The Greatest Terraria Glitch You've Never Heard Of

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[@EthyrielY]

FAQ: Q: Does this with work with TModloader? A: It does indeed! It's fairly untreaded ground, but I'd love to see what folks can discover out when mixing mods with Transmutation. EDIT: Make sure you use this method for Philosopher's Stone: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqfTZ4udpLqCsJY Q: Does this work on console? A: It seems like people have figured out a few ways to get it to work (specifically on Playstation and XBox), but Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV). It's unlikely I'll make guides for console, since I still have so much to cover for PC, but if anyone else wants to make them, go right ahead! There seems to be plenty of demand for it. Q: Wait, I have golden chests in my world! A: In the game, there's two visually identical, but functionally distinct Golden Chests. The implemeneted one can be obtained from pirate invasions, but the un-implemented one cannot be placed or otherwise obtain in any way. Through Transmutation, what we do is we manipulate the sprite data of a regular chest into the un-implemented variant of the Golden Chest. Q: Does Glitch #10 (Multiplayer CGO) work on demon altars? A: Yes, yes it does. That'll be coming in a future video to show what happens when a regular world has one demon altar break a few hundred thousand times. Q: Does glitch #10 work with Plantera bulbs? A: It does! Unfortunately, it's hard-coded that you can spawn only one Platnera bulb, so it's not nearly as spectacular. But, you do get a re-usable Plantera bulb out of it.

[@BenyikFamilyFun]

This is so cool man 😂 it’s gonna break the speed running scene 110%, developers are gonna put a bounty on you

[@McBruh-fu5zc]

How to do the CGO?

[@thekingofgreen1765]

how did you cut the campfire and the statue in half for the glitches?

[@DemoknightTf2sjr]

GRR should’ve done it yesterday :((

[@thenastiest8929]

While playing Fargo's Fish Anything mod, I was able to get the crystal chest so I guess there's that

[@redacted9419]

Red's sweating bullets watching this 💀

[@ichusagi]

Never before has there been a bigger "red plz" moment then this.

[@callmeriggy]

Red is actively looking for this man's location to shake the info out of him.

[@mrluksas5686]

no, ethyriel reported the bug multiple months before this video was released

[@fencepostlamb3260]

Balls

[@Maker0921]

Rip

[@Gromek999]

Rocket scientist stand no chance compared to you

[@Hellyeah2heaven]

I read your name and my first thought was "didn't I first see that guy rocket slamming people in crossout with harpoons?"

[@NimhNom]

@@Hellyeah2heaven Damn, that brings back some memories

[@Mozzarellapumpkin]

​@@NimhNomyeah, good times.

[@DanceMedicine]

"Hey Ferb, I know what were gonna do today"

[@rinkothelad]

Cue them building the contraptions to the music that goes “soodiyap soodiyap soodidoodidoodah!”

[@nemebliss6414]

0:55 - "Hammer Anything" (Allow any block to appear hammered) 2:18 "Biome Chest Lockpicking" (Replace chests while retaining chest data. Essentially block-swap that works on locked chests) 4:11 "Zenith Transmutation" (Summon any item, using a spreadsheet to guide you) 8:37 - "Boulder Duplication" (Spawns in infinite amount of boulders. Enough said.) 10:18 - "Black Hole Glitch" (Just the Zenith transmutation again? Maybe it's different, but this time it's done over shimmer) 12:52 - "Bore Drill" (Deletes any blocks below itself, and is able to be used as a hellevator generator) 16:08 - "Railbug" (Hides background blocks below it's y-axis while rendered. Works as echo paint without the paint) 19:21 - "Chest T-Pose" (While hovering your cursor over a chest that shouldn't exist, your character is in suspended animation. You cannot take damage [except from players], but you also cannot move) 22:55 - "Multiplayer CGO" aka "Campfire Glitch 2 - Electric Boogaloo" (Literally summons every item in the game in order, in a non-specific amount. 100% run made easy) 25:55 - "Larvae Duplication" (I believe this is the same as the boulder duplication, just performed on a queen bee larva) 29:35 - *_fin_*

[@oojaiweeble]

ok 👍🏽

[@petrikhorr]

black hole glitch constantly produces the item, rather than just making one

[@wxpoggers6386]

How can we get this spreadsheet?

