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Title: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on May 16, 2011, 03:20:45 PM Buy it. Do it.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Trippy on May 16, 2011, 03:32:31 PM keke ^_^
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 16, 2011, 03:52:30 PM Oh wow. I didn't realize they were going to release a full blown game right to Steam.
How does the MP work though? It seems like it would be a private server type of thing. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morat20 on May 16, 2011, 03:57:28 PM For those of us stuck at work (and thus restricted from searching on gaming terms) and who have never played Minecraft....
Explanation please? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Samwise on May 16, 2011, 03:58:36 PM From the video I saw in the other thread it looked like a 2D Minecraft clone. Meaning it's a game where you build stuff with squares. (Minecraft is a game where you build stuff with cubes.)
I'm going to hold out for the inevitable 1D Minecraft clone. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Ingmar on May 16, 2011, 03:58:58 PM It really seems to only superficially resemble Minecraft to me.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 16, 2011, 04:04:47 PM The only reason I'm not pulling the trigger instantly is with it only being 2d I feel like the building portion will be kind of lackluster. They could of at least implemented an external building layer or something.
The other stuff looks 500x more compelling than minecraft though. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Wasted on May 16, 2011, 06:58:31 PM If I wasn't already spending way too much time on minecraft I could totally get into this.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 16, 2011, 07:11:10 PM Who's got it? Anyone know how you cover a dirt background with wood/stone background or whatever? Or are you pretty much required to build above ground if you want those?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: NiX on May 16, 2011, 07:36:44 PM If I wasn't already spending way too much time on minecraft I could totally get into this. Not the same. It's already a lot more engaging than MC. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 16, 2011, 07:42:08 PM I'm currently cowering in my house because all I have is a wooden sword. The flying eyeballs are scary.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: lamaros on May 16, 2011, 07:50:10 PM I hate platformers.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 16, 2011, 08:17:02 PM I hate platformers. Personally I do to but that's because I suck at jumping accurately. Which isn't really a problem when you can just put down a thing to jump on. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Samwise on May 16, 2011, 08:33:11 PM So how is this better than Minecraft? The trailer utterly failed to sell me on it.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Trippy on May 16, 2011, 09:11:13 PM Uh, what the fuck do you do? Is there a manual somewhere? The "guides" on the forum were not helpful.
Edit: found some helpful posts in the General section: http://terrariaonline.com/threads/cyprexs-comprehensive-item-list.3252/ http://terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-newbie-faq.510/ Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 16, 2011, 09:29:11 PM I recommend cutting a crap load of wood right off the bat with the axe. I then made a small tower with ledges where the zombies can't jump up to at night and I pick them off with bow and arrows.
So how is this better than Minecraft? The trailer utterly failed to sell me on it. Better items and better combat? If all you do in minecraft is create stuff though then yea it's not even that game. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: brellium on May 16, 2011, 09:44:13 PM Buy it. Do it. Bought it, should be interresting.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Wasted on May 17, 2011, 04:33:46 AM If I wasn't already spending way too much time on minecraft I could totally get into this. Not the same. It's already a lot more engaging than MC. Most of what I am doing is making adventures on my private home server for my kids who are totally addicted to Yogscast. Its compelling in a build your own rpg kinda way, but time consuming. But I'm probably going to get this :drill: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Simond on May 17, 2011, 05:29:38 AM Who's got it? Anyone know how you cover a dirt background with wood/stone background or whatever? Or are you pretty much required to build above ground if you want those? Make (probably wooden) hammer, mash away at dirt wall. Replace with wood/stone wall (NB: you will need more wall panels than you think you do :D ). The hammer is also how you remove platforms and placed furniture.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 17, 2011, 08:28:09 AM Remapping Throw to E crashes the program. So don't do that.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 17, 2011, 08:40:51 AM I've found messing with the settings at all crashed the game. Couldn't even set the music volume lower without a forcecrash so I left the setting alone. Figure that will get patched in short order.
Those worm things in the underground parts are fucking annoying as shit, and they will follow you all the way to the surface. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 17, 2011, 09:02:19 AM Looks fun?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 17, 2011, 09:04:50 AM Settings changes can be applied after you make your first character.
Is fun so far, but needs some instructions. I mean real instructions. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amarr HM on May 17, 2011, 09:09:45 AM :popcorn:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 17, 2011, 09:45:03 AM Determined how to place doors and all seems well. Zombies are pounding but I don't let them in. But the fucking Guide does. Asshole. He's going to be trapped in the lake come daylight.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 09:50:31 AM Those links Trippy posted really help out. Though I think maybe not everything is on that list. I hear there is a jetpack.
Quote Minishark 50g 8 Damage, Insanely fast speed, Uses Musket Balls, "Half shark, half gun, completely awesome." I know what I'm saving my coins for. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 10:39:28 AM Found a super useful tip. Once you find 50 cobwebs you can make 5 silk then 5 silk plus 15 wood equals a bed. Once you place the bed and click it that changes your spawn point.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 17, 2011, 10:56:57 AM seems to be the only use for them tho, after I made a bed I started just selling the silk for money, might be wiser to craft beds and sell those tho, haven't looked
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Ingmar on May 17, 2011, 10:58:26 AM I hate platformers. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 17, 2011, 11:15:07 AM It's not, really. Not like Mario or Metroid.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 17, 2011, 11:36:59 AM Bugfix update!
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 11:43:05 AM Has anyone encountered skeletons yet? I've been underground going in random directions but I've never seen one.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: cosapi on May 17, 2011, 11:45:56 AM I hated minecraft but I love this game.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 17, 2011, 12:16:46 PM No, selling beds is a horrible idea. 4 silver for a bed, or 10 silver for 5 silk. So yeah, there goes that. However, it seems like flaming arrows are a decent money mill, easy to craft and slimes and wood are everywhere.
You run into skeletons around the third layer I think. As you go further underground you start to notice the background change and the music also changes. There are also gaint black mother slimes that spawn baby slimes down on that layer. Drop alot of gold. You also find extra heart containers down there that you have to mine up with a hammer. edit: just read the patch notes, and this gave me a giggle for some reason. Quote Crash Fixes Leaving the settings menu via the back button should longer crash. edit2: So I just summoned the Eye of Cthulu from inside my settlement thinking I'd go outside and battle it when it showed up. Turns out it can go through walls and fires out the mini demon eyes. So I was promptly swarmed inside the house and murdered. Once dead he left. Which I have to go make another eye thing to summon him again. edit3: Ok, so two nights in a row I got special nights. First one said "A red moon raises" At which point swarms of zombies showed up. Turns out that given enough time (or enough zombies) they can bash doors open. Also my nurse is a ditz and kept opening the door for them in her little house, before they even got to the door. Bravo. Second night I get "You feel an evil presence watching you." Little time later my buddy big fucking scary eye of doom shows up, but this time I'm ready for him. I met him outside and give him eyefulls of flaming arrows. I lasted 5 minutes. That fucker divebombs you. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: NiX on May 17, 2011, 01:51:27 PM Has anyone encountered skeletons yet? I've been underground going in random directions but I've never seen one. General rule is if you can't find it, dig deeper. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 01:56:43 PM Eye of Cthulu says we seriously need a server.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Lakov_Sanite on May 17, 2011, 02:25:35 PM Looks like a bad minecraft/final fantasy slashfic
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 17, 2011, 03:15:07 PM Has anyone encountered skeletons yet? I've been underground going in random directions but I've never seen one. I havent found anything yet. A few copper deposits here and there. A single iron deposit. And your flying demon eyes and zombies at night. Not real exciting or fun as of right now to say the least. Plus with non-existent rules it makes everything that should be simple (placing a door) a thirty minute experiment in where exactly to click the mouse. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 03:31:43 PM I havent found anything yet. A few copper deposits here and there. A single iron deposit. And your flying demon eyes and zombies at night. Not real exciting or fun as of right now to say the least. Yea my experience was roughly similar till I started digging deeper. Basically a lot deeper than you'd have to dig in minecraft. Someone actually made a mapviewer that shows a good example of how the maps are laid out. http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-map-viewer.4226/ (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-map-viewer.4226/) As you can see there are different layers. Once I got to the darker area's I started finding some nasty mobs and treasure chests with phat lewts. The fire area's are much worse and then there's the dungeon stuff (big purple thing) and looks like some weird underground biomes. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 17, 2011, 04:52:54 PM I had to wall myself in to come to this thread to post that I love this game. I am on the quest to find an underground jungle, I want a vine shot.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 17, 2011, 05:04:58 PM Apparently going there with anything less than gold gear is a suicide run. Save up cobwebs and bones from skeletons and make yourself a set of Necro Armor before heading down there.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 06:16:12 PM So what's the money for really after you get a miner's helmet? Just explosives/ammo?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 17, 2011, 07:06:06 PM Yea my experience was roughly similar till I started digging deeper. Basically a lot deeper than you'd have to dig in minecraft. Someone actually made a mapviewer that shows a good example of how the maps are laid out. http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-map-viewer.4226/ (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-map-viewer.4226/) Holy shit I had no idea it went that deep. Wow. :-o Okay I need to spend for less time on the surface and far more time tunneling. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 17, 2011, 07:55:05 PM This game is amazing.
Can we get a server like Minecraft, does the game support that? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 17, 2011, 08:29:51 PM This game is amazing. Can we get a server like Minecraft, does the game support that? Right now you can start a 2nd client and use it as a server for a small amount of people. I don't remember the number but it was like 8~12 or some such. The dev said he has a better standalone server that's supposed to be ready in a couple weeks. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 17, 2011, 09:09:09 PM What size worlds are people generating? Ive been going medium and it seems ores are few and far between thus far.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on May 18, 2011, 06:00:07 AM The difference between this and Minecraft is pretty apparent the first time you swing your shitty axe at a slime. This game is about survival. Minecraft is about Youtube videos.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 18, 2011, 06:21:46 AM Pick works better on slimes. Hell, it's better than the wooden sword sometimes.
I didn't get enough time to play this yet, but I do know I need to make and stock more shit. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Modern Angel on May 18, 2011, 06:24:43 AM Yeah, Minecraft mostly left me dry. I'm bad at building and something about the game makes me motion sick. This? I like this game.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: NiX on May 18, 2011, 07:39:51 AM The difference between this and Minecraft is pretty apparent the first time you swing your shitty axe at a slime. This game is about survival. Minecraft is about Youtube videos. Very much this. You can outrun enemies or dig a hole and bury yourself in MC. This game is not very forgiving when night time comes and even digging.. those god damn worms! Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nija on May 18, 2011, 08:11:17 AM Game is pretty rad.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 18, 2011, 10:50:42 AM The difference between this and Minecraft is pretty apparent the first time you swing your shitty axe at a slime. This game is about survival. Minecraft is about Youtube videos. Very much this. You can outrun enemies or dig a hole and bury yourself in MC. This game is not very forgiving when night time comes and even digging.. those god damn worms! Even the guide tries to kill you by letting zombies into your house. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 18, 2011, 11:03:57 AM I spent my first few nights huddled in a small lightless tunnel that I bricked up. That wasnt very fun. Then I learned how to make a tourch, and I said goodbye to the lighted world of the surface and headed down.
But I fear I dug too greedily and too deep. I awoke in the darkness… shadow and flame. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 18, 2011, 11:27:50 AM Digging just means you'll have to fight zombies, demon eyes and slimes inside tunnels. :awesome_for_real:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 18, 2011, 11:48:21 AM Random thoughts so far:
- Going after shadow orbs is fun. SO FUN. - The musket is stupid. I want a minishark. - I, out of curiosity, summoned the skeleton that guards the dungeon. He is a giant floating skull with two giant floating skeleton hands. 6000 hp per piece. - I spent so long fighting an Eye of Cthulhu on my roof with a hammer that he had time to kill my merchant, and before I was done with the fight, the merchant respawned. Get up on that sweet shadow armor/pickaxe. - I have a morning star of some kind. Great for fighting worms, since you just throw it up in a line and it hits every segment. Found it in a shadow orb. - Each HP regen ring gives around 1 hp every 1.5 seconds. With two of those rings, you regen a full heart every 6-7 seconds. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 18, 2011, 11:48:58 AM Digging just means you'll have to fight zombies, demon eyes and slimes inside tunnels. :awesome_for_real: Thats odd, I didnt. Those damn worms got me several times though. I really want a big group server for this. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 18, 2011, 01:16:09 PM I'm 95% complete with Castle Home Base. Once it's secure I'm going spelunking.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Jade Falcon on May 18, 2011, 03:07:01 PM The difference between this and Minecraft is pretty apparent the first time you swing your shitty axe at a slime. This game is about survival. Minecraft is about Youtube videos. Very much this. You can outrun enemies or dig a hole and bury yourself in MC. This game is not very forgiving when night time comes and even digging.. those god damn worms! Even the guide tries to kill you by letting zombies into your house. I tried to drown him in the pool/moat but at least he's stuck (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008458828/screenshot/578922800427526879) down there and can't open my doors. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Malakili on May 18, 2011, 04:49:17 PM So uh, a friend and I bought this but we can't connect to each other, port forwarding seems to do nothing...tried setting up Hamachi, still nothing.... Anyone had to get around this problem?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 18, 2011, 05:06:48 PM I just tried setting up a Hamachi server and it worked like a charm. Thinking I might set up my old desktop to run a server for a few days and see if its stable.
I believe you have to open port 31337. The leet port. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Malakili on May 18, 2011, 06:09:28 PM I restarted everything and got it working, but I'm not sure which step fixed the problem :-/. At least we're playing now.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on May 18, 2011, 06:43:59 PM I can't see us not having at least one server with a massive world for this game. It's just too good.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 18, 2011, 07:13:48 PM Sigh, tried to resist, but I give. Buying it now.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Modern Angel on May 18, 2011, 07:18:09 PM It's pretty unforgiving. Dropping into a big cavern filled with slimes and no light is...
