v4.X vs v5.0 Feature Parity

[Mirsario]

What's the state of the rebuild?

This version is around 75%+ done.
It's missing some features from the 1.3.X.X Terraria's Overhaul versions, but what's currently implemented is much superior to the old.

The Work-in-Progress 5.0 version for Terraria 1.4 is a complete reimplementation of the mod, which boasts:

• A vastly superior & open sourced codebase;
• Reimagined and more vanilla-faithful, while also more crazy, solid and fun game design;
• Magnitudes more overall quality assurance & polishing.
• Near flawless compatibility with content mods, to be polished further soon.

v4.X vs v5.0 Feature Parity Comparison

If you know something I forgot about - do let me know.

General Combat

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Critical Strike Rework	Will be redesigned.
✅	❌	Headshot system
✅	❌	Weakness & resistance system	Unlikely to come back.
✅	✅	Hit enemies get mini-stuns
✅	✅	Damage randomization removed

Movement

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Stomping
✅	❌	Swimming
✅	❌	On Fire! Panic.	Unlikely to be readded, except for screams.
✅	✅	Physics changes	Polished, more vanilla-faithful.
✅	✅	Grappling hook swinging physics	Improved heavily, now works for multi-hooks.
✅	✅	Bunnyhopping
✅	✅	Wall jumps
✅	✅	Wall flips
✅	✅	Jump key buffering
✅	✅	Climbing	Greatly improved.
❌	✅	Climbing preserves velocity
❌	✅	Jump height control	Smoother than in vanilla.
❌	✅	Autojump always present

Dodgerolls

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	✅	Dodgerolls	Greatly improved.
❌	✅	Multiple dodgeroll charges
❌	✅	Bunnyroll combos
❌	✅	Recharge indicators
❌	✅	"Critical Judgement" counter-attack

Archery

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Arrow Velocity
✅	✅	Better sound effects
✅	✅	Focused Shots
❌	✅	Hover-charging
❌	✅	Hover-shots

Melee

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Axe Bleeding
✅	❌	Hammer Stunning	Will be replaced with knockback focus
✅	✅	Melee weapon aiming	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Velocity-based damage	Improved.
✅	✅	Power attacks	Improved.
✅	✅	Broadsword Killing Blows	Improved.
❌	✅	Mid-air melee combat
❌	✅	Melee slashing animations
❌	✅	High quality audio
❌	✅	Custom hit sound effects

Guns

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Reloading	Removed forever.
✅	✅	Muzzleflashes	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Screenshake	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Better sound effects	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Visual recoil
❌	✅	Modded content compatibility	Automatic.
❌	✅	New alternate fires
❌	✅	Minigun recoil hovering

Magic

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	✅	Enemies drop mana on death
✅	✅	Power blasts
❌	✅	Enemies drop mana on hit
❌	✅	New speed-based mana regeneration

Camera

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Mouse-look
✅	❌	Zoom-in during dialogues
✅	❌	Focus during dialogues
✅	✅	Screen shake effects	Improved tenfold with use of noise sampling
✅	✅	Smooth movement	Improved to be framerate agnostic

Dialogue Improvements

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Text appears gradually
✅	❌	Sound-bytes
✅	❌	Zoom-in during dialogues
✅	❌	Focus during dialogues

Ambience

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Enemy footsteps
✅	✅	Ambient sound loops	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Player footsteps
❌	✅	Highest quality sound effects
❌	✅	Caves & halls reverb sound effects	Dynamic, based on nearby blocks
❌	✅	Underwater low pass sound filtering

Player Visuals

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	✅	Players facing the mouse cursor
✅	✅	Weapon aiming animations
✅	✅	Player velocity-based tilting
✅	✅	360° Mining helmet flashlight
✅	❌	360° arm rotations	feature/player_rendering

Blood/Decals and Gore

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Gore floats in water
✅	❌	Blood spreads out in water
✅	✅	Decal system	Capabilities vastly expanded.
✅	✅	Better blood particles	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Gore interactivity
❌	✅	High quality sound effects
❌	✅	Modded content compatibility
❌	✅	Explosions & flames leave burn decals
❌	✅	Non-flesh gib interactivity

Seasons

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Seasons
✅	❌	Evil Blooming
✅	❌	Natural gore spawns during Evil Blooming
✅	❌	Lightning strikes
✅	❌	Water freezing
✅	❌	Water evaporation
✅	❌	Hurricanes
✅	❌	Temperature (de)buffs

NPC Dialogue Improvements

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Over-time text appearance
✅	❌	NPC speech soundbytes
✅	❌	Camera zoom-in during dialogues
✅	❌	Camera focus during dialogues

Item Interactivity Improvements

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Item physics & velocity
✅	❌	Items play sound on impacts

Enemy AI Improvements

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Line-of-sight player spotting
✅	✅	Fighter AI leaping at players

