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Cardiovorax posted:The Minishark does very little damage per shot, but the incredibly fast rate of fire and the baked-in 1/3 chance to not use ammo make it a pretty drat powerful weapon at that stage in the game. DACK FAYDEN posted:I haven't played since 1.3 so I jumped back in because update cool. Just starting Hardmode and my sword feels like it's falling off fast against bosses. What's the least lovely ranged option - by which I mean, less micro to maintain ammo, not constrained hard by mana regen, etc - available pre-mechanical bosses? The Wizard can be found at the start of hardmode, and you can craft the endless musket ball pouch at that time, with 3996 musket balls at the Crystal Ball that he sells. Same for arrows, with 3996 for the endless quiver. DACK FAYDEN posted:Megashark requires the Destroyer's drop to craft, so I'd have to get past it first. Star Cannon? I don't mind farming up exactly enough falling stars for one boss fight. Comedy option: make the arena floor of explosive proof blocks and use dynamite, like the speedrunners do.
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May 26, 2020 14:23
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Megashark sucks, get the onyx blaster
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May 26, 2020 14:25
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The Onyx Blaster shotgun is the first and easiest Hardmode weapon. Golden Shower (if Crimson) is a godlike, forever-useful craftable magic weapon. Amarok (+Yoyo bag), random tundra drop, is also useful for cheese-killing monsters you have no right defeating (like Hallowed Mimics and/or Golems). Those are pre-mechanical.
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May 26, 2020 14:26
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This Nimbus spell is super silly, especially for what is apparently a really rare drop. I was running into a wall vs the Destroyer with my expert magic weapon character (Cobalt/Orichalcum/Titanium/Corruption) because I kept being overwhelmed by probes. But stacking a clinger wall, two rain clouds, and meteor staff spam seemed to kill them while they were still being generated while also nuking his HP. I’d ignored Nimbus initially, because it makes it rain, whoopee, but apparently it’s raining death acid or something with how much damage it does. It’s a pity the destroyer drops nothing for a magic user beyond Hallowed bars, because this won’t work well on the Twins or Skeletron Prime. So far magic user is pretty fun, I think I’m going to try whips and summoning as well, once I beat the twins.
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May 26, 2020 14:27
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Ambaire posted:The Wizard can be found at the start of hardmode, and you can craft the endless musket ball pouch at that time, with 3996 musket balls at the Crystal Ball that he sells. Same for arrows, with 3996 for the endless quiver.
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May 26, 2020 14:34
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Gimmick Account posted:Wait, it has to be dark, too? poo poo, there go my urban beautification plans... Regarding gem trees, I've discovered that gemspark walls don't seem to affect their growth. With this setup,  after half a day (of sleeping in a bed, love that feature), this many trees grew of a full row of planting.  Seems unaffected, right?
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May 26, 2020 14:43
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Best ranged weapon pre-mechs is an Adamantite/Titanium repeater and Holy Arrows from farming Pixie Dust and Unicorn Horns Alternatively, if you get a Goblin Invasion you can hope for a Shadowflame Knife which is a melee ranged weapon that shreds
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May 26, 2020 15:03
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What if gemspark trees grow faster in light from gemspark blocks/walls? And even faster if it's light of their type? Has anyone tested this? Or is the wiki based on the decompiled code and this definitely isn't a thing? Fully half of the amber trees I replanted have grown in ~8hours ingame under the light of diamond gemspark walls.
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May 26, 2020 15:23
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As far as I can tell, the gem trees only grow in darkness, the more light that touches them the slower they grow. As you can see the light from the gemspark walls barely reaches them, a torch right near the sapling would stop it growing completely.
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May 26, 2020 16:29
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Dumb Lowtax posted:I can see why people feel the need to do trench everything, with the Dryad being a character with a built in feature to seemingly warn you that your world is getting more corrupt. I wish they had just never implemented that. There'd be none of this trench digging and nobody would have thought of deserts and ice gaining an additional biome as a bad thing. Houses, you can't really do anything about anyway because of the V upon hardmode. It would still be a bad biome worth minimizing. It's ugly, it spreads, and being in it sucks. Not to mention constantly spawns weak, annoying and persistent enemies. The fact that it spreads is enough to contain it, Dryad doesn't need to tell us to do that or not. Is there a trick to getting Money Trough or just gambling during blood moons with whatever comes your way? I'd also like to do some magic but all I have so far is a slime staff that doesn't really use magic outside of the summoning itself once. I also got an amusing snake-charmer pot thing that basically let's me summon a temporary rope. Not worth inventory slot to carry around, since, you know, I have rope.