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Trippy on May 18, 2011, 07:58:47 PM I can't see us not having at least one server with a massive world for this game. It's just too good. Fucking .NET.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 18, 2011, 09:49:14 PM I can't see us not having at least one server with a massive world for this game. It's just too good. Fucking .NET.It's .NET 4, I didn't even know they were done with 3. :oh_i_see: Terraria Protip time. I have managed the Guide! I did like the fucker said and I built out a room: table, chair, torch. Now whenever the sun goes down he comes inside and shuts the door, staying inside all night. During daytime, he spends his time outside or maybe letting slimes in, not sure. Anyway, I'll have to build out another room to attract someone else since he apparently claims the first one. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on May 18, 2011, 10:34:16 PM It's pretty unforgiving. Dropping into a big cavern filled with slimes and no light is... Amateur Hour. I have a single shaft going straight down to the bottom with only 1 turn to avoid a massive lake. All other bodies of water have been diverted. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 18, 2011, 11:16:41 PM How long should it take a merchant to show up after making 50s and building a house?
I think I'm doing something wrong. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 18, 2011, 11:30:07 PM How long should it take a merchant to show up after making 50s and building a house? Not long at all. A house has to have a light source, chair, table, and door. The interior should be 4 open spaces high. I'm also guessing there should be 1 space between the chair and the table since that's where NPC's stand when the game spawns. Also don't forget the guide will take up your first house slot. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 18, 2011, 11:58:13 PM I'm also guessing there should be 1 space between the chair and the table since that's where NPC's stand when the game spawns. Good call, as soon as I did this he showed up. Now to figure out what this anvil is good for.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 19, 2011, 12:25:45 AM Seems to add more shit to craft, at least after I placed it near my forge I could make iron stuffs. I started mucking around, 8 hours passed, and my shoulder hurts. The sign of a good game!
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 19, 2011, 02:16:59 AM There's a new wiki that's a bit better than the other that launched:
http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/Terraria_Wiki Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 19, 2011, 02:46:34 AM Man, fuck this interface with a spoon.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 19, 2011, 03:22:11 AM The interface? really, what about it? Not the prettiest I've seen, but it works fine and does it's job without hassle. Does using the mousewheel to scroll crafting bother you that much?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 19, 2011, 09:12:56 AM The interface? really, what about it? Not the prettiest I've seen, but it works fine and does it's job without hassle. Does using the mousewheel to scroll crafting bother you that much? I was playing with my friend last night, and he couldnt quit understand that if he selected an item, with the interface open, and then left clicked, he would throw said item. I think at one point I had every one of his tools in my inventory. :oh_i_see: After playing some multiplayer last night. Yes, we need a server like now. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 19, 2011, 10:48:45 AM The interface? really, what about it? Not the prettiest I've seen, but it works fine and does it's job without hassle. Does using the mousewheel to scroll crafting bother you that much? Disagree on the "without hassle" bit. I hate the way the action bar works. The buttons should be labeled with their hotkeys so I can actually switch to things on the first try, and you should be able to access the other rows of your inventory with modifier keys or something - I have way more than 10 things I'd like to be able to switch to freely. Especially since it's really more like 5 things because I can't reach 6-0 quickly and you inexplicably can't remap those. I'd also like a way to make an item "active" from my inventory without moving it to the action bar, so I wouldn't have to be juggling a ton of rarely-used crap like acorns and furniture into my bar.All this would be a lot more forgivable if there wasn't such a need for expediency during the construction parts of the game, but since the spawn rate forces you to switch away from your tools to a weapon every 10 seconds it really feels like messing with my inventory makes things take twice as long as they should sometimes. Of course, when I posted that I was mostly just pissed that I hit the wrong button while trying to wall myself in and got killed by a zombie. :oh_i_see: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: RUiN 427 on May 19, 2011, 02:29:26 PM I want this for mac, and no I don't want to run bootcamp again. Sounds like you are all having lots of fun.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 19, 2011, 03:19:43 PM I want this for mac, and no I don't want to run bootcamp again. Sounds like you are all having lots of fun. I heard it runs well in VMWare Fusion. Not so well in Parallels. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 19, 2011, 06:56:57 PM The vine shot is rad as fuck. Also, this is pre-Cobalt Armor, which is also rad as fuck. I almost have infinite ammo with the Space Gun. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 19, 2011, 07:08:56 PM Fire imps really suck if all you have is a gold shortsword. That is all.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 19, 2011, 07:31:34 PM I want this for mac, and no I don't want to run bootcamp again. Sounds like you are all having lots of fun. I heard it runs well in VMWare Fusion. Not so well in Parallels. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 19, 2011, 08:24:04 PM This game is making me re-download Dwarf Fortress.
I knew I shouldn't have listened to you guys. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Modern Angel on May 19, 2011, 08:44:54 PM What sort of person lets Dwarf Fortress leave their hard drive in the first place? :ye_gods:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 19, 2011, 08:47:21 PM How long should it take a merchant to show up after making 50s and building a house? Not long at all. A house has to have a light source, chair, table, and door. The interior should be 4 open spaces high. I'm also guessing there should be 1 space between the chair and the table since that's where NPC's stand when the game spawns. Also don't forget the guide will take up your first house slot. Okay admittedly Im a retard, but I have built a house of 12 length x 6 height (giving and interior space of 4 blocks high). Table, chair, and torch are all provided. I even built walls. The guide is standing at the spawn point in the middle of the night alone. This worries me because if he is supposed to take the first house before I can get a merchant then I must have built my house wrong in some manner, so I wont get a merchant. Suggestions? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on May 19, 2011, 08:55:59 PM Okay admittedly Im a retard, but I have built a house of 12 length x 6 height (giving and interior space of 4 blocks high). Table, chair, and torch are all provided. I even built walls. The guide is standing at the spawn point in the middle of the night alone. This worries me because if he is supposed to take the first house before I can get a merchant then I must have built my house wrong in some manner, so I wont get a merchant. Suggestions? Can you post a screenshot? A few options I can think of: -You don't mention a door, there needs to be one of those. -By walls, I assume you mean background walls, not just "I built two walls and a ceiling", right? -Sometimes it takes a while for them to move in, like a day or two in game. EDIT: Here's a shot of my setup for reference: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 19, 2011, 09:14:58 PM The vine shot is rad as fuck. Also, this is pre-Cobalt Armor, which is also rad as fuck. I almost have infinite ammo with the Space Gun. I want the rocket boots myself. Where did you get the light spell? Hell I still haven't even got 20 mana I spend too much time underground I guess. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 19, 2011, 09:48:17 PM Okay admittedly Im a retard, but I have built a house of 12 length x 6 height (giving and interior space of 4 blocks high). Table, chair, and torch are all provided. I even built walls. The guide is standing at the spawn point in the middle of the night alone. This worries me because if he is supposed to take the first house before I can get a merchant then I must have built my house wrong in some manner, so I wont get a merchant. Suggestions? Can you post a screenshot? A few options I can think of: -You don't mention a door, there needs to be one of those. -By walls, I assume you mean background walls, not just "I built two walls and a ceiling", right? -Sometimes it takes a while for them to move in, like a day or two in game. EDIT: Here's a shot of my setup for reference: Have a door Yes Its been 4 or more days here is my first little survival bungalo: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 19, 2011, 10:02:27 PM I should've read this thread before I started playing, hah. After a few nights of WHY ARE THEY COMING THROUGH MY WALLS I finally realized that the wood blocks were the walls and the 'walls' were the background. Finally kinda get the basics, so here's my desperately and ignorantly constructed survival tower. I have a couple little ledges for shooting zombies at the door and the upper chamber is for trapping the flying eyes. I just dug the basement to store crap in.
Didn't get into Minecraft, not a snes fan, but this game is a heck of a lot of fun. My character is modeled after my famous golfer, Busta Clubs, from Sid's SimGolf, a nod to the graphics. Really cool game I probably wouldn't have looked twice at. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on May 19, 2011, 10:19:18 PM here is my first little survival bungalo: Hmm, I dunno, looks solid to me. Maybe it needs the door to be level with some ground on the outside (i.e. add a dirt square on the outside?) or the table doesn't count as a table since it's an alchemy station too? I dunno... Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 19, 2011, 11:07:40 PM What version are you using? I thought goggles were taken out?
I just got a hook finally :awesome_for_real:. Grappling changed the game for me. Instead of having to build up stupid platforms and walkways all over I just pull a Tarzan everywhere. It's probably going to increase my exploration speed something like tenfold. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 19, 2011, 11:24:08 PM I've spent all my time digging underground, after about 200 skeletons, I have a hook! And yeah, grappling changes the game quite a bit.
As for making houses for the mopes, I suspect that after today's patch they need a slightly higher ceiling, I had 2 empty houses, raised the roofs to 5high, and the Demolitionist and Nurse moved right in. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on May 20, 2011, 06:59:33 AM Rather than grappling, I'm going the cloud in a bottle/red balloon route. I dig the double jump, makes it feel more like a child of Castlevania.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 20, 2011, 07:46:39 AM Successful rooms:
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85916/terraria/rooms.png) Not the whole thing, of course, the Demolitionist's room is off to the right. Something I found is that when the Merchant arrived, he fucked around on the surface until I moved such that he was off screen, after which I came back and he had magically moved from the surface into his underground chamber. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 20, 2011, 07:48:43 AM I heard it runs well in VMWare Fusion. Not so well in Parallels. Hmm. Firstly, every time I boot up the box, Steam Guard thinks it's a new box. Secondly, getting an error message that it can't find an XNA-compat 3D card (mini has a GeForce 320M).Ah, well. Not like I want to spend a lot of time messing with it, but it would've been a nice distraction during downtime. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hutch on May 20, 2011, 07:56:42 AM How long should it take a merchant to show up after making 50s and building a house? Not long at all. A house has to have a light source, chair, table, and door. The interior should be 4 open spaces high. I'm also guessing there should be 1 space between the chair and the table since that's where NPC's stand when the game spawns. Also don't forget the guide will take up your first house slot. Okay admittedly Im a retard, but I have built a house of 12 length x 6 height (giving and interior space of 4 blocks high). Table, chair, and torch are all provided. I even built walls. The guide is standing at the spawn point in the middle of the night alone. This worries me because if he is supposed to take the first house before I can get a merchant then I must have built my house wrong in some manner, so I wont get a merchant. Suggestions? Build 2 houses (at least). Just because the guide is occupying the first house, doesn't mean he'll spend all his time there. The merchant won't show up until you've built 2 houses. And you have to get the specs right, iirc 12x5 minimum, with full wall coverage, etc. I had to tweak mine a bunch before "Merchant has arrived" popped up. I don't even live above ground. The npc's houses are up there, but they can stay up there with their door-opening ways. I just go visit the merch when I need to clear some inventory. You guys have posted some nice screenshots though :) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 20, 2011, 08:26:21 AM Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong here.
I have a nice vertical shoot going straight down, but when I get to a specific depth I see to get a non-stop spawn of fire imps or bone serpents. Am I just going to far down for my current gear? I am wearing copper/silver armor, and I have gold weapons. I cant see to find any ore to upgrade past gold, but when I go down any further I just die over and over and over to these damn fire imps. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 20, 2011, 08:29:00 AM Yegolev's merchant room makes me think you don't have to have the doors actually lead anywhere. You could just build a door, wall the outside of it off so that they can happily open and close the door all they want to a wall of stone.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 20, 2011, 08:35:18 AM My bad on playing on a Mac - I'm using VirtualBox (free), not VMWare Fusion ($$). Damn.
On the Merchant: I had just built a little outbuilding to try and stop slimes on that side, must've been the magic size because he moved in a couple minutes later when I had returned to my mine (it has two doors, I was thinking like a guardhouse). Didn't work as a guardhouse, slimes spawn on top of the 'battlement' and get stuck between the two buildings...so I built a roof over the 'courtyard'. Haven't had a problem with the Guide opening the door to monsters, though. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 20, 2011, 08:39:17 AM About the door-opening, they have to get settled, which seems to happen more effectively when night falls and they seek their rooms to hide.
My Merchant does leave his room during daylight, but of course he can't escape the small mine off of his room. You don't need the doors open to the surface. In fact, I think you can remove the furniture and they will stay. Have not tried this since it's easier just to build a new table and chair. EDIT: Not having any luck growing trees, though. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Vaiti on May 20, 2011, 08:43:12 AM From my understanding from reading this thread/the wiki they use the table and chair as their spawn point once they claim a room. So you might be able to remove everything (including the door) except those once they settle and that's that. I haven't played around with that of course, but I plan to. My nurse wandered into the bottom part of my settlement and couldn't seem to pathfind her way to the room she claimed. I went mining, and magically she was teleported to the top of the settlement to the room she could get to. The silly cunt has figured out how to let zombies into the room now that she has settled in now.
I figure she wants to make them better or some silly shit. edit: I've planted alot of tress, some of them grew, others didn't, seems to be a space issue, they need a certain amount of space to grow, but you can still plant them close together, the ones that have enough space will grow, and the others will just sit in their sappling form. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Modern Angel on May 20, 2011, 08:58:51 AM I haven't had any issues but I'm building free standing houses for each dude, just to be safe.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 20, 2011, 09:29:39 AM For ideas on bases, check out this thread. Some of these are really sweet.
Linky (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/show-us-your-base-of-operations.3848/) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 20, 2011, 09:34:11 AM Ok. Probably only of interest to Ruin, but eh. I forgot to install Guest Additions on the virtualbox (it was a new install). Once I put in the (experimental) D3D drivers, it got rid of the error message on launch, I get to the menu screen and it animates and the mouseovers seem to work...and then it crashes after a couple seconds. Probably exhausted the time I wasn't going to spend messing with this...I'm telling myself I want to learn how to run virtual boxes better :why_so_serious:
Definitely NOT clicking Morf's link. I want to take it slow and savor the game, figure out stuff on my own. Should probably stop reading this thread soon, with all the powergamers around here! Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 20, 2011, 11:50:06 AM So, uh, I managed to flood hell. Whoops. Infinite obsidian, infinitely more annoying. At some point in time when the volume of water in an area is too much, it stops trying to simulate water flow and just assumed infinite water. So, there is a constant waterfall into hell from directly under my base. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 20, 2011, 11:53:11 AM Hey Non, how do you move from the "middle game" to the endgame type stuff. I seem to be stuck. The middle levels are way to easy for me, but as soon as I get to hell stuff it just destroys me.