Consumable Item Improvements

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Consumed potions return bottles
✅	❌	Hotkey-consumed potion animations
✅	❌	Buff pop-ups upon activation

Tree Falling Animations

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	✅	Proper tree felling animation	Improved code & stability.
❌	✅	Works with mod trees
❌	✅	Automatic stump removal

Other

v4.X	v5.0	Feature	Comment
✅	❌	Fire System	Will be redesigned.
✅	❌	Durability	Unlikely to be readded.
✅	❌	Quick Action wheel
✅	❌	Max stack size rounding
✅	❌	Advanced smart cursor
✅	❌	Extended item favoriting & marking
✅	❌	Sand moisturizing effects

Boss Battle Improvements

• ✅|❌ - v4 only
• ✅|✅ - v4 & v5
• ❌|✅ - v5 only

Boss	Intro	Audio	Death	Comment
King Slime	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Eye of Cthulhu	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Eater of Worlds	❌|❌	❌|❌	❌|❌
Brain of Cthulhu	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Queen Bee	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Skeletron	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Wall of Flesh	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
The Twins	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
The Destroyer	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Skeletron Prime	❌|❌	✅|❌	✅|❌
Golem	❌|❌	❌|❌	✅|❌
Plantera	❌|❌	❌|❌	❌|❌
The Lunatic	❌|❌	❌|❌	❌|❌
Moon Lord	❌|❌	❌|❌	❌|❌

Content

Most of it wasn't very necessary

v4.X	v5.0	Type	Feature	Comment
✅	✅	Accessory	Bunny Paw	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Tool	The Mop	Greatly improved.
✅	✅	Tool	Stone Axe
✅	✅	Tool	Stone Pickaxe
✅	❌	Ammo	Harmless Rocket
✅	❌	Ammo	Onyx Cell
✅	❌	Ammo	Water Arrow
✅	❌	Consumable	Sleeping Potion
✅	❌	Material	Charcoal
✅	❌	Material	Red Gel
✅	❌	Material	Repair Kits
✅	❌	Miscellaneous	Music Disc
✅	❌	Tool / Weapon	Rocket Jumper
✅	❌	Placeable	Calendar
✅	❌	Placeable	Gramophone
✅	❌	Placeable	Lightning Rod
✅	❌	Placeable	Repair Table
✅	❌	Placeable	Smoke Detector
✅	❌	Weapon	Impact Bomb
✅	❌	Weapon	Impact Dynamite
✅	❌	Weapon	Impact Grenade
✅	❌	Weapon	Super Shotgun
✅	❌	Weapon	All the Flail Whips	Will not be readded.

[USMP-lancer]

i do hope the rocket jumper returns, it was fun to use

[duchieu235]

the world diffuculty box looks really scuffed. the text doesn't even fit the box

[Big-Janson]

Hey, I just wanna know that is there any chance for the reloading system of guns be back? I think that is one of the spirit of this mod! I don't understand why it have to be deleted.

[TKSBF]

I really really like the weapon reloading system I hope you can take it back I'll even pay for you if I want

[SomeGamer1]

How prioritized is the camera system rewrite. Overhaul currently doesn't work with any multiplayer spectate mod.

[USMP-lancer]

I really really like the weapon reloading system I hope you can take it back I'll even pay for you if I want

he is not bringing it back due to compatibility reasons @TKSBF, among other reasons i forgot

[USMP-lancer]

it was a neat mechanic that made things interesting, it was also spaghetti hell(that's mor over thr code as a whole but you know), as well as incompatible, if i want that interesting id aimply grab 1.3 overhaul, which imma do

[USMP-lancer]

rocket jumpy as well, but it is likely to be less janky(could prob have a reload mechanic specific to it, to really push the feeling of from a different game)

[Mirsario]

Reloading is removed for game design reasons, nothing technical.

Out of place, breaks pacing, does nothing but prevent shooting in a shooter
There will be better features for rangers

[Zedliminal]

What about adding a super-mop type of item that lets you clean faster?

[duenstorm]

Will seasons be reimplemented?

[ZelosEXE]

Could you make it so that instead of the features being deleted entirely you can have them be optional instead?
I really enjoyed some of the removed features like the reloading, and wanna see it be an optional feature rather than just completely removed.

[UHDFox]

I may not understand something, but why cut out some of the cool features like headshot system, swimming, axe bleeding and even reloading in guns? Mouse look, text appearing gradually, zoom-in during dialogues, those QoL features are something we need in terraria, why cut them out? I mean these features might were been "small" but they had made a whole picture of "Overhaul mod" which i remember while playing terraria 1.3v with this mode, the experience i had. Cutting these features out will just make overhaul mod feel incompletel and it's very depressing to realize they won't be in v5.0 of the mod

[Mirsario]

Nothing was "cut out", 5.0 is a from-scratch restart with an entirely new codebase, game design, and design values.