I think people mostly choose whatever was in their first world

"Crimson is best" "NOO CORRUPTION IS BETTER" The dryad: both must go

You know you've achieved perfectly balanced gameplay when the players are split down the middle on which infectious biome is better yet they still love both.

i wish we had more mirrored exclusive biomes like this, imagine if there was a tundra alternative to golem and you could only have one

"it can be harder to farm for burgers in the crimson" Sentences that make pre-1.3 players extremely confused

"It's harder to farm for burgers." I didn't think I'd hear that... ever. Nice video though!

For people that doesn't know yet. You can buy the other world evils seeds from the dryad while she is in a graveyard biome in hardmode. With a little work creating artificial biomes you can easily get almost all loot in a single world.

I personally prefer crimson for the following reasons: -the ichor debuff is rather useful in early hardmode -Brain is more fun for me -it’s easier to navigate early on (like you said) I don’t want to fall to my death 2,763 times

Forget the election, this is the REAL debate.

crimson has piss book end of discussion

I have 1000 hours on terraria and i have to say the crimson being mostly a nice flat plain with no annoying pits is my main reason for picking it all the time

I feel like roles could also make a difference here, specifically melee and ranger. Corruption seems to have more stuff related to ranger while crimson is more related to melee

Drunk world:exist People: WE MUST HAVE A DEBATE

"Corruption. I hate spiders. That is all." Fair nuff.

I like the corruption more cause I like the color palette, music, its also softer look on my eyes, and I’ve kinda grown with using a corruption biome because I thought that crimson was too scary and would try to get out as quick as possible lol.

I think I prefer the Crimson, but having to deal with spiders (arachniphobia lol) and losing access to Wrath potions is a hard sell, even in exchange for Ichor. Still, you can always just hop to a disposable secondary world with the other evil biome no matter which one your main world has.

i love how he is talking about detailed technical stuff about the two biomes and suddenly says "BURGUR".

"which evil biome is better, corruption or crimson?" me, who switches between worlds constantly with the same character: yes

I really wish they’d let you naturally generate worlds with both evils without it having to be a drunk world

For me it's always been like: Corruption has the less annoying enemies, Crimson has the cooler gear, Crimson has the money farming boss, Corruption has an easier boss, but also Crimson has a lot of red and that is a favorite color of mine lol This said, I typically gen a corruption world anyways when doing a new character.

Why choose, then you can have both! Drunk world, or seeds from dryad in graveyard.

The Crimson lowkey scares the shit out of me

This decision is so damn hard. The highlight for corruption is the wrath potion for me, while for crimson it's ichor. Both are absolutely amazing in combat.

Crimson is so much better. I appreciate it's lore so much as this living, infesting thing that just wants to assimilate your world as it has done to so many others. Also the music is so good, it basically sounds like the biome is "waking up" to your presence as it tries to kill you and ultimately assimilate you into its being. It's aggressive, throwing everything at you like something out of Berserk's Eclipse, which makes it all the more frightening to you when it quickly erodes the world in Hardmode. It feels like you're running from it even more, given the danger it brings to you. Add onto the fact it feels like an alien presence, unnatural to your world, and you got yourself a good threat to deal with in the back your mind as you search the world for resources. All in all I think Crimson is so much more effective in its role as an Evil Biome.

Also let's give props to the Terraria team for making an alternative to the Corruption that is almost exactly as much liked.

Can’t deny the fact that Corruption has that epic soundtrack

Crimson. And yes, vampire knives are the deciding factor since I can never remember to get health potions and it’s easy in boss fights to go on the defensive and dodge while healing.

Both biomes are awesome and cool, however its a bit hard for me to decide what biome i should choose next whenever starting upp an new world, but then i came upp the idea of choosing a different biome after playing in the other biome in my other world, which was pretty good choice for me.

Crimson music: Dark and scary Corruption music: beep boop

I prefer corruption because I had terraria 1.2 on my phone when I was like 8 and the face monster sounds traumatized me

The first time i played with my friends it was in a corruption world. I cant tell you how scary it was to just go around the map and suddenly see a flying worm with 7 eyes followed by 5 more of them. I like the crimson but corruption is my favorite.

I'll never understand why alot of people don't just make 2 worlds to reap the benefits of both on one character

The corruption music slaps harder than Anakin slapped younglings

Just be thankful the creature in the background of the Crimson ain't alive anymore because it seems as if it's 10x as big as Moon Lord is.

It's worth noting the building blocks each provide.

I choose both, since it's possible to obtain corruption or crimson seeds if you have their respective counterpart world, that way you can have both ichor and cursed flames, which personally is the biggest difference to me. Using both is so much fun..

how to really compare: crimson has piss book , and coruption has vomit wall

Both, both is good.

