The previous instalment of the crawdad news had an article on the possible abandonment of cModLoader. We are happy to announce we have official confirmation from Crawdad105 himself that cModLoader is not abandoned. Crawdad105 has said before that the reason development stopped is for reasons relating to version support. To get a working UI compatible for every version of terraria, methods are needed similar to the native window system he implemented on linux and windows but more complex as every default terraria UI feature needs to be implemented for every version of terraria. Despite this, after Crawdad105's hiatus, we were told that development may be starting back up soon. Furthermore it seems like TModCreator may also be in development or in the planning stage according to a post posted by Crawdad105 on the TModCreator itch.io page.
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     After many months of waiting Crawdad105 has published a new Youtube video. Unlike ones before, this one did not contain his voice, and was entirely composed of terraria music. The premise of the video was a reference to MetaBallStudios who mainly compare the size of objects. In this video, Crawdad105 has a showcase of all NPC and their given sizes. Its a fairly simple concept but has not been done before with this many NPCs on Youtube. And the shear scale of this video has many wondering how it was done, 696 NPCs to go through is not easy feat. Luckily for Crawdad105 he was able to use multiple different script to obtain, parse and render the video. With the help of cModLoader, he was able to extract all the NPC data from vanilla terraria. He was then able to use a script within unity to parse the data and place elements in the unity space for rendering. The unity rendering was done using FFmpeg but ultimately the video was edited and terraria music was applied in a traditional video editing software.

(Section 2, continuation of "cModLoader development for TModCreator")
     The key focus according to Crawdad105 posted on itch.io is for cModLoader to be the official supported output mod type for TModCreator. As a reminder, TModCreator is a very long awaited mod creator for terraria Crawdad105 worked on may years ago. It's original purpose was to give people not interested in programming the ability to create mods for tModLoader. With the advances in cModLoader however, Crawdad105 says that tModLoader may no longer be the official output. He also says other cModLoader variants such as 3ModLoader may be an output option along with potentially TerrariaModder however the devs approval may be needed first.

     On the official Crawdad105 discord server Crawdad105 has posted images of a collectors edition of terraria he got. He says he will likely be making a Youtube video on this but possibly after a 3DS related one which he says "would take a while". As documentation online of these versions past a simple explanation is hard to come by Crawdad105 goes in depth explain exactly what is on the disk. According to Crawdad105 many sources explain that the disk contains a rom of the game however this is only partially true as there is a steam backup in the form if a .sid file however due to this being so old steam is unable to extract the files. More information is supposedly being presented in the video on this version so we will wait and see, and potential report back any interesting findings.

     Every physical version of terraria is currently being documented by Crawdad105 on this web page. Versions from the Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, Xbox 360, XBox ONE, 3DS, Wii U, Nintendo Switch and more are listed here. Including many obscure versions such as dedicated italian releases or rare brazilian versions. Crawdad105 is asking users to contribute as he has scoured the internet for the missing versions but can not find them.