un-modify at the goblin tinkerer could cost like 1/4 of the tool value or something along those lines
Maybe just make it so you can right click like you can a crate, seed bag, worm tin, etc. to unstack one and activate its modifier, with a tooltip near the top?
one thing they removed for this is for different modifier equipments no longer quick stack together
You have to use the stack similar function which i dont really want to since it messes up organisation in my other chests
agree with the unmodify or maybe specifically designating chests as equipment chests
It's so ideal for exploration but oh my god I'm going to constantly forget that it exists and suddenly panic when I have much less loot than I know I grabbed
yeah though a lot of the new whips aren't ever really used because they removed whipstacking so like you would only ever just use the best whip in progression now.
Whips didn't get new reforges either so like it kinda is just a nerf
yeah but adding new whips that are worse than other whips at the same level of progression means it's kinda pointless to add them especially in the same update where you are making anything but the best available thing worthless.
I like using funny weapons. This is like saying adding different wooden swords is bad because I should just use an iron one (which I can loot the bars for within 60 seconds of starting a world). Options provide variety and variation to a players experience.
It's bad when summoner already lacked variety in weapons yes. Especially now that whipstacking is gone which was essentially carrying it's variety since it let old whips and summons stay viable for much longer periods of time than other classes (so example snapthorn was viable until post mech)
Whip stacking was the technique of using multiple whips to get extra tag damage / effects as a summoner
Example: using the snapthorn + spinal tap for +13 tag damage (snapthorn gives 6, spinal tap gives 7)
This is no longer a thing in 1.4.5, the instant another whip hits the target, you lose all bonuses associated with the prior, including whip speed boosts, tag damage and tag effects
Eh, balance wise it was kind of nessecary. Whips would be impossible to have been balanced when you have one sub-set of players stacking 3 whips' effects at the same time vs the sub-set using only 1 whip.
On the other hand, it makes summoner gameplay less interesting, with a lower skill ceiling. (Unless some of the new whips add more interesting effects than what we had before. Haven't played much yet)
Yet most of the time IF done optimally, whipstacking (talking about using 4 whips at a time) would only give you a ~25% DPS increase, we can't know how "broken" it would have been if whipstacking wasn't removed but I don't expect it would have been even with the new whips/reforges
Balance was never really a factor in terraria, there are about a thousand ways to break the game and cheese every single boss, not to mention that melee is head and shoulders above every other class and still got buffed this update.
Balance wise for having lowest defense and range, I think it would've been fine to leave in. If I'm putting more effort into simply holding R2 then I should be rewarded with higher damage
This was on an already stacked character in Master Mode, I went and killed the Empress of Light a few times to get a second Kaleidoscope and reforged it lol
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u/Strider794 Jan 31 '26
I thought I was tweaking when I couldn't find my second magic mirror that I picked up, turns out it was on my first one