Crimson and corruption is like picking what version of the new Pokémon game you are gonna pick except terraria has both versions included on one copy

I would also point out that the corrupt mimic drops the clinger staff and the crimson mimic drops the fetid baghnakhs, which are both very good weapons, but for a different class.

People always talk about the evil biomes’ color pallets but I never hear about how they expand in Hardmode. The corruption’s cursed flames turns its relatively monochrome color scheme to a purple and lime, which works well for its overall diseased, infected theme, while the crimson’s ichor expands upon its red, gory theme with a fitting yellow

The crimson feels alive. It feels like something is watching you.

I like to play with two worlds, one where I do most of the stuff in, and a secondary one for the alternate evil biome and other things I'd like to do there.

I know certain seeds contain the two infections, but if you want to use crimson any time you want just use the graveyard, since when the dryad is in the graveyard she will give you the opposite infection seeds.

As a melee, I need ichor. If I stack Ichor with the sharpened buff, I will have 32 armor penetration, which is absolutely broken.

Corruption Why: Because I have a pet purple worm on a string, and he likes to roleplay as Eater of Worlds.

2 years ago it was pretty split, but now after the buffs to the brain of confusion, the bladetongue, the drippler crippler, if you are a melee player there is really only one option

Sick vid, wow!

The ultimate reason and only reason I prefer the corruption: *SPOOKY BOP MUSIC*

Step 1: get to hardmode Step 2: place dryad in graveyard biome Step 3: buy seeds of the evil biome your world doesn't have Step 4: create an area in your world to place it so it doesn't spread Step 5: profit

4:03 the shadow armor has been changed so that it gives crit chance instead of melee speed, making it better for all classes

Worm scarf, corruption music, and that color pallette is dope. Eater of Worlds is fun, too. Buuuut, vampire knives.

The only reason I prefer corruption is the fact that its purple.

My only reason for corruption being my favorite is how fun the music is! It also just feels so creative when they put the leitmotif in the underground theme and its almost like they wanted to trick you with the intro being the normal underground theme.

I’ll always be bigger on Corruption. That surface music is PERFECTION.

it would be cool if they added a 3rd alternative biom, maybe with toxic or radiation theme. or an alternative to hallow

I just wanna quickly mention this but, you forgot the brain of confusion. That accessory CARRIED my entire melee master mode playthrough and I cannot list how many times that thing saved my life.

I personaly prefer crimson because: -Ichor -Not as painful to travel early game -Atmosphere -Better weapons

i literary used the corrupted bag(or something like that) i spreaded it in my left side with a natural crimson on the right

It all depends on if you have calamity. I just can't miss perferators

imagine hating the other type of biome instead of having two worlds with both biomes and just consistently farm them if you need anything from any biome

Ya know, it's weird. Purple is my favorite color, I love eldritch creatures, and adore the theming of the corruption, but I vastly prefer the crimson. Something about its environment just feels better and scratches some sort of itch, same reason I love the Plague Flight from Flight Rising and the whole idea behind the Mystery Flesh Pit. Something about a fleshy landscape and venturing into the maw of the beast to face the source of the heinous creature infecting and spreading across the land is just so satisfying to me

I also really like the fetid bagnakhs in crimson and prefer it because the eow and destroyer are very similar, whereas the brain is very different

The brain of confusion got a huge buff

friend: CORRUPTION IS SO GOOD, IT HAS THE WORM SCARF!!! cousin: BRUH WE HAVE VAMPIRE KNIVES! LIFE STEAL IS OP!! me: *confused drunk seed player noises*

wonderful comparison

what about brain of confusion? Instead of getting less damage, you can just skip damage sometimes, for example, it can safe you from dying to the boss and give you chance to get healed by the nurse

Me with 05162020 seed: Pathetic.

crimson lets you do the ultimate disrespect to bosses, which is literally just peeing on them.

Glad you can play with both

Not sure if it's because I play on master mode most of the time. I like to play on crimson map (although I always choose random) because of the BoC accessory. Dodging one attack is so much more beneficial than damage reduction since the enemy hit so hard.

The crimson creates these cool caves with body like caverns that feel like they’re breathing. The enemies are scary, bloody and truly evil. The corruption creates these gigantic nasty pits that ruin the world & sometimes cross horizontally and the enemies are just various sizes and lengths of eye covered bugs. Hell, when I first discovered the crimson I didn’t even realize it was an alternate version of the corruption. I just thought it was a cool biome, in fact it was my favorite one.