[@whitelistedg]

land

[@unArthodoxDR]

For a glitch-junky, this video is the best drug ever made. I've never seen Terraria be so broken and torn to pieces, but still functional. Thank you Ethyriel, now I won't be able to stop thinking about the possible use cases for these bugs.

[@EthyrielY]

Happy to provide! More coming soon c:

[@damocleas]

"These are useless but funny." *Shows off true invincibility tpose glitch that works in multiplayer while you're still targeted*

[@oojaiweeble]

😂

[@Gebnakk]

Yes, that's pretty useless cuz nobody wants to duplicate zeniths and have a power to give yourself any item you want.

[@infiniteplanes5775]

Those were in the practical category

[@saharudin3159]

...empress of light day time kill possible then?

[@Izzythemaker127]

@@saharudin3159 Its already possible, just very hard.

[@bardfinn]

This is “Seth Bling Implements Flappy Bird in Super Mario” levels of glitchsploitation. Absolutely fabulous

[@EthyrielY]

That showcase so many years ago was certainly an inspiration to me!

[@OryxTheMadGod3]

21:49 RIP Baby Slime gone too soon

[@strikerwolfcat8628]

I love how casual you are about these glitches, can't wait to see more

[@Pragmer]

If you try to vanquish the coding spaghetti monster he comes back twice as strong. They tried to remove chest duping and now look what they did.

[@Termina_]

My brain is broken. This is the most amazing display of glitches I’ve ever seen.

[@Octol1ng]

14:09 "So let me explain what's going on: I don't know what's going on." - Ethyriel ©

[@Vortexgozwiiiish]

Give Ethyriel a spoon, some rocks and butter and he could glitch teleporters in real life Seriously, I love this video, love the way you explained the glitch!

[@amethyst_of_light]

Now i REALLY want to show this off to my friend to completely break his mind. He is extremely confused with the cheapest valid housing setup, so I wonder how much this would do to his brain.

[@gambiit]

there is no way bro can get every item in the game by using a lamp post, a door and a campfire, and then just scrolling through the different light sources as if he was browsing a catalogue

[@DonMerigano]

This video was one hell of a ride. Pure perfection! As bugs enjoyer, I'm pleased with your work!

[@k0lliak553]

Honestly quite incredible

[@modestMismagius105]

Honestly quite incredible

[@EthyrielY]

Honestly quite incredible

[@therealgamewizerd]

29:11 ah, yes, the forgotten fourth Triforce piece: the Triforce of BEES

[@john_titor1]

29:05 wow! That new summoner update looks crazy! Im so glad to be a summoner main!

[@EthyrielY]

new summoner buffs looking crazy

[@catnip5315]

I have no friend to play with, so this is impossible ಥᴗಥ

[@EthyrielY]

Entirely possible to do just by yourself! You canopen two instances of the game on the same, and control both of them. The steps on how to do this are shown in the "Door Desync Glitch" video (See first link in the description for the playlist.)

[@catnip5315]

@@EthyrielY Problem: how can I get two accounts on mobile

[@Subjecttochannel]

Ah yes, the anti portal block to pink eskimo hood to baby eater pipeline I've heard so much about

[@dukedoesnothing4403]

I don't know HOW the Terraria Team is gonna patch this one.

[@accountlol7409]

I hope they don’t honestly

[@dukedoesnothing4403]

@@accountlol7409 They will try to, but It probably won't be too soon so you got time to dupe a Zenith

[@EthyrielY]

Red said Transmutation is getting fixed in 1.4.5. How and to what degree, I'm not sure. But I plan to break 1.4.5.

