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goodness
Jan 3, 2012

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

King Dead posted:

Does anyone know why TEdit sometimes loads world files just fine, and other times can't read anything, asking you instead to force load, which just leads to a totally empty world? The maps themselves load just fine in Terraria. I can't find anything in google on the problem.

That means that your Terraria updated, and you do not have the newest TEdit. Happened to me a week ago, and I just had to download the newly updated TEdit and it worked.

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RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Akett posted:

Pots only generate what they drop when you break them. I've gotten buff potions and ropes out of pots in a world I genned at release.

Yeah but pots don't regenerate so if you've broken a lot of the pots in your world you might need to go to another world to get free rope.

Tindahbawx
Oct 14, 2011

Dear god, you really weren't kidding with regards to the official forums! :stonk:

Was going to install a mod for a better crafting interface, but made the mistake of venturing beyond the first post and download link. There sure is some self-entitled little shits on there isn't there?

Anyway, speaking of mods, is there a goon-recommended list somewhere?

Tindahbawx fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Oct 22, 2013

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Tindahbawx posted:

Dear god, you really weren't kidding with regards to the official forums! :stonk:

Was going to install a mod for a better crafting interface, but made the mistake of venturing beyond the first post and download link. There sure is some self-entitled little shits on there isn't there?

Official game forums are almost always crazy. Inevitably, some people will go in and develop a distorted view in which <insert game> is the center of their universe and any undesirable changes are horrible slights against their person that they have to rant about.

They also don't do the whole :10bux: paywall thing or typically hit bad posters with the ban hammer.

Yermaw Zahoor
Feb 24, 2009
One of the funniest things about those forums is the insane rules/etiquette poo poo they have going on. Well, theoretically anyway.
Seriously, go and have a look, there's two separate threads with massive convoluted points, infractions, regulations and the like.

If I recall, it takes 20 points to be perma-banned, but some things will get you 100 points, which can only really mean that you get 5 x perma. Post porn? You and all of your family are banned for ever and ever.

Here are the rules, I challenge you to read it in under 10 minutes...
http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/forum-rules-read-these-before-posting.91557/

And here's "the culture on Terraria Online"...
http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/the-culture-of-terraria-online-post-1-2-please-read.105463/

If ever I mention "gaming" "forums" or "the internet" to no game/nerd/net types, I have a horrible fear that this is what they imagine I'm into.

Yermaw Zahoor fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Oct 23, 2013

Esposito
Apr 5, 2003

Sic transit gloria. Maybe we'll meet again someday, when the fighting stops.
What I love about the official forums is the constant assurances that, "I'm not cheating. I farmed, like, the dungeons of 100 worlds to build this giant Goku statue."

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
What spells are you guys using at endgame? Leaf blower and Magnet sphere seem to work for me, though Leaf blower has poo poo range and Magnet sphere is very slow.

Machai
Feb 21, 2013

Rainbow gun, magnet sphere, hydra and inferno.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Does the Hydra even technically do magic damage?

Hummingbirds
Feb 17, 2011

RatHat posted:

Does the Hydra even technically do magic damage?

Summon damage. It takes magic to cast though.

mirarant
Dec 18, 2012

Post or die

RatHat posted:

What spells are you guys using at endgame? Leaf blower and Magnet sphere seem to work for me, though Leaf blower has poo poo range and Magnet sphere is very slow.

Piss and magnets, what else would a wizard need?

Jimbone Tallshanks
Dec 16, 2005

You can't pull rank on murder.

Just got my first 81 bars of Meteorite, should I craft a phaseblade or something else? I've got a Gold Pickaxe, Tungsten Armor, I've beaten the Eye but died against the Brain.

Mzbundifund
Nov 5, 2011

I'm afraid so.
If you've got 81 bars of meteorite you can make a full space suit and a space gun, which is hilarious fun at this stage of the game.

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

Jimbone Tallshanks posted:

Just got my first 81 bars of Meteorite, should I craft a phaseblade or something else? I've got a Gold Pickaxe, Tungsten Armor, I've beaten the Eye but died against the Brain.

The Hamaxe and Phaseblade are both decent melee weapons that both autoswing. However, a full set of Meteor armor makes the Space Gun free to use. I'd hope for / seek out one more meteorite to get the last 9 bars you need for the armor / gun. With proper preparations, reforging on the gun, and some decent accessories, you'll be set for a while.

