Terraria is pretty dumb. For a game built primarily around building there isn't any incentive to build in Terraria, besides the npc requirements. You could basically go through the entire game building the bare minimum and the gameplay won't change at all. Its mainly used to put together lazy scaffoldings and save points whenever the level gen noise isn't in your favor. Terraria is really just a strangely generated metroidvania with thousands of slightly varied items with arbitrary stat bonuses. Only in the boss department does Terraria find any sort of well designed mechanics, but everything else is a forced and meaningless dressing on one of the most grindy-est salads ever tossed
Don't try to prove me wrong I have 700 hours in Terraria across 5 steam accounts and have made around 200 different mods
