When you organize an entire, dedicated team of coders, artists, playtesters, and even a couple of composers towards a single, comprehensive Terraria mod, you're bound to end up with something to behold. Yuyutsu's Spirit Mod is the fruit of such labor, and it certainly tastes sweet.
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There is so much content packed into Spirit Mod that it almost feels like DLC that Re-Logic would publish and make you pay for. With over 1,000 items to craft or obtain, over a dozen bosses and mini-bosses, changes and additions to various mechanics, and so much more, you can save yourself some time by checking out these eleven best aspects of the mod.
11 A Robust Selection Of Bosses And Mini-Bosses
A core aspect of Terraria's gameplay and progression is fighting and defeating bosses. If you've beaten the game a handful of times, and things are starting to feel a bit repetitive, you can't go wrong by throwing in a bunch of new bosses.
Spirit Mod covers every part of Terraria's progression, giving you mini-bosses, bosses, and event bosses to fight at every game stage, regardless of whether you're in Pre-Hardmode or Hardmode. Thus, you'll get a refreshing blend of familiar and unfamiliar enemies in your next playthrough.
10 New NPCs And Quests
Terraria already has a good amount of NPCs, but they're mostly restricted to some specific functionality, such as healing you to max health, or allowing you to purchase various weapons or items. While Spirit Mod follows that, it also throws in a well-made questing system.
The Adventurer NPC, for example, will sell you various items, but not all at once. Upon obtaining a Quest Book from him, you can accept and complete various quests, some of which have branching paths to follow.
As you turn in quests, you'll unlock more, previously hidden items to purchase.
9 Custom, Pre-Built Areas And Novel Biomes
Whether it's in the sky, on the surface, or underground, Spirit Mod spices up the explorative component of Terraria by adding in various, custom-made structures and biomes. Most of these additions are very noticeable, but others can be easily overlooked.
Larger, more defined, and novel-looking areas like the Briar biome, or the Dark Sepulchre, Pagoda, and Goblin Tower structures are hard to miss. More subtle areas, however, like Fishing Bridges or Bismite Crystal Clusters, take a sharper eye to notice.
8 New Buffs And Debuffs
Most Terraria players, especially those that indulge themselves with optional challenges, such as Expert mode or Hardcore characters, likely know the value and utility of buffs and the danger and lethality of debuffs. If you're getting bored with plain, vanilla buffs and debuffs, this mod will change that.
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Spirit Mod gives you access to a plethora of new buffs, granted from consumables, equipment, summons, and even mounts. Debuffs are just as plentiful, with some being unique to enemies and the environment that can afflict your character, and others you can inflict on enemies.
7 Unique Events
Events are some of the most memorable parts of a Terraria playthrough. They help break up the monotony of various, mandatory tasks, such as mining or building houses for your NPCs, and they offer opportunities to farm for money, items, and other loot.
Spirit Mod includes three new events, the Jelly Deluge, Mystic Moon, and The Tide, as well as new drops and mechanics to already existing vanilla events. So, whether you're participating in a new event or an old event, you're guaranteed to learn or obtain something new.
6 Glyphs
Vanilla equipment, like the Ancient Chisel, Ankh Shield, or Avenger Emblem offers ways to increase mining speed, make you immune to certain debuffs, and increase your total damage output. Spirit Mod, however, offers an alternative to equipment and the slots they take up.
Introducing Glyphs, special consumables that you can put on tools and weapons, granting them special effects without taking up an equipment slot. While there are a lot of them, some examples include the Efficiency Glyph, which increases a tool's efficiency and range, and the Sanguine Glyph, granting a weapon Crimson Bleed and a life leech effect.
5 Mounts; Traveling With Style
Mounts are a cool way to navigate the world, and sometimes a silly way to have fun, such as using a slime mount to reach terminal velocity as you plummet towards the underworld. Spirit Mod tacks on a handful of new mounts to obtain, many of which have helpful or unique traits.
The Crocosaur mount, for example, isn't just a cute little dino with a saddle that will remind you of Yoshi from Super Mario World; he'll bite and damage nearby enemies for you. Keep in mind, some mounts are locked to Hardmode, so you'll have to beat Wall Of Flesh to obtain those.
4 A Heap Of New Accessories
Accessories are the bread and butter of any Terraria build; they help augment damage, increase mobility and movement speed, and give so many other useful benefits. If you're chasing after that feeling of obtaining your first pair of wings, or finally completing your first Ankh Shield, Spirit Mod has you covered.
There are plenty of new staple accessories, like boots, wings, and life and mana influencing trinkets, to more unique and obscure items, like the Ace of Hearts, which causes enemies to drop hearts when you crit, or Mimic Repellent, which prevents mimic crates from being fished up.
3 Refreshing Potions And Foods To Make
Spirit Mod adds eight new potions, giving you access to various buffs, such as increases to jump height, damage, and critical strike chance, or a chance for debuffs to be inflicted when you land a critical hit. As far as consumables, this mod splits into two categories; food and candy.
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Both categories, just like potions, offer a blend of useful and unique effects. Food, like Ice Berries or Sushi, respectively, offer immunity to being lit on fire or the ability to breathe underwater.
Candy, offers short-lived buffs, such as increases to max mana and health or movement speed, lasting less than five minutes.
2 Plenty Of Pets To Choose From
Everyone has their own favorite pet to grind for in the game. Spirit Mod adds 12 new pets to the game, some of which you can craft, while others will drop from various enemies.
One of which, however, is only obtainable from a task from the Adventurer.
While some pets are reliant on some items from the mod, or enemies unique to the mod, there are a surprising amount that is obtained entirely from vanilla content. The Support Saucer, for example, simply has a chance to drop from Martian Officers during the Martian Invasion event.
The amount of tools, weapons, and armor this mod adds is almost unfathomable. From new swords, wands, bows, clubs, yoyos, magic guns, boomerangs, and flails, to hooks, chainsaws, picks, drills, and a variety of class-specific armor sets, there's a ton to explore and try out.
There are even miscellaneous and unique, uncategorized tools, weapons, and armor, including but not limited to: the Gate Staff, Cartographer's Map, Astral Clock, Mad Hat, Jellynaut's Bubble, and Darkfeather Visage. If any of those items caught your interest, rest assured there's plenty more to find and learn about.
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