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May 26, 2020 16:30
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Khanstant posted:Is there a trick to getting Money Trough or just gambling during blood moons with whatever comes your way?
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May 26, 2020 16:34
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Velius posted:So far magic user is pretty fun, I think I’m going to try whips and summoning as well, once I beat the twins. I usually go summoner and the new whips feel pretty good. It's nice to have a spammable attack that scales with summon damage now. Having said that I still use magic for ichor and/or more range. Whips do have range, but it can get dangerous with some bosses. A few tips with whips: - It's melee so you can use feral claw/titan glove upgrade for autoattacking to save yourself the carpal tunnel syndrome. Especially good for the whips that buff their own attack speed on hit. - It has a wide range that doesn't bypass walls EXCEPT it hits enemies that themselves bypass walls (wraiths, ghosts, skulls in dungeon, maneaters) - Don't rely on the tag to work, minion AI is still atrocious sometimes. Speaking of minions don't just look at their damage numbers and take the highest, always consider their attack speed patters, aggression, target acquisition range and other quirks like not being able to attack under water. Some minions can also be cast at range past walls, and they will start attacking from a safe range (can only do this with the latest minion unless you rightclick to remove the buff and recast them all). For example the hardmode enchanted sword minion has the lowest damage, but attacks really fast, has an excellent acquisition range, you can hug a wall and they will aquire targets outside (because they float and rotate above you, they will all go aggro, unlike Sanguine bats which float but dont rotate, so only a corner of them have LoS), they will also acquire new targets based on where they are (to an extent) instead of what is actually in your own LoS and to top it off they also have innate damage penetration. In the end though take what feels good to you
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May 26, 2020 16:45
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So long long ago before 1.2 I made ”project noah” where I linked a pump stack to the ocean and flooded the entire world pre-hardmode. This was not as fun as it first Seems, since it extensively limits the spawns available. However I just got my lava shark mount and am feeling a tingle for flooding at least part of the map. Any easy ways to use pumps for reliable and somewhat fast water multiplication? Speed isnt the issue, automaation is So I can just leave the system on overnight and flood the world. Valtonen fucked around with this message at 16:59 on May 26, 2020 |
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May 26, 2020 16:47
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Tombot posted:As far as I can tell, the gem trees only grow in darkness, the more light that touches them the slower they grow. As you can see the light from the gemspark walls barely reaches them, a torch right near the sapling would stop it growing completely. I added a row of diamond gemspark wall just above the fence, completely harvested and replanted the area, and slept away the next 24 hours.  Doesn't seem to have affected the growth at all.  So yeah, gemspark walls seem to be a good way to harmlessly illuminate a gemcorn tree farm. Ambaire fucked around with this message at 17:07 on May 26, 2020 |
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May 26, 2020 17:04
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Khanstant posted:I'd also like to do some magic but all I have so far is a slime staff that doesn't really use magic outside of the summoning itself once. I also got an amusing snake-charmer pot thing that basically let's me summon a temporary rope. Not worth inventory slot to carry around, since, you know, I have rope. There's a couple of magic staffs you can find in chests and stuff, but you can also create one using metal and gems. More valuable gems make for a stronger staff. And once you reach the dungeon, take a careful look at all the books there - some of them are a different item that you may find useful.
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May 26, 2020 17:12
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Ambaire posted:I added a row of diamond gemspark wall just above the fence, completely harvested and replanted the area, and slept away the next 24 hours. see, i'm just looking at this and thinking 'hey, a forest of these would make for a dope underground cityspace'
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May 26, 2020 17:33
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Iterating on my thought of "WALL THE WORLD" but in a small scale, I have successfully walled off an area ~310 by ~95, for the purpose of gemcorn tree farming for now, but other uses later (since it seems dye stuff can spawn on stone blocks with wall behind... hardmode strange plants anyone?). Took ~30,000 stone slab walls, and I still have a chest of 15k stone blocks for more shenanigans. Dynamite is some seriously potent stuff for mass excavation of areas, and my fishing addiction pays for it and more. Crates have lots of money. 
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May 26, 2020 18:23
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Beat Wall of Flesh for the first time ever! Holy crap is Hardmode hard though. I am dying left and right on Expert mode. I also turned on biome spread and they weren't kidding about how fast stuff spreads. My whole desert is now corruption and the hallow has gone wild on the other side of the world. Ended up losing my Arctic biome base since the corruption is too close now. Guess I'll have to clean it up when I get some time. I ended up breaking 9 altars to spawn ore and made some cobalt gear. What should I be doing now? Fighting mechanical bosses? I'm at a bit of a loss.
