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LEGACY SAVE CONVERSION CRASH/HANGUP ​

PS4 ONLY

PS4 Settings -> Application Saved Data Management -> Saved Data in System Storage -> Upload the SYSTEM file (Select Terraria) to the cloud or USB drive (as a backup) Delete the SYSTEM file in the System Storage (keep the USB/Cloud Backup)

Restart the game.

XBOX ONE ONLY

SENDING YOUR SAVE FILES IS A TREMENDOUS HELP (PS4 ONLY) ​

Please include your email address in the note field as well as an overview of the issue you’re encountering.





Display Settings (Cut Off UI or Black Bars) ​





PS4

Xbox One





CANNOT MAP ITEMS TO D-PAD

This is actually off in the default controller scheme. However, you can toggle this back on by going to the following:



Open the Menu, select the Controls option, and scroll down to "Quick Navigation"

There is an option labeled "Directional Buttons Hotbar" on PS4 and "D-Pad Hotbar" on Xbox One . To activate this option, you want to click on it and make sure the circle next to it is solid white.

and "D-Pad Hotbar" on . To activate this option, you want to click on it and make sure the circle next to it is solid white. To assign items to the D-Pad once this is done, open your inventory and select the item in game, and press the D-Pad button you want to use as a shortcut for that item

Images in the spoiler below show this process

Spoiler: D-Pad Mapping Instructions









HOW DO I ZOOM WITH NO TOUCHPAD ZOOMING? (PS4 ONLY)

In the current build, Zoom is accessible by going to Options and then use R2 and L2 to zoom in/out to your preference.









I SPAWNED AND MY CHARACTER IS FROZEN AND MADE OF STONE

This is certainly one of the more crazy bugs we have ever seen - however, there is a way to save your character from their stony fate:



To fix this, your character needs to be killed in game. Once you respawn, save & exit, this should clear up this bug for good on that character.

How you do this is up to you, though for those players that spawned into a giant home base where spawns are rare and you have tons of NPCs to protect you, that may be difficult.

If this is your situation, we suggest making a new world, taking that character into that new world, removing all of your armor, and letting the slime horde (or zombies at night) kill you off.



Again, after you die and respawn, things should be cleared up for that character.





HOW DO I CANCEL A BUFF/PET/ETC.?

Folks have had trouble sorting this out - so here is how to do it!





Open your inventory

Press R1 to cycle to the armor/ accessories section

Click x on the grappling hook icon 'Equipment'

At the bottom of this menu should be buff icons, highlight the one you want to cancel and click x to get rid of it.



Spoiler: Canceling Buffs







CONSOLE MULTIPLAYER MAP OVERWRITE WORKAROUND

Currently, there is a bug on PS4 & XB1 that can cause the host's map save to overwrite your own (causing you to lose your world in the process). Below is an update on the fix for this as well as a workaround that appears to be highly effective





We have a fix for it that was put in (although not before this RC was submitted to cert), but an intrepid dev at Pipeworks has found a workaround for people until we get that patch in:

The bug should be 100% avoidable until the patch goes in by taking the following steps: Restarting the application before joining a multiplayer game.

In other words, if you're playing already on one of your own maps and want to join a friend's game, instead of just backing out to the menu and joining from there, close Terraria completely and restart it before joining.

This should keep your existing maps from getting overwritten until the fix we have goes live





BACKING UP GAMES TO THE CLOUD ON XBOX ONE

Unlike PlayStation 4, XBox One does not allow for USB save transfers. The only option for backing up your game saves is to utilize Microsoft's Cloud storage via XBox Live. Pipeworks encourages everyone to familiarize themselves with the way to do this via the link below - just in case something bad happens to your local data.

Instructions from Microsoft on how to do this: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/cloud-save-games <- This is for XBox 360



<- Instructions from Microsoft on how to do this for XBox One: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/cloud-game-saves-faq





PROJECTILES ARE VANISHING ​

If you find that projectiles (weapon projectiles, grappling hooks, fishing lines) are going invisible, a workaround is to avoid using dyes until it can be fixed





CHESTS RAPIDLY OPENING/CLOSING

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If you open a chest and close it, only to find that it immediately opens again, try switching from manual cursor mode to automatic cursor mode