Bobnumerotres posted:

Honestly I let hallow grow all over the place, corruption is the real threat in hard mode. It's not like any hallow enemies can just get inside your home, but there are a few corruption enemies that can pass straight through walls and *accidentally* kill NPCs with their crazy high damage.

The best way to control corruption is to plant Hallow seeds (sold by the fairy lady) on the coasts of corrupted segments, they cancel eachother out and now you have more pretty rainbows and poo poo!

Hallow caves also have really cool music and materials for much needed upgrades.

Fuzz posted:

Does this game Steam Cloud save your character? I assume worlds would be asking too much, but can I at least get my character on my laptop too?

voltron lion force posted:

Thanks all for the hardmode info.


Regarding this, my base is partially underground, is it enough to just wrap it up in one of the materials that can't be corrupted or do I need to dig out the 3 tile space all around? And if I make a 3 tile gap, do I have to knock out the walls too?

Vatek posted:

This will stop the corrupt grass on the surface but it will continue to spread underground.

Logan 5 posted:

Sloober posted:

The planted grass spreads like the rest of the hallow if i recall right, including underground.

Vatek posted:

Corruptors don't create corruption with their spit attacks anymore.

Vatek posted:

Corruptors don't create corruption with their spit attacks anymore.

Powercrazy posted:

Hardmode biome concerns are mostly overblown. You can secure your base fairly easily even in the corruption and most importantly who cares if your npcs die? They will respawn with in a like 5 minutes.

Vatek posted:

Nope, no steam cloud support.

Logan 5 posted:

If you plan on keeping the world you have as your permanent base of operations you should probably do some terraforming, yes. It isn't necessary to do it pre-hardmode, you'll still have some time post-WoF, but its is easier since you don't have to deal with any new mobs and you'll have plenty of time.

You have a few options. If you don't have any naturally occurring blocks in your base (dirt, stone, etc.) just wrapping your base in most player-made bricks will prevent it from seeping in, since it can jump 3 blocks away. Ideally you should have a gap of at least 3 blocks and one layer of player-made blocks just to be on the safe side.

However you might want to make the border around your base to span a greater area than just your base, especially horizontally. This accomplishes 2 things; it keeps more of the original biome intact, and more importantly will keep the new mobs from spawning close to your base and potentially coming after you just outside the door (or worse, getting in very easily in trying to get to you). The downside is this takes a bit of time, less so if you have some kind of explosives however (loads of sticky bombs can be useful for this).

The Crimson/Corruption/Hallow will always spawn in a giant V shape with the middle surface of the map being at the top of it, so assuming that's where you build you'll get something like this (excuse the lovely hasty paint example):



If you build a barrier a little aways from your base like that (but not too far, you dont want to accidently include the V in your barriered area, plus you'll want to be able to get to the biomes a bit easily for their drops at some point), you should be golden. You also might want to consider towers extending it upwards into the sky if you have corruption too, there is a monster that spits gobs that insta-spread it, and you don't want all your hard work to be for nothing.(ignore this, apparently it changed in 1.2 and I didnt notice!) Hope that helps!

e:Also note that if you have a hellevator you're going to be passing through at least one if not both of these biomes underground, just fyi.

Fuzz posted:

Well that sucks. Saves me a download, unless there's a way to copy characters back and forth?

Vatek posted:

I'm not sure exactly where it stores character/world data but this would be totally doable with a USB key.

Vatek posted:

I'm not sure exactly where it stores character/world data but this would be totally doable with a USB key.

Fuzz posted:

Well that sucks. Saves me a download, unless there's a way to copy characters back and forth?

MooCowlian posted:

Four broken hero blades? gently caress you. So much. A friend and I went through three eclipses and found two blades, both in the last eclipse. Then it was decided the Terra Blade wasn't worth having, and I got vampire knives while he is running around with chlorophyte stuff.

benzine posted:

Terra Blade is not worth it. It's better to get a Legendary Cutlass, it has autoswing and that to my is far more important.

Robzilla posted:

Can you make it so hitting F12 toggle the resize + deborder? This is a great script otherwise.

VVV They spawn in the Hollowed biome while raining I believe.

LAY-ZX posted:

So wait why do people even care about "containing" the hard mode biomes? Your NPCs suppress enemy spawns, all you'll ever see as long as you're near them are bunnies. The only times that doesn't happen are eclipses, which spawn the same enemies regardless, and blood moons, which you should have a way of securing your house against anyway. In fact living in a Hallowed biome is probably BETTER than the default because on a blood moon the Wraiths that actually go through walls will be replaced by more Gastropods who will spend all night rubbing their face against the outside of your house.

Shark Tower posted:

I wish there was a way to summon forth blood moons/ eclipses, like in the Red Cloud mod. I've explored and beaten just about everything in the game, and still have yet to trigger a single Eclipse.

Photosynaesthesias posted:

Anyone have some tips for the Brain of Cthulhu?

I've killed quite a few Eyes of Cthulhu and I've attempted the brain several times, I can easily get him to Phase 2 with a Tendon Bow + Jester Arrows. I've got so much Crimtane and Tissue Samples from attempting this that I've built everything that can be made out of them, but I can't figure out how to avoid the brain's Phase 2 attacks in a spider cave. Should I be trying to get to the surface before killing his swarm of eyes?

The Colonel posted:

Jesus christ, I fought the Golem eight times and I came out with a Heat Ray, an Eye of the Golem, and two Demonic Golem fists, and no Picksaw.

I've never used a character editor before, but goddamn, I'm not going through the process of finding the temple again, fighting Plantera again, and fighting the Golem eight times again.

No Safe Word posted:

If your NPCs get killed they won't respawn if their home is corrupted, since corruption (and hallow I guess? don't know for sure) make housing unsuitable.

No Safe Word posted:

If your NPCs get killed they won't respawn if their home is corrupted, since corruption (and hallow I guess? don't know for sure) make housing unsuitable.

LAY-ZX posted:

Housing in the Hallow is perfectly suitable, since it's explicitly meant to be a good thing and the Dryad even asks you to cover the world in as much of it as you can. Like yeah it makes sense to contain the corruption/crimson but why the Hallow too? People act like the world being populated with honest-to-god fairies and unicorns is a herald of the end times.

Edwhirl posted:

Before I get this game, I have a few questions.

How much am I missing if I just stick to single player and don't bother with multiplayer?

Also how hard is it to get a server set up and running, if I do decide to multiplayer?

nexas posted:

Would any know if living wood fall under the same rules as regular wood? I'm getting ready for hard mode and I want to see if using living wood would be immune to the corruption/hallow.

Shukaro posted:

Here's a version which does this:

code:

F12::
if (toggle)
{
    WinGet, WindowID, ID, A
    WinSet, Style, +0xC40000, ahk_id %WindowID%
    WinMove, ahk_id %WindowID%, , 50, 30, 1280, 720
    toggle := False
}
else
{
    WinGet, WindowID, ID, A
    WinSet, Style, -0xC40000, ahk_id %WindowID%
    WinMove, ahk_id %WindowID%, , 0, 0, A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight
    toggle := True
}
return

XButton1::
    While GetKeyState("XButton1", "P")
    {
        Click
        Sleep 10
    }
return

You can set the 50, 30, 1280, 720 to whatever, it's the X/Y of the top left and the window width/height. Also here's all the valid keys AHK uses if you want to rebind stuff: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm

Edit: also these modifiers http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm

Robzilla posted:

Sweet Jesus thanks.

I always keep trying to mess around with AHK but I suck at "programming" of any sort.