I'm not sure what im missing. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 20, 2011, 12:28:16 PM Hey Non, how do you move from the "middle game" to the endgame type stuff. I seem to be stuck. The middle levels are way to easy for me, but as soon as I get to hell stuff it just destroys me. I'm not sure what im missing. Not sure what the exact method is, but I went: Surface stuff > dirt level digging > stone level digging > shadow cores > underground jungle > dungeon > hell At this point in time it's just a few pieces of gear left and I have all the hell crafted gear. I was in a hump for a while until I started going after the shadow cores (at the bottom of the long shafts in the corrupted area - you need dynamite to pop them at first) - you get 3 of them and an eater of worlds comes after you. If you have a magic mirror, just pop that, and fight him near your base. If you die, he'll just keep coming after you. He drops a bunch of demonite ore, and you can smelt that into a pickaxe, and after that can mine through corrupted stone. Once you get a decent set of the demonite stuff, you'll see messages about meteors starting to hit - you can run around on the surface until you find the craters, and mine it with the demonite pick. You can make a phaseblade and a set of mana regen armor (which isn't all that useful outside of a few spells). From there, you can transition into underground jungle stuff. Though, you could hit the jungle earlier, those hornets and man eaters will just hit like trucks. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 20, 2011, 12:52:07 PM Awesome. I was leaving the corrupted stuff alone. Also I havent found any jungle yet. And no luck on hook drops. I was just bashing my head on hell and losing.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 20, 2011, 01:47:53 PM Hey Non, how do you move from the "middle game" to the endgame type stuff. I seem to be stuck. The middle levels are way to easy for me, but as soon as I get to hell stuff it just destroys me. I'm not sure what im missing. You need to be doing surface corruption stuff once you have gold armor I think. The next level of armor is from meteorite ore. You'll need to get 20 blocks of obsidian to make an obsidian skull to mine it though. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 20, 2011, 02:35:58 PM Hey Non, how do you move from the "middle game" to the endgame type stuff. I seem to be stuck. The middle levels are way to easy for me, but as soon as I get to hell stuff it just destroys me. I'm not sure what im missing. You need to be doing surface corruption stuff once you have gold armor I think. The next level of armor is from meteorite ore. You'll need to get 20 blocks of obsidian to make an obsidian skull to mine it though. Well, you don't HAVE to have an obsidian skull. I did it without it the first time, you just can't stand on it. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 20, 2011, 02:51:47 PM Well, you don't HAVE to have an obsidian skull. I did it without it the first time, you just can't stand on it. Ahh I haven't done it I just read about it. It doesn't hurt you when you hit it with the pickaxe? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nonentity on May 20, 2011, 03:31:27 PM Well, you don't HAVE to have an obsidian skull. I did it without it the first time, you just can't stand on it. Ahh I haven't done it I just read about it. It doesn't hurt you when you hit it with the pickaxe? Nope, just if you stand on it. Also, this game is in love with its particle effects. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on May 21, 2011, 08:20:41 PM If they find a way to make this accessible on the Wii or PSN so that I can lay on my couch while I play, it's game over, man. 16mb game packs a hell of a punch.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 21, 2011, 11:58:57 PM I got my first goblin invasion last night. Talk about getting overwhelmed. It probably would of taken me forever to finish it via dieing constantly if I didn't have that vile vine thing to shoot through walls.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: cosapi on May 22, 2011, 08:19:20 AM I would like to learn how to pleasure a woman but the only woman I know is my mom. :ye_gods: :grin:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Thrawn on May 22, 2011, 09:27:21 AM Buy it. Do it. Did it, tried it... Can I have my $10 back? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Malakili on May 22, 2011, 09:46:40 AM Buy it. Do it. Did it, tried it... Can I have my $10 back? Nope, I think steam sales are final. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: jakonovski on May 22, 2011, 09:51:25 AM I bought it. Definitely a bit grindy, but teaming up with the SO will probably help. Combining this and minecraft would probably be the best game ever.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 22, 2011, 11:39:32 AM Turns out my tower and elaborate mine system under it with remote spawn point/crafting stations/storage is probably on the deadest chunk of earth on my map. Went exploring for some older trees and shrooms and found a cave system loaded with metals and pots, plus a chest resulting in cloud potion (double jump!). So now I have a tertiary remote station.
1. I hate worms. 2. Goddamned blood moons back to back. 3. Need craftable teleporters to bed locations or something. Still in the underground level, trying to find enough iron for more than a helmet. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 22, 2011, 11:52:01 AM Summoned the Eye of Cthulhu, and in the middle of the fight "You feel an evil presence..." Killed the first one right as the second spawned, and managed to keep even with the second until dawn. Which was my first Goblin Army invading from the West (which is right?) long fight for nothing other than some spiky things and cash
And it was 3am. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 22, 2011, 11:54:14 AM Craftable teleporters would be awesome. My trick for getting back to the surface is to just log out; logging back in puts you at the spawn point.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: bhodi on May 22, 2011, 12:31:19 PM Craftable teleporters would be awesome. My trick for getting back to the surface is to just log out; logging back in puts you at the spawn point. ?? Why not the magic mirror? I have 4 of the damn things. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ezrast on May 22, 2011, 12:49:25 PM 1. I hate worms. The first worms you meet actually aren't too bad if you just stand in one place and swing your pick continuously as soon as you hear them coming. They're fragile and will only hit you once or twice before they die.The corrupted 100HP monstrosities, on the other hand, I have no clue. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 22, 2011, 02:29:02 PM Pick? Didn't think of that. I'm at iron right now, so I've been using the iron bow+flaming arrows. My remote station has a series of platforms around it so when I hear them coming I can run out and hit it from most directions. It also has a chimney for slimes to climb up with a 1-block murder hole at the top once they build up enough. Easy money/slime goo.
Rendakor, right now my spawn point is at my second remote location, so I'm quite a distance from my vendors. Though your trick would be good for getting back to the adventuring point from home station. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 22, 2011, 02:43:54 PM Ahh, I never built anything underground. And I've yet to find a magic mirror, so I have to use the logout trick.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 22, 2011, 04:07:01 PM Ahh, I never built anything underground. And I've yet to find a magic mirror, so I have to use the logout trick. On my second world, my entire base is just a bit above the underworld. I made a straight shoot all the way down and then I use the grappling hook when I want to stop. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 22, 2011, 04:19:35 PM Hmm I may be a retard but is there a trick to placing walls underground? It won't let me.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 22, 2011, 04:26:45 PM Not sure, but iirc the plain brown dirt counts as a wall and you have to hammer it out (revealing sky, even "underground") to put up another wall. Once you get to where the background dirt has rocks in it, you can wall over that.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 22, 2011, 04:32:02 PM It won't let me hammer the background dirt or place wood/stone walls.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 22, 2011, 04:48:52 PM You can only hammer out walls from an edge, so you have to hammer down from the surface.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 22, 2011, 05:04:04 PM The corrupted 100HP monstrosities, on the other hand, I have no clue. For those one's it's best to use something that hits through them like shurikens. They die as soon as one part of them is killed so you just keep firing through them and eventually one of the parts will die. It won't let me hammer the background dirt or place wood/stone walls. The walls with rocks in them aren't really walls. They're like the sky. You just place a wall right ontop of them like normal. I'm not sure if you can do it in the underground though. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Jade Falcon on May 22, 2011, 07:11:17 PM It won't let me hammer the background dirt or place wood/stone walls. I found that it wouldn't let me start building unless I brought it up from the ground I was standing on then just pickaxe out the part you don't want like when I'm making steps up or something. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 23, 2011, 12:18:41 AM I'm in full Gold armor and not sure what to do next. The Eye of Cthulu came out once at random and fucked my shit up, and I haven't seen a new type of material in a while besides Obsidian (which doesn't appear to be all that useful). Any tips?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on May 23, 2011, 12:49:13 AM I'm in full Gold armor and not sure what to do next. The Eye of Cthulu came out once at random and fucked my shit up, and I haven't seen a new type of material in a while besides Obsidian (which doesn't appear to be all that useful). Any tips? What I did was explore along the surface. You run in to one of two things: meteorites or "corrupted areas." If you find a meteorite, you can mine the ore if you can hold off the enemies. Might be tough with gold gear, though. If you find corrupted areas, look for deep chasms and at the bottom there will be shadow orbs, which you can break with a hammer. Often, to reach the orb you'll need dynamite (most picks won't go through ebonstone, which replaces stone in corrupted areas). Once you break it, it drops a decent treasure. If you break a few (two or three) the Eater of Worlds will spawn, and he'll follow you, even if you die. Keep respawning and eventually you'll wear him down, and he drops some nice loot as well as demonite ore, which you can forge into armor (or a nightmare pick, which will dig through ebonstone). I'm stuck after that, though. I hear there's some jungle with loot in it, but I've dug up half the map and can't find it. Hell's too crowded for me to get anything done. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 23, 2011, 12:51:01 AM Ahh yea I found the corruption, good call on using Dynamite since my gold pick couldn't hack it.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 23, 2011, 01:59:31 AM I'm stuck after that, though. I hear there's some jungle with loot in it, but I've dug up half the map and can't find it. Hell's too crowded for me to get anything done. I read if you basically go to the middle of the layer above hell and just dig across the map that you'll find it. The depth given was 700 meters for a small map I think. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 23, 2011, 10:11:35 AM Ahh yea I found the corruption, good call on using Dynamite since my gold pick couldn't hack it. If you keep digging down, you will eventually come to the Underworld. Or Hell. Its full of nasty teleporting fire imps that can shoot through the walls and floors. There is a new kind of ore all over the place down there called Hellstone. You also need to use your hammer to retrieve a Hellforge to forge the hellstone. To forge the hellstone in to hellstone bars you need 6 hellstone ore and 2 obsidian and a hellforge. This makes some of the top end stuff. For me I found the best way was to just suicide mine the ore by ignoring the imp, and just constantly swinging my pickaxe to block the majority of the imps fireballs. If a Bone Serpent spawns, ether just die or use your magic mirror to escape and come back down as you wont be able to kill one yet. One trick with the imps, its almost impossible to block their fireballs when they are below you, so dig down as fast as you can. Another tip that I found out. You can dig through lava by filling it up with stone first. This was I made a straight tunnle from the surface all the way to the bottom of the word. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: jakonovski on May 23, 2011, 10:30:15 AM I want a sci-fi Terraria with nuclear wars, alien invasions and bunker building.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 23, 2011, 12:05:28 PM Another tip that I found out. You can dig through lava by filling it up with stone first. This was I made a straight tunnle from the surface all the way to the bottom of the word. I'm pretty sure that's a bug. I've been able to do that with water and putting dirt blocks into water doesn't displace any of it. You can make an entire pond disappear by placing dirt blocks over the water. Dig them out, the water's gone. Boo! Much more fun to engineer a reservoir for the water to drain into that doesn't hamper your tunnels, imo.I spent most of last night connecting my two remote bases by a massive tunnel. I got tired of climbing out of my good remote base and hiking half the map to get back to the newbie tower. Made a 3-block high tunnel straight across and turns out the first remote base was only about ten blocks lower than the second! Came across enough caves along the way to keep it interesting, too. Filled out my iron armor, got some silver. Is it me or do the silver tools give no utility bonus, just +1dmg? Both iron and silver read 45% tool power. Also found a pair of flippers for flooded chambers and learned how to make goddamned potions, so now I'm not dying all the time. Thanks for the tip of using the pick on the worms, much better than the bow! You know what this game needs? A dose of Dungeon Keeper tools. Give me some traps to defend my bases from the monsters! Fun game and tons of potential to be a lot more. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on May 23, 2011, 12:49:04 PM I hear there's some jungle with loot in it, but I've dug up half the map and can't find it. I read if you basically go to the middle of the layer above hell and just dig across the map that you'll find it. The depth given was 700 meters for a small map I think. I tried that (except at 700 ft, and I'm on a medium map) and got nada. Literally dug a horizontal passage across half the map from the spawn to the ocean. And I know the jungle is in that direction, because I stumbled on it once early on when I was just wandering around, but I didn't leave a trail to follow and I can't find it again. Rrgh. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: bhodi on May 23, 2011, 01:23:10 PM If you're looking for a specific biome, just use the world viewer (http://terrariaworldviewer.codeplex.com/) to find the underground jungle / dungeon.
I also went from exploring caverns finding gold ore directly to hellstone by doing what Morfiend described. Then, I went back and broke orbs and dealt with corruption in full molten gear. Sadly, this means I skipped two levels of ore/gear (meteorite/demonite). I haven't explored / searched for floating islands yet, and I hear the developers are going to flesh them out so I am taking a bit of a break from the game. I found it was pretty easy to dig a two square path directly down from my house's cellar. When I ran into lava, I used sand to fill the two sides and directly underneath and then mined out underneath and continued on. I did the same for water. Sand was particularly useful because it drops down and so it's very easy to fill an entire tunnel cavern by holding down right click and spewing a wall from the top. Then, it was just one magic mirror trip to heal/offload and about 20 seconds of falling directly downwards to get back. Then, at the bottom, I used a single square of cobweb to grab me and stop me from dying. Then, I created a one square pathway to easily run to the left and right which I used to get to mining spots, a hellforge, and chests a-plenty. All you need is a gold pickaxe, a magic mirror, and a bit of patience. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 23, 2011, 01:48:59 PM Wait...can you place cobwebs?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: bhodi on May 23, 2011, 01:55:46 PM Yes.
