Terraria developers recently released a new diary and talked about further plans for the game. This time, they discussed the status of the "final" update 1.4.5.
As it turned out, the work is close to completion:
«The Re-Logic team last month reviewed the list of remaining tasks for the last time. Some things were postponed, and others were prioritized — all this in order to arrive at what we have been waiting for quite a long time: an internal release window.
Until that moment, the deadlines were somewhat flexible depending on the need for additional content, unforeseen errors, and the like. We are not yet ready to publish this schedule, but we have informed all our partners (DR Studios, etc.) of the plan so that we can work together on its implementation. As never before with version 1.4.5, this is truly the final push».
Terraria crossplay will have to wait — it is intended to be implemented after the release of version 1.4.5:
«Speaking of the release of Terraria 1.4.5, we hope and plan that it will be a global launch. This means that we are striving to release the game on all platforms at about the same time. This applies to PC, consoles, mobile devices, etc.
We see this as a kind of \"rehearsal\" for the post-cross-platform world, which we hope to implement as soon as possible after the release of version 1.4.5 and all the fixes have been made»