"Which one is better?" Me, while generating an Extra Large world that has neither: "What?"

honestly, i like both. as someone whose first evil biome was the crimson, i sorta got used to it till i began my first expert mode playthrough. i was playing on seed 05162020 (drunk world) which has both corruption and crimson i chose drunk world as at the time i preferred the crimson. the eater of worlds boss for me was kinda annoying when facing it for the first time but only because i didn't know piercing weapons shredded it at the time. i now use spiky balls if i get a goblin army and spam them in the underground corruption however the brain of cthulu was literally rng for me. i managed to the get the muramasa early by killing a dungeon slime which spawned next to the first golden chest (in drunk world dungeon generates under a living tree with differently colored leaves and the first golden chest generates *ABOVE* the dungeon guardian cutoff line allowing you to open it with a golden key) so yeah i go to underground crimson set up only 2 massive platforms bc of the steroid abusing annoying ass blood crawlers which came up on screen every 2 seconds smash a single orb (for some reason both crimson hearts and shadow orb count when u break them i broke 2 shadow orbs before that and thus a single broken heart pissed off the brain) and the creepers ain't much of problem they go down quick thanks to godly muramasa but the third phase where brain makes illusions of itself is absolute bullshit the brain keeps surrounding u with its illusions and if all 4 illusions manage to touch u take significant dmg i died twice before killing it but brain of confusion is definitely worth it saved a ton of hits multiple times anyways for biome chests the vampire knifes are super stronk jus the fact that healing reduced in expert is kinda nuts however the scourge of the corruptor is *ABSOLUTELY CRACKED* does more dmg than terra blade helped me kill the duke I'd say both r solid, the scourge is useful for shredding boss and vampire knives life saving during fights if u cant heal I'd say crimson enemies are much more annoying than corruption enemies (with the exception of master mode devourers💀) altho i like crimson cavern layout more than corruption dat is my honest opinion on both biomes

Now with the recent buffs to the brain of confusion, its hard telling which boss expert drop is better I think I still gotta give it to the worm scarf

You forgot the vilethorn, a sadly underappreciated mage weapon. I feel most mages on expert and master mode will agree that having this thing can be a godsend against most pre-hard mode enemies. One cast rapidly ticks out damage and can slow down most enemies to a near halt without pushing them around. Base 10 mana, 10 damage, up to 7 ticks of damage on all enemies it touches, a reach of 15 tiles, and block-piercing? Super helpful.

Some people: argue about corruption vs crimson Me: i love the random choice

Expert mode Eater of Worlds drop is just too good to give up on.

My take is that you should play with both, I think they increase replay ability, if you’ve already done a playthrough on all classes with corruption, do it again with crimson, the gameplay is different enough plus different items

" *The only problem of being faster that light,is that you can only live in darkness* " _Human Sonic_

Vampire Knives. Just love them, hence why I prefer crimson

I've always been a corruption player, I played the game very early into its release on mobile as a kid, I still remember getting the update the crimson was added in. The flesh theme, enemies and especially the brain of cuthulu were scary to kid me so whenever I was making a new world I'd delete any that spawned with crimson as the world evil and only play corruption worlds. I don't hate the crimson now but I guess old habits die hard, I only play corruption worlds because the crimson still is a bit more freaky to me. I'm so used to the corruption i just feel at home, the boss and enemies are easy even just starting a new play through and it's no problem in hard mode either. Maybe some day I'll become a crimson fan but for now I'm still a corruption fan

I’ve not played terraria essentially since it released. And I am very lost haha we’re classes always in the game?

Me: F*ck it *Picks cleaminator* *Transforms the second crimson in the world to a corruption* Me:Solved

Well, personally, I just choose one or the other, and if I need something from the other biome I just create a new world. Pretty simple.

I think, like most, I tended to favour the corruption for the longest time because of the nostalgia. I played Terraria from day 1. However I now found myself picking crimson more often, not just because I haven't played it as much, but because I think the theme and design is so much cooler. All that said, what I really like to do is make use of seeds like the drunk seed so I can get both. Why choose!

What is that glowing bow looking thing that floats in front of him at 1:10

I just like the satisfying sound of piercing weapons on the eow

the face monster things still scare me even with a zenith in my hand lmaooo

I like corruption bc all you have to do for the boss is get any mace, then even if you don’t kill eow you can still make some tools and stuff.

I think you should play both and see what you like, also it would be cool to get a green toxic? biome as another evil biome

Corruption holds sentimental value, though I just realised that Crimson has been around for like 80% of the game's lifespan, still it has less character to me

Easier way: just make 2 worlds.

I like alternating between them for each world I create

If you get into hard mode world you can make a graveyard biome and then make an artificial crimson biome to get flesh knuckles and ichor

Crimson: I have good gun and good stuff Corruption: WaLk In HoLe

I prefer the crimson in my main world, but i always make a second world for corruption items

i like the crimson more because it's easier to enter. for example, you are greeted with a tunnel ending with a massive space, big enough to make an arena without having to blow up space

I have seen 2 polls one of KZfaq and the other on Twitter where they we're both at 50/50.

“Less flying enemies” for the crimson Ichor Sticker, Floaty gross, and crimera: *are we a joke to you?*