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Terraria |OT2| The Hallowed Land Of Corruption
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corrosivefrost
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I followed the advice I was given on houses and got one built with the guide moving into my foyer type room. :lol
Not sure how the hell slimes are leaking into my cavern below my house though, unless they can just randomly spawn in there?
Not sure how the hell slimes are leaking into my cavern below my house though, unless they can just randomly spawn in there?
Ah, too bad the server went down, we had lots of people there at the end. Was actually really fucking awesome to start a new character and experience the joy of just digging for *anything* useful again. Probably won't keep that character (he looked cool at first but I realized too late he looks a tad.... emo), especially with 1.0.6 HOPEFULLY right around the corner (I am thinking this weekend maybe, but I say that every weekend).
Was a blast as always, love this game.
Slimes spawn underground naturally, nothing you can do about that.
Was a blast as always, love this game.
corrosivefrost said:
Slimes spawn underground naturally, nothing you can do about that.
phosphor112
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I'm stuck in the daily grind right now. Trying to get good gear and heart shards.
I've gone down a few layers. Past normal dirt, to the point of where the music changes and Skeletons and Undead Miners start spawning. The bats are annoying... like in any other game. I have 20 mana (1 star) but have nothing to use it with. I've found 3 Enchanted Boomerangs... great weapon... but come on now, I need something else.
Used a map viewer to see what all my world was looking like. Dungeon was in BFing nowhere, which is good, since I'm still very new to this.. Don't want to go hunting for bosses right now or anything. The Corrupt is just East of me, so I can't venture far that way, out west is mainly deserts (and sand pretty much ruining any caves there) and a giant ocean, and the only way down is by brute forcing most of my way through 30 block layers with bombs and pick axing... I can't wait until I get better stuff.
So far, I've got the Boomerang as my main, an Iron Helmet, Copper for the rest of my character. I've got two regen health rings (awesome), hermes boots, anglet (or w/e for running faster). I crafted a hookshot, which makes exploring soo much easier now. I don't have to carry a crap ton of wood to make platforms for everything, and if I fall in dark water, I'm no longer boned. Everything else I have is probably the norm for someone as far as I am. Glow sticks, glowing mushrooms, blocks.. etc etc.
Spent 20 hours on this thing since I got it Saturday night.... It's killing me. Any advice?
I've gone down a few layers. Past normal dirt, to the point of where the music changes and Skeletons and Undead Miners start spawning. The bats are annoying... like in any other game. I have 20 mana (1 star) but have nothing to use it with. I've found 3 Enchanted Boomerangs... great weapon... but come on now, I need something else.
Used a map viewer to see what all my world was looking like. Dungeon was in BFing nowhere, which is good, since I'm still very new to this.. Don't want to go hunting for bosses right now or anything. The Corrupt is just East of me, so I can't venture far that way, out west is mainly deserts (and sand pretty much ruining any caves there) and a giant ocean, and the only way down is by brute forcing most of my way through 30 block layers with bombs and pick axing... I can't wait until I get better stuff.
So far, I've got the Boomerang as my main, an Iron Helmet, Copper for the rest of my character. I've got two regen health rings (awesome), hermes boots, anglet (or w/e for running faster). I crafted a hookshot, which makes exploring soo much easier now. I don't have to carry a crap ton of wood to make platforms for everything, and if I fall in dark water, I'm no longer boned. Everything else I have is probably the norm for someone as far as I am. Glow sticks, glowing mushrooms, blocks.. etc etc.
Spent 20 hours on this thing since I got it Saturday night.... It's killing me. Any advice?
Teknoman said:
Snuggler has it - close your inventory and place the item you want to use (the bench) in one of your hot key spots first. Then just select it and use it as though it were a sword or health item.
I spent the first 15 minutes of my game time randomly throwing around dirt and wood before I figured what the hell was going on!
Instro said:
If you know a few friends who are playing the game or who just bought it, I would actually recommend playing multiplayer on a brand new world in a private capacity. It's much more fun. The GAF server is pretty established, and it's great to visit it for ideas (or supplies), or just to say hello. But it's not really a world I would want to play it, especially not as a noob.
PigSpeakers
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Started playing this yesterday, but wasn't too interested at first.
Then I asked my brother if he wanted to play multiplayer with me. Completely changed opinion after a little while of playing. I started to really get into it and now I'm having fun collecting just random things and digging. It seems like it wouldn't be fun, but I can't stop. I'll just be digging randomly, and then I'll see something glowing off in the distance and set off to go get it, or see a small cave or pool of water. I haven't even really built anything yet, just dug and crafted new tools and weapons and such.