I forgot to add that doing it in the way I described lets you easily create vast amounts of obsidian; simply block up the tube at the lava layer and remove the sand walls on some water that you must have tunneled above. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 23, 2011, 01:58:57 PM Looks like our method will not work anymore. You know need at least the Demonite Pickaxe to mine hellstone and obsidian.
Sky, yes you can place cobwebs, and use them to stop yourself safely from a long fall. I was doing this before I got good at using the grappling hook and the cloud in a bottle double jump. I have a 2 black shaft from the surface all the way to the bottom of the world. I have yet to find any jungle. I killed the Eye of Cthulu. My next boss is the old man who says to come back at night. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 23, 2011, 02:24:43 PM Skeletron is tough, haven't killed him even in full Shadow armor with a Big Spiky Ball and Lightsaber.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 23, 2011, 03:28:06 PM I chuckle when I look at our steam playing times. I definitely don't have a gaming 'achiever' mindset...but this game is pretty great for explorers. 20 hours in and in Iron armor :grin:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 23, 2011, 04:16:33 PM I chuckle when I look at our steam playing times. I definitely don't have a gaming 'achiever' mindset...but this game is pretty great for explorers. 20 hours in and in Iron armor :grin: Yea I'm doing the same. I'm 27 hours in and still just in full silver armor. I've got some meteorite but not enough for a full set yet. I'm really just trying to move through the game in the order I think was intended since I don't want to run out of stuff. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 23, 2011, 05:58:49 PM Eleven hours, iron armor. I move water using a bucket.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 23, 2011, 06:47:11 PM Wait - you can move water with a bucket?
I hit the darker layer where you find skeletons after putting up two cord of wood after work tonight. Also found a massive silver patch and a couple hunks of gold. Still wish silver were a more worth tier, it's almost like an mmo in that... Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: brellium on May 23, 2011, 07:51:44 PM Wait - you can move water with a bucket? You can also move lava in buckets.I hit the darker layer where you find skeletons after putting up two cord of wood after work tonight. Also found a massive silver patch and a couple hunks of gold. Still wish silver were a more worth tier, it's almost like an mmo in that... Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 23, 2011, 08:24:30 PM Lava pits are fun with a blood moon. Hope the Goblins are just as dumb.
Also, I seem to have flooded hell to the roof. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 23, 2011, 09:07:46 PM I just had Eye of Cthulu spawn in the middle of a Goblin army invasion. Not. Fun.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 24, 2011, 06:35:01 AM Also, I seem to have flooded hell to the roof. The water physics seem a bit screwy, if you try to drain a cavern to access it it seems to produce several times the amount of water you originally started with. I'm 11 hours in, iron armor with a magic boomerang. I flood my mines. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: NiX on May 24, 2011, 07:56:16 AM The water physics seem a bit screwy, if you try to drain a cavern to access it it seems to produce several times the amount of water you originally started with. I'm 11 hours in, iron armor with a magic boomerang. I flood my mines. Anything with physics seems a bit off right now. If you place sand at a point where it'll fall, it creates a placed block below, but also drops a block. You end up with only losing 1 or 2 blocks for every 4-5 you let drop from physics into a spot. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 24, 2011, 12:04:44 PM I noticed that too.
I have my full silver armour, all gold equipment and I'm getting attacked by Cthulu any time I go onto the surface at night. I trekked over to the dungeon only to get owned by skeletron, but I'm not sure what I am supposed to do next. I have a good network of shafts that take me down to ~750 feet below, and I have a magic mirror. Just keep going deeper? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 24, 2011, 12:14:41 PM Cthulu will keep spawning until you kill him once; after that you have to spawn him yourself. I'd keep going down until you've got full gold armor and a grappling hook; also try to find/make some obsidian so you can get an Obsidian Skull and mine meteorites.
Next you want to look for the corruption area (take some dynamite with you) which will be up on the surface. There are these very deep shafts; at the bottom of some of them you'll find Shadow Orbs, which have rare items in them. You won't be able to mine the corruption until you have a demonite pick, but you can blow up the bottom with dynamite and loot the Orb. After breaking 3 Orbs the World Eater boss comes out; the loot from him (and also Cthulu) will let you make Demonite tools, the next tier. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 24, 2011, 01:14:46 PM Ok, thanks a lot!
I have a grappling hook, and the boomerang, but I don't see how I can kill Cthulu doing 10 dmg per hit when he also despawns as soon as day comes. Is there a better weapon I should be using? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Azuredream on May 24, 2011, 01:47:25 PM Cthulu will keep spawning until you kill him once; after that you have to spawn him yourself. I'd keep going down until you've got full gold armor and a grappling hook; also try to find/make some obsidian so you can get an Obsidian Skull and mine meteorites. Next you want to look for the corruption area (take some dynamite with you) which will be up on the surface. There are these very deep shafts; at the bottom of some of them you'll find Shadow Orbs, which have rare items in them. You won't be able to mine the corruption until you have a demonite pick, but you can blow up the bottom with dynamite and loot the Orb. After breaking 3 Orbs the World Eater boss comes out; the loot from him (and also Cthulu) will let you make Demonite tools, the next tier. Obsidian can't be mined unless you have a better than gold pickaxe. It seems like they intend that you kill Cthulu as soon as you have full gold stuff but I ran into K9's problem of not being able to kill him before sunrise. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 24, 2011, 02:27:19 PM Try throwing stars, I heard they work good.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: bhodi on May 24, 2011, 02:58:03 PM Yeah, I bought and used about a hundred shruikens. It worked fine.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 24, 2011, 05:58:59 PM As soon as Cthulu message pops up just make a huge wooden platform quite a ways up in the air (like maybe 15~20 blocks up and 50 across). Then hop up on the platform and start pelting shurikens at him constantly.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 24, 2011, 07:00:27 PM Obsidian can't be mined unless you have a better than gold pickaxe. It seems like they intend that you kill Cthulu as soon as you have full gold stuff but I ran into K9's problem of not being able to kill him before sunrise. That must be a recent change, then.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Malakili on May 24, 2011, 08:52:06 PM I haven't played as much as you guys yet (mostly because I don't feel compelled to play alone, so I've only been playing with 1 friend who doesn't game as much as me), but I'm glad to see there seems to be quite a lot to do. At 7 hours in, we are still pretty newbish.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Wasted on May 24, 2011, 11:27:35 PM I find Starfury is good for Eye of Cthulu too. I've obsessively maxed out my mana, building long skyways between the floating islands is a good place to harvest stars. Have killed the eye twice now, and the worm once, in gold armour.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 25, 2011, 04:24:08 AM I finally got my gold armor and got another goblin invasion. I was using the demon bow with some of those unholy arrows and those things can seriously rip the goblins to shreds. The demonite bow is a substantial upgrade over the other bows because it fires much faster. I imagine the same combo would eat cthulu for lunch.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on May 25, 2011, 05:19:23 AM I'm progressing at a much slower rate, only in copper armor and just found gold for the first time. Part of the problem is that my six year old is playing the hell out of this game right now. She totally digs that we can play in the same world, so the stuff I make she can access and vice versa.
Had my first Blood Moon last night, that sure threw things off a bit. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: NiX on May 25, 2011, 06:23:58 AM Is there any trigger for the goblin army? I have yet to see one or even get a message.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 25, 2011, 07:33:18 AM Iron armor, not enough gold or silver for gold armor nor silver. I did make a depth gauge to link my distant bases underground and to the surface for easier travel. Maybe I shouldn't have used the largest map size...my base at the border of underground and the darker, skeleton underground is around 900' and it takes me about a minute and a half to run between my two underground bases on a straight tunnel across...though I just got the running shoes. I also made a gold pick, because, you know. Dig dug and whatnot.
Anyway. Cthulhu shows up and rips the shit out of me, Iron armor and Silver bow. I found it timely and laughed. Oh, got my magic mirror last night FINALLY. And figured out I needed to make separate buildings to get the nurse and demo to show up. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 25, 2011, 08:38:00 AM Anyway. Cthulhu shows up and rips the shit out of me, Iron armor and Silver bow. I found it timely and laughed. Oh, got my magic mirror last night FINALLY. And figured out I needed to make separate buildings to get the nurse and demo to show up. You dont need separate buildings, just rooms. They need walls, chair, table, light source and door. I have all my NPCs living in a big apartment block. Nix, I also have yet to see a goblin invasion. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 25, 2011, 08:55:34 AM My original tower has four stories that meet the requirements...unless the floor needs to be blocks? I wonder if it sees it as one giant room because it's wood platform floors, my first construction project.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: bhodi on May 25, 2011, 08:59:26 AM Is there any trigger for the goblin army? I have yet to see one or even get a message. You'll get it. I believe it's 7 days and nights, and having killed eye of cthulu, and have at least 10 gold, or something similar. There are a bunch of triggers for 'late game'.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 25, 2011, 09:33:57 AM My original tower has four stories that meet the requirements...unless the floor needs to be blocks? I wonder if it sees it as one giant room because it's wood platform floors, my first construction project. I think you may want to try closing off with stone (or relevant material) and see if that works. I seem to recall I had to put in a real floor, but once the merchant was in I replaced his ceiling with a long platform. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 25, 2011, 09:59:25 AM My original tower has four stories that meet the requirements...unless the floor needs to be blocks? I wonder if it sees it as one giant room because it's wood platform floors, my first construction project. I think this is the case, my upper tower has three stories with wooden floors between them and the guide is squatting in it. As soon as I added new rooms in my personal dungeon the merchant, nurse and demolitionist rocked up. So I think a room needs to be enclosed by proper walls (not dirt), have a door, chair and table and a source of light. I still haven't figured how to rebind by spawn point to a bed, but I'm not that worried as I built right next to my spawn. This game would be increasingly awesome with the addition of a way to craft mechanisms (lifts, traps, switches, pumps). Also, having some way to craft a whole stack of items without having to click hundreds of times would be great. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 25, 2011, 10:04:44 AM Make a bed from Silk and Wood, then right-click it to make it your spawn point.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 25, 2011, 10:12:49 AM Finally got a Mirror and a Lucky Horseshoe, the combo makes trips to hell for Hellstone SO MUCH EASIER. One 2wide shaft all the way to the floor of hell. No stops, no detours. Still haven't found the jungle, or beaten Skeletron, he just roflstomps me every time.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 25, 2011, 10:16:03 AM Also, having some way to craft a whole stack of items without having to click hundreds of times would be great. CTRL-right-click-and-hold I am told. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Morfiend on May 25, 2011, 10:21:29 AM Or since the last patch just right click and hold, and it will craft a bunch really fast.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 25, 2011, 10:56:08 AM Make a bed from Silk and Wood, then right-click it to make it your spawn point. I have a bed, right clicking seems to do nothing. I probably don't have it in the right sort of room or something, it's not a big deal. It sounds like I need to patch my game. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: bhodi on May 25, 2011, 10:58:35 AM your room need to have 4 sides, one door, and have the back covered. That's it. The thing is that you really need to have 3 full walls. One door on each side doesn't work. You need to have a solid wall for the side opposite the door. It must be at least 5 x 12.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 25, 2011, 11:54:09 AM My merchant happily moved into a room with two doors.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hutch on May 25, 2011, 12:46:26 PM your room need to have 4 sides, one door, and have the back covered. That's it. The thing is that you really need to have 3 full walls. One door on each side doesn't work. You need to have a solid wall for the side opposite the door. It must be at least 5 x 12. Mystery solved. I wondered why my bed wasn't changing my spawn point. I put it in a room that's more rough-hewn than the ones I made for my npcs. No door, and dirt walls. The ceiling might also not be high enough, can't remember. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Druzil on May 25, 2011, 12:53:43 PM Also for the bed, if you're underground in the dirt layer you have to break out the dirt and put in crafted background. In the rock & hell layers, it's look like there is background but there isn't, you can just put crafted down.
For Skeletron I found it's easier if you have cloud in a bottle/red balloon to help dodge the hands. Start the battle by climbing on top of the dungeon so that you have more room to jump. I focused on the hands first with the thorn chakram. Once the hands are dead he's pretty easy. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 25, 2011, 05:05:44 PM Make sure you're rooms aren't open to each other. I actually "destroyed" a room by connecting it via knocking out part of a wall. Thought I lost my dryad till I realized she was underneath the nurse.
Is there any trigger for the goblin army? I have yet to see one or even get a message. I believe you have to have 200 hp and destroy at least one chaos orb. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 25, 2011, 05:28:25 PM Thought I lost my dryad till I realized she was underneath the nurse. Hellooooooo nurse!:drillf: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 25, 2011, 06:40:59 PM Well, I'm pretty much finished except for checking out the floating islands. Only have 1 out 3 Molten armor pieces and it's way too much of a chore to make the rest, especially since I flooded hell.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Cadaverine on May 25, 2011, 06:46:04 PM Jesus. Picked the game up at like 5 AM today. Next thing I know my girlfriend is getting home from work at 4 PM.
Are all the ores hard to come by? I haven't had much trouble getting copper ore, but I can never seem to find more than a handful of iron/silver/gold when I do manage to find some. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Der Helm on May 25, 2011, 07:22:54 PM having some way to craft a whole stack of items without having to click hundreds of times would be great. Rightclick and hold, I think. edit: Oh... Hi there, page 6. :uhrr: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 25, 2011, 07:24:48 PM Are all the ores hard to come by? I haven't had much trouble getting copper ore, but I can never seem to find more than a handful of iron/silver/gold when I do manage to find some. I think the only ore I haven't seen much of is silver but I think it's because it doesn't stand out as much. Might depend on what size map you're playing, tooTitle: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on May 25, 2011, 07:36:50 PM I've been playing with my daughter still, two different characters in the same world. It's pretty damn awesome that I can delve down and bring her back hearts that she can use to add to her health. It gives her just a little extra leeway in trying to explore. I also just gave her my hand me down armors, too.
