Minecraft? You can't spell that with Terraria.

[Morfiend]

Or since the last patch just right click and hold, and it will craft a bunch really fast.

[K9]

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.

[bhodi]

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.

[K9]

My merchant happily moved into a room with two doors.

[Hutch]

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.

[Druzil]

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.

[Amaron]

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.

[Sky]

Thought I lost my dryad till I realized she was underneath the nurse.

Hellooooooo nurse!

 

[MuffinMan]

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.

[Cadaverine]

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.

[Der Helm]

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. 

[MuffinMan]

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, too

[Hawkbit]

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.

[rattran]

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.

[MuffinMan]

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.

[Amaron]

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.

[K9]

Minisharks are fun

[ghost]

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.

[Hutch]

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?

[K9]

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.

[Sky]

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:

[Sand]

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".

[Yegolev]

I don't have ore trouble now that I am exploring caves instead of mining randomly.

[Sky]

That's a much more succinct version of what I was trying to say 

[Yegolev]

Found lava.  Using it as a light source does not seem easy, will need to experiment more.

[rattran]

Buckets of lava for great fun. Burn your whole wood house down!

[MuffinMan]

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.

[brellium]

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.

Hold down right mouse button

[Amaron]

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? 

[MuffinMan]

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.

[Amaron]

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.

[rattran]

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.

[MuffinMan]

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.

[Gunzwei]

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.

[Sky]

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!