E: Just beat the Twins for the first time. They spawned naturally, and luckily I was able to mirror home, grab a bunch of buff potions, and run to my boss arena. It was close, but not too bad. Now, the real question is: Rainbow Rod or Magical Harp?

But Rocks Hurt Head fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 23, 2013

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever

Jimbone Tallshanks posted:

Just got my first 81 bars of Meteorite, should I craft a phaseblade or something else? I've got a Gold Pickaxe, Tungsten Armor, I've beaten the Eye but died against the Brain.

I'd go with the phaseblade and meteor hamaxe

qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

Jimbone Tallshanks posted:

Just got my first 81 bars of Meteorite, should I craft a phaseblade or something else? I've got a Gold Pickaxe, Tungsten Armor, I've beaten the Eye but died against the Brain.

Space Gun and Meteor Armor, maybe?

wafflemoose
Apr 10, 2009

Sandstone is probably my favorite building material, and the walls look great if you mix them with the grass walls the Dryad sells, gives it a sort of overgrown ruins feeling. Normally I'm not very creative and build :effort: style towers, but I'm pretty happy with my layout so far, probably turn it into a floating pyramid, Laputa style castle, or maybe even a Jedi Temple, I haven't decided yet.

XTimmy
Nov 28, 2007
I am Jacks self hatred
Any idea why the top room in the screenshot (the one my char is in) would be unsuitable housing. Spent 15 minutes shoring up the back wall so it's not that. Want to spawn on my bed.

Zurai
Feb 13, 2012


Wait -- I haven't even voted in this game yet!

It's too big. Rooms have a maximum as well as a minimum size. From the Terraria Wiki:

quote:

Including the floor, side walls and ceiling, a Home must have at least 60 total tiles, but less than 1900.

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

The Hamaxe and Phaseblade are both decent melee weapons that both autoswing.

The phaseblade doesn't autoswing. Neither does the Night's Edge, which ate my muramasa which did so I assumed it would.

Redigit is clearly in cahoots with RSI treatment people.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Phaseblade doesn't autoswing but Phasesaber does and was the second best sword in the game til 1.2.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

Starhawk64 posted:

Sandstone is probably my favorite building material, and the walls look great if you mix them with the grass walls the Dryad sells, gives it a sort of overgrown ruins feeling. Normally I'm not very creative and build :effort: style towers, but I'm pretty happy with my layout so far, probably turn it into a floating pyramid, Laputa style castle, or maybe even a Jedi Temple, I haven't decided yet.



Yeah I've been using the flower tiles inside of my giant tree, definitely adds some nice variety! Really like how it looks with the sandstone, might have to steal that.

Kyrosiris
May 24, 2006

You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".



But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

Now, the real question is: Rainbow Rod or Magical Harp?

I'd go for the harp, IMO.

Joshlemagne
Mar 6, 2013

Starhawk64 posted:

Sandstone is probably my favorite building material, and the walls look great if you mix them with the grass walls the Dryad sells, gives it a sort of overgrown ruins feeling. Normally I'm not very creative and build :effort: style towers, but I'm pretty happy with my layout so far, probably turn it into a floating pyramid, Laputa style castle, or maybe even a Jedi Temple, I haven't decided yet.



If you have the staff that puts grass on dirt you can swap out the occasional sandstone block for grassy dirt and get some vines hanging down that way. The staff that places leaf blocks is also good for getting that "overgrown" feel.

Read
Dec 21, 2010

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

Now, the real question is: Rainbow Rod or Magical Harp?

Rainbow Rod is godawful, take the Harp.

XkyRauh
Feb 15, 2005

Commander Keen is my hero.

Wow, thanks for sharing that! Looks incredible, and I'll probably build something heavily influenced by that background design. :)

Yermaw Zahoor
Feb 24, 2009
So I can finally see what people mean about the vampire knives being OP. Fuuuck.

Since I've had them, I've just strolled through everything without a scratch.
I feel a bit like I've killed the game, might have to do something to mix it up a bit, maybe go mele for a bit.