Like Minecraft, this has been well worth the purchase price many times over. And I only bought it four days ago. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 25, 2011, 07:41:23 PM Skeletron fell to my prowess (Thanks for the tip on the balloon) And I found the Jungle. Seems the trick with hell is just to tunnel all the way to the bottom, then dig sideways. Worms are still tough, but the imps are much easier when they're on your level, the pick will block most of their shots.
The fast spawning skeleton guys in the Dungeon seemed more tedious than anything else. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 25, 2011, 08:06:16 PM Make sure to upgrade the grappling hook to the ivy whip with items from the Jungle. Spider-manning around is a blast with it and also makes the lucky horseshoe moot since you can just send out multiple vines at the floor or walls to stop your fall.
The Muramasa, full shadow armor and two feral claw accessories make me a meat grinder for anything that comes near me. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 26, 2011, 01:37:05 AM Well I found one verrrry annoying problem. If you build a skybridge to find floating islands and a meteor hits the bridge you will get jackall meteorite. It just makes a big hole in the bridge with the edge of the hole turning into meteorite.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 26, 2011, 07:35:36 AM Minisharks are fun
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: ghost on May 26, 2011, 07:47:52 AM There is a apparently a huge chunk of this game that I've yet to see. I'm still looking for iron ore and fighting slimes.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hutch on May 26, 2011, 07:49:33 AM I put together a grappling hook, and the next night was a Red Moon.
Does the Red Moon do anything besides jack up the spawn rate on zombies? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 26, 2011, 08:18:50 AM I would strongly recommend the worldviewer for people stuck on a particular type of ore. You will often get huge areas of the map where there is none, and if you happen to be mining around one of those areas it can be quite frustrating.
I have myself a nightmare pickaxe and some meteorite/shadow armour now, thanks to the World Eater, who was pretty fun to fight. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 26, 2011, 09:02:32 AM Digging into the grey underground layer now, finally found a couple decent gold ore veins for a suit of armor. Also found the boomerang and then two pairs of runnings shoes and two cloud in a bottles (I already had one of each). Itemization needs some work :) If he can incorporate the richer crafting options (traps etc) and put in a diablo-style loot system, Terraria 2 could be even more amazing.
I think I'm more than halfway into my second bar of health (17, maybe?) but only a single star of mana, I don't spend much time overland and don't have any spells. For getting stuck on ore: while I'm not rolling in the 'current' tier of ore, I found much better results once I started exploring caverns. Right now I have four bases, my original base and then one around 400' from my initial mining under the original spawn area (desolate). Then I found a large cave system overland and found a bunch of ore (and chests and hearts) in there, built a second base. Connecting those two bases led me through a lot of side caverns with some gems and ore. Then I dug down to 900' for a fourth base, still in iron armor. Connecting that base to the others and to the surface for quick entry netted me enough for two silver armor pieces and a gold chestpiece. Then I started on the cave system I had built that base on top of, which has led me to a decent amount of all of the first four metals, gems, and chests/hearts. Just in case you don't want to use the worldviewer. I'm trying to avoid it, though I'd like to see an overview of my obsessive tunneling :) The boomerang is a game-changer! Finally, I know I'm not the only one who can't shake the feeling of this: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sand on May 26, 2011, 09:10:59 AM For those having trouble with ore (as I was) I had been playing for days now and randomly digging in different directions just hoping to hit something is not my idea of "fun".
Downloaded and installed the world viewer last night. Game is now much more "fun". Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 26, 2011, 11:07:45 AM I don't have ore trouble now that I am exploring caves instead of mining randomly.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 26, 2011, 12:04:19 PM That's a much more succinct version of what I was trying to say :why_so_serious:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on May 26, 2011, 12:52:26 PM Found lava. Using it as a light source does not seem easy, will need to experiment more.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 26, 2011, 03:45:40 PM Buckets of lava for great fun. Burn your whole wood house down!
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 26, 2011, 09:04:19 PM I like how my mineshaft to hell worked out. I don't have to worry about falling damage since I land in water and I can walk across the lava with an endless supply of obsidian. It's funny that I had to plug it up though, there's still quite a bit of water I could let drain down there.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/111434/oops.jpg) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: brellium on May 26, 2011, 09:12:57 PM Also, having some way to craft a whole stack of items without having to click hundreds of times would be great. CTRL-right-click-and-hold I am told. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 28, 2011, 05:13:05 AM So I now have a full set of shadow scale and I'm a bit confused where to go next. What's the order of difficulty between the jungle/dungeon/hell?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 28, 2011, 06:04:33 AM I'd say jungle-->hell-->dungeon. To me hell and the dungeon were about the same but after I did the dungeon first I found I really didn't have a lot left I wanted to do with no bosses or new enemies left to see.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 28, 2011, 07:06:28 AM I'd say jungle-->hell-->dungeon. To me hell and the dungeon were about the same but after I did the dungeon first I found I really didn't have a lot left I wanted to do with no bosses or new enemies left to see. That seems logical but doesn't the jungle have the hardest enemies of the 3? I wonder if this is confusing because they were forced to release early. It's like the game is missing it's last 2 bosses. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rattran on May 28, 2011, 09:10:14 AM Jungle-Dungeon-Hell from what I saw. Unless you pick up the water candles, in which case Dungeon is harder than Hell.
After visiting Hell and getting into full molten, the Dungeon was pretty breezy, and Necro armor would have been a downgrade. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 28, 2011, 09:20:52 AM That seems logical but doesn't the jungle have the hardest enemies of the 3? To be honest the jungle, dungeon and hell all seemed the same difficulty for me. I think from an armor standpoint it makes sense to do hell first to get molten and then beat Skeletron with it. When I did the dungeon first and then spent time in hell, mining to make molten felt moot because I had nothing left to do and it was more for completion than anything. It takes a LOT of hellstone bars to make molten just to say you did.Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Gunzwei on May 29, 2011, 05:02:43 AM Jungle-Dungeon-Hell from what I saw. Unless you pick up the water candles, in which case Dungeon is harder than Hell. After visiting Hell and getting into full molten, the Dungeon was pretty breezy, and Necro armor would have been a downgrade. Water Candle seems to work in other biomes as well. Makes farming jungle items much easier. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 29, 2011, 06:07:57 AM As much as I like this game, the spawn rate is obnoxious. Trying to mine meteorite in demonite armor with gold chestpiece, I'm sucking down my potion stock like mad, have no time at all to place any dirt blocks to get out of the mined pit. Similar thing when blasting the shadow orbs last night. Thank god for the mirror, because it's a nice "enough of this bullshit" relief. Hell, just trying to flatten out some terrain to make travel easier almost shuts down at night because of the endless stream of mobs.
Just gets really tedious. Boss mobs so far haven't been a huge pita, I've killed two. Not sure how long I'll be playing given how annoying the game has become with constantly having to stop and fend off waves of enemies for long stretches of time when I want to be doing something else. No idea how I'll mine the rest of that meteor, since I have to build up a platform to get to it, and there's no time to build anything because of the monster spawn rate there. Can't imagine how annoying it much be with a water candle! Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on May 29, 2011, 06:25:23 AM I just mine using dynamite now. Makes getting meteorite much easier since the mobs stop spawning once you've blown up enough of it.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on May 29, 2011, 06:48:24 AM Yeah, the spawn needs to be adjusted. I would appreciate more periods of heavier enemies interspersed with more periods of none. As it is, there are whole periods where I'm only attacking one thing, but just as that one dies another takes the place. Also, nothing better than having an Eye spawn while being hammered by six other mobs on the screen.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 29, 2011, 09:23:38 AM As much as I like this game, the spawn rate is obnoxious. Trying to mine meteorite in demonite armor with gold chestpiece, I'm sucking down my potion stock like mad, have no time at all to place any dirt blocks to get out of the mined pit. Similar thing when blasting the shadow orbs last night. Thank god for the mirror, because it's a nice "enough of this bullshit" relief. Hell, just trying to flatten out some terrain to make travel easier almost shuts down at night because of the endless stream of mobs. Just gets really tedious. Boss mobs so far haven't been a huge pita, I've killed two. Not sure how long I'll be playing given how annoying the game has become with constantly having to stop and fend off waves of enemies for long stretches of time when I want to be doing something else. No idea how I'll mine the rest of that meteor, since I have to build up a platform to get to it, and there's no time to build anything because of the monster spawn rate there. Can't imagine how annoying it much be with a water candle! The way I was doing it was to jump around until I had all the mobs on une side and then just bump them along with my pickaxe letting them take 1dmg per hit while I mined blocks with no problem. IT takes a little dexterity, but it is doable. In general though I agree, the spawns are not well balanced. The best fight is the eater of worlds where you are hitting a ton of stuff all the time; so having lots of mobs with pauses would definitely be an improvement. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 29, 2011, 10:50:28 AM Yeah, I'll qualify that with 'it's obnoxious when there is a stream of non-stop trash mobs the entire time you're in an area'. Maybe there should be a setting where once you've killed x mobs in n time, the spawn slows to x/5 for a while.
Next meteor: A Fistful of Dynamite. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on May 30, 2011, 04:16:32 AM Next meteor: A Fistful of Dynamite. I was all ready to do that myself but the meteor decided to drop halfway down a corruption chasm filled with water. :oh_i_see: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 30, 2011, 07:58:50 AM That sounds like you need MORE DYNAMITE.
So PROJECT DYNAMITE was a booming success, har. Now I've full shadow armor, laser pistol and lightsaber. My biggest dumbass moment thus far: "Oh shit, you can equip multiple accessories?" :oh_i_see: Last night. :uhrr: Sooo much better with my cloud bottle, running shoes and right now I have three obsidian skulls stacked for the defense, but I swap in a mana regen ring for tougher battles (pew pew). Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Quinton on May 31, 2011, 12:56:20 AM Picked this up and it's certainly an addictive little game. I do wish I could dial back the critter spawn rate a bit. I don't mind that there *are* critters, since I really enjoy the exploration aspect and stumbling over critters is part of it, but they really do swarm you more than is ideal.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: NiX on May 31, 2011, 06:52:44 AM If you don't like the spawn rate, then google down the hex hack for upping your res. The game was programmed to spawn enemies off screen, so the larger the resolution, the further out they spawn and in most cases that means they spawn where they can't get to you.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on May 31, 2011, 07:32:13 AM Eh, once you get better armor and weapons it mitigates is some. The trick with dynamiting the meteorite is a good one, but the lightsaber goes a long way to making the meteor guys less annoying (and having the obsidian skull so you're not getting bounced onto meteorite by the meteor guys and doing a damage ping-pong).
Then I decided to head straight down and got introduced to the imps and got frustrated all over again. That guy is a cruel, cruel, man. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on May 31, 2011, 09:38:30 AM I agree that things get better once you get better armour, but the pace of the game in that regard is really screwy. I spent a long time with nothing, then I went through copper, iron and silver gear (armour, weapons and tools) in very short order, then I had hours before I got into gold, but as soon as I was into gold I was able to crack shadow cores comfortably and I went through meteorite without even making a full set straight into shadow armour. Maybe my map was just unfortunate and had a dearth of gold, but I suspect they could balance the amount of ore you need for gear vs it's availability better.
I have a load of obsidian, and I guess I should go looking for this underground jungle. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on May 31, 2011, 08:30:04 PM Maybe my map was just unfortunate and had a dearth of gold, but I suspect they could balance the amount of ore you need for gear vs it's availability better. I suspect it's not so much how much gold is on the map (there's a lot, my brother has a gigantic castle made of gold bricks, gold walls, etc. plus his old set of armor) as it is how much is near where you're digging, which the game can't really predict. I'm kind of stuck ATM. Finally found the jungle (it's absolutely tiny on my map, frustratingly) but there's nothing there but enemies. I got my vine shot and chakrum thingy, but there doesn't seem to be anything else. Finished my hellstone armor and pickaxe, but there's nothing down there worth doing except mining hellstone which I don't need. The dungeon seems like it would be the logical place to explore, but every time I go in giant flying skulls pop in and hit me for 9999 damage. Wiki says I need to fight some boss after talking to an old man, but he's nowhere to be found. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Teleku on May 31, 2011, 08:49:53 PM Eh, once you get better armor and weapons it mitigates is some. The trick with dynamiting the meteorite is a good one, but the lightsaber goes a long way to making the meteor guys less annoying (and having the obsidian skull so you're not getting bounced onto meteorite by the meteor guys and doing a damage ping-pong). Actually, the meteor spawns were no problem at all for me. Just make sure you always keep them in front of you while you go to work digging away at the meteor. They'll run into your constantly swinging pick and get bounced back, until they die. If one comes from behind, just jump up, let it fly under and past you, then get back to work. Going back and fourth across the whole thing a few times like this, and I cleared it without getting hit by one of those things once. Never had to draw a real weapon either, and killed them all.Then I decided to head straight down and got introduced to the imps and got frustrated all over again. That guy is a cruel, cruel, man. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on May 31, 2011, 10:09:14 PM I suspect it's not so much how much gold is on the map (there's a lot, my brother has a gigantic castle made of gold bricks, gold walls, etc. plus his old set of armor) as it is how much is near where you're digging, which the game can't really predict. There should be an old man standing outside of the dungeon; talk to him at night and he'll turn into the boss.I'm kind of stuck ATM. Finally found the jungle (it's absolutely tiny on my map, frustratingly) but there's nothing there but enemies. I got my vine shot and chakrum thingy, but there doesn't seem to be anything else. Finished my hellstone armor and pickaxe, but there's nothing down there worth doing except mining hellstone which I don't need. The dungeon seems like it would be the logical place to explore, but every time I go in giant flying skulls pop in and hit me for 9999 damage. Wiki says I need to fight some boss after talking to an old man, but he's nowhere to be found. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Fargull on June 01, 2011, 07:21:49 AM Kail,
What Rendakor said; but just to clarify, the old man is setting on the surface infront of the dungeon. Fargull Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on June 01, 2011, 08:44:27 PM I'm not seeing him here, am I not looking in the right place? I dunno, I'm about ready to chalk it up to a glitch.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on June 02, 2011, 07:16:28 AM That looks like where he should be.
