Terraria details plans for touch support functionality on Switch

When Terraria eventually lands on Switch, it’ll arrive with some extensive touch support functionality. Developer Pipeworks outlined what it has in store for this in a forum post this week.

Here’s what players can expect:

Next, let’s look at a quick update on Switch. For this month’s news item, we wanted to take the opportunity to give an overview on what we have planned in regards to touch support functionality for Terraria on Switch.

The team has poured a lot of time and effort and attention into really making touch a great experience. There are so many functions that you can use touch to control.

For example, you can:

• Interact with the main menu, adjust settings, browse accomplishments, and customize your character.
• In-game, you can….

• Pinch to adjust zoom (be careful, this will use the item currently selected in the hotbar!)
• Press to use the item currently selected in the hotbar
• Press the minimap to instantly activate the full-screen map
• Press any item on the hotbar to select it
• Double-tap the hotbar to open the inventory
• Press to select any item in the inventory
• Double-tap on any inventory item to activate build mode
• Press and hold + drag on any item to move it around the inventory/move it to a chest or shop/equip it/throw it in the trash
• Press any in-inventory button or interactable text (quick stack, sort, loot all, crafting menu, map display types)
• Press and hold up or down on the crafting wheel to scroll through it
• Press and hold on an item in the crafting wheel to craft, then drag to place it in the inventory
• Press on any of the accessory info buttons to toggle visibility
• Double-tap any of the accessory slots to toggly visibility

Terraria is still without a release date on Switch. However, development is starting to approach its final stages.

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