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May 26, 2020 19:17
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axeil posted:I ended up breaking 9 altars to spawn ore and made some cobalt gear. What should I be doing now? Fighting mechanical bosses? I'm at a bit of a loss.
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May 26, 2020 19:54
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definitely take the time to get up the hardmode metal tech trees before trying the hardmode bosses; whereas in normal mode it's pretty easy to start doing bosses without getting gold or even silver armor, in hardmode damage starts rising dramatically and the way armor works in the game means that even a small armor deficit really hurts*, so you want every bit you can get you may even want to talk to the goblin tinker and reforge all your trinkets into warding (+4 defense) forms. potions help a bit, thankfully the two best potions for your survivability are very easy to make (daybloom and iron/lead gives +8 defense, daybloom and a yellow mushroom gives more health regen), and the third-best isn't much harder (it's a fish from the cavern layer plus... blinkroot i think); for when you actually fight bosses you should make the potion that gives you more max health which needs a fish from the hallow (prismite?) and a bunch of herbs also if you're on a crimson world, real quick start a corruption expert world and kill the eater of worlds for an extremely good trinket that just makes you take ~20% less damage *it's just straight subtraction with a small % modifier depending on your difficulty level (armor matters more on higher difficulties, on lower ones there's more give to the numbers), so if an enemy hits for 100, 100 defense means it does almost nothing to you, 90 means it's dealing 10 a hit and might be a threat if you're careless, 80 means it only has to hit you 20 times to kill you, and so on President Ark fucked around with this message at 20:24 on May 26, 2020 |
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May 26, 2020 20:19
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Eh, sorta. Defense is calculated on a 2:1 ratio on normal(meaning 100 defense gives 50 damage reduction), 1.5:1 on expert(100 def is 75 damage reduction) and 1:1 on master.
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May 26, 2020 20:26
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Does the advanced combat techniques book that upgrades your NPCs stack or is it a one time thing? Also is there a way to manually grow bamboo? Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 20:43 on May 26, 2020 |
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May 26, 2020 20:37
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On munki's master server I've switched to full menacing dps/dodge effects because armor just wasn't cutting it and things have definitely gone smoother
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May 26, 2020 20:39
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Internet Kraken posted:Does the advanced combat techniques book that upgrades your NPCs stack or is it a one time thing? it's a one time thing, but while looking it up i discovered your npcs get buffed like that whenever you kill a new boss which was something i had no idea was a thing e: apparently said buff and the book are both new to 1.4, which explains why i wasn't aware of them
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May 26, 2020 20:39
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Does anyone have a working pump-based water duplication method for 1.4.x? I have a need to fill about a 300x200 space with water, for a cavern level 'ocean'. Basically, from the top of the rock/black area (which is getting dynamited out) to the water flat area below.
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May 26, 2020 21:06
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look all I want is to connect the ocean and Hell and create infinite obsidian, is that so much to ask?
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May 26, 2020 21:45
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The best feature of Journey mode: you can force spawn the loving Traveling Merchant by pausing time in the morning. If you leave the world and come back he even rerolls his inventory
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May 26, 2020 21:47
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dis astranagant posted:The best feature of Journey mode: you can force spawn the loving Traveling Merchant by pausing time in the morning. If you leave the world and come back he even rerolls his inventory You can set the time to dusk, make him go offscreen, he'll despawn, upon which you can set to dawn again and he'll come back with a refreshed inventory.
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May 26, 2020 22:32
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President Ark posted:definitely take the time to get up the hardmode metal tech trees before trying the hardmode bosses; whereas in normal mode it's pretty easy to start doing bosses without getting gold or even silver armor, in hardmode damage starts rising dramatically and the way armor works in the game means that even a small armor deficit really hurts*, so you want every bit you can get Ah thanks for this. I've beaten every pre-hardmode boss on Expert, including the Brain of Cthulhu. Used the special seed for that. First Wall of Flesh kill was on Expert too! Beenades/The Bee's Knees rip that guy apart. Any recommendations on weapons I should look for if I'm doing a Ranged (primarily bows) build with Melee backup? The Bee's Knees is incredible but it's starting to feel puny. Also for a bit of info on biome spread, here's my world pre-hardmode:  And here it is after a few in-game days of hardmode  : I got very lucky that the Corruption "V" went through already existing Corruption. I think I'm going to need to build a firebreak for my Forest main base near the spawn and not rely on my Hellevator since the Hallow and Corruption are heading for it very quickly. My Ocean firebreak seems to have worked as did my Desert one. The Snow one worked...but the Corruption got so close half the village is uninhabitable. That really annoys me because I spent a lot of time pre-Hardmode adding snow/ice blocks to get it out of the bit of Corruption to the east only to now have it be invalid because of the Corruption to the west.
