How to download Terraria’s Calamity mod

Nick Farrell
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Terraria is an extremely popular game where players can express their creativity, but if you want to shake up your experience, the Calamity mod is a great option. Here’s exactly how you can download the Calamity mod for Terraria and how it impacts the game. 

One of the most beloved survival games on the market is Terraria, thanks to the amount of freedom it provides players with. You can build and craft a number of exciting things while navigating a vast 2D landscape.

There’s a huge amount of content to enjoy in Terraria, including a big list of missions to complete — but if you’ve put countless hours into the game already, you may hit a point where you find yourself running out of things to do.

Thankfully, that’s where mods come in and the Calamity mod is one of the most beloved in the community. Here’s everything you need to know about the Calamity mod in Terraria, including how to download it.


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Terraria offers some bosses that’ll prove to be a challenge for sure.

What’s Terraria’s Calamity mod

Mods are one of the best ways to improve the stock value of Terraria, and there’s a wide array of them that’ll add certain features to the game that’ll greatly improve your experience.

The Calamity mod is one of the premier ones within Terraria, as it implements a boatload of content for players towards the endgame. Players will be able to encounter new bosses and enemies among other features, such as new biomes and items for players to obtain.

calamity-mod-for-terraria-Minibosses-vignetteThese are some of the bosses that players will be able to encounter while playing the Calamity mod.

The official Calamity site has also noted that it adds “four harder difficulty modes . . . the mod also expands the game map by offering five new biomes and new structures. With this, you’ll have more places that you can explore. You can also try a new leveling mechanic, a new class, and over thirty new songs.”

How to download the Calamity mod for Terraria

Players looking to download the Calamity mod will need to go about a certain process to be able to get the mod into your game. We’re going to run over this process down below.

  1. Download tModLoader, which can be found here.
  2. Have a program that’ll unpack ZIP files.
  3. Download the Calamity mod through their official download site here.
  4. Enable the Calamity mod through the in-game client after you’ve downloaded it.
  5. Once this is completed, hit the reload mods button, and you should be good to go.

It may be a bit confusing at first glance, but you should be able to complete this process rather easily and be able to use the modifications right away.

That’s everything you need to know about Terraria’s Calamity mod! For more content on the game, check out our guides below: 

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Nick is a former Dexerto Games Writer based in Newfoundland, Canada, who covered a wide array of games and esports. Nick has published bylines at multiple outlets such as G FUEL, NME, Gfinity.