The Terraria devs seem to be done promising final updates, and at this point it looks like the beloved sandbox game is going to keep getting new features until the wheels fall off. The impending 1.4.5.7 is meant to be a balance-focused patch, but every time the devs talk about it they're promising more and more new features. What gives? Well, this balance pass is about more than tweaking the damage numbers.
"Sometimes, addressing balance means rethinking some core aspects around how things function – or expanding upon what is already there in new ways," developer Re-Logic explains in a new State of the Game blog. A couple of teasers for upcoming features – a movable Sentry and some sort of ammo switch – are presented as a "nice representation" of what the team's trying to accomplish.