World creation: name, seed, size, difficulty and world evil

About this game

Developer: Re-Logic · Publisher: Re-Logic · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

World creation in Terraria is a one-screen contract for a hundred hours. Name and seed sit at the top as equals, the seed printed in full (05162020) because a Terraria world is meant to be shared by number, revisited and raced. Below, every consequential choice is a segmented row of named buttons rather than a dropdown: size (Small/Medium/Large), difficulty (Journey/Classic/Expert/Master, colour-ranked pink to red with a skull icon that grows meaner per tier), and even the world's evil (Random/Corruption/Crimson), a biome most games would roll silently is offered as a decision. A thumbnail preview keeps the form honest, picturing the landscape these abstractions produce. Nothing scrolls, nothing hides behind 'advanced': the whole future of the save is visible at once, and the form's only sentence is an instruction, not flavour. Frame at ~0:22 in the Terraria: Journey's End Trailer (Steam; manual extraction from a held menu shot).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

form-layout form-fields choice-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Choices Dice

Screen inventory

• two text fields head the form, each with its own icon: 'Name: Journey's End' beside a signpost icon, and 'Seed: 05162020' beside a sprouting-seed icon, the seed is a first-class, typeable field, not a hidden advanced option
• a world-preview thumbnail at the form's top-right shows the kind of world these settings describe, a tiny landscape with tree, water and a bunny, updating the abstract choices into a picture
• world size is a three-way segmented choice, Small / Medium / Large, with Medium highlighted; each option carries a small globe icon
• difficulty is a four-way segmented row, Journey (pink), Classic (selected, white), Expert (orange), Master (red), each with a rabbit-skull icon whose menace grows with the tier, the colour itself ranking the danger
• the world-evil row offers Random (dice icon) / Corruption (purple) / Crimson (red), the world's corruption biome is a creation-time choice presented as plainly as its size
• one help sentence anchors the form: 'Please choose how your world will be built with the options above.', and the only exits are Back and Create

Top 3 colors

#408573 27%#6167c0 19%#30a460 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Re-Logic, Terraria screenshot: Terraria: Bigger & Boulder Trailer + Terraria: Journey's End Trailer (Steam), Re-Logic, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Re-Logic.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: manual extraction manual-world-creation-22.png @ ~22s in the Terraria: Journey's End Trailer, MD5 79842fcd3c5905766d719d30e08190cc, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (61,096,000 B, MD5 9933d3195b5e8e0bce1e113c198dd966; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution; 'Name: Journey's End', 'Seed: 05162020', Small/Medium/Large with Medium highlighted, Journey/Classic/Expert/Master with Classic highlighted, Random/Corruption/Crimson, the help sentence, the preview thumbnail and Back/Create all legible

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