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May 26, 2020 22:41
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Finally built a new house floating above the old one.. the storage situation was getting crazy and I needed more chests to organize properly. So many chests. I can't wait for Magic Storage and tmodloader for 1.4... Old house almost completely empty, yay. 
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May 26, 2020 22:43
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Of all the great QOL improvements made in this final patch, really unfortunate they didn't just put a click and drag method in for creating walls. There are still a few things that could have been tinkered with like that. Though I'm only just now trying the smart cursor and getting used to what it can do.
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May 26, 2020 22:49
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Watching a bunch of streamers of other games that have never played Terraria before experience it for the first time is pretty funny. Especially those playing hard/mediumcore not knowing what a world of pain it can be. And I think the "one gravestone makes a cemetery" thing I thought I was experiencing was a result of the fact that removing a gravestone has a chance to summon a ghost which I didn't realize.
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May 26, 2020 23:01
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No Safe Word posted:Watching a bunch of streamers of other games that have never played Terraria before experience it for the first time is pretty funny. Especially those playing hard/mediumcore not knowing what a world of pain it can be. I might be tempted to try a mediumcore challenge run, if the logic for getting gear back wasn't so pants on head stupid. In Minecraft, some of the gravestone mods put all your stuff in a gravestone and when the gravestone is broken, everything is restored to the slots it was in. In Terraria, it's 'lol who cares, splatter it across the entire inventory grid'. Completely unplayable. Anyway. Does anyone know how much hardmode progression is required for the digger molecart? I'm thinking about building a minecart run across the world, but if it doesn't require killing mech bosses, I might wait until hardmode.
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May 26, 2020 23:04
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Ambaire posted:Anyway. Does anyone know how much hardmode progression is required for the digger molecart? I'm thinking about building a minecart run across the world, but if it doesn't require killing mech bosses, I might wait until hardmode. EDIT: just build it in the air so you don't need to dig through anything.
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May 26, 2020 23:18
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DelphiAegis posted:You can set the time to dusk, make him go offscreen, he'll despawn, upon which you can set to dawn again and he'll come back with a refreshed inventory. Right, so I think setting to dawn just resets that day's events. I remember fighting the goblin army during the day and then clicking dawn to skip hanging around my base during the night or whatever...and then I had to fight that drat army again.
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May 26, 2020 23:20
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Tried taking on Master Destroyer with full titanium, crystal serpent and a whole lotta buff potions. It uh, didn't end super well. I thought that bosses suppressed normal mob spawns then discovered the hard way that the bottom floor of my arena was covered in werewolves.
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May 26, 2020 23:28
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Ambaire posted:Finally built a new house floating above the old one.. the storage situation was getting crazy and I needed more chests to organize properly. This row of prisoners at the top is cracking me up, it's like they're just more items for the storage room. The bed on a shelf is also a nice touch. Your use of the platforms/rope with that white block background looks really nice.
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May 26, 2020 23:28
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Khanstant posted:This row of prisoners at the top is cracking me up, it's like they're just more items for the storage room. The bed on a shelf is also a nice touch.
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Zereth posted:60% bestiary completion. It's also real slow, and having a minecart track is helpful for things like setting up your various housing outposts, so smart cursor, a builder potion, and a bunch of tracks should do. I already have one in the air. I even added a line of platforms (across the entire loving top of a large world) under it for easy star collection, although it's at the perfect height for zombies to jump and get clobbered / knock some hp off, so I'm thinking about building another minecart line above that one at the extreme range of the Treasure Magnet.  I want one underground (at the underground/cavern border ideally) so I can have easy access to the underground/cavern hallow/corruption etc, and because teleporter wire runs are much more aesthetically pleasing to run along the top/bottom of a subway. e. I'm actually up to almost a full stack of fallen stars. I'm planning to use the star cannon to kill the wall of flesh. I intend to farm close to 2 stacks before I actually transition to hard mode, though. Ambaire fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 26, 2020 |
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