Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria.

[Reborne]

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?

[Bann]

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.

[Reborne]

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   

[Soulflame]

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.

[Reborne]

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)

[Amarr HM]

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.

[Llyse]

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   

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.

[Xanthippe]

Heads up - Terraria is currently $2.49 on Steam sale.

[Soulflame]

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.

[Reborne]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Reborne]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Amarr HM]

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.

[Reborne]

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.

[Amarr HM]

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 & ...

[Reborne]

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

[rk47]

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...'  

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:


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.

[Reborne]

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 

[rk47]

....can't wait to go home....

edit: fuck the eye.

[Reborne]

Hooray for bosses.
He is just the first of many :)
Welcome to Terraria, where extra-dimensional horrors, that don't believe in walls, think that your servants look tasty

I feel entirely appropriate wearing my "R'Lyeh is for lovers" t-shirt and talking about this 

Fake Edit: Scratch that, it's true everywhere...

[Amarr HM]

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)

[Reborne]

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.

[rk47]

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.

[koro]

And in other news, after one last patch, Terraria is pretty much done. Reddit is not pleased, which makes me chipper as hell because fuck Reddit.

[MuffinMan]

I don't get the people crying about Terraria being "dead." I guess my definition of the word is different from theirs.

[koro]

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.

[Kail]

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.

[koro]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Llyse]

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.

[Ruvaldt]

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.

[K9]

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

[Tebonas]

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.

[apocrypha]

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.