Terraria Calamity VS Thorium Mod (Which Should You Play?)

Terraria Calamity and Thorium mod has always been the most popular mod! In this video, I will be comparing both of the mods to show you which one you should play!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - Bosses & Enemies
1:53 - Biomes & Structures
3:04 - Classes & Weapons
4:39 - Events
5:24 - Endgame
5:54 - Gameplay
6:27 - The Answer / Conclusion

**I won't be touching the subject of Difficulty and Music, as they both are very subjective, and I don't want to cause war! (and yes, I know Calamity adds new harder difficulties, like Revengeance and Death Mode, which could add more Replayability)**

#Terraria #Calamity

Music used in this video: Stardew Valley OST

Terraria is an action-adventure sandbox platformer game developed by Re-Logic.Play Terraria Now:

The Calamity Mod is a large content mod for Terraria which adds many hours of endgame content and dozens of enemies and bosses dispersed throughout the vanilla game's progression. The Calamity Mod also features several harder difficulty modes, 5 new biomes and new structures, a new class, a new leveling mechanic, more than 30 new songs, over 50 recipes for previously uncraftable vanilla items and other assorted changes to vanilla gameplay!

Thanks to tModLoader, Terraria modding is taken to the next level, for both mod developers and users. A product of this, the Thorium Mod, is one of the most expansive mods for Terraria. With over 2000 new items, 11 challenging new boss fights, hordes of new enemies, an entirely new biome and even three new classes, you'll soon be unable to play Terraria without the Thorium Mod installed!

[GitGudWO]

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you enjoy this video I've been working hard on for the past couple of days! :)
If you have no time or come here for the shortest possible answer, go to 7:20
But I really recommend you watching the whole video to know the context of it! Have a good day and happy holidays!

0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - Bosses & Enemies
1:53 - Biomes & Structures
3:04 - Classes & Weapons
4:39 - Events
5:24 - Endgame
5:54 - Gameplay
6:27 - The Answer / Conclusion

**I won't be touching the subject of Difficulty and Music, as they both are very subjective, and I don't want to cause war! (and yes, I know Calamity adds new harder difficulties, like Revengeance and Death Mode, which could add more Replayability)**

[doomskull]

The fact that thorium just slightly edits vanilla while calamity is basically a whole game in its own right makes them incomparable imo. They're just in completely different weight classes and isnt really a fair comparison. It depends whether you want to play modded TERRARIA, or MODDED terraria

[barometz]

Hey, great video!
2:13 Minor correction though, Thorium does add 1 new structure in the form of the Blood Chamber, where you can fight Viscount.

[terrariaskeletonpre..]

my girlfriend wanted to get into modded terraria because she played vanilla and saw me playing modded and wanted to give it a try, so i put on calamity + the bare essential QoL mods for our world, but all the new calamity content and stuff really confused her (the draedon labs, chindron boss spawning out of nowhere, ect), so we ended up switching to thorium, she's enjoying it way more now (she's obsessed with the bard class, her hotbar is like 8 instruments of varying power because she just likes the sounds they make).

In conclusion, i would say Thorium is THE mod for introducing someone into modded terraria, whereas calamity is moreso of "im used to modded terraria now, give me the BIG content changes"

[ItsScapeGoated]

I like Thorium more, just looks like it can actually be in the vanilla game as opposed to Calamity.

[jaker]

i’d say thorium is probably the best mod to get you into the realm of modding, as it’s more of a free dlc you can get and doesn’t overload you with new content.
calamity is more of an overhaul at this point but it’s really cool, i just think you should tackle thorium first before setting off on the long calamity journey

[melonbirdman]

Calamity is my favorite because of the post-Moonlord stuff. I really feel like Calamity pushes the limit of what boss fights can be in Terraria and is a great experience the whole way through, peaking around D.O.G. and Yharon.

