Why EVERYONE Should Be Playing Journey Mode in Terraria

Journey Mode was added in the Terraria 1.4 update, which has been out for some time now. Yet, journey mode in Terraria is criminally underrated for what it is, despite its many benefits like increased convenience and freedom. With the option to play expert, or even master mode on journey worlds, more people should be playing journey. I argue that a journey world is all you need, unless you're playing a hardcore challenge playthrough. Otherwise, everything you need or want to do can be done in journey worlds.

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Dig, Fight, Explore, Build: The very world is at your fingertips as you fight for survival, fortune, and glory. Will you delve deep into cavernous expanses in search of treasure and raw materials with which to craft ever-evolving gear, machinery, and aesthetics? Perhaps you will choose instead to seek out ever-greater foes to test your mettle in combat? Maybe you will decide to construct your own city to house the host of mysterious allies you may encounter along your travels?

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[TheFuzzyOcelot]

As someone who's been playing on almost exclusively master for about 2 years now, the reason I avoid journey is because I can't trust myself to not use the tools to cheat. I know that might make me "weak willed" or whatever, and you could still cheat by using something like builders workshop, but its a lot easier to avoid temptation if I have to download a world and then navigate to a specific item than if I have the power to play god in 2 left clicks.

[shizurata]

I remember playing with a friend on Journey mode, pretty much as soon as 1.4 dropped, and our goal was to duplicate every single item without changing time/weather/spawn rates, and only with evil spread disabled and maxed out difficulty slider.
We actually managed to get so close to completion, we got around 4970 items on the 5031 available at that time!
Problem is that we lost our map due to a pc dying, so our motivation vanished with it, but it still was a super fun experience

[diabolicallink]

I almost exclusively play journey mode anymore. So much more enjoyable to be able to change everything at any point or be able to spawn in stuff if I don’t feel like mining for chlorophyte for hours on end lol. I feel like once you’ve beaten the game a few times normally, the quality of life stuff is great.

Though I definitely am more of a builder than a fighter, so I prefer being able to just focus on building

[Lordsbirro]

The fact you can change the spawn rate of mobs and switch to master mode for extra difficult is awesome!
But I think you can’t get the real master experience as you could be tempted by the multiplication system

[cyberlinkx]

Nice to see someone supporting Journey Mode for once. The QoL mechanics like disabling evil spread are something that often gets overlooked

[kovexplay]

I wholeheartedly agree, journey mode has so many advantages and lets you shape up the difficulty to your own liking! They only issue is that journey worlds are only accesible to journey mode players and the opposite. You might have cool older worlds that will only be available to play on with the "standard" difficulties. I do understand why that is but it's still worth remembering

[dominoot]

An underrated thing about journey duplication is how much storage it frees up. Instead of hoarding, you can just research. It’s also a way to trash items without completely wasting them.

I no longer have chests and chests of building blocks, banners, paintings I’ll *totally* use one day, etc.

[christianevrye]

THANK YOU, I have a life outside gaming (unfortunately) so I do appreciate Journey mode for removing a big part of the grind for materials (and it doesn't feel unfair bc I have to work for duplication first) and the HOURS of the waiting around for progression (that was okay when I was a kid, ahh good times)

I play on Journey's Master difficulty without God-mode or infinite money bc I like the challenge but honestly more people should just let others play however they want without judgment lmao

[cursedchild]

i honestly have a journey mode character with a lot of things researched, i use it to test stuff, try out battles before doing them in another world, and to do fun stuff without money limitations since i research coins, that is why journey mode is super useful

[simplycinclair]

Always do feel in any game that the idea of there being a “right difficulty” is rather elitist, I feel like the right difficulty is the one you enjoy most.

Me personally I find master to be my goto, difficulty is just something I value in every game, however that’s not how everyone feels and that is completely okay.

[riceyydiceyy]

I've always seen Journey mode as a sandbox mode where you can do anything you want without issues.

[jennywithaglock]

definitely going to try journey on my next world, considering the duplication comes after a certain amount of an item is obtained, that doesnt feel cheaty to me, it's not like you skipped progression, you're just saving time. you could very easily play master mode and dupe for building materials.

i really enjoy building in this game and not having to worry about storing all the paints, walls, tiles and furniture would be such a nice help. time and weather control also seems like a huge boon. i've already clocked 1.9k hours into this game so i think i'll finally tackle a large journey world where i focus on building while playing through progression in master mode.

[jayday]

Great video! I always use Journey Mode, but only duplicate building materials. That way I can build really nice houses but don't get any advantage in progression

[tneddd]

The long build range and the ability to disable evil spread are my favorite things about journey mode. I hate using purification powder in pre hardmode only to find out that I wasted my time since it just spread over again

[thenamesthegame]

Gotta say I've been loving Journey Mode, been playing it consistently for like the last 2 months, been building up my Perfect world with many challenges set up for my self. Its going to be a masterpiece when complete

[Ncky]

My brain just doesn’t let me not do things like abuse duplication knowing that it is there. Not to say this wasn’t a great video, keep up the good work. You brought up some great points about journey mode I hadn’t thought about.

[foxfire]

I have ADHD, and the hours and hours of tedious grinding that can happen in this game if you like going for rare items and good modifiers and whatnot really tend to kill the fun for me. So being able to dupe stuff like money and building materials to cut out some of the mindless farming and be able to get to the actual fun parts (building, boss fights, exploring, invasions/solar eclipses, etc.) has really reignited my love for this game honestly. I know I'll probably be immediately dismissed for admitting I dupe money, but Journey Mode can seriously save you a lot of mental energy if you also have ADHD and get extremely bored/stressed when you know you're gonna have to wait for potentially hours to get enough money to reforge your Razorblade Typhoon to Mythical.

[littlefox]

I actually play journey all the time, it’s so good for building and since I love building in terraria, I have a journey world which I use to test out weapons against bosses, and build lots of fun stuff and arenas.

[damnthisisabadname]

Journey mode has great qol features and you get access to all the difficulties. No idea why people dislike it. If you think some feature is too strong (godmode) then just don't use it.

[VeraVemaVena]

I almost exclusively play modded and do a fair bit of building, and Journey mode is a damn lifesaver for me. Not only is every feature you mentioned amplified with all the new stuff, but being able to duplicate certain modded materials (e.g: Blood Orbs, which don't drop nearly enough for the cost to make potions with them) can cut down on so many hours or grinding. My modded playthroughs already take 100+ hours to complete, so even a 5% reduced grind goes a long way.