[@Loading1010.]

This guy decided it would be funny if he became god for a video. He was right

[@DZELION]

"So let me explain what's going on." "..." "I don't know what's going on."

[@6oreign]

bro is a magician in terraria

[@StephenAT530]

for the invinciblillity glitch you can setup a trap cage around you so while your invincible bosses take damage

[@ashtimbog]

the 2nd glitch reminds me of the old console days where you could use an ice staff to glitch a chest and then you could just mine it forever and get infinite chests

[@White-jq6st]

I just have one question. How did you managed to find all of that? I mean, how exactly it started? I always wondered how people find glitches/bugs that look so complicated. Like, what you did first to make you question how deep the rabbit hole goes?

[@Kyle1st100]

bro is the pannenkoek of the terraria community 💀💀💀

[@envycollar]

this is madness. you have gone where no terrarian has gone before

[@bersspon3256]

Everyone competing over which mob cap and projectile cap is best, beach balls, flares- nah, the best mob cap hitter is 400 queen bees

[@commenteroftruth9790]

these are so bizarrely specific like what am I watching lolll

[@jaggerlol8837]

Xbox: This does work All you need is to follow his other video door desync glitch and have “player 1” as described in the video actually be a visitor online, and “player 2” be the owner of the world. I have a comment left in the particular video

[@Zack_Zander]

5:00 Subtly just did "Whoops, that's a mistake. Let me put that *_with the others"_*

[@EthyrielY]

_The Collection._

[@saadnettaj1116]

Bro have a forbidden knowledge and i also like the way how ue explained everything like a scientist 😂😂😂

[@Thebes]

I never thought there would be an Terraria item id cycle glitch. And I’m not even finished with the video. Fucking ‘A’ man, real impressive stuff!

[@AURORAFIELDS]

We actually found the bass statue glitch by accident with a friend and had a mind-melt moment

[@daffer_real]

ethyriel, what the hell did i just witness

[@ultraentity3037]

27:05 POV: You breathed near wasp nest

[@mat683]

funny terraria dragon destroys the rules of the universe in 31 minutes

[@crumbus7687]

Yooooo I caught that Dr. Bees reference

[@TheHider001]

3978, the blank dye that takes the sprite of unicorn whisp dye. find it. also a bonus. 4722.

[@thebagman.]

Tutorial. Please :D

[@oceanawoke8840]

The Tetrad mod(is a chinese mod) shows ids for all modded items, so you could theoretically get halibut cannon pre-boss

[@stalebread22]

"Let me explain why it works. I dont know why this works"

[@MrSonny6155]

Hang on, if this hellevator generator also destroys liquids, this might just replace my current lava remover that constantly breaks after half a pool. Since this is pre-hardmode, I can finally finish my arbitrary goal of preparing my large main world for hardmode by sectioning every 500 blocks and deleting hell. Glad I can finally start hardmode.

[@oceanawoke8840]

The mod dormant dawn shows the ingame id's for all modded items, which is cool for this glitch

[@oceanawoke8840]

Breaks the tooltip for weapons though, so you can only get ids for accessories, armour, ect

[@oceanawoke8840]

Tetrad mod shows ingame id's for all modded items, including weapons.

[@reastryst_cz921]

ethyriel is summoning bill scypher with da bees

[@Crunchy8bitblocks]

Im speechless this is kinda game breaking

[@dr.shadox4927]

already experienced invisiblity frame while overing from unimplemented item (probably chest infact) , from a "hacked" map from workshop , but i dont remember well it was several map ago just remember it contain pixel block (before they was officialy in game) and lunatic treasure bag (and some banner)

[@Waterishloki100]

lovin the deep rock reference, rock and stone

[@TwentySeventhLetter]

Theoretically you could do the queen bee glitch on a plantera bulb too, no? Or a shadow orb maybe? The larva might be unique because of how fragile it is but based on the chests I didn't think that was strictly necessary. This is absolutely mind boggling

[@EthyrielY]

I never thought about trying it on Shadow Orbs! It does work on the Bulb but you can only have one Plantera in the world at once.

