Terraria and Dungeon Defenders II Crossover!

Greetings, Defenders!

A few weeks ago, a mysterious portal opened in Etheria. Today, we’re excited to reveal the portal’s secret: It’s a Terraria and Dungeon Defenders II crossover! This isn’t some one-way crossover, either. We’re adding Terraria content into our game, and Re-Logic is adding Dungeon Defenders content into Terraria! (Oh wait, PC Gamer revealed that yesterday? Dangit! Missed it by that much. Well, let’s just pretend this is new information. Surprise!)

The mystifying portal of mysterious mystery spurred a number of you to jump to conclusions. Some of your conclusions were accurate (eerily so); some of them not so much. Our favorite was from a lad in the Terraria community who thought Re-Logic was adding a flaming baked potato boss. (Why is it on fire? Why, it was cooked in the microwave too long, of course!) The image of a villainous flaming potato won’t leave our head. Re-Logic, you have to add it to Terraria. YOU HAVE TO!

So what’s coming to Dungeon Defenders II and when? We’re not adding a flaming potato boss (yet), but we do have something tasty cooked up for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH6Lj7na8Ak

The Terraria Update

The Terraria Update is scheduled to launch on November 15th. When it arrives, it’ll include:

• The Dryad, a new Hero Balancing Corruption and Purity
• A Decidedly Deciduous Map
• An Ever-Watching Boss
• A Bloodshot Enemy
• Weapons For Every Hero!
  • A Purrfect Sword
  • A Bow of Seismic Destruction
  • A Great White Machine Gun
  • The Eat Your Green Beams Sword
  • A Staff That Came From the Moon!
  • This Book Really Cuts Us Up
  • Santa’s Favorite Staff
  • The Party Starter
  • We Have a Bone to Pick With You Gloves
  • This Knife Really Gets Around

• A Howling Incursion
  
• An Eclectic Collector
  • A morph dwarf by the wharf.

• All of Your Hopes and Dreams
  • As long as all of your hopes and dreams are about Terraria coming to Dungeon Defenders II
    • And as long as it’s only the select things we’re bringing from Terraria into Dungeon Defenders II
      • And as long as your name is Ricky or Taneka. Only the people named Ricky or Taneka who had the specific desires of certain Terraria elements coming into Dungeon Defenders II will have their hopes and dreams fulfilled with this update.

Reveals & Streams

What does all of that mean? We’re sure you can figure them out, but if you need some help, keep an eye on our Twitter. We hear that Re-Logic has their own secrets to reveal, too.

If you want to see the update before it comes out, mark your calendars for Friday, November 11th at 3PM EST for the Terraria Update Devstream. We’re going to show off the new Dryad hero, walk through the new map, show off the new boss, wield the new weapons and more.

This Friday at 3PM EDT, we’re going to play vanilla Terraria on our Twitch channel! Tune in to hear more about the Terraria update and for your chance to win the Dryad!

Test Out the Dryad For Free

Speaking of the Dryad, we’re excited about an experiment we’re doing in this update. When the update comes out, you can try the Dryad for free by visiting the portal in the Heroes Marketplace! We’ve setup a custom version of the Dryad to use in the new Terraria map, so you can test out all of her defenses and abilities before plopping down your hard-earned medals or your gems. It’s something you have been asking for with our new hero releases, and we hope you enjoy the experiment. We’re going to pay attention to the data to see how successful this is.

The Second Phase to Release

The Terraria Update marks Phase 2 of our journey to release Dungeon Defenders II out of Early Access. The goal behind The Terraria Update is to get lots of exposure for our game. More people playing = the more we can develop. We’re gathering lots of great data on our early game changes from Phase 1, and with this update, we’ll have more data to look at from other kinds of new players. And, of course, it’s just really awesome for DD2 to be in one of our favorite games, and they’re just as excited to see Terraria content in a game they love. (In fact, they’re the ones who reached out to us first! They have hundreds of hours in DD2! *fanboys*)

After The Terraria Update comes Phase 3: endgame changes. We’ll have more to share soon. Stay tuned.

Love,
The Trendy Team