Christmas

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For the differences of this information on Old-gen console and 3DS, see Legacy:Christmas.
Christmas-Only Content
Christmas-Only Content
The content described on this page will only appear during the Christmas event.
The Christmas-themed logo.
Bestiary Christmas.png “The spirit of Christmas spreads cheer...” Bestiary Christmas.png
Not to be confused with the Frost Moon or Frost Legion, which are other Christmas-themed events.

Christmas is a seasonal event which lasts from December 15th until December 31st. During Christmas, most enemies have a chance of dropping Presents, a few unique items are available for purchase from NPCs or as enemy drops, and several enemies wear costumes that change their appearance. Moreover, all Hearts and Stars are replaced with functionally identical Candy Canes and Sugar Plums, respectively.

In Hardmode, one of the items a Present can contain is the Snow Globe, which summons the Frost Legion. Defeating the Frost Legion allows the Santa Claus NPC to spawn, if valid housing is available, but only during the Christmas season.

Reaching wave 15 of the Frost Moon before 4:30 AM displays the status message "The spirit of Christmas spreads cheer..." at the dawn of the following day, causing the Christmas season to temporarily become active for one in-game day, regardless of the date. At 4:30 AM the next day, the status message "The spirit of Christmas fades..." appears, and all Christmas-related effects will no longer occur unless the Christmas season is active or the 15th wave of the Frost Moon is achieved again.[1]

Contents

Characters
Unique Drops
From any enemy:
From Present Slimes:
For Sale

Tips

  • Christmas can be "activated" by setting the device's date to any date between December 15th and 31st.
    • Desktop version Change the computer's date in the system settings.
    • Console version Disconnect from Xbox One Xbox Live / PlayStation 4 PSN and change the console time.
    • Mobile version Disconnect from automatic date/time updates and change the time manually. Note that this does not work for some devices.
    • Nintendo Switch Go to "System Settings" and go to "System", click on "Date and Time", turn off "Synchronize Clock via Internet" and set the time there.
If a change of the device's time is undesired, applications like "RunAsDate" allow launching Terraria with a changed time and date.

History

  • Desktop 1.4.1: Requirement to unlock one in-game day of Christmas changed to Wave 15.
  • Desktop 1.2.2:
    • The event has been updated, featuring several new items.
    • One single present item drops instead of three different colors.
  • Mobile 1.1.5: Introduced, Santa can spawn randomly any time during the Christmas season.

References

  1. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop version Desktop 1.4.2.1 source code, method CheckForMoonEventsStartingTemporarySeasons() in Terraria.Main.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current Desktop version Desktop version is 1.4.4.9.
  1. ↑ Only drops from enemies that have more than 1 maximum health, deal more than 0 damage, and drop coins. Therefore, this item cannot drop from enemies spawned by statues, enemies from the Old One's Army and Lunar Events, Meteor Heads, and Slimers with wings.
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