1. Game controls - Terraria Wiki - Fandom
Desktop / Console Versions · Gameplay Controls · Others
The default game controls are listed below. These can be changed from the Controls menu in settings on the title screen. While in-game, they can be accessed by opening the inventory, selecting "Settings", and navigating to "Controls". To remove one item from a stack, right click on it. Hold down the right mouse button to increase the number of items to be removed from the stack. To place objects directly from your inventory, left click to select the item, then left click to place it or right cli

2. Autopause | Terraria Wiki - Fandom
Autopause (introduced in PC 1.0.4) is an option in the Settings menu that will pause the game while talking to an NPC or opening your inventory in single ...
Autopause (introduced in PC 1.0.4) is an option in the Settings menu that will pause the game while talking to an NPC or opening your inventory in single player mode. This includes all situations that would open your inventory automatically, such as looting chests and Piggy Banks. The main advantage to autopause is that 'non combat' functions such as shopping, inventory manipulation, and looting becomes much safer. In some ways, combat becomes easier as well, since the appropriate healing items

3. How to Pause in Terraria PC - Playbite
For a real pause, you need to open your inventory and then open the settings menu by clicking the settings gear icon. This effectively pauses the game.
Pausing in Terraria on PC is kinda tricky since the game doesn't pause the traditional way when you hit ESC. Instead, pressing ESC brings up your inventory and the game still runs in the background. For a real pause, you need to open your inventory and then open the settings menu by clicking the settings gear icon. This effectively pauses the game, but it only works in single-player!

4. Game Mechanics - New Option: "Pause when Menu is Opened" (SP ...
14 feb 2016 · To do this, one must open the menu, go into options, enable Auto-Pause, close the menu, then open inventory.
Please. Whenever a player wants to pause Terraria, to go AFK, the bathroom, drink, whatever, there are only two ways to do this: 1). Minimize the game. The problem with this method, is that you must play Terraria either Full-Screen or Windowed (why, oh why do we not have Borderless Window...

5. How to Pause Terraria on PC - Playbite
To pause Terraria on a PC, just press the 'Escape' key to bring up the inventory screen. While the inventory is open, the game automatically pauses in single- ...
To pause Terraria on a PC, just press the 'Escape' key to bring up the inventory screen. While the inventory is open, the game automatically pauses in single-player mode. Just remember, this doesn't work in multiplayer mode because the game can't pause for everyone at once.

6. A Pause Button - Making Pausing the game more convenient
30 sep 2014 · Here's the simple version: If you have the autopause setting turned on, then you can't use items that are inside your inventory without moving ...
I would like the addition of a "pause" button in some future update. The autopause setting can be inconvenient at times and it would be a great help to be able to pause/unpause at any time. My suggestion is to have a control which toggles between pause and play mode when in the inventory. This...

7. Multiplayer - Official Terraria Wiki
13 jun 2024 · Desktop Steam version of Terraria. Multiplayer is a game mode in ... The ability to pause returns after all players except the owner have quit.
Multiplayer is a game mode in which Terraria can be played with or against other remote players online. Multiplayer worlds are cooperative by default, with player versus player (PvP) available for activation once multiplayer is entered.
8. Settings - Official Terraria Wiki
Note that independently from this setting it is—also in singleplayer only—also possible to pause the game by any method which switches out of the Terraria ...
Settings are a set of gameplay options available from the game's main menu, the pause menu (), or the inventory screen ( ).