On my trip to hell: used my giant shaft to penetrate the depths and flood it (that's what she said) partly with water. At least I can get some hellstone, also nabbed a hellforge. Take me a few trips, I mirror out just before I die rather than suck down all my potions. Next trip down: DYNAMITE IN HELL. Then probably the (massive in my game) jungle and the dungeon. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Lakov_Sanite on June 02, 2011, 08:34:02 AM Dynamite won't break hellstone, just the ash and the bricks that make up the houses. However it IS a quick way to blow up a house and steal a hellforge to take back home.
Also on one of my world I talked to the old man, had him turn into skeletron and I was promptly killed. After that I wasn't able to find him in that world again. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on June 02, 2011, 02:53:21 PM Player
Players can no longer repeatedly double jump after touching the top of the world. Items NEW ITEM - Black Lens. NEW ITEM - Sunglasses. NEW ITEM - Jungle Armor (This has replaced Cobalt Armor.) NEW ITEM - (RARE and SECRET Item for casters) Go on! Find it! Fixed a bug that prevented Underground Jungle Seeds from spawning. Using the Cloud in a Bottle will now correctly reset fall distance. Set bonuses that provide more defense, now correctly match their tool-tip. All armor inventory icons have been improved. All player armor graphics have been improved. Iron, gold, meteor, and bone helmets have been changed graphically. Molten armor’s overall defense has been reduced. Meteor armor’s set bonus now reduces Space Gun mana cost to 0. Several magic items have had their damage increased. NPCs Added two new rare enemies that can both be found underground. The Demolitionist is now also triggered to arrive when the players have Sticky Bombs and Grenades in their inventory. All Skeleton graphics have been changed. The Guide now has hit and death effects. The Guide can now be killed by hostile NPCs. World Trees now become corrupt instead of being destroyed when touching the corruption. And the new corrupt trees become un-corrupted upon purification. Server / Multiplayer Created a console server with no video card requirement. Type help in the console for a full list of server commands. Increased client side multi-player security, this should help in the battle against broken character files. There is now a host and play option in the client, that will auto connect you to your own server world upon its creation. Corrected a bug that was causing the Server to send out liquid as water when it should have been lava. Clients are now able to connect to ports other than 7777. Slimes are synced better on multiplayer games. Accessories now correctly sync between players. Fixed a bug that would cause the player to get stuck on "Receiving Tile Data" when their spawn is placed near the world edge. Added -join , -port , and -pass command line parameters to the client to enable auto-join of servers. Misc. The game window is now re-sizable while in windowed mode. Full-screen resolution can now be changed in the options menu. Pressing alt+enter to toggle full-screen mode will no longer bring up the chat window. Fixed several bugs that would crash the game during world generation. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Lakov_Sanite on June 02, 2011, 03:23:03 PM Quote Using the Cloud in a Bottle will now correctly reset fall distance. :heart: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: LK on June 04, 2011, 03:57:55 PM Is there any kind of joint server running?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: justdave on June 04, 2011, 05:32:22 PM Also on one of my world I talked to the old man, had him turn into skeletron and I was promptly killed. After that I wasn't able to find him in that world again. This may not be that rare of an occurrence...Given the variable success of my many 'Cask of Amontillado' solutions for dealing with the guide, I think the spawn code is a little wonky. :grin: However - While, if you descend into the dungeon during the day with the old man alive the roving skeletron head hits you for 9999 and instakills you, I've read that it's the normal head during the night, and counts as a boss kill if you drag him out and defeat him. Haven't tried it yet, personally. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on June 04, 2011, 06:30:08 PM Meteor armor’s set bonus now reduces Space Gun mana cost to 0. :drill: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on June 10, 2011, 10:18:23 AM Pretty impressive update just now. Tons of new gear and enemies. Vanity items and a vanity item npc.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on June 10, 2011, 10:26:14 AM Looks like I'll be stocking up on a few piggy banks and making a new world when I get home.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on June 10, 2011, 11:57:00 AM (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85916/terraria/bunny.png)
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on June 10, 2011, 12:55:18 PM If you were thinking it's great that spawn rates were lower when you expanded the window, too bad. They're back!
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on June 10, 2011, 12:56:21 PM Who wants to set up a dedicated server for us?
http://www.terraria.org/terraria-server.zip (Alternatively, we can have a host of servers set up, Bat Country # or whatever). Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on June 10, 2011, 02:40:07 PM My VDSL is too flaky, but I'm on board for hijinks.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on June 10, 2011, 02:45:03 PM 7777 password: cantstophere Having some weird issues. Was working for a bit, took it down. Will look at it tonight/in the morning. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: schild on August 09, 2011, 10:11:13 AM Quote New Enemy - Lava slime, this enemy leaves behind lava on death New Enemy - Hellbat New Enemy - Demon New Enemy - Jellyfish (Two variations, Pink and Blue) New Enemy - Shark New Enemy - Vulture New Enemy - Crab New Enemy - Antlion Changed the way worm enemies spawn. Bats, Hornets, and Eyeballs no longer enter water. Slimes now float in water. Only one giant slime will appear at a time. The Guide now seems quite knowledgeable in what an item can be made into if you show it to him. NPC shops now sell some items on certain nights, or after certain events. Devourers should no longer gain random other enemies as its head. The Nurse now charges the correct amount for healing. Bats now have a death sound effect. Talking to the old man at night will give the player a warning now before summoning the dungeon boss. Entering the dungeon before defeating Skeletron now spawns a new NPC instead of Skeletron’s head. This should fix several issues with that event. Enemy coin drops have been adjusted. Man Eaters and Snatchers are no longer effected by knockback and can attack through walls. Eater of Souls’ and Hornet AI has been improved. Enemies now take up different amount of *slots* depending on AI style and strength. This will help balance conditions when there are lots of strong monsters spawned at once, such as Imps and Bone Serpents. Fish are no longer upside-down when out of water. Green slimes have been weakend so that start players can deal with them more easily. Slimes and Flying enemies no longer make a splash sound when hitting water. Items of “Blue Rarity” or higher no longer burn up in lava. Burning Skull has been renamed to Cursed Skull, and given different AI. Enemy caster’s have had their rate of fire slowed down. Meteor heads have less health, do more damage, and move slower. There are now slight size variations to the Eater of Souls and the Angry Bones. Skeletron has less defense and health. Items New Feature : Buffs activated by Using Potions. Right click a buff to remove it from yourself. New Item : Hellfire Arrow. New Item : Sandgun. New Item : Guide Voodoo Doll. New Vanity Items : Familiar Wig, Shirt, Pants to be worn in Social slots to “Hide your Armor”. New Vanity Items : Doctors Shirt and Pants. New Item : Diving Helmet. New Item : Night’s Edge New Item : Dark Lance New Item : Demon Scythe New Item : Trident New Item : Coral New Item : Cactus New Item : Spear New Item : Glowstick New Item : Sticky Glowstick New Item : Throwing Knife New Item : Poison Knife New Item : Silver Bullet New Item : Wooden Boomerang New Item : Blowpipe New Item : Seed (Ammo for Blowpipe) New Item : Obsidian Skin Potion New Item : Regeneration Potion New Item : Swiftness Potion New Item : Gills Potion New Item : Defense Potion New Item : Mana Regeneration Potion New Item : Magic Power Potion New Item : Featherfall potion New Item : Spelunker Potion New Item : Invisibility Potion New Item : Shine Potion New Item : Night Owl Potion New Item : Battle Potion New Item : Thorns Potion New Item : Archery Potion New Item : Water Walking Potion New Item : Hunter Potion New Item : Gravitation Potion New Item : Daybloom New Item : Daybloom Seeds New Item : Moonglow New Item : Moonglow Seeds New Item : Blinkroot New Item : Blinkroot Seeds New Item : Deathweed New Item : Deathweed Seeds New Item : Waterleaf New Item : Waterleaf Seeds New Item : Fireblossom New Item : Fireblossom Seeds New Item : Shark Fin New Item : Feather New Item : Gold Chest New Item : Bottled Water New Item : Tombstone New Item : Illegal Gun Parts New Item : Antlion Mandible The Silver Short swords recipe has been corrected, it is now craftable. Torches and candles no longer work when wet. Destroying a placed sign while you are reading it will no longer cause your character to become frozen. Rocket boots no longer require mana. They will provide lift for 1 second and recharge every time the player touches the ground or uses grapple. Lift speed has been slightly increased to offset loss of long flights. This makes the boots more viable for caster Characters. The explosion animation for bombs is now correctly displayed in multiplayer. There is now a message pop-up when the player receives an item. Filled Buckets may no longer be emptied into solid ground. Pots in the underworld now have a chance to drop hellfire arrows. Handgun and Phoenix Blaster have been reduced in size. Lowered the knockback of Muramasa. Reduced the damage of the Blue Moon. Flintlock Pistol and Musket have increased damage. Only normal trees drop acorns. Falling sand clumps are no longer carried by magic missiles/flamelash. Jungle armor is no longer a drop. It is a craftable set. Magic Mirror now requires mana to be used. Harpoon and Maces now correctly show the player’s arm animation. The arms dealer will sell unholy arrows at night after the Eater of Worlds has been defeated. Space Gun does more damage, but only penetrates 2 enemies. Server Spam detection is less aggressive. Increase multiplayer security. Fixed a bug that could crash the server when the max amount of clients are connected. Added an option to enable additional cheat protection for servers. Servers now hibernate when no players are connected. Blood Moons now stop correctly if time is changed to day by the server. Game Interface Upon death, A more specific death message will appear for other players, so they know how you died. The crafting and armor interface text will fade out when an item tooltip is in front of it. The Hot Bar now shows the name of the selected item. PVP now requires 5 seconds between Activation and Deactivation and visa versa to prevent PVP spam. The same cooldown is in effect for Team Changing as well. Added hotkeys for quickly drinking healing, mana, and buff potions.The healing/mana potion you use is based on the same principle arrows are. Top-Left most item first. The buff potions are all used at once. Holding right click on an empty space in the inventory will no longer make a sound effect as if something was there to be picked up. Defense totals are now shown in your inventory. World Gen Tweaked the way sand is created during world gen. (Requires new world.) Oceans are now slightly larger and generation layout has been improved. (Requires new world.) Cacti now grow on sand. Coral now grows in the ocean. Chests can now spawn near the surface of the world. They will contain treasure that new players may find useful. (Requires new world.) Chests and pots now contain loot based on the level they spawn in. (Requires new world.) Gold chests will now spawn in some parts of the world. (Requires new world.) Corrupt chasms have less of a chance to spawn on jungles. They also now have a cave connecting most of the chasms. (Requires new world. Traces of demonite are created during world gen. (Requires new world. Surface jungles have been enlarged, and will override deserts. (Requires new world. Jesus. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on August 09, 2011, 10:22:34 AM That's the patch that was released a while ago. Here's the one for today:
Between both of them it's a whole lot of :heart: :heart:. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Malakili on August 09, 2011, 10:23:04 AM Woah.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Quinton on August 09, 2011, 11:05:41 AM Time to fire this up again!
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Torinak on August 09, 2011, 01:37:31 PM Between both of them it's a whole lot of :heart: :heart:. And if anyone is still on the fence about this game, it's the Midweek Madness special on Steam now for just $4.99! Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Ghambit on August 09, 2011, 02:27:56 PM Is there a dedi. server?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Malakili on August 09, 2011, 05:39:39 PM Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Paelos on August 09, 2011, 08:01:53 PM Between both of them it's a whole lot of :heart: :heart:. And if anyone is still on the fence about this game, it's the Midweek Madness special on Steam now for just $4.99! I finally gave in. I resisted for a while but two patches and $5, why not? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Thrawn on August 10, 2011, 05:32:45 AM Huh, those patch note lists are pretty big. My just have to re-install this and give it another try.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on August 10, 2011, 07:15:11 AM Sounds interesting. I really didn't like the change to higher resolutions. At my native resolution I can't see crap, so I was still playing it at the original 640x480 :)
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nebu on August 13, 2011, 10:17:44 AM Been playing this the last week off and on. Fun little game. I'm trying to get a friend to join me for some multiplayer. I think it will be more fun.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Lakov_Sanite on August 14, 2011, 10:06:38 PM The games a lot of fun but it's over quick once you know what to do. The problem I guess for me is that world building isn't as fun in 2d as it is in minecraft so once I've beaten all the bosses I get bored. I think adding a few more challenges to the game would go a long way, instead of adding lots of little flavor items, I mean what's even the point of the dungeon when it's guarded by the hardest boss in the game? Just getting through the front door means there's no reason to go any deeper.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Rendakor on August 14, 2011, 11:36:49 PM I agree Lakov; I never built anything besides the basic houses required for NPCs to move in.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kageru on August 14, 2011, 11:39:11 PM No support for left handed mouse or mouse remapping, bleh. Glad I got it on special.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on August 15, 2011, 06:06:02 AM The best solution for that is to stop being a freak. :why_so_serious:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on August 15, 2011, 06:41:00 AM I made a new world and I am having fun; I have definitely had my money's worth building my lair, and they keep adding new things. If they make a DLC or expansion that adds a new world type (maybe a sci-fi theme perhaps?) I would definitely buy it. I don't mind the little vanity fluff they add; I like the building and crafting elements of the game.
