Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria.

[Sky]

Wait...can you place cobwebs?

[bhodi]

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.

[Morfiend]

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.

[rattran]

Skeletron is tough, haven't killed him even in full Shadow armor with a Big Spiky Ball and Lightsaber.

[Sky]

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 

[Amaron]

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 

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.

[Yegolev]

Eleven hours, iron armor.  I move water using a bucket.

[Sky]

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...

[brellium]

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...

You can also move lava in buckets.

[rattran]

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.

[MuffinMan]

I just had Eye of Cthulu spawn in the middle of a Goblin army invasion. Not. Fun.

[K9]

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.

[NiX]

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.

[K9]

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?

[Rendakor]

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.

[K9]

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?

[Azuredream]

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.

[Morfiend]

Try throwing stars, I heard they work good.

[bhodi]

Yeah, I bought and used about a hundred shruikens. It worked fine.

[Amaron]

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.

[Rendakor]

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.

[Malakili]

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. 

[Wasted]

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.

[Amaron]

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.

[Hawkbit]

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. 

[NiX]

Is there any trigger for the goblin army? I have yet to see one or even get a message.

[Sky]

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.

[Morfiend]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[bhodi]

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'.

[Yegolev]

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.

[K9]

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.

[Rendakor]

Make a bed from Silk and Wood, then right-click it to make it your spawn point.

[rattran]

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.

[Yegolev]

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.