Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria.

[rattran]

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!

[Amaron]

There's a new wiki that's a bit better than the other that launched:

http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/Terraria_Wiki

[ezrast]

Man, fuck this interface with a spoon.

[Vaiti]

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?

[Morfiend]

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.  

After playing some multiplayer last night. Yes, we need a server like now.

[ezrast]

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. 

[RUiN 427]

I want this for mac, and no I don't want to run bootcamp again. Sounds like you are all having lots of fun.

[Morfiend]

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.

[Nonentity]

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.

[Morfiend]

Fire imps really suck if all you have is a gold shortsword. That is all.

[Sky]

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.

Hmm..I happen to have an XP box running in Fusion on my mid-2010 mini. Downside: I'm using a magic mouse, which is an amazing mouse except for the spotty right click detection...so not so hot for gaming.

[ezrast]

This game is making me re-download Dwarf Fortress.

I knew I shouldn't have listened to you guys.

[Modern Angel]

What sort of person lets Dwarf Fortress leave their hard drive in the first place? 

[Sand]

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?

[Kail]

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:

[Amaron]

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.

[Sand]

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:

[Sky]

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.

[Kail]

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...

[Amaron]

What version are you using?  I thought goggles were taken out?

I just got a hook finally  .   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.

[rattran]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Yegolev]

Successful rooms:


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.

[Sky]

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.

[Hutch]

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 :)

[Morfiend]

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.

[Vaiti]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Yegolev]

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.

[Vaiti]

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.

[Modern Angel]

I haven't had any issues but I'm building free standing houses for each dude, just to be safe.

[Morfiend]

For ideas on bases, check out this thread. Some of these are really sweet.

Linky

[Sky]

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  

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!

[Nonentity]

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.

[Morfiend]

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.