I keep collecting plants and seeds. Do I need those for anything?
Then I asked my brother if he wanted to play multiplayer with me. Completely changed opinion after a little while of playing. I started to really get into it and now I'm having fun collecting just random things and digging. It seems like it wouldn't be fun, but I can't stop. I'll just be digging randomly, and then I'll see something glowing off in the distance and set off to go get it, or see a small cave or pool of water. I haven't even really built anything yet, just dug and crafted new tools and weapons and such.
I keep collecting plants and seeds. Do I need those for anything?
phosphor112
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PigSpeakers said:
You want to start building a houses. One for you, and for others as well. Don't put a table AND chair in your house, otherwise the guide will move in... and it's hard to get him out into his own place. After you build a house for the guide, build an extra one. Once you hit 50 silver, a merchant comes into town. You can buy and sell there. Find a crystal heart? A nurse moves in. So on and so forth... Also, zombies will knock on your doors but they can't break in unless it's a "Bloodmoon." It'll announce it in the bottom corner if a bloodmoon has risen at night, and everything (including rabbits) start attacking you.
Didnt someone say they might restart the GAF server after awhile, or am I thinking of something else?
Also is it best to just play the game in the lowest or highest resolution possible. I can see advantages to both so far, but not sure if a close up view is worth going low res in the long run.
This game is going to sap alot of my time *_*
Also is it best to just play the game in the lowest or highest resolution possible. I can see advantages to both so far, but not sure if a close up view is worth going low res in the long run.
This game is going to sap alot of my time *_*
Red Arremer
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So, I found an Angel Statue. Apparently, it does nothing. But it's not Goggles, which actually do something. My world is falling apart. 
Snkfanatic
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I am still farming skeletons for a damned hook haha...I am having no luck at all with this. On the plus side I have found a few hearts while messing around looking for skeletons.
Becquerel said:So, I found an Angel Statue. Apparently, it does nothing. But it's not Goggles, which actually do something. My world is falling apart.
Keep those Angel Statues. Even though they don't do anything now, they might do something in a later patch.
You could always give it away. People actually want Angel Statues (because its one of rare items to find). The other coveted (but useless) item is the glorious Whoopee Cushion. At least the Whoopee Cushion does SOMETHING (farting noises!).
Majukun said:
You'll need a Nightmare Pickaxe or higher to destroy whatever it is you're trying to destroy, probably. If you don't have one, you can try throwing some dynamite at it, but that only works on certain stones.
Whats the stones look like (pic would help)?
Snkfanatic
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Majukun said:
Not sure, but if you have a low quality pickaxe (copper or something) that is probably your problem. Gather enough gold and make yourself a gold pickaxe, that should help.
ScRYeD said:
Damn, I keep forgetting they drop them. Thanks
Red Arremer
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I got mine from a piranha too iirc, but really early. I got it like a few minutes after encountering the first skeletons/piranhas.
Also, I fucking HATE those slimes and bats. I've reached my first lava and these bastards constantly knocked me into it. I died like 4 times of getting knocked into lava. >:[
@Majukun:
Is it a purple-ish shade of blue? Cause that's most likely demonite which you can mine with a gold pickaxe, too.
Also, I fucking HATE those slimes and bats. I've reached my first lava and these bastards constantly knocked me into it. I died like 4 times of getting knocked into lava. >:[
@Majukun:
Is it a purple-ish shade of blue? Cause that's most likely demonite which you can mine with a gold pickaxe, too.
Majukun said:
Nightmare Pickaxe is made from demonite and shadowscale, which you probably will have to get from bosses.
Becquerel said:
If you're having trouble w/ that, then you should try and find a Cobalt Shield (found in dungeons). Cobalt Shields cancel the knockback effect.
phosphor112 said:
You're pretty much playing it as intended. Keep digging for metal to improve your armor up to Iron and then to Gold. More Life Crystals is a good thing too. Boomerangs are pretty decent weapons actually, as it saves the trouble of lugging around arrows or bullets. The hookshot makes getting around a lot easier so you've got that at least.
If you're looking for a new weapon, try crafting a Broadsword (shortswords are the little stabby ones and kinda suck) from whatever material you can. Don't worry about corruption until you're rocking gold armor at least. Maybe try building a bit to get some NPCs to move in, as you'll blast through things (literally) with a few trips to the demolitionist.