I mean what's even the point of the dungeon when it's guarded by the hardest boss in the game? Just getting through the front door means there's no reason to go any deeper. I'd agree with this, Skeletron is a lot harder than anything else in the game, even after they rebalanced him. They are missing a final boss down in hell, since the new progression route means you have to do the dungeon to get the keys to open shadow chests in the underworld. Yet you are probably going to hit the underworld before you can beat Skeletron. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on August 15, 2011, 06:46:55 AM I like the building and crafting elements of the game. That's the main reason I play it. I'm not a big fan of old-school platformy gameplay, there were certain times in the game where I almost quit because it sucked so bad. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Nebu on August 15, 2011, 07:39:22 AM Been playing this with a friend (I host the game as server) and find it to be much more enjoyable. I'm also avoiding any online sites that provide hints/spoilers to see if I can get as much mileage as possible. I need something to keep me busy until SWTOR and GW2 come out.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on August 15, 2011, 08:18:59 AM The most satisfying thing I have done so far was having to redirect multiple lava lakes to enable the construction of my hellevator in my new world, and then placing them somewhere underneath a water source to make an obsidian factory. The game has a lot of potential for depth; I would love to see the addition of devices and machines, but I am happy finding problems to solve for now.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Ghambit on August 16, 2011, 10:11:02 PM Are there logic gates/circuits you can build?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Ingmar on August 17, 2011, 03:02:51 PM I finally got around to trying this. It doesn't really hold a candle to Minecraft for me, but I can see why some people might like this better.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on August 17, 2011, 03:34:00 PM Are there logic gates/circuits you can build? Not really, there's not much in the way of buildable mechanisms (doors, I think, is just about it). The only physics in the game that don't apply to players/mobs are 1) tiles can be destroyed (usually by the player, but meteors can do it randomly), 2) water flows horizontally if it's unbounded, 3) water and sand will fall if they're unsupported, 4) corrupted ground slowly corrupts ground around it, and 5) peroidic day/night cycles can change the lighting and monster spawns. I can't think of a way to build a circuit out of that, I can't even come up with a way to kludge something out of water flowing through channels because there's no pressure and there seem to be glitches with the volume (water randomly appearing/disappearing when you move large quantities of it around). Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on November 23, 2011, 08:13:38 PM Arise! :awesome_for_real:
So Terraria is on sale again for autumn but the more important thing seems to be the massive content patch coming this December with new mechanics on housing, pumps for physics, new bosses, and new biomes. For some reason Terraria has scratched my itch and I have played through single player hardcore and am moderately far... (I should have done a radicalthon) ah well Overall I'm ridiculously excited and when you're bored of Skyrim you'll have something to check out! Full details here: http://www.terrariaonline.com/ Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on November 29, 2011, 08:29:30 AM I was just watching the trailer for this. Seems like a pretty massive update. Comes out Thursday?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on December 01, 2011, 10:49:05 AM Update for this just went up. Titanium drill here I come! :drill:
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on December 01, 2011, 11:22:30 AM It's also $2.50 on Steam today for the three people left that haven't played it.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on December 04, 2011, 03:27:26 PM I just clocked a 12 hour stint this Sunday on it.
It's amazing, you do need to play with friends for decent social but me and 3 mates all rerolled characters to get new hairstyles and a new world with all the spawns and it was legendary. If you have to play by yourself don't, wrangle a friend into doing it with you and you'll enjoy the game as it was meant to be. We've only scratched the surface of the new content and it's been great due to the excitement of new things. Try to avoid patch notes/learning too much about the new worlds and patches. Diablo style identifiers on weapons and accessories (Murderous Meteorite hamaxe) is amazing. Be warned that Mediumcore characters will reset the items attributes though. (You can get it reforge for with a random attribute for free though). Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Thrawn on December 04, 2011, 07:28:12 PM Does this go on sale very often? Christmas again maybe? I realized after it wasn't on sale anymore I have at least 4 people I can think of I should buy this for that cheap.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on December 04, 2011, 07:46:50 PM Does this go on sale very often? Christmas again maybe? I realized after it wasn't on sale anymore I have at least 4 people I can think of I should buy this for that cheap. Yeah, it seems to be on sale a bit so I'd just wait for Christmas sale (I'm thinking $5 for christmas is most likely). Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: tazelbain on December 05, 2011, 09:30:50 AM Nice, another game I am bad at. Yet I somehow feel compelled to suffer through and try to figure this out.
Is there in point in having multiple worlds? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Soulflame on December 05, 2011, 12:32:48 PM Some reasons: fight bosses again, spawn certain ore types, get different colors of dungeon bricks.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on December 05, 2011, 08:49:25 PM It's essentially for starting again and finding more of the same.
What I tend to do is have new worlds with certain characters and playgroups. Plus you can be really insane and have a world where your house is near each of the different areas If you need any non spoiler tips just ask, otherwise Ironskin potions and healing potions are your friends. Also don't be afraid of minor upgrades, it all adds up. Meanwhile I did another ridiculous stint and am now sleep deprived. The patch is monumental but don't binge too hard on it otherwise you will be burnt out... :awesome_for_real: It really does refresh the game quite significantly even though it's starting to hit mudflation in some aspects :heartbreak: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: tazelbain on December 06, 2011, 10:56:32 AM So I found a patch with glowing mushrooms where I got my hook and my first gold ore. I am more into to it but I kinda boggling at how much it could take to find the next interesting area. Maybe it was a mistake to make my world huge.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on December 06, 2011, 05:21:52 PM So I found a patch with glowing mushrooms where I got my hook and my first gold ore. I am more into to it but I kinda boggling at how much it could take to find the next interesting area. Maybe it was a mistake to make my world huge. Yeah, a large world can be shade tedious if you're soloing. So despite my intent to return to normal patterns of sleep my friends and lack of willpower have meant that I clocked another solid session in the new biomes of Terraria. I'm clocking some pretty intense sessions and I think the curve for the new content and items may be a tad too hard for someone to solo progress, however with an unemployed friend and an eagerness to sleep deprive oneself, the new content difficulty is close to perfect. Also the money sink of reforging/gambling is EXTREMELY addictive and Diabloesque. :heart: :drill: :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: tazelbain on December 07, 2011, 07:03:57 AM Played a small world for 15mins, much happier.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: tazelbain on December 08, 2011, 03:57:14 PM So my thoughts far: early game is weak.
There needs to be a recommendation about what size of world to create. The earlier copper/iron/silver/gold seems like tedious grid so can survive to go explore the interesting parts of the game. Gappling hook needs to come earlier. The first underground layer is extremely boring. It feels like a more tedious version of Dig Dug. Sand should not stack vertically like that! Above all there should be more to do in variety to do in the early game besides grind ore. If I didn't have for-knowledge on the interesting things to come I would have quit. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 08, 2011, 08:27:06 PM My thoughts on early game:
Early game is mainly about building NPC huts and crafting stations. Somewhere to store everything so you can make stuff out of it. Which mainly means that you'll want to be collecting dirt, wood and stone. While you're getting that you kill slimes to get gel and make torches. Replant acorns to grow more trees because you will use a lot of them in wooden platforms which you can pass through. Wooden platforms get you through until you can get yourself a hook. While you're wandering the surface chopping wood, look for caves that hopefully decend into a network, that will save you a lot of digging and will often have lots of ore within sight range. Follow networks down until you get to deeper levels for more ore. This works a lot better in multiplayer, more so if you have people that like to explore bringing materials back to people who like to build. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amaron on December 09, 2011, 01:40:34 AM The earlier copper/iron/silver/gold seems like tedious grid so can survive to go explore the interesting parts of the game. Gappling hook needs to come earlier. I think the problem is there's no way to see where the ore is at lower levels. The reality is it's all over the place but digging up an entire screen to look is :uhrr:. Later on you can get something called a prospector's potion that shows you where all the ore on screen is. The problem is that potion requires an herb from the jungle which is fairly rough for newbs. I feel like he should add some sort of divining rod for ore that new players can use. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 10, 2011, 03:52:31 PM I used the Spelunker Potion last night for the first time and those things are amazing.
It really is funny to see how close you've missed big pockets of ore by and this is on a world with a few people playing quite a lot. I think an early accessory that points you to the nearest metal without any way of telling what it is would be a great addition. I also like the thought of a higher end accessory that you could build that specifically shows a type of ore, so you'd need to build another one for each type but you could always see any that you have equiped. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amarr HM on December 21, 2011, 06:53:47 AM I've held off getting this since first seeing it here in May, due to College. Three weeks off for Christmas and I'm now playing the shit out of it.
Have a Junior castle with a Moonglow greenhouse underneath, I built an area to fight ctulhu which consists of eight storeys of dotted wooden platforms (I spent way to much time on that dotted them cause I didn't have enough surplus wood :P), he was fairly easy once I constructed that. I'm in awe of how much they've put into this game. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on December 21, 2011, 03:30:03 PM I've held off getting this since first seeing it here in May, due to College. Three weeks off for Christmas and I'm now playing the shit out of it. Have a Junior castle with a Moonglow greenhouse underneath, I built an area to fight ctulhu which consists of eight storeys of dotted wooden platforms (I spent way to much time on that dotted them cause I didn't have enough surplus wood :P), he was fairly easy once I constructed that. I'm in awe of how much they've put into this game. Yeah likewise. I've been spamming it like the plague due to it scratching a sandbox itch I neglected. I've been playing a hardcore game by myself which means death is permanent wipe which opens a new perspective on the game forcing me to be more careful and do more preparation. I finally got to hard mode though and boy did I underestimate it and died fully geared because of complacency. Ah well :oh_i_see: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 21, 2011, 08:54:12 PM I built an area to fight ctulhu which consists of eight storeys of dotted wooden platforms Once you get to lava you can add to that by lining the outer area with walled in lava.Since bosses go through walls and you don't, they get hurt and you're fine. I'm currently toying with the idea of setting up traps to help with bosses but dart traps are hard to come by. Also, just because a friend didn't realize this recently, did you know you can plant acorns to grow more trees? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Bann on December 21, 2011, 09:23:40 PM I've got 60 hours played and just figured out the holding down shift puts a torch in your hand (great for running around at night) and hitting H drinks a healing potion.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 21, 2011, 09:58:44 PM I've got 60 hours played and just figured out the holding down shift puts a torch in your hand (great for running around at night) and hitting H drinks a healing potion. Didn't know about shift, I almost always wear a mining helmet because I hate not being able to see under water.B drinks one of each of your buff potions. Can be really handy if you are falling into lava. Can be hilarious when Llyss forgets they have gills potions in their inventory :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Soulflame on December 21, 2011, 10:53:29 PM Putting down dart traps sets them to fire on unfriendlies? I picked up a couple and thought about trying it out, but wasn't sure if they'd target me or my enemies. Now I'll set up a welcoming dart trap or two for those goddamn zombies and slimes by my house.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 22, 2011, 12:14:02 AM Putting down dart traps sets them to fire on unfriendlies? You need to get the mechanic so that you can wire the traps and set a trigger (pressure plate, switch or lever)If you use a pressure plate then anything that steps on it will set off the trap. So long as you put it in a place that monsters trying to get into your base but you can avoid walking on yourself, then you'll be fine. Also, pressure plates you place yourself are pretty obvious. (good thing monsters are stupid) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amarr HM on December 22, 2011, 05:36:17 PM Once you get to lava you can add to that by lining the outer area with walled in lava. Since bosses go through walls and you don't, they get hurt and you're fine. I'm currently toying with the idea of setting up traps to help with bosses but dart traps are hard to come by. Also, just because a friend didn't realize this recently, did you know you can plant acorns to grow more trees? Yep I have an area for growing trees. Thanks for the lavatip though, I'll definitely use that one. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on December 22, 2011, 05:56:22 PM I've got 60 hours played and just figured out the holding down shift puts a torch in your hand (great for running around at night) and hitting H drinks a healing potion. Didn't know about shift, I almost always wear a mining helmet because I hate not being able to see under water.B drinks one of each of your buff potions. Can be really handy if you are falling into lava. Can be hilarious when Llyss forgets they have gills potions in their inventory :awesome_for_real: Lost one of my hardcore characters like that... H for health pot and shift for torches is awesome. I'll remember those short cuts! Darts definitely hit friendlies as well as zombies so they're not the best but ah well. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Xanthippe on December 27, 2011, 12:36:27 PM Heads up - Terraria is currently $2.49 on Steam sale.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Soulflame on December 27, 2011, 04:33:48 PM Shift will bring up the tool you need at the moment, depending on where your cursor is. Torch or glowstick depending on environment, pick for digging, hammer for other things, and I assume axe for trees.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 27, 2011, 10:58:05 PM Shift will bring up the tool you need at the moment, depending on where your cursor is. Torch or glowstick depending on environment, pick for digging, hammer for other things, and I assume axe for trees. Just found that out while trying Bann's suggestion.So handy while trying to build/mine after your world has transitioned to hard mode. Keep your item set to a weapon, shold shift while working, release while fighting. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on December 28, 2011, 06:36:51 AM I only wish this game weren't based on NES platforming. Sounds like they've really made it almost an entirely new game since I bought it.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 28, 2011, 09:03:55 PM The last content patch has made a huge difference.
When I first got the game I only played it for a few hours, messing around really, but after beating a few bosses with no trouble I went back to Minecraft. The first content patch had a similar result, started again and played for about twice as long, I was building while my friends were exploring. This content patch with the hard mode conversion, new (much better) items and bosses has really extended things out. There are a few items in the game that really change your mobility and it makes you feel like you've achieved something. One of the really fun things for me, mainly because I like building, is helping out friends that are starting over, or just starting out. Having wings and an ice rod means that I really don't have to be near the ground while traveling, which means that I can find the floating islands really easily. Having the wings, grappling hook and soon a Hamdrax means that I can construct and deconstruct with ease. I spend a lot of my time digging tunnels to the jungle/dungeon/sea/hell while everyone else runs around getting metals and stuff that I then build bases out of for them, so that no one really needs to stop doing what they enjoy to get the full experience. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on December 29, 2011, 06:22:44 AM Honestly, the fire imp dudes completely killed the game for me. The light platforming was tolerable because the exploration and building was interesting. Then they toss in dudes that teleport and shoot through walls. Even the worm dudes were more annoying than fun.
