Terraria Is This Week’s Survivor Monday Pick, With Update 1.4.5 Locked for January 27, 2026

Terraria is a dangerously good fit for Survivor Monday on January 19, 2026 (CET), because the timing is finally perfect: update 1.4.5 has a confirmed release date, and it lands on January 27, 2026 (CET). In other words, this is the calm before the pixel-storm. Sharpen the pickaxe, warm up the “one more cave” reflex.

The devs didn’t just toss out a vague “soon-ish” either, they called the shot and even admitted there are still a few approvals and last tasks to wrap up. That also explains why this update has taken the scenic route: the plan is a coordinated rollout across platforms, not a “PC first, everyone else later” situation.

Content-wise, 1.4.5 is basically a buffet that refuses to end. The headline stuff is the double crossover: Dead Cells and Palworld both get a seat at Terraria’s workbench, with new themed items and toys. The Palworld side in particular sounds delightfully practical, because it includes a Digtoise-themed summon that can mine through blocks, which is the kind of feature that turns “grind” into “delegation.” Suddenly the pickaxe feels a bit… optional.

But it’s not all collabs and fanservice fireworks. The patch is also bringing a pile of original additions, including an RC car, new whips, more slime variants, and a whole grab bag of oddities like music blocks, weird boulders with special behavior, and even transformation-style mounts that change how the character moves through the world. Terraria has always been at its best when it adds something small that accidentally becomes someone’s new obsession for 300 hours.

Context matters here too: this update arrives after a long dev cycle, and Terraria’s “final update” reputation has basically become an in-joke with its own zip code. The lead developer even joked, “Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update.” Which is funny, sure, but also kind of true. This game keeps surviving its own finales, like a boss that refuses to stay in phase one.

What does this mean for players right now? Survivor Monday is the ideal excuse to either start a fresh world as a warm-up lap, or return to an older save to stockpile resources before 1.4.5 drops. Either way, the hook is simple: you’ve got a week to get your survival groove back, and then the new toys arrive to derail all your sensible plans. Terraria doesn’t reward discipline, it rewards curiosity and questionable decision-making. Perfect Monday energy.

Sources

• Official Terraria Forums: “Terraria 1.4.5 – the Launch Date Revealed at Last!”

• Steam Community (Terraria): official post / announcement feed

• PC Gamer: “Terraria’s long-awaited 1.4.5 patch finally has a release date…”

• GamesRadar: “Terraria 1.4.5 finally has a release date…”

• PCGamesN: “Terraria 1.4.5 release date” overview