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↑ A tick is a time unit countable by the software. Most of Terraria's updating logic happens every tick. A tick has the length of 1/60th of a second, hence there are 60 ticks in a second and 3600 ticks in a minute. ↑ Information taken from the Desktop 1.3.5.3 source code, function UpdateWorld() in Terraria.WorldGen.cs. There may be inaccuracies, as the current Desktop version is 1.4.2.2.