I got over 40 hours out of it, so I definitely got my money's worth and it was a very early build. But adding more 'interesting' enemies doesn't sound interesting to me. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amarr HM on December 29, 2011, 06:48:50 AM I spend a lot of my time digging tunnels to the jungle/dungeon/sea/hell while everyone else runs around getting metals and stuff that I then build bases out of for them, so that no one really needs to stop doing what they enjoy to get the full experience. I actually quite enjoy building bases. Especially since the mechanic joined and I've setup a bunch of traps to takeout the Goblin Armies. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 29, 2011, 10:51:46 PM Honestly, the fire imp dudes completely killed the game for me. The light platforming was tolerable because the exploration and building was interesting. Then they toss in dudes that teleport and shoot through walls. Even the worm dudes were more annoying than fun. I agree with you there.I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with creatures that do that. It would be nice if they made a type of brick or something that could prevent monsters from teleporting into it or tunneling through it. I actually quite enjoy building bases. Especially since the mechanic joined and I've setup a bunch of traps to takeout the Goblin Armies. What sort of traps are you using?I need to find more dart traps as I've used a couple on my statue grinder and having one on either side of my base doesn't cut it. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amarr HM on December 30, 2011, 02:01:28 PM Pretty basic, just two trapdoors at either entrance which drop into pits. These have opposing dart traps I have approximately 13 of them it seems.
Since then I unlocked hardmode & ... Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on December 30, 2011, 03:27:44 PM If memory serves, the best way to deal with things that bounce is to make a V shape leading to pit that you don't really care about.
They'll fall down and blow up away from your traps Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rk47 on January 02, 2012, 05:28:26 PM Interesting game. I got confused with wood wall and wood tile difference at first, but got used to the game and blew away 12+ hours.
Just before leaving for work, the game gave me a cryptic message 'You feel an evil presence watching you...' :why_so_serious: Can't wait to get home. edit: no steam cloud save supported ? Would love to show this off when i visit my cousins. Couldn't resist - started a new game at work. Got shelter up. Nightfalls, ready for a tunnelling job...then the idiot guide did this: (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/829607/terraria/01.jpg) I jumped up the platform, locking myself inside his room. It's a good thing zombies can't jump on the wooden platform else it would've been a quick death. Fuck it, when morning comes, i'm going to make 2 doorless walls to cover the outer perimeter. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on January 02, 2012, 10:14:02 PM Zombies can jump up wooden platforms but most of the time they will wander back and forth under that room, not being smart enough to open the door, jump up and come back towards you.
If NPCs are too stupid to live then all you have to do is wait for the next day and a new one will take it's place. Not sure if you want to ruin the surprise of what that message means... or the fun you'll have in a blood moon with that house :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rk47 on January 02, 2012, 10:30:00 PM ....can't wait to go home.... :grin:
edit: fuck the eye. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on January 03, 2012, 08:25:31 PM Hooray for bosses.
He is just the first of many :) Welcome to Terraria, where I feel entirely appropriate wearing my "R'Lyeh is for lovers" t-shirt and talking about this :awesome_for_real: Fake Edit: Scratch that, it's true everywhere... Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Amarr HM on January 04, 2012, 10:00:03 AM Once you get to lava you can add to that by lining the outer area with walled in lava. Since bosses go through walls and you don't, they get hurt and you're fine. I tried this with a Wyvern and the twins it doesn't work for me, I've heard meteorite-ore walls do though. Game crashed while saving & I lost my inventory and all my money. Luckily I backed up my character but I still lost the pwnhammer and the Demon Scythe :( I'd advise to make copies of your user data as much as possible. (C:\Users\$USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Terraria) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Reborne on January 04, 2012, 08:30:34 PM That's weird.
Maybe they patched it out? I haven't tried it in a while since I don't really take on bosses in single player and in multi, if one of you is alive then everything is fine. The game is getting to the point that backing up could be worth while. If it was just inventory and money though, I've got plenty of both stashed away on both my own worlds and on friends' Losing worlds on the other hand would be kinda annoying. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: rk47 on January 04, 2012, 09:39:11 PM The lack of steam cloud is also annoying. I don't want worlds to save over, maybe just my character. Small gripe. But that's it. Persuading a friend to buy a copy now to co-op.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: koro on February 21, 2012, 11:53:16 AM And in other news, after one last patch, Terraria is pretty much done (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/my-fellow-terrarians.81455/). Reddit is not pleased, which makes me chipper as hell because fuck Reddit.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: MuffinMan on February 21, 2012, 04:26:05 PM I don't get the people crying about Terraria being "dead." I guess my definition of the word is different from theirs.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: koro on February 21, 2012, 06:59:09 PM It's mostly people beginning to realize that the "paid alpha/beta" formula for funding a game with the promise of free content updates doesn't necessarily mean that the developers of said game are going to continue to crank out updates beyond the point that they feel the game is finished. So they then down a couple Entitlement Pills and rage on Reddit about the devs and how dare they I paid a whole $3 for Terraria on Steam two months ago they better listen to me and shackle themselves to this game no matter what and do everything we tell them because we made you, bitch! and if they absolutely must be giant pussies (who are also turbogay) and stop developing the game (and you only stop when we tell you to!) then they better release a mod API or better yet the source code because ~the community~ will take up where those slackers left off.
Of course I have heard from more level-headed people that it's disheartening/irritating to hear the devs throwing in the towel on development so quickly since there was apparently a "laundry list" of features that were slated to be coming down the pipe that likely won't make it now, but those more level-headed people don't mind too much since Terraria gave them plenty of entertainment value for their small investment. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Kail on February 21, 2012, 07:08:04 PM Of course I have heard from more level-headed people that it's disheartening/irritating to hear the devs throwing in the towel on development so quickly since there was apparently a "laundry list" of features that were slated to be coming down the pipe that likely won't make it now.... Hmm, what features? I can't really think of anything else they could really add that would improve the game, really... I mean, some easier multiplayer would be nice, but otherwise, what all can you add or change? I guess you could add more monsters/items/biomes, but you could do that forever, and it's not like the game is critically short of them now. It looks pretty much done to me, I'm surprised the game saw as many updates as it did. It's not like there were gaping content holes or missing functionality that I noticed back even when it launched. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: koro on February 21, 2012, 07:12:38 PM Of course I have heard from more level-headed people that it's disheartening/irritating to hear the devs throwing in the towel on development so quickly since there was apparently a "laundry list" of features that were slated to be coming down the pipe that likely won't make it now.... Hmm, what features? I can't really think of anything else they could really add that would improve the game, really... I mean, some easier multiplayer would be nice, but otherwise, what all can you add or change? I guess you could add more monsters/items/biomes, but you could do that forever, and it's not like the game is critically short of them now. It looks pretty much done to me, I'm surprised the game saw as many updates as it did. It's not like there were gaping content holes or missing functionality that I noticed back even when it launched. No clue what the features were, aside from being told it was part of an announcement the head dude made sometime late last year. I never really followed Terraria's development much beyond hearing about a new update, hopping into the game, tinkering with it, going "Yep, this is still not a very fun game", and then quitting after a couple frustrating hours. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on February 21, 2012, 08:10:07 PM I certainly got my money's worth out of a much more primitive version (before resolution changes went in!).
But that's why I commented the other day about Minecraft's continued development, since MC is the game I prefer. Still, I find it hard to believe people are bitching about such a great little game. I put in over 40 hours AND DON'T LIKE SNES-LIKE SIDESCROLLERS. Yaaay internets. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Llyse on February 21, 2012, 09:14:32 PM Pretty much this.
It provided amazing entertainment for so little. The fact that the interwebz is crying so much about it is how big it got to attract such a wide following. It's a shame that there's no mod api available but that's the way it is. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Ruvaldt on February 21, 2012, 11:44:00 PM Good on the developer for making a great game. I received more enjoyment from this game than I get from most triple-A titles, and it cost me a lot less money to do so. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat, regardless of the lack of future development.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on February 22, 2012, 04:33:30 AM Yup, that's my feeling pretty much exactly. No shame in quitting on a high note, especially when you have a family to raise. All power to them
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Tebonas on February 22, 2012, 05:03:09 AM All those entitled fucks should go screw themselves.
Terraria was worth its (unreduced) price back when it was first sold. And that is not even counting the updates till then. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: apocrypha on February 25, 2012, 02:22:18 AM Picked this up a couple of days ago, mostly because of skimming through this thread!
Paid full price for it - all of £6 I think, and already feel it was well, well worth that. Lot of fun! I did install a map viewer after about 12 hours of play and it's interesting how it turns it into quite a different game. I had fun trying to mine meteorite early on (in iron gear mostly) by building extensive scaffolding above it with wooden platforms! Took ages but I got well kitted out as a result. :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: jakonovski on February 25, 2012, 07:45:50 AM Mod tools would probably make them a nice profit, but the game has had an excellent run im any case.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Thrawn on March 01, 2012, 07:20:05 AM My wife will be crushed, she is pretty addicted to the game. But I also have my doubts she will ever beat Wall of Flesh either so probably no big loss.
I don't read a ton of forums but the ones I do seem to mostly be "Well that really sucks, but I got my money's worth." Makes me glad I don't read Reddit I guess if they really are raging that badly about it. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on June 02, 2012, 09:25:02 AM Has anyone mentioned this: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/03/far-from-terraria-firma-starbound/
Looks pretty cool. Terraria in space with different planets to visit and a customizable space station. Co-op with seeded worlds you can share with friends. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: LK on June 02, 2012, 09:41:10 AM That's a compelling evolution of the formula. Props to the dev team.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Bann on August 18, 2013, 05:55:35 PM Terraria popped up again on my radar after reading that a large content update is due soon - now looking like mid September. New Biomes, bosses, weapons, items, etc. That certainly whet my appetite, and since I was already digging around I came across this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BFo3QRxbD6M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BFo3QRxbD6M) Its Dark Souls redone in Terraria. I've spent nearly all day on the red cloud map - its a massive world without the ability to place blocks or destroy walls more than 1 tile wide. the trailer says around 200 new items, but I think the most recent verision has added even more than that. If you enjoyed Terraria and have not checked it out yet, I cannot recommend it enough. Get it here. (directions for installation with Steam Terraria are included in the zip.) http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/dark-souls-mod-released.87913/ (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/dark-souls-mod-released.87913/) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Maledict on September 02, 2013, 10:27:14 AM This just launched on the Ipad so I decided to give it a spin (ipad games don't break my vow of not buying any games until my back catalogue is reduced!). Seems interesting enough although the controls are a bit wonky, and I find it impossible to actually place a door anywhere. Not sure I have the right command.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on September 02, 2013, 01:00:08 PM I'm not even sure how anyone would play the last 90% of Terraria without a controller or keyboard.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: koro on September 02, 2013, 01:22:52 PM Well the controls are pretty awful no matter what it's played with, so I guess it evens out in the end?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Soulflame on September 03, 2013, 08:34:06 AM As someone with 500+ hours into Terraria, I have no idea what you are talking about when you say the control scheme is terrible. Perhaps you could specify exactly what about it is terrible?
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Maledict on September 03, 2013, 08:38:40 AM Wish I had gotten into this earlier actually - unlike mine raft I find myself really enjoying this.
The control scheme is an ass though. Even zombies mess me up just due to the controls! Is the game okay to control on the consoles or is the PC version definitely better? Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on September 03, 2013, 10:06:30 AM As someone with 500+ hours into Terraria, I have no idea what you are talking about when you say the control scheme is terrible. Perhaps you could specify exactly what about it is terrible? Yeah, I'm not sure what the problem was with Terraria's controls. I took to the PC version immediately, and when the kid and I played PS3 co-op that was even pretty decent. The PS3 version was harder to place things without the fine mouse control, but boss fights were immensely easier with a pad. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Yegolev on September 03, 2013, 10:57:51 AM I find controls on the 360 to be overall better than the PC. It's due to small things, such as the square highlight that tells me how far my reach is, and the thing where you can set it to dig a three-high tunnel in front of you without manual targeting. Nevermind the easy simultaneous pressing of key buttons such as jump/attack/grapple.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sky on September 03, 2013, 11:19:52 AM The thing that killed the game (platforming combat notwithstanding) was when they broke away from hardcoded 640x480 or whatever it was. While this helped with the (awful) offscreen attacks from mobs that ignore walls, it shrunk everything down super tiny. Or you could blow it up (I've been compromising with 720p on a 1080p monitor) and deal with less than ideal mob behavior.
I put in a solid 40+ hours before the resolution 'fix' and maybe 2 hours after. Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: jth on October 01, 2013, 01:34:28 AM The big content update (1.2) is out. I noticed it had updated on Steam, but I'm supposed to be working so watching a livestream for now (http://www.twitch.tv/tornis (http://www.twitch.tv/tornis)).
Edit: Changelog (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nubZZSGBoUiuKFKzWT7raMrPI35MQtDWSsL-MbHFgqs/preview?sle=true) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Soulflame on October 01, 2013, 08:15:45 AM I played a bit last night. It's prettier, it's got a ton of new stuff, it has a lot of QoL changes.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: tazelbain on October 01, 2013, 08:46:38 AM Wow thats pretty huge. I still interest in fighting the wall of with a mouse and keyboard
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: K9 on October 01, 2013, 08:58:51 AM
:why_so_serious: Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: jth on June 29, 2015, 10:50:38 PM It's time to Arise! for Terraria 1.3 content update, should be out today around the time Steam updates.
My work calendar looks empty for tomorrow, I'm tempted to take a day off. link: Changelog and official update thread (http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/1-3-changelog.20617/) Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Hawkbit on July 13, 2015, 09:01:54 PM This fucking game. It sucked me in for another round with this new patch. I can't think of a game in my life that has come near the value for the fun. Between playing coop with my kid on the PS3, now playing coop with her on PC.. It never ends.
Title: Re: Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria. Post by: Sophismata on July 16, 2015, 02:28:17 AM This fucking game. It sucked me in for another round with this new patch. I can't think of a game in my life that has come near the value for the fun. Between playing coop with my kid on the PS3, now playing coop with her on PC.. It never ends. Absolutely. I bought this game on sale for about $2 and I have gotten more than my money's worth. With the new updates and content adds the game just keeps delivering. Hardmode, and now Expert mode, the seasonal content, UI and UX improvements... |