ter-osc -- old-school crafting

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This is a mod for Terraria, built for tModLoader, that reverts numerous crafting recipes back to their older, circa 2011-2013 counterparts. Modern Terraria has progressively stripped down crafting requirements for many items over the years; this mod restores the original (or in-spirit equivalent) material costs and crafting chains that governed progression in the game's early versions, while trying to keep overall game balance intact.

Some minimal challenges included determining whether re-implementing biome key molds was worth reusing the deprecated item IDs from the base game and attempting to circumvent or outright remove the mechanism responsible for keeping those legacy items unavailable, or alternatively just implement them as new items. I decided on the latter as it was both more straight forward and is likely more compatible with other mods.

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The full mod description on the Steam Workshop

This project was carried out in approximately one week in August of 2026 and is expected to receive tweaks and modifications in the future as I experiment with it over time.

This mod was first made public on tModLoader's Steam Workshop on August 26th 2026.