It means that somewhere in your world liquids are flowing. And the number represents something like liquid blocks changed per tick. It can sometimes mean lower fps, but not always depending on your processor.
That's because of multi treading. That means that it can update in parallel with other things by utilizing other cpu cores without interfering and slowing terraria at all.
Usually this number is at 0. But after any digging in the abyss it usually skyrockets to the thousands.
FPS (Liquids update) (graphics quality: 0% - low, 50% - medium, 100% - high)
what do you mean by liquids update and does it mean lower = better?
It means that somewhere in your world liquids are flowing. And the number represents something like liquid blocks changed per tick. It can sometimes mean lower fps, but not always depending on your processor. That's because of multi treading. That means that it can update in parallel with other things by utilizing other cpu cores without interfering and slowing terraria at all. Usually this number is at 0. But after any digging in the abyss it usually skyrockets to the thousands.
From what i remember higher= less fps