Terraria – Can you move characters/worlds from mobile to pc in terraria

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This is probably a dumb question, but I'd really like to know. My mother is giving me her laptop, and I really don't think I can go through The Twins or getting the materials for the Ankh Charm again. If you know of a way, please tell me. I'd be much appreciated!

Best Answer

My intuition is that this is not currently possible. The mobile version is on a different content patch, but there are also quite a number of things that are mobile only. Moreover, the mobile version is made by a different developer group than the PC version.

I suppose the real question here is, can you transfer the player and world files from iOS/Android to PC? I have not tried the process myself, but looking at files, they are different extensions, which might imply that they are different formats.

A user over at the TouchArcarde forums seems to have tried the process, though:

I tried many ways and you can't transfer characters from ios to PC or vice versa, you can transfer worlds and characters from ios to ios though. Will see what else I can come up with later this week. The ios uses .player and .world where as PC uses .wrd and .plr

If you rename the PC world to .world and transfer it into the documents of terraria mobile it does read it and load it but it gets stuck in a boot loop, constantly at the loading stage. This is on an iPhone 5 and I only waited 5 minutes, I'm confident there is a way to get this data to work as with a hex editor the world file is very very similar, just the extension they have changed.

It might be possible to actually edit the world and player files such that they work on a different platform, but I think that would require a decent amount of knowledge of how data is stored in the files and how the games loads that data.

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