Golf Minigame in Terraria 1.4 Update
Golf is a new mini-game that was introduced in the Terraria 1.4 "Journey's End" update. It adds golf clubs, balls, and special hole "blocks" that can be added to the map.
These new items can be purchased from a new NPC vendor, called "The Golfer," which was also added in the 1.4 update. The NPC must be found in the underground desert biome first though, and after interacting with them, they will become available to move into any suitable NPC housing.
Golf courses unfortunately do not spawn naturally, and will have to be manually made in-game.
Custom Terraria "Golf" Worlds
The good news is that many creative people have already made special golf worlds (or "maps" as some are calling them), which have pre-made golf courses, and have uploaded those worlds for others to play on!
In the official forums for Terraria, they have a page that lists some special golf worlds that have already been released, which can be viewed at https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-journeys-end-official-golf-map-starter-kit.87208/.
Many thanks to those talented creators who've put in time and effort to produce those for all of us to enjoy!
Using the Same Character in Different Worlds
For those who aren't familiar with how characters and worlds work in Terraria, it's very easy to play on different worlds with the same character. This means you can play on the special golf worlds too, without having to abandon your regular world.
The game normally stores player information in your client. Your character, their gear, and the contents of their main inventory can be brought along when you join a new map. This also includes any items that add additional inventory "pages," like the piggybank, the safe, Dungeon Defenders forge, etc.
This means you can pop into a golf map to play, and then return to your normal world for more adventuring when you're done!
Switching Between Worlds
On our Nodecraft Terraria servers, we have a GUI on the Manage Worlds section of our control panel for choosing which world to load (or create entirely new ones).
Select the world in Manage Worlds, restart the server, and it will have switched worlds. Your other worlds will remain as is, with all the progress that has been made. They can be re-loaded by following the same process again to choose which world to load and restarting the server. You can also do the same thing by editing the lines in the serverconfig.txt file that shows the file path and file name of the world to load.
If you'd like more in-depth information about this, check out our article on Changing and Switching Worlds!
