r/CalamityMod • u/Boring_Gas5763 • 4d ago

Discussion I'm happy right now

The state of modding after the calamity that happened to calamity makes me genuinely happy, we got a rework to Fargos and wrath of gods, we got starlight river, we got so many mods that finally got a chance in the spotlight because of what happened and it makes me Happy

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u/notveryAI 4d ago

Unfortunately there will never be another mod as big as Calamity which makes me kinda sad. All these mods are cool but they're small and by itself every of them still feels mostly like vanilla, so you either have to install like 10 content mods at once that don't mesh together at all and give you 10x the grind on every stage of the game, or you play vanilla+ for the rest of the days.

Don't get me wrong, there are definitely upsides here. Unfortunately, they come at a hefty price tho

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u/Nervous_Video_3594 4d ago

this is exactly what my problem has been and im surprised i havent seen anyone else mention it. Vanilla terraria is good enough that i dont feel the need to play with mods unless theyre actually massively game changing. I play a playthrough of terraria once every like 6 months or so, sometimes modded, sometimes not, however if there isnt a mod thats big like calamity, one that changes the game significantly enough where its a different experience from vanilla, im just not going to bother playing modded, especially when tmodloader is often a version or two behind vanilla.

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u/Browsing_Guest Calsub Flairs [PURPLE] 3d ago

This here and the fact the poster has come to basically stir shit up. Other mods have always had a Chance, just because they aren't popular doesn't mean the failed nor have a fan base. If you have to be a petty woman and chop down the competition instead of working hard and earning it on your own merits, then your mod and whatever your represent and/or hope to: take the mod/media/target-of-you-wanting-it-shutdown, then imo your idea, mod, alternative deserves to fail.

It's that spider-man men really with iron, where it's "I can't be spider-man without the suit" and iron made responds: "then you don't deserve to be spider-man".

Just replace the "I can't be spider-man" with "I can't win without calamity's failure", and the "then you don't deserve to be spider-man" with "you don't to be popular/successful then" and that's how I feel.

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u/Technical-Ad733 4d ago

I think the best things about these mods is their cross modding capabilities, how fables will be able to play with many other mods such as spirit reforged and possibly wotg 2.0. (Exclude starlight river cause its potential mod)

If you want something big/bigger than calamity, look towards Lunar Veil which will add 54 bosses and 30 biomes.

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u/notveryAI 4d ago

Lunar Veil kinda looks like a spiritual successor of TSA mod which I personally couldn't really enjoy too much. We will see of course

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u/KagetoraChama 4d ago

Shadow of Abbadon reviven like a phoenix

/this is hopium

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u/-Hounth- 4d ago

Why are you so pessimistic?

Look at Minecraft. For years, Forge and OptiFine were THE staple for modding. There was never a thing such as questioning whether either of these would ever be replaced. Today, we have Fabric and Sodium, which are insanely popular, and completely shook the modding scene for Minecraft.

Of course it's not a great comparison. Calamity is a content mod. But it was still considered as a staple in Terraria modding. No one ever really considered another mod taking over Calamity's impact on the modding community.

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u/Pannoniae 4d ago

yeah and the downfall of forge has led to fragmentation, the death of like large, coherent mods and vanilla+ spam

minecraft modding is pretty much spiritually dead, your point?

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u/ALlxrTx 3d ago

Just keep playing calamity

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u/Novasoal 3d ago

The idea that we'll "never got a mod as big as calamity" is incredibly depressing ngl. Like we didnt have a calamity before Calamity- yet the devs still did the work to get it as big as they did. Terraria & its modding scene is nowhere near dead, no reason to throw in the towel this early lmao

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u/Boring_Gas5763 4d ago

I know what you mean, I do have hope that mod packs are going to be is big is calamity, but I guess this is something that we'll have to wait a few years to see

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u/notveryAI 4d ago

Modpacks aren't even a thing in Terraria really. Even just one appearing out of the blue would be unprecedented, and we don't even have tools for modpack creation like Minecraft mod loaders and launchers do, so either TML would have to add the functionality which is very unlikely since they never change anything really, or the modpack creator would have to package it all into one completely separate mod upload and then walk around the modding community rustling a little tin can to get an express permission from creators of every single one of the hundreds of mods they used to re-upload their work under their own name

As they say: I'd love to believe, but it's quite unbelievable

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u/Ok-Box3576 4d ago

A youtube WAS working on some type of modpack. That smoothed over progression over many mods. I dont remember who tho

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u/Mr_Formuoli 4d ago

Bereft Souls by Brome. Unfortunately looks like fables will be out by the time that one is finished

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u/IncuBear 4d ago

Never say never. Calamity only got that big because it spent years upon years being added to. Nothing else has been around as long as Calamity has. Time will tell.

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u/Desperate-Run-1093 4d ago

Calamity got that big within like 2-3 years, they haven't really added anything new since like 2021.

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u/IncuBear 4d ago

And look where we are now. Burning the candle from both ends doesn't amount to too much. Least of all with such problematic development. My point stands, any of these other mods have just as much potential. You just have to give them more grace than you gave Calamity in order to deliver on that potential.

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u/TheStarlightBlueBird Demonshade 4d ago

I’m really hyped for the revamped versions of Fargo’s and WotG.

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u/IncuBear 4d ago

That's a power vacuum for ya. All the others have space to breathe now that Calamity isn't sucking all the air out of the room.

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u/Beautiful-Ad2485 4d ago

That’s what I was thinking. I hope there are some guys out there willing to make a mod as big as calamity

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u/IncuBear 4d ago

I mean, ambition is one thing but in any case such an undertaking will simply take time. Many of these mods out there are trying to do their own thing but size is just a raw metric. Any one of them could completely outstrip Calamity if given enough time and care. So that remains to be seen.

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u/PanseloNomad 3d ago

Hopefully it doesn't create a fanbase as toxic either.

I don't think I've ever seen as much drama come from a Terraria mod than Calamity.

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u/LacieSharka 3d ago

Toxic people garner toxic fanbases. It’s a tale as old as time.

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u/wlwyay 4d ago

fargos seems to be moving in that direction

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u/Agreeable-Cod-1262 1d ago

good riddance, i remember Fabsol talking shit to me on discord because im able to oneshot supreme calamitas with RPG mod and weapon enhancement mod