Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria.

[Nonentity]

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.

[Morfiend]

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.

[Amaron]

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.

[Nonentity]

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.

[Amaron]

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? 

[Nonentity]

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.

[Hawkbit]

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.

[Amaron]

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.

[cosapi]

I would like to learn how to pleasure a woman but the only woman I know is my mom. 

[Thrawn]

Buy it. Do it.

Did it, tried it...

Can I have my $10 back?

[Malakili]

Buy it. Do it.

Did it, tried it...

Can I have my $10 back?

Nope, I think steam sales are final.

[jakonovski]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[rattran]

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.

[Rendakor]

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.

[bhodi]

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.

[ezrast]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Rendakor]

Ahh, I never built anything underground. And I've yet to find a magic mirror, so I have to use the logout trick.

[Morfiend]

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.

[MuffinMan]

Hmm I may be a retard but is there a trick to placing walls underground? It won't let me.

[Sky]

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.

[MuffinMan]

It won't let me hammer the background dirt or place wood/stone walls.

[Rendakor]

You can only hammer out walls from an edge, so you have to hammer down from the surface.

[Amaron]

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.

[Jade Falcon]

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.

[Rendakor]

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?

[Kail]

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.

[Rendakor]

Ahh yea I found the corruption, good call on using Dynamite since my gold pick couldn't hack it.

[Amaron]

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.

[Morfiend]

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.

[jakonovski]

I want a sci-fi Terraria with nuclear wars, alien invasions and bunker building.

[Sky]

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.

[Kail]

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.

[bhodi]

If you're looking for a specific biome, just use the world viewer 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.