Terraria: If Minecraft and Metroidvanias had a baby

Molotovs are still amazing for early game consumables. 40 base damage plus spreading flames that do continuous damage is still OP in a consumable that can be crafted entirely with early-game-accessible renewable resources.

FIVE DAYS LATER

JUNE 2015? Well, okay ._.

Cool. Figured it wouldn't too much longer before we heard something.

It'd be cool if whatever bug may be causing Terraria to horribly crash on me gets fixed. I was enjoying the game and had just finished building my black pyramid.

I wonder if the Crimson will be making an appearance in Otherworld?

0:25 - Crystal Caves type of biome, player has red armor, horned helm, and a shield with a gold section.

0:28 - Magma-depth Cavern, player has Wings, a red sword which appears to either have glowing effects or something, and what appears to be white armor with a masked helm that has what looks like a gold crown component (Hallowed?).

0:33 - Purple (Corrupted?) terrain, player wearing what appears to be a dark armor that resembles Turtle Armor with a rocky shield, and wielding a sword with a golden blade and purple handle/crossguard (Link called, he wants his Golden Tempered Master Sword back)

0:36 - Player is indoors inside a spooky house with angular decorative motif, skull-shaped clocks/furniture, and cobwebs, Biome outside has a dark (obsidian-like?) rocky texture with lava veins glowing (Underworld?!) and lava pools in the rocks beneath. They are engaged in combat with spooky scary skeletons that are throwing purple magic missiles while wearing armor that appears to have similar motif to their silver, spiky shield (Titanium?), and they are wielding a flamethrower.

0:43 - Player is outdoors in purple (Corrupt?) biome, blasting out part of the landscape with what appears to be a grenade launcher with Rocket II ammo (or something like it). They are wearing white and blue armor (Cobalt?) and Wings. New look to Eater of Souls mob (4 tightly-clustered eyes).

0:44 - Player is outdoors in Snow Biome, wearing red and white armor (Adamantite?) and using a swordlike weapon of similar colour that fires energy/magic projectiles. They are fighting Dragons.

0:54 - Player is Underground, possibly inside an Abandoned Underground House, wearing white armor that looks like it may have Wings. They appear to be working on some Device of unknown kind while using defensive turrets to hold off humanoid mobs that are top-heavy (THICK upper arms), have a single large Cyclops-style eye on their face, and carry spiked clubs.

0:58 - FEMALE Player character without helmet (or using Familiar Wig vanity headpiece) in brown/red armor with gold trim and a wearing a Red Cloak accessory, with a red Sword that has a silvered cutting edge (Adamantite Sword?). They are deep Underground, possibly Cavern depths due to the lava pools and obsidian-with-lava-veins background textures. Like previous, they appear to be using defensive turrets to hold off Mobs while working a Device of unknown kind. The Mobs look kind of like the Corrupted Beast boss from Risk Of Rain.

1:01 - Another "helmless" Female Player Character, this time with a textured round silver shield, a large sword, and what appears to be either Silver or Iron or Platinum Armor (due to its simple design) and wearing Wings. They are Outdoors at Surface level, defending a different Device, this one with a Crystal floating on it, with defensive turrets. The mobs are those Corrupted Zombies from a previous trailer video. The soil appears to be brown in some sections and purple in others, and the grass looks to be changing from purple to green, suggesting removal of Corruption by the device.

1:15 - Player is in Surface-level Snow biome wearing Cactus Armor with a Cactus round shield and a large curved, Kris-like sword. Once again the Device with a Crystal is removing Corruption. Ore is visible in the ground.

1:18 - Visible red mouse cursor Player is wearing the white-and-blue (Cobalt?) armor plus Wings again, this time with a golden sword that has a red hilt and guard. They are at Surface level in what appears to be Beach or Desert biome (Sand and Coconut Trees!), with another similar Device that is removing Corruption from the area. A building is on the right side of the player, with grey Stone Bricks and wooden framework and platforms (oh, and the platforms are Hammered into a staircase like post 1.2 Classic Terraria)

1:25 - New Character in a New World, start! Player is wearing no armor and is armed with Copper tools and some torches; an NPC runs to the left of the screen while blue butterflies fly past.

edited 11th Mar '15 5:52:29 AM by AceOfScarabs

Aw yeah!

Time to wipe out the Corruption!

Welp double post, but after an encounter with Skeletron Prime, I can say that all of the Hard-Mode bosses are Hard.

Any suggestions on beating him? I'm focused on Summoner, so I have the Spider set and Spider Minions and Turret and this Poison Staff, and I'm working towards getting the Ankh Shield and the Dao of Pow. I should also get Summoner Potions, but I feel that's gonna be something I'll forget about ^^;

Work on upgrading your kit as best as you can, building an arena suited to him, working out a pattern of attack and evasion that works against his movement, and stock up on potions.

Speed, essentially. If you're not able to run, jump and fly as fast as possible you're not gonna be able to take him down, cause he'll keep on whacking you either with his arms. Also helps to have a large arena with a lot of vertical space to run around, cause staying on the ground level tends to result in his arms pinning you into a corner, whereas constantly going up and down forces him to constantly re-position himself.

edited 19th Apr '15 3:53:29 AM by SgtRicko

If you really want to spend the time on building it, you can also instal timed heart statues, honey pools, and heart/campfire buffs to enhance your hp regen.

For Skele Prime, a Summoner should try to have the Nimbus Rod, which can do a ton of damage, in addition to having strong minions (Recommended to beat Destroyer first and get Optic Staff, also Wings if possible).

HERO has the current record for beating the Wall of Flesh early (23 minutes speed run, using Molotov Cocktails).

Any more word on Terraria: Otherworld? I think it was supposed to release sometime this month, but I haven't heard a word about it.

Doesn't look like it. A couple of lucky players who signed up on their forums were given early alpha copies to playtest, and they have been releasing news on occasion, but that's it. No solid date has yet to be given.

Version 1.3 was confirmed by Pedguin to arrive on June 30 :D

Cool. I will be glad to get the last update.

edited 2nd Jun '15 11:47:52 PM by TuefelHundenIV

ALL ABOARD THE 1.3 HYPE TRAIN DOOOOOOOT DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Seriously though, hyped!

The time is almost upon us...

edited 23rd Jun '15 8:48:09 PM by SgtRicko

Hoping it fixes whatever bug that makes it crash on me, because it looks great.

Do you think we'll have to make new worlds and characters for 1.3 or not? I like how I'm doing right now...

You won't have to make new characters, but you'll definitely need to create a new world or two. One of the biggest editions to this version of the game is the mini-biomes/dungeons (similar to the Lizhard temple), and they'll only appear in a freshly created world.

I feel so smug now about creating a small world when my brother chose a large. Hehehe.

Also, what are you guy's main characters atm?
Mine's Noobulus.

edited 24th Jun '15 1:00:15 AM by The_Mattias

I've generally always specced my character with the most OP gear, with the only emphasis being on having a high defense, HP, and the best movement speed possible. Otherwise it's all pretty random gear, I rarely even bother with making complete armor sets anymore.

BTW, I think we're gonna need to get the old Terraria server back up and running. This update looks huge, and given how damned hard some of the later Moon events or Duke Fishron were it would be nice to fight alongside you guys once more!

edited 24th Jun '15 1:03:05 AM by SgtRicko

Sounds good. I know I'm kinda early-game right now, but I suppose we can start together, eh? But later on, my Ruby Staff and Starfury might be a bit weak.

If you guys do this, I want in.