How I Completely Destroy Infernum (Settings, Mods, and Tips)

Summary

Yardis presents his Terraria Infernum setup, covering controls, visual and performance settings, mod configurations, quality-of-life tools, and practical tricks. The focus is on customizing and streamlining a challenging playthrough rather than recapping a storyline.

Controls and settings

• He uses mouse side buttons for quick healing, rage, and Ore Excavator, and right-click for mana. His dash is bound to Shift. He recommends choosing a comfortable dash key, since reliable dashing is especially useful in Infernum.
• The Boss Checklist menu opens with P; its boss log is a separate feature.
• He prefers the Infernum health bar because it shows phase transitions, but uses the vanilla bar in videos so it doesn’t clash with his webcam.
• His visual preferences include medium quality, backgrounds on, heat distortion off, and a dark cursor with a white outline for contrast. Turning down effects or removing backgrounds can help if performance is poor.

Mods and configuration highlights

• Auto Reforge: Set a preferred reforge and increase the reforge speed. It can be toggled during a run.
• Auto Trash: Automatically discards unwanted drops to save inventory space.
• Calamity: He disables screen shake, stealth invisibility, alerts, enemy-debuff displays, and the flight bar. He generally leaves other client settings at their defaults. In server settings, he keeps Calamity’s hard-mode progression rework enabled, but notes that players can turn it off if they prefer vanilla-style ore progression.
• Infernum: Its reduced-graphics option may improve performance on weaker PCs, at the cost of some visual effects.
• Fargo’s Mutant Mod: Adds NPC shops for boss summons, event items, rare-enemy spawners, wood, and other goods. It can also provide features such as infinite consumables and buffs, seasonal toggles, secret-seed options, and boss-stat adjustments. Yardis cautions that some options can make the game much easier.
• Prisma’s Pristine Potions: Adds NPCs who sell supplies, materials, accessories, and potions. Yardis recommends it as an alternative to AlchemistNPC Lite, noting that the latter’s powerful potions can substantially ease the game. He also uses an option for infinite Dragon weapon charge.
• Enhanced Buff Display and Fargo’s Mutant Mod: He hides station and potion buffs to keep the screen clear. Hovering over a crowded buff row can interfere with aiming and firing.
• Magic Storage: He mostly uses its default configuration.
• Nekro’s No Hit Efficiency: Can display fight statistics, shorten respawn time, and cap dust or gore effects to reduce lag.
• Ore Excavator: Used for rapid mining, block swapping, and “chain placing” platforms or paint. Chain placing must be enabled in world settings. Yardis recommends enabling cancel excavations on keybind release to avoid accidentally mining large areas.
• Quality of Life Compendium: He selectively enables features such as item magnets, bottomless buckets, crafting stations, pylons, a customizable starter bag, and a floating super dummy. Other options include buff management, more detailed item tooltips, and adjustable tool placement speed and range. Some NPCs and extra accessory slots can make the game much easier, so he suggests choosing options according to personal preference.
• Recipe Browser: Favorite recipes to make them appear in a quick-access list.

Practical tips

• If Shift is used for both dash and inventory navigation, hook the floor or mount before using storage to avoid dashing accidentally. Alternatively, bind dash to another key.
• A dark background can make boss attacks easier to see. He uses a monolith to keep the background black during fights.
• To improve performance, reduce Infernum graphics and limit dust or gore.
• Yardis emphasizes that several settings are deliberate conveniences or effectively cheats, and that Terraria is single-player: customize the difficulty to suit your play style.
• The video ends as the Q&A begins. Yardis mentions that the background footage is a no-hit run against Legendary Masochist Mutant, then reads the opening question, “Do you like boys?” The subtitles provide no answer.

Resource packs and visual/audio mods

Yardis mentions Lights and Shadows, Rain++, a realistic-sky shader, and the Sundowner music mod. His resource packs include Skill Issue, Invisible Honey, an invisible Solar Shield, Stardust Mahoraga, Butterflies (Blue Archive) music, Fancy UI, a Chainsaw Man vanity, Dollar Tree Kaisen, and a MapleStory music pack.

Gamers and sources mentioned

• Yardis — Presenter and player; also describes his no-hit Legendary Masochist Mutant run.
• Fabsole — Mentioned in a joke about the “regular person” NPC.
• Nellio — Creator credited for the Stardust Mahoraga replacement.
• Neville Sicko Shard — Credited for the Dollar Tree Kaisen resource pack.
• Mini2266 — Credited for the MapleStory music pack.
• Sidetracked — Composer of music used by the Sundowner mod.
• Lucille Karma — Credited for the realistic-sky shader.