Jinx
Sep 9, 2001

Violence and Bloodshed

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

The Hamaxe and Phaseblade are both decent melee weapons that both autoswing. However, a full set of Meteor armor makes the Space Gun free to use. I'd hope for / seek out one more meteorite to get the last 9 bars you need for the armor / gun. With proper preparations, reforging on the gun, and some decent accessories, you'll be set for a while.

E: Just beat the Twins for the first time. They spawned naturally, and luckily I was able to mirror home, grab a bunch of buff potions, and run to my boss arena. It was close, but not too bad. Now, the real question is: Rainbow Rod or Magical Harp?

I haven't used the harp, but the rainbow rod is basically a higher damage flame lash. In other words, not very good for hardmode/end-game. I still effectively only use Golden shower and Shadowbeam staff - I say try the harp.

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



This is my old base:


Inspired by this thread I started working on a new base; starting with my own house:

Tempora Mutantur
Feb 22, 2005

I set up a few platforms high above a chasm in Crimson and farmed Crimson mobs for an hour or two with a Nimbus rod and got a key, which gave me vampire knives, which totally trivialized everything.

I was using a True Night's Edge with Turtle Armor, so I was already really drat brutal, but now... now I don't even have to click. Things just die. Plantera was nothing, and the dungeons are equally laughable, so long as I keep moving. I still want to get Shroomite armor and a nice gun, but drat, all those posts were right, Vamp Knives totally break Terraria. I don't even know what he was thinking since he went so far out of his way to make sure people couldn't get endless health regen.

Tempora Mutantur fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Oct 24, 2013

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
I'm kinda stuck progression-wise right now; I built up a full set of molten armor, flame-sword & everything else before beating the wall, and now I'm just getting stomped. I've got a full set of the 2nd-tier armor (Orichlum?) and a drill, but enemies are still crushing me. I don't quite know where to go; the Jungle destroyed me, Hallow/Corrupt biomes are neigh-impossible, and I can't find enough ore to reliably mine for more than a few minutes before hardmode enemies show up and crush me. What should I be looking to do?

Syenite
Jun 21, 2011
Grimey Drawer

S.T.C.A. posted:

I set up a few platforms high above a chasm in Crimson and farmed Crimson mobs for an hour or two with a Nimbus rod and got a key, which gave me vampire knives, which totally trivialized everything.

I was using a True Night's Edge with Turtle Armor, so I was already really drat brutal, but now... now I don't even have to click. Things just die. Plantera was nothing, and the dungeons are equally laughable, so long as I keep moving. I still want to get Shroomite armor and a nice gun, but drat, all those posts were right, Vamp Knives totally break Terraria. I don't even know what he was thinking since he went so far out of his way to make sure people couldn't get endless health regen.

The best use for the vampire knives is to get some turtle armor and facetank every boss. At the same time :getin:

But yeah triggered healing really needs some sort of cooldown on how often it can affect you.

Kenny Logins
Jan 11, 2011

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

GobiasIndustries posted:

I'm kinda stuck progression-wise right now; I built up a full set of molten armor, flame-sword & everything else before beating the wall, and now I'm just getting stomped. I've got a full set of the 2nd-tier armor (Orichlum?) and a drill, but enemies are still crushing me. I don't quite know where to go; the Jungle destroyed me, Hallow/Corrupt biomes are neigh-impossible, and I can't find enough ore to reliably mine for more than a few minutes before hardmode enemies show up and crush me. What should I be looking to do?
To get out of the rut, build an above ground mushroom biome, build a house in it for the NPC, buy mushroom spear. Use mushroom spear in snow biome during a blizzard to farm frost armor from ice golems safely through thin walls. Use frost armor and mushroom spear to own face until other options open up.

MrGreenShirt
Mar 14, 2005

Hell of a book. It's about bunnies!

GobiasIndustries posted:

I'm kinda stuck progression-wise right now; I built up a full set of molten armor, flame-sword & everything else before beating the wall, and now I'm just getting stomped. I've got a full set of the 2nd-tier armor (Orichlum?) and a drill, but enemies are still crushing me. I don't quite know where to go; the Jungle destroyed me, Hallow/Corrupt biomes are neigh-impossible, and I can't find enough ore to reliably mine for more than a few minutes before hardmode enemies show up and crush me. What should I be looking to do?

