Terraria: If Minecraft and Metroidvanias had a baby

Here's to hoping Terraria 2 will be on Steam too :D

A friend of mine gifted Terraria awhile back. The copper pickaxe is giving me goddamn carpal tunnel syndrome.

Is there a general rule to looking for iron that I'm missing, or do I have to keep digging and pray to god?

edited 29th Dec '14 12:50:54 AM by mrsunshinesprinkles

Explore caves; you'll see either it or its alternate (although I don't remember what that is) eventually without needing to dig beforehand.

Sometimes you'll find Iron or Lead near the surface. I suggest skipping Iron and going straight to Silver/Tungsten or Gold/Platinum for your first Pickaxe upgrade.

I too got gifted the game, and it's been a blast. Went on epic underground expeditions, and even saw a Mushroom area down there.

Killed an undead miner and got a hook. Now I've made a floating stone complex just of the ground. High enough for me to double jump up to. Can Wraiths jump that high? Just trying to prepare in advance.

Wraiths will fly and float through whatever they want to, but you won't find them every night like zombies and demon eyes.

Nevermind, I apparently know nothing about wraiths. I checked the wiki, and 7 tiles high is enough to prevent wraiths, so yes, you should be safe from them.

edited 29th Dec '14 4:05:58 PM by Nintendork64

Wraiths can jump but not fly.

Just got this game a few days ago. Since everything seems to drop presents this time of year (and said presents can contain weapons), I managed to entirely skip the starter equipment tiers .

Something amusing about using the Red Rider the kill the Eye of Cthulhu. . .

A question to more veteran players: My primary world is a crimson world, so if I import some corruption seeds from another world and plant them on an isolated floating island

• Am I reasonably safe to say it won't infest other places being this far up, and. . .
• Can I spawn the Eater on it?

edited 29th Dec '14 4:22:35 PM by carbon-mantis

I'm thinking that an aerial island would not work for an Eater battle. It's a worm based boss.

Yes and yes, but as mentioned, fighting the Eater wouldn't really work, as it would either jump off the edge or dig too far down (then fall to the real ground and be unable to return).

Would it be possible to isolate a patch of corrupted ground to keep it from spreading?

Yes. Build a brick wall around it and a gap of at least 3 squares. The corruption can only spread through infected sand, vines, grass and stone, so if none of those elements have an opening then you should be fine. Just be a bit more cautious with the vines though - they can grow in unusual angles, and meaning that they could potentially escape out of a gap and infect untouched ground. That's why you want the brick wall, to prevent the vines from growing past it in the first place.

I don't even bother with bricks - clay works just as well, as do wood or ash. (although ash of course requires you to have gone down far enough to collect it)

I got this for free from the Amazon Appstore...why can't I get past the enter-your-name part? LOL

Playing a new mage character.

Hahahahahaha the Water Bolt is awesome.

I was reading the Terraria wiki, and I'm not sure I understand how Corruption spreads pre-hardmode. Apparently it only spreads along grass or something?

Don't worry about the corruption in before hardmode: it spreads so slowly, that the effects it has on the environment are easily negligible, even reversible. To illustrate a point, it whereas the hardmode corruption would probably take over a screen's worth of land in an hour or two, the pre-hardmode corruption would take a whole real-world day to accomplish that.

edited 1st Jan '15 9:01:16 AM by SgtRicko

All you really need to remember is that Sunflowers are like corruption roadblocks pre-hardmode.

The only trouble I've had with corruption/crimson pre-hardmode is when it borders a small ocean beach. It seems to spread to sand faster than other blocks to me. To block it off I dug a 3 block wide hole half-way to hell and filled it with all of my spare candy blocks.

True, the corruption/crimson will spread far more quickly in the sand. However you don't even need to make the dividing ditch that deep: just a screen's distance away from the encroaching biome followed by a small dividing tunnel below the biome you wish to protect ought to do the trick. It's what we did to protect our assets on the Terraria server in the past.

The mobile version has a lot of bugs. I was able to go past the enter-your-name part by tapping rapidly on the enter button. Alas, I am still unable to place any doors.

I lucked out and fond a bomb statue early on, so digging holes to hell is pretty easy even on a large map like mine . Two slime kings left me with a full 999 stack of gel, so I have a nice reserve of stickybombs for quick excavation purposes.

According to the wiki, in hardmode fished crates have a small chance to give a small pile of hardmode ingots. Before I drag my main world into it I'm hoping to get a nice bank of them to get a bit of a head start.

Also found that an above-ground mushroom biome is not a nice place during a bloodmoon. The enemies spawned are probably the worst things to fight, especially for someone still on normal mode. The damn ladybugs it spawns are lightning fast and do 50-60 damage per hit to someone in full molten armor, and have something like 250 hp each.

It's nice to know that speed-buffing fixes make pickaxes work even faster. Just one of the ways they trump drills in Terraria.

Some of my worlds have artificial fishponds. I should make Biome-themed artificial fishponds.

edited 2nd Jan '15 5:31:48 AM by AceOfScarabs

Mechanic rescued. What kind of fancy contraption should I make first, I wonder?

I've somehow managed to successfully flood a small piece of hell. . .

The fishing catches suck.

edited 2nd Jan '15 6:18:24 AM by carbon-mantis