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Welcome, and thank you for installing the Calamity Mod for Terraria!

If you're here, then that means you're most likely about to start your first play-through of the game with the Calamity Mod installed. This guide will aim to help you start your first playthrough of the Calamity Mod.

This guide will assume you know the default controls and functions of Terraria and how to perform basic tasks such as digging and crafting. If not, you should visit the Terraria starter guide before returning here.

Creating your first world
It's time to create a new world for your play-through! Generating worlds and characters with the Calamity Mod installed follow the same procedure as a vanilla client; refer to the linked Terraria starter guide for more information.

Character
The Calamity Mod will provide the best experience with a new character. This step is optional; however, this guide covers many topics only applicable to new characters, so skip this step at your own risk.

World
As with creating a new player, the Calamity Mod will provide the best experience with a new world. It is recommended to create a new world due to the new structures and biomes that are created upon world generation; otherwise, your progress might be delayed or even stopped due to lack of available materials.

Note that the difficulty of your world will change the availability of some items; it is recommended to start with Normal Mode if you are inexperienced and Expert Mode if you are seasoned or wanting a challenge.

Loading your first modded world
Upon loading your first world (if you created a new character), you may notice some new items in your inventory, such as the, , and.

Starter Bag
The Starter Bag provides you with useful weapons and materials for assisting in early-game progression, but it's not a necessity. If you feel like it is too much of a crutch, you can simply ignore it or throw it away. You will not be able to recover it if you throw it away or discard it.

Revengeance and Iron Heart
Revengeance and Iron Heart are permanent game modifiers that affects only the world and drastically increase the difficulty of the game upon use; Revengeance Mode enables a slew of new features that significantly increase the difficulty of the game, while Iron Heart makes your death permanent while a boss is alive. These items can only be used in a Expert Mode world; trying to use them in a Normal Mode world will do nothing.

It is recommended you complete a play-through in Expert Mode before you enable these items. If you somehow used these items by accident, you can delete the world and make a new one. You can also download the Calamity Addon mod from the mod browser which allows you to easily craft items that reverses Revengeance and Iron Heart effects.

Your first few days and nights
The Calamity Mod introduces new enemies, items, bosses, and mechanics to your game; the will be a useful asset for discovering new crafting recipes.

Creating a house
As with vanilla Terraria, your immediate goal should be to create a house using chopped drop from nearby trees before night starts. Make a suitable house for both yourself and the Guide, and place down a as you normally would. Essentially, progress through the game as your normally world, as the Calamity Mod does not drastically alter early-game progression. You can use the materials obtained from the Starter Bag (if you opened it) to aid in surviving your first night if needed.

Using to store items will be imperative; as the Calamity Mod adds many new items, you will need somewhere to sort and store them.

As the Calamity Mod adds multiple new Town NPCs, it is a reasonable idea to create more houses to accommodate them when they appear later in the game.

New encounters
The first new enemies you will most likely encounter are the and the. These enemies drop, a useful material used to craft Wulfrum tools and Wulfrum armor.

A priority should be to craft a set of and a, as these will greatly assist you in setting up a class-oriented play style for early game.

Exploration
It is highly recommended to explore as much as possible with the Calamity Mod, as you will discover new enemies, biomes, and structures.

Underground, you will encounter new enemies such as, which are enemies that drop. You might also discover Shrines, which are rare underground structures that contain valuable Hardmode loot.

Mining ore underground should be a goal; with a, you will only be able to mine up to Gold or Platinum Ore. Collecting bars of ores will be useful for later recipes added by the Calamity Mod, as well as for crafting armor for fighting enemies and bosses.

Your first boss
As the Calamity Mod changes boss progression, the first modded boss you will most likely fight is the, a worm-like boss fought in the Desert Surface.

Vanilla changes
Observant users might notice that the Calamity Mod introduces many new vanilla changes, such as item pricings, crafting recipes, and damage values; a full comprehensive list of these changes can be found here.

More information
For more information on some subjects highlighted in this guide, please explore the pages listed below.

Desert Scourge strategies - a more detailed guide on how to defeat the Desert Scourge

Vanilla changes - a list of changes the Calamity Mod adds to vanilla items

List of items - a list of items the Calamity Mod adds

List of enemies - a list of enemies the Calamity Mod adds

Biomes - changes/additions the Calamity Mod makes to biomes