[@sonnitude]

This glitch is the definition of “Excuse me WHAAAAAAAT?” And “I have several questions” from jontron. Like…. I really want to know what’s going on in the code to cause this; and if it’s even possible to fix this. I kinda hope they don’t; this is so elaborate and silly that you aren’t stumbling on this by accident.

[@EthyrielY]

I love those sound bytes so much. They live rent-free in my SFX folder for editing. The actual root cause would be super hard to fix, but the ways in which said root cause is abused is much easier to fix. So, I wonder how 1.4.5 is going to patch things.

[@clobzz]

terraria players: “aftee years, we have a one platinum a second money farm!!! it doesnt get faster than this!!” this guy: infinite queen bees, probably an absurd amount of money lmfao

[@Panda-vq4gd]

The wiki does mention the unobtainable trapped chests on the trapped chest page

[@EthyrielY]

These are unobtainable regular chests- There's both unobtainable regular chests, and unobtainable trapped chests. The trapped chests I think exist in the item ID list, but the unobtainable regular chests don't have any associated item, and can only be forced to exist through sprite manipulation. I'll be sure to clarify that in the video dedicated to that particular one, though. Forgot about the trapped ones!

[@Panda-vq4gd]

@@EthyrielYwould it be possible to acquire the trapped chests through the same method?

[@nanopi]

Firework Rockets (9th place style) spawns Baby Eater Tile ID: 216 Firework Rockets. Projectile ID: 167 Red Rocket, 175 Baby Eater. Item ID: 970 Red Rocket, 978 Pink Snow Hood.

[@Filipokd_]

I have played terraria for 10 years and never seen such absurd bugs before

[@EthyrielY]

You and me both. The fact this stuff even exists is still baffling to me, and I'm the one who discovered it

[@mrtrex123]

Plot twist: Your stealing from other peoples worlds

[@Magnapinna4096]

this is insanity

[@rygyhs3552]

Did I hear a rock and stone?!

[@MightyMinty]

This is giving me memories of the piggybank glitch for Xbox terraria

[@casti3r3h]

NOW THIS IS TRANSMUTATION! not the shimmer thingy that they added lol, this is true magic

[@spaghettproductions4989]

This man is a leprechaun fr, no cap

[@lp_tec_4255]

Arguably the best glitch of all terraria.

[@clobzz]

the boring bow kinda looks like a minecraft dungeons bow lol

[@thekingofgreen1765]

thank you for putting a dr. bees reference in #10

[@osexplorer1297]

19:36 man , I have that gold one , 100% from pirate invasion

[@EthyrielY]

There are two visually identical but functionally different gold chests in the game- The implemented gold chest, which drops from pirate invasions, and the unimplemented gold chest which was added to the game's files in update 1.2 but never finished. The finished chest, added in Update 1.3, is distinct from the unfinished one added in update 1.2 as there is no way to obtain the unfinished one as an item (i.e. no way to place it down), and it can only be created in a world by glitching sprite data to create the unobtainable chest. TL;DR- Terraria has two visually identical but functionally distinct gold chests. Four if you count the un-implemented trapped chests.

[@nicksonblack1698]

POV Albert Einstein travelled in future, teleported into terraria and tried to make time machine but accidentally became wire god in terraria:

[@guerrierhache8491]

Oh my god, what in the holy 10 yo spaghetti code is this

[@DogeMaster2.0]

you can get any item including boring bow with the eternia server

[@FrootsFromCacti]

awesome, i'll be sure to implement every single one of these in my multiplayer with my friends. love your avatar btw.

[@EthyrielY]

Thanks^^!

[@null8384]

I feel like this isn't gonna go the way of the hoik lol

[@mromg8282]

It's like watching steins gate all over again

[@ARandoNamedDyl]

Bro just rewrote the laws of Terraria-

[@EthyrielY]

The Laws of Terraria are just a suggestion

[@honklerton732]

You do realize that because of this - there is going to be a fracking patch... thanks a lot...