[WojtekXD-bxjb]

There's an item called "Soul of Eterenity", which to be crafted requires basically most of the endgame items from a mod, requiring about 600 crafting steps. There's a mod that expands the crafting tree with contents of Calamity, Thorium and I think Fargo's soul. So it expands the crafting tree to over 1400 crafting steps, bringing all of these mods together to craft what is simply an ultimate weapon

[ixyrt]

But the thing with calamity is that:
-Calamity bosses will completly powercreep other's mods bosses
-Calamity weapons will powercreep other's mods weapons
So cons for calamity is that it poorly blends with other mods cause balance issues while Thorium keeps vanilla balance

[daiyousei.]

With the recent calamity progression overhaul, thorium + calamity is actually balanced and no longer broken.

(I still prefer Split + Calamity combo tho)

[whitebr]

To throw my two cents in: I recommend trying Thorium first, then Calamity. As for Thorium not having any structures, the Blood Chamber is a structure with a boss tied to it. The Confused Zombie NPC sells an item to help locate it. Another thing I want to say after reading the comments: If you INSIST on mixing content mods, pay them *individually* first. That way you can experience the mod with its intended balance, as mixing content mods can lead to serious game breaking item combos and if the mods have different power scales, that also becomes an issue.

tldr: play content mods separately before mixing them

[GeorgeCowsert]

Thorium is what you use to round out vanilla Terraria and get used to modding.
Calamity is what you use to get a whole experience with Terraria as the base.

One is for enhancing what is there.
The other is taking the original and expanding upon its ideas and gameplay.

I personally like Calamity more, because in vanilla you reach the ending before you can fully test your skill.
Things like infinite flight, good survivability, awesome weapons, etc are all things the game gives you as a reward for progressing to the end, but with no challenge to master once you are no longer shackled by movement or damage limitations.

[luketalbot]

I'll admit, I'm a Thorium fanboy, but it's hard to disrespect everything that went into (and still goes into) Calamity. I just dislike that the popularity of it led to the Devs adding their own bullet hell boss (Empress of Light). Thorium is, as most of the comments said, much more like vanilla Terraria, and the bosses follow that.

But despite how much I dislike that, Calamity is such an amazing mod, you have to try it out at least once

[Rytex-nhpm]

I like the combo of The Stars Above and Calamity. There's some unique dialogue you can get from the starfarer

[SPZ-gvon]

I'm a calamity guy myself but thorium is very nice for a quicker playthrough or one where I want to do more building. Just finished up death mode yesterday in the new update and half my calamity world ended up as an exo-mech arena.

[TheUltimateCancerCell]

The Thorium Bard class really took me by surprise and I was really impressed with the way they conceptualize it as an actual class in Terraria.

And I do agree that Thorium is way more fun with friends. Meanwhile, Calamity is something that I prefer to play in singleplayer. I think it’s mostly because of how I want to conquer everything by myself and the progression in Calamity is just more singleplayer-friendly to me imo

[LegethDrn]

Im a big Thorium fan myself. Thorium allows you to not only play any class, but makes each one more uniuqe. Your Melee character can become a tank or our mage can chooses sustained dps or big burst damage. Calamity dosent allow and activley forbids that in my eyes. All classes exept summoner just shoot projectiles and run away. And no matter how you build it, you always die in 1-4 hits. Calamity is fun, but its hard for the sake of being hard.

[psisurge]

Thorium is a lot more beginner friendly and tamer than Calamity. It's also basically tailored for multiplayer, considering Healer and Bard are some of the new mod classes.

[kirbyham]

I really enjoy calamity, but I love the feel of thorium, it feels very vanilla, like if terrraria had a 1.5 update :D

[Zerum]

Calamity is like drinking an energy drink, 10 coffees, and many candy bars

Thorium is like drinking a warm Tea

One is loud, energetic, and will definitely burn you down if you do it too often
The other is relaxing, slow, but most people just don't appreciate that lifestyle