Terraria is a game where you grow one world over weeks, so the day you beat your first boss or finish your base becomes something you want friends to see. This guide covers one method only: record Terraria with DOR, cut out those moments, and send them to friends as a dor.gg link. The challenge is length. Between mining, building and exploring, every session runs for hours, and a few minutes of boss fight get buried somewhere in the file. So this guide puts its weight on the clues for finding scenes in a Terraria recording and how much to cut.
The essentials first
Launch Terraria on a PC with DOR installed and the whole session is saved as one mp4. After you quit, open it in the library, trim from the boss awakening message to the moment you grab the loot, and send the dor.gg link. Tips for keeping multi-hour recordings stable to the end are in How to Record Long Gameplay Without Stutter.
Steps to send a Terraria moment to friends
- 1Install DOR and enter your Terraria worldInstall the free DOR app on your Windows PC and launch Terraria; DOR detects it automatically and records. Even if you hop between worlds, it stays one video until you close the game.
- 2Note the time before summoning a bossTerraria boss fights usually need setup, such as using a summoning item or waiting for night, so you know when they start. Jot down the PC clock time right before summoning and you can jump straight there later, even in a multi-hour recording.
- 3Use the on-screen message for an exact startWhen a boss awakens or an event begins, a message appears on screen. Find that message near your noted time and set the start a few seconds before it so friends can tell what is about to happen.
- 4Keep boss fights tight and base tours to one lapInclude the loot pickup after the kill, but cut the walk home. For a base tour, end after one loop so you never pass the same room twice. Choose 16:9 for a sprawling base and 9:16 for a boss highlight friends will watch on a phone.
- 5Share the link with your server friendsWhen the trim finishes you get a dor.gg link. Paste it into the chat with the friends who play in the same world, and they can catch the boss fight they missed on their own phones.
- 6Turn your progression into one video in StudioTo tell the story from the first boss to Hardmode in one video, merge your trimmed clips in DOR Studio in the browser, add text labels for each stage and lay background music under it.
Terraria scenes worth keeping, by progression stage
| Progression stage | Scene to show | Clue in the recording |
|---|---|---|
| Early world | Building your first house and surviving the first night | When the sky darkens and enemies multiply |
| First boss | Facing and defeating the Eye of Cthulhu | The moment the boss awakening message appears |
| Cave dive | Digging deep and finding rare ore | The stretch where the background shifts and the screen goes dark |
| Blood Moon | Holding your base against waves of enemies on an event night | The start of the night the moon turns red |
| Entering Hardmode | Your first trip out after the world turns Hardmode | Right after the Hardmode message |
| Finished base | A tour of rooms, NPC houses and decorations | The point where you set off from the base entrance |
Check before sharing
- At least 20GB of free disk space (below that, recording stops automatically)
- The boss awakening message is near the start of the clip
- The boss clip includes the loot after the kill
- The base tour does not repeat the same route
- You are fine with other players' names or chat showing from a multiplayer server
- 16:9 for wide builds and 9:16 for phone-friendly highlights
What DOR does in Terraria
DOR is a free Windows desktop app, and since the October 2026 app update Terraria is a full-session recording game. Launch it and DOR detects it automatically, then saves everything until you quit as one mp4 instead of splitting it into matches. There are no automatic highlights that cut out boss kills or events, so you pull scenes out yourself with the library trim tool. Terraria recording can be turned on or off in the Full Session Recording group in settings, with a confirmation prompt when you switch it off. Recording stops automatically when free space falls below 20GB. For landing exact start and end points see How to Trim Game Clips, and for adding music to a build tour see How to Add Music to Game Videos.