[@udfdsfrgfdrgfd]

cant people just go back to this version and use it if it does get patched

[@klubzyboy4737]

DID I HEAR ROCK AND STONE?

[@aMan-zb5vz]

He’s not glitching the game. he just has a good gaming chair

[@OverlordBidoof]

29:19 Me playing that mario ds minigame trying to find warios face

[@EthyrielY]

Man... That brings back memories.

[@staspaprocki7234]

ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE

[@jmc-julian]

You NEED to tell me if 12:55 is a deep rock galactic reference 😮😮

[@EthyrielY]

ROCK AND STONE, TO THE BONE!

[@jmc-julian]

Holy shit

[@jmc-julian]

Rock n Stone Brother also 5 months xd

[@sobernose2672]

I love the dr bees reference

[@EthyrielY]

Dr. BEEEEEESSSS!

[@kahldrialeighsun1208]

I would really love a dumbed down step by step guide for those of us not as fluent in technical aspects. Pretty please with sugar & cherries on top?🥺❤😚🍒 for the campfire glitch especially ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@EthyrielY]

It is coming eventually:tm:! I’ve got a video which basically explains the A-Z of Transmutation at-length, including the campfire glitch, which will be published… Well, realistically in the next month or two. Life’s been busy but I’m itching to get back to making content!

[@kahldrialeighsun1208]

@Ethyriel Y. awesome thank u senpai ☺️

[@SullySadface]

mmm, blood magic.

[@Soggonog]

Did i hear a Rock and Stone

[@CaptainFreezy]

Me have big confusion to what I have just witnessed

[@V1P3R88.]

Funny thing with the chest invulnerability exploit is I actually went on a cheat world and found the chests that did that and when I put my mouse over it my character froze. Didn’t really know what to do with that info but I guess u put it into use

[@RocketRidge]

this man is a literal magician

[@Innocent64_.]

u can even get zenith sword with this

[@MasterMeadous]

Does #10 works with shadow orbs or crimson hearts?

[@EthyrielY]

I haven't tested it, but I am willing to bet it does.

[@beenisweenisiii3825]

If we lived in a simulation, someone would've done this irl already

[@EthyrielY]

I hope to all things holy the real world does not use an ID system. If it does, we're all screwed.

[@B.B77]

Who let bro cook

[@Artisan_SD]

ROCK AND STONE BROTHER!

[@venomousslime6797]

19:34 aren't those implemented? I could've sworn the gold chest dropped during the pirate invasion (which is how it's obtained based on the wiki) and using some crystal blocks you can craft the crystal chest (which according to the wiki it is craftable with crystal blocks). Unless you're talking about a weird version of them, they're definitely implemented.

[@EthyrielY]

In the game, there's two visually identical, but functionally distinct Golden Chests. Through Transmutation, what we do is we manipulate the sprite data of a regular chest into the un-implemented variant of the Golden Chest. Same goes for the crystal chest- two visually identical, but functionally distinct versions. The wiki doesn't even seem to know to acknowledge that these weird, incomplete variants exist.

[@SadNuggetMan]

This hurts my brain

[@lastonexd_remastered3467]

The F.Bee.I is comin in hot

[@eathamgamer]

I need to see how WoF interacta with the tpose glitch. Does this work on mobile, and if so are there guide videos?

[@joefuller3886]

on that invulnrability thing i wonder if when you are immune to all dmg, if you have summon pets can do dmg to bosses while you remaind invulnerable

[@EthyrielY]

It seems like certain projectiles can go through it, sadly- So it's a sort of... "discount invulernability". There's many ways to trigger the same glitch so I wonder if other variants work differently?

[@Zeno-]

what in the actual fuck is this, oh my god

[@dragoncat9153]

Why is there a fkn balance to this

[@EthyrielY]

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