Oh, and fun fact; an Aglet (10% run speed increase) is actually the name for the little plastic thingy on the end of shoelaces. Yay.
Teknoman said:
Doors are tricky at first. 3-tiles high (a good rule of thumb is "just above your head") and to place them, kind of click above where the knob would be, about face-level. If you click too low they don't really place. It's slightly wonky, but you get the hang of it quickly.
duckroll said:
Harlan, Hydeout and I have been tossing ideas around for when 1.6 hits and we will definitely be making it more friendly to starting players. We're going to set the main town away from the spawn point a bit so people don't spawn into an overwhelming mega-city filled with Hydeout's pixel art that can kill them, Hydeout's lava pits that can kill them and Hydeout's penchant for randomly tossing grenades that can kill them (and himself, which is amusing at least). We're going to build a little tutorial structure around the spawn and give people some good advice and rewards for getting out of it (and a fast escape for veteran players who don't need it).
Log4Girlz said:So, noob question...what's the next step after Light's Bane? The sword is already hitting kinda weak
Actually, Light's Bane is kinda quick for a broadsword, and the damage is respectable for that tier. If you're ready to move on, we're talking Phaseblades (meteorite), Blade of Grass (Jungle) or Muramasa (dungeon, and probably the hardest to get of these). Alternatively, you can try out non swords like Maces (Ball-o-hurt from shadow orbs, though to me it's a slight downgrade).
If you're comfortable smashing shadow orbs, there's a 50% chance after each that a meteorite will land at midnight that night, but 100% chance after 2 or 3 orbs that you'll piss the Eater of Worlds off... and if you've never dealt with him, he can be a handful.
PigSpeakers said:
Plants are invaluable to making the new alchemical potions introduced in the last patch. Take a plant to the Guide and he can tell you what you'll need to make each potion type. Some of them can be really really valuable early in the game (Spelunker Potion, though the gold ore needed is a bit of a rarity early).
You can craft Clay Pots out of clay, which you can then plant seeds in (some decorative flowers grow by default, use your pickaxe to clear them). This will allow you to set up your own plant farm for mass-production. GAF server has a really awesome one set up if you want to see how those work (two of the plants need special treatment to reach full maturity).
Teknoman said:
See Above. We'll be rebooting the GAF world when 1.0.6 hits.
Becquerel said:So, I found an Angel Statue. Apparently, it does nothing. But it's not Goggles, which actually do something. My world is falling apart.
Pretty much every Terraria player has a chest somewhere where they're keeping every Angel Statue they find in the hopes that one day, they actually will do something, and something amazing, and they'll have a shitload of them instead of everyone who threw theirs away. Little do they know that the devs are trolling them at a massive scale.
... I have two chests full.
Majukun said:
Sounds like Ebonstone, in which case you don't really need to mine it at all yet. A Nightmare Pickaxe requires Demonite (it's a sort of greyish-purple stone found near corruption and dropped by bosses) and Shadow Scales (which are only dropped by bosses).
Red Arremer
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HaRyu said:
I don't feel confident enough to beat Skeletron yet. As soon as I get a full set of golden armor, I'll try to go into the Corruption, find a Shadow Orb, and kill the Eye, tho. Could do the summon too, I have a demon altar very close to my spawn.
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Also, my first blood moon is going to rise at the end of this day (which I will continue after work, where I am right now lulz). I'm not sure if I should bother killing the enemies outside of special ones (i.e. Groom), currently the monsters are mostly just a bother to me.
Also, speaking of the Eye of Cthulu, would you suggest I go smash Shadow Orbs or craft the summon item at the altar like right after blood moon? I'm currently rocking a gold broadsword, and mostly silver armor (only golden pants), also have a ton of throwing knives, shuriken, jester arrows and an enchanted boomerang. Your input?
Marsipolami
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Yes.Detox said:
Red Arremer
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Detox said:
You even can play that character in other MP worlds and you'll keep all the loot in your inventory and iirc your piggy bank(s).
Red Arremer
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Actually, MP makes the game's progress a lot easier, or rather, less time-consuming. One person mines while the other holds torches and defends the miner from monsters, instead of constantly having to defend yourself, lul.
Red Arremer
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Majukun said:here is a image of the rock i can't destroy (i have a silver pickaxe)
Yes, that is indeed demonite. You need a gold pickaxe or better to mine that. You'll need to get I think 12 gold bars to get a gold pickaxe, but it's resources well-spent cause it's the best tier you can get without needing to grab more rare minerals (demonite, hellstone, meteorite), so try to get it ASAP.
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