I remember getting stuck around that point too. Most things killed me, couldn't attempt any of the new bosses without getting smashed. I ended up grinding mummies until I could make a Dao of Pow, then using a bunch of Regeneration, Ironskin and Thorn potions I managed to kill the Destroyer a few times. Using the Hallowed Bars they dropped I made a full set of Hallowed armor and Excalibur which let me survive in the Crimson long enough to farm ichor for a Golden Shower and to find the crimson key and break the game.

qnqnx
Nov 14, 2010

MrGreenShirt posted:

I remember getting stuck around that point too. Most things killed me, couldn't attempt any of the new bosses without getting smashed. I ended up grinding mummies until I could make a Dao of Pow, then using a bunch of Regeneration, Ironskin and Thorn potions I managed to kill the Destroyer a few times. Using the Hallowed Bars they dropped I made a full set of Hallowed armor and Excalibur which let me survive in the Crimson long enough to farm ichor for a Golden Shower and to find the crimson key and break the game.

Golden shower really trivializes most enemies, especially with mage oriented items.
It helped that the first time it rained after the last time I entered hard mode an Angry Nimbus spawned and dropped a Nimbus Rod, it plus an underground Crimson right above the lavapools (plus a lava charm) made farming the underground Crimson for ichor and souls a breeze.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Jackard posted:

He could totally do this too, giving every weapon autoswing was the easiest change I made back in TConfig.

Where is this file located?

dis astranagant posted:

Phaseblade doesn't autoswing but Phasesaber does and was the second best sword in the game til 1.2.

Phasesaber with +knockback and a titan glove was pretty much mandatory pre-1.2 until you had an Excalibur.

S.T.C.A. posted:

I set up a few platforms high above a chasm in Crimson and farmed Crimson mobs for an hour or two with a Nimbus rod and got a key, which gave me vampire knives, which totally trivialized everything.

I was using a True Night's Edge with Turtle Armor, so I was already really drat brutal, but now... now I don't even have to click. Things just die. Plantera was nothing, and the dungeons are equally laughable, so long as I keep moving. I still want to get Shroomite armor and a nice gun, but drat, all those posts were right, Vamp Knives totally break Terraria. I don't even know what he was thinking since he went so far out of his way to make sure people couldn't get endless health regen.

He didn't try very hard. Magic can be setup to have endless health and mana via the Spectre Armor set and Mana Shackles. Guns are left behind and bows are still garbage beyond the early game.

GobiasIndustries posted:

I'm kinda stuck progression-wise right now; I built up a full set of molten armor, flame-sword & everything else before beating the wall, and now I'm just getting stomped. I've got a full set of the 2nd-tier armor (Orichlum?) and a drill, but enemies are still crushing me. I don't quite know where to go; the Jungle destroyed me, Hallow/Corrupt biomes are neigh-impossible, and I can't find enough ore to reliably mine for more than a few minutes before hardmode enemies show up and crush me. What should I be looking to do?

Never make a drill. Even if he's fixed the sound on them drills have no knockback while picks have knockback. That alone is reason enough to get a pick.

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever

Evil Fluffy posted:

He didn't try very hard. Magic can be setup to have endless health and mana via the Spectre Armor set and Mana Shackles. Guns are left behind and bows are still garbage beyond the early game.

Yeah, the pendulum has swung away from ranged to magic and melee. A star cannon with a few hundred stars and/or a megashark with a thousand crystal bullets used to be the gear that allowed you to solo skeletron prime or the twins if you planned and chugged the right potions. now you can just facetank everything with the vamp knives or the spectre armor.

QuantaStarFire
May 18, 2006


Grimey Drawer
How big should I make my Hellbridge? Right now, it's about 1/4 of the length of my world, which is a large world.

Also, I really wish there was a Repel-type item that would reduce/eliminate spawns for a period of time. It's hard to build this poo poo when you're being assaulted by bats every 5 seconds.

Kyrosiris
May 24, 2006

You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".



First reforge:



Fifth reforge:



This is it, the big time. :science:

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Cicadalek
May 8, 2006

Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-fucked me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, talentless fuckfest, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another
I was very happy when it took me a mere two or three reforges to get godly vampire knives. Of course, when I decide to swap out my ghost wings for bone wings because they look nicer, it takes 4 plat to even get armored.

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